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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]].

* [[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".

** 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 [http://looney.goldenagecartoons.com/miscelooneyous/1960sarticle.html in the 1960s] after the WB animation studio initially closed its doors.

** 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 [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.

** ''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 Scrappy]]: Buddy, the studio's main character from 1933--1935. Unusually for a Scrappy, he wasn't that annoying. In fact, he wasn't really ''anything'' at all -- his problem was that he had absolutely zero personality, which was compounded by the dull, plotless cartoons that he starred in.

** 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.

** 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.