"Hunt""), and Elmer Fudd (in 1940's ""Merrie Melodies"" cartoon ""Elmer's Candid Camera""). Bugs initially starred in the color ""Merrie Melodies"" shorts following the success of 1940's ""A Wild Hare"" (widely credited to be Bugs' official debut), and formally joined the ""Looney Tunes"" series with the release of ""Buckaroo Bugs"" in 1944. Schlesinger began to phase in the production of color ""Looney Tunes"" with the 1942 cartoon ""The Hep Cat"". The final black-and-white ""Looney Tunes"" short was ""Puss n' Booty"" in 1943 directed by Frank Tashlin. The inspiration for the changeover was Warner's decision to re-release only the color cartoons in"
"which Looney Tunes cartoons opened with the ""bulls-eye"" titles, usually with thicker rings. When the cat claims to be a """"gorgeous hunk of man"""" his face turns into a caricature of Victor Mature. As the cat feels Willoughby's hand beside the puppet he's kissing he exclaims: """"Well, something new has been added!"""". At the end of the cartoon the cat says: """"Well, I can dream, can't I?"""" Both quotes were used often in Looney Tunes cartoons of this era (like for instance ""Plane Daffy"", ""Red Hot Riding Hood""...) and are both catch phrases by Jerry Colonna. """"Ah, something new has"
"feature the modern ""Abstract WB"" Looney Tunes opening and closing sequences, and they use the same music cues over and over again in the cartoons, also by Lava. Only one of those eleven cartoons — ""Run, Run, Sweet Road Runner"" — had music that was actually scored instead of the same music cues. Another clear clue is that Jones' previously described ""laws"" for the characters were not followed with any significant fidelity, nor were there Latin phrases used when introducing the characters. Wile E. Coyote has also unsuccessfully attempted to catch and eat Bugs Bunny in another series of cartoons."
"Meany, Miny, and Moe Meany, Miny, and Moe are Walter Lantz characters, who made their first appearance in the Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon ""Monkey Wretches"" (1935). Their final animated appearance was in 1937 in ""The Air Express"". According to their theme song, the trio are ""just three monkeys from the sticks / just a bunch of jungle hicks / but they know a lot of tricks."" At first portrayed as unclothed identical triplets in the Oswald cartoons, the monkeys began wearing clothes and behaving individually when they graduated to their own series. Meany is a wannabe tough guy, often"
"""Looney Tunes"" series. Also, this is the only cartoon where Sylvester has yellow eyes and a black nose. This is the first Looney Tunes cartoon to have the red and blue rings as well as the written out ""That's all Folks!"" at the closing rings. The Merrie Melodies music is heard at the end though. Porky and Sylvester would later be paired in a trio of shorts directed by Chuck Jones: ""Scaredy Cat"", ""Claws for Alarm"", and ""Jumpin' Jupiter"". Both also co-starred (with Daffy Duck) in ""The Scarlet Pumpernickel"" as the villain roles (the only time Sylvester spoke in a"
"exactly matched the word ""meany,"" he was still portrayed as a wannabe tough guy. Meany, Miny, and Moe Meany, Miny, and Moe are Walter Lantz characters, who made their first appearance in the Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon ""Monkey Wretches"" (1935). Their final animated appearance was in 1937 in ""The Air Express"". According to their theme song, the trio are ""just three monkeys from the sticks / just a bunch of jungle hicks / but they know a lot of tricks."" At first portrayed as unclothed identical triplets in the Oswald cartoons, the monkeys began wearing clothes and behaving individually"
"of Warner Bros.' Looney Tunes cartoons (starting with 1960's ""Hopalong Casualty""), with the end titles reading ""A Warner Bros. Cartoon / A Vitagraph Release"". Merrie Melodies of the same period (starting with that same year's ""From Hare to Heir"") had the same end title, with the last line being ""A Vitaphone Release."" (From August 1968 to the end of the original series in 1969, Merrie Melodies had the last line reading ""A Vitagraph Release"" while Looney Tunes of that same one-year period read ""A Vitaphone Release."") This may have been done to protect the studio's ownership of the two largely"
"the rhyme. In Salman Rushdie's ""The Moor's Last Sigh"" (1995), the leading character and his three sisters are nicknamed Ina, Minnie, Mynah and Moor. Rex Stout wrote a 1962 Nero Wolfe novella titled ""Eeny Meeny Murder Mo"". In the 1930s, animation producer Walter Lantz introduced the cartoon characters Meany, Miny, and Moe (later Meeny, Miney and Mo). First appearing in Oswald Rabbit cartoons, then in their own series. The 1933 Looney Tunes cartoon ""Bosko's Picture Show"" parodies MGM as ""TNT pictures"", whose logo is a roaring and burping lion with the motto ""Eenie Meanie Minie Moe"" in the place of"
