Censored Eleven

The ***Censored Eleven*** is a group of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons originally produced and released by Warner Bros. that were withheld from syndication in the United States by United Artists (UA) in 1968. At the time, UA held the distribution rights to Warner Bros. pre-1948 cartoons, and pulled the shorts from airing on television for their extremely racist and offensive content.

## List of Censored Eleven Cartoons

* "Hittin' the Trail for Hallelujah Land" (Ising; November 28, 1931)
* "Sunday Go to Meetin' Time" (Freleng; August 8, 1936)
* "Clean Pastures" (Freleng; May 22, 1937)
* "Uncle Tom's Bungalow" (Avery; July 12, 1937)
* "Jungle Jitters" (Freleng; February 19, 1938)
* "The Isle of Pingo Pongo" (Avery; May 28, 1938)
* "All This and Rabbit Stew" (Avery; September 13, 1941)
* "Coal Black and De Sebben Dwarfs" (Clampett; January 16, 1943)
* "Tin Pan Alley Cats" (Clampett; July 17, 1943)
* "Angel Puss" (Jones; June 3, 1944)
* "Goldilocks and the Jivin' Bears" (Freleng; September 2, 1944)

## Why People Call It Looney Trash

1. In addition to the cartoons littered with vulgar themes like smoking and drinking, all the black characters are drawn in blackface, which is offensive to African Americans.
2. The majority of these cartoons are so offensive that no selective editing would be able to make them acceptable for distribution since racial stereotyping dominates each of these shorts to the point that editing would have rendered them unintelligible. WarnerMedia and its predecessors (a.a.p., United Artists, MGM, and Turner) refuse to re-air or release these cartoons on DVD (a DVD with the Censored Eleven was planned, but probably won't be released). They are also permanently banned from streaming services such as HBO Max (in the United States, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Brazil), Amazon Prime Video, iTunes Video, and WarnerMedia RIDE, as well as Memorable Entertainment Television (MeTV).
3. Even though it's considered one of the better ones on this list, "Hittin' the Trail for Hallelujah Land" borrows ideas from classic Disney cartoons such as "Steamboat Willie" and "The Skeleton Dance".
	* "Tin Pan Alley Cats" reuses all of the animation and gags from "Porky in Wackyland".
4. Dark and mean-spirited cartoons like "Sunday Go to Meeting In' Time" and "Angel Puss" have dark and mean-spirited imagery and premises.
5. In "Clean Pastures", "Uncle Tom's Bungalow" and "Jungle Jitters", there is a lot of padding and filler.
6. In the cartoon "Clean Pastures", humor is **heavily poked** fun at religion via parody heaven called "Pair-O-Dice" and the term "De Lawd" (or "The Lord" in African American dialect), which even caused Leon Schlesinger and Warner Bros. to get in trouble with the Hays Code because of how it burlesqued religion.
7. "Jungle Jitters" features a dark and horrifying concept of cannibalism, in which a salesman vows to marry a white cannibal queen or he will be eaten by the native cannibals.
	* Among all the eleven cartoons on this list, I think that this one is the worst and most offensive due to how it portrays African Americans as cannibals, as well as portraying white people as greedy, as well as women as male-crazy perverts.
	* However, there is one abysmal piece of news in "Angel Puss", which is horribly racist and one of Chuck Jones' lowest points in his career, as well as filled with dark imagery and mean-spirited humor.
8. The vast majority of cartoons don't contain any jokes and aren't humorous.
9. Many of the cartoons feature grotesque and ugly designs for the African American characters.
10. The shorts do not show any respect towards African Americans.
11. In general, the cartoons are slow-paced and tiresome, which kills the comedic timing.
12. Many of these shorts would be dark and frightening for younger audiences.