General Looney Tunes / Assorted WB Animation (that isn't DC) Thread.

Because we don't seem to have one, and I just found out about this.

Especially that first one, because I swear I had the exact same idea once, and it's a total squee moment for me. I really want to see Daffy hit the hunter/hunted setting again.

edited 13th Jun '11 8:36:33 PM by KnownUnknown

For some reason that 3D Elmer Fudd is vaguely unsettling to me.

I wish they would reair Tiny Toon Adventures again, that show was awesome. *Le sigh*

They won't, not soon. I don't think any U.S. channels are interested in picking it up, because it's "old", and that's not assumed to be profitable/interesting to the target audience of said channels.

They did bring it back in Russia, though. Also, even though the show itself ended in 1995, the series still lives on as a video game series. The most recent Tiny Toon Adventures game was released in 2006! I think I am also one of the only tropers who has played Tiny Toons: Defenders of the Universe (Even though the game was never released, it can be played via PS 2 emulator). It is a shame it was never released, since it is one of the best licensed games I have ever played! It is extremely fun and addicting, it seems just like an episode from the show, the difficulty is nice and even, it has multiplayer and co-op for story mode, and there are TONS of characters to unlock (And you can play as Fifi in it! The only other Tiny Toon Adventures game you can play as Fifi in is ACME All-Stars, although she is also a selectable partner in Tiny Toon Adventures: Scary Dreams/Buster's Bad Dream. She is my favourite Tiny Toon, and Pepe is my favourite Looney Tune (And he is rarely playable in the Looney Tunes games, too. The only one I think you can play as him in is Looney Tunes Racing)).

edited 2nd Sep '11 6:48:28 AM by Bat178

Speaking of which, several months back, I actually managed to get my hands on an original 1992 copy of the Tiny Toons movie, How I Spent My Vacation at a Value Village (a thrift store in Canada). It kept screwing up at the end credits, but once I rewound the tape a few times, I was able to get through the whole thing without interruption. While I was there, I also managed to get 2 Animaniacs tapes, The Warners Escape and Helloooo Holidays!.

edited 2nd Sep '11 5:10:15 AM by x86x

And you also get to beat the tar out of Elmyra in Tiny Toons: Defenders of the Universe and Scary Dreams/Buster's Bad Dream. It is even more satisfying if you defeat her using Fifi (Can anyone say payback?).

edited 2nd Sep '11 11:02:03 AM by Bat178

The Hub's interested in airing "old" shows. It could happen.

Nice, that would be awesome if they do air it on the Hub.

edited 2nd Sep '11 4:49:21 PM by Bat178

Is this thread still open?

Anyone remember the Bugs Bunny-centric June Bugs marathon that Cartoon Network used to do starting early morning late May, starting with "Baseball Bugs" and running until early August in the Nineties and mid-Aught's? Whatever happened to that?

They started releasing classic Looney Tunes in the big Golden Collections (and later Platinum Collections) and, to drive up demand, severely cut back on the amount of classic Looney Tunes on the air.

It seems odd, though, with the recent resurgence of classic Looney Tunes shorts on Cartoon Network and Boomerang, with compilation airings running between ninety minutes to two hours in length, that someone at either network didn't think to at least bring it back at least for a test run. I mean, June Bugs was a major part of my childhood summers.

Joe Alaskey died. :( I always considered him the guy who could do Bugs and Daffy the closest ever to Mel Blanc. AND he originated the role of Plucky (who is essentially the same Daffy voice).

