Golden-age cartoons as a kid.

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Czech said golden age cartoons, so I believe he means the cartoons of the 40s and 50s.

[Black Lushus 0]

Yeah, those.

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EDIT: Nevermind.

[Guest Tzar Lysergic]

I like the cartoons that were just dancing trees and shit.

[DrVenkman PhD 0]

Bugs Bunny referring to all women as witches was a big to-do in Canada 10 years ago.

 

http://www.cbsc.ca/english/decisions/1998/980203a.php

 

Some people, eh?

[daileyxplanet 0]

Am I the only one who had a geekgasm for the inter-company crossover during Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

[Kahran Ramsus 0]

Disney does have some good stuff, especially the stuff with Goofy where he is trying to teach something. They had a new one last year as well with How to Set Up Your HDTV and I thought it was fantastic as well. That said, as a whole WB wins this hands down. The volume of quality stuff that they have is off the charts.

[Mr. S£im Citrus 0]

Repo Man: I was Darkwing Duck for Halloween in 1992...

 

Egad.

 

I have to go with WB over Disney as well, but I did want to add that I'm in the "anti-roadrunner" camp. RR and Tweety were basically the only major WB characters that never got their comeuppance, even once.

[Gary Floyd 0]

Totally Warner Brothers. I can still watch Bugs and Daffy and laugh my ass off. However, still hold a place in my heart for "Fantasia", and the "Pink Elephants on Parade" scene in Dumbo used to give me nightmares, and that counts for something.

[Jingus 0]

Am I the only one who had a geekgasm for the inter-company crossover during Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

Hell no you're not. Mickey's first line being "You could get killed!" is an all-time classic. Plus Duck Versus Duck in the piano bar scene.

 

I did want to add that I'm in the "anti-roadrunner" camp. RR and Tweety were basically the only major WB characters that never got their comeuppance, even once.

Not exactly what you mean, but Roadrunner did play with the formula at least once. At the end, Wile was shrunk down to tiny rodent size, and ended up grabbing onto the bottom of Roadrunner's feet, looking up at his now-gargantuan prey. Then he looked up at the camera in rage, and held up a sign that said "Well, you always wanted me to catch him!". I loved the little fourth-wall-breaking moments like that which WB would toss in as bonuses.

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I never liked Roadrunner-Wile E either. I remember before the movie Richie Rich, they had a new Roadrunner short, and Wile E. talked. Ruined my day.

 

(It wasn't in the context of when he would talk to those kids either, he said ow. Despicable)

 

Yogi Bear and Wacky Races are probably my two favourite cartoons, behind Daffy Duck who will always be number one.

[The Metal Maniac 0]

Roadrunner also got run the fuck over in Tiny Toon's "How I Spent My Summer Vacation".

 

 

See?

 

And yes, I remembered that right off the top of my head. I nearly shit a brick when I first saw that.

[Lord of The Curry 0]

Oh man, I rented the shit out of that Tiny Toons movie when I was younger.

[DarKnight 0]

Easily Warner Bros. for me. Looney Tunes owns the fucking universe. I loved the pure anarchy in Daffy Duck's cartoons, as he is my favorite character out of Looney Tunes. I agree with some people on here who say that Road Runner and Tweety are annoying as hell, since it made me have sympathy for Sylvester and Wile E. I never liked Disney shorts worth a crap, but there movies are pretty good. If I had to pick my favorite Looney Tunes cartoons, I would have to go with "Yankee Doodle Daffy", and that one where Daffy and Porky try to get some sleep so they won't be late for work the next day, and they end up going through horrible situations through the whole night.

[Guest Tzar Lysergic]

I never liked any Hanna-Barbera cartoons. Flintstones? Jetsons? Yogi Bear? Eat a dick.

[Nighthawk 0]

Plus Duck Versus Duck in the piano bar scene.

 

"God damn stupid nigger!"

[Anakin Flair 0]

Duck Amuck:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewVrlNl3MyA

[Guest C*Z*E*C*H]

Love Duck Amuck. That's a declarative with its 1st person singular pronoun lopped off and an imperative, by the way.

 

I never liked any Hanna-Barbera cartoons. Flintstones? Jetsons? Yogi Bear? Eat a dick.

The worst were those D-list Hanna-Barbera shorts that would be in the middle of Huckleberry Hound or Yogi Bear, like Loopy DeLoop or something. Sometimes one of those would pop up on a compilation videotape and you'd have to fast-forward. My personal nadir of cartoon viewing was in 5th grade when I would be sick in bed with Cartoon Network on. I would be lying there incapacitated, taking in the worst of what Cartoon Network had to offer after 8 a.m. when all the kids go to school. My nose is congested, my joints are aching, and I can't reach the remote to turn off Pound Puppies and Snorks. Bleh.

 

Now that we've established Warners supremacy...

