So no, your assertion and perceived affect are not off at all. Low and behold, others have drawn the same conclusion. I googled the terms Animaniacs and racist. After watching The 1619 Project earlier this week which discussed black-face in depth, I noticed this same feature about Animaniacs. I’m sitting here looking at the Hulu version. This could be called sloppiness on the part of Harman and Ising, but it also indicates the uncertain nature of the character itself." in subsequent films this characterization was eschewed, or perhaps forgotten. It's no surprise they changed him a bit for the Tiny Toons episode, because he was originally registered as a 'negro boy' character and per the wiki article Leonard Maltin describes him as: "a cartoonized version of a young black boy. However, Bosko and Honey were real WB characters:īosko was a huge hit back in the 30s, but you can't really find his cartoons anywhere anymore. It's no secret that they were supposed to look like ole Warner Bros animation, but here the similarity is uncanny. You can see how the characters of Bosco and Honey look almost identical to the Animaniacs. The Animaniacs designseems to be heavily influenced from this Tiny Toons episode from 1990 called 'Fields of Honey'
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