CONTENT WARNING: Given the subject matter, this post will inevitably include discussion of blackface and examples of such (though I've tried to limit it as much as feasibly possible). I'll also be sure to give you a heads-up every time I include a link which contains examples of blackface.

Introduction

Tom and Jerry is one of the most popular cartoons ever created. Devised by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera (two titans of the animation industry who would go on to create such classics as The Flintstones, The Jetsons, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! and Wacky Races, among many, many others), 114 shorts would be produced by MGM Cartoons between 1940 and 1958, with a further 13 theatrical shorts being produced by Gene Deitch's studio Rembrandt Films between 1961 and 1962 after Hanna and Barbera left MGM to form their own animation studio (these shorts are generally regarded as being incredibly poor in quality due to their low budgets and to Deitch's unfamiliarity with the series) and 34 cartoons produced by Sib Tower 12 Productions (a new studio headed by legendary animator Chuck Jones after he was let go by Warner Bros.) between 1963 and 1967.

It's likely that many of you reading this post will have watched at least some Tom and Jerry cartoons at some point in your life, and for good reason: Its focus on slapstick, fast-paced action and lively visual humour has rendered it timeless, and the fact that the series features barely any dialogue has made it a worldwide phenomenon even in territories that don't speak English. However, as with all works of media, Tom and Jerry was a product both of its time and of its cultural milieu, and it's fair to say that Hollywood in the 1940s and 1950s often depicted black people in ways that were unflattering at best and downright racist at worst.

Blackface has a long history in the United States and a general overview of the topic is way beyond the scope of this post, but needless to say, animation was no exception, with cartoon characters appearing in blackface being a common 'gag' at the time and with most depictions of black characters in cartoons showing them as blackface caricatures (whether they were inner-city black Americans or African "savages"); sometimes, scenes depicting characters in blackface would last for a couple of seconds, but on other occasions, significant portions of a particular cartoon would be dedicated to characters in blackface acting in the most stereotypically minstrel-like mann

before starring in the similarly lost The Cat Creeps a year later the late Helen Twelvetrees 1908 - 1958 starred in The Ghost Talks also starring the great Stepin Fetchit (real name Lincoln Perry) who was most likely reduced to a stereotype unfortunately the film is lost and only the poster survives today

the film's poster (1929)

Lugosi: A quietly sinister but seductively charming Dracula who subtly entices invites his unwiltting victims into his web of evil.

Chis Lee: Bugs out his eyes and hisses like Stepin Fetchit with rabies. Consided by almost everyone to be a superior Dracula.

So my night ends like this... My two previous orders had dragged me substantially out of my normal operating area and I am now down in the hood. ( If you all remember the Ubereats driver who got stabbed to death by a couple of teenagers not too long ago, I was right down the street from that apartment complex here in DFW. ) So I am getting ready to call it a night when I get an order for a place called " Chicken and Watermelon Fool" $18.59 for 7.0 miles. I had had three cancellations this shift ( first was computers down/ can't do anything , second had no record of my order at all, and the third was a 20 minute wait ) so I figured I would take just one more run to make up for the wasted time earlier. I didn't know the area as well as my usual operating area, so I just followed the Uber navigation to this Chicken and Watemelon place that I had never even heard of. It turns out to be a sketchy strip mall with a closed liquor store. I look it up on Google maps and it says the same place. I try calling them through the app and the number is "disconnected or no longer in service." I look at what the customer ordered and one of the items is " Po-Po Tatoes". At this point I am like WTF- is this even a real place? Who would have an actual Resteraunt name and menu items with these kinds of racial stereotypes? Is the owner named Stepin Fetchit? I called Uber to cancel instead of just canceling through the app because I didn't want other drivers to have to go through this fiasco as well if I just un-assigned. Anyways, after 15 minutes on hold with Sanjay, I am told that they couldn't get a hold of them either and I was told to cancel through the app. Which I did. I asked what they would be paying me, and the answer is nothing. No compensation at all. I texted the customer before canceling so they would know what was going on and called it a night. Still not sure what the fuck just happened but I didn't much like it.

