User:Looney Toons

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

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 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:

 * 2-D Space
 * 8 Man
 * 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
 * Advertising Tropes
 * Advertising Tropes/Quotes
 * Ah! My Goddess
 * Alice Cooper/Quotes
 * Allan Sherman
 * All Jews Are Ashkenazi/Quotes
 * All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku
 * All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku/Quotes
 * Alternate Continuity
 * Ancient Astronauts
 * Ancient Conspiracy
 * Androcles' Lion
 * Animated Shows
 * Anime
 * Anime Theme Song
 * Anime Tropes
 * Appeal to Vanity
 * Armitage III
 * Armor-Piercing Slap
 * Assault with A Deadly Antler
 * Astro Boy (manga)
 * Atheism/Quotes
 * Australia/Quotes
 * Award Show
 * Azumanga Daioh
 * Bait and Switch Credits
 * Baka
 * Banana Peel
 * Bang Bang BANG
 * Banister Slide
 * Basic Commercial Types
 * Battle Aura
 * Battlestar Galactica Classic
 * Beach Episode
 * Because Destiny Says So
 * Bellisario's Maxim (Trope of Legend)
 * Best Is Average, Better Is Best
 * Better Off Dead/Quotes
 * Big Eater
 * Big Fancy House
 * The Big List of Booboos and Blunders
 * 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")
 * Bored of the Rings
 * The Borribles
 * The Borribles/Fanfic Recs
 * The Borribles/Image Links
 * The Borribles/Quotes
 * Bounty Hunter
 * Brain Donors/Trivia
 * Brand X
 * Briar Patching
 * Brother-Sister Incest
 * Bruce Springsteen/Trivia
 * Bubblegum Crisis
 * Buffy-Speak (Trope of Legend)
 * Calling Your Attacks
 * The Cameo
 * Camp Gay (since folded in with several other pages about gay stereotypes)
 * Captain Beefheart/Quotes
 * Cargo Cult (based on text written by Red Shoe in another entry)
 * The Casanova
 * Casanova Wannabe (Under the original name "Leisure Suit Larry")
 * Cat Concerto
 * Category Listing Template (Original PMWiki version only)
 * Catgirl
 * Celebrity Edition
 * Celebrity Lie
 * Censorware
 * Censorware/Laconic
 * Censorware/Quotes
 * Chainmail Bikini (Under the original name "Battle Bikini")
 * Chandler's Law
 * Characterization Tags
 * Charlie and the Chocolate Factory/YMMV
 * 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
 * Cool Mask (Under the original name "Mask Power")
 * Country Mouse
 * Cowboy Bebop
 * The Cracker
 * Cranial Eruption
 * Cross Dresser
 * Cross-Popping Veins
 * Cry-Baby/Trivia
 * 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
 * Daydream Believer/Quotes
 * Death Fic
 * Deep South
 * Defeat Means Friendship
 * Defictionalization
 * Demashita! Powerpuff Girls Z
 * Demon Head
 * Demonic Invaders (Later subsumed into The Legions of Hell)
 * Descending Ceiling
 * Dirty Old Man
 * Dirty Pair
 * Dojikko
 * Don't Try This At Home
 * Double Agent
 * Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog/Fridge
 * Dragon Half
 * Dramatic Wind
 * Dropped Glasses
 * Drunkard's Walk/Image Links
 * Earth All Along (Under the original name "Planet Of The Apes Ending")
 * Eek! a Mouse!
 * The Elevator From Ipanema
 * Elevator Gag
 * Elfen Lied
 * El-Hazard: The Magnificent World
 * Emergency Impersonation (Under the original name "Guise Will Be Guise")
 * Emo Phillips/Quotes
 * Endangered Souffle
 * The End of the World as We Know It
 * Engineered Public Confession
 * Everybody Owns a Ford
 * Everything's Better with Llamas/Quotes
 * Everything's Worse with Wolves/Quotes
 * Excel Saga (anime)
 * Executive Meddling (Trope of Legend)
 * Explosive Instrumentation
 * Expressive Hair
 * Eyelid-Pull Taunt (Under the original name "Red Eye")
 * Eyrie Productions Unlimited
 * Face Fault
 * Facial Markings
 * Fade to Black
 * The Fair Folk/Quotes
 * 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
 * Finagle's Law (Trope of Legend)
 * Final Fantasy VII/Quotes
 * Finishing Move
 * Finnegans Wake (Self Demonstrating)
 * Finnegans Wake/Laconic
 * Finnegans Wake/Quotes
 * 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 Camp Gay, to which this link now redirects.)
