Looper video "Disney Is Removing A Controversial Scene From Toy Story 2"

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That scene is depicting a “casting couch” scenario, where females are enticed to trade sex in order to be cast in a film.

It is inappropriate for a childrens movie, and has no place in a childrens show to begin with, so dang right it should be removed. Was a really dumb idea to include such a scene in a “Toy Story” movie in the first place.
 
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Clarification: The version of Toy Story 2 that was shown in theaters during its first month of release in 1999 did not contain any pseudo-bloopers. Also, the 2000 DVD release of the movie did not contain any pseudo-bloopers as part of the main movie. However, the DVD did include the now-controversial pseudo-blooper (yes, the one involving the “casting couch” situation) as a special feature.
 
I did too. People have become humorless. That is why comedians like jerry Seinfeld and Chris rock refuse to perform on college campuses.
 
Joe_5859 said:
I can see why they would cut it. It strikes pretty close to the whole Harvey Weinstein thing. And while it is a joke that will go over kids’ heads, it is something they could take a lot of heat for.
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It is worth noting that John Lasseter, one of the founders of Pixar, has admitted to sexual misconduct on his part.
 
The blooper was in bad taste.
But are we gong to go back through all the entertainment produced in the last several centuries and clean it all up? As well as rewriting history to suit our sensibilities?
Maybe just accept the past for what it was, and work on improving the future – which can use a lot of help.
 
Darryl_B said:
We have lost humour and become very very precious.
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Yet again…there are some things today that we used to laugh at that we realise now are not funny at all. Racial stereotyping and treating women as second class citizens are two examples already covered. That isn’t a loss of humour because they weren’t funny to begin with. We just didn’t realise that.
 
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And the loss of humour will be replaced with violence.
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Uh? Where is the logic in that statement. What situations can you be imagining? Apart from the fact that we have been discussing things that WEREN’T FUNNY IN THE FIRST INSTANCE. So there has been no ‘loss of humour’. You can’t lose something that didn’t exist.
 
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And there it is. I guess if you yell something in capitals it must be correct.

There are people on this post who claim we have lost humour, probably because we actually lived through it, and then there are some who claim you cannot lose something that didn’t exist in the first place.

Interesting conundrum. I guess with that “logic” there were no WWII.
 
The setting of Stinky Pete in this scene is outside of the main story. It’s supposed to be footage caught by mistake. Stinky Pete in this scene is the actor who plays Stinky Pete hitting on the Barbies.

Throughout the whole footage, you can hear a “director”going “cut”.

 
Darryl_B said:
And there it is. I guess if you yell something in capitals it must be correct.

There are people on this post who claim we have lost humour, probably because we actually lived through it, and then there are some who claim you cannot lose something that didn’t exist in the first place.

Interesting conundrum. I guess with that “logic” there were no WWII.
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You’re refuting things that have not been said.

If I claim that A is true and somebody else claims that B is true, that does not mean that anyone has claimed that AB is true.

Also deciding that sexual harassment isn’t funny after all, doesn’t mean we lost our senses of humor. It means we changed our minds about sexual harassment.

Also no, I don’t see anybody claiming that putting it in ALL CAPS makes it true.
 
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Except there is no sexual harassment in that clip.

And please just using terminologies of A and B is not an expression of logic.
 
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Except there is no sexual harassment in that clip.
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We have an individual of supposed power overing an opportunity to women in exchange for implied attention.

What kind of attention is left in the air which leads one to wonder about the implication.

It’s probably best to remove that little joke. It does ring tasteless.
 
Darryl_B said:
Except there is no sexual harassment in that clip.

And please just using terminologies of A and B is not an expression of logic.
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Stinky Pete didn’t utter the actual sentence “You give me sex and I’ll get you some work.” None the less it was clearly understood (apparently by everyone on the continent except Darrly_B) to mean that.

And I don’t have to cast my argument as a syllogism in formal logic for it to be a valid argument.

And you strike me as remarkably humorless yourself.
(That last statement is my opinion only).
 
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Darryl_B said:
And there it is. I guess if you yell something in capitals it must be correct.
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Are you intimating that racial stereotyping is actually funny? That blackface used to be funny but maybe isn’t any more? That coercing women into giving sexual favours is a cause for laughter?

I can’t imagine for one minute that you agree with any of that. So you would agree with what I said. Or you actually believe that those situations were actually funny.

This is surely not some diatribe against political correctness. Surely.
 
IThe joke is not meant for kids. It’s meant for the adults bringing the kids.

It isn’t part of the actual storyline. It’s not necessary.

Taking it out doesn’t affect the story.

The scene is not necessary.
 
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Adult jokes usually are tasteless. More like something a middle school would laugh about.
 
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