Elmer Fudd loses his gun in Looney Tunes Reboot

[Optimus Prime]

Interesting. There are a lot of things in the old cartoons that wouldn't fly today (Like the one where Mickey Mouse choked Pluto, and Bugs Bunny nips the Nips)

On the Walt Disney Treasure DVD sets Leonard Maltin would pop up occasionally to say something along the lines of "it was a different time then..."

I haven't seen any of the new cartoons (the past Looney Tunes reboots I have seen were god awful)

No more classics like this?


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Elmer Fudd has many means for cartoony violence and mayhem in HBO Max's "Looney Tunes Cartoons," the reboot of the classic Warner Bros. cartoons.

But the infamous rabbit hunter will not be blasting his cartoon rifle.

Like all characters on the throwback animated series that started last week on HBO Max, Fudd will be gun-free. The new episodes harken back to the Looney Tunes, which had their peak in the 1940s and 1950s heyday, in every other way – filled with cartoonish dynamite explosions and intricate ACME-brand booby traps.

"We’re not doing guns," Peter Browngardt, the series executive producer and showrunner, told the New York Times. "But we can do cartoony violence — TNT, the Acme stuff. All that was kind of grandfathered in.".............

'We're not doing guns': Elmer Fudd loses his rifle in HBO's 'Looney Tunes' cartoon reboot

 

[efil4stnias]

It aint no fun when the Wabbit has the gun.

And i woulndt watch it. That classic above is one of my favorite cartoons of all time. ( and anything with Yosemite Sam )

 

[Optimus Prime]

It aint no fun when the Wabbit has the gun.

And i woulndt watch it. That classic above is one of my favorite cartoons of all time. ( and anything with Yosemite Sam )

Who is also having his guns taken away

 

[DaveXA]

Eh, I'm sticking with the classics. The few reboots I've seen have been awful. I'd still rather watch the Simpsons or something similar these days.

 

[Optimus Prime]

Eh, I'm sticking with the classics. The few reboots I've seen have been awful. I'd still rather watch the Simpsons or something similar these days.

The Simpsons hasn’t been funny since season (whatever season I stopped watching)

 

[DaveXA]

The Simpsons hasn’t been funny since season (whatever season I stopped watching)

Lol, yeah, I haven't watched in a long while actually. I think the last legitimate cartoon/animated show I've watched was SpongeBob.

 

[Saint_Ward]

So, he's going to hunt Bugs Bunny with dynamite? Or traps?

 

[livefromDC]

This thread so far is filled with people not realizing at what point childish cartoons ceased being entertaining to them and that the only ones that are...were the ones they remember from their childhood.

The kids that grow up with these cartoons will like them as much as we liked the stuff that was on when we grew up. The kids watching the new episodes of the Simpsons like them as much as we liked the earlier seasons.

People get older.

 

[Optimus Prime]

So, he's going to hunt Bugs Bunny with dynamite? Or traps?

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

i was so excited when the HBOmax came out and i saw the looney tunes clips
slightly curious when the pictures weren't immediately familiar but whatever
then i clicked on one and was like "wait.. i don't remember this at all" clicked on another one "same here" then another one "man, this is messed up"
eventually i googled and saw that these were all homages and i was like "screw this noise"

then i did search on hbomax and found that indeed many of the classics were there
have not showed them to the kids yet, bc bugs bunny has been a bit contentious in my house
when my wife was all like "the same bugs bunny who did blackface bugs bunny?"
and I was all like "bugs bunny never did blackface" and then my wife let google show me to be a liar

stoopid google

 

[AARPSaint]

It's a cartoon, for heaven's sake. Does anyone equate this to reality? Elmer blasts Daffy THREE TIMES at point blank range. Daffy comes back for more. Not happening in real life. Wiley Coyote falling thousands of feet to the bottom of a canyon and subsequently coming back for more. Reality at its realest. Not. It's funny because it's obviously not real. That's the whole point.

We might as well censor a lot of fairy tales that are full of violence.

I don't care much for films that are excessively violent. But cartoons and fairy tales are so obviously not real. We are becoming detached from unreality, I guess.

 

[saintmdterps]

It aint no fun when the Wabbit has the gun.

And i woulndt watch it. That classic above is one of my favorite cartoons of all time. ( and anything with Yosemite Sam )

"Say your pwayers, wabbit!"

 

[Optimus Prime]

i was so excited when the HBOmax came out and i saw the looney tunes clips
slightly curious when the pictures weren't immediately familiar but whatever
then i clicked on one and was like "wait.. i don't remember this at all" clicked on another one "same here" then another one "man, this is messed up"
eventually i googled and saw that these were all homages and i was like "screw this noise"

then i did search on hbomax and found that indeed many of the classics were there
have not showed them to the kids yet, bc bugs bunny has been a bit contentious in my house
when my wife was all like "the same bugs bunny who did blackface bugs bunny?"
and I was all like "bugs bunny never did blackface" and then my wife let google show me to be a liar

stoopid google

Then there’s this

 

[AARPSaint]

Then there’s this

Now that to me is different. It's demeaning, quite disgusting, and dated. As a white person, I find it at the very least embarrassing.