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« Still Cool | Main | U,U,D,D,L,R,L,R,B,A,START » February 23, 2002Duck Season! Rabbit Season!I remember when Mel Blanc died, and there was this beautiful two-page tribute run by Warner Brothers in Variety. On one page, there was a single microphone, illuminated by a spotlight. On the facing page, tewnty or so Warner Brothers cartoon characters stood, heads bowed, eyes closed. The caption read: "Speechless" It brought tears to my eyes, because I wasn't as much of a badass then, as I am now. So last night, when I heard that Chuck Jones died, I remembered that tribute in Variety, and it got me thinking...would the Merrie Melodies have been as cool as they were, without both of those guys? Chuck Jones was being eulogized last night as the creator of Bugs Bunny, among others, but I bet you that he'd be the first to tell you that, without Mel Blanc, those would have just been drawings, and not full-fledged characters, as they were. So now they're both gone, and holy crap, what a legacy they've left. I defy you to show me any person over the age of 25 who hasn't been profoundly affected by Looney Tunes, in one way or another. I mean, without Looney Tunes, there would have been no Ren and Stimpy, for crying out loud! I hope the Cartoon Network runs 900 hours of tribute to Chuck Jones. That'd be cool. Comments
Merry Melodies and Looney Tunes were the best. I wish I knew when repeats were on. I'd watch them forever Posted by: tekfighter at February 23, 2002 11:57 AMThat would be so cool. SO, what is everyone's favorite Looney Toons cartoon? Mine, without a doubt, is the one based on Wagner's "The Ring" - the "Kill da Wabbit" one... Elmer Fudd prancing around with a Viking helmet on is priceless..... Chuck Jones is up there with Charles Schultz now, and the cartoons they are making are heavenly. Posted by: noworriesmon at February 23, 2002 11:58 AMall I can say is 'ugh'. The end of an era. Seeing them in the credits for a cartoon let you know that it was going to be good. They created most of my favorite characters. Marvin the Martian is by far my favorite. Sad day in the world of cartoons. Posted by: gregg at February 23, 2002 11:58 AMMy fave Bugs Bunny cartoons were the ones with Marvin the Martian and his weapons of choice, Illudium PU-36 Explosive Space Modulator and the ACME Disintegration Pistol... Thank you Mr. Jones. Posted by: Amy at February 23, 2002 12:00 PMMy personal favorite is "Rabbit Seasoning", hence the title of this entry. It's yet another take on the "duck season, rabbit season" story, but it's by far the funniest one, I think. Jeremy (my brother) and I rented it on video when we were in high school, and I distinctly remember laughing so hard at it, my sides hurt. It was one of the first times I can recall laughing so hard my sides hurt. Posted by: wil at February 23, 2002 12:01 PMAmy a girl after my own heart. Any woman who likes marvin enough to remember the names of his weapons peaks my interest :) Posted by: gregg at February 23, 2002 12:02 PMyou know you group up loving something so much you think you're the only one but i guess looney cartoons touched so many people. i don't know if i can pick just one - rabbit season duck season, the barber of seville, anything with marvin the martian? how about the one with evil scientist and bugs bunny - any one remember that one's name?? i second the nomination for a looney toons marathon. i still miss them all! Elisa Posted by: elisa at February 23, 2002 12:08 PMHmm, Rabbit Seasoning. I'm in the need for a good laugh tonight. Gonna hafta check at Blockbuster this aft for it. I remember the one where Bugs was wrestling "The Crusher". That one made laugh hysterically too.... Posted by: noworriesmon at February 23, 2002 12:08 PMHey WIL. I'm only 22 and the Merrie Melodies had (still has?) a profound influence on my life! Posted by: tats at February 23, 2002 12:15 PMooh i loved the crusher too!! and i forgot the one with the opera singer and bugs!!! Elisa Posted by: elisa at February 23, 2002 12:16 PMOver in england we have bugs and co but I don't think it's as big a deal as it is over in the US. I remeber, years ago, they had an awards ceromony for the toons hosted by the one, the only...yes you've guessed it bugs bunny. It was