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I actually got a little teary eyed remembering Marc Antony and that kitten. You're right; I'm one of those people who can't help but cry when I watch that one. I just find it SO sad when he puts the cookie on his back, thinking that's all he has left of his friend. 😢
Fun fact: Marvin the Martian didn't have an official name back in the early Looney Tunes shorts. His given name from Chuck Jones (Antwerp) was never used in any cartoon. It wasn't until the big marketing boom of the 'Tunes in the 70s and 80s where WB gave him the name Marvin when putting him on merchandise.
If I remember correctly one marketing name that was weird for the Looney tunes was for Michigan J Frog (the singing frog) were they tried to call him Rico I don't know if it's out there anymore I mean it's the internet it's gotta be their somewhere but who thought a singing frog should be called Rico
Now that explains why I never actually learned about his name from the cartoon until I read a KFC kids magazine in the 90's where I first saw his name.
I do believe you're right. But the background was back in the day all these companies in real life were in a rush to be the first in the phone book so you'd get like ACME Pawn, ACME Truck and Tool, or ACME Toiletries. ACME turned out an eye catching yet generic name perfect for Looney Tunes.
@@michaelkaminski84 so the achronym is apparently a misconception. I don't know where I heard it though. I believe while it's not the originally intended meaning it could still be a valid one. I also think it was written A.C.M.E. in some cases, unless I'm mistaking.
Just hearing them talk about Looney Tunes is mesmerizing, but I really would like to see them dive into the lesser directors' works, with some of them being more incredible than they are given the credit for. Bob McKimson had the roaring Foghorn Leghorn, some really compassionate takes on Hollywood and TV at the time, Bugs Bunny taking on the ENTIRE USA, really unapologetically wild stuff; Art Davis gave some pretty cool one-off cartoons, really zany yet on-model character animations, some unusual settings and really witty writings!
Bob Clampett is probably the wildest of the directors. His trademarks are extremely exaggerated motions and highly surreal plots/settings. Some of his highlights are Draftee Daffy (the little man from the draft board), The Great Piggy Bank Robbery ("Duck Twacy"), and Porky In Wackyland, a black-and-white cartoon that is straight-up Dali imagery.
Nobody mentioned Foghorn Leghorn? Okay, I'll shut up. I'm not one that has to keep talkin'. Some fellas just have to keep their mouths flappin', but not me! I was brought up right, my pa used to tell me "shut up" and I'd shut up! I wouldn't say nothin'! One time, darn-near starved to death
The Dover Boys Of Pimento University is my all-time favorite Looney Tunes cartoon, the animation is perfect, the comedy is perfect, the voice work is spot on, Dan Backslide is one of the funniest villains ever. "A runabout? I'll STEAL IT!!! NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW!!!!!"
My favorite Looney tunes gag is just Daffy Duck himself. I always thought he had the best lines and expressions. Especially the older stuff where he's held up as being insane.
That's because they were. Original Looney Toons were aired before films in the theater. They were little comedies before the main event, before they just started airing trailers for other movies.
Pixar paid their respects to Looney Toons in Monsters Inc. The scene when Sully thinks Boo dies in the trash compactor. It is very similar to the scene with the Dog and Kitten.
Hanna-Barbera did,too, in CARRY ON, NURSE FRED, an early Pebbles, in the scene where she is wadering inot a laundry mat..the entire story of the Looney Tune, actually Merrie Melodie, based on MGM's "CHIPS OFF THE OLD BLOCK, which had a Donald like cat protecting kittens... but the next few with the dog and kitten showed h0we versatile the brief pet series could be, with a more impatient, sarcastic mastrr (Mel Blanc in the first and Bob C.Bruce in the second, respectively KISS ME KAT and FELINE FRAME UP) as a secondary character (Bruce narrated a lot of the studio's 40s and 50s shorts)
I love the one where Daffy gambles away all of his and Porky's hotel room money and try to sneak out without paying despite being stalked by the savvy and intimidating manager. Then they get sent to jail and Daffy has the idea to call Bugs to get them out and it turns out Bugs is in the cell next to them!
U1GX It’s quite complicated but basically Doug, Rob and the guy who runs Channel Awesome where accused of mistreating their employees. There’s a big document of all the allegations against them somewhere on the internet. This led to 95% of the other RU-vidrs in Channel Awesome leaving. So people like Linkara.
