Even Groucho Marx got tired of them. In a letter to a friend dated December 6, 1950, he stated: *"I have solved the television problem by having a remote control installed on the ugly box. As soon as the first word of the commercial is heard, bang goes the little switch and the idiot barker extolling the virtues of Odorono [a deodorant], Lifeguard [television] tubes, Mohawk carpets or Halo shampoo is silenced into instant oblivion. Of course it would be embarrassing if my sponsor [DeSoto-Playmouth, who was associated with "YOU BET YOUR LIFE" on TV and radio during the 1950's] should get wind of this device but they are so busy in Detroit converting from automobiles to five passenger cannons that I think I can continue to play with my luck."*
Not really, since the electric Mundaneum gained popularity, television licenses have been in steady decline. Something they should've already been able to predict back than, bc the Mundaneum, or rather the predator from the internet exists from 1910 and back than, the one who created it, was already talking about the digital version from it.
The cultural view of everyone at the time: Men are "machos" drinking beer, shaving and looking at pretty women (despite being married) Women are all about doing domestic stuff and being "pretty"; Kids are all about doing mess and being hyperactive; And mothers-in-law are always undesired and annoying.
I like how, out of everything, the TV shooting a guest, the poisoning of the mother-in-law, the car having a plunging neckline and a dumpy, etc. Tex Avery draws the line at seals.
The ability to unfold a pool from the size of coin purse to a fully diveable platform is insignificant next to the power of a cartoonist's imagination.
There are, of course, those killjoys in state legislatures who included automobiles among "deadly weapons" with which one can be charged with committing assault.
I had to laugh at kid asking the tv numerous questions. Tex was ahead of his time in that respect 😂😂. It would be funny if Alexa tells someone to shut up if they ask too many questions 😂😂
It wasn't just Tex Avery and his writers who had a problem with mothers-in law. Ernie K-Doe, in 1961, released his one-hit wonder of a novelty song.... "Mother-in-Law" with lyrics such as... "Ths worst person I know, sent from down below, Satan should be her name, to me they're 'bout the same."
That is actual real world song? I thought that it is just something that authors of Cities Skylines came with for one of their in game stations and just sounds old.
Well, houses built around television sets, with it's opened rooms, the tv room encompassing the whole floor, dining room and kitchen - Mr Avery wasn't wrong.
4:04 Here you can see just how much the politics of television have changed, as when they show the program for the kiddies, it's nothing but people shooting each other.
@@julienielsen3746 Alas, westerns are pretty much a dead genre as a whole. Not that I ever cared much for them personally, but it's just interesting to see how common they used to be compared to nowadays.
@@gurvmlk Back in the early 60s when I was a kid we watched a lot of. westerns. Still watch them on TV channels that show old shows from the 60s and 70s. Good shows ack then. Can't stand the programs they have these days.
Little did they know that yesteryear's jokes about today actually true-to-life today. Especially about TV and how it's accessible throughout the house. Tex was a genius.
Tex's World of Tomorrow cartoons are some of my absolute favorites. I really love seeing the ideas the people of that era came up with for future technologies and conveniences. Made all the better by Tex's cartoony comedy.
5:29 these new bumpers were built with pedestrians in mind, this same model has a glass bottom so that when you hit a pedestrian, you can see if its a friend of yours. You will never see this in today's cartoons.
I miss when Nickelodeon had Looney Tunes, Ren & Stimpy, Rocko's Modern Life and Ahh! Real Monsters. I also miss Animaniacs and Pinky and the Brain, along with Brain's archenemy- Snowball and the female mouse- Billie. Mainly one episode in which they were dressed like bandits, Billie figures out taking over the world was more important to Brain than her. It seemed at first she was closer to Snowball. But in the end, she admits that she was only using Snowball because he promised to build her water rides. Then suddenly, in response, Brain and Snowball go from expressing their rivalry to their realizations that Billie didn't like either of the two.
Same here, I checked out the subscription service they have now, I definitely recommend it. About $40 a year makes it $3.33 per month, totally worth it for me at that price. Popeye, Bugs Bunny, Scooby-Doo, and I was watching Taz-Mania recently, and soo much more!
Yes, in fact I have 5 holes in my head! But I don’t really like South Park I love gravity falls but these old cartoons are just better to me maybe not to you!
I remember the pink car with the cleavage was so funny because I used to watch all of these Tex Avery cartoon shorts back on TNT nearly 30 years ago when that cable network used to have a program called TNT’s Wild World Of Shorts then it was then renamed TNT Toons later on in the mid 90’s & don’t forget the beautiful Blonde in the TV scene .
0:50 "This modern little wonder relieves Mother and Dad of the problem of answering Jr.'s many questions. . . . AH SHUT UP!" Well, they certainly nailed the internet.
yung latios I know but pretending this was some kind of educational video about the world in the 50s. I presumed this video was used in a gender studies class. That's horrible, given how the choice of demonstration is honestly bad. Many shows from back then are considered horribly offensive in the modern day. Tom and jerry had some equally wild offensive shit but you don't see people using it to demonstrate inappropriate concepts.
Jason Ramirez because PC culture prevents them from being this funny, I bet half of these gags in this cartoon would be politically incorrect nowadays. Lemme guess, that sealbeam headlight gag is probably offensive to seals.
If times were just a bit more like back then. Like, obviously without the bad parts, but today, everyones just a whiny crybaby who get offended by everything.
only thursdays for me 98ish, i watched sabrina jumanji recess and tarzan on 2 different channels at the same time before school. jumanji was time for school but i would be late to watch 10 minutes or til commercial. 07 fridays it was 8 episodes of rachael ray on 3 different channels cuz i was a teenage boy and those ghost shows and waverly place for maria canals cuz i was a teen once again
I know what you mean, but Saturday morning, cartoons or rather a program for kids was always something to look forward to every Saturday every weekend it made going through school worth it. But yeah, having cartoons like this and others during the week rather than only on the weekends it's pretty nice.... assuming the cartoons are good
Yeah, I remember getting cable for the first time and Boomerang was part of our package. Then Boomerang went to premium and we didn'tget it anymore. I do get nostalgic for antenna TV though. Something about having less channels made TV seem more fun because you had to anticipate when your show was going to be on.
@@CheapSkateGamer96 We had the TV Guide. And if you didn't have that you could usually get the schedule out of the newspaper. What was great about TV before cable was that the shows on the three networks were mostly good shows. There was always a good show on one of them at least. They were competitive and trying to get people to watch their channel.
@@briangaron7609 I remember when we just had TV Land, and Nick at Nite with old shows on. Now I get TV Land, plus COZI TV, Get TV, Antenna TV, FeTV, that have the old shows. Used to get MeTV too but they took that off my cable.
I dont see the problem with this video. Its a fun video. I find it funny how alot of these things actually exist. Like the juicer and how tvs nowadays can play 4 different channels on screen. Why is everyone getting so but hurt about stereotypes? How does these videos affect you in anyway. Do they make it so you can't go to work? Or eat? No you just are offended by them for the fact that they exist.