so cool, I used to watch it over and over and over again until me Mam threatened to break the tape, was so upset that she treatened that I hid the tape. I think my fav charactor has to be either Marvin the Martian or bugs bunny. I work in a playscheme over the holidays and we have a video there called Tweety Pies Adventure around the world (or something to that effect) and the kids love it, I have to admit it was great the first ten times or so I've watched it but after the 20ith thousand time or so I understand why me Mam wanted to break the tape. Spike Oh no. This is the first I've heard of this. For most of my life, I've been a comedy junky, as well as a fan of well-crafted animation. Chuck Jones was well aware that a cartoon didn't have to just appeal to children, and made ones that didn't talk down to anyone. My favorite Looney Tunes show has to be Rabbit's Kin. The one where Pete Puma gets dressed in drag to trick Bugs Bunny. Also, that two page spread you were talking about, was made into a lithograph and sold at the Warner Bros Store. Hands down it was the best seller in the gallery. Posted by: Ibsie at February 23, 2002 12:34 PMSad. I've been listening to my Carl Stalling cartoon soundtracks all morning. It's amazing how listening to the soundtrack immediately brings the picture to mind. Soothing memories while I'm installing Ethernet jacks upstairs. Posted by: billder at February 23, 2002 12:36 PMPETER FREAKIN PUMA!! "How many lumps do you want?" "Oh, three or four..." "Okay, doc. Here ya go!" hammer hammer hammer hammer "I don't like tea. It gives me a headache! I'll take COFFEE! Eeeeeeuuuuuuuuuuuwwwwwww!" :) Posted by: wil at February 23, 2002 12:42 PMShit, this sucks. I remember watching the toons before feature movies in the theatres--they were usually better than the features. ::sniff:: Posted by: colin at February 23, 2002 12:56 PMChuck Jones was great, but I've always loved Bob Clampett. He can squash and stretch like no other. :) Pete Puma's awesome. But I think he says "Hweeeeeeeeeee" more than" Eeeeeeuuuuuuuuuuuwwwwwww!" LOL. I never knew how to spell that noise until very recently. Posted by: Courtney at February 23, 2002 01:12 PMMy favorite(s)? Any Road Runner/ Wile E . I love watching classic demonstrations of cartoon physics. All that and you haven't even mentioned Speedy Gonzalez and Pepe LePew or my very favorite the Tazmanian Devil. So long Chuck, thanks for the memories... Posted by: Jerie at February 23, 2002 01:49 PMI'd have to put my vote in for The Rabbit of Seville. Classic toons. It was just on Toonheads the other day, even. Posted by: KellyV at February 23, 2002 01:49 PMThe opera ones are my favorite (Kill da Wabbit!) but I do like the chicken hawk who tries to get Foghorn Leghorn. Posted by: Penguin at February 23, 2002 01:52 PMAnd for the record my husband says his favorite is probably "Rabbit Season, Duck Season." He tells me the other day he saw an issue of The Army Times with the cover story listed as "This Is A Shooting War." He immediately thought "It's not a shooting war! It's a friciasseeing war!" Posted by: KellyV at February 23, 2002 01:55 PMHmmm... been watching my Golden Age of Looney Tunes Laser Disks all morning.... so many fine cartoons from Mr. Jones. And yes, Wil excellent comment about Mel Blanc's immeasurable contribution to WB cartoons as well... it may unfortunately be too much to hope WB execs wake up and take care of giving proper tribute. Ever since the evil axis empire of AOL bought Time Warner and KILLED the ultra-cool (and for many of us a home to geeks and lovers of animation!) Warner Brothers stores... we may not get an outlet to purchase some quality animation in a permanent format. I cannot think how many times I went in and drooled over "sparklies" - animation cels and maquettes. I always walked out of there about $150 lighter (much to my hubby's chagrin!) and I always wanted the *big* stuff. My home is decorated in upperscale Toys R Us and WB. my desk is lined with *numerous* Marvin's and K-9's, The Iron Giant, Gossamer, Big Guy and Rusty and looked upon by my one huge "for-me!" purchase of a Harley Quinn & Ivy framed litho. I often use cartoon metaphors to explain life... and I hear Carl Stalling music sometimes at the weirdest times... As for my favorites, ANY