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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Muckmaw1 on October 04, 2004, 02:42:45 PM
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Alright, aside from the silliness of politics, let's have a serious debate .
What's the greatest Looney Tunes episode ever?
Now, we're talking indivdual episodes...not entire series.
My vote:
Kill Da Wabbit.
(http://www.animationconnection.com/images/lj90042l.jpg)
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Any of the ones where Pepe is trying to get the female cat.
"See, you gotta be like Pepe. Sometimes you just gotta take the *****." (Dave Chapelle)
-SW
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I love Kill the Wabbit!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Geez,..I'd have to go with any number of "Road Runner", "Foghorn Leghorn", or "Bugs Bunny" episodes. And cannot forget "Sylvester and Tweety". OY!
Too many great ones in that bunch.
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The Rabbit of Seville:
(http://rds.yahoo.com/S=96062883/K=rabbit+of+seville/v=2/SID=e/l=IVS/SIG=11srmuju1/*-http%)
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No way to pick just one.
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Wabbit season!
Duck season!!
Wabbit season!!!
Duck season...SHOOT!!
(http://store1.yimg.com/I/logoitems_1808_68625565)
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Foghorn with the little "nerdy kid" chicken.
There's somethin kinda eewwwww 'bout a boy who don't like baseball..
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i never liked foghorn, or sylvester sorry skuzzy.
roadrunner was my fav, the one with bugs replacing the roadrunner with those "speed pills" was the best.
the jet shoes on Wile E. Coyote were cool too...
i did like the first marvin the martian too...
the plane "gremlins" and the OMFG airspeed was great...
dang you muck!@!@! got me thinking i want to go home now and rent WB DVD's
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I'm with slicer. The cartoons in question are:
Rabbit Fire
Rabbit Seasoning
Duck! Rabbit! Duck!
1951-1953 by Chuck Jones' unit. A classic in their simplicity and honesty.
though what's opera doc? is pretty good. And the fewe that Tex Avery did for Looney Toons were sweet; hell Friz Freleng's Yosemite Sam stuff is good, as is Bob Clampett's surrealism. Hell they're all good.
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Those were hilarious.
Great thing about WB cartoons is the diversity of the characters. There are no words to describe the greatness of Mel Blanc.
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What was the name of the racist frog...
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Originally posted by Muckmaw1
What was the name of the racist frog...
Michigan J Frog?
the "mascott" of the WB network when it first came out?
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OMG! The one where the frog jumps out of the box and sings .. but only when the poor guy was alone. Awesome!
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I liked the one where Daffy was Robin Hood and Porky was Friar Tuck.
:rofl
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Any Foghorn episode with Henry Hawk.
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Originally posted by AWMac
I liked the one where Daffy was Robin Hood and Porky was Friar Tuck.
:rofl
lol...love the way he goes through his moves in his mind "Duck, parry lunge spin etc" and then his bill goes up at the end of it even though he is just thinking about it.
But...the Rabbit of Seville gets my vote too.
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My favorite was Speedy Gonzales (the fastest mouse in all Mexico) in the episode where he had to try and keep his two drunk mouse friends Pablo and Fernando from being eaten by Sylvester the cat.
Pablo and Fernando rock!
YEE HAAAHH!
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Any of the episodes that played kind of like a documentary. There was one that predicted how things would be in the future, and another that toured a zoo, besides many more.
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Hehe, I liked the Robin Hood Daffy Duck... Duck! Wabbit! Duck! is pretty good too.
Anyone a fan of Duck Dodgers? :) Cartoon Network made a bunch of new shows in 2003.
Many many Road Runner / Wile E. Coyote are also up there.
If you can't remember the name, check this out: http://www.bcdb.com/
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all of the oldies were golden (I even have one or two on the hard-drive that hasn't aired since sometime in the 70's).
of the stuff that's came out (after the 80's anyway), I really like the 'Pinky and the BRain' serries from WB.
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1.)Gossamar (not sure of spelling, the big hairy red thing with sneakers in Bugs Bunny cartoon)
2.)"Road Runner"
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Was the Ralph Philips cartoons Looney tunes?
Remeber the kid with a massive case of ADD?
Back then, they just called him imaginative.
(http://tultw.com/pics/ralph0004.jpg)
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(http://tultw.com/pics/ralph0078.jpg)
They're coming to get ya, Phillips....
(http://tultw.com/pics/ralph0112.jpg)
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(http://looneytunes.warnerbros.com/stars_of_the_show/marvin_the_martian/img/story/marvin_link7_image1.jpg)
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The Abominininable Snowman one was great.
