YMMV / Looney Tunes Cartoons

• Alternative Character Interpretation:
  • Giving the ending of "High Speed Hare" does the Gremlin wanted Bugs to die in the explosion of nuclear plant? And if that's true, did he also wanted to die? Considering his behavior earlier, we can clearly see that he tried to murder Bugs for no reason.
  • At the ending of "Fleece And Desist", Sam punches Ralph's hand where he holds his card. Does Sam done that on purpose, given he didn't removed card from Ralph's paw? Or by accident? Or given in which state Ralph was, Sam concluded that it would hard to remove card from Ralph's hand and decided to shove it with Ralph's card?
• Awesome Art: After the base-breaking art style and animation of New Looney Tunes, this show has seriously stepped up its visual game. The characters are expressive and lively, with generally solid designs heavily inspired by their 1940s looks; the backgrounds are skillfully painted, and the animation, while usually not on par with the actual 1940s cartoons, is still very smooth and energetic. The Looney Tunes haven't looked this good in years.
• Character Rerailment: Keeping with the '40s inspired premise, most of the characters follow their earlier characterizations. Daffy in particular retains his Cloudcuckoolander prankster personality that he regained in New Looney Tunes.
• Designated Monkey: Bugs in episodes "Shell Shocked" and "High Speed Hare" endures too much humiliation and abuse from Cecil Turtle and Gremlin. Not to mention, that in the former episode he probably freaking died in a nuclear explosion.
• Crosses the Line Twice:
  • The ending of "Fully Vetted". Sylvester being neutered against his will and committing suicide afterwards is utterly horrifying on paper, but the Instant Soprano he gains from the operation and the sheer abruptness of the ending make it an absolute sidesplitter instead.
  • The deleted scene from "Rotund Rabbit", where Elmer explains that he bought all the carrots with his wife's savings, and that's why she left him. He then starts laughing until it devolves into Inelegant Blubbering.
  • In "Mummy Dummy", the mummy dismembers Bugs, with bone-cracking noises and Bugs screaming, and at first, it's absolutely horrifying. Bugs treating the entire ordeal as a massage afterward? Hilarious.
  • "Rabbit Sandwich Maker" has Elmer be put through his own creation, getting smashed, flattened, basted, roasted, and fried into a human sandwich. Horrifying for sure. Bugs taking a bite out of the Elmer sandwich before declaring that it tastes like "failure"? Goddamn Bugs, no need to kill him a second time!
• Heartwarming Moments:
  • The short celebrating Bugs Bunny's 80th birthday, which shows all of the other Looney Tunes characters (sans Elmer Fudd) wishing him a happy birthday.
  • After accidentally breaking Porky's arm in "Pitcher Porky", Daffy assists the pig in his baseball game by becoming his throwing arm.
• Hype Backlash: Although it is appreciated for being much more faithful to the original shorts than other Looney Tunes series, some people (in part due to the franchise's extensive Tough Act to Follow with the original shorts) are still not very convinced of the series and admit it's not nearly as fun to watch as the original shorts.
• Memetic Mutation: "And get a load of this page! R!"
• Moment of Awesome: In "Taziator", Bugs Bunny tricks the Tasmanian Devil into going straight to a den of lions. And guess what? Not only does Taz survive but he also has eaten all the lions. Jeez, no wonder Bugs is so terrified of him.
  • Before that, Bugs dunks Taz into a pool of alligators and a moment later... the pool explodes and Taz is still alive, carrying the now-dead gators that are turned into handbags.
• Nausea Fuel:
  • Tweety bending and cracking apart Sylvester's ribcage in Kitty Livin'.
  • The wall-eyed, foaming-at-the-mouth face of the pit bull who mauls Sylvester—twice—in "Fully Vetted".
  • The Gross-Up Close-Up of Gossamer's bare foot in "Big League Beast".
  • Bugs taking out the organs from Egyptian canopic jars, putting them on a platter, and then stuffing them in the mummy's mouth is kind of grotesque.
  • The ending of "Rotund Rabbit", where after Bugs gets poked and deflates, he looks deformed and his voice becomes way creepier, almost reminiscent of MeatCanyon's version of Bugs.
  • Caesar digging in his ear and then wiping his finger on his shirt in "Taziator". This would normally be gross enough on its own, but the way the earwax is drawn and animated makes it look like cheese.
  • Pretty much most of "Bathy Daffy" is one Gross-Up Close-Up after another. Especially nauseating is when Daffy drops food on his stomach, and a swarm of cockroaches infesting him crawls on to him to eat it.
• Nightmare Fuel: Now has its own page.
• Older Than They Think:
  • The main cast utilizing the Ambiguously Gay trope is not a product of modern values and was present in many of the classic shorts (if only because it was always played for laughs).
