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Originally Posted by TorqueDog
I never made that connection until now, I don't think I even remember that Snuffy was never around when the adults showed up. |
It was changed in 1985 after 14 years (Snuffy introduced in 1971).
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart...sis-180957351/
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But the producers realized this storyline needed to change in the early 1980s when an alarming issue started hitting the news. A 60 Minutes series on child abuse made the show runners think that it wouldn’t be a good idea to continue a storyline where one of their main child-like characters wasn’t believed by grownups. Executive Producer Carol-Lynn Parente says:
"The fear was that if we represented adults not believing what kids said, they might not be motivated to tell the truth. That caused us to rethink the storyline: Is something we’ve been doing for 14 years—that seemed innocent enough—now something that’s become harmful?"
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But sorry to derail the thread about children molestations. Let's go back to the Catholic Church and...oh.