RACIST CARTOONS FROM BACK IN THE DAY | Double Toasted Bites 

To quote the Looney Tunes Golden Collection DVDs: *"These depictions were wrong then and are wrong today. These cartoons are represented as they were originally created because to do otherwise would be the same as claiming those prejudices never existed."*

I remember Rickety Rocket aired on old school Cartoon Network (back when it was mostly Hanna Barbera shows) for like two days and NEVER saw it again. Like the execs saw it and said "What were we thinking??". Fun fact: the voice of Sunstroke is Jack Baker, who did kids shows until 1983. After 1983, a LOT of porn.

1:37 is basically the James Hong story. Born in Minnesota, degree in Engineering, told to sound more foreign in movies

In the UK on Boomerang, they aired Tom and Jerry uncensored, with the mammy character in tact, and as a black kid me and my family thought she just owned the house

I’m so glad this is being talked about. I’ve said this for years. Looney Toons and Walt Disney cartoons were extremely racist back in the day. But back then it was acceptable content. Those were the days where minstrel shows (black face) was considered comedies. It just migrated over to cartoons.

Interesting note about Tom's original owner. Her name isn't Mammy Two-Shoes, that's the name of a Disney character from some Silly Symphony shorts. She's actually went unnamed, but she was named Mandy & Dinah in the comic books of that era. In the short "Saturday Evening Puss" it's revealed that she actually owns the house. That's oddly progressive for the time.

When tom and Jerry aired in the 60s on Saturday mornings Chuck Jones team actually edit her out and replaced her with a white woman. In the 90s her voice was redubbed with actress Thea Vidale. In the short Saturday evening Puss, it was revealed she did in fact own that house and like someone else said it seemed pretty progressive for the 50s, not that it excuses the other racist stuff tbf

The only time I've ever heard MTS spoke happily was when she complimented Tom for managing to stay awake not knowing that he painted fake eyes over his eyelids

I definitely watched some of those cartoons in the 2000s. I watched reruns of Tom and Jerry all the time on TV, and I received Tom and Jerry DVDs several times as gifts.

As a kid, we used to call Rickety Rocket The Ghetto Jetsons

Korey went back in time, used his animation powers, and made all those racist cartoons. It’s the only explanation.

6:18 Rickety Rocket?!? Wow! Y'all had no chill in the 80s!🤣🤣🤣

Billy’s laugh always had me rolling LOL. The Censored Eleven Looney Tunes cartoons were hilarious and historical too🤣🤣

Warners Bros does a better job at re-releasing their old racist propaganda cartoons with a disclaimer. I remember seeing them pop up late on Cartoon Network as a kid, but because I was a kid I wasn't reading that lol.

Billy’s “what the fuck you talkin bout boy?!” Fuckin killed me

Ah wow, I had forgotten all about Rickety Rocket! Yeah I didn't even think about it as a kid, because Fat Albert also had that junkyard thing going on. But yeah it's kind of... yeah...

When was a kid Fat Albert was one of my favourite cartoons. What's not to like, they're all really cool guys. Solid group of friends.

I thought Mammy was Tom's owner when I was younger.

😂 40s/50s cartoons were racists af

The Black Jetsons. 🤣🤣🤣

My brother really said: "'Ol big-lipped-ass rocket!" 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

I was a child of the '70s. A blond-haired, blue-eyed little white boy. I was never brought up to be hateful. I laughed at these cartoons, and I'm not ashamed I did, exactly, but suffice it to say that if I had kids, I don't think I'd let them see them.

Mammy Two Shoes, then she became an Irish woman.

I will take my 30 minute commercial cartoons like Transformers, GI Joe and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles over "Rickety Rocket" any day.

WOW. I never heard of Rickety Rocket. 🤣+ 😬+ 🤦‍♂ The art direction had to have been intentional to portray black ppl in their most vulnerable state, even in a futuristic utopia. They could have just stopped there at capturing the personalities and culture of the black community using strong rooted black characters but instead they decided to double down and highlight the disadvantages of classism in the most extreme and comical way possible. They went out their way to associate poverty with the black community. I mean...."Rickety" wtf lol. This may have been the "thing" to do at the time, some ppl may even argue that it was a form of representation, but isn't there a thing as good and bad representation. The fact of the matter is, this ish surely did not age well. lol

Excellent work guys. Thank you. I grew up with these cartoons back in the 1960's. I loved Tom & Jerry of the 40s & 50s. However, I can recall thinking "Do Americans still own Black People?". These thoughts made me extremely concerned. At 6 years old, I vowed never to go to the USA. I genuinely appreciate your use of humour to highlight these issues.

Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids is an American animated television series created, produced, and hosted (in live action bookends) by comedian Bill Cosby, who also lent his voice to a number of characters, including Fat Albert and himself. Filmation was the production company for the series

Yeah these cartoons are clearly outdated, but I believe we need to look back at them and be happy of how much animation became more open nowadays. I mean, we got some pretty great black characters in the 2000s, even in the 80s and 90s we had some decent representation

The voice of Mammy TWO Shoes on Tom and Jerry also played on an episode of Sanford and Son as a character named Aunt Hazel. She had the wedding cake thrown in her face.

6:17 The closest of me ever hearing about this cartoon was when Nice And Smooth made a song called, Hip Hop Junkies. And the first line of the song was, Rickety Rocket was my favorite cartoon

Korey and the gang should do one livestream of them watching an episode just for a laugh. I watched an episode and I was like oh this so bad.

Corey will always be my hero. Love him;)

This was funny ya'll I enjoyed this

There was one with Bugs Bunny and the "half breed" comment involving Indians I think. I'll never turn on Bugs though. He's a childhood favorite. Besides, gotta blame the writers on that one. Bugs Bunny was almost "invincible" though. It was rare to see anyone get the better of him. Our heroes have to face obstacles that they have to overcome. You can't have them just run over the villains unscathed. Speaking of which, watch the movie Out For Justice with Steven Segal if you want to see a hero/protagonist dominate a movie from beginning to end. Segal basically went untouched in that film. No one really posed a real threat to him. He ran over all the villains in that movie, never facing any true danger. Watching that movie, you never felt anyone posed a true threat to him. He just kicked everyone's ass from start to finish. Heroes need to face real obstacles.

Fat Albert haha I have fond memories of that show, there’s some animation that struck me as racist even back in 80s. It’s like this level where it’s not overtly hateful but you can see the systemic racism in there

2:13, lol, that's probably me he spotted calling him out on that.

Wow, I don't remember that episode of The Jetsons

Another channel just reviewed the old Our Gang shorts. I remember seeing the mostly 'uncensored' versions and even brought it to class. It was the famous "Kid from Borneo" and I knew ahead of time what to expect with it but my teacher was actually pretty good in letting people know that these were caricatures that were normal back in the thirties but not acceptable now. And we all enjoyed the shorts in that context. Trust me, there were some iffy things on it but it was overall a good set of shorts.

Tom’s owner is bizarre. On one hand she’s the classic mammy archetype, but on the other hand she’s surprisingly wealthy, more so than some of the viewers at the time. She owns that house and in one cartoon is shown to own a lot of nice jewelry. She’s both backwards and progressive at the exact same time.

Wow... I remember that episode.

Korey, please do a Hi-Five (Tony Thompson) video!!! 🙏🏾

I remember an episode of Tom and jerry where jerry went to New York and while he was walking around someone grabbed him thinking he was a brush and dipped his face in some black shoe polish, then rubbed across a show and put back in the dip and when he pulls his head out, his face was done up like black face

Reminds me of the Asian maid in the movie, “The Campaign” where the boss payed her extra to talk like a black servant stereotype

Actually, Mammy OWNED her house, so she could dress any way she wanted.

3:52 LOL

I'am making an animated film based on the minstrel but, from the truest possible angle. When I complete it. I will send it to you guys for your critique.

I have no recollection of Rickety Rocket.

Rickety Rocket had black Voice over actors access to imdb

@6:52 😂😂😂 Man o man Racist cartoons are a time capsule…. You should watch the SpongeBob reaction videos 😅

I enjoyed watching those racist cartoons in the 80s lol...

