RACIST CARTOONS FROM BACK IN THE DAY | Double Toasted Bites

RACIST CARTOONS FROM BACK IN THE DAY | Double Toasted Bites - On this highlight from this past week's Tuesday show, we take a look at some of the most racist cartoons moments from the 80s (no wonder disney plus is quick to hide some of this stuff!)
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[@littlsuprstr]

1:37 is basically the James Hong story. Born in Minnesota, degree in Engineering, told to sound more foreign in movies

[@whyyoutrippindeebo3514]

I’m so glad this is being talked about. I’ve said this for years. Looney Toons and Walt Disney cartoons were extremely racist back in the day. But back then it was acceptable content. Those were the days where minstrel shows (black face) was considered comedies. It just migrated over to cartoons.

[@Megared82]

I remember Rickety Rocket aired on old school Cartoon Network (back when it was mostly Hanna Barbera shows) for like two days and NEVER saw it again. Like the execs saw it and said "What were we thinking??". Fun fact: the voice of Sunstroke is Jack Baker, who did kids shows until 1983. After 1983, a LOT of porn.

[@brentw.2574]

And got cucked by Jim Slade in Kentucky Fried Movie.

[@P-P-Panda]

THE LAST PART LOL

[@nsthetics7188]

What for real?

[@nsthetics7188]

​@@P-P-Pandais it true?

[@michaelstrong5383]

To quote the Looney Tunes Golden Collection DVDs: *"These depictions were wrong then and are wrong today. These cartoons are represented as they were originally created because to do otherwise would be the same as claiming those prejudices never existed."*

[@CLDJ227]

Yep, Warner Bros has always been good with that compared to Disney.

[@SamtheBravesFan]

How quickly they flipped on that

[@CLDJ227]

@@SamtheBravesFan What do you mean?

[@brohemianrhapsody5740]

In the UK on Boomerang, they aired Tom and Jerry uncensored, with the mammy character in tact, and as a black kid me and my family thought she just owned the house

[@dragondaveltd1992]

I have been given a task on research on Cartoon Censorship and edited on Racism and black people in every cartoons back in the 1930's and 1940's during my time in my final year at college

[@moxiemaxie3543]

Same 😂 but now that I'm older

[@i.m.evilhomer5084]

Same here in Australia. They even left some of the black face minstrel jokes on Boomerang in the ate '90s & early 2000s, which is more offensive than Tom's owner Maid Dinah. She even said it was her house in the short "Saturday Evening Puss". Contrary to popular belief, Mammy Two-Shoes isn't her name, that's the name of a Disney character.

[@michaelstrong5383]

If I remember correctly, when Cartoon Network aired the Tom and Jerry shorts, they still had the character in them, but she sounded *WAY LESS* stereotypical than before.

[@brohemianrhapsody5740]

@@i.m.evilhomer5084 I remember that episode airing all the time when I was younger. It was one of my mother's favourites

[@i.m.evilhomer5084]

Interesting note about Tom's original owner. Her name isn't Mammy Two-Shoes, that's the name of a Disney character from some Silly Symphony shorts. She's actually went unnamed, but she was named Mandy & Dinah in the comic books of that era. In the short "Saturday Evening Puss" it's revealed that she actually owns the house. That's oddly progressive for the time.

[@lenindominguez1986]

i actually did not know because i used to watch some tom and jerry reruns back in the 90's & 2000's & I Never Read The Tom & Jerry Comics

[@Power-9Hunnid]

Interesting fact.

[@theconsciousobserver6829]

She actually owns the house. I'm sure that was an inside joke to seem charitable to her character. White guys love insiders that only they get, but when you understand white psychology, you understand everything is a joke if they have anything to do with it.

[@christopherwilliams242]

Growing up, I always assumed she owned the house. But I grew up in Jamaica where black people were allowed to own homes I guess? And she dressed like my grandmother so I didn't think anything racist of it.