Marvin cartoon... nuff said. As well as the musical Bugs' shorts. Plus not to be too- nitpicky, but Mr. Jones was merely one of Bugs' "papas": Bob Clampett, Friz Freleng were among the crew that created that stew. His true creations are Daffy, Speedy Gonzales, Pepe LePew, and of course Road Runner and Coyote. Best time my daughter and I had was about 2 years ago when the local orchestra did the "Music of Warner Brothers" complete with Carl Stalling and classical interludes with the Jones' cartoons on a theatre screen... we had a blast! ***THE BEEJ*** Looking forward to a long tribute weekend here at my casa...That's all folks! Posted by: Beej Martin at February 23, 2002 02:04 PMHey, Wil, you said it right there... now they're both gone; I just heard about it about four hours ago on German television and it made me remember my childhood days and how I was always waiting for Looney Tunes to be on already days in advance (I always drove my mom crazy by asking her when it will be on next...but she always watched it with me, and we were both practically on the floor laughing the whole time). Hey, WIl, here's the 'Speechless' cartoon you were talking about: http://store1.yimg.com/I/rnrdist_1673_7778862 If that link doesn't work -- it's a raw image file but has no extension, evidently -- try: http://www.allanimation.com/speechless.html Posted by: Mike Harris at February 23, 2002 02:09 PMHey, my first post. My fave is, was, and always will be, "What's Opera, Doc?" "Spear and Magic Helmet!" i remember when the only time New Mexico got any play was when Bugs said "I must have taken a wrong turn at Albuquerque." that was the coolest. Posted by: kristin at February 23, 2002 02:16 PMi used to watch merrie melodies all the time. my favorites were Sylvester and Peppy-la-pue Posted by: Melanie at February 23, 2002 02:19 PMMarvin the Martian is my favorite... I used to have pictures of him all over my room. Posted by: Stari at February 23, 2002 02:41 PMAgreed, they are gone and will be sorely missed. My teary goodbye was to Charles Shulz.. Damn, my heroes are gone.. *sigh* (I'm a shadetree cartoonist, they were my heroes in ink :) Posted by: J.C. at February 23, 2002 03:23 PMI used to have a Chuck Jones tribute video tape - I don't know what happened to it, but it had all the classics: "What's Opera, Doc?" "One Froggy Evening" (I love Michigan J. Frog) "Duck Dodgers in the 24th & 1/2 Century" "For Scent-imental Reasons". The best one, though, was called "High Note", and involved a drunken musical note from the sheet music for the Blue Danube who had spent way too much time over at Little Brown Jug. It was absolutely genius, and didn't have any of the traditional characters in it. Chuck will be missed. Posted by: Indyellen at February 23, 2002 03:27 PMAnd let's not forget without Mr. Jones we would not have had the animated version of "The Grinch," a few choice Tom and Jerry shorts, "The Cricket in Times Square," "Horton Hears a Who!," "Rikki Tikki Tavi," "The Bear that Wasn't" and my all time favorite, "The Dot and the Line." *Sigh* First Kevin Smith and now Chuck Jones. What a crappy week. Posted by: delerium69 at February 23, 2002 03:32 PMYou mean Porky will never get that movie where he woos Miss Piggy before 40 days is up and she wins a million for staying celibate? Posted by: Don at February 23, 2002 03:35 PMi watched looney tunes after school everyday for eight years. my mom and i would have debates over wile e. coyote and roadrunner, wondering whether the coyote would ever catch his dinner. those acme packages were just the coolest things ever. i'm not 25 yet, but those cartoons definitely made my days. i haven't outgrown them yet. i doubt i ever will. what a legacy. Posted by: sai at February 23, 2002 03:44 PMBack in college, every year there would be a campus wide marathon of Looney Toons. These things would just be absolutely packed for the entire 6+ hours they ran. One of my friends could do a killer impression of Pete Puma. Another could do Marvin the Martian. We could literally sit there for hours and listen to them go back and forth doing it. They were great cheap party gags before the alcohol was introduced later that night. I loved all the ones already mentioned here, but I have to add Gossamer (the orange monster with sneakers) as