After the summer months were marked by widespread calls for racial and societal justice, many major Hollywood studios were forced to trawl through their respective back catalogues and weed out anything that was deemed potentially offensive. Gone with the Wind was pulled from HBO Max before being re-added with a disclaimer, while everything from The Office to It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia had episodes removed from circulation.
Some of Disney’s earlier animated works don’t play too well with modern audiences, either, but to avoid accusations of trying to rewrite history by sweeping the more questionable projects under the carpet and pretending they never existed, the Mouse House instead added a disclaimer to certain titles that could cause offense.
The latest to be hit with a warning label is an episode of animated series Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, the popular show that ran between 1981 and 1983. The story...
Some of Disney’s earlier animated works don’t play too well with modern audiences, either, but to avoid accusations of trying to rewrite history by sweeping the more questionable projects under the carpet and pretending they never existed, the Mouse House instead added a disclaimer to certain titles that could cause offense.
The latest to be hit with a warning label is an episode of animated series Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, the popular show that ran between 1981 and 1983. The story...
- 11/26/2020
- by Scott Campbell
- We Got This Covered
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