Colossus, I gotta agree with you there. Today's cartoons all seem so dark compared to Warner Bros.
I-One, do you get 'The Cartoon Network" in your neck of the woods?
You obviously haven't seen Coal Black and the Sebben Dwarfs
Warner Bros got blasted for that.
But I like how Warner Bros slipped in political and stereotypes. Peppie Le Pew as the hroner Frenchman that stinks. Yo Semitty Sam (sp) as the dumb loudmouth Texan, Foghorn Leghorn as the loud Southerner. The little Chicken Hawk, that always wanted to fight, Foghorn's nephew, who was sooo smart, but had no life. And a host of others. Many of those films were done during the war years, so I can understand some of reasons for the ploys, helll, even Disney has done it. They foretold the "Roadrage" phenomenon with their short "Mr.Wheeler" in the 1960's.
Some of the best crop of of cartoons are still done by Warner Bros.