a big favorite. Also the one where Bugs was mistaken for Elmer Fudd and subsequently underwent therapy so that he would think he was Elmer ("My name is Elmer J. Fudd. I own a mansion and a yacht.") And of course the one where Bugs kept making the vampire turn back into a bat. ("Hocus Pocus! Abracadabra!") Man, I could go on forever! Posted by: olafandy (the poster formerly known as Jon) at February 23, 2002 04:37 PMI played the violin for years, and I loved all the cartoons that used the classical scores that I was familiar with. (: I remember spending the entire two months before the concert in which we played "The Ride of the Valkyries" starting off orchestra rehearsal with a rousing rendition of "Kill the Wabbit!" Posted by: kendoka at February 23, 2002 04:37 PMI love anything with Pepe LePew or Marvin, but "Rabbit Seasoning" is my favorite Bugs cartoon. Thanks to Mike (Harris) for posting the "Speechless" link... It still gets to me because I'm not a badass, like Wil. Posted by: ParadoxFalls at February 23, 2002 04:55 PMMel Blanc is dead? And just for my two cents: I perfer Mickey Mouse. Posted by: ayngil at February 23, 2002 04:57 PMJon/olafandy just reminded me of my 2nd favorite Bugs cartoon(s): It's a tie between Bugs using dynamite to curl Gossamer's hair and the 'Hocus Pocus - Abracadabra!' magic fest. Posted by: ParadoxFalls at February 23, 2002 05:03 PMcartoons are timeless....'til they become politically incorrect...funny that...since many of the cartoons from the 40's and 50's were so political....Popeye fighting Nazi and Imperial Japanese foes....imagine cartoons of todays war... JSB Posted by: JSB at February 23, 2002 05:22 PMWil, Another tremendous loss. Regarding the Mel Blanc tribute, shortly after his death I was visiting a local WB store and they were selling the lithograph previously mentioned. I stared at it for quite a while. A few months later several of my friends got together and gave it to me for my birthday. It's up on the wall over the fireplace now. It still gets to me. At least we have plenty of wonderful memories. Ron Posted by: Ron at February 23, 2002 05:34 PMHey wil, What no lovin for Yosemite Sam, the roootinest tootinest polecat this side of the Mississippi? Or the buzzard, "Duh....nope, nope, nope" You know you're getting old when all your childhood idols start passing away. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies are the staple for which all animation should be judged against. There isn't anything produced today that captures the hilarity and magic that was the "Bugs and Daffy" show. WB needs to produce a DVD collection of these cartoons like Disney did with their Silly Symphonies. Ah well..."my momma done told me, to bring home some dinner" Jeff Posted by: Jeff at February 23, 2002 05:49 PMMarvin the Martian, Bugs Bunny... it's not just people over 25. Looney Tunes is such a big part of our culture. Posted by: snapdragon at February 23, 2002 06:11 PMChuck was the last of the gang that created the Looney Tunes to pass on- Fritz Freeling, Mike Maltese, and the rest long passed away, but were just as responsibile for the wealth of great cratoons that Warner Brothers put out. Luckily Chuck recorded as much as he could in the books Chuck Amuck and Chuck Reducks- all the stories from his childhood and the stories from the old Warner gang are recounted hilariously. Both are out of print, but hopefully your public libraries have copies available. Its a very sad day for me personally- Charles Schultz, Chuck Jones, and Jim Henson were all my heros. I'll throw another favorite out: The Rabbit of Seville. Who hasn't been to a real performance of the Barber of Seville and not had mental images from the cartoon the whole time? Posted by: bluevangogh at February 23, 2002 06:32 PMbluevangogh said: "Its a very sad day for me personally- Charles Schultz, Chuck Jones, and Jim Henson were all my heros." Geez-it's really depressing when you put it all together like that. You really have to wonder if visionaries like that will ever exist again. Kermit, Bugs and Snoopy...how can I forget them? Off Topic. (Although I'm sad about the whole thing.) Wil, there was a thing about you in the cafepress email I got. "Store Spotlight: Wil Wheaton Dot Net Store Wil Wheaton Dot Net is a celebrity site that