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

A few weeks ago me and my partner, cutting through the local shopping centre, stopped off at a coffee shop for lattes. The older couple in front ordered food and tasty drinks and went to sit down without a glance around them. The rule here is order food and drink, wait at the end of the counter to collect. Me and my partner went to wait for our drinks to go and the food was placed on the counter with the woman trying to gain the couples attention but to no avail.

Our drinks soon arrived and off we set, as I walked by I told the couple their food is ready and on the counter. Well, that was the straw that broke the camels back. All hell broke loose and I got an ear full

“Well why didn’t you fetch it over boy?”

Boy? Wow...”Sorr...”

“No excuses, you can’t do your job properly how did you even land this position?”

My partner chimed in with “He doesn’t work here, he was being polite.” Then she dragged me off.

If circumstance had allowed I would’ve fetched their food but my hands were full, I try to do right by others but never mind aye?

He blazed through my childhood like a sombrero-clad comet, terrorizing gringo villains in the name of us downtrodden Mexicans.

His war cry went straight from our televisions and movie screens into our hearts and minds. My family and so many others cheered on his exploits, imagining ourselves as soldiers in his brigade. Polite society told us we shouldn’t worship this bad hombre because he made Mexicans look bad. So they tried everything possible to dim his star — but we Mexicans always fought loudly against any attempts to cancel our compadre.

Pancho Villa? Emiliano Zapata? Vicente Fernandez?

Try Speedy Gonzales.

The Warner Bros. cartoon mouse debuted in 1953 and immediately became a hit on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. His plots were always simple — Speedy antagonized Sylvester the Cat and other assorted felines, usually in a dispute involving cheese — but effective. The raza rodent quickly picked up awards (four Oscar nominations and one win in just six years) but also critics who saw Speedy for what he is:

Problematic. A stereotype. No doubt about it.

His name comes from a popular 1950s-era anti-Mexican sex joke. The non-Latino voice actor Mel Blanc voiced "the fastest mouse in all of Mexico" with a stereotypical accent and nonsense Spanglish. The typical Speedy plot casts him as a thief and a cad, and his fellow Mexican mice as lazy, drunk and happily living amongst trash. Did I mention the sombrero? It’s as big as his body. Sombreros are big — but not that big.

Speedy turned into a pariah in the decades after his heyday, placed by Hollywood executives and pundits in the same racist purgatory of Old Hollywood as Stepin Fetchit, “We don’t need no steenkin’ badges,” and Charlie Chan. ABC banned him from its airwaves during the 1980s "because the title character presents a stereotypical image that is not offset by any other Latino television characters," according to a 1981 Los Angeles Times story. The Cartoon Network did the same in the late 1990s. Recently, New York Times columnist Charles Blow said Speedy cartoons “helped popularize the corrosive stereotype of the drunk and lethargic Mexicans.”

And yet time and time again, Mexicans — the very group you’d think would hate Speedy the most — rose to defend his honor.

During the 1990s, college students cast Speedy as a proto-Zapatista who fought against American imperialism before it was cool to do so. In 2002, the League of United Latin American Citizens asked the Cartoon Network to free

Alot of great jokes get posted here! However just because you have a joke, doesn't mean it's a dad joke.

THIS IS NOT ABOUT NSFW, THIS IS ABOUT LONG JOKES, BLONDE JOKES, SEXUAL JOKES, KNOCK KNOCK JOKES, POLITICAL JOKES, ETC BEING POSTED IN A DAD JOKE SUB

Try telling these sexual jokes that get posted here, to your kid and see how your spouse likes it.. if that goes well, Try telling one of your friends kid about your sex life being like Coca cola, first it was normal, than light and now zero , and see if the parents are OK with you telling their kid the "dad joke"

I'm not even referencing the NSFW, I'm saying Dad jokes are corny, and sometimes painful, not sexual

So check out r/jokes for all types of jokes

r/unclejokes for dirty jokes

r/3amjokes for real weird and alot of OC

r/cleandadjokes If your really sick of seeing not dad jokes in r/dadjokes

Punchline !

