Automoderated users, Autopatrolled users, Bureaucrats, Comment administrators, Confirmed users, Forum administrators, Interface administrators, Moderators, Rollbackers, Administrators
116,470
edits
Looney Tunes: Difference between revisions
fixed bogus template, removed TVT control freakery
m (Mass update links) |
Looney Toons (talk | contribs) (fixed bogus template, removed TVT control freakery) |
||
Line 7:
''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
▲''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 st
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.
Line 104 ⟶ 95:
=== A-B-C ===
* [[Abhorrent Admirer]]: Pepé Le Pew in most (if not all) of the cartoons he was in (though there were times when the roles were reversed and Pepe became the hunted; and the only cartoon where he wasn't an [[Abhorrent Admirer]] was Arthur Davis's "Odor of the Day"); Daffy Duck in Frank Tashlin's "The Stupid Cupid"; the Mama Bear in "Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears"; and the [[Brawn Hilda|portly Slavic-accented female]] bunny Millicent from "Rabbit Romeo."
** Pepe and the cat are special cases; the cat freaks out at his interest mainly because he's a skunk, with all the attendant odor problems. When the tables are turned (often from Pepe either having his stench covered or removed), her attitude flips around as well and she becomes even more aggressive than Pepe was,
* [[Accordion Man]]: Some characters are subject to this.
* [[Accidental Athlete]]: Happens to Cool Cat in ''Bugged by a Bee''. Subverted in that the bee gets all the credit in the end and not Cool Cat.
Line 285 ⟶ 276:
** Daffy and Taz are paired together in ''Ducking the Devil'', their only classic cartoon together.
* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: Chester from the two Chester And Spike shorts. Also a [[Pint-Sized Powerhouse]].
* [[Cut a Slice, Take The Rest]]: frequently, with various characters, and often with cake.
Line 358 ⟶ 348:
'''Gossamer''': People?! *screams and runs away [[Efficient Displacement|through several sets of walls]]*. }}
* [[Franchise Killer]]: Believe it or not, this has happened to the series--as early as 1933, in fact. After Hugh Harman and Rudolph Ising left Leon's cartoon studio, he hastily hired a new team of crack animators, lead by director Tom Palmer, to rush out three new cartoons featuring his Expy of [[Bosko the Talk Ink Kid]], Buddy. These new cartoons were so mediocre that Jack Warner himself rejected them all on sight, with Leon's studio on the verge of getting shut down. Thankfully, Leon got [[Friz Freleng]] to return to the studio and rework the rejected cartoons into one coherent cartoon, which thankfully saved this new studio from being killed before it even got off the ground!
* [[Friendly Enemy]]: Ralph E. Wolf and Sam Sheepdog.
* [[Funny Animal]]: Duh. All of them (including the human characters, like Elmer Fudd and Yosemite Sam)
Line 437 ⟶ 426:
* [[Karma Houdini]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e16AgxehJyY "Fresh Airedale"], full stop.
* [[Karmic Trickster]]: Bugs is the poster child for this trope. Delivering poetic justice after being wronged is the classic Bugs Bunny storyline.
* [[Knight of Cerebus]]: Some villains from the mid-30s were pretty threatening and scary, such as the captain from "Shanghaied Shipmates", the trapper from "Porky In The North Woods", and the lawyer from "The Case Of The Stuttering Pig".
** Daffy acted like this is a few of his pairing with Speedy, notably in "Assault & Peppered" and "Well Worn Daffy".
Line 559 ⟶ 547:
* [[Negative Continuity]]: Completely. In many series, characters meet each other for the first time in every cartoon, and any "facts" given about a character in one cartoon (like Elmer being a vegetarian in "Rabbit Fire") are for that cartoon only and aren't intended to carry over into subsequent instalments.
* [[Newspaper Dating]]: Elmer in "The Old, Gray Hare"
* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: Some [[Real Life]] [[Big Bad|Big Bads]] were humiliated -- particularly around World War II, when all of their cartoons had the characters fighting against Hitler and his Nazi regime or Japanese soliders. In a more friendly fashion, Hollywood celebrities such as [[Humphrey Bogart]], Frank Sinatra, and Al Jolson were often lightly mocked.
** Prior to Abbott & Costello being caricatured as cats (later mice) as "Babbitt & Catstello," Laurel and Hardy were caricatured as crows in pursuit of a grasshopper in ''A Hop, Skip And A Chump.''
Line 787 ⟶ 774:
** With some assistance from Speedy Gonzales, Sylvester chalks up a win at the end of 1964's ''A Message To Gracias.''
** With some assistance from Bugs Bunny, the Big Bad Wolf (from the "Three Little Pigs" story) chalks up a win at the end of 1949's ''The Windblown Hare.''
** Shep, the egotistical canine from Chuck Jones' ''Fresh Airedale'', is more [[Took a Level In Jerkass]] than villain, although his goal -- to eliminate a Scottish terrier who was deemed the city's top dog -- would seem evil enough to qualify him as a villain. It goes awry as Shep nearly drowns and the terrier rescues him. But when the terrier collapses from exhaustion, everybody -- the press included -- fetes Shep as a hero that rescued the terrier.
* [[Telegraph Gag STOP]]:
** Used ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akAEIW3rmvQ&t=6m00s I Love To Singa]''. A receptionist receives a telegram from a sleazy deliveryman. She reads it and the camera pans away.
Line 928 ⟶ 914:
[[Category:Films of the 1950s]]
[[Category:Looney Tunes in The Fifties]]
[[Category:Looney Tunes
| |||