is written and maintained by Wil Wheaton himself. His acting credits include "Stand By Me" and "Star Trek: The Next Generation". Go to www.wilwheaton.net and get to know the real Wil. While you're there, don't forget to check out his award-winning merchandise at www.wilwheaton.net/store.php." Yay :) This is the first time I've heard of Chuck Jones' passing. :( Didn't he also work on the Grinch cartoon? Like pretty much everyone else, I grew up watching the Looney Tunes. I wish cartoons nowadays could get away with being as fresh and funny without having to resort to extreme bathroom humor, ya know? The classic cartoons have become classic because they're funny to children *and* adults. But I do confess, I did love Ren & Stimpy when it first came out. *sigh* Anyway, I'm not sure what my absolute favorite cartoon is... possibly that one with the big orange monster? I've forgotten his name, hmmm. And the ones with Claude the cat! And Marc Anthony! Oh the humanity! Posted by: Toonces at February 23, 2002 07:04 PMolafandy wrote, "Kermit, Bugs and Snoopy...how can I forget them?" The thing is, olafandy, you *shouldn't* forget the,. :)
ahh loony toons. oh man the memroies. I would be a very different person with out loony tunes. hard to belive they're gone. Posted by: Pikachu at February 23, 2002 07:28 PMYou mean they used to show Looney Tunes in theaters, before the movie? God, I feel so young. That said, my older brother and I watched them all the time, until they were moved from Saturday morning to Sunday. (We were required to be in church.) Now, of course, I get Cartoon Network, so when my husband gets home from work at 3 AM we can watch them together! I think I remember being... I don't know how old, but pretty young, and crying the first time I saw that opera one. I really thought Bugs was dead! Ah, but Bugs and Co. will never die. Posted by: T'Sai Amanda at February 23, 2002 07:48 PM"Where's my hasenfeffer!" Posted by: joshua at February 23, 2002 08:02 PMLooney Tunes was the best, to hell with that Mouse Mickey! The creators of Merrie Melodies where the premodern father's of all great cartoon animators. They created "The Simpsons" and "South Park" of their time touching politics (although they were limited), celebrities, and arts (remember the ever so famous Elmer Fudd opera). They didn't need computers or lavish technology. They worked in a termite infested shack in the Warner brothers lot (hence Termite terrace). They were my inspiration and heroes. They tested the limits of animation at age of depression. Without them my cartoons would have no real heart, and soon (God I hope soon) my cartoons will live as they did. God bless Mel Blanc and Chuck Jones without them i would be so lost. Posted by: Mike (the creator) at February 23, 2002 08:08 PMSure, let's make my first message have nothing to do with Wil ... If you want to gawk at just how much Mr. Jones did with his 89-and-a-half years: http://us.imdb.com/Name?Jones,+Chuck Posted by: Robert Hutchinson at February 23, 2002 09:05 PMI dunno if this has been mentioned already in the strand but...I hate it and it is ad that now a days those old, great, and classic cartoons are edited to shreds. I do realise that some of the reasons why but it is still sad. Is there any unedited old classic carttons on video or DVD?? Posted by: Artisticspirit at February 23, 2002 09:49 PMToonces wrote: olafandy wrote, "Kermit, Bugs and Snoopy...how can I forget them?" The thing is, olafandy, you *shouldn't* forget the,. :) Right on, Toonces! : ) I just thought it would be a good place to paraphrase Charles Schultz's quote in his final Peanuts cartoon. First Post! Sad, I am that Chuck Jones is no longer with us. One of my many favourites of his huge body of work would have to be "Duck Dogers in the 24th and a half Century!!" Cool looking scifi in the fifties? Getouttahere! "Are you ready, eager young space cadet?" (Also the look on Wiley's face when gravity kicked in was always fabulous!) Posted by: ScottC at February 23, 2002 10:21 PMI'm heartened to see so many Marvin the Martian fans. I have about 250 items, most gleaned from the WB stores *RIP* I'll miss my martian. Chuck will be sorely missed. Posted by: Kristin at February 24, 2002 05:22 AMThere was a tribute to Friz Freleng in the same style