Bugs was my favoritest cartoon character in the whole wide world, Daffy was #1A. Never liked Yosemite Sam. I liked Foghorn Leghorn's voice. A lot of people dislike Speedy Gonzales, but I was fond of him and his pals, especially the Pied Piper of Guadalupe, I think it was? Where their eyes would bug out and they'd start marching to their doom to the tune of "the Irish Washerwoman"? Loved Roadrunner/Wile E., rooted for Wile E. (I always rooted for the bad guys, and always played the bad guy during recess for Power Rangers or Mario or Zelda or anything that came up or we made up. I should bring this up with my therapist.) I realized at an early age that the Pepe Le Pew thing was stretched pretty thin. Marvin the Martian was cool.

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I liked Bugs when I was little, but then I realised he was such an asshole, and maybe Elmer Fudd shooting him in the face wouldn't be such a bad thing. As I said, the cartoon where he loses (ending up exiled on an island) is beautiful.

 

Daffy quickly became my favourite, as I wore out my Of Course You Know This Means War shirt.

 

Never a big Speedy fan, but I love Yosemite Sam so much. His cartoons with Bugs are too funny. Foghorn Leghorn is hit and miss, but as Czech said, great voice.

 

I pretty much became obsessed with Looney Tunes when I was 3, and still am today.

 

The worst were those D-list Hanna-Barbera shorts that would be in the middle of Huckleberry Hound or Yogi Bear

 

They had some misses, but Yogi Bear, Quick Draw McGraw, Wacky Races, Augie Doggie and Doggy Daddy, Hokey Wolf, Snagglepuss- that's my childhood. I never did get into the Flintstones, but The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones is greatness.

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I was always fond of Wile E. Coyote/ Road Runner cartoons. My dad loves Sylvester and Tweety, especially when you had the big dog thrown in, so I kind of had to love those two or else be very annoyed. I think I liked Daffy more than Bugs but I always kind of thought both were mildly overexposed (and thus overrated) for some reason. Foghorn Leghorn cracked me up. Even though he only appeared in one short- I really loved Michigan J. Frog. I never really liked Speedy Gonzalez, he felt like a second rate, mildly offensive Road Runner ripoff. I wasn't much of a Pepe LePew fan either. I was confused to why The Tasmanian Devil shorts weren't anything like Taz-Mania (again I'm a child of the early '90s). My reaction to everybody else probably ranged from indifference to thinking they were pretty good.

 

And boy- Warner Brothers have really tried to muck up their legacy in the past ten years or so. Looney Tunes Babies? What the fuck is that shit?

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I sent The WB a petition when they made Michigan J. Frog their mascot. He's in one cartoon and he's the mascot the Warner Brothers network?

 

Nigger please.

 

I always felt awful when those Sylvester, Jr. got involved. It's bad enough Sylvester can't catch a fucking bird, now he has to look like a bitch in front of his kid? Just cruel.

[At Home 0]

Animaniacs.

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Am I the only one who had a geekgasm for the inter-company crossover during Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

 

 

No. I still want a poster of the scene with Mickey, Bugs, and Bob Hoskins.

[DrVenkman PhD 0]

I briefly saw a cartoon the other day where Pepe had his skunk stripe painted black and had to fend off a love sick female cat. I was not familiar with that role reversal, but it nice to see that they shook things up.

 

I enjoy the Duck Amuck "sequel" 'Rabbit Rampage'.

[CBright7831 0]

Am I the only one who had a geekgasm for the inter-company crossover during Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

Nope.

 

Interesting trivia fact about WFRR: Robert Zemeckis wanted famous Studio/Paramount characters Popeye, Bluto, Olive Oyl, Little Lulu and Casper the Friendly Ghost, as well as Pat Sullivan's Felix the Cat and MGM's Tom & Jerry to appear, but the rights to the characters could not be obtained in time, although a photo of Felix shaking hands with R.K. Maroon is seen in Maroon's office when he first hires Eddie.

[EricMM 0]

Duck Amuck

Rabbit of Seville

Whats Opera Doc?

 

Come on.

[The Amazing Rando 0]

I'm a huge fan of "The Scarlet Pumpernickel" mainly for the awesome faux suicide bit at the finale.

 

 

I can say that most Disney cartoons bug me, although I have gone out of my way to own some of the metal boxed DVDs they have been putting out (The Complete Goofy and The Chronological Donald, in particular). I was a big Goofy/Donald person, but given that I rarely ever saw them on TV (usually VHS), I got used to simply wading through the WB catalog.

 

My faves were always Daffy, Wile E, and anything involving Bugs and Yosemite Sam (Darnit, Rabbit, nows I gots to go back and get another MATCH!!!).

[DarKnight 0]

I liked Bugs when I was little, but then I realised he was such an asshole, and maybe Elmer Fudd shooting him in the face wouldn't be such a bad thing. As I said, the cartoon where he loses (ending up exiled on an island) is beautiful.

