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Top 10 Times Animated Movies Were Censored
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9/21/2024
Anyone got a pencil and some Wite-Out? Welcome to MsMojo, and today we’re looking at instances where animated movies had to be blue-penciled due to unsuitable content.
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Tell me, baby, or I'll eat you.
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Boop, boop, be-do.
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Welcome to Ms. Mojo.
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And today, we're looking at instances
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where animated movies had to be blue penciled
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due to unsuitable content.
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Paper, baby, that was a close save.
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Number 10, Arabian Nights, Aladdin.
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This opening song to Disney's 1992 Aladdin
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initially possessed a very different set of lyrics.
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Come on down, stop on by, hop a carpet and fly
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to another Arabian night.
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The original version of both the film
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and its accompanying CD soundtrack
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featured a line in the opening song
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which referenced dismemberment and brutality
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in the protagonist's homeland.
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It was seen by some, including the American Arab
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Anti-Discrimination Committee, as disparaging and insulting.
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The offending line was altered instead
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to reflect the oppressive heat of the region.
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Where it's flat and immense and the heat is intense.
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It's barbaric, but hey, it's home.
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The succeeding lyrics, it's barbaric, but hey, it's home,
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feel a lot more striking with the context of what they
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were originally in reference to.
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Arabian nights like Arabian days.
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Number nine, The Dryer, Lilo and Stitch.
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The 1980s sitcom landscape was littered
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with very special episodes, ones that
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were designed to teach important lessons
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to their respective audiences.
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I'm going to take the door off the refrigerator.
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The Salvation Army is going to pick it up this afternoon.
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In the meantime, I don't want any of you playing near it.
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OK, sure.
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One particularly memorable example of this trend
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occurred on Punky Brewster, specifically
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that time Cherie Johnson got locked
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in an old refrigerator.
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A similar scene was edited and changed
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from 2002's Lilo and Stitch, where Lilo is
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seen hiding inside of a dryer.
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In newer releases of the film, for example, the one
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that appears on Disney+, the dryer door
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has been replaced with a pizza box
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so that children watching at home
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won't get any ideas about copying Lilo's stunt.
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Number eight, Banned, Song of the South.
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This controversial Disney film from 1946
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may be only partially animated, but its legacy
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as one of the company's most discussed time
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capsules remains secure.
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It's true that Song of the South contains one of Disney's
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earliest hit movie tunes, Zippity-Doo-Dah, which
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actually won the Academy Award for Best Original Song.
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However, the film has also widely
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been criticized for racist content,
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and it's not the first time that it's been criticized.
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including the diminishing or otherwise glorifying
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of enslavement.
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A complete version of the film has yet
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to be released on home video in the US,
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although Song of the South can be found on VHS and Laserdisc
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in Europe, Asia, and Latin America.
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Number seven, Otika and Sunflower, Fantasia.
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Fantasia remains an important step in the Disney evolution
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thanks to its unique assembly of classical music
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and gorgeous hand-drawn animation.
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However, the versions of Fantasia
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available to view today contain a very different take
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of the film's pastoral symphony sequence.
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The movement is set to Beethoven and features
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frolicking animated centaurs.
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Among these beasts are a pair of female African-American centaurs
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named Sunflower and Otika.
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Both were animated with over-the-top, culturally
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insensitive features.
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Otika and Sunflower were also depicted
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as being subservient to the other centaurs.
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The pair were edited out for future prints of the movie.
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Number six, Casting Couch, Toy Story 2.
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The term casting couch gained more infamy
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than ever in the aftermath of the Me Too movement.
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You really are a stinky peep.
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In fact, it was in light of the movement
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that this Toy Story 2 mid-credits scene was cut.
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Pixar movies used to feature a blooper reel
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of the movie's ending scene, but now it's
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a scene that's been cut out of the movie.
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The movie's ending scene was cut out of the movie
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Pixar movies used to feature a blooper reel
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during the credits, where the characters acted
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like actors messing up their lines
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or being filmed at inopportune times.
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