 * FLCL
 * Flipper
 * Flog
 * Flung Clothing
 * Flynning
 * Fog of War
 * The Four Gods
 * The Frantics
 * Freud Was Right/Quotes
 * 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)
 * Gilligan's Island
 * The Glomp
 * Glory Road (novel)/Quotes
 * God Bless America/Trivia
 * Godwin's Law
 * Goldfish Scooping Game
 * The Goodies
 * Grammar Nazi
 * Grand Finale
 * Gratuitous English
 * Gratuitous Japanese
 * Great Detective (Under the original name "Meitantei")
 * Greek Chorus
 * Gryphon's Law
 * Guilt Trip
 * Gundam/Quotes
 * Gunman with Three Names
 * Gunsmith Cats
 * GURPS/Quotes
 * Ha Ha Only Serious
 * Hachiko
 * Hair Colors
 * Hand Behind Head
 * Hanlon's 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)
 * Holiday Inn/Headscratchers
 * Hollywood Apocrypha/Quotes
 * Hollywood Giftwrap
 * Hollywood Healing
 * Homage
 * Hong Kong Dub
 * Hot Springs Episode
 * How the Grinch Stole Christmas (animation)/Trivia
 * Humongous Mecha
 * Hyperspace Mallet
 * Hypno Fool
 * I Dream of Jeannie
 * I Like My X Like I Like My Y/Quotes
 * I'm Not a Doctor But I Play One on TV/Quotes
 * Identical Grandson
 * Ignored Enemy
 * Ignore the Disability (Under the original name "Sammy's Glass Eye")
 * Image Song
 * Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy
 * Impossibly Cool Clothes
 * In the Name of the Moon/Quotes
 * In with the In Crowd
 * Incredibly Obvious Bug
 * Infinite Supplies
 * Innocent Innuendo
 * Inside Shoes
 * Inspired By
 * Instant AI, Just Add Water
 * Instant Sedation
 * Insufficiently Advanced Alien
 * It Is Pronounced "Tro-PAY"/Quotes
 * Intercontinuity Crossover/Quotes
 * Invisibility
 * Invisible to Normals
 * 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
 * It's Probably Nothing
 * It's Garry Shandling's Show
 * It Sucks
 * Ivy League/Quotes
 * J. Michael Straczynski/Quotes
 * Japanese Honorifics
 * Japanese Series
 * Japanese Sibling Terminology
 * Jin (TV)
 * Jin (TV)/Laconic
 * John M. Ford/Quotes
 * 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
 * Kenneth Hite/Quotes
 * Ki Attacks
 * Kibo
 * Kid Samurai
 * Kids Say the Darndest Things
 * The Kid with the Remote Control
 * Killer Yoyo
 * Kingyo Chuihou
 * Kirk's Rock
 * Kodomo no Omocha
 * Lamaze Class
 * Land of the Lost (TV series)
 * Latex Perfection
 * Laugh Track
 * Lava Pit
 * The Law of Diminishing Defensive Effort
 * Lemon
 * Lethal Chef
 * Let's You and Him Fight
 * Lightning Glare
 * Lime
 * Limited Wardrobe
 * Lite Creme
 * The Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday
 * Lolicon
 * Looking for Love In All the Wrong Places
 * Looming Silhouette of Rage
 * Looney Toons
 * Looney Tunes
 * Lots!