[@creed8712]

I think the fact he has so many owners is why there’s confusion. I remember her and I remember the white family that owned him but I don’t remember them in the same room or in the same house

[@47Cartoonguy]

When tom and Jerry aired in the 60s on Saturday mornings Chuck Jones team actually edit her out and replaced her with a white woman. In the 90s her voice was redubbed with actress Thea Vidale. In the short Saturday evening Puss, it was revealed she did in fact own that house and like someone else said it seemed pretty progressive for the 50s, not that it excuses the other racist stuff tbf

[@lenindominguez1986]

how interesting

[@Bigreid92]

As a kid, we used to call Rickety Rocket The Ghetto Jetsons

[@user-dr2yz8um3d]

“Even space was segregated!@ 😂😂😂

[@johnsonartchive8826]

I definitely watched some of those cartoons in the 2000s. I watched reruns of Tom and Jerry all the time on TV, and I received Tom and Jerry DVDs several times as gifts.

[@doctorfrosty3546]

Korey went back in time, used his animation powers, and made all those racist cartoons. It’s the only explanation.

[@cjjones258]

The only time I've ever heard MTS spoke happily was when she complimented Tom for managing to stay awake not knowing that he painted fake eyes over his eyelids

[@mttylerdurden9]

6:18 Rickety Rocket?!? Wow! Y'all had no chill in the 80s!🤣🤣🤣

[@user-dr2yz8um3d]

“And they’re still talking like this!” 😂

[@marcushamner5994]

Billy’s laugh always had me rolling LOL. The Censored Eleven Looney Tunes cartoons were hilarious and historical too🤣🤣

[@CLDJ227]

Warners Bros does a better job at re-releasing their old racist propaganda cartoons with a disclaimer. I remember seeing them pop up late on Cartoon Network as a kid, but because I was a kid I wasn't reading that lol.

[@deelystanonfightcade2]

Billy’s “what the fuck you talkin bout boy?!” Fuckin killed me

[@doubletoastedbites5000]

Billy has so many quotable comments when he's not screaming in laughter-pain haha! - *Nick Diaz* _(Editor, Host of The Chat Attack Podcast)_ kzbin.info

[@whywyatt376]

@@doubletoastedbites5000 tryna get some free promo

[@Gambit2483]

😂 40s/50s cartoons were racists af

[@Spawnwick_Boseman82820]

Indeed

[@marcus9434]

The people who conceived of and created these cartoons were bigoted. And so are their successors.

[@geoffreyrichards6079]

They were, but it’s hard to tell whether most of them were intentionally hurtful, unintentional, or meant as ironic back then. Some were even progressive for their times but have since lost their intentions from modern society shifting so much.

[@geoffreyrichards6079]

@It aint no thing Maybe, but if a series like “South Park” were made back in the day, it would probably fall into that same camp of irony becoming lost to time. It’s easy to understand the show’s intentions currently due to how accessible it is from the internet, but will later generations be able pick on the intentions?

[@user-dr2yz8um3d]

How the animators got away with this stuff is amazing in itself like 😆

[@orenthiadillard8993]

My brother really said: "'Ol big-lipped-ass rocket!" 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

[@user-dr2yz8um3d]

I thought this was a joke at first But omg it was real

[@jameshakola3603]

Ah wow, I had forgotten all about Rickety Rocket! Yeah I didn't even think about it as a kid, because Fat Albert also had that junkyard thing going on. But yeah it's kind of... yeah...

[@starspeculation]

I thought Mammy was Tom's owner when I was younger.

[@SuperDoNotWant]

When was a kid Fat Albert was one of my favourite cartoons. What's not to like, they're all really cool guys. Solid group of friends.

[@gspendlove]

I was a child of the '70s. A blond-haired, blue-eyed little white boy. I was never brought up to be hateful. I laughed at these cartoons, and I'm not ashamed I did, exactly, but suffice it to say that if I had kids, I don't think I'd let them see them.

[@yuukisama2001]

Mammy Two Shoes, then she became an Irish woman.

[@lenindominguez1986]

it was June Foray

[@geoffreyrichards6079]

Basically swapping one stereotype with another.

[@yuukisama2001]

@@geoffreyrichards6079 Pretty much.😀

[@yuukisama2001]

@@lenindominguez1986 Ah. Another legend of VAs.😀

[@LF-IV]

I will take my 30 minute commercial cartoons like Transformers, GI Joe and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles over "Rickety Rocket" any day.

