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Do you think Looney Tunes is still funny?

Yeah, Speedy was a stereotype! OMG! THE HORROR!

Pepe le Pew... That girl cat should've gotten a gun. "On a very special Looney Tunes..."
 
^^ Loved Tom. Hated Jerry. :)

Actually, I was never a big fan of Tom and Jerry cartoons. Never liked Disney’s cartoon shorts either. Mickey, Pluto and Goofy were such bland, dull characters.

I love the early Fleischer Brothers stuff, especially those wonderfully risqué and surreal Betty Boop cartoons.

As for Hanna-Barbera’s made-for-TV animation, the only show of theirs I really liked was Top Cat -- a direct ripoff of The Phil Silvers Show (aka Sergeant Bilko).
 
sojourner said:
The new looney tunes has pretty good writing, but terrible voices. Everyone sounds wrong. The last good show with Looney tunes characters was Duck Dodgers. Great writing and great voice over.
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They did make Lola Bunny a redeeming character by making her looney.

I'm still not a fan of Chuck Jones' Daffy Duck. Not sure that Bugs and Daffy ever should've been paired, as they ruin each other. Daffy becomes an unlikable bitter neurotic antagonist, and Bugs is reacting to him in a dry snobbish manner rather being the wack fun character he was against foes like Fudd or Yosemite Sam.

Most classic Looney Tunes are better than anything classic Disney, except DUCK TALES, which wasn't classic Disney.
 
I would think it depends on who the director was. Stuff by Robert McKimson and, of course, Chuck Jones? Will never NOT be funny. Some of the later stuff and some of the really old racist stuff? Not funny at all.
 
Daffy vs the Crocodile, An egg sitting husband landing in trouble, a classic. [yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYra_0IboTo[/yt] and High and the Flighty, Daffy creates chaos between foghorn Leghorn and the Dog. [yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCukJEBZcRM[/yt] All just so awesome
 
BillJ said:
Yes. But I'm more of a Tom & Jerry fan.
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Tom & Jerry, to me is an example of what I was talking about earlier. Though it's hard to call the 60's T&J cartoons "modern day", they sucked as far as I'm concerned.

They were a step back in every way compared to the original Hanna & Barbera/MGM ones.

And I see where there were 2 different sets of 1960's T&J, I didn't like any of them.
 
I love the Looney Tunes (although the wartime propaganda shorts produced in the 1940s are pretty reprehensible due to their racism; it's no wonder Warner Bros. doesn't have them in wide circulation, although I think you can find many of them online).
 
Looney Tunes practically raised me for a time. When I was still too young for Star Trek, The Simpsons or even Mystery Science Theater, I watched Looney Tunes pretty much non-stop. Foghorn Leghorn was always a favorite. I liked Speedy Gonzales, partly because they showed his cartoons so infrequently that a Speedy sighting was a big deal. Bugs and Daffy go without saying. They were all great, though I admit to finding Pepe Le Pew cartoons too one-note on the whole.

I also have a deep abiding love for the Warner Brothers cartoons made in the 90's, particularly Animaniacs, which I felt embodied the spirit of the Looney Tunes in a way that nothing done with those original characters since has even come close to.
 
the G-man said:
Some of the later stuff and some of the really old racist stuff? Not funny at all.
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I assume you’re referring to cartoons like Bob Clampett’s infamous Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs? I can appreciate it as a product of a different time, and because its creators had no hateful or malicious intent — in fact, the cartoon was inspired by a suggestion made by Duke Ellington, and it was meant as a tribute to jazz and the all-black jazz musical films popular in the early 1940s.

As for the blatantly racist depictions of the Japanese in wartime cartoons — well, this was war, dammit!
 
Don't forget the Tex Avery originals. I used to love the "world of tomorrow" stuff he did and his wolf/coyote stuff. Never liked Droopy though. He was just a downer.
 
Looney Tunes is always funny, I fully intend to have my kids watch them instead of whatever crappy cartoon exists at the time. I probably will make my kids watch Transformers and GI. Joe as well. I will probably just have them watching all old cartoons. I have seen the new Looney Tunes and noticed Daffy has a regular girlfriend and they are drawn a little differently.
 
I actually didn't discover my love for the Looney Tunes until I watched a documentary on Chuck Jones when I was 20 years old. One of the clips they showed during that feature was the one with the trees from "Robin Hood Daffy". I immediately fell in love.

So, yes, the Looney Tunes are still funny. I'd say even more so when you get older, as you tend to notice more details.
 
Some of the gags in the wartime ones require explanation. Luckily my folks were around to tell me what an "A-Card" was and stuff like that. Some of the period-culture references, catch phrases (and caricatures of period actors) still elude me, but they're usually only one gag in a barrage of other really funny stuff, so what the heck. I guess current and future generations will miss all the period references unless they care to research them.

I think once the cartoons evolved into saturday morning kids' fare, they lost their edge and became less funny. I too don't really care the Roadrunner shorts and most of the 60s cartoons.
 
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