Trivia / Censored Eleven

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• Banned Episode: By nature. All 11 shorts were pulled in 1968 due to rampant Values Dissonance.
• Bury Your Art: Warner Bros. has made sure to bury the existence of the shorts as much as possible, with the cartoons not having aired on television since 1968 and never receiving any official home video release. As of now, Warner Bros have only rereleased the cartoons once, which was during the first annual TCM Classic Film Festival in 2010. There were plans to release them on DVD roughly around that same time, but Warner Bros ultimately decided to scrap those plans, preferring to keep them buried for the time being.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: While the Eleven have never had an official home video release in the USA (they almost did, but it was pulled due to flagging DVD sales), they have showed up on bootleg home video releases, and all eleven shorts can easily be found on Internet video sites. Some of them like Uncle Tom's Bungalow were part of Tex Avery compilations released in Europe on VHS.
• What Could Have Been: In October 2010, Warner Bros announced they would release the Eleven through the Warner Archives program. It would feature every cartoon completely uncut, restored, and include bonus content. Nothing ever came of this project, and in 2016, animation historian Jerry Beck confirmed that the transfers had been done, but the release was delayed indefinitely due to declining sales of Looney Tunes. That statement was changed again by WB in 2018, when the release was confirmed to now be cancelled due to changing cultural sensitivities.

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