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Favorite/best Looney tunes/Merrie melodies cartoon.

MatthewMatthew Registered User regular
edited September 2007 in Debate and/or Discourse
As I sit here, my copy of the Looney Tunes Golden collection vol.1 is playing on TV, with the "Bunny of Seville" playing. It, Along with my revcent finding of this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTSOjbp0Hs0
I have been thinking about these toons alot recently.

So tell me, what, in your guys minds were the best, or just your favorite, outing of Bugs, Daffy, Porky, and all there various pals, tools, and moronic targets?

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  • HF-kunHF-kun __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2007
    That was the exact same one I was thinking of when I first read the thread title.

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  • MalaysianShrewMalaysianShrew Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    I always enjoyed the one with Daffy where they break the forth wall and the animator keeps erasing his body and redrawing it and redrawing the setting.

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  • Aroused BullAroused Bull Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    MalaysianShrew wrote: »
    I always enjoyed the one with Daffy where they break the forth wall and the animator keeps erasing his body and redrawing it and redrawing the setting.
    That's a classic.

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  • MatthewMatthew Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    I believe that's "Duck Amuck." It's on Golden Collection volume 1. And yes, it is a classic.

    Poor Daffy, destined to play second fiddle to Bugs, and under almost constant abuse as he attempts to prove that it is HE! NOT THAT RABBIT! Who is the real star!

    Of course, if Daffy started winning, he wouldn't be as funny.

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  • KupiKupi Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    ArrBeeBee wrote: »
    MalaysianShrew wrote: »
    I always enjoyed the one with Daffy where they break the forth wall and the animator keeps erasing his body and redrawing it and redrawing the setting.
    That's a classic.

    It's called "Duck Amuck". It's pretty much the quintessential cartoon in my eyes, since it's self-admittedly silly and absurd.

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  • FencingsaxFencingsax It is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understanding GNU Terry PratchettRegistered User regular
    edited September 2007
    Duck Amuck. Chuck Jones' "Seasonal Trilogy", Rabbit of Seville, What's Opera, Doc?

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  • FoodFood Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    I remember being somewhat disturbed as a kid by a Foghorn Leghorn cartoon where this younger chicken would try to kill himself in various comical ways, only to be foiled again and again. Does anyone else know what I'm talking about?

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  • IreneDAdlerIreneDAdler Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    Fencingsax wrote: »
    What's Opera, Doc?

    Best 10(?) minutes of animation ever.

    EVER.

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  • LavaKnightLavaKnight Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    IreneDAdler wrote: »
    Fencingsax wrote: »
    What's Opera, Doc?

    Best 10(?) minutes of animation ever.

    EVER.

    Kill da waaaaabit, kill da waaaabit!

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  • AbsurdistAbsurdist Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    I like all the WWII-era ones with Bugs and Daffy making the Germans/Japanese look like fools. Too bad those are practically impossible to find.

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  • IreneDAdlerIreneDAdler Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    Absurdist wrote: »
    I like all the WWII-era ones with Bugs and Daffy making the Germans/Japanese look like fools. Too bad those are practically impossible to find.

    I know it's hard to think kindly of people who are trying to kill your friends and loved ones, but those always bothered me a little, because of the blatant propaganda. It seems very immature and petty to me. Also, the Japanese ones tend to be just a little itty bitty racist, which gets under my skin a little, since I'm Asian. I would go into more detail, but I really don't want to derail this thread.

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  • Rabid_LlamaRabid_Llama Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    Absurdist wrote: »
    I like all the WWII-era ones with Bugs and Daffy making the Germans/Japanese look like fools. Too bad those are practically impossible to find.

    I seem to remember them showing a bunch of them in the cafeteria one day way back when I was in middle school. They were pretty great.

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    edited September 2007
    You guys do know that there's a DS game in the works based on Duck Amuck, right?

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  • SamiSami Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    The Tom and Jerry episode where they go to a construction site.

    Oh man.

