Let’s close out Racial Insensitivity Week with a shotgun bang (what’s up with that thang), and two of my favorite NOT SAFE FOR WORK videos. We had a ton of new visitors this week—thanks folks—which either means people love being extremely uncomfortable, or they just enjoy seeing puppets cross new and exciting racial divides. Next week we’ll return to our more mature posts.

The following videos are definitely vulgar, and will certainly be offensive to some, but aren’t necessarily racist (well, to me, anyway). Great satire? Sure. But a lot of people disagree,  as the second video caused a small shitstorm of controversy when it aired on BET. Obviously, they hadn’t seen “All This And Rabbit Stew” recently. Let’s hear what you think in the comments section.

Whichever side of the fence you’re on, 20 bones says you’ll be singing these songs all weekend.

By the way, keep those 3-D glasses you get for the Super Bowl at the grocery store. You’re gonna need ‘em for next week’s post!

Yep, good ol’ war propaganda shorts and the awful music that accompanies them. Thank God they don’t subject us to this inescapable crap before movies anymore. This Popeye ‘toon is pretty famous, and with lyrics like this why wouldn’t it be?:

“You’re a sap, Mr. Jap, you make a Yankee cranky! You’re a sap, Mr. Jap, Uncle Sammy’s gonna spanky!”

Yeah, when Pearl Harbor was attacked, and thousands of young men and women were slaughtered and mutilated by Japanese bombs, there’s nothing like “Uncle Sammy’s gonna spanky” to send the enemy skittering back to their foxholes to curl up and urinate into their own shoes.

You know, in times of war when the most grave offenses have been brought to American soil, I often find that’s when the world’s worst lyrics are penned…
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I thought I would take a second to take a breather from Racial Insensitivity Week…it really is depressing seeing all these at once. So hey, why not show you what I ran into at Walgreens this week:

Wow. a “Poo” humidifier. I mean, it’s an easy typo to make I guess, but there’s no excuse for it. You’re an American: learn the difference between your words for lethargic, animated bears and human excrement. In any case, some one with rock-solid poo is going to be very disappointed when they get this home to try out.

And, speaking of rock hard Pooh, here’s one of the more famous cartoon bootlegs that circulated for years before the advent of the internet: APOCALYPSE POOH, one of the earliest “mash up” videos….

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Ok, everyone had a good long laugh yesterday at Christian television’s attempt to be tolerant through gray-skinned black puppets. But this is DAY 2 of Racial Insensitivity Week, so let’s get uncomfortable. Like, REAL uncomfortable. Like, You’re-a-white-guy-watching-Bamboozled-with-Spike-Lee-and-your-grandma-in-the-theater uncomfortable.

Let’s check out one of the Warner Bros. “Censored 11″: one of eleven cartoons so offensive that they haven’t been seen on TV since the late ’60s. HOWEVER, today’s video is one I grew up with in the eighties, thanks to copyright lapses and crappy VHS companies eager to squander all Bugs Bunny’s cartoon capital for a quick buck (Hey, that’s Warner Bros. job, Jack!).

It’s Bugs Bunny in “All This and Rabbit Stew,” which I very much have a personal history with (more on that after the jump).

As you witness Bugs doing his thing with Sammo Fudd, here’s the question: would you feel better off if had you never heard of “All This and Rabbit Stew, ignorant to its existence…or are you the kind of person who thinks ignoring it is just as bad? I welcome discussion in the comments, but I’ll make it easy on you, too: Here’s a graph to follow when you’re watching this video which tells you exactly what kind of person you are:

If it weren’t for YouTube, you’d probably never see this (unless you’re pals with animation buffs and classically-trained bootleggers, like I am). Or, you could have been like me….
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This post has been a long time coming—I’ve been holding onto this little clip for six years, waiting for the right time to unleash it’s majesty.

I don’t even need to set up what you’re about to see, or explain why it needs to be shared with the world, or meditate on how lucky I was to have a tape in the VCR when it came on at my college apartment. All I’ll say is that even though I’m stretching the definition of “cartoon” here, you’re not going to mind a whole helluva lot. And whatever you do, do not miss the jaw-dropping ending to this birthday gift of a video I have so carefully wrapped for you and placed at your feet.

Really, I don’t know what to say after that. Except maybe, well, “BLAAAAACCCCCCCCCCKKK!!!”

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