>Bugs Bunny at the '90s: Lecturing you about drugs
>Meanwhile Bugs Bunny at classic Looney Tunes shorts
>Bugs Bunny at the '90s: Lecturing you about drugs. >Meanwhile Bugs Bunny at classic Looney Tunes shorts
>Bugs Bunny at the '90s: Lecturing you about drugs
>Meanwhile Bugs Bunny at classic Looney Tunes shorts
I've always been confused by this. Is that just supposed to be a homemade cigarette or a blunt?
Cigarette
yes it's a rolled cigarette, you child
people used to roll em
>both directed by Friz Freleng
Either coincidence or he just like Bugs as a cowboy
its the OLD WEST so he hand rolled his cigarettes
they didn't have bugs smoking a marijuana in a kids cartoon
But classic Looney Tunes weren't kid's cartoons.
Just because they played at the start of movies didn't mean they were mature content for sophisticated adults
Well yeah, obviously they're comedic and not super serious. Doesn't change the fact that the main audience that the classic Looney Tunes shorts were made for was adults.
A great deal of the humor is incomprehensible to a child.
I don't think it was primarily for adults. Movies were basically family entertainment (with self-censorship making every movie the equivalent of the G or PG rating) and the cartoons were part of the show that the kids could enjoy while the newsreels were for their moms and dads. The subject matter of cartoons was usually stuff that kids were familiar with, like fairy tales or fables.
I remember reading an article from 1942 or so about Warner Bros. cartoons that said they turned the moment when parents usually go out for a smoke into the part of the show they liked best. I.e. the cartoon was supposed to be for kids but they were made in such a way that adults could enjoy them just as much.
It's tobacco, you fricking moron. Aside from the cowboy shtick, "Reefer Madness" was still a thing in the minds of people then.
He speaks from his own personal experience
Weren't Looney Tunes created before the severely damaging effects of smoking were known?
Yeah. Hell, up until the 50s, you had doctors in magazine ads encouraging it
I'm almost certain most of the "doctors" used in those ads weren't real. What's shocking was how those cigarette companies were able to get away with such blatant false advertising for so long.
>Implying that doctors aren't sellouts that will lie if they get paid enough by corporations/organizations
Haven't you learn anything by Covid scam?
You mean when cigarettes corporations were bribing doctors to lie about smoking being good and using Hollywood to normalize smoking as a cool thing?
>Weren't Looney Tunes created before the severely damaging effects of smoking were known?
No, but they were made before it became illegal to lie about it or advertise them to kids.
Seriously, the negative effects of tobacco usage have been known at least 400 years and were well defined in modern medical science by the late 19th century century. I have a few books on housekeeping (sort of general reference guides for new wives - cooking, cleaning, budgeting, home medicine, etc.) and some other relevant topics from the 1900s-20s and every single one of them condemns tobacco use (especially smoking) extremely harshly.
>and using Hollywood to normalize smoking as a cool thing?
In fairness, that was pretty realistic. The 1900s-1950s were really the heyday of smoking because of the rise of pre-rolled cigarettes and the commensurate increase in women taking up smoking. They were invented in France in the 1820s, were successfully mechanized in the 1880s and were everywhere a decade later and made smoking accessible and cheap to absolutely everyone and led to vast amounts of advertising being invested. The difference between being able to pick up a pack of cigarettes on any street corner and only needing a lighter versus needing to carry around a pipe, a bag of tobacco and a tool or a cigar and a cigar-cutter or even having to roll your own cigs at home and then carry them in a hard case was a real game-changer.
They did canonically have Speedy Gonzales sing the version of "La Cucaracha" that mentions marijuana, but we never see anyone actually do any non-made-up drugs except alcohol and nicotine.