[@milestrombley1466]

The Black Jetsons. 🤣🤣🤣

[@romanov3937]

Yeah these cartoons are clearly outdated, but I believe we need to look back at them and be happy of how much animation became more open nowadays. I mean, we got some pretty great black characters in the 2000s, even in the 80s and 90s we had some decent representation

[@Ljoose]

WOW. I never heard of Rickety Rocket. 🤣+ 😬+ 🤦‍♂ The art direction had to have been intentional to portray black ppl in their most vulnerable state, even in a futuristic utopia. They could have just stopped there at capturing the personalities and culture of the black community using strong rooted black characters but instead they decided to double down and highlight the disadvantages of classism in the most extreme and comical way possible. They went out their way to associate poverty with the black community. I mean...."Rickety" wtf lol. This may have been the "thing" to do at the time, some ppl may even argue that it was a form of representation, but isn't there a thing as good and bad representation. The fact of the matter is, this ish surely did not age well. lol

[@danjones6702]

Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids is an American animated television series created, produced, and hosted (in live action bookends) by comedian Bill Cosby, who also lent his voice to a number of characters, including Fat Albert and himself. Filmation was the production company for the series

[@tomsenior7405]

Excellent work guys. Thank you. I grew up with these cartoons back in the 1960's. I loved Tom & Jerry of the 40s & 50s. However, I can recall thinking "Do Americans still own Black People?". These thoughts made me extremely concerned. At 6 years old, I vowed never to go to the USA. I genuinely appreciate your use of humour to highlight these issues.

[@greatwuta]

6:17 The closest of me ever hearing about this cartoon was when Nice And Smooth made a song called, Hip Hop Junkies. And the first line of the song was, Rickety Rocket was my favorite cartoon

[@johnmarshk]

The voice of Mammy TWO Shoes on Tom and Jerry also played on an episode of Sanford and Son as a character named Aunt Hazel. She had the wedding cake thrown in her face.

[@phineasfacingforward3460]

This was funny ya'll I enjoyed this

[@yuukisama2001]

Korey and the gang should do one livestream of them watching an episode just for a laugh. I watched an episode and I was like oh this so bad.

[@beanio12]

Tom’s owner is bizarre. On one hand she’s the classic mammy archetype, but on the other hand she’s surprisingly wealthy, more so than some of the viewers at the time. She owns that house and in one cartoon is shown to own a lot of nice jewelry. She’s both backwards and progressive at the exact same time.

[@creed8712]

Her name also apparently isn’t Mammy, that’s a different character. She just doesn’t have a name but I don’t think any of his other owners did so

[@brandoncameron2686]

There was one with Bugs Bunny and the "half breed" comment involving Indians I think. I'll never turn on Bugs though. He's a childhood favorite. Besides, gotta blame the writers on that one. Bugs Bunny was almost "invincible" though. It was rare to see anyone get the better of him. Our heroes have to face obstacles that they have to overcome. You can't have them just run over the villains unscathed. Speaking of which, watch the movie Out For Justice with Steven Segal if you want to see a hero/protagonist dominate a movie from beginning to end. Segal basically went untouched in that film. No one really posed a real threat to him. He ran over all the villains in that movie, never facing any true danger. Watching that movie, you never felt anyone posed a true threat to him. He just kicked everyone's ass from start to finish. Heroes need to face real obstacles.

[@haruruben]

Fat Albert haha I have fond memories of that show, there’s some animation that struck me as racist even back in 80s. It’s like this level where it’s not overtly hateful but you can see the systemic racism in there

[@Dan82677]

2:13, lol, that's probably me he spotted calling him out on that.

[@doubletoastedbites5000]

Hahaha some YT'ers be lying about this but Korey checks all the comments, so unless you're being nasty, keep 'em coming! We love our community! - *Nick Diaz* _(Editor, Host of The Chat Attack Podcast)_ kzbin.info

[@Planag7]

Another channel just reviewed the old Our Gang shorts. I remember seeing the mostly 'uncensored' versions and even brought it to class. It was the famous "Kid from Borneo" and I knew ahead of time what to expect with it but my teacher was actually pretty good in letting people know that these were caricatures that were normal back in the thirties but not acceptable now. And we all enjoyed the shorts in that context. Trust me, there were some iffy things on it but it was overall a good set of shorts.