 

I actually thought Bugs pulled off something difficult to do, in being a likeable asshole. I consider some of those cartoons where he is humiliated to be some of Looney Tunes' worst, like where he is racing the turtle or the one where he is fighting the gremlin.

 

I enjoy the Duck Amuck "sequel" 'Rabbit Rampage'.

 

I remember seeing that cartoon, and I thought it was pretty good, but I didn't think it was anywhere near as funny as Duck Amuck.

[CanadianGuitarist 0]

Take a deep breath before you read this, ala Yakko in NotW. Fucking AWESOME find.

 

I sent The WB a petition when they made Michigan J. Frog their mascot. He's in one cartoon and he's the mascot the Warner Brothers network?

 

Nigger please.

 

I always felt awful when those Sylvester, Jr. got involved. It's bad enough Sylvester can't catch a fucking bird, now he has to look like a bitch in front of his kid? Just cruel.

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Bugs is an asshole- I always love the one cartoon where in the end he loses. Makes my day.

 

Yes to everything above the line. I don't remember below it, but I like the sound of it. I loved the fuck out of Bugs as a kid, but he really was a prick, wasn't he?

 

Looney Tunes trumps everything else in cartoon's histroy

Iffy - Though I kind of agree, "Looney Tunes" as a whole is too vague, given all the characters. It's like saying:

"What's your favourite food?"

"Meat"

"Not veggies or candy or anything, just meat? Well, which one?"

"Meat"

 

http://www.cbsc.ca/english/decisions/1998/980203a.php

I really like how they give a mature synopsis of it.

 

I did want to add that I'm in the "anti-roadrunner" camp. RR and Tweety were basically the only major WB characters that never got their comeuppance, even once.

 

God yes. I fucking hated them both, and this was back in the day when I didn't root for the bad guys.

 

Wacky Races are probably my two favourite cartoons

 

GOD YES. My buddy Yourke and I, in the summer of Grade Ten, only called each other for three reasons: one was to arrange plans. The other two were immediately following ECW on TNN or Wacky Races to discuss them. Dick Dastardly is one of my favourite villains ever. Snidely Whiplash is close, and they're basically one in the same anyway. I defy anyone to say "Arkansas Chug-A-Bug" without marking out.

 

As mentioned, Rabbit of Seville and What's Opera Doc are phenomenal. I can't recall which episode it was, but Bugs was conducting a fat tenor; he took his glove off and it defied gravity, causing the tenor to hold his note to the point his face was all different colours and he was pounding his fists in impatience. My bro and I were watching a thing on golfer John Daly a few summers ago, including a look at the '95 British Open, which he won in a playoff. One of the most famous golf shots (a highlight of which was shown) of all-time is the ridiculously long putt Constantino Rocca made to force that playoff. I said "I wish they'd have shown Rocca's reaction." When my brother asked me why, I described Rocca as being like the tenor above. He instantly doubled over laughing. I'll see if I can find that, but I doubt, even with a tourney at DisneyWorld, that golf could produce something that would invoke memories of a Disney character.

 

Edit: Got it. 1:40-1:50

[Fuzzy Dunlop 0]

I voted Disney.

 

When I was a kid, I LOVED all those old Disney characters. Mickey, Minnie, Pluto, Donald, Goofy, Pluto, etc. I had a million videos, I used to watch them on TV on the rare occasions they were on TV, or at least it seemed rare. I have this video with Disney characters singing Christmas carols, and I still try to watch that once a year, along with my old video of the cartoon Nutcracker and every holiday-themed Charlie Brown. My parents took me to Disney World twice, once when I was seven years old and again when I was twelve, and even when I was twelve, and I was into watching pro wrestling and reading comic books, I fucking loved Disney World. I got completely sucked in to all of it. The music playing as you'd walk down the street between stores or between rides, the first time you see the castle, sleeping in an official actual Disney hotel, all the restaraunts with the decorations and the food items whose names had been cleverly switched to reference old cartoons or cartoon characters. AND THE FUCKING NIGHT TIME PARADE! HOW COULD ANYONE NOT LOVE THAT PARADE?!

 

I liked Warner Bros., too, I guess, but I think I was like too sensitive as a child or something. I didn't find many of the jokes to be particularly funny, and a lot of the times I just felt the characters were mean. I had the same problem with the Simpsons when I was a kid, like in the episode where Bart and Lisa are on opposing hockey teams, it was just sad to me. I didn't actually get interested in older Warner Bros. until after I became a big fan of Animaniacs (the greatest cartoon show of all time) and Tiny Toons ("who watches the watchducks?"), because then I could appreciate the old Looney Tunes cartoons in a historical context, so to speak.

 

--Possibly Retarded

 

P.S. I deleted all comments about the movies once I went back and figured out what this thread was about.