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''When he plays his fiddle I just go on a spree''
''It's a cinch that every time I go on the air''
''I just look around and find ol' Rubinoff there''
|"Merrily We Roll Along," the ''Merrie Melodies'' theme (first used in the cartoon ''Billboard Frolics'', 1935)}}
''Looney Tunes'' and ''Merrie Melodies'' were two series of theatrical cartoon shorts running from [[The Golden Age of Animation|1930]] to [[The Dark Age of Animation|1969]]. Initially produced by Leon Schlesinger for distribution by [[Warner Bros]], in 1944 the studio took the unit over entirely when Schlesinger retired.
Originally, [[Artifact Title|as the names indicate]], these cartoons were meant to rip off the sweet, sentimental musical shorts then in vogue: for instance, Disney's ''[[Silly Symphonies]]''. That basing cartoons around popular public-domain songs—or, even better, ones the studio already owned—was a fast and relatively cheap way of producing them didn't hurt any, either.
The first set, ''Looney Tunes'', was introduced with 1930's ''"[[Sinkin'
When ''Looney Tunes'' switched to color in 1942, and the ''Merrie Melodies'' line ditched the music around the same time in favor of its own rising star—one [[Bugs Bunny/Characters|Bugs Bunny]]—differences between the two were limited to their distinctive theme songs, until 1964 (when both series wound up using the same theme music as a result of using a modernized, and slightly bizarre, opening/closing sequence).
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** 1939's "[[Old Glory]]" is educational as well, though unlike the aforementioned Sloan shorts, it doesn't contain comedy at all. Rather, it's a history lesson on the Revolutionary War and the formation of the U.S., with Porky learning about it from Uncle Sam in the wraparounds.
* [[Eek! A Mouse!]]
* [[Enlistment-Ending Minor Malaise]]:
** In at least one [[WWII]]-vintage cartoon, [[Bugs Bunny]] was apparently rejected for military service (the sole of one foot is stamped "4F") for something so minor that it didn't prevent him from performing his usual antics.
** In another, this gets [[Played With]]. Bugs gets a draft letter mistakenly sent his way instead of to B. Bonny; he passes the health exam due to perfect eyesight and the doctor thinking he's seeing a rabbit skeleton on the X-ray due to hallucinations. When the general finds out they hired a rabbit, after Bugs blew up the military camp using a shell to hammer a photo, they say that Bugs can't work on the frontlines because he's not human. They have him testing shells in the factory instead.
* [[Epic Fail]]: Wile E. Coyote's specialty.
* [[Era Specific Personality]]
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* [[Flanderization]]: Different directors often focussed on different aspects of a character, most notably with Daffy, Bugs, Elmer Fudd, and Porky.
** This even got a [[Lampshade]] during an [[Affectionate Parody]] of ''[[Invasion of the Body Snatchers]]''.
* [[Flipping the Bird]]: If the Hays Office would only let Catstello, he'd give Babbitt [[
* [[Fluffy Cloud Heaven]]: "Sunday Go To Meetin' Time," "Clean Pastures," "Daffy Duck And The Dinosaur," "Back Alley Oproar."
* [[Foot Juggling]]: "Hippety Hopper", "Bear Feat" and "Outback Down Under" - a very overlooked trope involving a character spinning another character in circles with their legs, the term 'Look Ma! No Hands!' is very relevant here.
* [[Force Feeding]]: "Pigs Is Pigs", "A Tale of Two Mice" and "Chow Hound"
* [[Forgot I Could Fly]]: This became a running gag for Daffy in the Duck Dodgers spin-off and recent webtoons on the Looney Tunes website.
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* [[Glove Slap]]: Seen in numerous cartoons when a character challenges another to a duel, but perhaps the most widely remembered one comes from "Hare Trimmed".
* [[The Golden Age of Animation]]: The original shorts were a product of this. Since then the characters have been successively (if not always successfully) deployed in the medium's [[The Dark Age of Animation|Dark]], [[The Renaissance Age of Animation|Renaissance]], and [[The Millennium Age of Animation|Millennium]] ages.
* [[Gorgeous George]]: "Ravishing Ronald, the De-Natured Boy", from 1951's "Bunny Hugged".
* [[Gravity Is a Harsh Mistress]]: And it's ''always'' a looooong way down, especially in Wile E. Coyote's case. [[Gravity Is a Harsh Seamstress]], too.
* [[Hair-Trigger Avalanche]]: Demonstrated in "The Iceman Ducketh" when Daffy accidentally sets off an avalanche by shouting.
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* [[Real Joke Name]]: Doctor Quack in ''The Daffy Doc''
* [[Rearrange the Song]]: There are different arrangements of each of the Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes opening themes. In particular, "Merrily We Roll Along" and "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down" got a ton of adjustments over the years.
** During the late 1930s the theme songs oftentimes varied from cartoon to cartoon (particularly in the case of "Merrily We Roll Along"), while all-new arrangements came for the next season. This came to a halt in 1939, when both subseries adopted fully finalized theme tunes, and solidified in 1941 when arguably the most well known, brass-heavy themes (with "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down" also becoming noticeably faster paced) were adopted right at the start of the series' "Golden Age", which spans from 1941 to 1955. From there on, the biggest rearrangement was the theme tunes being shortened to fit longer credits that listed a significantly larger portion of the production crew in 1945, and from thereon after they were rearranged about once per decade (in 1955 and in 1964).
* [[Rebus Bubble]] combined with [[Talking with Signs]] gets you Bugs' mockery of his foes by holding up a sign with "(picture of a screw) + (picture of a baseball)" or a picture of bats circling a belfry.
* [[Recitation Handclasp]]: Giovanni Jones (the fat opera singer) assumes this posture in "Long Haired Hare."
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