[@geoffreyrichards6079]

“Kid from Borneo” may have its roots in unfortunate history, but it’s so over-the-top ridiculous in its depiction that you can’t help but find hilarious. It’s like watching an early predecessor of Taz or Animal from “The Muppets”.

[@youtubemusicowesmemoney8470]

Ah! I actually have that on a old video. The plot was that Stymie was going to the railway to pick up his relative, Uncle George. The rest of the Little Rascals decided to do him a favor and went to get him themselves. At the same time, a carnival "specimen" called the Kid From Borneo- a cannibal who hadn't had a decent meal in a while, escaped from his cage and the Rascals grab him; believing HE is Uncle George and bring him back to Stymie's home. They spend most of the episode trying not to become dinner until Stymie shows up, realizes the mistake and takes matters into his own hands, by subduing Uncle George with a few hot sausages with spicy mustard. Actually an amazing bit of comedy, racist tones aside.

[@tripzero4699]

Wow, I don't remember that episode of The Jetsons

[@sneakyskunk1]

Corey will always be my hero. Love him;)

[@andrewbourne6806]

Wow... I remember that episode.

[@Donna-gt6ds]

Actually, Mammy OWNED her house, so she could dress any way she wanted.

[@shakeemwinn3647]

I'am making an animated film based on the minstrel but, from the truest possible angle. When I complete it. I will send it to you guys for your critique.

[@EulalioMagana]

Reminds me of the Asian maid in the movie, “The Campaign” where the boss payed her extra to talk like a black servant stereotype

[@vinnynonose2930]

I remember an episode of Tom and jerry where jerry went to New York and while he was walking around someone grabbed him thinking he was a brush and dipped his face in some black shoe polish, then rubbed across a show and put back in the dip and when he pulls his head out, his face was done up like black face

[@lccoleman3]

Korey, please do a Hi-Five (Tony Thompson) video!!! 🙏🏾

[@rommix0]

Yeah, and do "I Like The Way (The Kissing Game)". That's their best song.

[@morningstar7329]

3:52 LOL

[@muriok2474]

We've come along away but still have room to improve as a society

[@hectormanuel8360]

Rickety Rocket had black Voice over actors access to imdb

[@ramjet94]

The funniest thing about this clip is that Korey is HELLA WRONG about the cast. They actually went through the trouble to get black voice actors for everyone of the main crew. Im just as surprised as you are.

[@SmartDave60]

I have no recollection of Rickety Rocket.

[@afrinaut3094]

I mean… there’s nothing wrong with the sole of these cartoon designs or the way they talk. Black people have the thicc lips and African-Americans, we, have different dialects, like everybody else. My main issue is that they often in these cartoons, intentionally make us unattractive caricatures, and have the content of what we are talking about stupid or silly.

[@AlSween]

I enjoyed watching those racist cartoons in the 80s lol...

[@jordans8527]

I bought Song of the South for $5.00 last year at a Christmas stand alone DVD stand. Still in the plastic, intrigued to watch to see just how bad and racist Disney was.

[@ants6847]

They were voiced by black actors in Rickety Rocket, Johnny Brown (Bookman from Good Times) was one

[@wilcee238]

I can’t believe that the WB got away with Speedy Gonzalez AND Slowpoke Rodriguez

[@basementofmars1963]

Funny thing about Speedy Gonzalez though is that he's a fairly popular among most Mexican audiences and why the well wouldn't he be? I mean, he's smart, fast, is a hero for the common folk and he always gets the better of whoever's messing with him. He's practically progressive for the time he was created.

[@cypher160manny2]

Believe it or not mexicans myself included likes speedy Gonzales and slowpoke rodrigues

[@Dan82677]

I always loved Speedy Gonzalez, but you're right about Slowpoke Rodriguez, lol.

