My Experience With Looney Tunes

 

Looney Tunes was such a life-changing experience to me. I don't know why, but when I immediately loved this franchise, I couldn't stop being obsessed with it. 

While I still respect Looney Tunes nowadays, I don't seem to admire it as much as I used to. There's more average characters than good ones. I often feel like some of these characters don't even need to exist.

The only characters I still care about is the main ones like Bugs, Daffy, Porky, and Foghorn Leghorn. 

They all appear in a commercial. It's one of my favorites because it doesn't feature the other flawed characters.

Looney Tunes doesn't always make good cartoons, heck alot of them were only made because of hierarchy and screeching audiences wanting every short to be Sylvester and Tweety and Coyote shorts from now on.

My favorite era from Warner Bros. is the shorts made in 1948-1949. 

The animation was fantastic, the plots of the cartoons didn't feel too redundant and there was alot of powerful voices coming from Mel Blanc. 

In this lineup of cartoons, directors like Art Davis, Chuck Jones, and Robert McKimson have made some of the best cartoons I ever seen in my life.

Take an example like in Daffy Duck Hunt where Porky and Barnyard Dawg sings Jingle Bells, Porky notices it's April and not December and this happens.

This is one of my favorite reaction scenes in film history. 

People might say that the early 40s and 1953 is considered the best years for Looney Tunes but I still have alot of problems with them. 

This is a list of all the shorts made in 1948-1949. The highlighted purple parts are the ones I actually liked.

Out of all the 57 shorts, only 7 I actually didn't like. That's impressive.

Like I was saying this era barely had any involvement of redundancy. There was not too much Sylvester and Tweety and there wasn't a sign of many Hippety Hopper and Roadrunner cartoons yet. There was always variety, and the slapstick felt bouncy and sharp. The outlines to the characters all felt appealing and the wonderful music by Carl Stalling made all these cartoons work perfectly. Making this era of Looney Tunes highly remarkable to this day.

I always find the first appearances of characters to be the best. 

My favorite Coyote and Roadrunner cartoon is Fast and Furry-Ous. Every gag works. Which is what staggers me about what came later. Not saying that all of Coyote's experiments don't make sense, they just don't feel structured for over dozens of cartoons.

Note : This is from the same cartoon. I'm talking about.

Let's start from humble beginnings.

Looney Tunes's first star was Bosko. Back in the early 30s, every cartoon studio had to break loose to make a Mickey Mouse wannabe. And this was an exception to Warner Bros. Let me just say, I didn't like this character, he was too much related to Mickey, and the character designs were really weird even for the era. He's supposed to based off of black minstrel shows, I never really had a problem with that stereotype, but it is rather unpleasant at times.

I like some of his cartoons like Bosko's Picture Show, Big Man From The North and my favorite, Ride Him Bosko but I never saw the appeal. He looked less hideous and more natural in his MGM cartoons.

A Cartoonist's Nightmare is the first Looney Tunes cartoon that actually got enjoyment out of me. There was so much creativity to it, then there was I Love To Singa, Fella With The Fiddle, Rover's Rival, Katnip Kollege and Fagin's Freshman and it felt like Looney Tunes started to get impact on audiences. 

Back in the 30s, everyone would only watch Disney. Sounds exicting but kinda feels heartbreaking for other cartoon studios.

I would assume Looney Tunes got the popularity it deserved in the mid 40s. 

Did you know what Disney made back when the best of Looney Tunes aired? 

Disney back then still made good movies, and Goofy improved but on the other hand there were either boring Pluto cartoons, and those horrible Donald and Chip and Dale cartoons where Donald had a more dumb personality. 

That being said, what made Looney Tunes such a special treat back in it's golden age eras were the spirited energy and magnetic characters. I know they might be less than 10 minutes, but a time to watch something like Three Little Bops, and guilty pleasures like Coal Black, it hits differently than other cartoons.

If you play these two cartoons over something like the 50s Coyote and more depressing Sylvester shorts, it's the opposite of entertainment. Seriously anyone should do it, on their devices. It's fun if you ask me.

In terms of what directors I like the best, Bob Clampett easily wins. I think it's because he was needed back in the 40s. His high energy and ordinary animations influenced me. 

I also find myself liking Chuck Jones's relatable sense of humor at times. While I have mixed feelings on him in the 50s to 60s, his 40s to early 50s outlook to animation was great.

I think I stopped caring about Looney Tunes being perfect until I saw the late 60s. Stay away from those as possible. 

Here's what I didn't like about them.

They have Daffy's arrogant personality pitched to the extreme minimum making him more unlikeable. 

The Coyote and Roadrunner cartoons had the worst music cues in cartoon history. 

There are some exceptions, I did like a little bit of the Seven Arts Era, cartoons like A Taste Of Catnip, The Solid Tin Coyote, and Corn On The Cop have clever gags and concepts, and believe me, I didn't think the animation was that bad.

Things started to become good again with Looney Tunes. I love the animation and storytelling to the early 90s shorts like Carrotblanca and Invasion of The Bunny Snatchers. 

Looney Tunes started to have feature films and the modern era Looney Tunes episodes made in 2020 were genius. 

Things are looking good for Looney Tunes nowadays.