User:Looney Toons

If you're looking for information on Warner Brothers cartoons, see Looney Tunes (Animation).

Looney Toons is professional and fan writer Robert M. Schroeck. He is a New Jersey male in his early fifties who is a published author of roleplaying games, magazine articles and assorted short fiction. He is a member of SFWA, and his most recent book was released in July of 2003 (although he's working on his next). He's been watching TV since Bewitched was in black and white, and has a particular fondness for science fiction shows on both ends of the quality spectrum. He's also an anime fan, and despite his status as a "pro" writer has delved into anime (and other) fanfiction.

He is the author of the Mega Crossover fanfic Drunkard's Walk.

He became a troper on the original TV Tropes wiki in the summer of 2004, an unimaginably primitive time when it was hosted on the long-gone sytes.net and there were less than sixty tropers in existence including the admins. As of May 2012 he was, to the best of his ability to determine, the single oldest remaining active member of the TV Tropes wiki outside of the staff.

He is personally responsible for writing nearly six hundred pages on that wiki, including almost a dozen Tropes of Legend. In response to finding an empty page labeled "Anime" during his first visit, he spent his first few weeks on the wiki creating the entire Anime section from scratch -- including the now-infamous Naughty Tentacles page responsible for TV Tropes' infamous "Second Google Incident" eight years later in Spring 2012.

He accidentally created the entire Useful Notes hierarchy by writing a (now long gone) page called "Useful Notes On Japan". This inspired other people to write their own useful notes about other cultures/topics until there were so many it was necessary to make an entire branch of the wiki to store them. He is also inexplicably credited with coining the phrase Wiki Magic on TVTropes (and thus inspiring the corresponding trope entry), but quite honestly he was quoting the late, great Webmonkey Gus. Oh, and while he's not the only culprit, he's one of the people to blame for the egregious overuse of the word "egregious" both here and on TVT, at least initially.

For almost a quarter-century he has been quietly (and sometimes not-so-quietly) active in online anti-censorship and intellectual freedom movements. He was a tangential party to the infamous Secret Service/Steve Jackson Games debacle in 1990, and as a result became one of the very first members of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. In the 1990s he worked with local and national groups to help defeat US government attacks on privacy and freedom of expression including the Clipper Chip and the so-called "Communications Decency Act" of 1996. He continues to be active in these causes.

In the spring of 2012, the fallout from The Second Google Incident -- along with the subsequent imposition of heightened restrictions on "acceptable content" for the TV Tropes wiki -- convinced him that he could no longer contribute to that wiki and remain true to his principles.

In May 2012, he ceased to participate in the TV Tropes wiki. As an unanticipated side effect of his departure, a number of other tropers chose to make use of the more generous licensing terms TVT then possessed to fork the wiki database and create All The Tropes. (This promptly resulted in TVT implementing far less generous licensing terms, on the grounds that tropers were only welcome to copy the entire tropebase until someone actually did so.)

Recent edits by Looney Toons

Looney Toons' contributions include the initial entries for:

 * A God Am I
 * Abenobashi Mahou Shoutengai
 * Absurdly Powerful Student Council
 * Accidental Bid
 * Accidental Marriage
 * Adaptation Decay (Trope of Legend)
 * The Addams Family
 * ADV Films
 * Ah! My Goddess
 * Allan Sherman
 * All Purpose Cultural Catgirl Nuku Nuku
 * Alternate Continuity
 * Ancient Astronauts
 * Ancient Conspiracy
 * Androcles' Lion
 * Animated Shows
 * Anime
 * Anime Theme Song
 * Anime Trope
 * Appeal to Vanity
 * Armitage III
 * Armor Piercing Slap
 * Astro Boy
 * Award Show
 * Azumanga Daioh (Manga)
 * Bait and Switch Credits
 * Baka
 * Banana Peel
 * Bang Bang BANG
 * Banister Slide
 * Basic Commercial Types
 * Battle Aura
 * Battlestar Galactica Classic (TV)
 * Beach Episode
 * Because Destiny Says So
 * Bellisario's Maxim (Trope of Legend)
 * Best Is Average Better Is Best
 * Big Eater
 * Big Fancy House
 * The Big O
 * The Bionic Woman
 * Bishonen
 * Bite the Wax Tadpole
 * Biting the Handkerchief
 * Blackadder
 * Blackmail Is Such an Ugly Word
 * Blade Reflection
 * Blank White Eyes
 * Blind Without Em
 * Bloodless Carnage
 * Blown Across the Room
 * Bluenose Bowdlerizer
 * Blue With Shock
 * Bonanza
 * Bonus Material (Under the original name "Omake")


