Golden Yeggs - Censorship

Censorship

  • On the ABC airing of this cartoon, the part where Daffy is shot in the head by Rocky after confessing that he hasn't laid any eggs is replaced with a repeat shot of the mob members playing cards and reading magazines (from earlier in the cartoon). This is also how the scene was shown in the compilation film The Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie in which Bugs and the police suddenly bust in and arrest Rocky's troop, but only after Daffy, exhausted, has filled all the egg cartons.
  • The Nickelodeon version also edited the scene that was cut on ABC, but the scene was edited with a fake iris-out just as Rocky says: "So long, pal" and a fake iris-in after Daffy is shot.
  • The CBS airing of this cartoon leaves in the gun gag at the end, but cuts an early scene where after Porky tells the mobsters he doesn't want to sell Daffy, Daffy is then shown being carried out and the scene cuts to Daffy in the mobsters' apartment. What was cut was a short scene of Porky in a trough with a shovel broken over his head, burnt matches in his hooves, and money shoved in his hands, looking beaten up, and uttering: "T-t-they talked me into it."

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