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Classic Cartoons coming to CBS 6/14

bostonmediaguy said:
MarcB said:
I know it's not the most reliable source, but Wikipedia is reporting that "The all New Woody Woodpecker Show", "The Bugs Bunny & Tweety Show", "Tiny Toons", and "Baby Looney Toons" will begin airing as part of the KEWLopolis kids block on CBS begining June 14, 2008.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KEWLopolis
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None of which are E/I-compliant or owned by DiC Entertainment. Not gonna happen!
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Considering some of the other stuff the networks pass off as being E/I I don't see how these shows would be any worse. Or could they put some educational material in as filler to qualify for E/I?

I hope that bringing back Bugs and Tweety and Woody Woodpecker will be permanent. Cartoon Network/Boomerang hasn't shown Looney Tunes in close to a year, and I don't know how long it's been since Woody Woodpecker was on anywhere.
 
That information in Wikipedia was false, placed by a vandal merely for a thrill. The information in Wikipedia is only as good as its source.
 
azumanga said:
That information in Wikipedia was false, placed by a vandal merely for a thrill. The information in Wikipedia is only as good as its source.
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If this was true (and I hope that it is true, haven't seen any Looney Tunes on TV since ABC cancelled them in 2000), there would have been an announcement from CBS's website or Sitcomsonline.com.
 
anotherguy said:
I hope that bringing back Bugs and Tweety and Woody Woodpecker will be permanent. Cartoon Network/Boomerang hasn't shown Looney Tunes in close to a year, and I don't know how long it's been since Woody Woodpecker was on anywhere.
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You know, we talked about Boomerang being the US's classic cartoon channel on another thread, so I checked out a 24hr programming grid. In that 24hr period, only two shows were WB cartoon, one was Tiny Toon Adventures, and the other was the Batman, nothing older than the mid-90s. Everything else was the Banana Splits, and other HB crap. Hannah-Barbera had some great cartoons, but they all pale in comparison to the Warner Brothers cartoons, and Time-Warner owns (or should own) the rights to both.
 
Wasn't Hanna-Barbera purchased by Turner Broadcasting some years back? If so, wouldn't that make them owners of both Warner Brothers and H-B? ???
 
You would be correct. Ted purchased the H-B rights just after or right when he was starting up TNT (one of TNT's big promotions was that they aired the Muppet Show as well), and from there launching Cartoon Network. IIRC, WB cartoons, at the time, dominated the airwaves sans USA, who was airing much of the H-B library. Then, after Cartoon Network launched with 24hr coverage, H-B began to take over. Ted purchased the H-B rights to get them away from rival USA.
 
Whale said:
It's crazy how Looney Tunes is never on anymore. I'd love to see it on as much as possible.
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Totally agree. An entire new generation is being culturally deprived:

"You realize - this means war!"

"You're despicable!"

"He don't know me vewy well, do he?"

"I'm a chicken hawk, and you're a chicken! Are you gonna come along quietly, or do I haffta muss ya up?"

"That's a joke, son, a joke! That boy's as sharp as a bowling ball!"

"Ooooh, you make me sooo mad, varmint!"

:D :D :D

Those lines always cracked me up. I always thought that the WB cartoons played a large role in the development of peoples' sense of humor as children.
 
I noticed that the lie that was posted in the Wilipedia article was removed.

It doesn't make any sense to me why WB will make a deal for Looney Tunes to be shown in Canada, but they won't make a deal to show the post-1948 LTs anywhere in the US. Turner Broadcasting actually owns the pre-1948 Looney Tunes and there is nothing stopping them from showing them except for their own management. As it stands now the only LTs that are on anywhere are occasionally as filler on TCM and some PD cartoon shows. It looks like they're more interested in selling DVDs than showing them on TV. :-\
 
There's another cartoon that we haven't been able to see lately:

Heckle & Jeckle.

Could it possibly be because of it's iconoclastic content? ???