 * Bounty Hunter
 * Brand X
 * Briar Patching
 * Brother Sister Incest
 * Bubblegum Crisis
 * Buffy Speak (Trope of Legend)
 * Calling Your Attacks
 * The Cameo
 * Camp Gay (since folded in with several other pages about gay stereotypes)
 * Cargo Cult (based on text written by RedShoe in another entry)
 * Casanova
 * Casanova Wannabe (Under the original name "Leisure Suit Larry")
 * Cat Concerto
 * Catgirl
 * Celebrity Edition
 * The Celebrity Lie
 * Chainmail Bikini (Under the original name "Battle Bikini")
 * Chandlers Law
 * Characterization Tags
 * Check Please
 * Cherry Blossoms
 * Chirping Crickets
 * Christmas Special
 * Chuck Lorre Vanity Plates
 * Circling Birdies
 * Clingy Jealous Girl
 * Clothing Damage
 * Clueless Contributor
 * Coincidental Broadcast
 * College Widow
 * Continuation
 * Convenient Enemy Base
 * Cooking Show
 * Country Mouse
 * Cowboy Bebop
 * The Cracker
 * Cranial Eruption
 * Cross Dresser
 * Cross Popping Veins
 * The CSI Effect
 * Cut and Paste Translation (At least that part of it which was transplanted from Macekre)
 * Cute Little Fangs
 * Cyberpunk
 * Cyclic National Fascination
 * Daphne In The Brilliant Blue
 * Death Fic
 * Deep South
 * Defeat Means Friendship
 * Defictionalization
 * Demashita Powerpuff Girls Z
 * Demon Head
 * Demonic Invaders (Later subsumed into Legions of Hell)
 * Descending Ceiling
 * Dirty Old Man
 * Dirty Pair
 * Dojikko
 * Don't Try This At Home
 * Double Agent
 * Dragon Half
 * Dramatic Wind
 * Dropped Glasses
 * Parallel Trouble Adventure Dual
 * Earth All Along (Under the original name "Planet Of The Apes Ending")
 * Eek a Mouse
 * Eighth Man
 * The Elevator From Ipanema
 * Elevator Gag
 * Elfen Lied
 * El Hazard The Magnificent World
 * Endangered Souffle
 * The End of the World As We Know It
 * Engineered Public Confession
 * Everybody Owns a Ford
 * Excel Saga
 * Executive Meddling (Trope of Legend)
 * Explosive Instrumentation
 * Expressive Hair
 * Eyelid Pulltaunt (Under the original name "Red Eye")
 * Eyrie Productions Unlimited
 * Face Fault
 * Facial Markings
 * Fade to Black
 * Fake Band
 * False Camera Effects
 * Fanfic Recommendations: All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku
 * Fanfic Recommendations: Mai-Otome
 * Fanfic Recommendations: Revolutionary Girl Utena
 * Fanfic Recommendations: Sakura Taisen
 * Fan Service (Trope of Legend)
 * Fan Sub
 * Feghoot
 * Festival Episode
 * Filmation
 * Finagles Law (Trope of Legend)
 * Finger Twiddling
 * Finishing Move
 * Finnegans Wake
 * Fire Breathing Diner
 * First Kiss
 * First Law Of Gender Bending (Under the original name "Mandy's Law Of Anime Gender Bending")
 * Flamboyant Gay (Originally a separate category from the CampGay, to which this link now redirects.)
 * FLCL
 * Flipper
 * Flog
 * Flung Clothing
 * Flynning
 * Fog Of War
 * The Four Gods
 * The Frantics
 * Freudian Slip (at one remove)
 * Friend To All Living Things
 * Frivolous Lawsuit
 * Frozen In Time
 * Fuku Fic
 * Furo Scene
 * Fushigi Yuugi
 * Fusion Fic
 * Futari wa Pretty Cure
 * Gadgeteer Genius
 * Gainaxing
 * Gene Roddenberry
 * Genius Ditz
 * Genki Girl
 * Genre Blindness (Trope of Legend)
 * Getting Crap Past The Radar (Trope of Legend)
 * Gilligans Island
 * The Glomp
 * Godwin's Law
 * Goldfish Scooping Game
 * The Goodies
 * Grammar Nazi
 * Grand Finale
 * Gratuitous English
 * Gratuitous Japanese
 * Great Detective
 * Greek Chorus
 * Guilt Trip
 * Guise Will Be Guise
 * Gunman With Three Names
 * Gunsmith Cats
 * Hachiko
 * Hair Colors
 * Hand Behind Head
 * Hanlons Razor


