Amos Stevens
New Member
A Guide To Censored Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies
H (Hi-Hy)
"High Diving Hare" (Freleng; 1949):
ABC: A scene wherein Yosemite Sam runs to the top of
the diving board at which he finds Bugs dressed as an
Indian who points and says, "Him go that-a-way,"
leading Sam off of the diving board, was removed. Also
gone: Sam grabbing Bugs by the throat and shaking him
violently when first ordering Bugs to perform the high
diving act, with Bugs then telling to Sam that he does
not want to do the act because he, "...gets goosebumps
on (his) goosebumps." Furthermore, as Bugs initially
refuses to dive, Sam "talks him into it", by firing
his guns wildly at the rabbit's feet. This, too, was
excised.
Nickelodeon: Bugs dressed as an Indian was removed.
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"Hillbilly Hare" (McKimson; 1950):
ABC: The verse of the square dance wherein Bugs sings
and commands to the hillbillies to hit each other with
the fence posts and to poke each other in the eye was
cut. This was just one of many edits of this cartoon.
First was the scene in which Bugs mistakes hillbilly
number one's gun for a camera and has his carrot shot
full of holes. Next removed was the scene where
hillbilly number one unties his rifle barrel and is
blasted in the face. Subsequently, the viewer does not
see Bugs reversing the barrel of hillbilly number
two's gun so that the hillbilly incurs the discharge
of bullets and gunpowder. Later, after the explosion
in the shack, first hillbilly comes out of the shack
with Bugs' lit lighter and says, "I think y'all are
usin' too strong a fluid."
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"Hippety Hopper" (McKimson; 1949):
FOX: Gone on FOX was the mouse talking about
committing suicide and about to jump off of the docks
into the water. Also gone was Hippety stopping the
mouse from the self-destructive deed. The edited
cartoon just cut from the opening credits to the mouse
letting Hippety out of Hippety's crate.
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"His Bitter Half" (Freleng; 1950):
FOX: Excised was Wentworth pretending to be shot by a
gun.
Nickelodeon: Wentworth lighting the fuse to the
fireworks was deleted when this cartoon aired after
1992.
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"His Hare-Raising Tale" (Freleng; 1951):
ABC: In the "Rabbit Punch" segment (wherein Bugs tells
Clyde about his career in boxing), the scene in which
Bugs has the Crusher hold a giant slingshot and
propels a boulder into the Crusher's face was gone.
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"Hold Anything" (Harman and Ising; 1930):
Nickelodeon: There was a cut at the point where Bosko
decapitates a mouse.
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"The Hole Idea" (McKimson; 1955):
ABC: One section of the black-and-white "newsreel"
depicting various uses for portable holes was deleted:
the removal of a baby from a locked safe.
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"Holiday For Drumsticks" (Davis; 1949):
ABC: A scene at the beginning of this cartoon, in
which a neighbor of Ma and Pa fires his rifle at them,
was cut. Also gone was the scene where Daffy runs into
a reducing machine to sweat away his fat, but Pa
blasts a hole through the machine, causing it to
shrink tightly around Daffy's neck.
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"Hollywood Steps Out" (Avery; 1941):
WB: This cartoon was definitely missing two scenes:
first, Greta Garbo offering to Cary Grant a cigarette
and then lighting a match for him on her giant shoe;
second, Harpo Marx giving to Garbo a hot-foot.
Possible long-lost footage was missing between the
scenes of Clark Gable sitting at a table and watching
a woman walk past him and Bing Crosby introducing
Leopold Stokowski, as well as after the scene which
reveals Groucho Marx to be the woman whom Gable was
following.
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"Homeless Hare" (Jones; 1950):
ABC: Edited out of this cartoon was part of the scene
wherein Bugs throws a brick onto the construction
worker's head, with a message attached to the brick.
The shot of the brick on the man's head with the
message dangling off of it was removed.
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"Honey's Money" (Freleng; 1962):
Nickelodeon: Removed was a part of the scene where
Yosemite Sam plays fetch-the-ball with his wife's
oversized son, Wentworth. He throws the ball into
traffic, and Wentworth obtains the ball without any
problems ("I'm a good catch-the-baller, ain't I
daddy?"). Sam says, "Go get it again, Wentworth!"