"and I will hug him and squeeze him and name him George."
Ohhh, and the sheepdog ones. I can't believe you guys would forget about a cartoon with sheep in it.
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I like the "hipster" rooster who was in the Foghorn Leghorn series..
The hipster played guitar, wore "ray charles" sunglasses...snuck into the hen house disguised as a baby...
"cool daddio"
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Originally posted by JB73
i never liked foghorn, or sylvester sorry skuzzy.
Heathen!
Saving grace is ya like the other ones.
"Listen, I say listen to me when Im talking to ya boy"
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Originally posted by Waffle BAS
I like the "hipster" rooster who was in the Foghorn Leghorn series..
The hipster played guitar, wore "ray charles" sunglasses...snuck into the hen house disguised as a baby...
"cool daddio"
I liked the one with the Chickenhawk
Or the one where he tries to teach the brainiack kid to make a paper airplane and the kid makes a better one that shoots his down
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Originally posted by Blooz
My favorite was Speedy Gonzales (the fastest mouse in all Mexico) in the episode where he had to try and keep his two drunk mouse friends Pablo and Fernando from being eaten by Sylvester the cat.
Pablo and Fernando rock!
YEE HAAAHH!
Oh yea Speedy was GREAT. Loved him.
I heard they stopped showing speedy cause they didnt want ot stereo type and offend the Mexicans.
The only problem with that thinking is I also heard the Mexicans positively LOVED Speedy and his drunken/idiot friends.
Damn political correctness.
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I like the Bugs one where he is with the two Gangsters'
Shaddup shutt'n up
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Heres some links for WW2 looney tunes stuff I had come across
WW2 cartoons (http://www.nonstick.com/wmovies)
Heres a site of a lot of looney tunes cartoons that had the best (funniest) scenes deleted in them due to crybabies. I remember them scenes and it sure made the cartoon a lot funnier
Cut toons (http://looney.goldenagecartoons.com/ltcuts/)
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Ahhh...the nastalgia is so thick in this thread...brings a tear to my eye.
My fav has to be "Kill the waaaaabit".
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I do have to admit a love for any cartoon including Hubie and Bertie:
(http://home.wi.rr.com/tatay/cartoons/whowho.jpg)
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I`m bringin home a baby bumble beeeeeeeee
Want my moma be so proud of meeeeee
:D
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What about the old Tom and Jerry cartoons? Surprised nobody mentioned those.
But I agree with Muck, the opera was the absolute best cartoon ever!
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wakiki wabbit!!
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Originally posted by United
What about the old Tom and Jerry cartoons? Surprised nobody mentioned those.
But I agree with Muck, the opera was the absolute best cartoon ever!
they aint "Looney Tunes"
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Originally posted by DREDIOCK
they aint "Looney Tunes"
Theyre not? Geez, been a while since Ive seen one.
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Maybe the reason Tom and Jerry are not included is they were a MGM cartoon, not Looney Tunes.
Sorry, when Chuck Jones took the Looney helm, he headed straight for the rocks. Things started getting "educational" and "PC". Fritz Freeling was the genius (one of them) behind Looney Tunes. They were at their funniest in the late 30's to early 50's, after that it started raining crap at Termite Terrace. With the exception of Road Runner, Chuck Jones ruined Looney Tunes creativity.
My favorite would be hard to pick. I love the Abbot and Costello rip off's, ALL the WW2 Propaganda toons, and early Bugs Bunny.
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Originally posted by rpm
Sorry, when Chuck Jones took the Looney helm, he headed straight for the rocks. Things started getting "educational" and "PC". Fritz Freeling was the genius (one of them) behind Looney Tunes. They were at their funniest in the late 30's to early 50's, after that it started raining crap at Termite Terrace. With the exception of Road Runner, Chuck Jones ruined Looney Tunes creativity.
That statement is right on, especially the point I bolded. In my 2D Animation classes we watched plenty of cartoons, And were taught by some excellent teachers, My favorite teacher animated the Tom Petty "Runnin down a Dream" Video. He and another 2D Teacher, both worked on Creep Show, And another one of my teachers did a lot of local spots and the Pirates Score Board Animations.
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Originally posted by Muckmaw1
Alright, aside from the silliness of politics, let's have a serious debate .
What's the greatest Looney Tunes episode ever?
Now, we're talking indivdual episodes...not entire series.
My vote:
Kill Da Wabbit.