    Ohhhh man.

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    edited September 2007
    Another classic: Bug's Bonnets.
    I wish I had a video link. It's the one where Bugs and Elmer change personalities when they change hats.

    And speaking of Elmer: Rabbit Fire. It's where "Duck Season!" "Wabbit Season!" come from.

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    every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.

    the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
  • Aroused BullAroused Bull Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    Sami wrote: »
    The Tom and Jerry episode where they go to a construction site.

    Oh man.

    Ohhhh man.

    I've seen a lot of Tom & Jerry, but I don't think I've seen this one. Do you know what it's called?

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  • DanHibikiDanHibiki Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    I'm going to go with Bunny Hugged

    Great episode.

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  • amateurhouramateurhour One day I'll be professionalhour The woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered User regular
    edited September 2007
    Tom and jerry was some seriously racist shit. I won't lie, the cartoons where it was just the cat and mouse were great, but they always kept bringing in the maid who couldn't talk with proper grammer and they even went as far as to put blackface on the fucking cartoon.

    Aside from that I loved the hell out of old looney toons, my favorites are

    1) Anything with Wil E. Coyote and Roadrunner

    2) Anything with Duck Dodgers or Marvin the Martian.

    3) Any T & J cartoon or Bugs Bunny Cartoon where one of them dressed as a cowboy, rolled a cigarette, and smoked it on camera. God I love that everyone was cool with selling smokes to kids back then.

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  • TigressTigress Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    "Yoikes! And away!"
    "I'll beat you with my quarter-staff! (Actually, it's a buck-and-a-quarter-staff. But I'm not telling him that.)"

    Best take on Robin Hood ever!

    Vyolynce and I seriously need to pick those volumes up now that Looney Tunes was moved from Cartoon Network to Boomerang to make room for more Scooby Doo.

    Also... Pussyfoots!

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  • EmperorSethEmperorSeth Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    Tigress wrote: »
    "Yoikes! And away!"
    "I'll beat you with my quarter-staff! (Actually, it's a buck-and-a-quarter-staff. But I'm not telling him that.)"

    Best take on Robin Hood ever!

    I was just about to suggest the same one. I know it's just a Road Runner cartoon with Daffy in the title role, but it was perfect.

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  • ForarForar #432 Toronto, Ontario, CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited September 2007
    What's Opera, Doc is among my altime favourites. I've always loved anything with Wile E. Coyote for his traps, and an extended one that comes to mind with Foghorn Leghorn and a Rube Goldberg contraption that goes on for what seems to be an eternity.

    Also, the one where the mice explain economic theory is pure gold.

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  • IShallRiseAgainIShallRiseAgain Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    amateurhour wrote: »
    Tom and jerry was some seriously racist shit. I won't lie, the cartoons where it was just the cat and mouse were great, but they always kept bringing in the maid who couldn't talk with proper grammer and they even went as far as to put blackface on the fucking cartoon.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40VFcJTIduw???

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  • shutzshutz Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    One of my favorites is the one with the Opera signer who's practicing for the opera later that night, and keeps getting interrupted by Bugs Bunny, and later on, when the singer's on stage, Bugs Bunny shows up as the conductor "Leopold".

    I think I love that one even more than "What's Opera, Doc?" Anyone remember the title to the "Leopold" cartoon?

    Also, about 10 years ago (maybe more?) I saw "Bugs Bunny on Broadway" (in Montréal, not on Broadway...) Basically, they show the best Looney Tunes / Merrie Melodies cartoons, and there's an orchestra on stage, below the screen, playing the music Live. That was a great show.

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  • TreelootTreeloot Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    amateurhour wrote: »
    Tom and jerry was some seriously racist shit. I won't lie, the cartoons where it was just the cat and mouse were great, but they always kept bringing in the maid who couldn't talk with proper grammer and they even went as far as to put blackface on the fucking cartoon.

