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Will New Line Manage To Make A SPEEDY GONZALEZ Movie That Won't Be Racist??
Merrick here...
This should've been posted yesterday but I sorta repressed it. I think that's because my Hispanic, drug addicted ex-wife was nicknamed "Speedy Gonzales" (Harry may've come up with that one - I don't recall) and I probably just didn't wanna go there.
Nonetheless...
"Garfield" scribes Alec Sokolow and Joel Cohen will adapt the classic animated Looney Tunes character into a live-action/CG hybrid feature, with George Lopez attached to voice Speedy.
...says Hollywood Reporter HERE.
The article goes on to explain that the concept's sensibilities will be "modernized" per George Lopez's "Latino seal of approval" (in the words of project producer Ann Lopez). Ann goes on to specify:
"We wanted to make sure that it was not the Speedy of the 1950s -- the racist Speedy," Ann Lopez said with a chuckle. "Speedy's going to be a misunderstood boy who comes from a family that works in a very meticulous setting, and he's a little too fast for what they do. He makes a mess of that. So he has to go out in the world to find what he's good at."
That path becomes clearer once Speedy befriends a gun-shy race-car driver.
I hope this works out better than ALVIN & THE CHIPMUNKS: THE SQUEAKQUEL, which...as I recently Tweeted...my toddler son demanded to walk out of roughly half-way through.
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That path becomes clearer once Speedy befriends a gun-shy race-car driver.
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Everyone picks on Mexicans.
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Just put them on the page and let us comment on them! By the way, this is a ridiculous idea.
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Do we really need a Speedy Gonzalex movie?
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just tone down the racial element.
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He was just a Mexican mouse that liked to run fast. He wasn't working as a janitor or gardener or construction worker or farmer or eating tacos or taking naps or drinking tequila. I don't understand this idea that he was racist back in the day.
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... so he smuggles himself into the USA to become a NASCAR driver.
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Marvin the martian movie.
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taking your ticket sales and your job this xmas!
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Feb 25, 2010 10:14:28 AM CST
Ironically, today the Acme Cheese factory's on the Mexico side.
by royston lodge
As if there are any factory jobs on the American side any more. lol!
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He wore one of those big hats! Jesus fucking Christ...
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because it perpetuated the myth that all mexican mice, have a cheese fixation, can talk, and run very, very fast. How could it not be racist?
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Feb 25, 2010 10:19:14 AM CST
I think the point is that the mexican mice are all thieves.
by royston lodge
While Sylvester is a tool of the bourgeoisie.
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in the sense that he liked to race, kind of like generally southern state peoples are racists: they like to race cars. In this case, this movie will totally be racist. That's not what that word means?
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The Slowest Mouse in All Mexico FTW.
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I hope that doesn´t make me the "R" word.
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If there was ever a Looney Tunes movie that needed to be made, it's Road Runner (and I don't mean that Road Runner/Bugs Bunny movie from years gone by that was a collection of shorts).
It should be a non-verbal film, with only RR's meeps and sound effects being used along with an orchestral score. The Coyote should keep his signs.
If there is any dialogue, have it be from passers by or people from the Acme company etc. A 70 minute movie where the Coyote chases the Road Runner down.
Now being the carnivore that I am, I actually think a happy ending is for the Coyote to catch the Road Runner and finally get a decent meal but kids may not agree with that so...uh...let him discover the joys of bird seed...:P -
Feb 25, 2010 10:24:19 AM CST
Will Speedy's cousin, Slowpoke Rodriguez, be making an appearanc
by mr. nice gaius
You know, the "slowest mouse in all Mexico"?And what about El Gringo Pussygato???
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Jinx!
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Come on, so many of those cartoons were products of unconscious racism that was prevalent in America in the 40's, 50's, etc....
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Gotta be quicker, my man...Andale andale arriba arriba!!!!!
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You'll be first against the wall when the revolucion comes.
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That Mexicans are slow.
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That Mexicans are slow.
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anyone remember that whoriffic abortion of a cartoon movie? Where they were buddies and had a sing-a-long?
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Speedy Gonzalez is a friend to everyone's sister. Classic. No need for a movie though. Just show a classic episode before films in the theater. Oh and bring back Tom and Jerry's maid as well.
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Comin' straight from the underground / Young mouse got it bad cuz I'm brown. Fuck, fuck. Fuck tha pussygato.
