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** ''Cheese Chasers''. Hubie and Bertie OD on cheese and decide to commit suicide. So they try to get Claude to eat them. Claude is pestered so badly, he gets turned off to eating mice and decides to commit suicide himself. He tries to antagonize Marc Antony to beat him to death. See FridgeLogic for the bulldog's response to all this. At least ''he'' doesn't decide to end it all, at least.

* EditedForSyndication: Looney Tunes became notorious for being chopped up when shown on many networks, either edited to remove overly violent gags or "insensitive" racial stereotypes. Some shorts were merely edited for time to make room for more commercial breaks. As a result, there was much rejoicing when the Golden Collections presented the cartoons as they were originally seen in theaters. In many instances, it was like watching them for the first time.

* FunnyForeigner: Pepé Le Pew, Speedy Gonzales, and, to a lesser extent, Foghorn Leghorn (with his Southern accent) and Bugs Bunny (with his New York accent), for those who aren't originally from America. The first two have been (sadly) accused of being racist stereotypes, but most French and Mexicans [[MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales see]] Pepé and Speedy, respectively, as funny spoofs of commonly circulated stereotypes. The latter was even the centerpiece of a campaign started by ''actual Hispanic fans'' to bring him back to the airwaves after Cartoon Network banned Speedy's cartoons for not wanting to insult the population.

** What eventually did end up killing the franchise's life on the big screen was television and a number of factors regarding budget. The ''Looney Tunes'' franchise has the single longest theatrical run during the UsefulNotes/GoldenAgeOfAnimation, spanning a whopping 39 years, from 1930 to 1969. During those times technology rapidly evolved, and by the late 1950s television started to kill the night at the movies as the prime source of entertainment. Much as the cartoons were and are beloved by the audiences, the financial situation was against them: only the main feature films [[note]] A regular night at the movies program would usually consider of a main movie, a cartoon, a newsreel and sometimes a B movie - by the late 1950s news moved to television and B movies started being released as low budget, but completely standalone features, leaving the cartoons as the only backing feature by the 1960s [[/note]] actually brought in money, and some theaters even started cutting cartoons altogether from their movie lineup [[note]] The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Paramount_Pictures,_Inc. Paramount case]] of 1948 prohibited package distribution of cartoons with movies, meaning theaters had to buy them separately, and so the natural outcome of the newly optional content was sadly quickly visible [[/note]]. Having found success on TV with WesternAnimation/TheBugsBunnyShow and AAP packages of cartoons, Warner eventually shuttered the Termite Terrace in 1964 and (for the first time since Leon Schlesinger left in 1943) subcontracted the infamous Daffy and Speedy cartoons to Creator/DePatieFrelengEnterprises, which ushered in the infamous AudienceAlienatingEra. After a terrible attempt to revive the in-house studio in 1967, the post-Kinney buyout Creator/WarnerBros called it quits, being one of only three studios still making theatrical shorts at the time[[note]] The other two were Walter Lantz with the WesternAnimation/WoodyWoodpecker and WesternAnimation/ChillyWilly series, who eventually closed his studio and retired in 1972, and DePatieFreleng which kept WesternAnimation/PinkPanther running until 1980, albeit as made for TV shorts that would later be shown in theaters [[/note]].

** Creator/MelBlanc does not voice any characters in the first 151 shorts. The first short in which he has a role is 1937's "WesternAnimation/PorkyTheWrestler", and even then, he only contributes grunts and other non-speaking sounds.

* DastardlyWhiplash: Dan Backslide -- a very deliberate parody of this type -- in "WesternAnimation/TheDoverBoys"

%%* EverythingsBetterWithPenguins: "Frigid Hare", "8 Ball Bunny", "The Penguin Parade".%%ZCE