 * Heavy Sleeper
 * Hemisphere Bias
 * Hentai
 * Herman's Head
 * Hermetic Magic
 * Heroic Fantasy
 * Hidden Eyes
 * High Pressure Blood
 * High School Hustler (Under the original name "Parker Lewis Ferris Bueller")
 * Hilarity Ensues (Trope of Legend)
 * Hollywood Giftwrap
 * Hollywood Healing
 * Homage
 * Hong Kong Dub
 * Honorifics
 * Hot Springs Episode
 * Humongous Mecha
 * Hyperspace Mallet
 * Hypno Fool
 * I Dream Of Jeannie
 * Identical Grandson
 * Ignored Enemy
 * Ignore The Disability (Under the original name "Sammy's Glass Eye")
 * Image Song
 * Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy
 * Impossibly Cool Clothes
 * Incredibly Obvious Bug
 * Infinite Supplies
 * Innocent Innuendo
 * Inside Shoes
 * Inspired By
 * Instant AI Just Add Water
 * Instant Sedation
 * Insufficiently Advanced Alien
 * Invisibility
 * Invisible To Normals
 * In With The In Crowd
 * Iris Out
 * Ironic Echo Cut
 * ISO Standard Urban Groceries
 * Is That What They're Calling It Now?
 * It Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time
 * Its Probably Nothing
 * Its Garry Shandlings Show
 * It Sucks
 * Japanese Series
 * Japanese Sibling Terminology
 * Joshikousei
 * Jungle Princess
 * Jungle wa Itsumo Hale Nochi Guu
 * Kabuki Sounds
 * Kaitou (since merged with Phantom Thief)
 * Karmic Trickster (Under the original name "Bugs Bunny")
 * Kawaiiko
 * Ki Attacks
 * Kibo
 * Kid Samurai
 * Kids Say The Darndest Things
 * The Kid With The Remote Control
 * Killer Yoyo
 * Kingyo Chuihou
 * Kirks Rock
 * Kodomo no Omocha