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Foghorn Leghorn and Yosemite Sam can play Minutemen. Elmer Fudd plays a miserly executive who hires Speedy as a janitor for below minimum wage. And Sylvester plays the former janitor who lost his job to a foriegner, so he joins forces with the border cops and Minutemen to get Speedy deported.
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Fucking hilarious!! I don't know if Speedy Gonzales is racist, but stereotypes are friggin hilarious.
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You can go simply by the producer's description and clearly imagine how terrible it will be.
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Jackie Chan is a natural.
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Feb 25, 2010 10:43:18 AM CST
It's being written by the swine who are responsible for...
by half-baked-goggle-box-do-gooder
"GARFIELD", for christ's sake.
So, it won't be racist, but it will still suck shit through a straw. -
lazy who didnt work and preferred to steal to live.
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C'MON!!!! Speedy is NOT racist. I'm 35 & grew up with that stuff. The sombrero was damn near iconic. The character's accent may have been funny, but it certainly didn't scream racism. Accents CAN be funny. The portrayal of the Mexican culture was cartoonish because it was a cartoon. Duh.
Speedy is no more racist than Three Amigos. That movie wasn't funny because it made fun of Mexicans. It was funny because it made fun of EVERYBODY. The dumb, ignorant white guy movie stars. The small town Mexicans. The inept bandit gangsters. The slimy German arms dealers. Everybody got made fun of.
Three Amigos was funny because it had one general operating premise. Nobody is safe. It's only racist if you pick out one group and make fun of them. Three Amigos WASN'T racist because everybody was made to look like some sort of fool or broad stroke caricature.
Speedy could work in the same terms. Fuck that PC bullshit. Give us this cartoony, but smart Mexican, mouse. Give us these dumb, assuming white guy supporting characters. Pick on EVERYBODY.
Don't run from the stereotypes. Embrace them. Comedies, at least the good ones, realize that nothing is taboo or off limits.
I realize that Hollywood will dumb this movie down for the kids. However, I can easily see them making a Speedy Gonzalez movie that is smart, funny, edgy enough for adults. Nobody has the balls to make that movie.
People are just too scared of offending people nowadays. To those people, I say, "Fuck you!" Offended? Good. -
And if Speedy is racist, what is Carlos Mencia? Oh, thats right, a joke stealing fraud.
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When is Bugs comin out the closet? wears drag, kisses men, and his last name is Bunny instead of Rabbit... also, was Tweety a boy or a girl, and does Tweety tweet?
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...tacos.
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...Why pay out the Pesos when you can get a political prisoner to work for a roach-infested bowl of rice per day?
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Dad bought a dvd set and I really enjoyed it, my fave charaqter right now is Shirley the loon and her chant while floating in the air "oh what a loon I am!" If this fliq paves the way to that, then right on. But considering the fact that these are the garfield writers (remember what bill murray said in zombieland?) I don't have too much hope in this fliq, but then again I thought UP would be crap instead of the awesomeness it was.
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with a rolled up newspaper. NO! Bad studio! Bad!
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I don't see george lopez's voice being able to pull that off, maybe gabriel iglesias or carlos mencia, but gl seems to be too hoarse imo.
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But the WORLDS FASTEST drug mule.
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They are trying to bank in on the hispanic AND nascar demographic. Interesting to see these two groups meeting at the theater. Some of hem might get ideas after watching inglorious basterds.
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so fuck these PC crackheads in Hollywood.
He was one of my favorite characters. And all he wanted was some cheese. -
Maybe that's how it won't be racist....instead of wearing a sombrero and bandana he has a new era cap and is emo? And his family thinqs he's too americanized or something? Aw who cares, bring on a cgi Buster and Babs ffs!
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LOL! I'd go see that Speedy movie!
Haha!
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Feb 25, 2010 11:26:07 AM CST
Speedy doesn't have to speak with a Mexican dialect...
by immortal_fish
...unless he wants to.
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Sounds fucking terrible, in my opinion. In case that wasn't clear earlier. His voice just does NOT fit the Speedy look. What, is he the *only* Mexican in show business or something? Horatio Sanz would make a better Speedy in my opinion.
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Speedy Full Of Grace.
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even though mel blanc was a white man, they just had to hire an hispanic actor to play the role...hilarious. instead of playing the race card, they should have found someone who could do a good imitation. of course the best option would to not make the movie, out of all the looney tunes, he's the first to get his own stand alone movie? damn...at least Marvin makes sense with the alien invasion angle.
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it'll be like the chipmunks, voices are so distorted it makes no difference who the hell voices them.
