As for villain, Wile E.!
― Leee Majors (Leee), Friday, 21 November 2003 20:10 (twenty years ago) link
― Leee Majors (Leee), Friday, 21 November 2003 20:15 (twenty years ago) link
― ryan (ryan), Friday, 21 November 2003 20:15 (twenty years ago) link
As for a specific cartoon, you have got to be fucking kidding me. Picking one excludes too many others.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 21 November 2003 20:16 (twenty years ago) link
(What Ned said, but if forced...)
― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 21 November 2003 20:16 (twenty years ago) link
― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 21 November 2003 20:16 (twenty years ago) link
― Jeremy the Kingfish (Kingfish), Friday, 21 November 2003 20:17 (twenty years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 21 November 2003 20:19 (twenty years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 21 November 2003 20:21 (twenty years ago) link
― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 21 November 2003 20:23 (twenty years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 21 November 2003 20:23 (twenty years ago) link
― dave q, Friday, 21 November 2003 20:24 (twenty years ago) link
― Bryan (Bryan), Friday, 21 November 2003 20:27 (twenty years ago) link
Or maybe the one with the sheepdog vs wolf (essentially Wile E., but not actually) where they punch in in the morning, beat the crap out of each other for eight hours (with a lunch break), then punch out at 5 and go home.
Or...
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 21 November 2003 20:40 (twenty years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 21 November 2003 20:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 21 November 2003 20:43 (twenty years ago) link
― NA (Nick A.), Friday, 21 November 2003 20:50 (twenty years ago) link
"I'm so crazy, i don't know this is impossible! Woot! woo-hoo! hoot! hoot! whooo-hooo! etc"
― Jeremy the Kingfish (Kingfish), Friday, 21 November 2003 21:01 (twenty years ago) link
― Chriddof (Chriddof), Friday, 21 November 2003 22:10 (twenty years ago) link
― sucka (sucka), Saturday, 22 November 2003 02:35 (twenty years ago) link
I'm serious. Damn. This forces an entire rethink. I always empathised with his hunger and sheer doomed tenacity in the face of Loser-dom. I hated that smug little bird.
― David A. (Davant), Sunday, 23 November 2003 01:35 (twenty years ago) link
― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 23 November 2003 01:51 (twenty years ago) link
― Haikunym (Haikunym), Sunday, 23 November 2003 02:03 (twenty years ago) link
― Haikunym (Haikunym), Sunday, 23 November 2003 02:10 (twenty years ago) link
Is the Daffy v. animator in the new DVD collection? That would make it a must-have.
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Sunday, 23 November 2003 02:43 (twenty years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 23 November 2003 13:14 (twenty years ago) link
http://www.thegremlin.com/LIMITED.EDITIONS/15046le.JPG
"THERRRRRRRRRRRRRE...you're nice and CLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAN.Although your face looks - like - it - just - went - through - a - ma - chine."
(Yeah, What's Opera Doc is even more grandiosely insane but what can beat Bugs wordlessly proposing marriage to Elmer, who then accepts AND gets into a bridal dress, complete with veil?)
Among the joys of this collection is discovering that the voice of Pete Puma -- as referred above by Eisbar for his choice -- was Stan Freberg.
"Oh, THREE or FOUR..."
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 2 January 2004 00:01 (twenty years ago) link
I believe you mean "Duck Amuck," my friend -- and yes, it is.
http://members.tripod.com/mcrae_tony/images/animat1.jpg
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 2 January 2004 00:03 (twenty years ago) link
― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 2 January 2004 14:42 (twenty years ago) link
― stevie (stevie), Friday, 2 January 2004 17:01 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 2 January 2004 17:04 (twenty years ago) link
― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 2 January 2004 17:05 (twenty years ago) link
― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Friday, 2 January 2004 17:08 (twenty years ago) link
― Leee Smith (Leee), Friday, 2 January 2004 18:38 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 2 January 2004 18:47 (twenty years ago) link
http://www.ecstasydata.org/images/2001/734_lg_tazmanian_devil.jpg
― Zzz (-_-) zzZ (Wintermute), Friday, 2 January 2004 19:05 (twenty years ago) link
― jel -- (jel), Friday, 2 January 2004 19:07 (twenty years ago) link
― milo z (mlp), Monday, 24 July 2006 23:12 (seventeen years ago) link
Mind you, most of these originally came out when our parents were kids, and just have been rerun on TV all the time. And they still do. And even if, one day, they're not rerun, there will be DVDs to buy.
