Dennis to no longer be a menace - WTF !!!
darkjedimaster
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RED and black striped menace Dennis has apparently seen the error of his ways ... if his new BBC makeover is to be believed.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/mysun/2583916/BBC-menace-to-change-Dennis.html
I really hope this isn't true, it was bad enough when the nannystate cut Tom & Jerry but this really takes the pi**. :mad:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/mysun/2583916/BBC-menace-to-change-Dennis.html
I really hope this isn't true, it was bad enough when the nannystate cut Tom & Jerry but this really takes the pi**. :mad:
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Only 40 year old "kids" do
That being said, the new dennis looks like crap someone knocked up on flash.
Why don't they call the character something totally different instead of trying to hi-jack the brand name/character of Dennis (apparently no longer a menace)
Yes. It was thesun.co.uk
Oh and well done to the OP for getting both WTF and LMAO in thread titles.
Yeah, looks fairly unsubstantiated to me.
If they want to do a cartoon about some other guy who isn't like Dennis the Menace then just create some other cartoon and call it something else.
Next they'll try to recreate the obligatory 'slap up meal' you'd see at the end of some cartoons where the character wins a prize at the end of the strip.
Now they'll have them getting a tofu and lettuce meal which they dig into at the end because it's supposed to prevent global warming or something.
Or Tom and Jerry will be revamped to show them never getting angry and resolving their differences like mature adults using intellectual mediation techniques.
Why do you want to watch Tom and Jerry? Are you four years old? My 5-year-old watches Tom and Jerry. It's on the Cartoon network. It's crap. And so is Ben 10.
Political correctness gawn maaaad. Political correctness gawn maaaaaad. Save us from the voices in our heads!!!
Nutters.
Yes, I think it probably is shit stirring if I'm honest.
But that doesn't take anything away from the fact that I still think that they should leave it alone.
One of the reasons being is that it has that feel of that form of political correctness that has 'clever smug dick' written all over it. As thought to say "Hey everybody, look what we've done. Aren't we so progressive and modern for 'moving on'?" as they give themselves a mighty big pat on the back.
It's the feeling that they've seen something, decided that it's wrong, and are trying to bring attention to that fact that they believe that they've somehow made it better than it was.
Just create a new character and make a new cartoon.
Mind you that would take the imagination to be creative in the first place.
Yeah i'm sure a kids programme from years ago that you enjoyed will really excite her
If my parents had tried to make me watch Bill and Ben i'd have been mortified
The original Tom and Jerry cartoon shorts were never intended to be a children's cartoon. In fact none of those big cartoons of the 1940s and 1950s were. They were just another form of entertainment at first. Cartoons only really became associated as being for kids when TV networks started creating them.
Especially in the 1960s when Tom and Jerry really did suffer a dip in quality.
I wonder how many of the people who'd be outraged by this are the ones outraged by any story about youth crime and disobedience. Or rap music - better still, violent TV? I'd be interested ...
Exactly. Removing the Pee Cee element that is so vital an element of these stories, perhaps Dennis just needed bringing into the year 2009 if he were to survive.
I grew up in the 70s/80s and found the Beano concepts of catapults, carties and teachers in mortar boards to be embarrasingly old-fashioned then, so I think it's fair to say that DC thompson aren't exactly masters of moving with the times.
They don't have to revamp it.
They can just leave it as history.
They can just make something brand new instead, like Colin the Conscientious.
However i think the removal of the bullying of 'sissy Walter' is necessary if it is to return. Like smoking in the workplace some things just belong to a different age.