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Speedy Gonzales is racist? So I guess the producers of this never watched those 30s-40s Mammy-watermelon-fried chicken cartoons WB did.
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Speedy and his friends steal cheese cause they are MICE and that's what MICE do, not Mexicans. Would it be less racist of speedy and friends had German or American or southern accents. For all the Idiot hillbillies and southern people as characters in Warner Brothers cartoons who constantly get their asses handed to them and shit on and poked fun at, for Mexicans to say Speedy is racist because he has an accent and a sombrero is ridiculous.
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Isn't this the same guy who made a TV show that featured a slow, hyper Latino Slang sidekick who sat around with George watching Sports and drinking beer EVERY weekend, Latina women who dressed like tramps 24/7, and a domineering mother?It isn't April 1st...so this can not be a joke.Political correctness has taken the life out of modern humor. No more jokes about any ethnicity or group, unless that group or ethnicity happens to be out of favor at the time.Look...like it or not...most ethnic humor is based on fact. My ancestors were Scotch-Irish...and you know what, they made booze, ran rum, drank like fucking fish and had a history of brawling. My wife is Filipina..and you know what, Filipinos ARE always late to things. I grew up in California...and you know what...Mexican Nationals working here DO talk like Speedy and Slowpoke and drink in the park on Sunday to excess.It is time we put these self conscious fukers in their place and showed them it is OK to exaggerate things and laugh at yourselves.Now in one cartoons immortal words...."La Cucaracha, la cucaracha....Marijuana que fumar!" Slowpoke Rodriguez; the slowest and huuuungriest mouse in all Me-Hico.
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WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT! Fuck you, Hollywood! Stop doing movies like this, OK? Just... stop it, STOP IT!
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But I'd rather see Foghorn Leghorn.
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what all their movies should be about. I don't care if certain people get upset at the so called "racism" - fuck 'em. it's funny.
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Feb 25, 2010 11:49:55 AM CST
How the hell will this not be racist? Have they seen Speedy Gon
by soylentmean
Although from what I'm told Mexicans generally dig on the character, even if the cartoons depict Mexicans (well, in rodent form) as all around lazy. Except for the exceptional Speedy of course.
No matter how much we bitch and moan kids movies like this and the fuckin' Chipmunk abominations will continue to be made because, wait for it, parents take their kids to see these movies! -
George Lopez is funny.
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...because the gag was, "Slowpoke Rodriguez, he pack a gon". And heaven help us if we see any more guns in toons, as we all know that Elmer Fudd shooting Daffy over and over in the face is the reason that kids are shooting up grade schools all over the country.Waitaminnit...since the 80s the PTB have decided that kids can't see Elmer shoot Daffy, or any other stuff like that. Coincidentally, the school shootings began shortly thereafter.Don't really make a whole lotta sense, does it....?
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Funny u say "Filipinos ARE always late to things." Because I went to a Catholic church event last month and a bishop or cardinal (I forget which, mio cattivo) named Solis who is the first Filipino bishop or cardinal in California or maybe the whole u.s. was late to presiding over mass. When he finally came he apologized because he wasn't familiar with the area, then went on to say that Filipinos are part Spaniard and went on to blame his lateness on his Latin side. Made me feel a little uncomfortable him saying that, but there's worse things a Catholic authority figure can do to a girl right ;) also everybody, there's this joke a relative once told me: how do filipinos say "paul" 4 times in one sentence? Paul becarepaul you might paul into the swimming paul." And my mother's mother is Pinay just in case anyone wants to say im being a racist jerq; I'm just poking fun at my own heritage.
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But not the ones with the brainy litte bittie with glasses (stereotype, anyone?), nor the ones with the lame chicken hawk. Gimme the back and forth ultra-violence of Foghorn vs. the Dog. Great stuff. I could dig it.
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Meadowe, there was a Tiny Toons movie. Or maybe it would be more accurate to say a feature-length direct to video production. Maybe you already knew this. It was called "How I Spent My Summer Vacation".
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Why do studios keep paying these people? Didn't Garfield lose like...a shitton of money...because it sucked massive cock?
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Feb 25, 2010 12:44:59 PM CST
LMAO!!! I see what they did there in that video of the cartoon..
by mike_d
nice and subtle. Mexicans trying to cross the border.
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Sorry, first time poster this quote just really pissed me off: "Latino seal of approval". I just hate how Lopez tries to be the Mexican Bill Cosby, Beverly Hills Chihuahua was bad enough.