However, before Sam can throw the ball, his wife grabs
it and says, "YOU go get it!" Sam does as commanded
and is flattened. Nickelodeon removed the part where
Wentworth runs into the street and brings the ball
back to Sam. Nickelodeon showed this cartoon uncut
from 1993 to 1995.
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"Hook, Line, and Stinker" (Jones; 1958):
ABC: The scene in which Wile E. places a pot over the
Road Runner and tosses a dynamite stick underneath it
was deleted. Also missing was Wile E. trying to place
dynamite under a bridge.
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"Hop and Go" (McCabe; 1943):
Nickelodeon: The bombing of Tokyo was "irised out" at
the end of this cartoon.
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"Hopalong Casualty" (Jones; 1960):
ABC: Wile E. pours earthquake pills as bird seed onto
the road. After the Road Runner eats them and runs
away unaffected, Wile E. himself swallows one of them.
After that, there is a cut to him throwing away the
bottle in disgust. ABC removed him swallowing the
entire contents of the bottle. Also, Wile E. attempts
to sling a TNT stick at the Road Runner. Yet, the TNT
becomes caught in a cactus. He tries to pull the TNT
loose from the cactus, but is himself tangled with the
cactus and the TNT and therefore caught in the
explosion. ABC eliminated him being tangled but showed
the explosion as though it happens far from Wile E..
Nickelodeon: Wile E.'s ingestion of the larger
quantity of earthquake pills was missing.
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"Hoppy Daze" (McKimson; 1961):
ABC: This scene was cut: Sylvester manages to lure
Hippety back into Hippety's crate and nails Hippety
inside of it. He then inserts a stick of dymamite into
the crate through a hole, but Hippety sends out of the
crate through more holes a bunch of dynamite sticks
that form a circle around Sylvester and explode,
blasting Sylvester's fur off.
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"Hoppy Go Lucky" (McKimson; 1952):
ABC: The aftermath of an explosion at the end was
excised. The footage gone was the part with Sylvester
saying, "Yup, I'm left hold the bag." After the
dynamite explodes and produces a cloud, the "iris out"
soundtrack was heard.
CBS: Sylvester strikes Benny, the huge, stupid cat,
over the head with a sledgehammer, and not only does
Benny not notice this, but the hammer crumbles into a
fine powder. This was cut.
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"Horse Hare" (Freleng; 1960):
Merrie Melodies: Deleted was the scene in which Bugs
shoots his rifle at the Indians and runs a tally of
the Indians that he has killed, singing "Ten Little
Indians", while in "Tom-Tom Tomcat" on Merrie
Melodies, the same song, performed by Tweety while
Granny fires rifle at the Indian cats, was retained.
Here is how the complete scene originally went. After
counting six little Indians, Bugs corrects himself and
says, "Oops, sorry, that one was a half-breed!" and
erases half of the line that he has sketched on the
Fort Lariat wall. He continues firing the rifle and an
Indian sneaks behind him; so, Bugs kicks the Indian in
the chin just while completing his song with, "Ten
little Indian boys!"
Nickelodeon: The "Ten Little Indians" scene was
shortened to remove Bugs' "half-breed" comment.
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"Horton Hatches the Egg" (Clampett; 1942):
CN, TBS, TNT, WB: A fish version of Peter Lorre sees
the elephant, Horton, on the boat and says, "Well, now
I've seen everything!" followed by the gun to his
head, which was edited out of this cartoon.
TNT: A completely redubbed and re-edited version of
this cartoon aired as part of the TNT special, In
Search of Dr. Seuss.
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"Hot Cross Bunny" (McKimson; 1948):
ABC: The scene where the doctor activates the machine
was missing the part at which the doctor, Bugs, and
the chicken receive an electric shock.
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"Hot Rod and Reel" (Jones; 1959):
ABC: The scene wherein Wile E. uses a camera with a
gun inside of it as a ploy to kill the Road Runner,
was deleted. Also missing was Wile E. lighting the
rockets to start his unicycle.
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"Hyde and Go Tweet" (Freleng; 1960):
ABC: In this cartoon's uncut form, Sylvester runs to a
window and says, "I'll jump! I've got a choice?"
However, on Bugs & Tweety, he was shown looking down
to the street and not saying this line, presumably
because of its allusions to suicide.
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"The Hypo-Chondri-Cat" (Jones; 1950):
ABC: A scene where Hubie slaps Bertie several times
was shortened.
