Looney Tunes (8 Viewers)

[Optimus Prime]

Still the best cartoons ever made as far as I am concerned. I still say things like “I should have made a left turn at Albuquerque” when I get lost. So man Saturday mornings learning about duck season and rabbit season, or opera lol.

I’ve said this before when showing up at either a beach or seafood buffet

 

[Brad Mojo]

Honest: who here will ever hear Marriage of Figaro, Barber of Seville, Hungarian Rhapsody, etc. without their first thought being Bugs Bunny?

 

[faceman]

Honest: who here will ever hear Marriage of Figaro, Barber of Seville, Hungarian Rhapsody, etc. without their first thought being Bugs Bunny?

The best ever Imo of course

 

[Optimus Prime]

The quintessential Chuck Jones

 

[Optimus Prime]

Chuck Jones by a country mile

As much I love Chuck Jones I really didn’t like his Tom & Jerry or Daffy and Speedy Gonzalez cartoons

 

[Eeyore]

What's Opera Doc? is a masterpiece

 

[efil4stnias]

It will never be the same then. Yosemite Sam firing both pistols at his feet lifting him a foot off the ground is a
cartoon classic

Or when he's a pirate and bugs keeps tossing lit matches down into the hold where the gun powder is.

 

[Madmarsha]

I’ve said this before when showing up at either a beach or seafood buffet

Heyyy, this ain't Pismo Beach!

 

[Madmarsha]

Honest: who here will ever hear Marriage of Figaro, Barber of Seville, Hungarian Rhapsody, etc. without their first thought being Bugs Bunny?

Or Ride of the Valkyries

 

[Eeyore]

Or Ride of the Valkyries

You just gave us a sample

 

[Optimus Prime]

Media, especially as it ages, is subject to fickle and changing tastes. Though some films remain in the lexicon as cultural classics, many more exist gathering dust, remembered mostly through nostalgia and as touchstones of a certain age.

In the world of animation, however, two juggernauts have remained relevant to this very day as more than just artifacts of the past but with catalogues that are beloved anew by each new batch of kids that our population continues to pop out.

I’m talking about Disney and Warner Brothers, more specifically Looney Tunes with regard to the latter. Looney Tunes, in some ways to me, is even more impressive in how well it’s held up, with it occupying the realm of comedy.

Between comedy and drama, one tends to age a whole lot more gracefully. Outside of a few less-than-sensitive racial tropes that have joined Song Of The South in the oopsie vault, even the original Looney Tunes could easily jump into an after-school cartoon rotation today.

Even today, the Looney Tunes cast is everywhere, from reboots of Space Jam to airbrushed and bedazzled boardwalk t-shirts. Not bad for a bunch of animated shorts dating to the Second World War. But how and when exactly was this roster built? The Tune Squad’s age and order of entry might surprise you.

Let’s look at each member’s induction.

1930: Hello… Bosko?

Don’t tell me you don’t remember Bosko! I’m kidding, of course. Although technically the first established Tune, created by Rudolf Ising and Hugh Harman, Bosko is now a casualty of history. He was the star of Sinkin’ In The Bathtub, and though well-received, is usually considered to be a fairly blatant Disney rip-off……

A Timeline Of The Looney Tunes Cast

The first toon to show up? Not Bugs.

www.cracked.com

 

[Optimus Prime]

Mel Blanc with the voices can't be forgotten

I remember this after Blanc passed

 

[Optimus Prime]

Warner Bros. Discovery’s content purge of HBO Max continued with a year-end culling of a bucket of classic “Looney Tunes” shorts and “The Flintstones” episodes.

As of Dec. 31, HBO Max removed Seasons 16-31 of the original “Looney Tunes” library, Variety has confirmed. Still remaining on the service are “Loony Tunes” Season 1-15, which comprise 255 shorts spanning 1930-49. The shorts that were deleted were released from 1950-2004, including “What’s Opera, Doc?”, “Feed the Kitty,” “Rabbit of Seville,” “Duck Amuck” and “One Froggy Evening,” as noted by Vulture.

In addition, HBO Max has pulled Season 4-6 of “The Flintstones,” a total of 78 episodes. The first three seasons of the Hanna-Barbera classic are still available on the service.............

HBO Max Removes 256 ‘Looney Tunes’ Shorts, Three Seasons of ‘The Flintstones’

HBO Max's content purge continued with a year-end culling of a bucket of classic "Looney Tunes" shorts and "The Flintstones" episodes.

variety.com

 

[Eeyore]

Warner Bros. Discovery’s content purge of HBO Max continued with a year-end culling of a bucket of classic “Looney Tunes” shorts and “The Flintstones” episodes.

As of Dec. 31, HBO Max removed Seasons 16-31 of the original “Looney Tunes” library, Variety has confirmed. Still remaining on the service are “Loony Tunes” Season 1-15, which comprise 255 shorts spanning 1930-49. The shorts that were deleted were released from 1950-2004, including “What’s Opera, Doc?”, “Feed the Kitty,” “Rabbit of Seville,” “Duck Amuck” and “One Froggy Evening,” as noted by Vulture.

In addition, HBO Max has pulled Season 4-6 of “The Flintstones,” a total of 78 episodes. The first three seasons of the Hanna-Barbera classic are still available on the service.............

HBO Max Removes 256 ‘Looney Tunes’ Shorts, Three Seasons of ‘The Flintstones’

HBO Max's content purge continued with a year-end culling of a bucket of classic "Looney Tunes" shorts and "The Flintstones" episodes.

variety.com

They got rid of the good stuff.

I think that I have some of those on DVD. I'll look some day

 

[Merl]

It was quite a few years before I figured out ACME wasn't a real company.

Same here