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- SpectralSounds, on 10/11/2007, -2/+33Looney Tunes were the best cartoons ever.
You notice how you never see them anymore, even though the humor is pretty much timeless. They got rid of Speedy Gonzales and Pepé Le Pew because they werent politically correct. If you watch Pepé you might turn into a rapist and if you watch Speedy Gonzales you will see latinos in the wrong light.... what a crock of *****.
At least they have most of the cartoons released on DVD now. - Coven, on 10/11/2007, -2/+24Kids' attention spans got wayy too short for the likes of Looney Tunes. Now they need lots of flashing and streaks across the screen, a la Pokemon.
- squishee, on 10/11/2007, -1/+22Kill the wab-bit! Kill the waaaab-bit!
- Freonce, on 10/11/2007, -1/+20Yes.
- Coven, on 10/11/2007, -1/+18I knew I shoulda made the left at Albuquerque...
- Wonderkind, on 10/11/2007, -1/+17Todays cartoon are 30 minute commercials.
About the only Looneytoons thing you could buy was a lunch box. - slayerab, on 10/11/2007, -1/+14thats wrong on so many levels
- cptshamrock, on 10/11/2007, -2/+14direct link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=353heNgg_aw
- rlbigfish, on 10/11/2007, -1/+11It makes me upset to know that in a very short time, no kids are going to have any idea who Bugs Bunny was.
- Jorlwind, on 10/11/2007, -2/+12Childhood is a confusing time, ain't it?
- Br0wn, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8The Rabbit of Seville was def the best opera one.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=OTydGEYdVbE - terracottapai, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7DAFFY: Wabbit season!
BUGS: Duck season.
DAFFY: Wabbit season!
BUGS: Wabbit season.
DAFFY: Duck season. Fire!!
*bang* - Coven, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6My children will grow up on Looney Tunes. Saturday morning cartoon DVDs are going to be an event at my house.
- davidrools, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5Cartoons used to have sophisticated plots and references that would be entertaining to adults and kids. They were great. But maybe they took too much effort to make. Now cartoons just keep kids dumb and parents can't stand to watch them with their kids.
- dbstovall, on 10/11/2007, -3/+7This and the "Quite, we're hunting Elmers" cartoon are probably at the top of any best looney toons list.
- clark1001, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5I wish I could have been in the room when they were animating the morbidly obese horse's fat ass.
Beers all around. - cocoamix, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5I know "What's Opera Doc" is a classic, but this one holds a special place in my heart:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfbdwIoIQOQ
Abraca-Pocus! - Coven, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5Prepare to be buried into the depths of hell. "What's Opera, Doc?" is widely regarded as one of the greated Looney Tunes of all time. Kill da Waaaaabbit!
- kballweg, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4No, no, no: fifty years ago for "What's Opera, Doc?" which the clip is from. The cartoon many, myself included, consider to be the best ever.
Warner Bros. cartoons go way further back to 1930, but the really great stuff came out in the 40's and 50's when the Termite Terrace crew of animators was in full swing. The "racist" depictions of the Japanese (and Germans) during WWII have been censored for years, but when you see the stuff, they are no more outlandish then their depictions of any group including whites, latinos, celebrities, and politicians. The criteria for being racist should be being selectively discriminating in parodying isolated groups. WB cartoonists didn't hold anyone sacred, so not racist. Cartooning at the time was the art of exaggerating stereotypes in a way that would give a knee jerk liberal fits now. But v. v. funny. The best ever of the censored igroup s almost completely lost, and that's "Coal Black and De Sebben Dwarfs" which would really make you use the scream racist. And, in the process, miss one of the most delightful cartoons ever. - foofightrs777, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Bugs and Tweety isn't even on Saturday mornings anymore.
- flag654, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Spear and Magic Helmet! Spear and Magic Helmet!
- JJCDAD, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Foghorn Leghorn FTW!
- iceman0113, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Wow, I grew up on this and they just released all of the eps on dvd a couple months back. I think you can get the on amazon for pretty cheap. Looney Toons, Merry Melodies, Tom & Jerry, Tiny Toons, Animaniacs; the classics need to be brought back. Not that knock off crap I saw a week ago, I think it was Ultimate Looney Tunes or something where Bugs and them were all dressed up and had super powers.
- pdawg90, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5dugg for the wayne's world reference
- honemasterT, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Yeah its right up there, but Rabbit of Seville is better IMHO
Others that rule:
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Stupor Duck
Windblown Hare (the three pigs/red riding hood mashup)
Hillbilly Hare (...purty little sound.. bang yer head again the ground!)
Fast and Furryous
I Gopher You.. (two gophers lost in a food factory)
Duck Amok
Raphsody Rabbit (esp if you are a piano player!)
Bugs and the Opera singer.. (cant recall the name)
Abominable Snow Rabbit..
The one where Bugs is misplaced by the Stork with the Gorilla family
The one where Daffy is the gag salesman sent in to cheer up the
millionare?
Im an avid collector.. some of these you can get but on VHS tape anymore.
WB is holding out from DVD release to nickle and dime us to death!
The one with Bug's and the dam? Bloch Jac Shalock.. no Jac.. not this one!