as the Mel Blanc tribute when Mr. Freleng died, back in 1995. Basically, it was a bunch of the classic characters gathered mournfully around an animator's desk. Here's a link to it: http://artgal.hypermart.net/images/friz_trib.jpg Posted by: Joseph J. Finn at February 24, 2002 06:16 AMI had said earlier: Don't you hate it when you're trying to express something and you realize the next day you've omitted a word that changes the whole context of your post? Even when someone attempted to point it out to you in a later post? Sleep deprivation-fear it! God, I feel like such a nimrod... So to paraphrase Charles Schultz properly: You brought tears to my eyes, Wil. Despite all the blathering (and over-promotion) that goes on about the Disney characters, the Warners characters were by far my favorites. I'd sit and watch those guys for an afternoon a lot faster than I would the Disney stuff. Great stories, great characters ... they'll live on forever. Thanks again for a website that's one of the high points of my day. You (and the posse) rock! Posted by: Carol at February 24, 2002 10:10 AMIt's SO hard to pick just ONE Loony Toon but, one of the good ones was when Bugs was being chased around by that witch and every time she took off running or on her broom, she'd leave little hair pins behind her...HAHAHA...oh man. Wow, I didn't see the Mel Blanc cartoon in Variety. But being somewhat older, ahem, I remember a similar cartoon the day after Walt Disney died. It had no caption and featured a duck, probably Donald, looking up at Walt's tombstone with a big tear rolling down his cheek. It brought tears to my badass eyes then and still does now. Somehow I don't think the same thing would work for Michael Eisner. A great story related to me by a friend of mine after we heard about Chuck Jones' passing: "During the big costume contest (at DragonCon, a scifi con), the main ballroom is filled with maybe 4000 people or so. Well, when it finally wraps up, they often have some time to kill while the judging is going on. This can often go 20 minutes or so. So they often put a few Warner Brothers cartoons on the main viewscreen. They always show DUCK DODGERS when they do that, it being a scifi convention after all. And they often show ROBIN HOOD DAFFY or whatever it's called. Anyway, Chuck was, I think, one of the judges of the costume contest, and he was behind the stage and the big screen, so he wasn't seeing what was going on (and probably, since the speakers were turned the other way, couldn't hear the cartoons like the audience could). But what he did hear was 4000 people, in unison, screaming the lines, "I'm DUCK DODGERS IN THE 24TH AND A HALF CENTURY!" or Porky's "Hello, you Thing From Another World, you!" Anyway, he was just flabbergasted, that there were 4000 people who knew these lines by heart and were yelling them out in time with the movie. From convention staff who were backstage and witnessed it, he was moved, almost to tears, by the realization of how powerful a thing he had made. What I mean is, obviously, he knew his stuff was popular, but the sensation of being behind the stage and hearing thousands of people roar the lines from one of his cartoons, when he was involved in another thing entirely (judging this costume contest), really moved and surprised him. I thought that was neat." Posted by: elfgirl at February 25, 2002 04:27 AMAmen, Wil. Chuck Jones, we'll miss you. Posted by: Cari at February 25, 2002 05:28 AMIs there anyone in the past 30 years who's childhood hasn't been framed by classic WB cartoons? nice cartoon in tribute here: I LOVE The Duck. Even got him on my mouse pad. Favorite cartoon? Hmmm. Either the Scarlet Pumpernickel or Duck Amuck. It's in the Scarlet cartoon that we find out the Daffy's middle name is Dumas. heheheh. Love him!! Posted by: Laura Lu at February 26, 2002 12:17 AMaccording to the infallible game of trivial pursuit, on his death bed, mel blanc spoke in the voice of bugs bunny as he slipped in and out of a coma. Posted by: hanja at February 26, 2002 04:44 AMTo all: Just to let everyone know. Boomerang, which is a spinoff channel of Cartoon Network, will be having a 24 hour Chuch Jones marathon starting on Friday March 1st at 8am(not sure which time zone) and, of course, running until 8am Saturday