Elmer Fudd loses his gun in Looney Tunes Reboot

[SystemShock]

"The new episodes harken back to the Looney Tunes, which had their peak in the 1940s and 1950s heyday"


I have an almost pristine Life magazine from 1943, which I found among my father in law's belongings after he died. The adds are fantastic: men were men, women cooked and vacuumed, and 4 out of 5 doctors recommended Chesterfields.

There is this one feel-good article about a hunting club, and how the members of this club were doing their part to support the war effort. Instead of using bullets and guns, they were using baseball bats, 2x4's, and ax handles to beat prey to death. The article had pictures of all of these fellows next to the beaten prey, proudly holding their bloodied bats and ax handles.

The point: Times change.

 

[Zack Lee]

Elmer was the perfect example of someone who should not have been awarded the permit anyway. How many times did he walk away with a responsible, safe hunt vs how many times did he actually hurt himself with the gun. No brainer

 

[saintmdterps]

"Shuddup shuddin' up."

Great minds.....

I didn't even see your post

 

[saintmdterps]

Answer me why we're only supposed to object to gun violence and not all weapons?

I don't really have a problem with a well-sited artillery battery for home defense.

 

[SaintJ]

I don't really have a problem with a well-sited artillery battery for home defense.

I need a good spotter, at least two artillery positions for cross-fire, and infantry support because if you don't secure your perimeter you're not getting a shot off.

Also some kind of armored vehicles for threat of counterattack so they can't sidle in and get comfy in case the first wave doesn't work out.

Man aren't you married? Didn't you learn anything?

 

[antipop]

Show me where the bible touched you.

I wasn’t an altar boy

 

[antipop]

Line three-Are you high,

For at least half of the 90s

 

[SystemShock]

Answer me why we're only supposed to object to gun violence and not all weapons?

Because we don't worship barrels of ACME TNT or anvils.

 

[Madmarsha]

Because we don't worship barrels of ACME TNT or anvils.

Just because Coyote is ineffective ...

 

[LA_Steve]

I don't really have a problem with a well-sited artillery battery for home defense.

 

[saintmdterps]

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.

This is the world we live in my friend.

I had a 1977 Kawasaki KZ1000. If you read the owners manual and had just a bit of mechanical aptitude you could sync and re-jet the carbs, , do a major/minor tune-up, and adjust the valves.

Modern motorcycle owners manuals tell you not to drink the contents of the battery. To be sure, modern motorcycles are much more complex than an almost 50 year-old Kawasaki. Back in the day, noticing a bit of valve float, I went to the local dealer to get new, stiffer valve springs. I'd bought 2 motorcycles from him in the past and he said "bring it in Saturday morning. I'll leave the door open for you. you can use the bay and tools. No one will be here." I thanked him, and did the repairs in the comfort of his shop, not my yard

Times have changed

 

[tenordas]

This is the world we live in my friend.

I had a 1977 Kawasaki KZ1000. If you read the owners manual and had just a bit of mechanical aptitude you could sync and re-jet the carbs, , do a major/minor tune-up, and adjust the valves.

Modern motorcycle owners manuals tell you not to drink the contents of the battery. To be sure, modern motorcycles are much more complex than an almost 50 year-old Kawasaki. Back in the day, noticing a bit of valve float, I went to the local dealer to get new, stiffer valve springs. I'd bought 2 motorcycles from him in the past and he said "bring it in Saturday morning. I'll leave the door open for you. you can use the bay and tools. No one will be here." I thanked him, and did the repairs in the comfort of his shop, not my yard

Times have changed

Indeed. And I must say I resent everything being dumbed down and a general attitude of "you can't do this yourself" when it comes to cars and really any mechanical object.
And I worry that my own kids don't know how to do things they should know. It was like pulling teeth to get them to come watch/help whenever I worked on anything. There's an air of "better have someone else do that" among their generation (generally speaking, of course) and it's rubbed off on them.

/threadjack

As to the subject of the newer cartoons, I think it's ridiculous that the "suits" think that kids can't separate fantasy from reality. While kids certainly can be stupid, they aren't nearly as stupid as the suits seem to think they are.

 

[Optimus Prime]

I'm sure we talked about this before but the DVD sets of the 1970s-1980s Sesame Street have a parental warning on them

 

[Madmarsha]

Indeed. And I must say I resent everything being dumbed down ....

/threadjack

It has absolutely made us stoopider, in my own humble stoopid woman's opinion.