"in two-strip Cinecolor (Disney then had exclusive animation rights to the richer three-strip Technicolor process). Their success convinced Schlesinger to produce all future ""Merrie Melodies"" shorts in color, using two-strip Technicolor. ""Looney Tunes"" continued in black and white until 1943. In 1936, the cartoons began to end with the slogan ""That's all Folks!"" which had previously only been used on the ""Looney Tunes"" series. The old slogan ""So Long, Folks!"" was completely abandoned at this time. The same year, ""Merrie Melodies"" began using the ""bulls-eye"" opening and closing title sequences (in 1942, ""Looney Tunes"" would use the same titles, usually"
"down the side of the mountain, 'melting' down the rocks. When the hunter is also knocked down, he reveals that he was able to swipe the satchel. The two take a look inside, and soon are just as distressed as the yellow duck — the content is a piece of paper with the words ""The End"" on it, displayed as the cartoon ends. Daffy cries out the catchphrase ""Sufferin' succotash!"" This is the first Looney Tunes short to use a shortened version of The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down. Ain't That Ducky Ain't That Ducky is a 1945 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes"
"Porky Pig Porky Pig is an animated cartoon character in the Warner Bros. ""Looney Tunes"" and ""Merrie Melodies"" series of cartoons. He was the first character created by the studio to draw audiences based on his star power, and the animators created many critically acclaimed shorts featuring the character. Even after he was supplanted by later characters, Porky continued to be popular with moviegoers and, more importantly, the Warners directors, who recast him in numerous everyman and sidekick roles. He is known for his signature line at the end of many shorts, ""Th-th-th-that's all folks!"" This slogan (without stuttering) had"
"audiences expected a live-action film and were bewildered by the lengthy animated sequence. Throughout the film's closing credits, Daffy pops into frame sporadically and spouts off sarcastic comments. The last scene appears after the credits, and again features the Looney Tunes rings. This time, Porky Pig comes out of the rings and says his usual ""Th-th-th-that's all, folks!"" However, Daffy Duck interrupts again and takes over. After Daffy says the slogan, the back of the Warner Bros. shield, with the words, ""Title Animation Written & Directed by Chuck Jones (with Chuck Jones' signature)"", smashes him. He peeks his head out"
"on?"" might become ""What's guh-guh-guh-guh—...what's happening?"" Porky's age varied widely in the series; originally conceived as an innocent seven-year-old piglet (explicitly mentioned as such in ""Porky's Preview""), Porky was more frequently cast as an adult, often being cast as the competent straight man in the series in later years. In the ending of many Looney Tunes cartoons, Porky Pig bursts through a bass drum head, and his attempt to close the show with ""The End"" becomes ""Th-Th-The, Th-Th-The, Th-Th... That's all, folks!"" Porky Pig would appear in 153 cartoons in the Golden age of American animation. The character was introduced"
"also been used by both Bosko and Buddy and even Beans at the end of Looney Tunes cartoons. In contrast, the Merrie Melodies series used the slogan: ""So Long, Folks!"" until the mid 1930s when it was replaced with the same one used on the ""Looney Tunes"" series (when Bugs Bunny was the closing character, he would break the pattern by simply saying, in his Brooklynese accent, ""And Dat's De End!""). He is the oldest continuing Looney Tunes character. Porky's most distinctive trait is a severe stutter, for which he sometimes compensates by replacing his words; for example, ""What's going"
"The Warner Bros. Family Entertainment logo appears with ""That's All Folks!"" written on top of it. Tweety pops up and says (in Peter Lorre's voice) ""That's All Folks!"" and the cartoon ends off. This cartoon contains the ""Looney Tunes""-logo, but the ""Merrie Melodies""-leader can be heard. It was released on the DVD set ""The Essential Bugs Bunny"", and it was released on the special edition of ""Casablanca"". Carrotblanca Carrotblanca is a 1995 8-minute Looney Tunes cartoon. It was originally shown in theaters alongside ""The Amazing Panda Adventure"" (in North America) and ""The Pebble and the Penguin"" (internationally). It was subsequently"
"Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 3 Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 3 is a DVD box set from Warner Home Video that was released on September 25, 2005. It contains 60 Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies theatrical short subject cartoons, 9 documentaries, 32 commentary tracks from animators and historians, 11 ""vintage treasures from the vault"", and 11 music-only or music-and-sound-effects audio tracks. Volume 3 is the first in the series that includes a disclaimer on the box art stating the set ""is intended for the adult collector"" and that it may not be suitable for younger audiences. Volume 3 is"