morning. Posted by: Jeff at February 26, 2002 01:13 PMmy bad, fat fingers, should be "Chuck" Posted by: Jeff at February 26, 2002 01:14 PMThanks for recognizing Chuck Jones. I read he died and quite saddened. It took me a moment to figure out why, but in retrospect, here was someone who added so much laughter to my life and never knew it. Far too many hours as a child, even more as an adult. I've never been embarassed to admit my love for Looney Tunes, especially the Chuck Jones creations. He was a genious. Posted by: Long-eared Galoot at February 26, 2002 08:05 PMAh, the memories: (circa 1978) - Mom's in "her chair" watching Roadrunner & Coyote. My brother and I are sitting on the floor, not watching the TV, but watching Mom. It's probably the only time we ever get to see her really, really laugh - and just about laugh herself into an asthma attack at that! (August 1991) - Riding in the car with Mom on our way from Florida to Colorado for my uncle's funeral. She's found a classical radio station somewhere in the middle of Texas. After a while there's this song I hear. Sounds familiar, but I can't quite place it. "DUM de DUM dum, DUM de DUM dum..." I ask Mom what it is; she doesn't know. Then suddenly it hits me and I start singing "Kill da Wabbit, Kill da Wabbit..." Incidentally, my husband (a big Marvin fan, BTW) claims that ol' Wile E. actually caught Roadrunner once. He says Coyote held up a sign saying something to the effect of "Okay, you wanted me to catch him--now what?" Has anybody seen this? Posted by: Bev at February 27, 2002 12:55 AMCartoons, you know the insane thing is, here in the Uk, it's considered strange if you still like cartoons at my age (19). Comon what's not luv, I rember all those winter nites spent rolled out in the front room watching Bugs&Daffy, while fithing with the 'rents to get 5minutes more of tv time to watch them. My brother gave me a mug for my birthday a couple of years back with Daffy Duck on it, and on the other side was a msge, about depsite the fact that he was one dispicable little black duck, you couldn't not help but admire his attitude, whcih perfectly describes me I think........ Posted by: Gavin Lowe at February 27, 2002 07:43 AMI've been a huge fan of WB cartoons my whole life. I'll watch Looney Tunes anytime I can catch them on TV. Favorite characters were always Marvin, Taz and Gossamer, the big orange monster. It seemed like nobody ever knew his name was Gossamer. I worked at a WB studio store a couple of years ago, and the gallery manager let me work in the gallery because I knew Gossamer's name. :) Posted by: alyson at February 27, 2002 08:31 AM"Turn out that light!" does anybody know where i can buy a 12 in gossamer figurine ??? Pete Puma is the best. Its cool that my daughters, 10 and 7 years of age, love it as much as I have. "how many lumps?.........." Posted by: Mark Vincent at November 15, 2002 06:50 AMkljk;l'[/k Posted by: Laurie at April 23, 2003 11:36 AMFOR ALL MARVIN FANS THAT RECIEVE CARTOON NETWORK ON AUGUST 23, A NEW DUCK DODGERS FILM WILL BE APPEARING, PROBABLY NOT AS GOOD AS THE ORIGINALS. BUT ITS GOT TO BE BETTER THEN THE CRAPPY VIDEO GAME MARVIN WANNABES. DON'T GET ME WRONG I LOVE MY GAMES AS MUCH AS THE NEXT PERSON BUT THEY JUST DON'T DO MARVIN JUSTICE. Posted by: SPACEYBLOND at July 21, 2003 02:42 PMThe Rabbit of Seville is my Fav. Buggs massaging Elmer Fudds head with his toes cracks me up every time. all cut to the classic music. u need more looney toon pictures Posted by: bridget miller at November 9, 2003 07:42 AMu guys r the best keep up the hard work wish u luck & merry xmas Posted by: ALI at December 25, 2003 03:32 AMu guys r the best keep up the hard work wish u luck & merry xmas Posted by: ALI at December 25, 2003 03:35 AMI love all of them. Have any of you also remembered the cartoon mouse versions of Jack Benny and co.? One of my favorites was Gremlins from the Kremlin. And who can forget Daffy's frustration at Bugs not playing the xylaphone properly after he boobytrapped it? Yes, I did, I did, I did see a puttytat. Posted by: David at March 10, 2004 12:16 AMPost a commentThanks for signing in, . Now you can comment. (sign out) (If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear on the entry. 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