The network originally had planned to air a retrospective of Bugs Bunny cartoons next month. So the network axed them, even though the cartoons had not been shown in 40 years. Indeed, Tony Soprano and his ilk as portrayed on HBO may be ethnically offensive. The show satirizes people from Joisey, mobsters, Italian-Americans and a list of others. Sure, Bugs Bunny often is a smart-mouth bigot, a cad who respects nothing.
Nothing is sacred.
Any creatures that are full of themselves, that show hints of hypocrisy and traits of being too good for this world, including religious icons, are attacked. They should be attacked. Good satire, good art, does that. TV drama, sit-coms and cartoons are the stuff of exaggeration. They slop over with hyperbole.