No doubt! I used to love getting up on Saturday mornings and watching Rocky & Bullwinkle, Superfriends, Looney Tunes, et al. Nowadays Saturday mornings are populated with news programs and really cheesy tween sitcoms. [Sigh...]
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LOONEY TUNES 70th ANNIVERSARY CHARACTER ARCHIVE During every month of 2000, a different important Looney Tunes character was featured on the main page in honor of the 70th anniversary of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons. Below is an archive of all the previous character histories. Jan.: BOSKO It all began with Bosko. Hugh Harman and Rudolph Ising sold a pilot cartoon short called "Bosko the Talk-Ink Kid" to Leon Schlesinger in 1929. In 1930, the first Looney Tunes cartoon, "Sinkin' in the Bathtub", was released. Bosko's cartoons often featured popular songs from Warner Bros. films of the day. They also usually featured Bosko's girlfriend, Honey, and his dog Bruno. The cartoons were so well received that a second series of cartoons called Merrie Melodies soon followed. Bosko's career at Warner Bros. came to an end in 1933 when Harman and Ising moved to MGM, taking Bosko with them. Listen to Bosko sing "We're in the Money" from "Bosko's Picture Show" in RealAudio: click here! [size=-1]More information on Bosko can be found at E.O. Costello's WB Cartoon Companion[size=+0] [/size][/size]Feb.: PORKY PIG When a shy, stuttering pig was introduced as part of the "Our Gang" group of animals in 1935's "I Haven't Got a Hat", no one could have guessed he would go on to become one of WB's biggest cartoon stars. Before Porky came along, it was a character named Buddy who was keeping the WB cartoon studio afloat in the absence of Bosko. Unfortunately, Buddy failed to generate much interest with audiences. However, when Tex Avery arrived, he looked through some of the studios' previous shorts and came across Porky Pig and Beans the Cat. Avery had the Pig star in 1936's "Gold Diggers of '49" and he was a hit. In the years that followed, Avery along with Frank Tashlin and Bob Clampett developed the character into the one we all know today. Chuck Jones used Porky as Daffy's sidekick in various cartoons in the 1950s. Porky was cast as the "Comic Relief" in "Dripalong Daffy" and the "Eager Young Space Cadet" in "Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2th Century". Of course, Porky will be forever known for the line that closed hundreds of WB shorts: "Th-th-th-that's all, folks!". Listen to Porky and Petunia sing "Something Good Will Come From That" from "Naughty Neighbors" in RealAudio: click here! Read about Porky Pig's TV show from the 1960s on the Other TV Shows page! [size=-1]More information on Porky can be found at E.O. Costello's WB Cartoon Companion[size=+0] [/size][/size]Mar.: DAFFY DUCK Porky went duck hunting in 1937's "Porky's Duck Hunt" and met up with one of the craziest characters in cartoon history. At the time no one had seen any cartoon character quite like Daffy Duck. It was the response to Daffy's crazy antics that led to the creation of wilder and funnier Warner Bros. cartoons. In the hands of Tex Avery, Bob Clampett, Frank Tashlin, Friz Freleng, Art Davis, and Robert McKimson the crazy duck would star in some of the greatest cartoons of all time. As time went on, Daffy was transformed by Chuck Jones into a more greedy and easily frustrated duck in many famous cartoons like "Duck Amuck" and "Duck Dodgers". In the later DePatie-Freleng produced cartoons of the 1960s, Daffy was cast in the unlikely role of Speedy Gonzales' enemy in many cartoons. Listen to Daffy sing some of his greatest hits in RealAudio: click here! Read about Daffy's TV shows on the Other TV Shows page! [size=-1]More information on Daffy can be found at E.O. Costello's WB Cartoon Companion[size=+0] New Daffy Sounds in RealAudio!: "Daffy Doodles" | "The Upstanding Sitter" [/size][/size]