LT/MM is pretty much a cartoon institution that will pretty much only go away once Western civilization goes away, whether you likes it or not.
― San Diva Gyna (and a Masala DOsaNUT on the side) (donut), Monday, 24 July 2006 23:49 (seventeen years ago) link
Now Droopy I know was from another studio.
― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 00:09 (seventeen years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looney_tunes
― San Diva Gyna (and a Masala DOsaNUT on the side) (donut), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 00:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― San Diva Gyna (and a Masala DOsaNUT on the side) (donut), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 00:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― Slumpman (Slump Man), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 00:24 (seventeen years ago) link
"emcA".. backwards for Acme.
(OK, maybe that's not true.)
― San Diva Gyna (and a Masala DOsaNUT on the side) (donut), Tuesday, 25 July 2006 00:26 (seventeen years ago) link
Do kids growing up today even know who the Looney Tunes or Merrie Melodies casts are?
Warner Bros. fears just that so...
Worried that the low profile of the Looney Tunes cast of characters among children is the start of th-th-th-that’s all folks for the historic cartoon franchise, Warner Brothers is embarking on a five-alarm rescue effort.A new 26-episode half-hour series, “The Looney Tunes Show,” is headed toward Cartoon Network in the fall and will star Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck as odd-couple roommates in a contemporary cul-de-sac. Yosemite Sam, Tweety Bird, Sylvester, Marvin the Martian and Porky Pig are their neighbors.Meanwhile, Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote are going back to work in movie theaters in a series of 3-D shorts. The first of these shorts — Warner has approved three, and three more are in development — will play ahead of the movie “Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore,” which arrives in theaters July 30.
A new 26-episode half-hour series, “The Looney Tunes Show,” is headed toward Cartoon Network in the fall and will star Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck as odd-couple roommates in a contemporary cul-de-sac. Yosemite Sam, Tweety Bird, Sylvester, Marvin the Martian and Porky Pig are their neighbors.
Meanwhile, Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote are going back to work in movie theaters in a series of 3-D shorts. The first of these shorts — Warner has approved three, and three more are in development — will play ahead of the movie “Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore,” which arrives in theaters July 30.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2010/05/20/movies/20looney4/20looney4-popup.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 20 May 2010 14:29 (thirteen years ago) link
“The minute you start drawing Bugs Bunny exactly as he was drawn in 1949, you expect the same animation and the voice to be exactly the same,” Mr. Register said. “That’s obviously not possible, so you pull the best stuff from the characters and do something slightly new with it.”He added that art from “The Loonatics Unleashed” is framed and hanging in Warner’s animation offices as a reminder of what not to do.
He added that art from “The Loonatics Unleashed” is framed and hanging in Warner’s animation offices as a reminder of what not to do.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 20 May 2010 14:30 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't think I've experienced "ugh" and "WAU!" in such close proximity before.
― Have a slice of wine! (HI DERE), Thursday, 20 May 2010 14:37 (thirteen years ago) link
“The minute you start drawing Bugs Bunny exactly as he was drawn in 1949, you expect the same animation and the voice to be exactly the same,”
Er, if you're 70 maybe.
