Looney Tunes on Nickelodeon Censorship

Looney Tunes on Nickelodeon included several cartoons edited for content when shown in both the original afternoon showings and the later Nick at Nite version.

In contrast to network television, a lot of the slapstick violence, alcohol and tobacco consumption, suggestive humor (as with the Pepé Le Pew cartoons), and depictions of Mexican and Latino stereotypes (as with the Speedy Gonzales cartoons) that would normally be edited or cause shorts to be banned were left intact here. However, the channel had their own criteria of what was inappropriate to show to kid/family audiences and edited the following:

• profanity
• dangerous behavior that can be copied by impressionable viewers and are depicted as harmless and without immediate negative consequences, including:
  • lighting fireworks
  • mishandling electricity
  • ingesting chemicals and swallowing pills, though, as mentioned before, alcohol drinking and tobacco smoking were allowed
  • running into busy traffic
  • hanging from nooses
  • being locked in small spaces
• racial stereotyping, mostly towards Africans, African-Americans, and East Asians (though, as seen below, some exceptions were made for arbitrary reasons). American Indian stereotyping was sometimes left alone and sometimes edited, depending on the short
• World War II references concerning Adolf Hitler and/or the Japanese. The more innocuous references, such as buying war bonds, recycling scrap metal, and rationing were left intact, while the shorts that had heavier, more outdated and offensive World War II references were banned.
• suicide gags and gags deemed "too violent", mostly involving guns.

Other cuts shown here are time cuts to make room for more commercials and cuts to cover up the shoddy work done on their redrawn-colorized versions.

Censorship

Africa Squeaks (1940)

• The redrawn-colorized and computer-colorized versions on Nickelodeon severely edited this cartoon to remove all the sequences of the African natives. The redrawn colorized version edited the ending by replacing the shot of Africa as a blackfaced caricature bidding farewell to the viewer with a repeat of the opening pan from Dark Africa to Darkest Africa while the computer-colorized ending freeze-framed on the shot of Africa before it turns into a blackface caricature. Both versions play the audio normally for the end joke.

Ain't Nature Grand! (1931)

• Between 1987-1989, the scene where Bosko pets the fish he caught and the fish spitting at him in response was cut. Since the violence is comic and benign, it can be assumed this was a cut for time rather than content.

Ali-Baba Bound (1940)

The redrawn colorized version shown here edits two scenes:

• The scene where Porky looks back and sees Ali Baba and his men bearing down on him removes the actual shot of them charging at him.
• The part where Ali Baba's men ask him if he's okay after getting thrown from the fort was cut.

Ballot Box Bunny (1951)

• Sam shooting at Bugs when the latter interrupts the former with a one-man band performance was edited to make it seem that Bugs complied to Sam's request to "Shut off that jukey-box!" by having Bugs' marching played in a loop and Sam yelling, "Shut off that juteybox! I can't hear myself a-speechin'" over the looped shot, followed by a cut to Sam saying: "Now, where was I?"
• The Russian Roulette ending gag was cut, as it was on other networks, such as ABC, The WB, the syndicated and FOX version of Merrie Melodies Starring Bugs Bunny & Friends, and pre-2011 Cartoon Network and Boomerang in America (overseas Cartoon Network and Boomerang had this uncut). However, unlike those versions, where the cartoon ends with the "Dark Horse"/"Mare" pun, Nickelodeon had the "Dark Horse"/"Mare" pun first, then ended the cartoon on the shot of the horse in the parade car neighing happily.

A Bear for Punishment (1951)

Unlike the ABC version, the Nickelodeon version left in Ma and Junyer Bear firing off rifles during the "Let's Give a Cheer for Father" musical number (and neither ABC nor Nickelodeon cut the part where Junyer tries to shave Pa with a broken razor, with darkly comic implications that Junyer may have killed his father, until Papa Bear beats him off-screen). However, Nickelodeon edited two different scenes:

• The scene after Junyer shushes the alarms clocks into silence was cut to remove Pa getting so angry that he slams one of the clocks in his son's face and Junyer staring at the camera with a broken alarm clock face. The edited version goes from the clocks going quiet to Ma Bear saying, "But, Henry..."
• The scene where Junior spells out "gunpowder" and assumes it's tobacco was removed alongside Junior congratulating himself on being a good speller while misspelling "dog" and "Rhode Island".

Beep, Beep (1952)

• Wile E. ingesting some Acme Aspirin before waving pathetically at the camera and falling to the bottom of the gorge was cut.

Big House Bunny (1950)

• The entire scene of Bugs running up onto a gallows, pressing a button that lowers him like an elevator, and Sam doing the same, only to get hanged was cut.

