It's Curious, George: Even Cartoons Aren't Safe From Censors

[Ian David]

By Randy Dotinga Email 07.31.07 | 2:00 AM

Start with a space capsule. Throw in Curious George along with bananas and donuts, the inquisitive monkey's favorite foods. And then make everything weightless so he has to chase after his lunch, tumbling along the way.

The perfect script for the cute PBS children's show, right? Not according to animation censors, who anticipated some hot fruit-on-baked-good action.

It might seem surprising at a time when a Family Guy episode can include scenes like "Prom Night Dumpster Baby." But children's cartoons are a different story. As Miller and a panel of other animated-show writers revealed, censors go out of their way -- and some might say out of their minds -- to protect little kids.

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"We get notes from studios, from networks, from educational consultants, from advertisers," Miller said. "One show I worked on, there was a list of 47 people who got shown every word a writer wrote -- the outlines, the first draft and second draft -- and had the opportunity to give their comments on what should be changed."

More:
http://www.wired.com/culture/art/news/2007/07/comics_censorship

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1. This is nothing like the muslim reaction to cartoons that they found offensive

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3. That's true.

The muslims had a damn good reason to be upset.

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4. indeed a free press and free expression upset them horribly

they rioted and people died in areas where they were never printed...

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6. Bigots upset them horribly.

But bigots upset everybody with a conscience.

Yeah, I agree, it's too bad police started those riots.

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7. bigots? its that the current lie about material critical of islam and its repression

What is your reason for believing the anti cartoon riots were started by police?

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8. Hey, if you want to ignore bigotry it's your loss.

Maybe some day you'll figure out why your slurs against muslims, blacks, etc. keep getting deleted.

"What is your reason for believing the anti cartoon riots were started by police?"

1. Almost all riots are started by the police. I see no reason to assume otherwise.

2. The only fatalities were among protestors shot by police.

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5. self delete - dup post

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2. Voice over artist George Lowe will explain everything.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=UP3GKWlYVdY