Do you think Looney Tunes is still funny?
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Correct. When I refer to some of the old cartoons as "racist," understand I realize that the creators probably did not have the malicious intent we would impute today.
However, regardless of their intent, in a modern context some of those shorts are no longer funny.
Guess the Jack Benny as a mouse cartoon would be a prime example but Wikipedia makes a good starting point
Recently I've been seeing a lot of "greatest" lists around the interwebz having to do with voice actors. Mel Blanc isn't at the top of a single one of them. What the hell is wrong with people?
The Bugs Bunny Show debuted in prime time on the ABC network in 1960, and moved to Saturday mornings in 1962. Only the opening and closing credits and brief linking bits were created for television; the bulk of the show consisted of WB’s theatrical cartoons, none of which were originally made for children‘s TV.
In 1963-64, after the Warners animation unit had closed down, the studio contracted with DePatie-Freleng Studios to produce a series of 24 cartoons using WB characters. They weren’t very good, and most cartoon aficionados don’t consider them “real” Warner Brothers cartoons.
There were also eleven Road Runner shorts produced by Format Films (the studio that did the original Chipmunk cartoons). Nobody would mistake these mediocre efforts for Chuck Jones’ work at WB.
Yeah, like pretty much everyone else, I still find them to be some of the funniest stuff every produced.
They also make me wish that cinemas would still show short films before the main features (Pixar still does it and WB have done it for a few films last year, but it should be more common).
They also make me wish that cinemas would still show short films before the main features (Pixar still does it and WB have done it for a few films last year, but it should be more common).
They do. They just call them "commercials" now.
I don't have any of the DVD collections. However, sometime in the eighties I rented some of the VHS collections. It was the first time I had seen many of those shorts uncut. They are phenomenally funny. Twice as violent and twice as funny as the versions that aired on TV.
Are the DVDs uncensored? If so I may have to put them on my to do list.
Are the DVDs uncensored? If so I may have to put them on my to do list.
I want you to be joking and yet I do not think you are.
I haven't seen any of the lists to which you refer, but I'll guess that neither is June Foray.
I just let that part run with the sound off while I go make some hot chocolate.
The best of Looney Tunes is still some of the best comedy in existence.
That's how I see it.
That's how I see it.
Who, BTW, is still alive and still doing voice work — at 94! God bless the old girl.
“Hot chocolate”? That’s racist!
Screw political correctness and screw Whoopi Goldberg and the horse she rode in on.
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