Happy Birthday Canada-Now Get Off Eh! You Hoser!

Bob and Doug - Topic - How to get a mouse in a Beer Bottle

In celebration of Canada's 138th birthday, I give you the most famous episode from two of Canada's comedy embassadors. Bob and Doug McKenzie were a pair of fictional Canadian brothers who hosted "The Great White North", a sketch which was introduced on SCTV for the show's third season when it moved to the CBC in 1980. Bob is played by Rick Moranis and Doug is played by Dave Thomas.

"The Great White North" (originally known as "Kanadian Korner") was a panel show that played upon Canadian stereotypes. Bob and Doug, two dumb beer-swilling brothers wearing heavy winter clothing and tuques, would comment on various elements of Canadian life and culture, frequently employing the interjection "Eh?" and derisively calling each other a "hoser." Among the topics discussed were snow routes, the Canadian-built robot arm on the Space Shuttle, and "why there aren't enough parking spaces at take-out donut shops."

The sketch was conceived when SCTV moved to the CBC television network. Each episode to be broadcast on that network was two minutes longer than those syndicated to the United States. The CBC network heads asked the show's producers to add specifically and identifiably Canadian content for those two minutes. Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas thought that this was a ridiculous request, since the show had been taped in Canada, with a mostly Canadian cast and crew, for two years. The request inspired them to create a parody that would incorporate every aspect of the humorous stereotype of Canadians.

The segments were videotaped at the end of a day's shooting, with just Thomas and Moranis and a single camera operator. The sketches were for the most part improvised on the set, and after doing several such ad-libbed bits, they would then select the best ones for use on the program.

"Koo Koo-Koo Koo-Koo-Koo" to you,
Kenaz

Banned Cartoons

Here is a collection of vintage cartoons that have been banned from mainstream broadcast and distribution. This collection is for historical and educational/ archival purposes and to preserve some of the lost art of great animators and musical performers in entertainment history and in no way meant to offend. Censorship is the wrong way to go. These works of art need to be shown and explained to every new generation in an effort to stop the growing tide of racism.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1nGFid_Yw4&search=banned%20cartoonsA Banned World War Two Cartoon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdoLNjcslRo&search=banned%20cartoonsThe 1937 Friz Freleng Banned Cartoon that borrows from the 1937 film "The Green Pastures".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdN3FFx4mZI&search=banned%20cartoonsPorky Pig Swears

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMWsLOLcFuU&search=banned%20cartoonsUNCLE TOM'S BUNGALOW (1937)-An early Tex Avery parody of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Banned, 1937

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdsyZDEHzWE&search=banned%20cartoonsTHE ISLE OF PINGO PONGO (1938)-Tex Avery's first travelogue parody. Banned, 1938.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vs8dFyTm2c&search=banned%20cartoonsCONFEDERATE HONEY (1940)-Banned 1940 Civil War Cartoon by Friz Freleng.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziAyY_SQSOw&search=banned%20cartoonsFRESH HARE (1942)-Popular 1942 cartoon by Friz Freleng with banned, uncensored ending.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaAPXfsRVPQ&search=banned%20cartoonsRUSSIAN RHAPSODY (1944)-WWII cartoon by Bob Clampett. Banned, 1944.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z9Rg_cnhZQ&search=banned%20cartoonsSEEIN' RED, WHITE 'N' BLUE (1943)-WWII Popeye cartoon by Dan Gordon. Banned, 1943.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5CgqLhEsOs&search=banned%20cartoonsYOU'RE A SAP, MR. JAP (1942)-WWII Popeye cartoon by Dan Gordon. Banned, 1942.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur6KYq48gJ8&search=banned%20cartoonsTHE DUCKTATORS (1942)-WWII cartoon by Norm McCabe. Banned, 1942.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ51DYzaS-Q&search=banned%20cartoonsWHICH IS WITCH? (1949)-Banned 1949 cartoon by Friz Freleng.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCyCOLuTiZA&search=banned%20cartoonsTHE SPIRIT OF '43 (1943)-WWII Propaganda cartoon by Jack King. Banned, 1943.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZuZwDfLYWI&search=banned%20cartoons
INKI AND THE MINAH BIRD (1943)- Extremely rare Chuck Jones cartoon featuring the character "Inki". Banned, 1943.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6NlIf57ZFM&search=banned%20cartoonsCAVEMAN INKI (1950)-Rare Chuck Jones cartoon featuring the character "Inki". Banned, 1950.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-qWHyBYAM0&search=banned%20cartoonsINKI AT THE CIRCUS (1947)-Rare Chuck Jones cartoon featuring the character "Inki". Banned, 1947.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEzM1lMzbOY&search=banned%20cartoonsAll This & Rabbit Stew banned 1941 cartoon-1941 cartoon that has been pulled out of circulation due to racism(not intended here)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twfl2X_7xq4&search=banned%20cartoons
AMOS & ANDY: THE LION TAMER (1934)-Amos and Andy's "The Lion Tamer" cartoon short.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIxHfwhckcs&search=banned%20cartoonsBanned Cartoon-Betty Boop-Classic Betty Boop cartoon that was banned from TV due to racist assumptions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLUwLF301GA&search=banned%20cartoons
1943 Banned Cartoon Bugs Bunny "Nips the Nips"-Banned for violence.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x68WFyG0av4&search=banned%20cartoonsBanned Disney Cartoon - Donald Duck - "Der Fuehrer's Face"-A once banned Disney cartoon featuring many things about Nazis and Hitler... and Donald Duck...?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeYsT4GT8q0&search=banned%20cartoonsFlintstones Cartoon Winston cigarettes add-
Flintstones Cartoon Winston cigarettes add Banned from TV.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Grgwyj7rL4Q&search=banned%20cartoons
Banned Cartoon -Tex Avery - Droopy's Good Deed - Uncensored-This is the rare uncensored version of Tex Avery's 1951 Cartoon "Droopy's Good Deed". The cartoon iself is aired often and has been included in several anthologies, but always with two black face gags cut, even in the so-called complete laserdisc collection (btw the cut scenes occur approx 3:30 and 5:15 into the cartoon)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ty7-i0uyN0&search=banned%20cartoons
Banned Cartoons - Betty Boop - Snow White-banned because in this and in "Minnie the Moocher" Cab Calloway appears as a ghost. A "Spook" was a derogatory term for a black person.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUEwF7DuonA&search=banned%20cartoons
Banned Cartoons - Disney - The Vanishing Private- This cartoon mocks the american army of that time, makes them look like the buffoons.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdyPzUUJYDo&search=banned%20cartoonsPopeye - Spinach Fer Britain-have no idea for the ban

