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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.

** 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 from 1933 to 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.