So, You Got Pooped On, And No, You Don't Get Anything For Free!!

[felinefan]

And Goofy was a divorced dad raising Max by himself. I think Walt didn't want anyone to think his characters were having sex. I mean, in his day, the Victorian era was over, but the repression was still in evidence. Couldn't have cartoon characters getting pregnant, you know. Besides, it would kind of weigh down the storyline.

I wonder what kind of gal Goofy married, and why she divorced him?

[drcorey]

And Goofy was a divorced dad raising Max by himself. I think Walt didn't want anyone to think his characters were having sex. I mean, in his day, the Victorian era was over, but the repression was still in evidence. Couldn't have cartoon characters getting pregnant, you know. Besides, it would kind of weigh down the storyline.

I wonder what kind of gal Goofy married, and why she divorced him?

Well, according to Disney.
Max was the little baby in all the man at home cartoons. Max's mother is said to be Glorybe, who either passed away or took off for parts unknown,
depending who you ask at Disney.

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

And Goofy was a divorced dad raising Max by himself. I think Walt didn't want anyone to think his characters were having sex. I mean, in his day, the Victorian era was over, but the repression was still in evidence. Couldn't have cartoon characters getting pregnant, you know. Besides, it would kind of weigh down the storyline.

I wonder what kind of gal Goofy married, and why she divorced him?

remember, these were played on broadcast television.

the same censors that looked at the cartoons were the ones that REQUIRED married couples bedrooms to show twin beds, lest they hint at non-sleeping activity.

and the stuff when Lucy was pregnant, the would not allow that word. the closest was "in a family way" and nothing was ever mentioned about her and Ricky's activities that caused that condition!

with cable now and pretty much anything goes, its hard to believe that those standards were ever in place, but I'm sure if it had been different, we would have seen a lot of different family situations with the Mickey, Minnie, daisy, donald, etc.

[Syndrome]

I think the Flintstones was the first cartoon to tackle pregnancy (remember Wilma pregnant with Pebbles?). If I remember right, it was kept very low key. That was also the first show to tackle infertility...remember the episode about how the Rubbles got Bam Bam?

[felinefan]

I have a VHS set of Betty Boop cartoons, and the one tape is labeled "Pre-Code". In her cartoons, Betty loses her her pajama tops in "Mysterious Mose", and in "Any Rags?", her top keeps falling down. In the former her nightie flies out from under the covers, in the latter it shows a very lacy bra. Others have her backlit, showing the silhoutte of her body through her clothes. One of the later cartoons has her changing into a grass skirt and lei, putting ink on herself to resemble a Samoan, and for one frame as she's getting her lei, you see her topless. During her hula dance, the lei moves around, almost but not quite exposing her. In "The Old Man of the Mountain", Betty goes up a mountain to meet the title character, and coming down a woman is pushing a baby carriage while crying. When Betty asks her what's wrong, she sobs "The Old Man of the Mountain!", pulling back the shade of the baby carriage to show three crying babies--who look exactly like their father! Should've called it "The Dirty Old Man of the Mountain!" :p:

Interestingly enough, the Fleischer Brothers, creators of Betty Boop and other characters, and who invented modern cartoons--the old style were more like flip books on film--were known as the "Anti-Disneys", because they showed life as it really was, and Walt Disney showed an idealized story. In fact, after the Fleischer Brothers became really famous, Disney Studios reps would go to the Fleischer Studios, and lure the best of the Fleischer animators away to work for Disney. Very intense competition between Fleischer and Disney back then, to say the least.

[Whazzup]

I have a VHS set of Betty Boop cartoons, and the one tape is labeled "Pre-Code". In her cartoons, Betty loses her her pajama tops in "Mysterious Mose", and in "Any Rags?", her top keeps falling down. In the former her nightie flies out from under the covers, in the latter it shows a very lacy bra. Others have her backlit, showing the silhoutte of her body through her clothes. One of the later cartoons has her changing into a grass skirt and lei, putting ink on herself to resemble a Samoan, and for one frame as she's getting her lei, you see her topless. During her hula dance, the lei moves around, almost but not quite exposing her. In "The Old Man of the Mountain", Betty goes up a mountain to meet the title character, and coming down a woman is pushing a baby carriage while crying. When Betty asks her what's wrong, she sobs "The Old Man of the Mountain!", pulling back the shade of the baby carriage to show three crying babies--who look exactly like their father! Should've called it "The Dirty Old Man of the Mountain!" :p:

Interestingly enough, the Fleischer Brothers, creators of Betty Boop and other characters, and who invented modern cartoons--the old style were more like flip books on film--were known as the "Anti-Disneys", because they showed life as it really was, and Walt Disney showed an idealized story. In fact, after the Fleischer Brothers became really famous, Disney Studios reps would go to the Fleischer Studios, and lure the best of the Fleischer animators away to work for Disney. Very intense competition between Fleischer and Disney back then, to say the least.

That was very interesting.