  • In light of the lack of guns (mentioned below) primarily affecting Elmer Fudd and Yosemite Sam, some people believe that this has stripped the characters of their identities as a hunter and cowboy, respectively. Though those have been their more notable characterizations, the classic shorts have been far more experimental in their depictions without guns.
    • Elmer has been featured in a variety of non-hunting jobs, such as a doctor and waiter, and donning other hunting tools such as a "speaw and magic hewlmet".
    • Likewise, Yosemite Sam has been depicted as a pirate, Viking, chef, knight, trolley conductor, and even an alien (all without his six-gun pistols) using other nearby hazards to harm Bugs.
  • In "Erabbitcator", Bugs mocks Elmer's outdated hunting tricks and tells him to modernize; in response, Elmer sends a robot after him. Bugs treats this as a brand new setup, but it happened quite a bit ago in 1953's "Robot Rabbit" (the differences being that the robot in "Erabbitcator" was a highly sophisticated piece of machinery which successfully countered nearly every move Bugs made while the "Robot Rabbit" bot was a Tin-Can Robot who did not give Bugs any more trouble than his usual opponents).
• Overshadowed by Controversy: Sadly, the series is also infamous on social media for "cancelling" Elmer Fudd and Yosemite Sam, considering the gun limits.
• Tear Jerker: Even with his Adaptational Jerkassery, you still gotta feel bad for Sylvester in "Holiday Purrchase". After getting a present from Tweety, he reveals nobody has ever given him a gift before and he even cries. When he realizes the present actually contained a bomb, meaning it was just a trick, his reaction (which appears to be a mixture of horror and sadness) makes it sadder.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: A day after its premiere on HBO Max, a New York Times article with series creator Pete Browngardt revealed that the team "weren't doing guns, but [they] can do cartoony violence — TNT, the Acme stuff". A week later, a bunch of news outlets cited the story with the connection that Elmer Fudd and Yosemite Sam would have their guns removed. There was quite an uproar in some areas, with some saying it doesn't make sense for Elmer to use a scythe to hunt rabbits (some argued that killing a rabbit with a scythe would actually be more violent than using a gun as it made Elmer come across more than just an incompetent hunter), and comparing it to the Moral Guardians' accusations of video games causing violence. However, it turns out this change wasn't exactly permanent, as the trailer for Space Jam: A New Legacy would show Sam with his pistols and "Rotund Rabbit" has Elmer use his shotgun once again.
• Unexpected Character:
  • The "Happy Birthday Bugs Bunny!" short on YouTube showcases many different Looney Tunes characters at Bugs Bunny's birthday party. One of these characters is the Seven Arts-era character Cool Cat from the original shorts' Audience-Alienating Era in the '60s, whose last appearance was a brief cameo in 2000's Tweety's High Flying Adventure.
  • One of the cartoons features the rather obscure Russian Dog, who was essentially a parody of Danny Kaye's "Mad Russian" character featured in Hare Ribbin'.
  • Another rather obscure character is Porky's nephew Cicero Pig, who was previously only used in Looney Tunes comics and never been animated until now.
  • In "Practical Jerk!", the scene at the hospital has a speaking cameo from Doctor Quack from The Daffy Doc.
• Unintentionally Sympathetic: Characters like Sylvester and Elmer Fudd have a notable Adaptational Jerkass thing going on, probably to avoid this trope — though they don't escape it entirely, as some cartoons are just so excessively cruel to them that it feels too much.
• Unintentional Uncanny Valley: Even though the animation is praised for it's visuals, there are few moments where animation looks unappealing.
• Visual Effects of Awesome: These shorts have beautifully detailed, fully-framed animation, which has become a rarity in mainstream animation since the advent of Flash and Toon Boom. That being said, there are obvious moments of tweening, largely in the shorts by Yowza! Animation, but the quality of the animation otherwise makes up for this.
• What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: The series is considerably Bloodier and Gorier than the originals, which were largely blood-free despite their heavy slapstick. In "Taziator" for instance, Taz ends up getting deep cut bloody scars on his cheek. Highlights include incredibly detailed organs being stuffed into a mummy's mouth (and said mummy throwing them back up), Bugs deflating into a horrific abomination, the incredibly detailed animation of Gossamer's foot, Sylvester committing suicide on-screen, and numerous other scenes of Family-Unfriendly Violence. This does make sense, however. Looney Tunes was never explicitly made as a children's series in the first place and was probably as comparatively violent as this one is to audiences in the '40s and '50s.
• Win Back the Crowd: If the comments on Warner Bros.' upload of Dynamite Dance and the reaction to the shorts that premiered at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival is anything to go by, these new shorts are definitely doing this for classic cartoon fans after the more mixed reception of recent efforts, such as The Looney Tunes Show and Wabbit: A Looney Tunes Production.

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