These Mr. Magoo Cartoons BANNED For 35+ YEARS (Protests)

Welcome to DoYouRemember? I’m Nostalgic Nick. Mr. Magoo was an elderly curmudgeon who wouldn’t let an extreme case of myopia prevent him from doing the things he enjoyed, such as cooking, driving, and rooting for Rutgers. Charlie, his live-in servant, never left his side and seemed to be a big part of the reason why he lived to such an advanced age. But the cartoon was full of ethnic stereotypes, and The National Federation for the Blind even passed an official resolution condemning and deploring the 1997 film starring comedy legend Leslie Neilsen.

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MR.MAGOO Character was BANNED For 45+ YEARS

[keithalcorn]

Mr. Magoo is perfectly fine. Everyone needs to relax. Good grief!

[jerriettaarcher]

Mr. Maggo was a cute cartoon, its not racist.

[batmanforpresident]

The Mr. Magoo ""Christmas Carol" is the best.

[johammond]

Mr Magoo was always laughing and didn't seem to think he had any disability. I never thought of him as having a disability, just a nice older gentleman.

[stevenbaer]

Jim Backus as Mr Howell in Gilligan's Island is actually the voice of Mr Magoo. A great cartoon character not racist, he just have severe visual impairment making him almost blind.

[DavidSmith-xsor]

One of the funniest things about Mister Magoo was when Jim Bacchus would tell dirty jokes in Mister Magoo's voice during breaks between scenes on Gilligan's Island.

[jonathanzuckerman]

My favorite Mr. Magoo film is the Hotsy Footsy. Magoo goes to the Rutgers Alumni party and draws his friend Charlie’s wife Frances as his partner. She hides and he, thinking he is going to the dance floor, winds up at a wrestling match where he wrestle Francis the terrible, I’ll never forget the sight (no pun intended) of Mr. Magoo bouncing of the ropes and winding up on the wrestler’s back, dancing the jitter bug.

People aren’t laughing at Magoo for something he can’t help. He’s not blind, he’s nearsighted and it is inferred that he could see if he wore glasses but he’s too vain, proud or just can’t concede that he isn’t right about everything.

[heidibee]

I had a long time friend who was legally blind. We had been friends for some time before l even realized this. She learned how to compensate and did not encourage people to treat her any differently. Mr. Magoo never came up in our conversations but l am sure she would have gone along with it.

[johammond]

I grew up with Mr Magoo
Never thought of anything racist. 😂😁👍

[SpitChokeAndPuke]

Years and years ago my hubby and I were on vacation and he was driving. He was driving erratically and I flipped open the glove box and started rifling through it. He finally asked, “What are you looking for?” And I answered, “Your driver’s license that says your name is Mr. Magoo.” And then I laughed and laughed. 😬😂😂😂

[Shat_Tastic]

O man I remember watching this at school with 100 other kids in the lunch room

[mikegrossberg]

You SHOULD have mentioned Mr Magoo's Storybook, where each episode dramatized a classic novel, with Magoo playing one of the main characters(and playing it STRAIGHT!)
An interesting method of enticing kids to actually READ the story portrayed; at the end of each show, there was a blurb for kids to "visit your local library"

[alg]

Still remember a Mr Magoo Christmas where he played the Scrooge character. It had songs by some well known composers

[kathleenvanorden]

I grew up watching Mr. MAGOO, daffy Duck, & others. I liked watching and learning no matter the circumstances One Could succeed. . . Dont care for political parties messing with Our freedom to choose. Leave us alone to choose what we want to watch, what we want 2do individually-- leave government out of entertainment world dictating what they think our views are 2B.

[lynnkanerva]

12:34 I loved Mr. Magoo. I grew up in the 70s and mostly remember the cartoons being shown after the afternoon movie and before the evening news. I think he was just going about his own business, not bothering anybody. He read signs wrong and went about his way. He only became annoyed if he thought someone got in his way or they tried to re-direct him to keep him from harming himself or others. He laughed at himself if he realized he was just being silly. At the end of the cartoon he'd say Oh Magoo, you've done it again !
I just watched the cartoons, but didn't sit there picking it apart asking is he being racist or offending the vision impaired or whatever. It's a CARTOON. People need to quit being so sensitive over a cartoon.

[danielkaiser]

Mr. Magoo aired in the 1970s when I was a kid attending elementary school. Never once did I or other kids think the character represented anyone but himself; just as we knew one teacher was "nice" and another was "mean". However, society did indeed seem to think people in wheelchairs needed to be spoken to more loudly or more slowly, which we know better today. The issue is that in my schools growing up, there was a special classroom dedicated to the deaf and blind students. Many of us knew those students personally as friends, and it was through this exposure that we learned the actual reality of those students. We asked questions and learned, but today such things would be "politically incorrect" and "offensive". It wasn't though, because we were friends as kids who explored each other's humanity and life, as kids do. Mr. Magoo was pretty much irrelevant to all of it, and as a kid I didn't "get it" where the cartoon was concerned, it was not entertaining.

[kathyjones]

WOW I loved mr.magoo ❤️. Loved tot movie too!
Didn’t realize all the controversy 🤨

[bluesdca]

As a child, I looked forward to the annual broadcast of the 1962 "Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol." It used to be on television every year.

[pamczech]

I loved Mr magoo Jim Backus was great I remember watching Mr magoo on Saturdays and on the bozo show out of Chicago

[andirosenthal]

I’d be really interested in hearing more about the history and evolution of the UPA studio. Any chance we could get a video on that topic?