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The starving siesta mice in the cartoons, I guess are a bit racist. I assumed they were just hungry mice, like all mice are in cartoons. George Lopez, however, bugs his eyes, hops around the stage and lapses between spanish and english ... just like Speedy. Lopez is indeed the step-n-fetchit for the Latino crowd. Shameful.
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Not racist? 38 seconds in has a bunch of Mexican rats wearing sombreros standing under an "International Boundary" sign. How is this not racist? However...George Lopez's "Latin seal of approval?" That shit is more detrimental to breaking down race barriers than these silly little cartoons were, these cartoons that the majority of us grew up with and love. As much as George Lopez is gonna suck as Speedy, at least they didn't go with Carlos Mencia. (And I know, he's Hungarian, common knowledge. Still would've been an obvious pick from any retard wanting this movie to actually happen. "Derr, lets get Carlos Mencia! He's Latin!")
Having said that, I think non-violent racism is funny. Ya know, racism that isn't taken seriously. I'm Irish, call me a drunken mick bastard, I'm not gonna lose sleep over it. -
Does anyone remember seeing a cartoon involving a female rattlesnake? The only part I recall is Foghorn yelling, "Rattlesnake!" in a panic and somehow driving croquet balls into its mouth. I think the snake might have been stuck through a knothole of a fence and imprisoned there from the swallowed balls. Possibly someone else (Foghorn?) was likewise stuck. I saw that as a young child but don't remember seeing it more than once.
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I grew up watching Speedy cartoons as a kid! As a Mexican, I thought he was the funniest character of all! He banged every mice's "seester", made "Senor Puseegato" look bad, jacked cheese, and ran faster than hell. I got this old VHS tape that has all Speedy cartoons that I still watch...and i've yet to see the problem. I think that we (as Mexicans) have taken ourselves too seriously to actually admit that the stereotypes that were used on these cartoons...WERE ACTUALLY REAL. I got a "Tio" that is the epitome of Slowpoke Rodriguez...down to "hee's beeg gon"...
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God bless you Futurama.
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Imagine some of that stuff happening for real. If they made a real-life version of any Loony Tune and had the same violence, it would be HORRIFIC and get an NC-17.
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I've noticed how some cartoons were edited so that, for example, rather than Bugs Bunny shooting Yosemite Sam in the face, the scene was edited so the viewer sees corks being shot from off-screen into holes that Yosemite put into a can. I guess I just wondered if the entire cartoon had been deemed too violent for networks or something.
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So you think Hollywood will "dumb down" a fucking Speedy Gonzalez movie, huh? What high-minded satire from the cartoons are you worried might be ruined?
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it was live action, called The Villain with Arnold and Kirk Douglas. It was kinda stupid, but funny.
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HAHAHAHA. Anyone catch what the man wrote?? "I realize that Hollywood will dumb this movie down for the kids." Do you get it?? Hollywood will have to dumb-down Speedy Gonzalles in order for him to appeal to kids. Wow. How stupid have kids become that Looney Toons cartoons are over their heads!?
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That would be like saying all white people are insecure, greedy hate-mongers who always jump at the chance to spew clichéd racist rants on a talkback when ever race is brought up -- oh wait. Maybe Speedy is a little bit racist after all. Yepa Yepa!
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but don't call him Mexican Chihuahua, 'cause it really pisses him off.
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will make a good movie
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racist movies are right up his alley
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"Speedy Gonzales freend to EVERYONE'S seester!"
I swear, that was the first time I laughed for a full minute at any cartoon upon hearing that line in one of his shorts. -
Apparently the original Speedy was racist beause it didn't have anything to do with actual ethnic problems. Fuck these guys. IT WAS A FAST MOUSE RUNNING FROM A CAT! Making the mouse a Mexican just made it funnier.
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Come on--it's not like he was Mr. Magoo's manservant Charlie: now that was racist!
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OUCH!! I'm still laughing though…
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...does not make me feel any better, as a latino. So they plan on neutralizing one hispanic stereotype with another hispanic stereotype? Actually, I don't think Georg Lopez is that bad (I liked that, on his show, he was married to a Cuban. Showed some latin American diversity.) At least he's not Carlos Mencia. Also, as others have said, Speedy Gonzales was not racist, as far as I'm concerned. As a kid, I LIKED the fact that there was a hispanic cartoon character. It's not like it was 'Coal Black and the Sebben Dwarfs.'
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That's probably what this will turn into, Speedy's American counterpart. ;)
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"We wanted to make sure that it was not the Speedy of the 1950s -- the racist Speedy," Ann Lopez said with a chuckle.