We've come along away but still have room to improve as a society

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I can’t believe that the WB got away with Speedy Gonzalez AND Slowpoke Rodriguez

I bought Song of the South for $5.00 last year at a Christmas stand alone DVD stand. Still in the plastic, intrigued to watch to see just how bad and racist Disney was.

I've said this several times and I'll keep saying it. Does Song of the South have some racist elements in it? Sure, a lot of old Disney films did. But with that being said, this movie's been blown way out of proportion for a long time. People who actually research it and what it's actually supposed to be about tend to come around to it a little bit.

Y'all should do Velma reaction

Segregation in space lol

I mean… there’s nothing wrong with the sole of these cartoon designs or the way they talk. Black people have the thicc lips and African-Americans, we, have different dialects, like everybody else. My main issue is that they often in these cartoons, intentionally make us unattractive caricatures, and have the content of what we are talking about stupid or silly.

They were voiced by black actors in Rickety Rocket, Johnny Brown (Bookman from Good Times) was one

Im surprised they didnt talk about Fantasia!

Wasn't Tom originally named Jasper?

Those cartoons are hilarious and need to come back

the cartoons mayhave had 40's // 50's stereotypes, albeit they may as well have been offensive 1840's // 1850's stereotype characters

Korey looks like Rickety Rocket.

I mean..black familes did actually live in the suburbs in the 50's lol

I agree Korey that Disney should bring out Song of the South, once I became fully in love in animation as I got older I noticed the racist portrayals of black people and it really shocked me. As a black person myself I feel mocked when looking at those cartoons despite not me born born in the 80s nor 90s. However, these should be on tv to educate and remind folks that this is not allowed and needs to stop.

The funniest thing about this clip is that Korey is HELLA WRONG about the cast. They actually went through the trouble to get black voice actors for everyone of the main crew. Im just as surprised as you are.

#1.i used to Call Rickety Rocket "BLACK Speed Buggy in Space" #2. Some of those Tom & Jerry black women got redrawn and white-washed and also there was a LOT of Blackface Gags in T&J cartoon.

didnt the original woman call tom, Jasper?

Rickety Rocket couldn't be made today or let alone air on television today

Wow! All this time I never knew “Rickety Rocket” was about black kids! All I saw was the commercials for the show, never watched it. The commercials seemed to be edited to hide the fact that the kids were black.

oh my god that’s horrible! who names their kid sunstroke?!

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Song of The South? Yeah. But look at Mickey Mouse himself. You know why he wears those white gloves, right? He still wears them. 🤔

I grew up watching these unabridged cartoons, not to mention the Little Rascals. The cartoons would have been funny without those characters but the artists could care less. These characters are now back on television. Let's see what happens. So far...Silence.

You need to check out Silverhawks....The one time they had a black member...he had gold armor....did magic...and was named Hotwing....WHATS A HOTWING?....FUCKIN CHICKEN..... A TLS

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From black in the day

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Let the boy try 😆

Thomas? When I saw that black women she was calling Tom Jasper.

Everybody nowadays calling these characters racist. Naw man, I disagree. I call them characters that we grew up watching and loved dearly! Forgot all about Rickety Rocket. That was a cool show to me as a kid. When we were kids we walked around greeting each other with "hey hey hey" Fat Albert was cool! Sometimes what people nowadays consider offensive, was actually an olive branch to the melding of other cultures. Hence bringing different people together to develop a mutual respect and adoration.

Nothing should be canceled.. and Korey doing the white voice *"Just like Korey always bringing race into things"* 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Don't stop being you ever.. I don't want people to be censored.. Nobody..

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I can understand wanting not to make ethnic characters look too exaggerated out of sensitivity, but I think doing the opposite and making them look too “normal” can be just as damaging. I recall seeing fan art of the controversial Sunflower character from “Fantasia” where they toned her exaggerated features down, but the end result just looked like your atypical Barbie doll with dark skin, stripped of any sense of character or charm. If anything, I find that to be more worrisome.

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When cartoons were legit and ppl weren't getting butthurt over trivial shit it was about the timez

“Leave it to Korey to find a way to put race into everything”. I love the show, but you guys do dig deep for shit to get offended about.

Why dont you review Velma, it is very racist but you wont because it is not the kind of racism you like to complain about