    Warner Brothers cartoons had things that were just as bad or worse. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censored_11

    Tom and Jerry aren't that funny anyway. Hanna Barbara Cartoons have never been very good.

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  • SamiSami Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    ArrBeeBee wrote: »
    Sami wrote: »
    The Tom and Jerry episode where they go to a construction site.

    Oh man.

    Ohhhh man.

    I've seen a lot of Tom & Jerry, but I don't think I've seen this one. Do you know what it's called?

    If I knew I would have it bookmarked and watch it at least 3 times a day.

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  • RocketSauceRocketSauce Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    Bunker Hill Bunny is probably my favorite. With Yosemite Sam running around with gunpowder coming out of his pants, then laughing maniacally as he lights the trail of gunpowder that eventually leads right back to him.

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  • CreepyCreepy Tucson, AzRegistered User regular
    edited September 2007
    Transylvania 6-5000 was always my favorite, although Seville, Robin Hood, 1001 Arabian knights one and anything with Witch Hazel are all great too.

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  • CreepyCreepy Tucson, AzRegistered User regular
    edited September 2007
    Sami wrote: »
    ArrBeeBee wrote: »
    Sami wrote: »
    The Tom and Jerry episode where they go to a construction site.

    Oh man.

    Ohhhh man.

    I've seen a lot of Tom & Jerry, but I don't think I've seen this one. Do you know what it's called?

    If I knew I would have it bookmarked and watch it at least 3 times a day.

    Kind of a long shot, but is there any chance it wasn't Tom and Jerry and maybe this?

    Cat Feud

    I've never been much of a Tom and Jerry fan.

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  • CreepyCreepy Tucson, AzRegistered User regular
    edited September 2007
    shutz wrote: »
    One of my favorites is the one with the Opera signer who's practicing for the opera later that night, and keeps getting interrupted by Bugs Bunny, and later on, when the singer's on stage, Bugs Bunny shows up as the conductor "Leopold".

    I think I love that one even more than "What's Opera, Doc?" Anyone remember the title to the "Leopold" cartoon?

    Long-Haired Hare

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  • Lord Of The PantsLord Of The Pants Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    Yup, we've covered them. The great series of Duck Amuck, Rabit Of Seville and Whats Opera Doc?

    With My Spear And Magic Helmet!
    Spear And Magic Helmet?!?!

    WITH MY SPEAR AND MAGIC HELMET!

    SPEAR AND MAGIC HELMET?!?!

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  • HarrierHarrier The Star Spangled Man Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    AHA!!

    Pronoun trouble...

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  • BogartBogart Streetwise Hercules Registered User, Moderator Mod Emeritus
    edited September 2007
    Pretty much all the obvious great have been mentioned, but just thinking about them brings to mind so many more. The Tom & Jerry one where Tom's a concert pianist and Jerry's in the piano. Or the Tom & Jerry musketeers one. Or the Sylvester & Tweety one where he tries to stop eating boids with the help of a cat who's already quit. Or the Bugs/Sam one where Sam's an Arab with a stroppy camel. Or the Foghorn Leghorn one where he repeatedly tortures a dog on a leash by annoying him, walking out just past the limit of the leash and then, when the dog strains at the end of the tether, hitting the dog in the face with a plank/pulling out the dog's tongue and painting it blue/slapping him about a million times. Or the Road Runner one where Wile E has a catapult that malfunctions in about eight different ways, each time dumping an enormous boulder on his head.

    Has everybody else seen the big compilation one where they dumped in a bunch of the best cartoons and then added a framing sequence around an awards show? Daffy stamping off-stage when his bits were met with crickets chirping is a lovely memory.

    Also, I too love What's Opera Doc.

    "Oh Bwunhilde, you're so wovely."

    "Yes, I know it. I can't help it."

    The only modern cartoon that sticks in the mind like any of these is The Cat Came Back.

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  • VyolynceVyolynce Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    Harrier wrote: »
    AHA!!