Big Man from the North (1931)

• Bosko stabbing the villain in the backside with a knife was deleted.

Big Man From The North Nickelodeon Censorship

The Booze Hangs High (1930)

• The father pig retching up a corncob and putting it back inside him via a trapdoor on his stomach was cut.

The Booze Hangs High Nickelodeon Censorship

Bosko the Doughboy (1931)

• The last few seconds where Bosko is in blackface exclaiming "Mammy!" after a bomb explodes was removed, ending just after the explosion.

Bosko the Lumberjack (1932)

• The scene where Bosko fires his gun through a moose head on the wall was omitted.

Bosko Shipwrecked! (1931)

• The whole sequence where Bosko ends up in a cannibal village and gets chased by its inhabitants was deleted.

Bosko's Knight-Mare (1933)

• Between 1987-1989, scenes featuring the Knights of the Round Table as caricatures of celebrities who were famous at the time of this cartoon's release (mostly the original four Marx Brothers) were cut (most likely a time cut).

Bosko's Picture Show (1933)

• The newsreel scene showing Adolf Hitler chasing Jimmy Durante with a meat cleaver was cut.
• Bosko's infamous line about the movie villain, "The dirty fock!" (which sounds dangerously close to the actual "f"-word and has been argued as such by many animation historians and fans) had "fock" replaced with "cur" (which was used near the end when Bosko says, "Stop, you cur!") starting with the second time this short aired.

Bosko Picture Show Nickelodeon TV Edit

Boyhood Daze (1957)

• Unlike the ABC version (which cut the entire sequence), the sequence of Ralph Phillips rescuing his parents from African cannibals was only edited to remove the cannibals dancing around the cauldron by replacing the shot with a repeat of the African statue in the opening shot of Ralph's imagine spot (though the faraway shot of the cannibals dancing around the cauldron wasn't cut, nor were their shadows around Ralph's parents when they worry that they'll never be rescued, and the scene of the actual cannibals cowering in fear over Ralph attacking them with guns wasn't censored, either).

Boyhood Daze (1957) Nickelodeon Censorship

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Box Car Blues (1930)

• Bosko screaming "Mammy!"as he goes through a train tunnel was cut (compare with "Sinkin' in the Bathtub"'s edit on the same channel, where "Mammy!" was merely muted).

Buddy the Woodsman (1934)

• The Chinese cook announcing dinnertime was edited down to the cook ringing the dinner bell, followed by an abrupt cut to the lumberjacks dropping whatever they're doing to come to the mess hall. Scenes that feature the cook not saying anything were left in, however.

Buddy's Circus (1934)

• Every scene featuring the Ubangi circus performers were cut.

Buddy's Circus Nickelodeon censorship 1

Buddy's Circus Nickelodeon censorship 2

Buddy's Show Boat (1933)

• Two scenes of blackfaced men shoveling coal into the engine while singing "Swanee Smiles" were edited. The first scene was replaced with a repeat of the opening scene of the boat moving to the music, and the second instance was replaced with a repeat of the fishermen sleeping. The audio played as normal in both instances. It should be noted that a later scene of four more blackfaced singers performing "Sweet Georgia Brown" at the show's entrance was not cut.
• The Zulu native impersonating Maurice Chevalier was only cut to remove Buddy introducing him as "Chief Saucer Lip".

Buddy's Show Boat Nickelodeon TV Edits

Buddy's Theatre (1935)

• The entire scene of the black natives running (reused from Buddy of the Apes) was cut.

Buddy’s Theater Nickelodeon Censorship

Bushy Hare (1950)

• Unlike most channels, specifically Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon aired this short, despite containing racial stereotypes (in this case, the Aboriginal hunter Bugs calls "Nature Boy"), albeit with one edit: the sequence of Nature Boy stabbing the hole Bugs is allegedly in and Bugs shrieking in agony was edited to remove Bugs moaning to Nature Boy to let him die and Nature Boy stabbing the hole with more sadistic vigor (and Bugs getting so mad that Nature Boy would continue stabbing him as he allegedly dies that he kicks in into the rabbit hole). The scene goes from Bugs finishing his death cries to Bugs kicking Nature Boy in the hole and tickling his feet.

