2007-06-18 04:58:28 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Television ➔ Comedy
Speedy's cartoons have come under fire in recent years for their alleged stereotypical depictions of Mexicans and Mexican life. Mice in the shorts are usually shown as lazy, womanizing and hard-drinking. Speedy is the only character capable of saving them from this lifestyle. His call "Arriba, Arriba" is likely to his fellow Mexicans, to get "up, up" from sleep.[citation needed] Speedy also wears an oversized sombrero and sometimes plays in a mariachi band. Speedy's only real vice is implied to be a weakness for pretty girls (as remarked in the shorts by a pair of mice "He [Speedy] knows my sister" "Speedy Gonzalez knows everybody's sister!"); in one cartoon, other mice instigate a war to keep Speedy from stealing all the girls in town. Much of the dialogue between Mexican characters is in English and the small amount of Spanish that peppers the dialogue consists of basic greetings, goodbyes, exclamations, and misplaced references to popular Mexican foods. This criticism prompted Cartoon Network largely to shelve Speedy's films when it gained exclusive rights to broadcast them in 1999. However, fan campaigns to put Speedy back on the air, as well as lobbying by The League of United Latin American Citizens, who argued that Speedy's cleverness and personality was a positive depiction of Mexicans, turned the tide in his favor, and in 2002, "the fastest mouse in all Mexico" was put back into rotation.
2007-06-18 07:05:54 · answer #1 · answered by Nick 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Special interest groups picketed for years to get Speedy removed because it is "racist."
All the Mexican mice were shown as being lazy and trying to steal cheese from that "crazy gringo" cat.
Next: PePe LePew? After all, he reinforces the stereotype that the French stink.
2007-06-18 12:02:28 · answer #2 · answered by Daniel R 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because some people deemed them 'racist'. They even edited the Mammy Two-Shoes character's voice in the Tom & Jerry cartoons...it's ridiculous. There was even talk about censoring Foghorn Leghorn cartoons because they thought they were somehow 'racist'.
By erasing our history, we're doomed to repeat it.
2007-06-18 12:45:26 · answer #3 · answered by Grand Poobah 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Warner Brother's have left the child entertainment and dove all their assets into film and teenage drama shows.
2007-06-18 12:02:23 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It seems that some people think those cartoons(which are classics) are too violent compared to the crap they have today!
2007-06-19 23:09:37 · answer #5 · answered by lexyn13 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
sometimes they'll come on boomerang... idk im 16 and i remember being able to watch them on nick or cartoon network when i was little... its a damn shame thier not on anymore, idk if it would appeal to the kids watching tv these days i mean go turn on cartoon network and compare the bugs bunny cartoons to the dexters lab. or some wierd cartoons that come on...
2007-06-18 12:03:23 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
the only "old" cartoons on nowadays r tom&jerry...... dont know why its like that......
2007-06-18 13:09:32 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
they've gone new and modern
2007-06-18 12:02:54 · answer #8 · answered by luckford2004 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