Whatever happened to Looney Tunes?

[WilliamPitt]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JlVqfC8-UI

God, just great stuff. These cartoons were a staple of my existence, and it seems like I haven't seen them in forever.

[hobbit709]

1. Too expensive too make that kind of animation today.

that's why we have all those crappy cartoons now.

[WilliamPitt]

2. But why did they stop playing the old ones?

They have 40 years worth of great stuff.

[ProfessorGAC]

3. IIRC, . . .

. . .there was a copyright fight early in the decade. Lots of programmers no longer wanted to pay the escalated rights fees. So, WB basically got told to keep their cartoons.

I'm pretty sure i'm remembering this correctly. Bums me out, too.
GAC

[hobbit709]

4. Quite a few of them are not PC either.

[WilliamPitt]

5. Eleven episodes are outright gone

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loony_Tunes#Stereotypes

"The cartoons you are about to see are products of their time. They may depict some of the ethnic and racial prejudices that were commonplace in the U.S society. These depictions were wrong then and they are wrong today. While the following does not represent the Warner Bros. view of today's society, these cartoons are being presented as they were originally created, because to do otherwise would be the same as claiming that these prejudices never existed."

[hobbit709]

6. I have those 11 and a few more on my computer.

If you know the historical references and attitudes from when they are made, they are a scream.

[WilliamPitt]

7. I wish I had your computer

:(

[Ptah]

8. Ironically, the Black Lodge Singers seem to like Looney Tunes:

Black Lodge Singers- Looney Tunes - - - > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nm7FGIc6hI


"Everybody loves to laugh

Everybody loves the looney tunes"

[driver8]

11. We have re-mastered these cartoons, but not sure what they are going to do with them.

I have seen all of the censored cartoons -- we did them a few years ago.

[driver8]

9. I work at Warner Bros. -- my department re-masters the Looney Tunes.

They are available as DVD collections -- there are a bunch of them!

[WilliamPitt]

10. I figured

Just chafing at having to pay for what used to be profligately free.

And I am jealous of your job.

:)

[driver8]

12. Ha Ha -- you don't hear me complaining! n/t

[LynneSin]

30. Looney Tunes were pretty violent, what few they still show have been edited

Having Coyotes fall from cliffs, Elmer shooting a duck in the face, Yosemite Sam blowing something up with a bomb or Bugs in drag could corrupt our children.

Oddly enough I lived for those cartoons everyday and I turned out pretty non-violent.

[hobbit709]

13. you can find quite a few of them on youtube.

including the censored 11

[whistler162]

14. New York or does Rush live in Florida?

[Yavin4]

15. "Whatever happened to Looney Tunes?" They Re-Branded Themselves as The Republican Party n/t

[Bucky]

26. Here's the difference: Looney Toons actually got rid of its Censored Eleven

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censored_Eleven <== more info here

The Republicans just try to keep 'em quiet until election day rolls around.

[DinahMoeHum]

16. "Shoot the duck, Shoot the duck!!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQjcJgHvkRg

:rofl::rofl::rofl:

[Aristus]

17. I don't know the whole story, but I'm betting Warner Brothers allocated

less and less money to their animation department "Termite Terrace" throughout the early sixties. If you watch those cartoons from that time period, you see a lot of story repetition and increasingly rudimentary background illustrations. Eventually, Friz Freleng, a director of some of the best WB classic cartoons, started an animation company with a guy named DePatie. Depatie-Freleng created one good cartoon series, The Pink Panther, and a whole truckload of bad ones. A lot of them were depressing.

The studio that gave us Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, and the rest, went out with a whimper in the mid-to-late 60's.

[meow2u3]

27. Speaking of Tweety Bird, check this funny "lawsuit" against Twitter

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Td4HAz4beTg

[petronius]

18. Still here - doesn't post much...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=user_profiles&u_id=160202

[TorchTheWitch]

19. saturday mornings are not the same without them

Kid cartoons turned into major suckage decades ago and have continued downhill ever since.

[HEyHEY]

20. He's governor of Wisconsin

[JeffersonChick]

21. As a kid, I LOVED Looney Tunes - and hated Disney!

And I still do. Today's cartoons don't hold a candle to LT!

[johnnie]

22. Me too

I never liked Disney. I'm sure it is fine, but after watching Looney Tunes I never thought the Disney characters were funny or "enchanting".

[sellitman]

23. Looney Tunes? Isn't that.....

the Free Rethugnic site?

;)

[NV Whino]

24. They changed the name to Charlie Sheen.

[Mopar151]

25. I could buy that

At the moment, his personality seems to be oscillating between the Wascally Wabbit, The Tazmanian Devil, and Daffy Duck.

[NV Whino]

29. Good assessment!

[Fire Walk With Me]

28. Reality overtook them and makes them look uninteresting in comparison?

Just kidding; absolutely love the early stuff.

[meegbear]

31. Too "violent" ...

saw they a while ago on ABC on Saturday morning. For example, they had on a Sylvester/Tweety cartoon that was at Christmastime. Sylvester grabs Tweety and Tweety points a "toy gun" with a cork/string in the front. Sylvester laughs and says "I'll just pop your cork ..." At that point, they goto a still of a Christmas tree, you hear the BANG!, and then you see the after effect.

They've hacked em up.