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Cartoons Are the New Marilyn Manson

By Alicia Dorr in News on Jul 7, 2006 9:36PM

Now we’re not a betting blog, but we are pretty certain that nearly every person in this country has seen a tv.jpgcartoon. We watched it all: Disney movies, WB cartoons—heck, we even read some in the paper. During all this cartoon consumption, we saw pretty much every violent way you could maim someone. Anvils, cliffs, electric eels, or even with sticks of dynamite, (of course). And, remarkably, never once did we think we could smite a petty enemy by pounding his head with a mallet.

That’s why we were skeptical when we heard that there is a man in DuPage County who wants Disney to cut a scene from its cartoon, Cars. The portion of the movie in question is a point when the car characters attempt to outrace a train. The man and his family actually lost their 14-year-old daughter the very same way, so it’s understandable that he was upset.

And the president of the Illinois State Medical Society agreed with him. However, Disney officials don’t seem to. They basically pursed their lips in a recent statement, saying that the car who tried to outrun the train “is certainly not glorified” in the movie. On one side, people are saying that this might make it seem cool for kids to do this. On the other, the company is saying that kids will actually learn from the characters mistakes.

On our side, we’re wondering if we’re still talking about a cartoon car here. Are kids really that stupid? Or are they that stupid because all they ever see (like we did) are brightly colored cartoons about cars? Maybe it’s time we all go outside or something.