― The Clegg Effect (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 20 May 2010 14:56 (thirteen years ago) link
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_5s67MJWOeAg/SePC_GHyMhI/AAAAAAAAAPE/t_Yzd16CBB8/s400/Picture+4.png
― Police Cool. (crüt), Thursday, 20 May 2010 14:58 (thirteen years ago) link
via Mark Evanier, today's Amazon Gold Box Deal is the Looney Tunes Golden Collection -- 24 DVDs, 350+ cartoons, for $65.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B005NFJAQC/ref=nosim/wwwpovonlinco-20
― The Complete Afterbirth of the Cool (WilliamC), Tuesday, 9 April 2013 15:35 (eleven years ago) link
Watch a tape of this stuff the other day, and it was incredible. The backgrounds and character design was mid-century modernism at its finest. The tape included a few classics such as "Rabbit of Seville" and the first Tasmanian Devil cartoon. The humor was still hilarious and the sound design was flat-out futuristic. This stuff - at least the golden era Chuck Jones/Mel Blanc stuff - is high art, make no doubt about it.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 18:35 (nine years ago) link
I know that many of these shorts were edited for 80s television when I first encountered them as a kid, but does anyone remember if the near-rape in The Scarlet Pumpernickel was left intact? It and Daffy's shooting himself in the head at the end (which I'm pretty sure was cut for later TV broadcast) always startle me upon seeing this cartoon now?
― That shit right there is precedented. (cryptosicko), Saturday, 28 March 2015 17:32 (nine years ago) link
The suicide gag is really great, particularly his quip after he kills himself
There's also that one where bugs and Yosemite Sam are running for mayor, and at the end of the short it's revealed that everyone voted for a mare instead, and faced with this absurdity the two of them start playing Russian roulette. Iris out. Bang.
(They chickened out & followed this with an iris in showing that bugs somehow missed, but it's still a dark joke)
― Finn McCoolit (wins), Saturday, 28 March 2015 17:45 (nine years ago) link
Yes! That Bugs/Sam cartoon was another that I loved as a kid, and then was genuinely shocked, years later, when I saw the unedited version.
― That shit right there is precedented. (cryptosicko), Saturday, 28 March 2015 18:11 (nine years ago) link
rewatching these as an adult, it's a little startling how many of the jokes involve characters getting shot or committing suicide.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Saturday, 28 March 2015 18:55 (nine years ago) link
bob clampett loved this joke:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqPQz39L-G8https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C25UWjsVifA
― slam dunk, Sunday, 29 March 2015 17:00 (nine years ago) link
lol how is that not an established ilx response meme
― Finn McCoolit (wins), Sunday, 29 March 2015 17:03 (nine years ago) link
Being an animator during the depression must've been depressing.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 29 March 2015 17:06 (nine years ago) link
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x686bw_devil-s-feud-cake_shortfilms
Yosemite Sam dies and goes to hell.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 23:15 (nine years ago) link
https://vimeo.com/54515426
This one is a pretty amazing Yosemite Sam and I love Bugs Bunny's intro, leaning slyly on a doorframe, slowly rolling a cigarette.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 23:19 (nine years ago) link
I saw a screening of the banned propaganda/racist LTs like Bugs Bunny Nips the N*ps about 20 years ago, and hoooo boy... Never again.
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 2 April 2015 03:19 (nine years ago) link
re: original question, Duck Amuck, clearly.
― Eric H., Thursday, 2 April 2015 03:27 (nine years ago) link
I saw a 1938 Frank Tashlin LT, Now That Summer Is Gone, last night, about a squirrel with a gambling problem. Anyway, per iMdB:
When the "inspector squirrel" stamps the acorns as they roll by him, the image that is left on the acorns is the exact/precise Hebrew - correct letters and vowels - for the word "KOSHER."
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 17:06 (four years ago) link
see here
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4ttl3i
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 17:11 (four years ago) link
Wile E. Coyote is a protagonist and I will not be taking arguments
― untuned mass damper (mh), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 17:25 (four years ago) link
i watched a Road Runner last night too (Whoa! Be-Gone) for the first time in many years and laughed my ass off.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 17:26 (four years ago) link
of course those are about him, who cares about the stupid RR?
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 17:27 (four years ago) link
LOL, yes, this was cool.
― Let them eat Pfifferlinge an Schneckensauce (Tom D.), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 17:37 (four years ago) link
Bugs Bunny is Jewish btw
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 17:38 (four years ago) link
clearly Elmer Fudd isn't
― a wagging to the furious (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 17:39 (four years ago) link
both Mel Blanc! so yes
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 17:40 (four years ago) link
Yeah, but wabbits ain't kosher.
