Looney Tunes

[CatchFiveBats]

I was watching Adult Swim at 4 in the morning a few days ago (I had gone to sleep at 7 the night before, so I had just woken up), and The Popeye Show came on.  After watching that for a half an hour, on came the Bob Clampett Show, and I noticed something.  I love Looney Tunes.  American cartoons don't get much better than Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, or Wile E. Coyote and the Roadrunner.

I grew up on Looney Tunes, and I haven't watched them for a while, but I'm kind of dissapointed by the lack of air time they're getting nowadays.  4:30 AM?  What's up with that?  Looney Tunes deserve way better than the early hours of the morning.

I guess where I'm going with this is that I'm dissapointed with the crap that kids are watching these days.  My TV is pretty much constantly on Cartoon Network, mainly as background noise, but whenever I look at the TV and see "The Kids Next Door" or "Hi Hi Puffy Ami Yumi", I'm kind of dissapointed.  Today's youth deserves better entertainment than that.

[Izret101]

I totally agree.
I hate when i watch something with my little cousin and 90% of it is cartoons laughing at farts or just using general "barthroom humor". It is sad that nothing of real substance is made anymore.

Alot of the art in cartoons is pretty poor nowadays too.
You all may think i am a youngin' but one thing i did not lack was looney toons.
I probably saw all of them.

[TraderJake]

Looney Tunes Kick major behind. As a kid I loved watching the show, eagerly waiting for the Roadrunner and Wil E. Coyote cartoons to come on. BEEP BEEP. The sketches were always orignal, and always had a laugh.

As for fart jokes, South Park?

[Izret101]

But South Park isn't pitched to young kids. It is pitched to teenagers and adults.

I liked aot of the Looney Toons with Marvin the Martian.
Road Runner was funny too.
All of them were pretty funny.

I liked the Pepy LePew one where the cat is in love with him instead of the other way around and he ends up at the end being the narrator of the cartoon and is bal and chained to the cat and trying to file thru the chain.

I pretty much liked all of them. The Tiny Toons were pretty funny too.

[CatchFiveBats]

But South Park isn't pitched to young kids. It is pitched to teenagers and adults.

Yup.

I'm not sure if they're Looney Tunes, but Tom & Jerry shorts are definitely a favorite of mine.  Then again, they actually get airtime during the day.  (In the morning on Cartoon Network.)

[Zimbacca]

But South Park isn't pitched to young kids. It is pitched to teenagers and adults.

To be fair allot of the jokes in Looney Tunes, if written today, would be considered for teenagers and adults.  You know the drinking, smoking, and sexual related themes.

[The Metamorphosing Leon]

Yeah but, between the two, which show would you let your kids watch?

[Izret101]

To be fair allot of the jokes in Looney Tunes, if written today, would be considered for teenagers and adults.  You know the drinking, smoking, and sexual related themes.

But at the time smoking(especially) and drinking was widely accepted.

They did for the carry dual political/social meanings i have heard though. Like Dr. Suess books which i know for sure did.

As for the sexual referances those are extremely mild compared to 99.9% of what is out there today.

[den68]

Children were not the target audience of the original Looney Tunes shorts. If you really watch them there is a lot of high brow humor mixed in with the slapstick. Great stuff to be sure.

Tom & Jerry were MGM cartoons, Looney Tunes were Warner Bros. Though Chuck Jones who did many Looney Tunes most notably Roadrunner also did some of the later Tom & Jerry shorts.

Jones also did the original Grinch Who Stole Christmas cartoon.

[CatchFiveBats]

Jones also did the original Grinch Who Stole Christmas cartoon.

That is one of the best Christmas movies of all time.

[Zimbacca]

I was watching the adult swim and messing around on the computer, not really paying attention to the TV just having it on so its not insanely quiet in here and popey just ended.  So I looked over and saw a big swastika on it and think, "what the hell, isn't loony tuns on right now? Why is there a swastika on loony tunes?"  The basic premise was that Hitler was going to on a personal bombing mission to Moscow.  During his flight all these Russian gremlins or something kept screwing with him until he eventually crashed the plane.

[Izret101]

Heh i remember the "edited" version of that.(Less likely is it was a new skit)
They removed the swastika and Hitler and just put gremlins on the plane destroying things and irritating the character(Tom & Jerry style).

I liked that one.