H (Hi-Hy)
"High Diving Hare" (Freleng; 1949):
ABC: A scene wherein Yosemite Sam runs to the top of
the diving board at which he finds Bugs dressed as an
Indian who points and says, "Him go that-a-way,"
leading Sam off of the diving board, was removed. Also
gone: Sam grabbing Bugs by the throat and shaking him
violently when first ordering Bugs to perform the high
diving act, with Bugs then telling to Sam that he does
not want to do the act because he, "...gets goosebumps
on (his) goosebumps." Furthermore, as Bugs initially
refuses to dive, Sam "talks him into it", by firing
his guns wildly at the rabbit's feet. This, too, was
excised.
Nickelodeon: Bugs dressed as an Indian was removed.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"Hillbilly Hare" (McKimson; 1950):
ABC: The verse of the square dance wherein Bugs sings
and commands to the hillbillies to hit each other with
the fence posts and to poke each other in the eye was
cut. This was just one of many edits of this cartoon.
First was the scene in which Bugs mistakes hillbilly
number one's gun for a camera and has his carrot shot
full of holes. Next removed was the scene where
hillbilly number one unties his rifle barrel and is
blasted in the face. Subsequently, the viewer does not
see Bugs reversing the barrel of hillbilly number
two's gun so that the hillbilly incurs the discharge
of bullets and gunpowder. Later, after the explosion
in the shack, first hillbilly comes out of the shack
with Bugs' lit lighter and says, "I think y'all are
usin' too strong a fluid."
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"Hippety Hopper" (McKimson; 1949):
FOX: Gone on FOX was the mouse talking about
committing suicide and about to jump off of the docks
into the water. Also gone was Hippety stopping the
mouse from the self-destructive deed. The edited
cartoon just cut from the opening credits to the mouse
letting Hippety out of Hippety's crate.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"His Bitter Half" (Freleng; 1950):
FOX: Excised was Wentworth pretending to be shot by a
gun.
Nickelodeon: Wentworth lighting the fuse to the
fireworks was deleted when this cartoon aired after
1992.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"His Hare-Raising Tale" (Freleng; 1951):
ABC: In the "Rabbit Punch" segment (wherein Bugs tells
Clyde about his career in boxing), the scene in which
Bugs has the Crusher hold a giant slingshot and
propels a boulder into the Crusher's face was gone.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"Hold Anything" (Harman and Ising; 1930):
Nickelodeon: There was a cut at the point where Bosko
decapitates a mouse.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"The Hole Idea" (McKimson; 1955):
ABC: One section of the black-and-white "newsreel"
depicting various uses for portable holes was deleted:
the removal of a baby from a locked safe.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"Holiday For Drumsticks" (Davis; 1949):
ABC: A scene at the beginning of this cartoon, in
which a neighbor of Ma and Pa fires his rifle at them,
was cut. Also gone was the scene where Daffy runs into
a reducing machine to sweat away his fat, but Pa
blasts a hole through the machine, causing it to
shrink tightly around Daffy's neck.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"Hollywood Steps Out" (Avery; 1941):
WB: This cartoon was definitely missing two scenes:
first, Greta Garbo offering to Cary Grant a cigarette
and then lighting a match for him on her giant shoe;
second, Harpo Marx giving to Garbo a hot-foot.
Possible long-lost footage was missing between the
scenes of Clark Gable sitting at a table and watching
a woman walk past him and Bing Crosby introducing
Leopold Stokowski, as well as after the scene which
reveals Groucho Marx to be the woman whom Gable was
following.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"Homeless Hare" (Jones; 1950):
ABC: Edited out of this cartoon was part of the scene
wherein Bugs throws a brick onto the construction
worker's head, with a message attached to the brick.
The shot of the brick on the man's head with the
message dangling off of it was removed.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"Honey's Money" (Freleng; 1962):
Nickelodeon: Removed was a part of the scene where
Yosemite Sam plays fetch-the-ball with his wife's
oversized son, Wentworth. He throws the ball into
traffic, and Wentworth obtains the ball without any
problems ("I'm a good catch-the-baller, ain't I
daddy?"). Sam says, "Go get it again, Wentworth!"