[@Power-9Hunnid]

There was point were they tried to banned his stuff and there was "Cartoon Network" marathon showing nothing but him and Sylvester as a way of saying to goodbye, but once that happened many people of the Hispanic audience wanted him back and eventually he did. "CN" even did the same marathon welcoming him again. I think what set the character back was probably due to the way that they drew him in certain shorts where he would have big teeth and stuff vs his official his main design. I like what "WB" did with his 2011 reboot counterpart in "The Looney Tunes Show" where he owned a restaurant and would roast Daffy and sometimes help Porky. Wished they did this with the main stream Speedy when he made cameos on "Tiny Toons" and other media between the '90's and 2000's.

[@Dan82677]

@@Power-9Hunnid I remember Speedy's original design, he looked like a dirty ass hobo that climbed out of a thrash can, I was like "WTF?!" when I first saw that design, lol, glad they updated it to the cleaner main design.

[@ooommm4024]

the cartoons mayhave had 40's // 50's stereotypes, albeit they may as well have been offensive 1840's // 1850's stereotype characters

[@htowngogetta3508]

Y'all should do Velma reaction

[@oliviarogers2808]

I've said this several times and I'll keep saying it. Does Song of the South have some racist elements in it? Sure, a lot of old Disney films did. But with that being said, this movie's been blown way out of proportion for a long time. People who actually research it and what it's actually supposed to be about tend to come around to it a little bit.

[@geoffreyrichards6079]

Heck, you hardly ever saw a big-budgeted film from back then that had a black actor as one of the main leads. Despite some aspects of it aging, the film was actually quite progressive for its own time.

[@user-dr2yz8um3d]

@6:52 😂😂😂 Man o man Racist cartoons are a time capsule…. You should watch the SpongeBob reaction videos 😅

[@PANYHK]

Im surprised they didnt talk about Fantasia!

[@actonman7291]

Sargent Lincoln Osiris from Alabama master sauceir approves this.

[@mttylerdurden9]

Wasn't Tom originally named Jasper?

[@marcushamner5994]

Yep! JASPER! JASPER!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@willieholmes1483]

Wow! All this time I never knew “Rickety Rocket” was about black kids! All I saw was the commercials for the show, never watched it. The commercials seemed to be edited to hide the fact that the kids were black.

[@howardmartinez2564]

didnt the original woman call tom, Jasper?

[@Lou45833]

Those cartoons are hilarious and need to come back

[@infinitecrea8]

February 7th I found two more cabins to clean within the last few days, and they are double occupancy, which is much better than the singles because of the problem I have with the keys. One of the cabins belongs to girls who work in the casino, and in the other cabin, which I was supposed to clean today, there are two waiters. In the evening, I put them first on my list, but contrary to our agreement, their door was closed when I got there. I was convinced they were on duty serving the dinner at that time, but still, before going to their restaurant for the key, I knocked on the door and was surprised when one of the guys opened. "I apologize, but if you could come to clean the cabin tomorrow, it would be great," he said, and I moved to the photo manager's cabin. After completing the side job for tonight, I met the other waiter on I-95 and told him his roommate had asked me to clean their cabin tomorrow. "Please understand him. At the beginning of the second sitting, a guest called the maître d' and told him he didn't want to be served by a black person and asked for another waiter. Not only did the maître d' not replace him, but he asked the guest to leave and have dinner at some other restaurant," said the guy. Sadly, people don't know the basic numbers of the universe, which is a vast, maybe infinite space with trillions of galaxies, each consisting of billions of stars and planets. As the leading cosmologist, Carl Sagan, once said, "We live on a mote of dust, suspended on the sunbeam," and I don't think anyone who knows how small we are could see another human on Earth as anything other than a sibling. -Excerpt of 'Diary of a cruise ship employee' by Zlatko Simovski

[@budgiecat9039]

I mean..black familes did actually live in the suburbs in the 50's lol

[@Filmation77]

#1.i used to Call Rickety Rocket "BLACK Speed Buggy in Space" #2. Some of those Tom & Jerry black women got redrawn and white-washed and also there was a LOT of Blackface Gags in T&J cartoon.

