At times, the Warner Brothers’ lunacy knew no bounds. During World War II, they created racy cartoons solely for American soldiers stationed in Europe. Full of expletives, X-rated images, and the occasional scatological humor, these animated shorts featured an inept trainee named Private Snafu. Amazingly, one of Snafu’s writers was Ted Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss.
Other wartime WB cartoons created for regular civilian consumption featured edgy characterizations of Hitler and Mussolini that would never pass military muster today. For instance, in “Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips,” Bugs sells ice cream bars stuffed with hand grenades to Japanese soldiers he affectionately calls “Slant Eyes.” Not exactly politically correct by modern standards.
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