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Classic Looney Tunes are still just great. Nothing comes close.

I've seen the new "Looney Tunes Show" on Cartoon Network and
frankly haven't found one thing funny about it. Whoever's producing
it has no sense of the absurd that marked the work of Chuck Jones,
Friz Freleng, Bob McKimson, Tex Avery, and Bob Clampett. Personally,
I'd say avoid the show.
 
Haven't seen the new "Looney Tunes Show", and after reading the descriptions, I never will. They're better off calling it "The New Looney Tunes Show", as (1) that's what it practically is, and (2) new versions of old stuff tend not to last long, especially if it has "New" in its name.
 
The early Foghorn Leghorn toons are the best...the ones where he just doesn't shut up.

Look for "A Fractured Leghorn" on YouTube.

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Having grown up watching them uncut in the 1960's it really annoys me to see them hacked up.

One of my all time favorites was "Bowery Bugs" were Bugs drives the Steve Brody character some nuts that he ends up jumping off the Brooklyn Bridge. I'm sure some nut job would say that short can't air cause it would cause a kid to copy that. Give me a break!

My favorite part of the cartoon is when Brody goes into a fortune teller's parlor (played by Bugs, of course) and with Brody at the door a voice is heard saying "enter oh seeker of knowledge), then a boxer's glove swings down and whacks Brody in the head with the voice saying "that's you, Fathead" I pull that line on many of my friends when we go out to a restaurant while holding the door open. They all know the reference.

Nothing beats the animation that came out of Termite Terrance back on the old Warner lot. Well done and Blanc's voice and effects were spot on. Sure they weren't meant for kids but that was part of the charm. You'll spot all sorts of timely topics of the day that many have no clue about. The short with the Gremlin where the airplane is diving to a crash but stops short due to running out of gas and Bugs making reference to "these A cards" - show me a kid who knows what gas rationing was.
 
Of course the all time classic Bugs Bunny line:

"Would I turn on this gas if my friend Rocky were in this oven?"

"You might rabbit, you might."

Or, Shaddup shuttin' up.

Those make me laugh everytime!
 
Bill DeFelice said:
The short with the Gremlin where the airplane is diving to a crash but stops short due to running out of gas and Bugs making reference to "these A cards" - show me a kid who knows what gas rationing was.
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There was also one where there was a similar scene followed by "Heh, heh. Air brakes!"
 
Wile E.(in voice resembling drunken stupor)-"Allow me to introduce myself,my name is mud." (PLOP!)

Bugs- "And remember..MUD spelled backwards is DUM!"

Carl Stalling and orchestra- BUM BUM BUM BUM!!!!

(Chuck Jones at his best)
 
Entertaining, funny and culturally educational as well, if you pay attention to some of the music.
 
Silkie said:
Entertaining, funny and culturally educational as well, if you pay attention to some of the music.
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The scores from some of those probably introduced more people to classical music than any other medium of the time.
 
cd637299 said:
The early Foghorn Leghorn toons are the best...the ones where he just doesn't shut up.

Look for "A Fractured Leghorn" on YouTube.

cd
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Remember the one when he wanted to marry the widow hen so, he'd get a warm nest and had to be father to her nerdy son. The son chicken is in a science lab and Foghorn grabs the test tube and says

"What's you making thar boy, sody pop? Watch it FEE-YIZ" And he shakes it and it explodes.
 
2 great Foghorn lines...Referring to the widow's kid (I think), "That boy-I say, that boy's about as sharp as a bowling ball!", and when he's playing hide and seek with the kid and the kid draws him a diagram indicating that he (Foghorn) is in a feed box, he says, "I'm almost afraid to look. I just might be in there."
 
And then there is the Foghorn Leghorn cartoon where a skinny old-maid chicken goes husband hunting (rolling pin in hand) and Leghorn tries to pass the dog off as an eligible bachelor chicken (using a rubber glove dipped in red paint).

Great stuff!! And you won't find anything nearly as funny in cartoons today.
 
Carmine5 said:
And then there is the Foghorn Leghorn cartoon where a skinny old-maid chicken goes husband hunting (rolling pin in hand) and Leghorn tries to pass the dog off as an eligible bachelor chicken (using a rubber glove dipped in red paint).

Great stuff!! And you won't find anything nearly as funny in cartoons today.
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Foggy said to her, after she bopped him good, "Ya don't catch a man by hittin' him on the head with a rollin' pin!" (and then he holds his hand to the side of his mouth and says to the viewer,) "That comes later!"

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cd637299 said:
Carmine5 said:
And then there is the Foghorn Leghorn cartoon where a skinny old-maid chicken goes husband hunting (rolling pin in hand) and Leghorn tries to pass the dog off as an eligible bachelor chicken (using a rubber glove dipped in red paint).

Great stuff!! And you won't find anything nearly as funny in cartoons today.
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Foggy said to her, after she bopped him good, "Ya don't catch a man by hittin' him on the head with a rollin' pin!" (and then he holds his hand to the side of his mouth and says to the viewer,) "That comes later!"

cd
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Yes, I can actually hear him saying that. BTW, I should use the proper terminology of hen and rooster. My city-boy roots are clearly showing.
 
"I've seen the new "Looney Tunes Show" on Cartoon Network and frankly haven't found one thing funny about it. Whoever's producing it has no sense of the absurd that marked the work of Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng, Bob McKimson, Tex Avery, and Bob Clampett. Personally,
I'd say avoid the show"

Can't agree.
It is updated to reflect today--but the interaction between Bugs and Daffy in the new episodes is funny, even giving Bugs a self-deprecating dimension to his sense of humor that he didn't have before, and the Road Runner vs. Wile E. Coyote segments work just like the old ones.
 
Has anyone else read the brilliantly written "Coyote v. Acme" mock legal brief that ran in the New Yorker magazine a few years ago? You will scream with laughter at this piece, written just as if Wile Coyote sued Acme Products for years of falure and abuse by the Acme line of anvils, bombs, parachutes and the like.
 
The King Bee said:
Has anyone else read the brilliantly written "Coyote v. Acme" mock legal brief that ran in the New Yorker magazine a few years ago? You will scream with laughter at this piece, written just as if Wile Coyote sued Acme Products for years of falure and abuse by the Acme line of anvils, bombs, parachutes and the like.
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I've not only read it, but linked it in e-mail (any Google "coyote v acme" will yield it), and....2 years ago, I actually heard the deposition recited on the radio! (WMLB 1690 in the Atlanta area)

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"Has anyone else read the brilliantly written "Coyote v. Acme" mock legal brief that ran in the New Yorker magazine a few years ago?"

Had the guy who wrote that piece, Ian Frazier, as a guest on my daily radio show a few years ago. He is hilarious. If you get a chance to do a one-on-one with him, don't miss it.
 
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