Apr.: ELMER FUDD Elmer Fudd's origins can be traced to an earlier character created by Tex Avery named Egghead. Egghead was a little fellow with a derby hat and who occasionally spoke with a voice similar to radio personality Joe Penner. In 1938's "A Feud There Was", Egghead is called "Elmer Fudd, Peacemaker". Over time, Egghead transformed into the Fudd we are familiar with today. In the first real Elmer cartoon, "Elmer's Candid Camera" in 1940, Fudd is actually wearing the same derby and clothes Egghead used to. Elmer appears in his trademark hunting clothes in the first Bugs cartoon, also from 1940, "A Wild Hare". Arthur Q. Bryan was the one who provided Fudd's famous voice. [size=-1]More information on Elmer and Egghead can be found at E.O. Costello's WB Cartoon Companion[size=+0] [/size][/size]May: BUGS BUNNY Not only is 2000 the 70th Anniversary of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies, it is also the 60th Anniversary of Bugs Bunny who first appeared in the 1940 cartoon "A Wild Hare". A crazy hare character had appeared in a few cartoons prior to "A Wild Hare" (starting with 1938's "Porky's Hare Hunt"), but it is Tex Avery's 1940 cartoon that is considered the first real Bugs cartoon. Bugs became one of the most popular cartoon characters ever created and is still well known to this day. [size=-1]More information on Bugs Bunny can be found at E.O. Costello's WB Cartoon Companion[size=+0] [/size][/size]Jun.: TWEETY and SYLVESTER Tweety made his first cartoon appearance in 1942's "A Tale of Two Kitties" directed by Bob Clampett, a film co-starring two cats who were caricatures of popular comedians Abbott and Costello. Sylvester appeared for the first time in 1945 in the cartoon "Life With Feathers" directed by Friz Freleng. It wasn't until 1947 that the two characters were paired and cartoon history was made. 1947's "Tweetie Pie", directed by Freleng, won an Academy Award and led to one of the most popular series of Warner Bros. shorts. Friz Freleng directed every Tweety and Sylvester cartoon with the exception of "Hawaiian Aye Aye" (1964) which was directed by Gerry Chiniquy. In addition to his appearances with Tweety, Sylvester appeared with numerous other famous WB characters. He was Porky Pig's "scaredy cat" in a trio of cartoons from Chuck Jones. Sylvester often appeared with his easily embarrassed son, Sylvester Jr.; Hippety Hopper, the baby kangaroo who was always confused for a "giant mouse"; and the "fastest mouse in all Mexico", Speedy Gonzales. Jul.: PRIVATE SNAFU Private Snafu was a character created by the WB cartoon studio during World War II to be featured in short cartoons which were only seen by U.S. soldiers as part of The Army-Navy Screen Magazine. Many of the cartoons had a message for the troops, usually with Snafu (his name stands for "Situation Normal All Fouled (or another F-word) Up") showing the viewers what they SHOULDN'T do. Sometimes, Snafu would see the error of his ways thanks to Technical Fairy First Class, a tough little fairy who smoked a cigar. See clips of Snafu (and another WWII cartoon character, Mr. Hook) in RealVideo on the Misce-LOONEY-ous: Rare Cartoons page. [size=-1]More information on Private Snafu can be found at E.O. Costello's WB Cartoon Companion[/size] Aug.: PEPE LE PEW
Aug.: PEPE LE PEW The romantic French skunk, Pepe Le Pew, first appeared in Chuck Jones' 1945 cartoon "Odor-able Kitty". Pepe was a skunk looking for love...usually in the form of a poor female cat who somehow got a white stripe painted down her back. This was the plot of the majority of Pepe's cartoons with only changes made to the location of the chase (such as a movie studio, zoo, museum, the Matterhorn, etc.). Pepe's original name was "Stinky". This name appeared on model sheets and on the skunk's mailbox in his second cartoon: "Scent-imental Over You". The Le Pew cartoon, "For Scent-imental Reasons" won an Academy Award in 1949. [size=-1]More information on Pepe Le Pew can be found at E.O. Costello's WB Cartoon Companion[/size] Sept.: YOSEMITE SAM One of Bugs