Because of the racial stereotypes of black people throughout the short, United Artists decided to withhold it from television syndication within the United States in 1968. As such, the short was placed into the so-called Censored Eleven, a group of eleven "Merrie Melodies" and "Looney Tunes" shorts withheld from television distribution in the United States since 1968 due to heavy stereotyping of black people. It was one of the 12 cartoons to be pulled from Cartoon Network's "June Bugs" 2001 marathon by order of AOL Time Warner, on grounds of the subject material's offensiveness toward African-Americans. Apparently in 1996, Cartoon Network prepared a television safe edit for the short by playing the clips containing Bugs only, or scenery (including Bugs Bunny's hole) from the short without the hunter. The edited test, which never aired, only lasted for 1 minute 33 seconds with both opening and closing credits included.