In strange brew his voice played Doug Mackenzie’s father. I’m assuming because they felt Brian Doyle Murray’s didn’t have the proper Canadian je nais quo…
There's an episode of Ren & Stimpy where the boys are handed off to "Grampa" (naked old man with chicken leg on his head) and he starts whistling "In the Hall of the Mountain King", and my dad absolutely hit the roof that someone would sneak that into a children's cartoon.
I grew up only having antenna TV (cable wasn’t in the budget) - it took an embarrassing amount of time to realize that rather than have a frustrated spouse 18 Sundays a year due to the NFL plan to make streaming games impossible, we could just buy an antenna.
I bought several seasons of looney tunes when my kids were little. Something I totally forgot I did till my kids reminded me and I was like damn that was so smart
I had a disc in Season 2 of Battlestar Galactica Blu Ray that had disc rot. Slightly bronzed ring around a 1/4 of the disc radius so not just DVD and not just Warner Bros!
I had 3 or 4 orders I've been expecting, including the instant train tunnel, set of the rocket rollerskates, jet- propelled unicycle (tre cool), and another - maybe the giant rubber bands? I really must stop drunk ordering at 3 am.
On the other hand, nobody younger than 30 knows that “puss” meant “face” in the world of Mid-20th-Century American cartoonery; for them, it’s always gonna mean “vagina” and, well, we grown-ups have failed them once more.
Into the memory hole with you, Looney Tunes. Bring on the stuttering pig
Old (classic) Looney Tunes cartoons are not inaccessible at all🤷🏻♂️ I still watch them all the time. They are still fully available on multiple streaming platforms.
I've got most of them ripped to my personal media server for situations like this. I bought the DVD collections first if the copyright hounds are baying.
I always loved the style of Bugs Bunny going to the Mad Scientist's Castle and doing the orange hairy monster's hair. Just an incredibly beautiful, well drawn episode.
It was unfortunately late in life that I realized the Looney Tunes joke about “I’m gonna love him, and hug him, and squeeze him and call him George” was a reference to Of Mice and Men.
There is no loss of access to old Looney Tunes cartoons. In fact it's the opposite. It's much easier now than ever before to watch old Looney Tunes cartoons, and in much higher quality, and including many that I never got to see as a kid in the 70's.
This is why people should start buying DVDs and blu-rays. I got the Golden Collections V1 and V2 on DVD in 2009 and Platinum Collections 1 to 3 on blu-ray back in 2016.
Wait? They deleted access to classic Loony Toons? Why? What's their stupid reasoning? Also who has dvd's and vhs's? We need to start throwing Saturday morning zoom gatherings, where we all tune in in our pjs on zoom and watch some classics. Please invite me if you do this <3
As a kid, watching Looney Tunes, I always felt so proud that he mentioned Albuquerque. Immediately I thought about the Big-I. Also the landscape in every Roadrunner'n'coyote cartoon is so familiar.
Heh, I actually know someone who got into research specifically because as a kid he wanted to know how Acme could come up with all those inventions, even if Wile E never got them to work.
I was looking for a voice for one of my NPC monsters for my D&D game. It's a giant spider familiar creature. After trying out several voices I settled on Peter Lorre!🤣
Many years ago, my family and I went to a Six Flags amusement park. We were walking around and I spotted both Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck. I turned to Daffy, pointed to Bugs, and said, "Wabbit Season". Bugs turned to Daffy and they were pointing at each other. 😂🤣
After several years when my grandsons watched LT discs with me, I took them to “Barber of Seville.” After, I asked the older if his classmates would know that Bugs got his music from this opera. He expressed doubt that they would know who Bugs Bunny was.
If I ever was a billionaire, this would be the stuff I would save after feeding people and saving all the things that have been dismantled. Save the Arts. Save Bugs Bunny.
They are all still fully available on streaming platforms like AmazonPrimeVideo and Peacock and HBO/MAX🤷🏻♂️ I still watch them every Saturday/Sunday morning.
I did make a correction to my reply…. He was correct that there are not and of the “classic” (original) Looney Tunes cartoons on MAX… the Looney Tunes they have are all “new” iterations. Though if you like The Jetsons… MAX does have those!
I've got a good chunk on DVD, though given the news that's come out about Warner Bros DVDs rotting away early, I might need to see if the same collections are available on Blu-ray. Ditto Animaniacs and Tiny Toon Adventures.
Or not quite escape. Late ‘50s it comes out clean too baby. It is it just like is vibration, but my guess is the ultrasonic thing I’ll get it mainframe
Someone did an amazing thread on Twitter years ago doing a deep dive into all (many) of the classical music pieces in Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies and how it was so many kids’ introduction to the genre
That would be @nonsenseisland.bsky.social. I still keep my old account just so that I can reference that thread. Vincent, could you please repost here?
Back in the 90s, my brother and I went to see, “Les Cages Aux Bugs”. It was a compilation of every episode that Bugs was dressed in drag & singing. Phenomenal.
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"By the shores of Gitche Gumee..."
https://archive.org/details/looney-tunes-merrie-melodies-archive
Or Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves?
B: (Sigh) What did Zaslav do this time?
I just received an Acme box.
Into the memory hole with you, Looney Tunes. Bring on the stuttering pig
It's just that the dog stops punching the Coyote after it's time to clock out
I literally own some of them.
Yours,
An interesting monster with an interesting hair-do.
Where's da wabbit . . . Where's da wabbit ...?
There’s a free archive here:
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Now then, what gluten-free cereal to pair with this? 🤔
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Sinatra too!!!
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It was subliminal messaging and conditioning.
Appalling stuff
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