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"A Gander at Mother Goose" (Avery; 1940):
CN: The entire scene with Little Hiawatha has been eliminated.
"Gee Whiz-z-z-z!" (Jones; 1956):
ABC: The scene
with Wile E. firing a bullet at the Road Runner only to have the Road Runner
zip away at such a speed that the bullet is dumbfounded and detonates in the
hand of a puzzled Wile E., was deleted from this cartoon. Partially excised
was Wile E.'s use of a spring attached to a dynamite stick; viewers saw him
accidentally recoil into the wall, but there was a fake fade-out before the
dynamite also recoils and explodes!
"Gift Wrapped" (Freleng; 1952):
ABC: The dynamite in the bird cage explodes, and the viewer sees the
explosion through the ceiling and the lowering of the cage back onto its clip, but
the shot of Sylvester staggering down the stairs was eliminated. Also,
Sylvester pulling the cork to "Hopalong Cassidy" Tweety's gun and
receiving the gunshot was slightly clipped so that the discharge of the gun could
not be seen.
CN: The entire scene around the Christmas tree with Sylvester as the Indian and
Tweety as Cassidy is cut.
WB: Same edit as on CN.
"Gold Diggers of '49" (Avery; 1936):
Nickelodeon: All scenes involving Chinese characters were edited out of this cartoon in
its new, computer-colorized print. In addition to censorship of Chinese stereotypes, missing were
some of the firearm scenes, such as the villain putting a metal washtub in
his pants as Beans' bullets bounce off of it, with the villain's pants
opening like a pair of long johns.
"Golden Yeggs" (Freleng; 1949):
ABC: An edit occurred when Rocky fires a bullet at Daffy's head as punishment
for Daffy having not laid a golden egg. The gun was heard releasing its
bullet, but there was a cutaway at this point to Rocky's thugs sitting around a
table and looking to the right (from earlier in the cartoon). Daffy was
then shown with the feathers gone from the top of his head, and the viewer
was left to guess that the bullet razed away the feathers.
CBS: After Porky refuses to sell Daffy to the gangsters, he is shown sprawled
in a trough with a tool broken over his head and many matches between his
toes and says, "They talked me into it." This scene was missing; therefore,
viewers could only imagine what happened to Porky.
Nickelodeon: A "fake iris" would make the screen go black as we heard Rocky's gunshot and reopen to show Daffy minus the feathers on his head.
"Gone Batty" (McKimson; 1954):
Syndication:
An unusual cut by WNEW in New York City: The Schnooks' base runner, the Goons'
catcher, and the umpire are arguing safe-versus-out. The catcher settles the
question by clobbering the base runner with a bat. The umpire grimaces and
says, "Yeesh, NOW he's out!" This line was muted, but astute lip readers
could still decipher it.
"Gonzales' Tamales" (Freleng; 1957):
CBS:
Sylvester bears the brunt of explosions of a disembodied bullet and hand
grenade, but while the detonations were intact, depiction of their effect
upon Sylvester's body was not.
Nickelodeon: Sylvester's line, "I'll get you if I have to eat every one of
these things (chili peppers)," was cut out of this cartoon.
"Good Noose" (McKimson; 1962):
Nickelodeon:
Cuts occurred whenever Daffy has the noose around his neck. Also deleted was
a scene wherein Daffy, trying to prove that he is a magician, locks himself
in a trunk a la Houdini and asks not to be let out of it. Unfortunately, ten
days later, the Charles Laughton-esque Captain and Mr. Tristan must release
Daffy since Daffy is such a poor magician that he cannot exit the trunk on
his own devices.
WB: Same edits as on Nickelodeon.
"Goofy Groceries" (Clampett; 1941):
CN:
"Jack Bunny" is shocked to realize that he is still holding the lit
stick of dynamite after the gorilla has been called home by its mother. The edit
occurs after the viewer sees the explosion. "Bunny" turns into Rochester
to comment, "My, oh, my! Tattletale gray!" Also deleted was the black
children diving and swimming in a sink and a black native boy running away after
seeing the gorilla swinging from the lamp.
Syndication: KOFY in San Francisco cut this cartoon after the dynamite explodes. The
blackface gag was not seen, but the audio was complete, over a very slow
"That's All, Folks!" ending card.

"Goopy Geer" (Harman and Ising; 1932):
CN:
On Late Night Black and White, an early scene of the gorilla waiter dancing and saying "Yes, sir! Yes, sir!" was removed. The other scenes with the gorilla were left intact.
"Gopher Broke" (McKimson; 1958):
ABC:
On Bugs & Tweety, the scene of the anxious barnyard dog sedating
himself with sleeping pills was shortened so that he is shown holding the
pill box but not ingesting any of the contents.
"The Great Piggy Bank Robbery" (Clampett; 1946):
WB: The scene in which Daffy inflicts rapid gunfire on a number of
bizarre bad guys behind the door was removed from this cartoon short on
Bugs N' Daffy and The Daffy Duck Show.
"Greedy For Tweety" (Freleng; 1957):
WB:
The scene in which the mouse hammers both Sylvester and the bulldog's
feet in the leg casts was gone from this cartoon.
"The Grey-Hounded Hare" (McKimson; 1949):
ABC:
The part where the dog fetches the stick of lit dynamite thrown by Bugs
and sustains the explosion while the dynamite is in his mouth, was removed
in such a way that the dog seems to have acquired the consequent cuts,
bruises, and powder stains simply by falling from his chase of a balloon
bunny in Bugs' prior act of heckling, and there is hence no explanation for
the charred remnants of red dynamite stick in his mouth.
All images (c) Warner Bros.
Thanks to Brian Cruz for images from "A Gander at Mother Goose" and "Goofy Groceries"
Thanks to DON3k for images from "Gee Whiz-z-z-z!", "Golden Yeggs", and "The Grey-Hounded Hare"
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