 * Lamaze Class
 * Land Of The Lost
 * Latex Perfection
 * Laugh Track
 * Lava Pit
 * The Law Of Diminishing Defensive Effort
 * Laying On A Hillside
 * Lemon
 * Lethal Chef
 * Lets You And Him Fight
 * Lightning Glare
 * Lime
 * Limited Wardrobe
 * Lite Creme
 * The Little Shop That Wasnt There Yesterday
 * Lolicon
 * Looking For Love In All The Wrong Places
 * Looming Silhouette Of Rage
 * LooneyToons
 * Looney Tunes
 * Lots!
 * Love Dodecahedron
 * Love Hina
 * Luke I Am Your Father
 * Macekre
 * Mad Scientists Beautiful Daughter
 * Magical Girlfriend
 * Magical Girl
 * Magical Security Cam
 * MagicKnightRayearth
 * MahouSenseiNegima
 * Mai-HiME
 * Mai-Otome
 * Make A Better World
 * MartianSuccessorNadesico
 * Mascot
 * Mask Power
 * McLeaned
 * Medieval European Fantasy
 * Mega Crossover
 * Megaton Punch
 * Megazone 23
 * Megumi Hayashibara
 * Meitantei
 * The Men In Black (Under the original name [="MIB"=])
 * Merchandise Driven
 * MidoriNoHibi
 * MimeAndMusicOnlyCartoon
 * MindControlEyes
 * MiniatureSeniorCitizens
 * MissingWhiteWomanSyndrome
 * MissionImpossible
 * MistimedRevival
 * MistyMay
 * Moldiver
 * MosesInTheBullrushes
 * MotionlessChin
 * MotorcycleOnTheCoastRoad
 * MouthCam
 * MouthFlaps
 * MST
 * MST3K Mantra (Trope of Legend)
 * MutualOfOmahasWildKingdom
 * MyKungFuIsStrongerThanYours
 * MysteriousProtector
 * MythBusters
 * MyWorldAndWelcomeToIt
 * NadiaTheSecretOfBlueWater
 * NamingConventions
 * NannyAndTheProfessor
 * Narrator
 * Naughty Tentacles (Deleted and redlocked in the wake of TheSecondGoogleIncident)
 * NearDeathClairvoyance
 * NegativeSpaceWedgie
 * NeonGenesisEvangelion
 * NewAndImproved
 * NewEden
 * NewsBroadcast
 * Ninja
 * NoblewomansLaugh
 * NoEndInSight
 * Noir
 * NoOneCouldSurviveThat
 * No OSHA Compliance
 * NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup
 * TheNoseBleed
 * NoSocialSkills (Under the original name "Raised By Wolves")
 * NosyNeighbor
 * NotAllowedToGrowUp (Originally created as an article about early Live Action sitcoms that were so strictly defined that the real children in them could not be allowed to grow up lest they destroy the show's dynamic; culminated with the sad case of Anissa Jones from FamilyAffair. Has since been taken over by hundreds of [CaptainObvious breathless revelations that cartoon characters don't age], and the Family Affair material was exiled to an [Analysis/NotAllowedToGrowUp analysis page] in August 2011.)
 * NothingLeftToTheImagination (This was a completely different article about the reaction of some viewers in the 1980s and 1990s to computer animation, now mysteriously vanished, instead of the redirect to PWP that it has since become.)
 * Noteworthy Anime (The original list of anime series on the wiki, now subsumed into the main Anime page.)
 * ObituaryMontage