Engage facepalm.
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Becuz it's all about the crema de cacahuate.
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Speedy Gonzales was "Rapist", Now that's box office gold! Mexican mouse sodamising a cat. Damn now that's some cg the world needs to see! SPEEDY GONZALES AND THE DIRTY SANCHEZ...
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You know it makes sense..
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I can't believe there are that many knuckleheads out there who can't see the obvious racism in the Speedy Gonzalez character. To say that it's racist, but funny is one thing. Or to not care that it is racist, that says something else about you. But not racist? MooseMalloy nailed it.
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Stereotypes will always exist and endure because there's always some truth in all of them. I guarantee Speedy will be making "white" jokes throughout this piece of shit. The fags behind Garfield should never ever get work.
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suck 'em hard!
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who? you mean george Lopez star of Tortilla Heaven and Amigos?
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Not having a Mexican mouse would be racist too. So convenient.Speedy is racist because the mice steal food. So, what was Jerry's ethnic background?Maybe Speedy stealing the food that Jerry no longer wanted to steal?What were the ethnic backgrounds of Pixie and Dixie? And was Mr. Jinks an Aryan racist?
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I'm sure this has been mentioned in the past but people really need to learn the difference between racist and racially insensitive. sigh...
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And Elmer Fudd was a member of the NRA.And Bugs Bunny liked to cross-dress.And Tweety Bird was androgynous.Daffy Duck was blackPorky Pig had a speech impediment.Marvin the Martian was an illegal alien.Sylvester was a pussy.Sure, there's something for everybody to get bent about, if your skin is as thin as cellophane. Yeesh, get a grip.
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Feb 25, 2010 5:50:20 PM CST
Folks who whine about Speedy being "racist" R idiots!
by theghostwholurks
Please, grow a sense of humor! These are usually the same hypocrites who chide Sarah Palin when Family Guy makes fun of her kid with Down's Syndrome.Speedy's so-called "racism" is what makes the character iconic and still popular after half a century! Why even bother with this film if you HATE the character in the first place? Morons. >:P
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cyberskunk I've heard of summer vacation but haven't seen it yet, but I was referring to something being released theatrically. Geektard, I know about the healthcare, but accounting? maybe accounting at a medical place, hahah. Where do u work at? And it's funny cuz certain family members want to send me to the Philippines for 5 years after high school so I can learn to me an occupational therapist or physical therapist. *supposedly* they teach classes in english down there. but I'd be scared because I would feel like an outsider, people thinq I'm a white girl with kinda "chinky" eyes or latina so I don't know how that'd fly down there, that and I'm soCal bred through and through.
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If you've only seen WB cartoons on TV in the last 10 years, then you have never truly seen it. It's all edited for kids now. No more blacks eating watermelon in the Yosemite Sam episodes. No more lazy Mexicans in the Speedy episodes. It's all sanitized. Get the DVDs.
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He's so stupid and horrible he makes all Mexicans look bad.
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The classic cartoons were always written for adults, never children. That didn't happen until the 1960s and they sucked ass after that. Watch any Looney Tunes or Tom and Jerry cartton after 1961 and they are horribly unfunny. Give me the adult Looney Tunes any day with its witty, intelligent dialog, overt sexual references, and massive ultra-violence. Nothing makes me laugh more.
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I may be slow on the keyboard but I'm not slow in la cabeza! Arriiiiibaaaaa!!!
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has obviously never seen those real old racist cartoons filled with black people with soup coolin' lips and natural riddem
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Speedy Gonzalez was/is racist? This country is getting WAY to FUCKING PC. It's racist because he is a mexican mouse with a mexican accent? We need to "thin the herd" of these fucking morons. I didn't hear many complaints about the twin ghetto robots from Transformers 2. Now that was closer to racist. Common sense people. Common sense...
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George Lopez knows how to walk the "culture" line without going too far, but where's the fun in that? Some of his best jokes are when he "gets honest".
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I love that line, "Speedy Gonzales is friends with my sister". The other mouse replies, "He's friends with everyone's sister". LOL! I wonder if Speedy has STD's? ; )
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I've heard that guy say shit against 'white people'...which certainly raised an eybrow. Nothing that offends me because...well I'm not a thin-skinned pussy...but stuff tinged with a real hostility that comes through his bullshit smiling persona. Anyone buy that shit? Fake as hell.
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http://tinyurl.com/spdy-g
That big-ass gold tooth and bowl haircut was the clincher for racial sensitivity types. Probably White Vader will be along with an entertaining story about his development shortly...
