When Donald Duck, Bugs Bunny and Other Cartoon Characters Went to War

[HollywoodMarine]

While never formally inducted into the Armed Forces, Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and countless other cartoon characters went to work acting in films instructing soldiers, sailors and civilians on a range of skills. They also went to work appearing in propaganda films designed to inspire the population to keep supporting the war as well as encouraging them to show their support with actions such as conserving scarce food and other materials necessary for the war effort as well as doing things like paying their taxes and purchasing war bonds (which is what Savings Bonds were called in those days).

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szs5X0jQXXA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFdG8lZ4PJw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwjeBL01tz0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uimyJejyWpc


Aight folks... post'em if you have'em!

[California Joe]

Didn't they pull "Bugs Nip's the Nips" because it was now considered offensive?

[tercio67]

Commando Duck

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H81Nna8fo5g&feature=youtube_gdata

(from youtube's banned cartoons)

edit: Bug's and Popeye's can be found there too

[IDF_TANKER]

Wow, I forgot how violent was Tom and Jerry... I may be wrong, but it hard to imagine in the today PC world cartoons like this for children.

[SoSo]

Obviously Disney considers the old, banned cartoons an embarrassment, and wishes they could be dropped down the "memory hole," in fact, many of them have been destroyed. But many others have survived, and a good thing, too, as they provide a fascinating glimpse into a mindset so different from the politically-correct, sanitized culture we live in today.

[LineDoggie]

Wow, I forgot how violent was Tom and Jerry... I may be wrong, but it hard to imagine in the today PC world cartoons like this for children.
Itchy & Scratchy..........

[gaijinsamurai]

Anyone remember "Spy Vs. Spy" in Mad Magazine?

[California Joe]

Yeah, I'm old.

[Alfacentori]

I remember watching this one of DD on VHS as a kid, wish I still had it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtJ3hUCIe3A

Alfa

[hank2222]

those bring backs some memories and yes i remember Spy VS Spy in Mad magazine

[khalifah]

Heres one where Daffy learns to be a "Good nazi".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SG15bVweujE

edit, "making shells"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNF86jBByDg&feature=related

[randir14]

Wow, I forgot how violent was Tom and Jerry... I may be wrong, but it hard to imagine in the today PC world cartoons like this for children.

Tom & Jerry reruns are still on channels like Cartoon Network

[Clear_blues]

Anyone remember "Spy Vs. Spy" in Mad Magazine?
wat, they got rid of spy vs spy?


Back when I lived in england for a year, our flat had a video tape with around 1 1/2-2 hours of cartoons like those pictured above

[ayanami_tard]

i think i saw pink panther cartoon about him enlisted in the army

good time....good time

[BAF]

cool post, never saw these before and i watched a ton of these cartoons when i was little. Thanks for sharing!

[HollywoodMarine]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jQ32XGavR8&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NuFglfP6Ds&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIN0sViNhqA&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiZmgMTkVHo&feature=related

[maxima10]

A few clips of what was on T.V. before political correctness and awareness of racism

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LMrdcs4ucc&

[tluassa]

I absolutely loved this pluto episode as a child :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uimyJejyWpc

This one has a little "Cold War" flair on it too, considering its christmas the end is quite "militant" :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miEi3F8s8H8

[phoery]

i remember theres a WB toons about this; an Eagle, bold eagle, played as a music conductor on a battleship factory

when they finished the battleship is so huge towering over d statue of liberty

any of you know this

[goat89]

Absolute gems these vids are :3

[HollywoodMarine]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKnkK6bLSvg&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRCWcOE9Te8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nL7xj36nn8Y

[2Sheds_Jackson]

Didn't they pull "Bugs Nip's the Nips" because it was now considered offensive?

Yeah, I think that kind of thing made it a bit easier to shoot a stranger square in the face with a flamethrower. Today, we can still go ahead and shoot them in the face, but it's not appropriate to criticize their looks beforehand.

You can still find those deliciously racist toons on eBay. I honestly think people have forgotten how we got from there to here....so years ago I got a whole bunch of em - Snow White and the Sebben Dwarfs ...Song of the South etc. - some very cringe-worthy stuff. I mean some of it is genuinely entertaining but it's mixed in with, oh lord it's terrible. Every once in a while my daughters will break into Uncle Remus ..getting their voice all super low and saying "nah it happen' on onna dem zippity-doo-dah days..". Just comically over-the-top campy Disney crap. We all roll our eyes but damn it's hard to believe that kind of thing was so commonplace. s'cuse me i have to go launder my hood.

[Nuclear_Warrior]

damn, good memories. I remember seeing them every Saturday and Sunday from 6 am to 12 pm in Venezuela in the early 90s. Because we didn't have cable back then in those small oil towns I had to wait till the weekends to actually watch cartoons lol. The one that I always dislike was the Speedrunner. Marvin the Martian, The Mexican mouse (I don't know its name in English) and others were the ****.

[armored_diplomacy]

Awesome thread, guys. So many good memories.
Tom and Jerry are by far my favorites, they still can be seen in cable TV over here.
As for the old Disney cartoons, I have seem most of them here, even those WWII related.

However, this is flawless:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKnkK6bLSvg&feature=related


Who was to say that nobody would pay attention to its message.

[HollywoodMarine]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0syeeCe9RBQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KWtFVIzSsk&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6VqL1al-LA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQeWv2hMJ7Y

[Chairborne Ranger]

These are great. I really dislike how watered down and sissified the old cartoons have become. I hadn't watched a Bugs Bunny/Roadrunner cartoon in ages, and recently I caught a couple on TV. All the explosions, gunshots, and other violence has been edited out. You hear the gunshot/explosion, but only see the blackened face of the character in the aftermath. WTF. :|
Same with some of the Tom and Jerry stuff I've seen. What the hell happened?

[vryhpyammoadded]

The "Russian Rhapsody” Warner brothers cartoon with the Gremlins from the Kremlin is a classic!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa0aBvtTgE8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa0aBvtTgE8)

[Climber]

Wow, I forgot how violent was Tom and Jerry... I may be wrong, but it hard to imagine in the today PC world cartoons like this for children.

Cartoons are still violent and I don't see them too PC, and Tom & jerry is still running in Cartoon Network.

I loved Tom & Jerry back in the day and my son loves them too now.

He watched me playing Rugby lot of times so he won't be scare at a little violence in the screen.

[HGRazorR]

Damn, can't find it but there's a great Looney Tunes episode where Bugs Bunny is being chased by a big brawny guy all episode and at the end, Bugs goes into a phone booth comes out in a set of USMC dress blues. The burly guy snaps to attention and salutes. The guy looks at the camera afterwards and says, "There goes a hero." That episode had a huge impact on my life as a child.

[HollywoodMarine]

In the cartoon Super-Rabbit, Bugs was seen in the end wearing a USMC dress blue uniform. As a result, the United States Marine Corps made Bugs an honorary Marine Master Sergeant.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugs_Bunny#World_War_II

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jt3daGeAe9s&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wyfhu_eWx28&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa0aBvtTgE8&feature=related