Bushy Hare (1950) Nickelodeon Censorship

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Bye, Bye Bluebeard (1949)

These edits were also done when this short aired on the former WB network:

• A short shot of Bluebeard putting Porky in the guillotine was cut (though not Bluebeard building the guillotine as Porky is tied to a chair and begging for his life). The edited scene goes from the mouse flipping a coin to decide whether or not to save Porky to the mouse on the dining room table shuffling as he plays a triangle to announce dinner.
• The scene of Bluebeard (after eating mini-bombs disguised as popovers) rushing to the medicine cabinet and mixing the contents of every bottle in a cup to drink before the explosion happens was edited to make it look like Bluebeard just exploded after he ate the popovers, though frame-precise pausing or slowing down shows that the split-second of Bluebeard running for the medicine cabinet wasn't edited.

Bye Bye Bluebird 2 Nickelodeon Censorship’s

Canned Feud (1951)

• Sylvester attempting to use an axe to open the can of cat food, only for the blade to go flying out through the mail slot, was cut (though a similar scene in the Daffy/Speedy cartoon "Moby Duck" wasn't edited).
• The entire scene where Sylvester attempts to catch the mouse with a coat hanger, only for the mouse to snag it on an electrical wire, was deleted (though a similar scene in "Yankee Dood It" wasn't cut).

China Jones (1959)

• Though Nickelodeon often censors outdated East Asian stereotypes, this cartoon did air on occasion. However, the ending with Daffy being held prisoner in Porky's Chinese laundromat and yelling for help in faux Chinese (which translates to, "Help! I'm being held prisoner in a Chinese laundry!") was removed. The short now ends after Porky (Charlie Chan) brandishes a club and says (after Daffy/China Jones says, "Confucious says, 'Can't squeeze blood from turnip'."), "Confucious also say, 'B-b-better you press shirt than press luck!" with a fake iris-out and the closing music from "Daffy's Southern Exposure" used in place of the actual ending music for this cartoon. The edited ending can be found here.

Chow Hound (1951)

• The part where the dog (dressed as a game hunter) returns the cat (dressed as a sabre-toothed tiger) to the zoo was removed because the mouse is depicted as an African savage, though, unlike the FOX and post-2001 Cartoon Network and Boomerang edits, there was a dissolve effect between the dog collecting the reward from the old man to the dog walking out of the zoo, making it look like the dog did go to the zoo, but turned in the cat off-screen. FOX's, Cartoon Network's, and Boomerang's versions used a hard cut from the old man scene to the dog telling the audience that he finally has enough money to get meat.

Claws for Alarm (1954)

• The scene where the mice use a moose head with a gun in the mouth to try and kill Porky was cut.
• The scene where a noose lowers on Porky while Porky is sleeping, Sylvester cuts the noose with a razor and Porky accuses Sylvester of attempted murder was cut.

Corn Plastered (1951)

• The whole sequence where the crow tricks the farmer into getting trapped in a refrigerator to see if the light in the fridge stays on when the door is closed was deleted.

A Coy Decoy (1941)

• Daffy singing "I Can't Get Along Little Doggie" was edited to remove him riding out of the book Black Beauty on the shoulders of a black mammy caricature was cut from the black and white version, the redrawn colorized version, and the computer-colorized version. Unlike the versions that aired on Cartoon Network and Boomerang (where the scene goes from Daffy vocalizing to a hard cut to a wolf coming out of the book, The Wolf of Wall Street), Nickelodeon (at least in the computer-colorized version) left in Daffy singing "I Can't Get Along Little Doggie" and him getting on the book Black Beauty, but the scene of Daffy riding out of the book on the shoulders of a black mammy caricature was replaced with a slightly slowed-down shot of Porky looking on in amazement while the audio goes from "Can't even get one/At all, that's what I said..." to the sound of Daffy getting thrown into the lake.

Curtain Razor (1949)

• The duck version of Al Jolson talking about his "mammy" was deleted. The Bing Crosby parrot hitting the Al Jolson duck with his pipe was also cut, but for continuity reasons (compare with MeTV's recent version where the pipe-hitting was left in, leading to an obvious plot hole).
• Similar to "Show Biz Bugs", the fox performing his act of ingesting dangerous chemicals was edited to remove him drinking gasoline and swallowing a lit match. The Nickelodeon-edited version goes from the fox drinking atomic powder and TNT, then immediately exploding.

The Daffy Doc (1938)

Two edited versions of this cartoon aired:

• The redrawn colorized version was heavily cut (mostly to cover up the shoddy work done), shortening the part where Daffy holds up signs telling people to be quiet to remove the "Hush Yo' Mouf" sign and the sign with Hebrew writing which translates to "Silence is Foo!" when shaken; Daffy hitting himself with a mallet and consulting his three ghostly selves about Porky's "condition"; and the scene of Daffy and Porky tripping into the iron lung.
• The computer-colorized version only edits the sign gag (Daffy holding the signs that read, "Shh!", "Hush Yo' Mouf!", and Hebrew writing that translates to "Silence is Foo!") to remove "Hush Yo' Mouf!"