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdJ9eQkwT9M&search=banned%20cartoons
GOLDILOCKS AND THE JIVIN' BEARS (1944)-Banned 1944 Cartoon by Friz Freleng featuring a jazzy parody of "Goldilocks and the Three Bears".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrcobcsly1M&search=banned%20cartoonsBanned Cartoons - Felix The Cat - Felix Saves The Day-Felix does his best to get a white minor league player out of jail, so that he can beat the Tarheels. A team composed entirely of black face.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqPTaoZnkNE&search=banned%20cartoons
Banned Cartoons - Betty Boop - Minnie The Moocher-This was banned for slight Italian Sterotypes, and it probably scared the hell out of kids.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS0kfydmDxI&search=banned%20cartoons"Tokio Jokio"-Racist towards the Japanese during WWII.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oNKMKU0vL0&search=banned%20cartoons
Banned Cartoons - Looney Tunes - Fresh Hare-Bugs Bunny "Wanted Dead or Alive" posters are up everywhere in the forest. Bugs, being his usual humourous self, vandalizes these posters. On one of them, he draws himself as Hitler.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFUQ7AgvgJU&search=banned%20cartoons
Donald Duck-Commando Duck-
This cartoon it portrays Donald going into Japan on the plane

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhTfCz255U8&search=banned%20cartoons
HITTIN' THE TRAIL FOR HALLELUJAH LAND (1931)-Banned 1931 early Merrie Melodies cartoon by Harman and Ising.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xF6rRxwt8sQ&search=banned%20cartoons
Banned Cartoons - Castle Films - Little Black Sambo-Black stereotypes, via blackface

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_ZknzziPfY&search=banned%20cartoonsJUNGLE JITTERS (1938)-Banned 1938 Cartoon by Friz Freleng.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlZBxGx1unc&search=banned%20cartoons
COAL BLACK AND DE SEBBEN DWARFS (1943)-Banned 1943 Cartoon by Bob Clampett featuring a jazzy parody of "Snow White".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-bhWVozgjI&search=banned%20cartoonsBanned Cartoons - Looney Tunes - A Coy Decoy-Daffy Duck is the Ugly Duckling, who takes adventures through other books. In one of these a blackface stereotypical black mother is ridden like a horse.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyWozg9bESg&search=banned%20cartoons
SUNDAY GO TO MEETIN' TIME (1936)-Banned 1936 Cartoon by Friz Freleng.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucvRsq5lTGU&search=banned%20cartoonsFRAIDY CAT (1942)-Fairly common cartoon by Joseph Barbera and William Hanna with the original voice track of "Mammy Two-Shoes" by Lillian Randolph. Her audiotrack was re-recorded years later to be more politically correct.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkJmU2MA4dE&search=banned%20cartoonsEDUCATION FOR DEATH (1943)-1943 WWII Propaganda cartoon by Clyde Geronimi (who also directed Peter Pan and Lady and the Tramp!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyW5NnP_hAE&search=banned%20cartoonsAMOS & ANDY: THE RASSLING MATCH (1934)-Amos and Andy's "The Rasslin' Match" cartoon short.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxzlZdQ3xTA&search=banned%20cartoonsMISSISSIPPI HARE (1949)-Uncut 1949 cartoon (including banned scenes) by Chuck Jones.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WV8TmxcjNY&search=banned%20cartoonsTIN PAN ALLEY CATS (1943)-Banned 1943 Cartoon by Bob Clampett featuring a caricature of Fats Waller as a cat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcEHd0nGNuo&search=banned%20cartoons1942 cartoon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jbA437FHFU&search=banned%20cartoonsEducation for Death- Hitlers Children-Walt Disney cartoon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5XvjW8Hm5Y&mode=related&search=banned%20cartoonsDer Führer's Face-A cartoon made by Disney about Nazism in Germany during World War II, it was banned because of it's contraversial content.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaJv3JPklG4&mode=related&search=banned%20cartoonsSOUTHERN FRIED RABBIT (1953)-Popular 1953 cartoon by Friz Freleng with banned, uncensored scene of Bugs in blackface.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_md-UGLwuYAPRIVATE SNAFU: GAS (1944)-1944 WWII cartoon by Chuck Jones.

Later,
Kenaz