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Its difficult how to legislate this stuff, Tom and Jerry is full of violence, punishment, anger, injuries and nasty tricks - but no gore.

The BBC can just say that is normal to chop the top off an egg (which is true), how could you document the difference in attitude from Tom and Jerry?

That was a load of rubbish,I'm glad my kids are older sat through enough kids programmes when they were small.My youngest daughter was scared of big cook little cook,she couldn't understand how the small one was small,hard to explain he was normal size it was camera work.

Back in the 70's "Rainbow" might have shown something like Zippy with a rubber arrow stuck to his forhead after an errant shot by Bungle. All kinds of slapstick comedy back then, even for kids, which was fine.

Double entrendes galore in Rainbow, in hindsight. Who remembers 'Master Bates' from Captain Pugwash?? I certainly did not realise any inappropriateness / connotation as a child in the late 70s/ early 80s.

Likewise, I see no 'ISIS style beheadings' of a cartooned egg by a butter knife. Just what it is?? Boiled eggs get their tops cut off. Maybe the Ooglies could have portrayed the egg getting the top of its 'head' bashed in by a spoon, instead? Would that be considered a-kin to 'extreme violence'??

With saying that I watched a documentary a while ago, screened on R.T. It was about how (mainly) boys are de-sensitised to violence and aggression- one bit I remember is how Action Man Dolls today are portrayed as big, grossly dis-proportionate muscly looking articles as opposed to 70s Action Man dolls that were basically (Barbies) Ken dolls with moveable eyes!! Video games etc came into the equation too. Trying to find the link......

That 'Annoying Orange' was just wrong, on so many levels. I would not sit through THAT with my grandaughter and I very much doubt that her parents would either!!!

Master Mates and a Pirate Willy, characters like Seaman Staines, Roger the Cabin Boy and Master Bates just did not exist on board the Black Pig pirate ship.

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as for kids copying tv shows, how many of us old guys ran around in our coat with the top button done playing batman or doing the crane kick from karate kid on your mate or playing as The A team.

I'm concerned how the children of today can eat a boiled egg, in a non-violent way!!?? FFS- ridiculous.

Do the parents de-capitate it 'ISIS style' or 'bash it in' gangster style (with a spoon)' AND should this be out of visible view of the child?

You can see why the Americans are such a bellicose country, and why their citizens are so trigger-happy. Being brought up on this sort of stuff, it is not surprising they end up with such a distorted view of the world.

Add to that the subliminal porn in some Disney cartoons. Animators just having a laugh?

When we think about how many peadophiles have been connected to the BBC, this gives a whole new meaning to Rainbow. Was it produced before everyone had double meanings for everything or afterwards ?

No. It was meant as a little in-joke and shown to friends of the people who worked on the show. The interesting thing is, Rainbow was actually made by the same people who made the Carry On movies, which explains a lot about the sense of humor. lol

I'd guess this episode was put together for the "Happy Christmas VT" tape that used to be put together unofficially and behind the scenes every year.

The tape preceded the "blooper" or out-take films that are quite common these days, whenever a presenter made a mistake during a recording they often used to say "happy Christmas VT" knowing the VT (video tape) department would add it to their collection.

The tape usually came with some pornography added on the end.