Design for Leaving (1954)

• The sequence of Elmer Fudd trying out the neck tie machine and getting hanged, followed by him angrily declaring he's going to take some aspirin before seeing that his staircase is gone was removed. Compare ABC's edit, which only edited the hanging by freezing on Daffy's shocked reaction as the audio played as normal, and some syndicated prints which only removed the aspirin line.

Design for Leaving Nickelodeon Censorship

The Dixie Fryer (1960)

• The part where Foghorn Leghorn gets his beak shot off during the duel between Pappy and Elvis was cut.
• The part near the end where Pappy pokes Elvis in the eyes after Elvis comments that the peas in the can aren't "black-eyed" peas was deleted.

Dough Ray Me-ow (1948)

These scenes were also cut when this short aired on the FOX version of Merrie Melodies: Starring Bugs Bunny & Friends:

• Louie the parrot tricking Heathcliff into sticking electric wires in his ears by saying it's a radio, only for Heathcliff to actually get radio transmissions (while Louie does the same thing and gets electrocuted) was deleted.
• Louie then tricking Heathcliff into walking along railroad tracks with a can over his head -- and Heathcliff derailing the train and somehow surviving was also removed.

Duck Dodgers and the Return of the 24½th Century (1980)

Most of the cuts here were edits done when this short went from being part of the Daffy Duck Thanks-for-Giving TV special to its own cartoon short and were done on other networks like ABC, Cartoon Network, Boomerang, MeTV, and even home media and streaming (though versions shown on Cartoon Network, Boomerang, MeTV, and home media/streaming releases leave in the last cut with the "That's All Folks!" card):

• Dodgers telling Marvin he's under arrest was cut
• Dodgers referring to several locations in New York City that he’ll miss after Marvin tells him of his plan to blow up the Earth was cut
• Porky using a straitjacket gun to capture Marvin the Martian was cut
• The ending where Marvin (still wrapped in the straitjacket) aims his missile at Earth and fires it, then tells the viewers that the missile will take three days to reach Earth, giving everyone time to get their affairs in order before everyone gets annihilated was cut
• The "That's All Folks!" ending card where Marvin the Martin says, "Don't worry, folks. After all, it's only a cartoon." was cut.

The Ducksters (1950)

• The scene of an audience member yelling to Porky "You'll be sor-ry!" and getting gunned down by Daffy was removed.

The Film Fan (1939)

• The brief scene of the on-screen news commentator identifying himself as Cold Promise was cut from the redrawn colorized version.

Gold Diggers of '49 (1935)

When this cartoon aired in black-and-white on the Nick at Nite version of Looney Tunes on Nickelodeon, two scenes involving the Chinese laundrymen were cut:

• The scenes with the Chinese laundrymen racing along with the other characters in search of gold (and digging for gold in the mine)
• The scene where the Chinese laundrymen are covered in the exhaust from Porky's car and do a blackface impression of Amos 'n Andy.

When the computer-colorized version of this cartoon aired in the daytime, not only were the Chinese laundrymen scenes still cut, but the sequence where Beans shoots at a villain, who shields himself with a metal tub on his rear end, was also cut.

Golden Yeggs (1950)

• Daffy getting shot in the head by Rocky was edited. Unlike the versions shown on ABC and The Looney, Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie (which covered the shooting scene with a recycled shot of Rocky's henchmen sitting around with one looking off to the left), the edit was done by doing a fake iris-out over the scene of Daffy stammering and the gun going off, then returning to a stunned Daffy realizing that he did lay a golden egg.

Golden Yeggs (1950) Nickelodeon Censorship

Gonzales' Tamales (1957)

• Sylvester's line "I'll get you if I have to eat every one of these!" as he searches for Speedy in the box of hot peppers was cut, as the channel used an international version that edited innocuous scenes for countries that might construe them as inappropriate for their audiences.

Good Noose (1962)

• On the rare times this cartoon has aired on Nickelodeon, it's always a heavily-edited version that gets rid of all the scenes of Daffy being hanged on a noose and the sequence with Daffy's ten-day failed attempt at escaping from a locked trunk.

Here Today, Gone Tamale (1959)

• The scene of Fernando the mouse giving his sombrero to his friend and putting a gun to his head was cut.

High Diving Hare (1949)

• Bugs posing as an Indian to lure Sam off the diving board again was cut.