.. :-)
That one you cant find anywhere.. was never
released other than the Sat. am Bugs Bunny Road Runner Hour
My kids love these things as much as I (and I'm 42)
Clever stuff that only some modern day cartoons seem to duplicate.. but
by and large, much of it is pretty much slapstick humor.. think about it..
characters always beating up each other, blowing each other up.. etc.
Still, they dont make em like they used to! (Sponge Bob notwithstanding!)
Kids have also been getting into Johnny Quest (which I never liked as
a kid.. but actually it's quite good in a geek sorta way!) and Scooby Doo
lately..
Me? I just like looking at Velma and Daphne! ;-) - jiub, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Sorry for the double but I found this as I was reading up on "Coal Black and De Sebben Dwarfs"
"The Censored Eleven is a group of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons that were withheld from syndication by United Artists in 1968. UA owned the distribution rights to the Associated Artists Productions library at that time, and decided to pull these eleven cartoons from broadcast because they are based around racist depictions of Blacks and are deemed too offensive for contemporary audiences. The ban has been upheld by UA and the successive owners of the Looney Tunes catalog to this day, and these shorts have not been officially broadcast on television since the late 1960s."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censored_Eleven
Interesting read and contains a list of the Eleven films in question. - jobobshishkabob, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2http://youtube.com/watch?v=IIUWN_cTpbc&mode=related&search=
- PizzaMan99, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Loony Tunes rule.
Many of today's cartoons may be as funny, but IMO as an animator, nothing has come close to the quality of the animation since.
Also, Chuck Jones is great, but I prefer the earlier work of Bob Clampett. The original Daffy Duck cartoons are my absolute favorites.when he was {"Woo-Hoo!"} insane, instead of an {"That's dispicable"} a-hole) - onineko, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Rehhhst is goooood for da bloooood.
- groonk, on 10/11/2007, -0/+150 years! sumbitch!
- Nick519, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1instantly dugg -- no questions asked. one of my all time favorite cartoons, along with the rabbit of seville and so many others.
- Pilot85, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1And then they bastadize the looney toons with that stupid remake on the WB. EXTREME RAZOR TUNES or something dumb like that.
- uuhclem, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Ah, its great to be a dad - I introduced my son Leopold who is 9 to Bugs this past week - and the episode where he got his name (Giovanni Jones) and the kid is hooked - proudest day was when he said - "what's better than Bugs Bunny? - nothing, nothing is better. Without bunny there is no funny..."
- NeoPlatonist, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I still have this on cherished VHS!
- kballweg, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1You can't kill classics like this. My kids, now in their late thirties, grew up on the originals, and they are showing them to their kids. While the whole canon isn't out on DVD, the really great stuff like Duck Dodgers, "One Froggy Evening", "Rabbit of Seville", and, yes, the best, "What's Opera Doc?" will live on with collectors and fans, and will go into any new format that comes out. If you've only seen the low quality cartoon network versions, you really should rent the DVDs to see the restored versions. Chuck Jones forever.
- lbeaty1981, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1This has been a source of great strife within my family. I firmly believe "The Rabbit of Seville" was the greatest Looney Tune ever, while my dad stands firmly behind "What's Opera, Doc?" We do, however, both agree that Chuck Jones was the greatest producer of all time.
- kballweg, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1You can't kill classics like this. My kids, now in their late thirties, grew up on the originals, and they are showing them to their kids. While the whole canon isn't out on DVD, the really great stuff like Duck Dodgers, "One Froggy Evening", "Rabbit of Seville", and, yes, the best, "What's Opera Doc?" will live on with collectors and fans, and will go into any new format that comes out. If you've only seen the low quality cartoon network versions, you really should rent the DVDs to see the restored versions. Chuck Jones forever.
- AirwavesV2, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Bugs Bunny FTW.
- benbenbenben, on 10/11/2007, -3/+4These cartoons, with their anvils and animals falling off cliffs and hunters with shotguns, they sure are violent. Where was Jack Thompson back then?
Seriously, I am sooo glad I got to grow up with stuff like this instead of Spongebob - that cartoon makes me want to vomit. - ziffel, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1alt.binaries.multimedia.cartoons.looneytunes
- bruenig, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Dugg down? Bugs bunny wasn't racist?
- gerrylazlo, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1For the longest time Looney tunes was my only exposure to classical music and life in the 50's. (including celebrities I didn't know about till 15 years later)
- cjvino, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1You wouldn't hit a bat with glasses, would you?
- BlackOp, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1road runner ftmfw
- jiub, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Only link to it I can find:
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1692829
Advertising may come up NSFW for some, not sure what collegehumor is like anymore. - BabyBrumak, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2But who can forget this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6pVcMlv4xs
- cjvino, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1You sir have made my evening.
- bubba9999, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1please. don't try to explain it. the OP may not even know what wayne's world is.
- DrSnugglebunny, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I learned a lot of things from that cartoon... like never use your spear without your magic helmet
- timbo1138, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Wow....
It's got to be at *least* 5 years since I've seen 'What's Opera, Doc', probably a great deal longer, and watching that I could basically sing along with the entire thing. Just masterful. -
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