Edit: this is not a post about NSFW , This is about jokes, knock knock jokes, blonde jokes, political jokes etc being posted in a dad joke sub

Edit 2: don't touch the thermostat

https://nypost.com/2020/01/14/canadian-pm-justin-trudeau-blames-downing-of-ukraine-jet-on-us-escalation/

The part not included in the article, after he made his statements, he busted out a tin of shoe polish and broke into a tap dance routine that would make Stepin Fetchit proud.

Do your worst!

https://variety.com/2020/film/people-news/rhonda-fleming-dead-spellbound-out-of-the-past-1234808175/

By Natalie Oganesyan (Oct 16, 2020)

Rhonda Fleming, star of the 1940s and ’50s who was dubbed the “Queen of Technicolor” and appeared in “Out of the Past” and “Spellbound,” died Wednesday in Santa Monica, Calif., according to her secretary Carla Sapon. She was 97.

Fleming appeared in more than 40 films and worked with directors such as Alfred Hitchcock on “Spellbound,” Jacques Tourneur on “Out of the Past” and Robert Siodmak on “The Spiral Staircase.”

Later in life, she became a philanthropist and supporter of numerous organizations fighting cancer, homelessness and child abuse.

Her starring roles include classics such as the 1948 musical fantasy “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court” alongside Bing Crosby, 1957 Western “Gunfight at the O.K. Corral” and the noir “Slightly Scarlet” alongside John Payne.

Her co-stars over the years included Kirk Douglas, Glenn Ford, Burt Lancaster, Bob Hope, Rock Hudson and Ronald Reagan, with whom she made four films. Other notable roles included Fritz Lang’s “While the City Sleeps,” “Pony Express” and “The Big Circus.” One of her last roles was in the Don Adams farce “The Nude Bomb” in 1980, and she spoofed herself as “Rhoda Flaming” in 1976 comedy “Won Ton Ton, The Dog Who Saved Hollywood” along a bevy of other vintage performers from Dorothy Lamour to Stepin Fetchit and Rudy Vallee.

Born Marilyn Louis in Hollywood, she attended Beverly Hills High and was discovered by the famous agent Henry Wilson while on the way to school, she told the Warner Bros. podcast. Wilson changed her name to Rhonda Fleming and she was then signed to a contract with David O. Selznick. Her first major part was as a nymphomaniac in “Spellbound,” and she said she was so naive she had to look up the word in the dictionary when she was cast.

In addition to cinema, Fleming made her Broadway debut in Clare Boothe Luce’s “The Women” and toured as Madame Dubonnet in “The Boyfriend.” In 1957, Fleming made her stage musical debut in Las Vegas at the opening of the Tropicana Hotel’s showroom. Later she appeared at the Hollywood Bowl in a one-woman concert with compositions from Cole Porter and Irving Berlin. In 1960, she was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Fleming also routinely guest-starred on television in series including

How the hell am I suppose to know when it’s raining in Sweden?

Ants don’t even have the concept fathers, let alone a good dad joke. Keep r/ants out of my r/dadjokes.

But no, seriously. I understand rule 7 is great to have intelligent discussion, but sometimes it feels like 1 in 10 posts here is someone getting upset about the jokes on this sub. Let the mods deal with it, they regulate the sub.

They were cooked in Greece.

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

So this phrase has showed up in all sorts of media and I recently watched an old simpsons where Homer says a play on the phrase so I just had to look it up to see where it came from. Turns out it originated as early as the 1920's, a black actor named Stepin Fetchit would say it when he was running from cops in movies so it had racist connotations at the time.

This wasn't meant to be a topical or social post, just found it interesting where it started.

Now that I listen to albums, I hardly ever leave the house.

Don't you know a good pun is its own reword?

Two muffins are in an oven, one muffin looks at the other and says "is it just me, or is it hot in here?"

Then the other muffin says "AHH, TALKING MUFFIN!!!"

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

And now I’m cannelloni

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

But that’s comparing apples to oranges

And boy are my arms legs.

Heard they've been doing some shady business.

but then I remembered it was ground this morning.

Edit: Thank you guys for the awards, they're much nicer than the cardboard sleeve I've been using and reassures me that my jokes aren't stale

Edit 2: I have already been made aware that Men In Black 3 has told a version of this joke before. If the joke is not new to you, please enjoy any of the single origin puns in the comments

BamBOO!

They’re on standbi

A play on words.