The popular TV cartoon Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf.
The popular TV cartoon Boonie Bears.
(ECNS) -- Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf and Boonie Bears, two popular TV cartoons, have begun cleaning up their negative content, such as violence and crude language, Shanghai-based Oriental Moring Post reported Friday.
Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf features a wolf who tries to catch a goat, and depicts scenes of the wolf cooking the goat alive in a pot, with the goat always escaping, and the wolf being battered over the head by his wife with a pan, and contains 1,050 15-minute episodes.
Many parents have reason to worry that their children will imitate the worst actions from cartoon characters, as it has been reported that two young brothers from Jiangsu province were seriously burned while imitating a scene from the show.
Parents also protested over the uncivilized language, slang and overuse of weapons in another popular cartoon series, Boonie Bears, which is about two bears' efforts to fend off a logger trying to cut down trees in their forest.
On Thursday, 10 cartoon producers and 10 broadcast organizations vowed to reject animated shows that send bad messages to children, according to Xinhua News Agency.
A regulation will be adopted this year by China.s media regulators to ban violence, vulgar content and crude language in cartoons.
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