"crazy but skilled fighter has been also seen in several Three Stooges shorts, all involving Curly Howard. The most famous is from Punch Drunks, when Curly would go fighting mad whenever he heard Pop Goes the Weasel, and Moe using this to turn him into a boxing champ. A similar idea would be used in Grips, Grunts and Groans when the smell of Wild Hyacinth would make Curly even able to beat up professional wrestlers. This cartoon is notable for having a different version of the ""Looney Tunes"" end theme, as it was more energetic than the other times the"
"the beginning of each DVD in the volume given by Whoopi Goldberg which explains that the cartoons are products of their time and contain racial and ethnic stereotypes that ""were wrong then and they are wrong today"", but the cartoons are presented on the DVD uncut and uncensored because ""editing them would be the same as denying that the stereotypes existed."" A written disclaimer similar to the words spoken by Goldberg in Volume 3 is shown at the beginning of each DVD in the """", """", and """" sets, as well as the Daffy Duck and Foghorn Leghorn ""Looney Tunes"
"and returns with the Looney Tunes ""That's all folks!"" end-title card. ""The End."" Guided Muscle Guided Muscle is a 1955 Warner Bros. cartoon in the ""Looney Tunes"" series featuring Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner. Along with ""The Grey Hounded Hare"" and ""Tugboat Granny"", ""Guided Muscle"" was one of the three cartoons on the final episode of ABC's ""The Bugs Bunny & Tweety Show"", on September 2, 2000. In fact, it was the last cartoon seen in that episode. ""Introduction"": Wile E. Coyote is cooking some food in a tin bucket over a fire. He adds pepper and a"
"""The Bob Clampett Show"", the titles were replaced with title cards of a colorized Porky Pig Looney Tune, with ""The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down"" as the opening music. The Looney Tunes title card cuts to the Blue Ribbon title card with ""Merrily We Roll Along"" as title music. The Looney Tunes drum with Porky Pig saying ""That's All Folks!"", also closes the cartoon. This was done to identify the short as a Looney Tune, since the Blue Ribbon titles miscredited the short as a Merrie Melody. The opening title cards are not correct, since the 1942-43 season was the first in"
"iris out. This was the final cartoon to use the original ""bullet"" sequence for the ending titles. The next cartoon By Word of Mouse, would use smaller backgrounds for the ending titles as well. This was also the final cartoon in the 1953-54 season. http://www.bcdb.com/cartoon_story/583-Goo_Goo_Goliath.html https://web.archive.org/web/20110820064109/http://looneyviews.100megsfree4.com/reviews/5423.htm Goo Goo Goliath Goo Goo Goliath is a 1954 ""Merrie Melodies"" mockumentary cartoon short directed by Friz Freleng, which features the drunk stork (a.k.a. the """"steadfastly stinko stork"""" from Looney Tunes Golden Collection Vol. 6) as the main character. When the drunken stork delivers the wrong babies, The stork delivers a tiny baby to"
"Fudd to Cool Cat's Bugs Bunny, but was used only by Lovy. Cool Cat bears the distinction of starring in the very last cartoon produced at the original Warner Bros. Cartoons studio prior to its shutdown: ""Injun Trouble"" in 1969. His cartoons can easily be distinguished from most of the other Looney Tunes cartoons, for they feature an updated Looney Tunes logo with stylized animation, a 1967 remix of ""The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down"" by William Lava, and featuring the then-current Warner Bros.-Seven Arts logo (a combination of a simple W and 7 inside a stylized shield outline). Cool Cat reappeared"
"Bunny: Hare Extraordinare"" DVD. However, it was cropped to widescreen. It is also being shown fully screened on the """" Blu-ray box-set. It later became available on the DVD edition of the collection. Mad as a Mars Hare Mad as a Mars Hare is a 1963 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon featuring Bugs Bunny and Marvin the Martian. The cartoon's title is a play-on-words of the famous phrase to be ""mad as a March hare"", the origins of which are disputed. This is Marvin's final appearance in the Looney Tunes shorts during the Golden Age of Animation. This cartoon begins"
"hound; Bookworm, a green worm with glasses; Arnold the Pit Bull, a muscular white pit bull; Fowlmouth, a white rooster with horrid language; Barky Marky, a brown dog, and Mary Melody, a young African American human girl. Feeding off the characters are the more traditional Looney Tunes such as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Porky Pig among others. Most of the adults teach classes at Acme Looniversity and serve as mentors to the Tiny Toons while others fill secondary positions as needed. The series and the show's characters were developed by series producer, head writer and cartoonist Tom Ruegger, division"
"because he typically always has his mouth open, looking dumbfounded but Barnyard Dawg thinks Sylvester is crowing and walks off after hearing enough and Henery mistakes this for the sound of the rooster and he drags Sylvester away. However, it turns out that Foghorn was crowing, and he shows a book on ventriloquism. Foghorn tells the audience ""You gotta- I say -you gotta keep on your toes. Toes, that is!"" just before the cartoon irises out. Crowing Pains Crowing Pains is a 1947 ""Looney Tunes"" cartoon directed by Robert McKimson. The cartoon stars Henery Hawk, Sylvester, Foghorn Leghorn and the"