― I don't get wet because I am tall and thin and I am afraid of people (Eliza D.), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 17:43 (four years ago) link
I mean I guess Elmer could be Reform.
― I don't get wet because I am tall and thin and I am afraid of people (Eliza D.), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 17:44 (four years ago) link
I'm relieved to see no one picked Tweety Bird as their favorite. As a child I loved nearly all the Warner cartoons, but as I recall it, the clean simplicity of Wile E. Coyote's endless quest to eat the Roadrunner was the most enthralling to me.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 17:55 (four years ago) link
Just watched a (pretty racist) Merrie Melodies, directed by Tashlin, which has so many cultural references specific to 1938 that it's verging on the incomprehensible. It has it's own wiki page, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Have_You_Got_Any_Castles%3F.
Next up a Will Hay film (from 1939). Perfect Saturday afternoon telly.
― Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Saturday, 22 May 2021 11:05 (two years ago) link
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Wednesday, September 18, 2019 1:38 PM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink
A remarkable amount of American comedy created by Jews features characters who are running for their lives. These characters escape their enemies and achieve freedom not by outrunning or outshooting their oppressors but by transforming themselves into someone else. The ability to create and re-create a self is fundamental to the freedom of theatrical liberalism, and the late 1920s and 1930s witnessed an explosion of Jewish-created popular performance styles, which celebrated changeability itself. The ethnic comedians of vaudeville, who could adopt a character with the change of a hat, a nose, a feather, or colored face paint were a central feature of high-class Broadway revues of the 1920s and ’30s such as the Ziegfeld Follies and the George White Scandals. In a flash, Eddie Cantor transformed himself from Jewish neurastheniac to Greek cook, to black errand boy, to Indian chief and back again in the play and film Whoopee (1928). Fanny Brice was well known for her ability to do “imitations.” Willie Howard, in the smash hit Gershwin musical Girl Crazy, miraculously transformed himself from Jewish taxi driver, to a woman, to a variety of famous performers (Maurice Chevalier, Al Jolson, etc.) to a western sheriff, to an Indian chief.63 In Betty Boop (created by the Fleischer Brothers) and Looney Tunes (created by a team of mostly Jewish Warner Brothers artists including Mel Blanc) cartoons, characters regularly changed shape, size, character, gender, costume, and performance style in order to outwit pursuers or seduce lovers. In “A Hare Grows in Manhattan,” one of a number of stories of Bugs Bunny’s early years, Bugs spends the entire cartoon escaping a pack of enormous dogs on the Lower East Side by putting on various costumes, voices, accents, and characters. Likewise, in explaining the origin of his iconic line, “What’s up, Doc?,” in yet another animated bio-pic, Bugs Bunny shows how he turned the trope of transformation and escape (from Elmer Fudd) into theatrical gold. Superheroes Superman and Batman, invented by Jewish comic book artists in the 1930s, similarly based their success on their ability to change identity, thereby eluding and ultimately triumphing over their enemies.
― Fauna Sukkot (Deflatormouse), Monday, 24 May 2021 04:34 (two years ago) link
In “A Hare Grows in Manhattan,” one of a number of stories of Bugs Bunny’s early years, Bugs spends the entire cartoon escaping a pack of enormous dogs on the Lower East Side by putting on various costumes, voices, accents, and characters.
One of my favourites.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgZlw4O1qzk
― Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Monday, 24 May 2021 08:18 (two years ago) link
https://lostmediawiki.com/Speaking_of_Animals_(partially_lost_Tex_Avery_short_film_series;_1941-1949)
― Fauna Sukkot (Deflatormouse), Tuesday, 25 May 2021 06:51 (two years ago) link
Copy/pate the link, there's an issue with the code
The videos are watermarked, but not actually locked or restricted as they appear in the menu.
― Fauna Sukkot (Deflatormouse), Tuesday, 25 May 2021 06:54 (two years ago) link
"Duck Amuck" for sure, but for more standard type Looney Tunes, "Rabbit Seasoning" ('Pronoun trouble...') or "Robin Hood Daffy"
― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 25 May 2021 07:11 (two years ago) link