I remember when Foghorn Leghorn accidentally blew up the dog's house in "The Foghorn Leghorn and the Henery Hawk." Looney Tunes was perfect. *WHY YOU! TAKE THAT! AND THAT! AND THAT! YOU GOOD FOR NOTHING CHICKEN!!!!*
Thanks guys! This was such a hysterical video! Btw that shot with Marvin turning around with intense hatred towards K9 the dog is a meme in the making...ROFL!
I could listen to these four talking Looney Tunes all damn day! They’re clearly having such a great time together. Nothing like true fans getting super into conversing about one of their favorite subjects. So much fun!🖤
He blew his budget on his state of the art database system. And his video rental store in the Voorhees Mall hasn't been making a profit since the market died.
This video was a lot of fun to watch. My dad loves classical music very much, but I also listened to a lot of it in cartoons growing up, and especially watching Looney Tunes. I love a lot of types of music, but I really do love classical music very much. As I get older, I learn to appreciated it even more. Anyways, ... Great Video mah brothaz!
Maybe they all came over to do a crossover for AVGN, then James was like, hey guys, check out my video store set, then Doug was like, lets shoot something right now! We all like Looney tunes, we can talk about it. James probably said; sure, but your editing and uploading it. :P
This is what made me appreciate how good cartoons can be as a kid. I love the original Looney Tunes shorts with Bugs Bunny being my favorite of them. One of my favorite cartoons of all time still as well.
I remember my dad laughing his ass off at the one where Bugs is the Easter bunny. There's this maniac little kid (who is sucking a pistol as a pacifier when Bugs enters) that keeps beating on him throughout the episode shouting, "I wanna Easter egg I wanna Easter egg!!!" Eventually Bugs paints Elmer's head like an Easter egg and whistles for the kid, and he starts beating the shit out of Elmer's head with a hammer. Lol. RIP Dad. That was your fave.
There's an episode where WILE E. COYOTE lights up a bomb. The moment the match touches the fuse, the bomb explodes. It's not just funny; it's smart because it subverts our expectations. Actually, subversion is usually done when something has been used for a long time. This episode is from the 40s, where bombs hadn't been used for that long in cartoons. In that sense, this joke was ahead of its time.
The best part of that joke is the build up. We see this long, twisty track the coyote built and he has the bomb at the top. You think it's gonna roll down the track, fly back, land on him and explode, but nope. It just explodes immediately. It kills me every time.
ACME basically stands for: "A Company that Manufactures Everything" And i bet that ACME as a company in the roadrunner and coyote shorts was used with that acronym in mind. I think it's funny.
Bugs Bunny will always be my favorite cartoon character. My favorite shorts are the Rabbit Season trilogy or whatever you want to call it. Particularly is Rabbit Duck Rabbit
I like all of the Bugs Bunny cartoons. My favorite is "Buckaroo Bugs" (I have it on 8mm) and "What's Opera Doc?" (I have it on 16mm). The worst Bugs Bunny cartoon is "The Heckling Hare" (I have it on 16mm) and the ending sucks.
so many great Looney Tunes memories. In Canada in the 80s and 90s every Saturday afternoon at 5pm, Global TV always showed The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show. often I'd be eating dinner alongside watching it, and it never mattered how many times I'd seen these episodes I always watched them. I also grew up in a small town that had a one screen movie theatre, and when they'd show Saturday matinees of family/kids movies, they'd always play a Looney Tunes cartoon before the feature. I miss those days.
Just a couple of clips and descriptions, that still made me laugh really loud. I've gotta check out as much as I can from Looney Tunes as soon as possible.
This was freaking awesome, it was more entertaining than I thought to listen to four guys talk about Looney Tunes, hope you get together again and talk about more classic cartoons
I can't believe how much I enjoyed listening to you guys talk about an old cartoon. I watched it all the time when i was little too! Yeah! please do more videos together!
My mom and I love that line. Along with how it opens the same way as most of the Elmer Fudd cartoons with his Be vewy quiet I'm hunting wabbits and Kill the wabbit singing opera. My mom explained about how the last one is a satire to the original opera's Kill the bad guy
I was a six year old FRENCH CANADIAN kid watching Bugs Bunny retell the events of the american revolution. I couldn't speak a single word of english and had ZERO historical understanding of the events being told. To me, it was like watching a weird dadaist comedy sketch written by Andy Warhol.
It's not that Looney Tunes understood that children have a mordid sense of humor, but rather the fact that the cartoons - especially the older ones - were aimed at adults and often shown in theaters before the main attraction.