A few years ago, there was a terrific blogger named Anne Alogy, who has since dropped off the Blogosphere radar, and she once wrote:

"Heckle & Jeckle were anti-Establishment long before anybody knew what the Establishment was. They may have planted the seeds of rebellion in the young minds of future anti-war protesters. Is that the reason that I can't see their cartoons these days?"

Anne, wherever you are, please come back! Blogging needs you!

And please, Cartoon Network, TNT, USA, somebody, please give us Heckle & Jeckle back!
 
That struck a memory chord with me. I think I remember hearing the LTs getting a lot of flack in the early 90s for being violent, insensative, racially offensive, etc. I think it was attacked by Tipper Gore and her army back then, when they were plugging for the "Explicit Lyrics" labels on music. After that, LTs moved to obscurity. We, as humans, never know where the middle ground is. We always go from one extreme to the other.
 
RicoGregg said:
A few years ago, there was a terrific blogger named Anne Alogy, who has since dropped off the Blogosphere radar, and she once wrote:

"Heckle & Jeckle were anti-Establishment long before anybody knew what the Establishment was. They may have planted the seeds of rebellion in the young minds of future anti-war protesters. Is that the reason that I can't see their cartoons these days?"
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Ms. Alogy must have spent many an idle hour "thinking". How were H&J anti-Establishment? I probably last watched H&J sometime in the '70s (I aged from 8 to 18 during that decade) and wasn't into cartoon "meaning" at the time (and for a long time afterward). In my area anyway, the magpies were rarely seen to begin with.

ixnay
 
FloydB said:
We, as humans, never know where the middle ground is. We always go from one extreme to the other.
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Lokking at other countries such as Canada and Britain, that goes for the US in particular.
 
FloydB said:
I think I remember hearing the LTs getting a lot of flack in the early 90s for being violent, insensative, racially offensive, etc. I think it was attacked by Tipper Gore and her army back then, when they were plugging for the "Explicit Lyrics" labels on music. After that, LTs moved to obscurity.
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I can make the argument that good ol' Woody Woodpecker moved in the same direction as a result. After all, who cared if all those cartoon explosions were uneducational - it was just good clean fun!

Thank goodness for YouTube - the new home of Woody and all your cartoon friends.

Ha ha ha HAAA ha!
 
ixnay said:
RicoGregg said:
A few years ago, there was a terrific blogger named Anne Alogy, who has since dropped off the Blogosphere radar, and she once wrote:

"Heckle & Jeckle were anti-Establishment long before anybody knew what the Establishment was. They may have planted the seeds of rebellion in the young minds of future anti-war protesters. Is that the reason that I can't see their cartoons these days?"
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Ms. Alogy must have spent many an idle hour "thinking". How were H&J anti-Establishment? I probably last watched H&J sometime in the '70s (I aged from 8 to 18 during that decade) and wasn't into cartoon "meaning" at the time (and for a long time afterward). In my area anyway, the magpies were rarely seen to begin with.

ixnay
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When you have some idle time, check this out. Should answer some of your querie:

http://www.toonopedia.com/hekljekl.htm

In the days before Standards & Practices oversaw programming on networks, not much attention was paid to the content of children's programming. As a result, many cartoons that ran in the 50s would not get approved for airing today. In addition to H&J, many WB toons would be considered racist and too violent. Others would include some early Rocky & Bullwinkle and their subliminal social commentaries, and notably, shown often on Captain Kangaroo, Pow Wow, The Indian Boy. And not because of anything anti-Native American, but because the toon raised environmental issues!

To move things along (thank you, Rico), Heckle and Jeckle were constantly flaunting authority figures, including much disrespect for police. They've made at least one cameo appearance on The Simpsons, indicating some reverence among contemporary animators.
 
Despite complaints about violence, racism, etc (a lot of which was edited out in more recent years, for good or bad) Looney Tunes ARE still popular. Sales of the DVD sets should prove that. All that is keeping LTs off TV still is the greed and/or stupidity of WB and Cartoon Network/Boomerang. :-\
 
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