History Creator / ChuckJones

* Mowgli's Brothers

* Cheese Chasers

* WesternAnimation/ForScentimentalReasons: UsefulNotes/AcademyAwardForBestAnimatedShortFilm.

* Transylvania 6-5000

Post-Warner, Jones still had a few tricks up his sleeve. He went to Creator/{{MGM}}, where he took over the ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' series for a time (although, because of a lower budget and Chuck's self-admitted ignorance about the characters, his ''T&J'' shorts are often criticized for not being up to either his own standards or those of [[Creator/HannaBarbera Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera]], who had originated the series – never mind that the Creator/GeneDeitch cartoons that came in between were ''{{deranged|Animation}}'' and far worse on a technical level than what Jones put out), while also creating a few memorable one-shot cartoons based on children's books, most notably the Oscar-winning "The Dot and the Line". Jones also found himself reuniting with Ted Geisel, a.k.a Creator/DrSeuss, and with the help of the voice of Creator/BorisKarloff, created the much-beloved television adaptation of ''WesternAnimation/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'', which is still rebroadcast every holiday season on Warner Media-owned networks. Jones is also famous for his well-animated version of ''Literature/ThePhantomTollbooth'', making him and Frank Tashlin the only ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' directors to direct a feature film that wasn't just a compilation of old shorts.

* LetsSeeYouDoBetter: Jones apparently created the Road Runner series as an AffectionateParody of chase cartoons such as ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'', mocking the simplistic formula and slapstick. A couple of decades later, MGM actually hired Jones to work on the ''T&J'' series itself, which he admitted was more complex to get down pat than he had expected.

* Odor-able Kitty: Debut of WesternAnimation/PepeLePew.[[/index]]

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On top of all that, with shorts ranging from "WesternAnimation/OneFroggyEvening" to "WesternAnimation/DuckAmuck," as well as other recurring characters like WesternAnimation/ElmerFudd,[[note]]after his transition from Avery's Egghead[[/note]] Hubie and Bertie, Charlie Dog, WesternAnimation/PepeLePew, Marvin the Martian, Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog, Marc Antony and Pussyfoot, and the Three Bears, Jones created some of the best-loved shorts in the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' series. His magnum opus for Warner Bros. (and possibly the short-form animation as a whole) was the epic Music/RichardWagner parody "WesternAnimation/WhatsOperaDoc" which condensed the entirety of Wagner's ''[[Theatre/TheRingOfTheNibelung Der Ring Des Nibelungen]]'' into six minutes AND provided an excellent deconstruction of the (by the time already clichéd) Bugs and Elmer schtick.

After decades as the studio's arguable top director, Jones's time at Warner Bros. ended rather abruptly in 1962, after it was discovered that he had violated his exclusive contract – a violation that was discovered when he left his name on an independent project that was subsequently shopped to the studio for distribution, that being the [[Creator/ColumbiaCartoons UPA]] feature ''WesternAnimation/GayPurree''. (Earlier, during Warner's temporary shutdown of its cartoon studio in 1953 as it hopped on the UsefulNotes/ThreeDMovie fad, Jones spent four months at Creator/{{Disney}}, where he chafed under that studio's rigidly hierarchical structure and made no real contributions save for some minor uncredited work on ''WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty''.)

During UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation, Chuck began working as a cel washer for Creator/UbIwerks before working his way up the corporate ladder, so to speak, being mentored by the likes of Avery and Creator/FrizFreleng and animating for Creator/BobClampett. In 1938, he finally received a shot at directing a cartoon, inheriting the crew of the recently departed Creator/FrankTashlin. His early work mirrored Creator/WaltDisney's ''WesternAnimation/SillySymphonies'' in content and tone, heavy on childlike fantasy and completely lacking in comedy; many featured the ever-so-cute Sniffles the Mouse as the main character. After a few years at Warner Bros., Jones would eventually [[GrowingTheBeard grow the beard]] and adopt the more humorous and zany style of his studio contemporaries. Sniffles would become a bit of a cute prankster with an uncontrollable MotorMouth before Chuck ended his series and began writing for other characters, eventually inheriting Bugs, Daffy and the rest of the more famous ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' and ''Merrie Melodies'' characters.

Chuck's work as an animation director for WB in the 1950s took the elements Avery had laid out and stretched them to their most logical (illogical?) extremes. On the one hand, his most prolific original characters, the [[WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadRunner Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote]], used no real dialogue, instead relying on expertly timed facial expressions and {{slapstick}} that even Film/TheThreeStooges might have envied. On the other end of the spectrum, Jones's work with WesternAnimation/BugsBunny and WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck, although not discarding the slapstick, brought comedic wordplay to a level that has never bern seen in animation up to that point. In addition, he refined their personalities, such as making Bugs a KarmicTrickster who'd generally bedevil people ''only'' after they'd threatened or mistreated him, and refashioning Daffy into a self-centered, insecure, and invariably unsuccessful pretender to Bugs' trickster throne. As Jones himself later put it:

Jones's time at Warner Bros. ended rather abruptly, after it was discovered that he had violated his exclusive contract – a violation that was discovered when he left his name on an independent project that was subsequently shopped to the studio for distribution, that being the [[Creator/ColumbiaCartoons UPA]] feature ''WesternAnimation/GayPurree''. (Earlier, during Warner's temporary shutdown of its cartoon studio in 1953 as it hopped on the UsefulNotes/ThreeDMovie fad, Jones spent four months at Creator/{{Disney}}, where he chafed under that studio's rigidly hierarchical structure and made no real contributions save for some minor uncredited work on ''WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty''.)

* Raggedy Ann and Andy in: The Great Santa Claus Caper

* Series/Curiosity Shop: Notable as Jones' only television series.