    Pronoun trouble...

    One of my favorite exchanges ever, hands-down.

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  • XaquinXaquin Right behind you!Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    Mine is an episode of Tom and Jerry. I remember Jerry being on a table in some fancy restaurant dancing with an artfully folded napkin. The music was what I love it for. I wish I could find that episode or the music contained within, but I have no idea what it was called =/

    edit: It was called Mouse in Manhatten and it was good, but not nearly as good as I remembered it

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  • shutzshutz Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    Creepy wrote: »
    shutz wrote: »
    One of my favorites is the one with the Opera signer who's practicing for the opera later that night, and keeps getting interrupted by Bugs Bunny, and later on, when the singer's on stage, Bugs Bunny shows up as the conductor "Leopold".

    I think I love that one even more than "What's Opera, Doc?" Anyone remember the title to the "Leopold" cartoon?

    Long-Haired Hare

    Thanks for finding it! I was able to find a viewable version on Google Video (Youtube didn't have it)
    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7721718910773009169

    It even has all the bits that were often cut out of TV airings in the 80's (which is when I watched the most cartoons.)

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  • MatthewMatthew Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    Reading over this topic makes me wonder.

    Which Daffy do you think was better? The early Loony Daffy, or the later Arrogant star Daffy? My own vote goes for the latter.

    Plus, we all remember Slyvester Jr. Right? Makes me wonder who his mother was? Maybe after Sylvester got over that whole canary thing, he met that girl cat who was always running from Pepe le Pew, and one thing lead to another....

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  • AbsurdistAbsurdist Registered User regular
    edited September 2007
    IreneDAdler wrote: »
    Absurdist wrote: »
    I like all the WWII-era ones with Bugs and Daffy making the Germans/Japanese look like fools. Too bad those are practically impossible to find.

    I know it's hard to think kindly of people who are trying to kill your friends and loved ones, but those always bothered me a little, because of the blatant propaganda. It seems very immature and petty to me. Also, the Japanese ones tend to be just a little itty bitty racist, which gets under my skin a little, since I'm Asian. I would go into more detail, but I really don't want to derail this thread.

    Oh, you're absolutely right. They're blatant propaganda, and many are totally racist.

    Some people collect teaspoons; some collect porcelain cats; my friends and I collect vintage propaganda. Culturally, it's incredible educational.

    Also, the racism involved is highly ameliorated by the fact that those were the accepted values of the time. I love reading Tom Sawyer, and it isn't really racist in the sense that it wasn't racist when it was written, but would be utterly racist if someone wrote it now. Vintage racism, I suppose, is just as educational and interesting as vintage propaganda, although I only collect the latter :)

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  • DhalphirDhalphir don't you open that trapdoor you're a fool if you dareRegistered User regular
    edited September 2007
    When I was 12, we went to the Gold Coast and went to Movieworld, and I bought a video called "Chariots of Fur", starring Wile E. Coyote, and his adventures with Sam the sheepdog and the Roadrunner.

    Best money I ever spent. Loved it. Still do.

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  • VariableVariable Mouth Congress Stroke Me Lady FameRegistered User regular
    edited September 2007
    Duck Amok (animated daffy)
    What's Opera Doc?
    mostly any of the duck season/wabbit season ones
    One of bugs in rome with yosemite sam.
    wile e coyote... they are all amazing. I love wile e. coyote.
    Bugs vs. Giovanni Jones... not sure what it's called. he's an opera singer and bugs tortures him.

    edit - good, I wanted to type this up before reading to see what I could remember. glad these are the most thought of. outstanding cartoons.

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  • VariableVariable Mouth Congress Stroke Me Lady FameRegistered User regular
    edited September 2007
    Vyolynce wrote: »
    Harrier wrote: »
    AHA!!

    Pronoun trouble...

    One of my favorite exchanges ever, hands-down.

    shoot him now, shoot him now. you don't have to shoot me now. shoot me now.

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