The All New Popeye Hour less violent

[Bugsy Boy]

I found The All New Popeye Hour cartoons to be less violent than the original Popeye cartoons.Popeye and Bluto didn't punch eachother out like they famously did in the original cartoon series.

[Cartman]

I found The All New Popeye Hour cartoons to be less violent than the original Popeye cartoons.Popeye and Bluto didn't punch eachother out like they famously did in the original cartoon series.
It was definitely because those cartoons were geard more towards kids.

[Bobby Bickert]

I thought that some of the situations in "The All New Popeye Hour" were actually worse than having Popeye and Bluto punch each other. In one of the "Popeye's Treasure Hunt" segments, Bluto disguised himself as an Italian ice vendor and sprayed Popeye and Olive with the flavored syrup until they were completely covered, then sprinkled birdseed on top. Then, with a huge flock of birds closing in, they broke for a commercial! Another cartoon ended with Popeye leaving Bluto stranded in the desert, with vultures circling right over him.

[Howard Fein]

I found The All New Popeye Hour cartoons to be less violent than the original Popeye cartoons.Popeye and Bluto didn't punch eachother out like they famously did in the original cartoon series.

It had to be! The show premiered on CBS' Saturday AM schedule in 1978, a time when violence in cartoons was extremely curtailed thanks to various parent and governmental agencies. It was in 1970 that the networks were ordered to cut down on violence in their Saturday AM offerings, which indirectly led to the flood of 'pro-social' shows that combined humor and morals, such as FAT ALBERT, YOGI'S GANG, the new GILLIGAN, etc.
That's also why network reruns of theatrical cartoons :bugs2: :beepbeep: :woody: began to be edited heavily.:mad: Original made-for TV revivals of such classic characters :tomcat: :jerry: :droopy: :mighty: :thinkpink throughout the seventies and into the eighties were much less violent than their theatrical heyday- or earlier made-for-TV versions:sailor: :magoo: . Even new :thinkpink shorts made for theatres circa 1971-76 were much tamer.

Hanna-Barbera actually recreated the Popeye mystique fairly well despite modern limitations- among which were that while characters couldn't punch each other, they could throw each other.:rolleyes: Being squashed flat steamroller- style seemed OK, too. Many of the stories centered around competition between Popeye and Bluto- specific segments were devoted to sports and treasure hunting. That Jack Mercer returned not only as starring voice but scriptwriter may have also helped- who better than him would know the inherent characters and situations?

The formula obviously worked, because new episodes were ordered by CBS for the next three seasons.

Likewise, a Three Stooge revival helmed by H-B a season earlier did a decent job of preserving the boys' routines and personalities (thanks in large part to the magnificent job Frank Welker did in voicing Curly) while eschewing eyepokes, nose honks and crowbars to the head. As bionic superheroes, the Stooges could be victims of their own ineptitude and to pratfalls deemed otherwise unacceptable (falling from great heights, buildings dropped on them).

The TV censors must've relaxed somewhat around 1990, because from that point on, both comedic and serious adventure cartoons were much more- and graphically- violent, sometimes more than had been during the sixties. Revivals of :sylvester :tweety: :tomcat: :jerry: :droopy: :goof: :woody: :huey: featured much of the comic mayhem fondly associated with them. The writers often made fun of this very notion, especially in the WB originals under Tom Ruegger.

[Bobby Bickert]

The TV censors must've relaxed somewhat around 1990, because from that point on, both comedic and serious adventure cartoons were much more- and graphically- violent, sometimes more than had been during the sixties. Revivals of :sylvester :tweety: :tomcat: :jerry: :droopy: :goof: :woody: :huey: featured much of the comic mayhem fondly associated with them.

But in the recent revival of Woody Woodpecker for Saturday morning, Woody wasn't allowed to peck anyone on the head.:rolleyes:

[mbaker]

It's amazing how the censors were less strict with cartoons durring the 90's. Nowadays, some restrictions have been reinstated depending on what network, or studio your dealing with. Cable networks are much less strict compared to the broadcast networks. Which are now more heavy handed than ever thanks to Peggy Charren, and the Children's Television Act of 1990. It's no wonder we get so many lame cartoons on broadcast TV these days. Yet, once they don't deliver in the ratings, the network cancels them, and instead opts of news, or infomercials to stay financially afloat. What a sad world we live in. :shame: