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Weekend Entertainment: "Car of Tomorrow"
Follow the jump to watch "Car of Tomorrow"
Hmmm, make that long weekend entertainment. Let's close out the theme of vintage car 'toons with one of the best of them all. Once again, Tex Avery dishes out the laughs with "Car of Tomorrow", an all-time great that, among other things, gleefully jokes about running down pedestrians ("Just let 'em try to get away") and pokes fun at those ever-decisive women drivers. Unfortunately, the embedded version after the jump is the censored edition of the cartoon. The P.C. police at Time Warner (which also owns this site's parent, AOL) evidently felt that America could no longer handle the Indian convertible (with a teepee top) and the "sport roadster that's popular in China" (it's a snazzy rickshaw) when the short aired as part of Cartoon Network's ACME Hour. Fortunately, you can still check out the original, uncensored version on the web; it's just not currently embeddable. Follow the jump to watch the final installment of this holiday weekend's impromptu nostalgia 'toon trilogy. This was fun. Hope you enjoyed it as much as we did.
[Source: YouTube]
Click here to also watch the original, uncensored cartoon, complete with the full opening credits and the two deleted car segments, which run back-to-back beginning at the 2:25 mark.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Alex Nunez 10:05PM (8/31/2008)
If you're like me, you'll want to immediately follow this with:
"The House of Tomorrow"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vPJkQsP20A&feature=related
and
"The Farm of Tomorrow"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqX9w-0WEQ0&feature=related
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nate_687 4:29PM (9/01/2008)
I havent seen this stuff in years.. I used to love this when I was younger.
Astro 9:25AM (9/01/2008)
brings back childhood memories. but i didnt even know there was a "censored" version.... i guess for these politically correct times
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geo.stewart 9:54AM (9/01/2008)
can someone find the Goofy cartoon where he becomes a maniac behind the wheel?
That is a classic.
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Alex Nunez 10:28AM (9/01/2008)
That's "Motor Mania":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZgiVicpZGk&feature=related
The best is the hood ornament as gunsight...
geo.stewart 10:39AM (9/01/2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZAZ_xu0DCg
Stéphane Dumas 1:29PM (9/01/2008)
thanks for the memories of "Motor Mania" Alex and geo.stewart :-)
I found another good memories "Taxi Turvy" featuring Popeye and Bluto as taxi drivers with Olive Oyl as the passenger
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWQu2K_kTpA
unfortunately I didn't found "Car-Azy Drivers" when Popeye teach to Olive some driving lessons
Mike 10:02AM (9/01/2008)
lol glass bottoms to see if runover pedestrians are your friends XD
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Rick 10:19AM (9/01/2008)
My kids were watching old Jetsons cartoons yesterday...they pulled the same 'outboard' mother-in-law compartment. And yes, those women drivers...
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Yaktastic 10:24AM (9/01/2008)
I think the best part about the comparison from censored to uncensored is the attention to take out the racially uncooth examples but to not take any care to the continual ragging on women.
lol
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SHOTT3R 12:01PM (9/01/2008)
"ragging" on women
I see what you did there ;)
geo.stewart 4:05PM (9/01/2008)
no worries about picking on the Scots either...
catgirlshyla 12:42PM (9/01/2008)
http://www.autoblog.com/2008/02/02/video-the-future-of-motoring-circa-1960/
Drat, anyone know if theirs another vid floating about?
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Will 1:44PM (9/01/2008)
Haha, I remember this. There also was a "House of Tomorrow" too
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