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Looney Toons is professional and fan writer [[Everything's Better with Bob|Robert]] M. [[Shrek|Schroeck]]. He is a [[Joisey|New Jersey]] male in his earlylate fifties who is a published author of roleplaying games, magazine articles and assorted short fiction. He is a member of [[SFWA]], and his most recent book was released in July of 2003 (although he's working on his next). He's been watching TV since ''[[Bewitched]]'' was in black and white, and has a particular fondness for science fiction shows on both ends of the quality spectrum. He's also an [[Anime]] fan, and despite his status as a "pro" writer has delved into anime (and other) [[fanfic|fanfiction]].

He has a [[Bacon Number]] of 3, thanks to having worked in the [[Princeton Triangle Club]] with [[Brooke Shields]] in [[Ivy League|college]].

Thanks to [http://boingboing.net/2004/03/11/tv-cliches-catalogue.html BoingBongBoingBoing.net], he became a troper on the original [[TV Tropes]] wiki in the summer of 2004 -- an unimaginably primitive time when it was hosted on the long-gone sytes.net and [http://web.archive.org/web/20040617082818/http://tvwiki.sytes.net/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheContributors there were less than sixty tropers in existence] ''including'' the admins. For a short time in the late 2000s he actually served as a minor TV Tropes staff member. As of May 2012 he was, to the best of his ability to determine, the single oldest remaining active member of the TV Tropes wiki outside of the staffadministrators.

He is personally responsible for writing nearly six hundred pages on that wiki, including almost a dozen [[Tropes of Legend]].<ref>At the time of the fork in 2012, that was over 1% of the entire wiki's content. That may not sound impressive, but it took nearly ''60,000'' other users to create the remaining 99%.</ref> In response to finding an empty page labeled "Anime" during his first visit, he spent his first few weeks on the wiki creating the entire [[Anime]] section from scratch -- including the now-infamous [[Naughty Tentacles]] page responsible for TV Tropes' infamous [[AboutTV Tropes/The Second Google Incident|"Second Google Incident"]] eight years later in Spring 2012. He coined the first "Absurdly X" trope name ([[Absurdly Powerful Student Council]]) as part of that effort, unwittingly inspiring an untold number of [[Snowclone]]s. He also created the first trope with a name in the form "Instant X, Just Add Y" -- [[Instant AI, Just Add Water]] -- spawning an entirely different set of Snowclones.

For nigh untoover thirty years he has been quietly (and sometimes not-so-quietly) active in online anti-censorship and intellectual freedom movements. He was a tangential party to the infamous [[wikipedia:Steve Jackson Games, Inc. v. United States Secret Service|Secret Service/Steve Jackson Games debacle]] in 1990, and as a result became one of the very first members of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. In the 1990s he worked with local and national groups to help defeat US government attacks on privacy and freedom of expression including [[wikipedia:Clipper chip|the Clipper Chip]] and the [[wikipedia:Communications Decency Act|so-called "Communications Decency Act" of 1996]]. He continues to be active in these causes.

* ''[[The Addams Family]] (1964 TV series)|''The Addams Family'' (1964 TV series)]]

* [[AustraliaAttack (2008the film)Block/QuotesTrivia]]

* [[Emo PhillipsPhilips/Quotes]]

* ''[[Finnegans Wake/Self Demonstrating|''Finnegans Wake'' (Self Demonstrating)]]'' (Originally a separate page, now the "Self-Demonstrating" tab of the work page.)

* ''[[Fushigi YuugiYūgi]]''

* ''[[Midori no HibiDays]]''

* ''[[Mission: Impossible (TV series)|Mission: Impossible]]''

* ''[[My World... and Welcome Toto It]]''

* ''[[Perry Mason (TV series)]]''

* [[Reincarnation (trope)|Reincarnation]]

* ''[[The TickTim (comic)Traveller]]''

* ''[[The War of the Worlds (1953 film)WandaVision]]''

* [[X-Men (film series)/Trivia]]

And of course, he's made tens of thousands of edits on thousands of pages, just like any other troper.

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