Ah the good old days

My prime cartoon watching years were between 1977 and 1992 (ok I probably watched cartoons longer than I should have.) Starting with classics like Grape Ape, Atom Ant, Secret Squirrel and McGilla Gorilla. Moving on to things like The Transformers, He-Man, GI-Joe, and all the other half hour long toy commercials. I've enjoyed them all, and never once did I stop to think that there was anything wrong with any of them.

Today I had reason to recall one of my favorites, Under Dog. Which was acutally several cartoons in one. Each episode had 2 shorts of Underdog, and then a segment or two of other cartoons in between. I have to think about these, because I'm wanting to confuse them with shorts that appeared on Rocky and Bullwinkle, another show that followed the same format. Just to be sure, I looked them up. The other shows were The World of Commander McBragg, Klondike Cat, and Go Go Gophers, the reason I'm writing this now actually.

I looked up the lyrics to it's theme song. Here they are:

Out west in Gopher Gulch lived Indian tribe.
Then come the pioneers, pushed them aside.
All Indians leave but two, they vow to fight.
What can two Indians do?
(Gibberish)

Go go gophers, watch them go go go.
Go go gophers, watch them go go go.

Here comes the colonel with his sargeant,
Both are a-roarin' and a-chargin'.
Go go gophers, watch them go go go.

Two little Indians, no others near.
Colonel he vows these two soon disappear.
Fighting the army with soldiers galore.
What can two Indians do?
(Gibberish)

Go go gophers, watch them go go go.
Go go gophers, watch them go go go.

Here comes the colonel with his sargeant,
Both are a-roarin' and a-chargin'.
Go go gophers, watch them go go go.
Go go gophers, watch them go go go.

You know, not once as a child did I stop and think that this show was about the last two members of an entire tribe of Native Americans, who were robbed of their land and force into some kind of trail of tears death march to some reservation, fighting against the might of the United States Army for their very survival. I just thought the show was funny. Hell I think we were still playing Cowboys and Indians back then.

Now I don't like to get all politically correct but really how did this show get made? I may have make a list of other TV shows that could never be made today. The thing is, I don't know if I'm more enriched because I grew up with these kind of things or not.