A star is hatched. Foghorn Leghorn makes his Oscar-winning debut as a chicken who uses young chicken hawk Henery Hawk in his feud with the barnyard dog. Robinson and Peter Lorre. By the time Bugs is through with him, Rocky will be begging for the police to take him. Finally fed up with Bugs getting the best of him in all these cartoons, Elmer tears up his Warner Bros.
Never heard of him. This is his first pairing with Sylvester here called Thomas. In one of Warner Bros. In his sophomore appearance, Bugs will have to make like Gary Cooper to run him out of town. Commander X-2 , who is all set to blow up Earth. So deep was the Warners bench that its cartoon characters could be paired in fun ways.
When she hears an off-screen shot and runs to him, he grabs her in his arms. Never fear. Robin Hood will soon be here. Elmer Fudd, Sylvester, and Porky turn up in supporting roles. Coyote is an erudite predator who intends to eat Bugs. The characterwork and the comic timing are exquisite as an adorable squirrel tries in vain to crack a globe-size nut. Another declaration of war. With his yellow sombrero and exaggerated Mexican accent, we may be entering Apu territory here. Proceed at your own sensitivity.
Billed as a Bugs Bunny cartoon, but Daffy Duck steals the show when an Arabian treasure trove enflames his most avaricious instincts. The essence of the Bugs-Daffy relationship, as Daffy revolts at being billed second to Bugs. These are the acts of an increasingly desperate duck. Truly the ultimate trip, and one of four Warner Bros. Only four? Daffy rushes in and fears to tread at the same time. How to get to Bugs Bunny in four easy toons.
The hair-raising gags build to a reductio-ad-absurdum climax in which an arms race of escalatingly deadly weaponry somehow becomes an impromptu wedding ceremony between Bugs and Elmer. Rabbit, Duck! Bugs Bunny : How much do you think this pack of gum sells for?
Daffy Duck : Thirty-three thousand dollars? Bugs Bunny : Good luck with that. Sign In. The Looney Tunes Show. Animation Short Adventure. See more at IMDbPro. Photos 6. Top cast Edit. Maurice LaMarche Captain as Captain voice ….
Storyline Edit. Animation Short Adventure Comedy Family. Add content advisory. Did you know Edit. Schlesinger hired Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising to produce their first series of cartoons. The first Looney Tunes short was " Sinkin' in the Bathtub ", which was released in From —, and from , all but two Looney Tunes ended with Porky Pig coming out of a drum and saying "th-th-th-that's all folks!
When Harman and Ising left Warner Bros. A new character called Buddy became the only star of the Looney Tunes series for a couple of years. The ensemble characters of "I Haven't Got a Hat", such as Oliver Owl, and twin dogs Ham and Ex, were also given a sampling of shorts, but demand for these characters was far exceeded by Beans and Porky; Beans himself was later phased out due to declining popularity, leaving Porky as the only star of the Schlesinger studio.
Bugs initially starred in the color Merrie Melodies shorts and formally joined the Looney Tunes series with the release of " Buckaroo Bugs " in , which is the final cartoon produced by Leon Schlesinger.
The inspiration for the changeover was Warner's decision to re-release only the color cartoons in the Blue Ribbon Classics series of Merrie Melodies. Schlesinger sold his interest in the cartoon studio to Warner Bros. The shorts from this era can be identified by their different title sequence, featuring stylized limited animation and graphics on a black background and a new arrangement, by William Lava , of "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down. The Looney Tunes series' popularity was strengthened even more when the shorts began airing on network and syndicated television in the s under various titles and formats.
However, since the syndicated shorts' target audience was children and because of concerns over children's television in the s, the Looney Tunes shorts were edited, removing scenes of violence, racial and ethnic caricatures, and questionable vices. Theatrical animated shorts went dormant until when new shorts were made to introduce Looney Tunes to a new generation of audiences.