I'm very happy that my college library has the entire Looney Tunes Golden collection on DVD, because I got to watch many of the shorts while I was doing my homework. This may stir up some controversy, but I wasn't laugh out loud as many people seemed to be towards the shorts. Honestly, the biggest laughs I got were the Road Runner shorts, mostly because of how many epic fails Wile E Coyote could get with his inventions, Duck Amuck and Porky in Wackyland, because of the bizarre-ness and yet creativity of the shorts, and The Dover Boys, because the Dover Boys. That's what appeals to me about the Looney Tunes, the creativity in the animation, and in the jokes. Perhaps that's why most people aren't too fond of some of the more recent interpretations like Space Jam, or the Looney Tunes Show 2011, it's hard to capture what made the Looney Tunes funny and original at the time. Or maybe some people has different reasons on why they like the shorts. Most fans preferred the slapstick and how everybody was beating each other up and killing each other, some preferred the shorts that was more talking than action, while I prefer the weirdness and creativity on the comedy. Maybe if I had grown up with it more, I'd have a better opinion of it, though I barely remember watching the shorts when I was a kid. I was more of a Mickey Mouse kid back in the day. I do like the 90's Warner Bros cartoons like Tiny Toons, Animaniacs, and Freakazoid.

edited 3rd Jul '16 12:52:19 PM by DokemonStudios

While it's not the entire story as to why the original Looney Tunes shorts were more successful than more recent attempts, there is the fact that those original shorts were not created by committee. The production team on each directorial unit was pretty small, tiny compared to the amount of people who work on even a short cartoon now. That lends a lot more to focus.

There's also the fact that while Leon was a Warner Bros executive and was in charge of the "termite terrace" gang, he was aware that they were artists and he was not, so he left them alone and didn't have any input on the creative process. Which is the opposite of today, where executives always think up the ideas for animation.

There's the famous Bugs Bunny cartoon where Bugs is a matador which was done, according to Chuck Jones, primarily because he was instructed specifically NOT to do a bull-fighting cartoon as the producer at the time (the gent who succeeded Leon Schlesinger. after Leon sold to WB) thought there was nothing funny about bullfighting. Chuck got him to admit he was wrong. It does say something though that he was able to get the whole cartoon done before the producer knew what it was about. Pretty sure you couldn't do that today.

edited 3rd Jul '16 10:49:15 PM by Robbery

Let's talk about some unpopular characters. Remember that one short where Penelope Pussycat from the Looney Tunes could actually talk?

Me neither!

edited 4th Jul '16 5:21:37 PM by DokemonStudios

It wasn't unusual for a commonly-mute character to suddenly talk in the original cartoons, usually for a gag, and less for a deliberate change of personality.

Beaky Buzzard cameos twice, and everybody else from Nasty Canasta to The Crusher shows up.

Not a single glimpse of Elmer.

There hasn't been a decent Bugs Bunny cartoon since Box Office Bunny (not that that one was great, but it was okay).

Most of the more recent uses of the Looney Tunes characters just seem to demonstrate that the people in charge of them don't seem to know what to do with them.

I find it odd that Elmer hardly showed up in The Looney Tunes show, and (as far as I can remember) not at all in Wabbit. I can only suppose that they're leery of having him be a hunter actually trying to kill Bugs (which I think is stupid, but whatever) but that wasn't the only role he ever played.

I remember that cartoon vividly because there was a period in time where Cartoon Network wouldn't stop playing it or Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers. Between the two of them, I'd take Carrotblanca (Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers is the most blatant example of "let's make fun of these cliches as if we're totally not using them right now"" around that's not called Frozen). The oddest thing about it is them putting Bugs and Penelope together, though I guess they didn't have any other prominent female characters at that point.

Indeed. Even Tom and Jerry (well, Tom mostly) talked occasionally in their original shorts as well.

edited 7th Jul '16 2:44:40 AM by KnownUnknown

Jerry didn't talk at all.

When Tom spoke, it was generally just a brief sentence to carry a gag. Jerry never spoke in the cartoons, but he DID speak during his dance duet with Gene Kelly in Anchors Aweigh.

I recall there was some flap about having Tom and Jerry speak in that pretty much forgotten 90's film they were in, but I never saw it so couldn't say if they did or not.

Tom spoke and sang and laughed and such on various occasions, though less and less so as the series went on. There were several cartoons before the Chuck Jones days where he had repeated, though generally brief, lines.

Jerry was the only one who never spoke - whatever lines he did have were instead represented by musical instruments.

edited 7th Jul '16 2:16:56 PM by KnownUnknown