Thoughts 06 Mar 2008 06:53 pm
Russia bans cartoon
According to Pravda.ru:
Russia’s Federal Service supervising the field of mass communications and the nation’s cultural inheritance issued a formal notice to 2×2 TV channel in connection with the broadcast of cartoon series propagandizing brutality and violence. —One more warning and their license will not be renewed.
The above-mentioned TV channel does not recommend the viewing of Happy Tree Friends for children, mentally unbalanced and sensitive individuals, and those who defend “snotty childish cartoons.” “Each of these sweet little animals dies odd violent deaths in each episode,” the TV channel warns on its official website.
While the violence of these deaths is comparable to that of The Itchy & Scratchy Show (the short cartoon featured on The Simpsons), the portrayal of death in Happy Tree Friends is more graphic and articulate.
You can find them on the net at this address.
You need to watch them to the very end.