His Bitter Half (1950)

• Starting in 1992, the part where Wentworth cautiously tries to light a string of fireworks was cut (unlike the FOX Merrie Melodies Show version, the scene of Wentworth playing "Army" and pretending to be dying from a gunshot wound to the chest was left in on Nickelodeon, and neither FOX nor Nickelodeon edited Daffy's wife forcing Daffy to play Indians with Wentworth, with Daffy getting scalped).

Hobby Horse Laffs (1942)

• The entire sequence featuring a mailman trying to deliver a letter to Old Man Hutsut (the explosives experimenter), only to write "Forwarding Address Unknown" after hearing an explosion (heavily implying that Hutsut killed himself), was cut.

Hold Anything (1930)

• The musical saw sequence is cut to remove Bosko slicing a mouse's head off and its attempt at getting it back.

Honey's Money (1962)

• Starting in 1995, this short was cut to remove the scene where Yosemite Sam tries to get rid of Wentworth by throwing a ball into traffic and Wentworth retrieving the ball without getting run over, making it look like Sam was about to throw the ball into traffic, but his wife stopped him in time and forced him to do it.

The Honey-Mousers (1956)

• The two times where Ralph Crumden threatens to beat up Alice Crumden were removed.

Hop and Go (1943)

• The ending where Claude Hopper's jump destroys Tokyo edited the reveal that the city Claude destroyed was Tokyo by irising-in on Claude lying in the rubble and running the lip sync on a loop to keep the scene on Claude while the audio played normally, though the ending music did come in too early and drowned out some of Claude's final line. A similar edit was recently made when MeTV aired this cartoon, only the channel didn't use a fake iris-in to cover the scene. Instead, the channel cropped and zoomed in on Claude.

Hop and Go nickelodeon censorship

Hopalong Casualty (1960)

• As on ABC, Wile E. ingesting the whole bottle of earthquake pills (though not him swallowing one pill) was deleted.

Horse Hare (1960)

• The "Ten Little Indians" scene (a scene that was deleted in its entirety on the syndicated version of Merrie Melodies: Starring Bugs Bunny & Friends) was shortened to remove Bugs' comment "Oops. Sorry, that one was a half-breed" (a "half-breed" is a derogatory term for someone born from an interracial pairing, particularly one who is half-white European and half-American Indian) and the rest of the song, with the edited version having Bugs go up to "six little Injuns" before cutting to the American Indians firing arrows at the fort.

How Do I Know It's Sunday (1934)

Two scenes of black stereotyping were edited:

• The beginning with all the food items singing the title song deletes the shot of the black chef on a box of Scream Wheat singing to a mammy caricature on a box of Aunt Eliza Pancake Flour.
• The scene of the children using the ceiling fan like a merry-go-round was because it featured two black boys.

I Was a Teenage Thumb (1963)

• King Arthur's line "Morty, you ass! This fish is full of people!" was simply shortened to "Morty! This fish is full of people" (similar to the version shown on ABC in 1998. Contrast with the Cartoon Network and Boomerang version, which have deleted the entire line, or the version shown on the Russian channel 2x2, where the line is muted on the audio track).

I've Got to Sing a Torch Song (1933)

• The scene of Cros Bingsby crooning "Why Can't This Night Go on Forever?" cut the brief shot of college coeds (some of which are shown in skimpy lingerie) listening to the broadcast (though the shot after with the old spinster making out with the radio as Cros Bingsby sings wasn't cut).
• The sequence of the radio show reaching international audiences cut the part where Chinese police officers on a rickshaw are sleeping and tie up the police radio transmitter so they won't be bothered by their boss and the part after where an African cannibal switches over to a cooking program and adds mustard and salt to his stew of white explorers (shown as caricatures of 1930s vaudeville and film comedians Bert Wheeler and Robert Woosley) before stirring them.
• The scene of an Arab sheik shooing away his belly-dancing concubine and switching over to a broadcast of Amos 'n Andy had the Amos 'n Andy broadcast redubbed with music from the beginning of the short.

  

  I've got to sing a torch song, 3 nickelodeon censorships

Jeepers Creepers (1939)

• The redrawn colorized and computer-colorized versions aired here used a fake iris-out to abruptly end the cartoon after Porky's car blows exhaust in the ghost's face to remove the scene of the ghost in blackface impersonating Rochester.

Lighthouse Mouse (1955)

• The scene of the mouse clipping an electrical wire with household scissors was replaced with a repeat shot of Polly the parrot squawking, "Lights out! Lights out!" (though the scene of Sylvester trying to connect the clipped wires, only to be electrocuted wasn't cut).