 * Love Dodecahedron
 * Love Hina
 * Luke, I Am Your Father
 * Lying on a Hillside
 * Macekre
 * Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter
 * Magical Girlfriend
 * Magical Girlfriend/Quotes
 * Magical Girl
 * Magical Security Cam
 * Magic Knight Rayearth
 * Mahou Sensei Negima
 * Mai-HiME
 * Mai-Otome
 * Martian Successor Nadesico
 * Mascot
 * McLeaned
 * Medieval European Fantasy
 * Mega Crossover
 * Megaton Punch
 * Megazone 23
 * Megumi Hayashibara
 * The Men in Black (Under the original name "MIB")
 * Merchandise-Driven
 * Merged Reality (Under the original name "Make a Better World")
 * Midori no Hibi
 * Mime-and-Music-Only Cartoon
 * Mind Control Eyes
 * Miniature Senior Citizens
 * Missing White Woman Syndrome
 * Mission Impossible (TV series)
 * Mistimed Revival
 * Misty May
 * Moldiver
 * Monty Python's Flying Circus/Quotes
 * Moses in the Bulrushes
 * Motionless Chin
 * Motorcycle on the Coast Road
 * Mouth Cam
 * Mouth Flaps
 * MST
 * MST3K Mantra (Trope of Legend)
 * Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom
 * My Hero!
 * My Kung Fu Is Stronger Than Yours
 * Mysterious Protector
 * Myth Busters
 * My World and Welcome To It
 * Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water
 * Naming Conventions
 * Nanny and the Professor
 * Nanny McPhee/Fridge
 * Nanny McPhee/Trivia
 * Narrator
 * Naughty Tentacles
 * Near-Death Clairvoyance
 * Negative Space Wedgie
 * Neon Genesis Evangelion
 * Neon Genesis Evangelion/Quotes
 * New and Improved
 * New Eden
 * News Broadcast
 * Ninja
 * Noblewoman's Laugh
 * No End in Sight
 * Noir
 * No One Could Survive That
 * No OSHA Compliance
 * No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
 * Nosebleed
 * No Social Skills (Under the original name "Raised By Wolves")
 * Nosy Neighbor
 * Not Allowed to Grow Up (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 Family Affair. Has since been taken over by hundreds of breathless revelations that cartoon characters don't age, and the Family Affair material was exiled to an analysis page in August 2011.)
 * Nothing Left to the Imagination
 * Nothing Left to the Imagination/Image Links
 * Nothing Left to the Imagination/Laconic
 * Noteworthy Anime (The original list of anime series on the wiki, now subsumed into the main Anime page.)
 * Obituary Montage
 * Ocular Gushers
 * Office Lady
 * Off Like a Shot
 * Off-the-Shelf FX
 * One Bullet Left (Under the original name "One Buwwet Weft")
 * One Crazy Summer/Trivia
 * One True Sequence
 * Only One Name
 * Ontological Mystery
 * Opaque Nerd Glasses (Under the original name "Nerd Glasses")
 * Oracular Urchin
 * Orbital Shot
 * Ordinary High School Student
 * Original Flavour
 * Original Video Animation (Under the original name "OVA")
 * Otaku no Video
 * Outlaw Star
 * Override Command
 * Page Templates (Original PMWiki version only)
 * Pain Center
 * Panty Shot
 * Panty Thief
 * Paper Fan of Doom
 * Parallel Trouble Adventure Dual
 * Parental Abandonment
 * Paris Hilton/Trivia
 * The Partridge Family
 * Pastel-Chalked Freeze-Frame
 * Peggy Sue
 * Perpetual Molt
 * Perry Mason
 * Phantom Thief
 * Pillar of Light
 * Pillars of Moral Character
 * Pinball Gag
 * Pinocchio Syndrome
 * Playful Hacker
 * Police Squad!