 * OcularGushers
 * OfficeLady
 * OffLikeAShot
 * OffTheShelfFX
 * OneBulletLeft (Under the original name "One Buwwet Weft")
 * TheOneTrueSequence
 * OnlyOneName
 * OntologicalMystery
 * OpaqueNerdGlasses (Under the original name "Nerd Glasses")
 * OracularUrchin
 * OrbitalShot
 * OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent
 * OriginalFlavour
 * OriginalVideoAnimation (Under the original name "OVA")
 * OtakuNoVideo
 * OutlawStar
 * OverrideCommand
 * PageTemplates
 * PainCenter
 * PantyShot
 * PantyThief
 * PaperFanOfDoom
 * ParentalAbandonment
 * ThePartridgeFamily
 * PastelChalkedFreezeFrame
 * PeggySue
 * PerpetualMolt
 * PerryMason
 * PhantomThief
 * PillarOfLight
 * PillarsOfMoralCharacter
 * PinballGag
 * PinocchioSyndrome
 * PlayfulHacker
 * PoliceSquad!
 * ThePowerOfFriendship
 * Precursors
 * PreExplosionGlow
 * PrettyGuardianSailorMoon
 * ThePrisoner
 * ProductPlacement
 * ProgramEntryTemplate
 * ProjectAKo
 * ProximalErrorProbability
 * PTEN
 * PunchPunchPunchUhOh
 * PuppyDogEyes (Under the original name "Big Glistening Eyes")
 * PWP
 * QueerAsTropes (Under the original name "Stereotype Gay")
 * QuicksandSucks
 * QuoteBin
 * [Quotes/AliceCooper Quotes Wiki: Alice Cooper]
 * [Quotes/AllJewsAreAshkenazi Quotes Wiki: All Jews Are Ashkenazi]
 * [Quotes/AllPurposeCulturalCatGirlNukuNuku Quotes Wiki: All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku-Nuku]
 * [Quotes/Atheism Quotes Wiki: Atheism]
 * [Quotes/Australia Quotes Wiki: Australia]
 * [Quotes/CommercialsTropes Quotes Wiki: Commercials Tropes]
 * [Quotes/DaydreamBeliever Quotes Wiki: Daydream Believer]
 * [Quotes/EmoPhillips Quotes Wiki: Emo Philips]
 * [Quotes/TheFairFolk Quotes Wiki: The Fair Folk]
 * [Quotes/FinalFantasyVII Quotes Wiki: Final Fantasy VII]
 * [Quotes/FinnegansWake Quotes Wiki: Finnegans Wake]
 * [Quotes/FreudWasRight Quotes Wiki: Freud Was Right]
 * [Quotes/Gundam Quotes Wiki: Gundam]
 * [Quotes/GURPS Quotes Wiki: GURPS]
 * [Quotes/JohnMFord Quotes Wiki: John M. Ford]
 * [Quotes/HollywoodApocrypha Quotes Wiki: Hollywood Apocrypha]
 * [Quotes/ImNotADoctorButIPlayOneOnTV Quotes Wiki: I'm Not A Doctor, But I Play One on TV]
 * [Quotes/IntercontinuityCrossover Quotes Wiki: Intercontinuity Crossover]
 * [Quotes/InTheNameOfTheMoon Quotes Wiki: In The Name Of The Moon]
 * [Quotes/IvyLeague Quotes Wiki: Ivy League]
 * [Quotes/MagicalGirlfriend Quotes Wiki: Magical Girlfriend]
 * [Quotes/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus Quotes Wiki: Monty Python's Flying Circus]
 * [Quotes/NeonGenesisEvangelion Quotes Wiki: Neon Genesis Evangelion]
 * [Quotes/QuantumLeap Quotes Wiki: Quantum Leap]
 * [Quotes/ReactionaryFantasy Quotes Wiki: Reactionary Fantasy]
 * [Quotes/RanmaOneHalf Quotes Wiki: Ranma ½]
 * [Quotes/SmallGirlBigGun Quotes Wiki: Small Girl Big Gun]


