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* [[Archive Panic]]: Exactly 1,000 classic-era theatrical shorts, plus the SNAFU shorts and other bits of miscellanea. At least there haven't been new Looney Tunes shorts ''regularly'' made since 1969. That would make the series even more grueling to get through.
* [[Award Snub]]: Despite winning seven Oscars, almost no Looney Tunes productions has ever gained an [[Annie Award]], which is an award ceremony exclusively for animation. The biggest letdown would've had to be ''Looney Tunes: Back in Action'' losing to [[Finding Nemo|a certain CGI talking fish movie]].
** Then there was the famous incident in which ''[[A Wild Hare]]'', the first [[Bugs Bunny]] cartoon, as well as ''[[Puss Gets the Boot]]'', the first [[
* [[Boring Invincible Hero]]: Though it's [[Your Mileage May Vary|debatable]] how "'boring" they were, most of the Looney Tunes recurring protaganists (Bugs, Tweety, Speedy, ''etc.'') are often presented as extreme [[Karmic Trickster|Karmic Tricksters]] who outsmarted their [[Rogues Gallery]] without so much as batting an eyelid, though largely due to [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain|the foes they go up against]]. That said the WB staff did make attempts to balance this at times, Bugs' winning streak was balanced with the odd [[Butt Monkey]] role every once in a while, while the De Patie Freleng shorts used [[Idiot Hero|a more hapless Speedy]].
* [[Complete Monster]]: Lawyer Goodwill from "The Case Of The Stuttering Pig".
** The trapper from "Porky In The North Woods".
* [[Crowning Music of Awesome]]: "[[What's Opera, Doc?]]" and [
** 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.
** [[
** Comic artist Robert Crumb admitted to being sexually attracted to Bugs Bunny (prior to his fetish for women with big butts).
* [[Foe Yay]]: Bugs and Elmer (i.e., ''Rabbit of Seville'', ''Bugs' Bonnets'', ''What's Opera, Doc?''), Bugs and Yosemite Sam (i.e., ''Hare Trimmed'') ... Bugs and most of his adversaries at some point, really.
** Daffy and Porky:
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'''Porky Pig:''': G-g-gosh no, I'm not married.
'''Daffy Duck:''': Aha! Not married eh? Well -- *jumps into Porky's arms* -- whaddya say you and me go steady? }}
* [[Gannon Banned]]: Spelling Looney Tunes as Looney TOONS will get you a lot of ire on forums.
* [[Germans Love David Hasselhoff]]: Speedy Gonzales, despite being perceived as an [[Ethnic Scrappy]] by Cartoon Network and even banned from airing, was very popular with Latin Americans, Mexicans to be more specific.
** Speedy is also very popular in Germany itself, enough to have gotten his own show there in the '70s, complete with its own unique [[Memetic Mutation|(and often remixed)]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfEDO1uZxVA theme song].
* [["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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** ''Porky In Wackyland'' (1938) as ''Dough For The Do-Do'' (1949)
*** Friz Freleng's cartoons are notorious for recycling scripts from earlier cartoons (and recycling scenes).
* [[The Problem
* [[Rooting for
* [[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.
** Heck, even BUGS BUNNY was one in his earlier years as Proto-Bugs. Audiences didn't sympathize with the guy because of his tendency to screw characters over [[For the Evulz|for no reason]]. Allegedly, the audience [[And the Fandom Rejoiced|applauded when he was Falcon Punched by his latest victim in "Presto Chango!"]] [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|His laugh was found annoying, too.]] Obviously, Bugs is now one of the most well-recognized characters ever, and most people don't remember that he was a Scrappy.
** Also an example of [[Rooting for
** Cecil Turtle, mainly because he's the ''only one'' who can outwit Bugs time and time again.
* [[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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* [[Unpopular Popular Character]]: Daffy
* [[Viewer Gender Confusion]]: Tweety. It doesn't help that his first appearance was pink.
* [[Weird Al Effect]]: A lot of the characters (particularly Pepe Le Pew and Foghorn Leghorn) are based on near-obscure celebrities that people these days wouldn't recognize without thinking of the Looney Tunes. Pepe Le Pew is based on French actor [
* [[
* [[What an Idiot!]]: It's a wonder Private Snafu wasn't declared 4F due to mental incompetence.
* [[What Do You Mean
** In interviews with each of the main directors when asked this question they reply that they never had kids in mind when making their cartoons.
*** The shorts originally played before anything in the WB library (which could include gritty crime dramas aimed at older audiences), so yeah, they weren't for kids. It's just that due to edgier material that has come out since its heydey (as well as the aforementioned airings on Saturday mornings), a lot of the content seems tame today.
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