It's sort of like all the people who wouldn't let their teenagers see Titanic( not that I think anyone should see Titanic) because of the semi nude woman...so the giant sea of floating corpses doesn't bother you but a topless woman's got to go???

Talk about misdirection. For a second, I was wondering "What does Gwen Stefani have to do with Tom and Jerry?" I guess they don't. As per Gwen, whatever. Some of her stuff is catchy, although I'm more of a fan of No Doubt than Gwen herself. As per Tom and Jerry, if your pissed at censorship of these cartoons, pick up the DVD's that Warner Home Video issued a while back. Four discs of uncensored classic cartoons. It's weird. Warner Bros as a studio is hit and miss. They seem more interested in making the next big franchise than producing a wide range of diverse work, although at times they can be very auteur friendly. But the people running Warner Home Video must be the biggest film geeks in the DVD industry. They always produce the best DVD's for everything. Classic movies, blockbusters, cartoons, tv shows, EVERYTHING. All have perfect video and extras that would give Criterion a run for their money. Sorry for rambling there.

As for England, I think they're pretty liberal about sex AND violence. Whenever I see anything British, there's tons of swearing and violence and sex and all that. I've never heard of them being squeamish about violence.

Kinda reminds me of the paradox where Europe is crazy for entertainment where there's boob, bums and lots of steamy stuff but less so with the graphic depictions of violence. North America? You show Big Brother UK over here without censoring, you'd have the CRTC or FCC on your ass within moments of the offending scene airing...but we love our CSI and our gory flicks.

Still...classic cartoons are just bursting with stuff that's "wrong:" violence, smoking, racism...nothing PC about those bits of entertaining celluloid;)

BEB

regarding gwen stefani, i would love to give her some quality time with lemmy kilmister, or maybe rob zombie.

as far as tom and jerry, that stuff was fun, just like bugs bunny or the three stooges. people really need to learn how to relax.

apparently being violent to one another in england is ok. but smoking is completely unforgiveable.