7-year-old spurred to action by Keith's report re evil cartoons

[WhirlyGirl]

BUGS BUNNY HIJACKED BY EVIL CARTOONISTS; CHILDREN REVOLT: You may have seen the story on TV, or the AP version on a news site. Warner Bros. plans a new cartoon called "Loonatics" based on Bugs Bunny and other lovable Looney Tunes characters. Thomas Adams, an 11-year-old Tulsa, Okla., boy, started a Web site and online petition (asking Warner Bros. to create entirely new characters for the series instead of "ruining" the old ones) that succeeded, sort of, in saving the kid-pleasing good guys: Warner will make them less dark and spooky. But...

Bob Bergen, the voice actor behind Porky's stutter and Tweety's "putty tat" the past 15 years... cautions fans against rushing to judgment before it airs. "The kids who are going to be seeing this are not as versed in classic Looney Tunes as these fans are," he said. "Let the target audience be the judge." The "Loonatics" -- scheduled to air Saturday mornings come fall on Kids' WB! -- is aimed at 6-to-11-year-olds. Test groups loved it, (Warner Bros. Entertainment spokesman Scott ) Rowe said.

Not so fast, Scott Rowe. Who are those kids? At our house Friday night, the family 7-year-old walked in just as this story was airing on Keith Olbermann's MSNBC Countdown. One look at these cartoon relatives of Darth Vader and Dylan was aroused -- and outraged. "Too freaky!!" said Dylan, his face darkening when he saw the new, dark versions of the lovable cartoons. "Imagine if a 4-year-old saw that, he'd scream." He watched the entire segment, then went to saveourlooneytunes.com to read about it. He wanted to do something about this. And so, for the first time ever, soccer-playing math-whiz Dylan voluntarily wrote something. Here it is. (spelling corrected)

"Save our Looney Tunes please Do you believe, Warner Bros. thinks that kids are bored of the classic characters of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Wile E. Coyote, the Tasmanaian Devil, Road Runner and Lola Bunny. And guess what, they're going to turn them into nightmare freaks. If you don't want this to happen, go to www.saveourlooneytunes.com. Besides if a 4-year-old kid was watching it, he or she would probably scream. Oh yeah did I mention they're wicked scary!!!!!!"

Take that, Scott Rowe.
~~ Sheila Lennon, Personal Technology, 5-2-2005
http://www.pe.com/sharedcontent/ptech/weblog2/050205ccdrptechweblog.23a74c131.html

[Berry Cool]

1. Thanks for posting this. Makes a good reminder

that the Evil Keith Picture Drawing Contest deadline is today!

[WhirlyGirl]

2. Actually I posted it cuz it proves Keith has a powerful influence

. . . over anybody w/ the mind of a 7-year-old! :rofl:

(Not really; I just remembered what we were grumping about all last night.)