"is an allusion to the ""Looney Tunes"" cartoons, with Cartman assuming the role of the stuttering Porky Pig, delivering his signature line ""That's all folks!"" The use of the ""Looney Tunes"" ending has been seen as an ironic reinforcement of the fact that the episode's tragic plot has overstepped the established boundaries of cartoon comedy. It also has been viewed as a reminder about the fact that even the classic cartoons had ""a dark side in their own right."" The plot of ""Scott Tenorman Must Die"" has been compared to that of the Shakespeare tragedy ""Titus Andronicus"", in which the"
"Warner Bros. cartoon short to use the ""modern"" abstract opening and closing sequences, which would be used on all mid-1960s WB shorts, mainly produced by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises and Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Animation. This is also one of the rare Looney Tunes shorts to list the director's name first. At the close of the cartoon, when the ""modern"" close is in progress, they have the first four notes of the Westminster Quarters play to bring on the four elements of the ""WB"" lettering, then as the words ""A Warner Bros. CartOOn"" scroll appear, Big Ben chimes, and then as the OO's"
"Super Stars"" sets and the Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Academy Awards Animation Collection: Plus various one-shots, specials and appearances in anthology comics like March of Comics, Top Comics and Dell Giant from various Western Publishing imprints. The numbering of the Dell issues generally includes 3-4 appearances in Dell's Four Color comics. Looney Tunes Looney Tunes is an American animated series of comedy short films produced by Warner Bros. from 1930 to 1969 during the golden age of American animation, alongside its sister series ""Merrie Melodies"". It was known for introducing Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Elmer Fudd, Tweety, Sylvester,"
"to laugh themselves to death. The lyrics in both sequences were written specifically for the film. An instrumental version of the tune also appears in """" (1990), which opens and closes with Looney Tunes cartoons characters interacting with each other, and at the end of ""Space Jam"" (1996) and """" (2003). It is also used as the main theme to ""The Looney Tunes Show"", as well as ""New Looney Tunes"". The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down ""The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down"" is a song written in 1937 by Cliff Friend and Dave Franklin and published by Harms Inc., New York. It is best"
"""And just think! In 30 years, I can retire!"" and the cartoon ends. This cartoon is available on the ""Stars of Space Jam: Bugs Bunny"" VHS, and on the of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection Forward March Hare Forward March Hare is an animated Looney Tunes cartoon released in 1953 featuring Bugs Bunny. Bugs, accidentally drafted into the Army, causes havoc with his sergeant at basic training. The title relates to the March Hare. This cartoon was released during the final months of the Korean War. The mailman has delivered a letter to ""B. Bonny"" (Bertram Bonny), but when the"
"(except for the first one) in relation to that character's wish. Some cartoons are abridged. In 1981, a puzzle showing 105 Looney Tunes characters was issued. Among the characters there are three that never appeared in animation, identified as Hoppy, Hysterical Hyram and Minniesoda Fats. In one scene in ""Daffy Duck's Fantastic Island"" Hoppy and Hysterical Hyram are seen waiting for their chance to make their dreams come true (along with two other unidentified characters, namely a white dog and a small mouse with a hat). It is their only known appearance in animation. The movie is available as a"
"up [his] mind who's weaving these pwemises!""; however, he is interrupted by a knock at the door—Elmer's landlord serves him an eviction notice, presumably due to the excess noise. The cartoon ends with Sylvester, the kitten, and Elmer looking for food in the trash alley. Kit for Cat Kit for Cat is a 1948 ""Looney Tunes"" cartoon directed by Friz Freleng. The title is a pun on the term 'tit for tat'. The cartoon begins with Sylvester in an alley, strolling past the line of trash cans as if he is at a buffet, trying to find bits of appetizing"
"rabbititis, they'd see swirling red and yellow spots, whereupon red and yellow spots are seen swirling on the screen, and the underscore starts to build dramatically. Immediately after Bugs says, ""And then suddenly, everything'd go black!"" the screen does suddenly go black, and the music stops abruptly and dramatically, followed by a second or two of dark silence. Bugs snickers and the cartoon ends. This cartoon is found on of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection, and on of the Looney Tunes Platinum Collection. Hare Tonic Hare Tonic is a 1945 Warner Bros. cartoon in the Looney Tunes series, directed by"