[@clarencewalker3925]

I grew up watching these unabridged cartoons, not to mention the Little Rascals. The cartoons would have been funny without those characters but the artists could care less. These characters are now back on television. Let's see what happens. So far...Silence.

[@rjmckenzie4706]

I agree Korey that Disney should bring out Song of the South, once I became fully in love in animation as I got older I noticed the racist portrayals of black people and it really shocked me. As a black person myself I feel mocked when looking at those cartoons despite not me born born in the 80s nor 90s. However, these should be on tv to educate and remind folks that this is not allowed and needs to stop.

[@rommix0]

> As a black person myself I feel mocked That was exactly the intention of those old cartoons (and a lot of live action movies of the time including movies like "Holiday Inn") and it's sad. None of it was acceptable.

[@rjmckenzie4706]

@@rommix0 That is why I hate the American system it's unjust for real

[@geoffreyrichards6079]

It’s kinda ironic that discrimination is still being enforced in the form of censorship.

[@rjmckenzie4706]

@@geoffreyrichards6079 yep cancel culture

[@kungfuhustle99]

Segregation in space lol

[@BJ64Th3M0v13f4n]

Korey looks like Rickety Rocket.

[@alexanderarce3341]

Rickety Rocket couldn't be made today or let alone air on television today

[@ralphyetmore]

Song of The South? Yeah. But look at Mickey Mouse himself. You know why he wears those white gloves, right? He still wears them. 🤔

[@emac94]

oh my god that’s horrible! who names their kid sunstroke?!

[@notnothing386]

You need to check out Silverhawks....The one time they had a black member...he had gold armor....did magic...and was named Hotwing....WHATS A HOTWING?....FUCKIN CHICKEN..... A TLS

[@projectgraham414]

Dude I just had to check that out, because I loved SilverHawks, but I didn't remember that. You're absolutely right, and holy shit.... Yikes....🤦🤦🤦

[@geoffreyrichards6079]

Odd. You’d think having gold armor and magic would be cool.

[@lccoleman3]

DL Hughley reposted this TikTok clip!!

[@moondawwg]

From black in the day

[@bobheyotue9850]

Thomas? When I saw that black women she was calling Tom Jasper.

[@johnmoreno5965]

Let the boy try 😆

[@freebeerking]

Everybody nowadays calling these characters racist. Naw man, I disagree. I call them characters that we grew up watching and loved dearly! Forgot all about Rickety Rocket. That was a cool show to me as a kid. When we were kids we walked around greeting each other with "hey hey hey" Fat Albert was cool! Sometimes what people nowadays consider offensive, was actually an olive branch to the melding of other cultures. Hence bringing different people together to develop a mutual respect and adoration.

[@kenrickeason]

Nothing should be canceled.. and Korey doing the white voice *"Just like Korey always bringing race into things"* 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Don't stop being you ever.. I don't want people to be censored.. Nobody..

[@EYX88376l]

😂😂

[@geoffreyrichards6079]

I can understand wanting not to make ethnic characters look too exaggerated out of sensitivity, but I think doing the opposite and making them look too “normal” can be just as damaging. I recall seeing fan art of the controversial Sunflower character from “Fantasia” where they toned her exaggerated features down, but the end result just looked like your atypical Barbie doll with dark skin, stripped of any sense of character or charm. If anything, I find that to be more worrisome.

[@ryuusaki7309]

😂🤣🤣😂😂

[@Magicghost23]

🐱🐭🪤

[@ethananime3773]

When cartoons were legit and ppl weren't getting butthurt over trivial shit it was about the timez

[@doubletoastedbites5000]

I can agree to just a CERTAIN point! Because I'm definitely glad that cartoons aren't like this now-a-days - *Nick Diaz* _(Editor, Host of The Chat Attack Podcast)_ kzbin.info

[@Robbie_Rocket]

“Leave it to Korey to find a way to put race into everything”. I love the show, but you guys do dig deep for shit to get offended about.

[@Mr.BondJamesBond]

Why dont you review Velma, it is very racist but you wont because it is not the kind of racism you like to complain about

[@thewkovacs316]

they did review it