Looney Tunes & Merrie Melodies: Now Disc: Hare Conditioned (1945)

What do you all think of the classic Warner Borthers animated shorts? What's your favorite one? Who's you favorite character and/or director?

I got the Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 1 as a gift a while back, and it's the best thing I've ever recieved. I don't see how anobody can stand to watch modern cartoons with their cheap laughs, pop culture references, and toilet humour.

I haven't seen it in a while, but my favorite short is Hillbilly Hare. It involves an incredible square-dancing sequence.

 

I love Warner Brothers cartoons. I have a huge number of favorites. I suppose "One Froggy Evening" is the best, considering there is no dialogue.

One Froggy Evening

 

I loved these shorts and still do. Favorites were always Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck. Cyote and Road Runner were the best for me though. Tweety should also get props. lol

 

You can see the genesis of Tweety in some of the older shorts; he was originally pink(!) and far more malevolent. They softened the character later, to his detriment, I think.

 

Here's early pink Tweety with Abbot and Costello: A Tale of Two Kitties

 

I loved that Tweety. I cried inside when they changed his character. But, in some ways he reminds me of that old tweety.

 

The Warner Brothers cartoons (along with the Hanna/Barbera cartoons) are the best cartoons ever. Period. I absolutely love them.


When I was working as an au-pair in France, they had this cartoons channel in TV, which played mostly the new cartoons (mostly action ones), and the two kids I was taking care of liked to watch them. But their mother didn't approve because the cartoons seemed too violent to her (I agreed with that). But then I discovered another channel, which played exclusively only the old cartoons, like the WB and H-B ones. So I got the kids watching that one instead (they both became instant fans of Captain Caveman ), and their mum was more content with it.

No need to mention that I would watch it any time the kids were at school and I didn't have anything else to do...

 

I have seen an early Tweety cartoon where he's white, too.

"A Tale of Two Kitties" obviously dates from WWII...

 

LOL

There is no way I could possibly name my favorite..there are too many. I weep for people who have never seen these uncut masterpieces. Today's cartoons?? just pale imitations..and that's being kind.

 

I love Looney Tunes. Probably my second favourite cartoon after The Simpsons.

 

I notice that the director, Chuck Jones, seems to get all the credit, but nearly all the classics were written by Micheal Maltese.

Jones also invented Pepe LePew, my very least favorite Looney Tune character.

 

Pepe is a serial sexual predator. Of course you don't like him.

 

It's not that. He's a one-joke character, and it's not even a funny joke. He smells bad. Ha. Ha.

Jones used to say that he was based on Charles Boyer, thereby proving he'd never seen a Boyer movie.

 

I'd love to see that poor cat he constantly harasses Mace him one day.

 

[mutter]Why stop at Mace?[/mutter]

 

Mace isn't enough to stop Pepe.


I can't believe that no one mentioned "The Rabbit of Seville."

HOW DO?
Welcome to my shop,
Let me cut your mop,
Let me shave your crop,
Dain-ti-ly,
Dain-ti-ly...

HEY YOU!
Don't look so perplexed,
Why must you be vexed,
Can't you see you're next?
Yes, you're next,
You're so next...

How about a nice close shave?
Teach your whiskers to behave;
Lots of lather, lots of soap,
Please hold still don't be a dope;
Now we're ready for the scraping,
There's no use to try escaping;
Yell and scream and rant and rave,
It's no use, you need sha-a-ve...

There, you're nice and clean...
Although your face looks-like-it-might-have-gone-through a ma-chine...

Oh, where do I get the wa-bbit?
Wha-t would you want with a wa-bbit?
Can't you see that I'm much swee-ter?
I'm your little se-no-ri-ter, you...
Are my type of guy...
Let me straighten your tie,
And I shall dance for you...

 

Here's the cartoon in question: The Rabbit of Seville

Brilliance...

 

If you look closely, you can see that the sack lands directly on Elmer's....well you know. I'm surprised he was even able to continue.

 

Love these cartoons. Grew up on them. I don't recall the title, but my favorite is when Daffy comes home drunk, with his invisible kangaroo buddy Hymie and they bust into the room and wake Porky up. Great stuff.

Who here has the DVD collections that have been coming out? I'm curious as to whether, or not, they're making them more politically correct. I hope not. They went back and did that with the Tom and Jerry cartoons and I wasn't too pleased about it. They're 'period' pieces and the integrity of them should be maintained, not altered.

 

I'm really surprised that no one ever mentioned Tom and Jerry while we're at it. Great moments in those toons.

 

They are MGM, not Warner Bros.

 

Yea, I knew that. I just thought they could be discussed in the same vein as Looney Toons despite who made them.

 

Turbo started this thread and limited the scope of it; this does not mean, however, that you can't start a cartoon thread for MGM...we discussed several of them in the 50 Greatest Cartoons thread...

 

Looney Tunes Volume 5 DVD comes out Oct. 30th,and they are all unedited just like the other 4 volumes.

 

So they are unedited! Sweet! I plan on getting them eventually, but wasn't going to bother wasting my money if they were edited.