Comments on: Thunder Thunder Thunder ThunderCats http://docucinema.com/500_words/2010/01/thunder-thunder-thunder-thundercats/ Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:59:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Lee Schneider http://docucinema.com/500_words/2010/01/thunder-thunder-thunder-thundercats/comment-page-1/#comment-390 Lee Schneider Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:07:39 +0000 http://docucinema.com/500_words/?p=1010#comment-390 Fascinating question. For movies, there's a ratings board which some believe is pretty easily manipulated by the studios. Check out a movie called <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0493459/" rel="nofollow">This Film is Not Yet Rated.</a> It's on <a href="http://www.netflix.com/Movie/This_Film_Is_Not_Yet_Rated/70043954?strackid=179e1385fda4bd7a_0_srl&strkid=974928412_0_0&trkid=222336" rel="nofollow">Netflix</a>. As for TV ... my father, as it happens, was heavily involved in all this when he worked for ABC. He got psychologists to review scripts and talk to writers and producers about the impact their stuff was having on kids. But I'd be surprised to hear that anybody like a psychologist was reviewing anything these days on TV. And cartoons... there's an old joke (and possibly true story) about Jay Ward, the creator of the Rocky and Bullwinkle Show. He had a script where Rocky and Bullwinkle were captured by cannibals and were placed in a cooking pot prior to consumption. Network censors objected. You can't show cannibalism on a show for children! Jay Ward responded: But it's not cannibalism. They're eating a moose and a squirrel. Fascinating question. For movies, there’s a ratings board which some believe is pretty easily manipulated by the studios. Check out a movie called This Film is Not Yet Rated. It’s on Netflix. As for TV … my father, as it happens, was heavily involved in all this when he worked for ABC. He got psychologists to review scripts and talk to writers and producers about the impact their stuff was having on kids. But I’d be surprised to hear that anybody like a psychologist was reviewing anything these days on TV. And cartoons… there’s an old joke (and possibly true story) about Jay Ward, the creator of the Rocky and Bullwinkle Show. He had a script where Rocky and Bullwinkle were captured by cannibals and were placed in a cooking pot prior to consumption. Network censors objected. You can’t show cannibalism on a show for children! Jay Ward responded: But it’s not cannibalism. They’re eating a moose and a squirrel.

]]> By: Liz http://docucinema.com/500_words/2010/01/thunder-thunder-thunder-thundercats/comment-page-1/#comment-389 Liz Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:50:18 +0000 http://docucinema.com/500_words/?p=1010#comment-389 Do psychologists review scripts these days? Sometimes I even wonder about Disney's G-rated films.. my kids get really scared during many of them.. but then are fine with a PG animated film like Bee Movie.. A G movie can include a lot of heavy duty stuff.. Lion King, Princess and the Frog... but since everything's animated.. it gets a G-rating.. any comments on this? Do psychologists review scripts these days? Sometimes I even wonder about Disney’s G-rated films.. my kids get really scared during many of them.. but then are fine with a PG animated film like Bee Movie.. A G movie can include a lot of heavy duty stuff.. Lion King, Princess and the Frog… but since everything’s animated.. it gets a G-rating.. any comments on this?

]]> By: Lee Schneider http://docucinema.com/500_words/2010/01/thunder-thunder-thunder-thundercats/comment-page-1/#comment-388 Lee Schneider Fri, 29 Jan 2010 02:25:11 +0000 http://docucinema.com/500_words/?p=1010#comment-388 I don't think the psychologist who reviewed the ThunderCats scripts would have known what to do with the Stooges' shows. I don’t think the psychologist who reviewed the ThunderCats scripts would have known what to do with the Stooges’ shows.

]]> By: Bob Ellal http://docucinema.com/500_words/2010/01/thunder-thunder-thunder-thundercats/comment-page-1/#comment-387 Bob Ellal Fri, 29 Jan 2010 01:45:50 +0000 http://docucinema.com/500_words/?p=1010#comment-387 Lee, Never saw Thundercats--back in my cartoon-watching days in the sixties it was Three Stooges and Popeye reruns. Don't think my sons caught the show either, as they grew up in the nineties. Due to my influence, my sons grew up to be Stooges fans too. Can't understand how some lines got past the censors: "Boy, you just ejaculated a mouthful" and "If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking 'til you do suck seed." Probably explains my shattered rose-colored spectacles. So many hammers to skulls; who wouldn't worship Beowulf? Bob Lee,

Never saw Thundercats–back in my cartoon-watching days in the sixties it was Three Stooges and Popeye reruns. Don’t think my sons caught the show either, as they grew up in the nineties.

Due to my influence, my sons grew up to be Stooges fans too. Can’t understand how some lines got past the censors: “Boy, you just ejaculated a mouthful” and “If at first you don’t succeed, keep on sucking ’til you do suck seed.”

Probably explains my shattered rose-colored spectacles. So many hammers to skulls; who wouldn’t worship Beowulf?

Bob

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