The Lone Stranger and Porky (1939)

• The scene of the villain shooting the narrator after the narrator calls him a "plug shot" was cut. Surprisingly, the scene of The Lone Stranger talking to his Native American companion, Pronto, in the mirror wasn't cut, despite Nickelodeon having a history of editing Native American stereotypes (though not as frequently as the African/African-American stereotypes or the East Asian stereotypes).

Martian Through Georgia (1962)

• The scene of the Martian tearfully putting his laser gun to his head after the narrator says, "If you're an unwanted monster, what are you going to do? Commit suicide? Why not? If nobody loves you" was cut.

Mexican Boarders (1962)

The beginning where Sylvester is introduced as "The most pooped cat of all Mexico because he was chasing the fastest mouse of all Mexico" while Sylvester downs a bottle of pep pills was cut two ways:

• Earlier Nickelodeon versions cut the entire part with a fade-out.
• Later versions replaced Sylvester's pill-popping with a freeze-framed shot of a tired Sylvester on the ground

Mouse and Garden (1960)

• For reasons unknown, some versions had two lines cut: Sylvester's "You never know where those little devils will hide, do you?" after Sam catches him trying to keep the mouse to himself and Sam's "Aw, geez! Now you made me feel bad!" as Sylvester ties his toe to Sam's and tells him he can't trust him.

Mouse-Taken Identity (1957)

• The scene of Sylvester getting caught in the lion's head and Sylvester, Jr. blasting him in the rear end with a gun to get him out was cut (though, surprisingly, not the scene of Sylvester chasing Hippety Hopper while dressed as an American Indian).

Naughty Neighbors (1939)

• Porky and Petunia's "Would You Like to Take a Walk" duet was shortened.

Nutty News (1942)

• The opening credits gag where the title card is upside-down before correcting itself is replaced with the title card already right-side-up.
• The sequence featuring an invention to help little boys stay still in the barber chair when getting a haircut (a jack-in-the-box with Adolf Hitler as the jack) was cut.

Of Rice and Hen (1953)

• Foghorn Leghorn and Barnyard Dawg (dressed as a chicken) getting in a fist-fight near the end of the cartoon was cut.

Patient Porky (1940)

• All scenes of Rochester, the black elevator operator, stopping at the different floors and naming off what diseases and conditions are treated on each floor, were cut.

The Phantom Ship (1936)

• A shot of Russia as seen from Beans' plane was cut (though that may have been a cut made before the short's release to theaters).

Pilgrim Porky (1940)

• All scenes featuring the black ship chef were cut.

Pizzicato Pussycat (1955)

• Similar to the post-1995 ABC version of this short, she scene near the end in which the mouse emerges from a cymbal on the drum set and acts Chinese for a few seconds was cut.

Polar Pals (1939)

Two scenes of gun violence were cut:

• The hunter shooting his machine gun at a penguin, leaving bullet holes in the penguin's shadow, which dramatically dies as the penguin himself watches in horror.
• A drunken walrus being riddled with gunfire, claiming, "Ya never even touched me," drinking some of his liquor, and having the fluid leak out of the holes in his body.

Porky's Ant (1941)

• The redrawn colorized version was severely to remove all the scenes with Porky's African native companion.

Porky at the Crocadero (1938)

Two censored versions of this cartoon, both cutting out the brief part where Porky (as Cab Calloway singing "Chinatown") runs across the stage dressed as a stereotypical Chinese emperor, were shown:

• The black and white version that aired on Nick at Nite replaced the shot of Porky as a Chinese emperor with a repeat shot of the patrons on the dance floor during the Guy Lombago scene.
• In the redrawn colorized version used for daytime airings, the shot of Porky as a Chinese emperor was replaced with a frozen shot of the empty stage as Porky runs off it. Both versions had the audio play as normal.

Porky in Wackyland (1938)

• The brief scene of the big-lipped Al Jolson duck saying, "Mammy, mammy," as he passes by Porky was cut. The shot-for-shot remake, "Dough for the Do-Do" wasn't edited on Nickelodeon, despite having that same scene of the Al Jolson duck, and Nickelodeon (which is owned by Viacom, which is part of Paramount) did not edit "Porky in Wackyland" or "Dough for the Do-Do" to remove the Do-Do popping in on the Warner Bros. shield to slingshot Porky.

Porky the Fireman (1938)

• The part where a panicky white man screaming "Help! Help! Get the net ready!" as he falls was cut to remove the white man coming out of a dark cloud as a lazy black man.
• Porky dumping smoke into a fishbowl and the fish coming out in blackface was also cut.