New Looney Tunes shorts have been produced and released sporadically for theaters since then, usually as promotional tie-ins with various family movies produced by Warner Bros. While many of them have been released in limited releases theatrically for Academy Award consideration, only a few have gotten theatrical releases with movies. In , the Looney Tunes characters made their way into the amusement business when they became the mascots for the two Marriott's Great America theme parks, Gurnee and Santa Clara.
After the Gurnee park was sold to Six Flags, they also claimed the rights to use the characters at the other Six Flags parks, which they continue to do presently. Looney Tunes characters shared screen time with their rivals at Disney, particularly in the scenes where Bugs and Mickey Mouse are skydiving, and when Daffy and Donald Duck are performing their "Dueling Pianos" sequence.
One of the logos for Looney Tunes on Nickelodeon. In , Nickelodeon aired all the unaired cartoons in a show called Looney Tunes on Nickelodeon until To date, Looney Tunes on Nickelodeon is the longest-airing animated series on the network that was not a Nicktoon. In , Space Jam , a feature film mixing animation and live-action, was released to theaters starring Bugs Bunny and Michael Jordan.
The gang also made frequent cameos in Tiny Toon Adventures , from executive producer Steven Spielberg where they played teachers and mentors to a younger generation of cartoon characters, plus occasional cameo appearances in the later Warner Bros.
The latter two had been particularly long-running series, and the Warner Bros. Although the film wasn't financially successful, [8] it was met with relatively positive reviews from film critics and has been argued by animation historians and fans as the finest original feature-length appearance for the cartoon characters.
They also appeared in the direct-to-video films Bah, Humduck! The original cartoon shorts have also been released on multiple home video systems over the years, including the Golden Collection on DVD and Platinum Collection on DVD and Blu-ray, thus contributing to the continued popularity of the Looney Tunes characters.
A handful of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts from the ss are no longer aired on USA television, because of the racial stereotypes of African-Americans, Jews, Japanese, Chinese, and Germans included in some of the cartoons.
This has caused dismay among some animation enthusiasts, who feel they should have access to these shorts. There has been some success in returning these cartoons to the public.
In all Speedy Gonzales cartoons were made unavailable because of their alleged stereotyping of Mexicans. In addition to these most notorious cartoons, many Warner cartoons contain fleeting or sometimes extended gags that reference then-common racial or ethnic stereotypes. The release of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 3 includes a disclaimer at the beginning of each DVD in the volume given by actress Whoopi Goldberg which explains that the cartoons are products of their time and contain racial and ethnic stereotypes that these days would be considered offensive, but the cartoons are going to be presented on the DVD uncut and uncensored because editing them out and therefore denying that the stereotypes existed is almost as bad as condoning them.
A number of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies have had scenes cut out from television to remove stereotyping or violent gags. Throughout the years, the censorship varies, but most of the time violent gags tend to be much more heavily edited back in the s and s on the TV networks such as ABC and CBS , probably due to stricter rules against violence in children's TV back during the s and s, in comparison to today where most of the violent gags are shown uncut, with the notable exceptions of suicide gags involving guns, on TV channels such as Cartoon Network.
However, seldom are these affected cartoons are present in their original forms when shown on television, primarily outside of the USA are they present uncensored. When Boomerang UK re-branded and started broadcasting in HD in , the Looney Tunes shorts began to be shown heavily edited; the violence, jokes, alcohol and smoking from these shorts are removed from the channel. In , 78 of the black-and-white Looney Tunes were colorized in a process where duplicate black-and-white prints were sent to a studio in South Korea where artists re-traced each cartoon frame-by-frame in color.
The quality of these hand-colored versions are often considered poor, as frames were omitted, resulting in choppy animation and loss of detail. These versions were used for television broadcasts, mostly for The Porky Pig Show. These cartoons continued to be used for television broadcasts over the decades, and some ended up on low-budget bargain-bin home video labels after the original cartoons fell into the public domain , although the colorized versions should be considered under copyright.
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