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Some of that stuff in the Speedy shorts was horribly stereotypically racist but the character himself was a cool guy who always prevailed. Better him than freakin' Alvin and the next Squeakuel.
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Like Looney Tunes in the afternoon. Or the Disney Channel would should you a Donald Duck or Goofy cartoon. Thank God for dvd.
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You've got to be kidding me with this politically correct BULLSHIT that Speedy was somehow racist, and thus requires a make-over to make him more acceptable. As others have covered here, Speedy was a MOUSE chasing CHEESE who just happened to run faster than anyone else. And what made him heroic, in the most basic sense, is that he was usually trying to grab the cheese to help poorer mice. And he was always OUTSMARTING his opponents too, so how is it racist or wrong when you're showing that your title character is both compassionate AND smart?I also have to laugh at the even LARGER heap of shit being piled on, namely that somehow Lopez will bring quality control to this project and make it certified Latino acceptable. Talk about a studio giving in to a bloated ego, and a hack-like one at that. Lopez is one of the shittiest performers out there, who only gets by because the studios ARE looking for a Latino to fill a particular niche part or whatever, at which point Lopez has made a career by brushing aside others in order to leap to the head of the line to be that token person.But quality control? Gimme a break. FUCK YOU, GEORGE -- and Warner Bros as well -- for trashing yet another great character. But, hey, so long as you collect another token paycheck, what do you care? Don't worry, I'm sure you can whore yourself out and give a "Latino stamp of approval" to BEVERLY HILLS CHIHUAHUA 2 when they make that too.
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Es muy stupido tambien.
Heh. I knew my high school Spanish would come in handy someday. -
If not, I don't think I'll be seeing this.
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in the same way that Pepe le Peu and Apu are racist. I did always hate those Speedy cartoons though... any warner bros after the 50s kinda blows, Mel Blanc or no
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Seriously
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I hear ya, man. We do still have Boomerang, but they play the same damn stuff over and over.
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JEEBUS HELPS US! This is fucking unbelievable! This is the way America is down the toilet. Everything thing is so fucking PC, and the fact that a Latino wants to make cartoon that was in no way even close to racist into something with the "Latino seal of approval?”
Ok what the FUCK is a “Latino seal of approval?” I’m latino and I never needed any fucking seal of approval. Hell, I don’t think ANY ethnic group needs a fucking seal of approval. That is the dumbest shit I have ever heard of. Has common sense gone the way of the DoDoBird, extinct? We are living in the 21st century and ignorance is STILL running society?! Some one pointed out that you used to be able to see cartoons; Looney Tunes especially, without any problems. Now everything has to be so fucking PC that nothing is fun anymore.
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I don't see anything racist about SPEEDY. He is Mexican. that's the CHARACTER! Is it racist to have non-white cartoon characters? if anything, the voice work is AUTHENTIC. I always liked Speedy because he was more of an underdog than JERRY and TWEETY- both of those two assholes were SUPER violent and fight back a lot more compared to SPEEDY. Speedy just wanted his cheese and ran away. very non-confrontational.
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Feb 26, 2010 4:33:09 AM CST
I think the background scene were racist, with the trees and all
by damien chowder
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Feb 26, 2010 4:35:50 AM CST
Actually... I have never seen a Mexican stealing cheese...
by damien chowder
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While were changing dubious Loony Toon characters.
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and takes reponsibility for all the little chicks he's clearly producing.
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Wile E. just takes a shotgun to RR. Pepe gets taken down by Take Back the Night... So many ways to change the Warner Bros, pokadoo
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No one does racially charged stereotypes than this burrito bastard.
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Feb 26, 2010 11:14:45 AM CST
About the line "Speedy is friends with everyone's sister"
by immortal_fish
Since when did Mexicans have a monopoly on being horney?
And all this has convinced me that Itchy is insensitive to people with sensitive skin conditions, like exema and dandruff. Proof that Groenig is a racist! -
...so that was why they were slow and weak. And Speedy was sort of a Zorro/Robin Hood character who helped the poor, weak mice. Meh, rose-coloured glasses, I guess
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Feb 26, 2010 1:37:45 PM CST
Now I have an overpowering craving for an Avenue Q movie.
by royston lodge
Make it happen!
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To this day, kids think the Canadian race is made up of singing Aryans...WHAT UP WIT THAT?!
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Appreciate you hustling to get me jobs, but I'm a little busy. But you did remind me that I am late this year in reminding you that I. Drink. Your. Milkshake.
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