Porky the Wrestler (1937)

• There are two abrupt cuts in the music score during the "choo-choo" sequence, as a result of probable edits (though cartoon blogger David Gerstein has noted that the cut footage was excised from prints as early as 1942, so the existing version may have been an edited reissue).

Porky's Baseball Broadcast (1940)

• The scene where Porky mentions "the scalpers" having a big day, followed by a scene featuring American Indians chasing after baseball patrons with tomahawks was cut.

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Porky's Duck Hunt (1937)

• The end card featuring Daffy bouncing around the "That's All Folks!" writing was replaced with the abstract, late 1960s Looney Tunes cards while the audio played as normal.

Porky's Five & Ten (1938)

• The redrawn colorized version cut the ending in which Porky sprays a fish with seltzer water.

Porky's Midnight Matinee (1941)

When this short aired as a computer-colorized version for a short time in 1993, two parts were cut:

• The part where Porky eats hot mustard and the pygmy ant gives him turpentine to wash the taste out of his mouth.
• The end in which the African pygmy ant is in blackface following an explosion is replaced with a previous shot from the ant looking down from the balcony.

Porky's Party (1938)

• The part where Gabby Goose helps the penguin flatten the top hat that keeps growing from his head was shortened (outside of Gabby the Goose using the penguin as a battering ram to help keep the top hat down being seen as an imitable dangerous stunt by some, there is nothing considered problematic or offensive about the scene and the cut can be assumed to be made to make room for commercials).
• The part where Porky lights a match in the closet and sees Black Fury in there with him.

Porky's Picnic (1939)

• The scene of Petunia kissing Porky's muddy face was shortened to remove Petunia now appearing in blackface from the transference in the computer-colorized version.
• The redrawn colorized version kept in Petunia kissing Porky, but redid the muddy blackface so that way it would just be a regular muddied face (read: the white lips were colored over).

Porky's Poppa (1938)

• The part where, as Bessie the cow is "birthing" bottles of milk, one of them turns out to be a bottle of chocolate milk with "I Wish I Was in Dixie" plays in the background and Bessie and Porky bashfully look away (the joke being that Bessie "birthed" a black child and, back when this cartoon was made, a white woman birthing a black child was considered socially taboo).

Porky's Preview (1941)

• The finale of Porky's crudely-drawn cartoons featuring a stick-figure Al Jolson singing "September in the Rain" was cut.

Porky's Prize Pony (1941)

• A very brief glimpse of black stablehands leading horses out before the start of the races was cut.

Porky's Railroad (1937)

• Nickelodeon airings (the original black and white, the redrawn colorized version, and the computer-colorized versions) cut the scene where the Silver Fish races by a woodpile and a little black man is revealed, referring to a racially offensive saying.
• In the redrawn version that aired on Nickelodeon, the scene with the Silver Fish going through a tunnel and turning it inside out and the end where Porky is named the new engineer of the Silver Fish were cut, though these were less censorship cuts and more time cuts (or, since Nickelodeon aired poorly-made redrawns, cuts done because the overseas animators working on the redrawns either skipped over scenes that were too complex to do or were so sloppily done that they were unusuable).

Porky's Road Race (1937)

• The scene at the beginning of the race where all the drivers speed off was cut to remove the part where a vehicle driven by Stepin Fetchit (a black character actor known for playing shiftless, lazy black men) trails behind them.

Porky's Snooze Reel (1941)

• The sequence with the giant jellyfish eating an underwater mine was edited to remove the explosion and the jellyfish appearing as six assorted jars of jelly and jam. This edit only applies to the redrawn version of this cartoon. The computer-colorized version that aired on Nickelodeon was uncut.

Porky's Snooze Reel Nickelodion Censorship

Prince Violent (1961)

• Like most American TV stations (both pay and free, and barring the newer versions seen on the Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Blu-Ray, MeTV, and HBO Max), the title was changed to "Prince Varmint".

Rabbit Fire (1951)

• While Nickelodeon left "Rabbit Seasoning" and "Duck! Rabbit! Duck!" uncut for gun violence, "Rabbit Fire" was edited to remove the "No more buwwets" gag (Elmer tries to shoot at Daffy and thinks he's run out of bullets. Bugs tells Daffy this, Daffy takes the shotgun, stares down its barrel, and gets shot).

Rhythm in the Bow (1934)

• When this short aired as part of the Nick at Nite version of Looney Tunes on Nickelodeon, the short scene of the singing quartet of hobos going through a tunnel and coming out in blackface was cut.

Rover's Rival (1937)

• The young puppy calling Rover "a washed-up, old antique" seems to have been partially muted, though it is unknown whether this was an intentional cut or if it was a sound mistake that was never fixed.

