Cartoon Violence and Drug Abuse

People complain about the content of the cartoons nowadays? I bought MissCouchPotatoHead a Mickey Mouse cartoon collection. I was thinking that she likes the new Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and she might enjoy something a little more old school.

The first cartoon features Mickey MCing a circus. Donald Duck has a group of trained seals that he directs to play music in exchange for fish. There is one little seal who is fairly precocious and always steals the fish. This angers Donald so much that at one point he pulls out a gun and starts shooting at the silly little seal.

The next cartoon starts out innocently enough with Mickey and Pluto doing some gardening. Mickey is tired of the bugs eating all of his plants, so he breaks out the bug spray. At some point Mickey falls in and is sent on this crazy acid trip where all the bugs are super huge and now he and Pluto have to fight them mano a mano style. The bugs are now so tough that they drink the bug poison and, not only don't die, but get drunk off their asses.

There's one a little while later where Donald thinks it's really funny to put ice skates on a sleeping Pluto so that, when he wakes up, he goes sliding all over and hurts himself. No one even so much as gets up to help the poor dog. Unlike the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Donald, this Donald is a complete asshat.

As illustrated in the next cartoon when they're all vacationing in Hawaii. Donald is doing the hula in a grass skirt -- which should indicate some type of chemical influence -- when his tailfeathers catch on fire. He goes screaming down the beach to the nearest pool of water. After extinguishing the fire, he stands up only to find a starfish attached to his ass. Well, Donnie, ya kinda sat on the guy. So the starfish is naturally a little bit grumpy. Donald yanks the thing off his butt and maliciously throws him down the beach. Was that really necessary? Couldn't you have just put him back where you found him?

Between shooting at seals, drunk bugs, and general sadism on Donald's part, I can actually sit here and say that today's cartoons are very tame by comparison. I'm going to put this video in every time I think one of my kids' shows might be toeing a line.