 * [Quotes/TheThreeStooges Quotes Wiki: The Three Stooges]
 * [Quotes/TimeTravel Quotes Wiki: Time Travel]
 * [Quotes/UndocumentedFeatures Quotes Wiki: Undocumented Features]
 * [Quotes/YeGoodeOldeDays Quotes Wiki: Ye Goode Olde Days]
 * [Quotes/YiddishAsASecondLanguage Quotes Wiki: Yiddish As A Second Language]
 * [Quotes/WeirdnessMagnet Quotes Wiki: Weirdness Magnet]
 * Qurac
 * RahXephon
 * RainAura
 * [[RanmaOneHalf
 * RatingsStunt


 * ReadEmAndWeep
 * ReadingsAreOffTheScale
 * ReadOrDie
 * RecapEpisode
 * RecursiveAcronym
 * RecycledScript
 * Reincarnation
 * RelationshipReboot
 * RemingtonSteele
 * RepeatCut (Under the original name "Triple Take")
 * RepurposedPopSong
 * RestrainingBolt (based on a one-line summary by @/Janitor)
 * ResultsNotTypical
 * ReunionRevenge
 * ReunionShow
 * RevolutionaryGirlUtena
 * RichBitch
 * TheRival
 * Roboteching
 * RobotGirl
 * TheRoddenberryLine
 * Ronin
 * Roofhopping
 * RopeBridge
 * Rowan And Martins Laugh-In
 * TheRuleOfFirstAdopters
 * RuneSoldierLouie
 * TheRuntAtTheEnd
 * SaberMarionetteJ
 * SadistTeacher
 * SailorMoon
 * SakuraTaisen
 * Samurai
 * SandBridgeAtLowTide
 * Satan
 * Scanlation
 * SchizoTech
 * SchoolgirlLesbians
 * Sentai
 * SerialExperimentsLain
 * SharkPool
 * Shojo
 * Shonen
 * SignLanguage
 * SisterPrincess
 * SisterPrincessRepure
 * SittingOnTheRoof
 * SlapSlapKiss
 * Slogans
 * SlowMotionPassBy
 * SmallGirlBigGun
 * Sneezing
 * SnowballLie (Under the original name "Tuttle")
 * SnowMeansLove
 * SnotBubble
 * SomethingsDifferentAboutYouNow
 * SopranoAndGravel
 * Space 1999
 * SpaceIsMagic
 * SparklingStreamOfTears
 * SpeechImpairedAnimal
 * SpringtimeForHitler
 * SqueakyEyes
 * StandardizedSpaceViews (based on text written by @/KendraKirai in another entry)
 * StandingInTheHall
 * StanFreberg
 * StealthClothes
 * SteamPunk
 * SteelAngelKurumi
 * SteelAngelKurumi2
 * Stock Footage
 * Stone Soup
 * Sufficiently Advanced Alien
 * Super Deformed
 * Supermarket Skit
 * The Sweat Drop
 * Swirling Dust
 * Talking Animal
 * Talking With Signs (Under the original name "Sign Language".)
 * Team Shot
 * Telethon
 * Tenchi Muyo
 * Theme Naming
 * There Can Be Only One
 * This Is Not A Drill
 * This Is Something He's Got To Do Himself
 * This And That
 * Three's Company
 * Threshold Guardians
 * Thwarted Escape
 * Time To Unlock More True Potential
 * Tomato Surprise
 * Too Good For This Sinful Earth
 * Top Ten Jingle
 * To The Batpole
 * Training Accident
 * Transformation Sequence
 * Trapped In Another World


 * The Tokyo Fireball


 * Tunnel Of Foreshadowing
 * A Twinkle In The Sky
 * Two-D Space
 * Unknown Phenomenon
 * The Unwanted Harem
 * Variable Geo (Anime)
 * Vegas Crossover
 * The View Askewniverse
 * Virtual Soundtrack
 * Visible Sigh
 * Volleying Insults
 * WAFF
 * Wait Till Your Father Gets Home
 * Wakeup Makeup
 * Warding Gestures
 * We Are As Mayflies
 * Weddings In Japan
 * We Will Not Use Photoshop In The Future
 * What A Senseless Waste Of Human Life
 * Wheel O Feet
 * Wild Teen Party
 * The Wild West
 * Women Drivers
 * The Worf Effect
 * Worthy Opponent
 * Wraparound Background
 * Writers Block Montage
 * X Ray Sparks
 * Yakuza
 * Yaoi Guys
 * Yumeria

He also named, but did not write:


 * By The Lights Of Their Eyes
 * Cyclic Trope
 * Dis Continuity
 * Five Token Band
 * Gay Paree
 * I'm a Humanitarian
 * Made Of Win
 * Mayfly December Romance
 * New Media Are Evil
 * Soul Jar
 * And several others which he is unfortunately blanking on at the moment.

And of course, he's made thousands of edits on thousands of pages, just like any other troper.