(http://www.animationconnection.com/images/lj90042l.jpg)
That one and Blue Danube (Warner Bros. answer to Disney's Fantasia) are the best of the Warner Bros. cartoons.
ack-ack
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Originally posted by Muckmaw1
The Rabbit of Seville:
(http://rds.yahoo.com/S=96062883/K=rabbit+of+seville/v=2/SID=e/l=IVS/SIG=11srmuju1/*-http%)
YEP
thats my vote
funny stuff right there:D
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The one where Bugs was the symphony conductor.
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bugs:"Did ya ever get the feelin that you was bein watched? look! out there! in the audience!"
monster:"PEOPLE!!!!!AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
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Geez, you guys must have led a sheltered childhood...Chuck Jones? The guy never had an original idea, other than "How can I do this cheaper." He was the Pixar of his day.
Tex Avery was probably the most imaginative, original and over the top funny cartoonist of the Golden Age of animation. Unfortunately, he got lost in the shuffle at MGM.
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Gotta disagree about Chuck Jones. What he really excelled at was the subtlety with which he uses all the motions available to the creature on stage to express the situation. Chuck Jones at his best is Wile E. Coyote fiddling with a bear trap.
But his unit wasn't just Chuck Jones. Michael Maltese consistently developed some excellent dialog (which is brilliance of the duck/rabbit season) , and Maurice Noble's outrageous minimalist backgrounds are truly outstanding (later Road Runners, Duck Dodgers, and so on). Of course, from the early fifties on, Milt Franklin took over the music for Chuck's unit, and he never had quite the repertoire that Carl Stalling did. Anything Jones did before 1940 pretty much sucks though.
Tex Avery was just wild, and is rightly considered a true genius of the art; some of the best cartoons in absolute are his.
Bob Clampett comes close to capturing Tex's absurdity -- he did some real howlers before switching to television (first with a puppet show, then with "Cecil the Sea Sick Sea Serpent").
Frank Tashlin's limited animated oeuvre demonstrates a concern for rendering space and off-the-wall camera angles that makes for good cartoons, but also explains his successful transitiion to live-action films.
Friz Freleng's work is a little uneven. Sometimes he's uninspired -- like when he took the Jones Duck Season/Rabbit Season to the TV set for three in the fifties; but often it's high-quality, stripped-down gags with impeccable timing.
I always considered the Pixar of the Hollywood Cartoon to be the directorial teamof Hanna and Barbera; They work, while serviceable, is just uninspired; the only original touch they leave is a rather disturbing anal fixation.
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I have to agree with the Hanna-Barberra comment. Cartoon Network has gained access to some old H-B craptoons and recycled the animation with new absurd scripts. Sealab 2021 and Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law are truly inspired.
Jones' work just looked cheap and dumbed-down compared to the earlier productions done in the 40's and 50's. Look at what he did to Tom & Jerry. Fred Quimby must have been spinning in his grave.
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Woah, hold on here.
Any Looney Toon produced between 1960 and 1962 needs to be reviewed on a case-by-case basis to see if it merits the name. Most don't.
No "looney toon" after 1962 merits the name.
In 1960 WB throttled the budget severely. In 1962 they sold the studio. Friz Freleng and Depatie ran them for another 6 years or so, but without the budget or the teams involved. Instead of a full orchestra you get Bill Lava on an accordian. Instead of real gags, you get Wily Coyote falling into the canyon over, and over, and over.
They heyday of the Hollywood Cartoon pretty much follows that of Film Noir (Think Maltese Falcon to Touch of Evil). Of course WB was a powerhouse in both; and you see WB properties (e.g., Bogey, Peter Lorre, Edward G.) appearing in WB CArtoons; The same musicians who did the soundtrack for the WB feature films did the cartoons.
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Very true. I should have included that they were working within a profoundly reduced budget which had a devastating effect on artwork. That does not excuse the writing. At least they were not the 30 minute toy commercials disguised as cartoons that emerged after the 60's. I'll give Jones credit for that.
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Bugs bunny - with the wind blown hats flying around. Anything with the Devil.
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I like all the ones mentioned from Looney Toons. Marvin is one of my favorite characters. I love it when he tries to blow up the Earth with the Illudium 235 destroyer. The Road Runner and Coyote were simply some of the best toons out there. They "made" Saturday morning.
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Probably the one where the coyote sets a piano to blow up on a certain key and the road runner keeps playing the song with the wrong note at that point. So finaly the coyote goes up and shushes him away and plays the song correclty and blows up.
I still have that tune in my head.