Let My Toons Go!

Politically Correct Tom & Jerry rewriting history

All Political Correctness does is define new classes of victim hood, and reasons for grievance.  I despise it in any form.  Tom & Jerry cartoons seem to have especially felt the wrath of public scolds.  The "Mammy maid" character appeared in many T&J toons.  During the purge, Black actress Lillian Randolph’s voice was replaced by White actress June Foray.  Since the studios  kept pictures and sound reels separately, the voice sometimes didn’t match up the correct Tom & Jerry version when the white maid spoke with Mammy’s voice.  This is all quite insane.  I've gathered some examples below.  Here's some commentary. Puss Gets the Boot" (10 Feb 1940) Puss Gets the Boot" (Re-engineered) Mammy's voice was redubbed fairly early on (before they started using the white maid voice), in the original, Mammy says "O-W-T...Out!" & later in the cartoon “O-U-W-T…Out! In the edited version, she spells it correctly ("O-U-T"). Here's more   Fraidy Cat (original version) Fraidy Cat (reissued version) Puss N' Toots (original version) Puss N' Toots (reissued version) Yankee Doodle Mouse (1943) Yankee Doodle Mouse (reissued version) After Jerry climbs the washboard, Mammy looks for a burgler and is attacked by Tom, all these shots get removed. The scene on the record player has a section removed from the middle. The part where Jerry gets a tail full of record needles and a record lands on Tom's head making him look Chinese, followed by Jerry mocking Tom is hacked out. Tom as a “blackface flower” after an exploding teapot is often removed.