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* [[Crowning Music of Awesome]]: "[[What's Opera, Doc?]]" and [[wikipedia:Rabbit of Seville|Rabbit Of Seville]]
** If most of Carl Stalling and Milt Franklyn's scores don't count as CMOA, I don't know what does!
* [[Dork Age]]: Every cartoon produced [https://web.archive.org/web/20120717184756/http://looney.goldenagecartoons.com/miscelooneyous/1960sarticle.html in the 1960s] after the WB animation studio initially closed its doors.
** And some of the cartoons made after Mel Blanc died and other voice actors were hired to replace him (that includes the TV shows like ''Baby Looney Tunes'', ''Loonatics Unleashed'', and ''The Looney Tunes Show''), like Greg Burson, Billy West, Jeff Bergman, Tom Kenny, ''etc''.
** Arguably this could include the batch of 75 black-and-white Looney Tunes that were previously part of the Sunset Films/Guild Films packages which WB had sent to Korea in 1967 to be redrawn and painted in color. The trace jobs were sloppy, color schemes were off key and synchronization faltered in spots.
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** Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny, Tweety, the Roadrunner... hell, any major character that wasn't in the lineup from the beginning.
** Marvin The Martian, for generally being a (semi)competent villain, having a hilarious voice, and ''actually'' succeeding a couple times became pretty popular.
* [[Fetish Fuel]]: Thanks to [[Values Dissonance]], a lot of the crossdressing, [[Ho Yay|male-on-male kissing]], and just the Pepé Le Pew cartoons in general can be misconstrued as this. See [https://web.archive.org/web/20130612145858/http://fetishfuel.wikia.com/wiki/Looney_Tunes the Fetish Fuel page] for the proof.
** [[Wayne's World|"I think Bugs Bunny's pretty when he wears a dress"]].
** Comic artist Robert Crumb admitted to being sexually attracted to Bugs Bunny (prior to his fetish for women with big butts).
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* [["Grand Theft Auto" Effect]]: It's not uncommon to hear a song outside of Looney Tunes and immediately think of Looney Tunes, such as Raymond Scott's "Powerhouse".
** Because of this and [[The Weird Al Effect]], a lot of old tunes from the '30s and '40s are only remembered at all because they were sung in a ''Looney Tunes'' short.
* [[Growing the Beard]]: Initially, the Looney Tunes started as shameless ripoffs of Disney's success and Merrie Melodies was
* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: In "Tortoise Wins By a Hare," one of the headlines on the newspaper advertising the race between Bugs Bunny and Cecil the Turtle reads, "Hitler Commits Suicide." This cartoon was released in 1943, a mere two years before that actually happened. It would be [[Harsher in Hindsight]], but this is Hitler we're talking about...
** Some jokes unavoidably get this, due to inflation. Daffy complaining about paying 25 cents for cab fare in "Show Biz Bugs" is one of the funnier examples. Most people nowadays would kill for fare like this.
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* [[The Problem with Licensed Games]]: Averted with the Looney Tunes racing game for the Dreamcast, played perfectly straight with ''Looney Tunes: Acme Arsenal'', which was critically panned (but sold very well, unfortunately).
* [[Rooting for the Empire]]: Most of the shorts' antagonists are jerks, but utterly harmless and pitiful, usually getting maimed and humiliating to a sadistic degree by their far more competetant foes. Chuck Jones implemented this trope deliberately with Wile E Coyote and the Road Runner and even lampshaded it in ''Adventures Of The Road Runner''.
* [[The Scrappy]]: Buddy, the studio's main character from 1933
** A lot of people feel that the Roadrunner and Tweety deserve this title too, though they also have their fans.
** Also Pepe Le Pew due to how formulaic his shorts are.
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* [[Seasonal Rot]]: The period in which the quality of the shorts goes downhill varies for everyone, but it's generally agreed that when duties moved to DePatie-Freleng in 1963, things took a turn for the worse and, outside of a few exceptions, never really recovered.
** There are some who argue that while DePatie-Freleng's cartoons were a big step down from the studio's heyday, they were still better than 95% of what the other animation studios at the time were producing. However, even DePatie-Freleng fans generally admit that the quality of the cartoons totally disintegrated when the Warner Bros.-Seven Arts era began in 1967.
*** However, the series had major oscillations in quality early on. The Harman-Ising era is generally considered to be solid, but nothing particularly noteworthy, the Buddy era (1933-1935) is generally panned as downright insipid, the 1936-38 era is considered to be pretty strong and the 1938-41 era is seen as good, but also a bit too formulaic (due to Tex Avery doing his travelogue spoofs, Bob Clampett making Porky Pig shorts that had nowhere near the inspiration of his earlier ones and Chuck Jones struggling hard with his Disneyesque characters).
* [[Tear Jerker]]: You'd never expect it from these cartoons, but the ending to "What's Opera, Doc?" defiantly invokes this. But then again, who expects a happy ending from an Opera anyway?
** "Feed the Kitty" also unintentionally is a tear jerker for some. [[Chuck Jones]] said it was meant to be funny, but something about how heartbroken Marc Anthony the bulldog gets when he thinks his pet kitten is being baked into a batch of cookies (when the audience is shown that this is not the case) just kind of tugs at the heartstrings, as silly as the situation is.
*** "Feed the Kitty" was an exercise in personality animation and how Chuck Jones could elicit emotions from audiences by using the characters' expressions. That, coupled with the music by Carl Stalling, was why that scene with Marc Anthony crying over his baked kitten was so heart-wrenching.
* [[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character]]: Gabby Goat from the '30s, who was basically a [[Captain Ersatz]] of [[Donald Duck]], could have been a great star if they had bothered to have any chemistry between him and Porky.
* [[Uncanny Valley]]: One of the [[That's All Folks]] endings had a very ugly looking [[Porky Pig]]. [http://image.wetpaint.com/image/1/uOSsV8_8YQksIbrJXBqOig15970/GW235H179 Observe.]{{Dead link}}
** That Porky was from when they started using the drum ending in 1937, in which they used the design used by the Tashlin or Hardaway/Dalton unit. They started using a cuter Porky from the Clampett unit in 1939.
* [[Unfortunate Implications]]: [[Black Comedy Rape|The ending of "The Wabbit Who Came To Supper"]]. See [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]].
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