Scalp Trouble (1939)

• The scene of a tall Indian being cut down into a short Indian from Daffy's bullet attack was cut (the other attacks were left in).

The Scarlet Pumpernickel (1950)

• The end where Daffy acts out The Scarlet Pumpernickel's suicide by shooting himself in the head was cut (as on most American TV versions), but in a peculiar way. While the actual scene of Daffy shooting himself was replaced with a shot of the producer's door as seen earlier in the cartoon, the actual footage was played backwards. Whether this was a mistake or intentional is unknown.

Show Biz Bugs (1957)

• Unlike most networks, Nickelodeon aired this cartoon with the gasoline drinking left in (despite Nickelodeon's other cuts to characters ingesting dangerous chemicals, as seen with the turpentine drinking on "Porky's Midnight Matinee" and Bluebeard mixing various medicines from the medicine cabinet as seen on "Bye Bye Bluebeard"), but cut the part where Daffy strikes the match, asides to the audience "Girls, you better hold on to your boyfriends," and swallows the match. This edit makes it seem as if Daffy exploded from "shaking well" after swallowing the uranium 238.

Sinkin' in the Bathtub (1930)

• Bosko yelling "Mammy!" as the car chases him down the hill was muted.

Skyscraper Caper (1968)

• Similar to the version shown on NBC's The Daffy Duck and Speedy Show, the scene of Speedy using a lasso to save Daffy from sleepwalking at a construction site (only for the lasso to catch on Daffy's neck like a noose) was cut.

Slap Happy Pappy (1940)

• The scene in which a young chicken version of Rochester hatches out of the egg and yells to Jack Bunny, "Hold it, boss! Mm-mm, heaven can wait!" before Jack Bunny can crush him with a mallet was cut.

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Stop! Look! And Hasten! (1954)

• The sequence during the cartoon's climax where Wile E. Coyote ingests "Acme Triple-Strength Leg Muscle Vitamins" was cut to remove the close-up shot of the box (yet the part where Wile E. gulps down the entire box was left in. Compare with "Beep, Beep!" or "Hopalong Casualty" where the actual act of pill ingestion was cut on Nickelodeon).

A Street Cat Named Sylvester (1953)

• Unlike the version shown on ABC, the Looney Tunes on Nickelodeon version left in Hector bashing Sylvester's broken foot and Tweety mixing in the medicines in Sylvester's bottle was never edited on any channel, despite rumors to the contrary. However, the Nickelodeon version cut off Tweety's final line, "That puddy tat's gonna be in an awful pwedicament when that medicine starts to work" and ended the cartoon with Tweety laughing as Sylvester gags and spits out the medicine (possibly to avoid implications that Tweety may have poisoned Sylvester), though a March 1995 installment of Looney Tunes on Nickelodeon showed this cartoon uncut.

There They Go-Go-Go! (1956)

• As on ABC, the entire sequence of Wile E. Coyote attempting to shoot the Road Runner with a spring-loaded gun in the ground, only for it to shoot him instead, was cut.

Ups 'n Downs (1931)

• The scene where a dog is about to eat a hot dog, only for it to come to life sporting a blackface look and crying "Mammy!" to him was cut.

The Village Smithy (1936)

• In the computer colorized version, the scene where the blacksmith pulls out a gun and shoots a rubber horseshoe in a vice to keep it from moving was cut.

We, the Animals - Squeak! (1941)

• In the computer-colorized version of this short, the scene near the end in which the taller black mice briefly turn into African jungle natives during the song sequence was cut.

Who's Who in the Zoo (1942)

• In the computer-colorized version of this short, the sight gag involving an Indian elephant behaving like a Native American warrior was deleted.

Which is Witch? (1949)

• Though Nickelodeon often edits out scenes featuring outdated African and African-American stereotypes, this cartoon did air on occasion. However, the scene where Bugs disguises himself as a Zulu native (by using a spring to elongate his neck and plates in his lips) to escape Dr. Spots was removed.

Wholly Smoke (1938)

In the colorized redrawn version, two scenes were edited:

• The beginning of the "Little Boys Shouldn't Smoke" song sequence where four matchsticks strike themselves and burn out to form blackface (while singing in the style of The Mills Brothers) had the blackface re-colored as red (similar to how Cartoon Network, Boomerang, and the Merrie Melodies: Starring Bugs Bunny & Friends versions edited it).
• The part where a pipe cleaner sticks his head in a dirty pipe and comes out looking and singing like Cab Calloway was originally left uncut in the early 1990s on Nickelodeon, but by the mid-to-late 1990s, the scene was edited out.