"Smut" in Disney cartoons
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Over the years I've heard the stories about how naughty Disney animators supposedly slipped swearing and sexual imagery into the studio's cartoon features. This list rounds up a bunch of these urban legends, and it ends up saying a lot more about the fevered imagination of so-called "morality" groups than it says about Disney. (Click the image at left to buy the The Little Mermaid Two-Disc Platinum Edition)
Yes, the animators did sneak a flash of bare boobies into The Rescuers, and Jessica Rabbit's crotch can be glimpsed for a fraction of a second in Who Framed Roger Rabbit? But that's obviously not a penis on the Little Mermaid poster, and the minister in that movie is just moving his knee, he's not flashing us. The word SEX is not repeatedly spelled out all over Pocahontas. Aladdin does not say, "Good teenagers, take off your clothes." (And as much as it does sound like Donald Duck is calling Daffy Duck the "n-word" in Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, come on, he's obviously not.)
Yes, the animators did sneak a flash of bare boobies into The Rescuers, and Jessica Rabbit's crotch can be glimpsed for a fraction of a second in Who Framed Roger Rabbit? But that's obviously not a penis on the Little Mermaid poster, and the minister in that movie is just moving his knee, he's not flashing us. The word SEX is not repeatedly spelled out all over Pocahontas. Aladdin does not say, "Good teenagers, take off your clothes." (And as much as it does sound like Donald Duck is calling Daffy Duck the "n-word" in Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, come on, he's obviously not.)
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