 * Porn Without Plot (Under the original name "PWP")
 * The Power of Friendship
 * Precursors
 * Pre-Explosion Glow
 * Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon
 * The Prisoner
 * Product Placement
 * Program Entry Template (Original PMWiki version only)
 * Project A-ko
 * Proximal Error Probability
 * PTEN
 * Punch-Punch-Punch Uh-Oh
 * Puppy Dog Eyes (Under the original name "Big Glistening Eyes")
 * Quantum Leap/Quotes
 * Queer As Tropes (Under the original name "Stereotype Gay")
 * Quicksand Sucks
 * Quotes/Quotes Looking for An Article
 * Qurac
 * RahXephon
 * Rain Aura
 * Ranma ½
 * Ranma ½/Quotes
 * Ratings Stunt
 * Reaching the Clouds and Rain
 * Reactionary Fantasy/Quotes
 * Read'Em and Weep
 * Read or Die
 * Readings Are Off the Scale
 * Recap Episode
 * Recursive Acronym
 * Recycled Script
 * Reincarnation
 * Relationship Reboot
 * Remington Steele
 * Repeat Cut (Under the original name "Triple Take")
 * Repurposed Pop Song
 * Restraining Bolt (based on a one-line summary by Janitor on TVT)
 * Results Not Typical
 * Reunion Revenge
 * Reunion Show
 * Revolutionary Girl Utena
 * Rich Bitch
 * The Rival
 * Road to Hell/Trivia
 * Roboteching
 * Robot Girl
 * The Roddenberry Line
 * Ronin
 * Roof Hopping
 * Rope Bridge
 * Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In
 * The Rule of First Adopters
 * Rune Soldier Louie
 * The Runt At the End
 * RWBY
 * RWBY/Awesome
 * RWBY/Awesome Music
 * RWBY/Fridge
 * RWBY/Funny
 * RWBY/Heartwarming
 * RWBY/Laconic
 * RWBY/Quotes
 * RWBY/Trivia
 * RWBY/WMG
 * Saber Marionette J
 * Sadist Teacher
 * Sailor Moon
 * Sakura Taisen
 * Samurai
 * Sand Bridge At Low Tide
 * Santa Claus is Comin' to Town/WMG
 * Satan
 * Satan/Analysis is comprised of text originally written for Satan.
 * Scanlation
 * Schizo-Tech
 * Schoolgirl Lesbians
 * Sentai
 * Serial Experiments Lain
 * Shark Pool
 * Shoujo Demographic
 * Shonen Demographic
 * Shy Finger-Twiddling
 * Sister Princess
 * Sister Princess Repure
 * Sitting on the Roof
 * Slap Slap Kiss
 * Slogans
 * Slow-Motion Pass-By
 * Small Girl, Big Gun
 * Small Girl, Big Gun/Quotes
 * Sneeze Cut
 * Snowball Lie (Under the original name "Tuttle")
 * Snow Means Love
 * Snot Bubble
 * Something's Different About You Now
 * Soprano and Gravel
 * Space: 1999
 * Space Is Magic
 * Sparkling Stream of Tears
 * Speech-Impaired Animal
 * Spike Jones/Trivia
 * Springtime for Hitler
 * Squeaky Eyes
 * Standardized Space Views (based on text written by Kendra Kirai in another entry)
 * Standing in the Hall
 * Stan Freberg
 * Stealth Clothes
 * Steampunk
 * Steel Angel Kurumi
 * Steel Angel Kurumi 2
 * Steptoe and Son/Trivia
 * Stock Footage
 * Stone Soup
 * Sufficiently Advanced Alien
 * Super-Deformed
 * Supermarket Skit
 * 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
 * The Three Stooges/Quotes
 * Three's Company
 * Threshold Guardians
 * Thwarted Escape
 * Time to Unlock More True Potential
 * Time Travel/Quotes
 * 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
 * Trope Entry Template (Original PMWiki version only)
 * Tunnel of Foreshadowing
 * A Twinkle in the Sky
 * Undocumented Features/Laconic
 * Undocumented Features/Quotes
 * Unknown Phenomenon
 * Unwanted Harem
 * Variable Geo
 * 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
 * We Will Not Use Photoshop in the Future
 * Weddings in Japan
 * Weirdness Magnet/Quotes
 * What a Senseless Waste of Human Life
 * What Is This X You Speak Of?
 * Wheel-O-Feet
 * White Christmas/Trivia
 * Wild Teen Party
 * The Wild West
 * The Wombles/Trivia
 * Women Drivers
 * The Worf Effect
 * Worthy Opponent
 * Wraparound Background
 * Writer's Block Montage
 * The X-Files/Quotes
 * X-Ray Sparks
 * Yakuza
 * Yaoi Guys
 * Ye Goode Olde Days/Quotes
 * Yiddish as a Second Language/Quotes
 * Yumeria

He also named, but did not write:


 * By the Lights of Their Eyes
 * Cyclic Trope
 * Discontinuity
 * 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.