Bunny's most memorable foes was the loud, short-tempered cowboy, Yosemite Sam. Sam first appeared in Friz Freleng's 1945 cartoon "Hare Trigger". Through the years, Freleng would put Sam in a variety of roles (some of which included a pirate, Viking, and knight). Yosemite also co-starred with Bugs in the rabbit's Oscar-winning short, "Knighty Knight Bugs" (1958). The 1962 cartoon, "Honey's Money", was Sam's only appearance without either Bugs or Daffy. [size=-1]More information on Yosemite Sam can be found at E.O. Costello's WB Cartoon Companion[/size] Oct.: FOGHORN LEGHORN Robert McKimson introduced Foghorn Leghorn to the world in the 1946's "Walky Talky Hawky". The short was originally intended to star Henery Hawk, a character created in 1942 by Chuck Jones. However, it was the loudmouthed rooster who stole the show. "Walky Talky Hawky" was even nominated for an Academy Award that year. Through the years, McKimson introduced a number of new and memorable characters into the Foghorn Leghorn shorts including the Barnyard Dog, Miss Prissy, Egghead Jr., and the Weasel. [size=-1]Click here to visit a website all about Foghorn and friends: One Foggy Site More information on Foghorn Leghorn can be found at E.O. Costello's WB Cartoon Companion.[/size] Nov.: ROAD RUNNER and WILE E. COYOTE The classic chase between Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner has been going on since Chuck Jones' 1949 cartoon "Fast and Furry-ous". The speedy, silent (except for his trademark "Beep! Beep!") Road Runner and the Coyote with his never-ending series of backfiring schemes and gadgets have been popular with audiences ever since their debut. The 1961 cartoon, "Beep Prepared", was nominated for an Academy Award that year. After Jones had left the Warner Bros. studio, the Road Runner series was continued by directors Rudy Larriva and Robert McKimson. In 1966 the Road Runner and Coyote became television stars with The Road Runner Show and later with The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour. Chuck Jones directed three more recent short cartoons featuring Wile E. and Road Runner: "Freeze Frame" (1979), "Soup or Sonic" (1980), and "Chariots of Fur" (1994). An all-new Road Runner cartoon called "Little Go Beep" (which has yet to be released) will give us a look at the two as babies. [size=-1]More information on Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote can be found at E.O. Costello's WB Cartoon Companion.[/size] Dec.: SPEEDY GONZALES Speedy Gonzales, the fastest mouse in all Mexico, was one of the last major Looney Tunes cartoon stars to emerge from Warner Bros. Speedy first appeared in Robert McKimson's 1953 cartoon "Cat-Tails For Two". In that cartoon, Speedy looked much different than how we know him today. Friz Freleng revived and redesigned Speedy two years later for the cartoon "Speedy Gonzales". "Speedy Gonzales" won an Academy Award leading to a series of Gonzales cartoons. Speedy was usually paired with Sylvester and always came out on top. Two other Speedy cartoons, "Tabasco Road" (1957) and "The Pied Piper of Guadalupe" (1961), were nominated for Academy Awards. During the late 1960s, Speedy was paired with Daffy Duck in a number of cartoons. That's all, folks!
They weren't too violent for years and now they are? And I'm sure they had high ratings. It's stupid to stop playing something with high ratings. I don't understand this.
That was a bit of a difrent america then . and by the way they have been ban for quite a while now. You can still watch them on pay cable.
you know, I find it funny....For years, these cartoons were acceptable. Children were more mature, more intelligent, more compassionate, and had a stronger grasp of reality. Kids these days are sheltered from almost everything, but apparently, having almost a culture shock when you are 18 years old, because life isn't like the sugar-coated cartoons you watched as a child....That's acceptable... Let's bring back the funnies! The FUNNY funnies!