However, before Sam can throw the ball, his wife grabs
it and says, "YOU go get it!" Sam does as commanded
and is flattened. Nickelodeon removed the part where
Wentworth runs into the street and brings the ball
back to Sam. Nickelodeon showed this cartoon uncut
from 1993 to 1995.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"Hook, Line, and Stinker" (Jones; 1958):
ABC: The scene in which Wile E. places a pot over the
Road Runner and tosses a dynamite stick underneath it
was deleted. Also missing was Wile E. trying to place
dynamite under a bridge.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"Hop and Go" (McCabe; 1943):
Nickelodeon: The bombing of Tokyo was "irised out" at
the end of this cartoon.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"Hopalong Casualty" (Jones; 1960):
ABC: Wile E. pours earthquake pills as bird seed onto
the road. After the Road Runner eats them and runs
away unaffected, Wile E. himself swallows one of them.
After that, there is a cut to him throwing away the
bottle in disgust. ABC removed him swallowing the
entire contents of the bottle. Also, Wile E. attempts
to sling a TNT stick at the Road Runner. Yet, the TNT
becomes caught in a cactus. He tries to pull the TNT
loose from the cactus, but is himself tangled with the
cactus and the TNT and therefore caught in the
explosion. ABC eliminated him being tangled but showed
the explosion as though it happens far from Wile E..
Nickelodeon: Wile E.'s ingestion of the larger
quantity of earthquake pills was missing.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"Hoppy Daze" (McKimson; 1961):
ABC: This scene was cut: Sylvester manages to lure
Hippety back into Hippety's crate and nails Hippety
inside of it. He then inserts a stick of dymamite into
the crate through a hole, but Hippety sends out of the
crate through more holes a bunch of dynamite sticks
that form a circle around Sylvester and explode,
blasting Sylvester's fur off.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"Hoppy Go Lucky" (McKimson; 1952):
ABC: The aftermath of an explosion at the end was
excised. The footage gone was the part with Sylvester
saying, "Yup, I'm left hold the bag." After the
dynamite explodes and produces a cloud, the "iris out"
soundtrack was heard.
CBS: Sylvester strikes Benny, the huge, stupid cat,
over the head with a sledgehammer, and not only does
Benny not notice this, but the hammer crumbles into a
fine powder. This was cut.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"Horse Hare" (Freleng; 1960):
Merrie Melodies: Deleted was the scene in which Bugs
shoots his rifle at the Indians and runs a tally of
the Indians that he has killed, singing "Ten Little
Indians", while in "Tom-Tom Tomcat" on Merrie
Melodies, the same song, performed by Tweety while
Granny fires rifle at the Indian cats, was retained.
Here is how the complete scene originally went. After
counting six little Indians, Bugs corrects himself and
says, "Oops, sorry, that one was a half-breed!" and
erases half of the line that he has sketched on the
Fort Lariat wall. He continues firing the rifle and an
Indian sneaks behind him; so, Bugs kicks the Indian in
the chin just while completing his song with, "Ten
little Indian boys!"
Nickelodeon: The "Ten Little Indians" scene was
shortened to remove Bugs' "half-breed" comment.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"Horton Hatches the Egg" (Clampett; 1942):
CN, TBS, TNT, WB: A fish version of Peter Lorre sees
the elephant, Horton, on the boat and says, "Well, now
I've seen everything!" followed by the gun to his
head, which was edited out of this cartoon.
TNT: A completely redubbed and re-edited version of
this cartoon aired as part of the TNT special, In
Search of Dr. Seuss.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"Hot Cross Bunny" (McKimson; 1948):
ABC: The scene where the doctor activates the machine
was missing the part at which the doctor, Bugs, and
the chicken receive an electric shock.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"Hot Rod and Reel" (Jones; 1959):
ABC: The scene wherein Wile E. uses a camera with a
gun inside of it as a ploy to kill the Road Runner,
was deleted. Also missing was Wile E. lighting the
rockets to start his unicycle.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"Hyde and Go Tweet" (Freleng; 1960):
ABC: In this cartoon's uncut form, Sylvester runs to a
window and says, "I'll jump! I've got a choice?"
However, on Bugs & Tweety, he was shown looking down
to the street and not saying this line, presumably
because of its allusions to suicide.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"The Hypo-Chondri-Cat" (Jones; 1950):
ABC: A scene where Hubie slaps Bertie several times
was shortened.
