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* InspiredBy: ''Film/YouOughtToBeInPictures'' was based on Friz's experiences of leaving WB for MGM.

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* InspiredBy: ''Film/YouOughtToBeInPictures'' ''WesternAnimation/YouOughtToBeInPictures'' was based on Friz's experiences of leaving WB for MGM.



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* RecycledScript: Would often reuse gags (“Those Endearing Young Charms” and an exploding musical instrument in ''WesternAnimation/BallotBoxBunny'' and ''WesternAnimation/ShowBizBugs'') and general plots (''WesternAnimation/RacketeerRabbit'' and ''WesternAnimation/BugsAndThugs''). The material used was always fairly strong, however, and occurrences would happen years apart, unlikely to be noticed by a general theatrical audience.
* RogerRabbitEffect: ''Film/YouOughtToBeInPictures''.''WesternAnimation/YouOughtToBeInPictures''.
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* JekyllAndHyde: Freleng was particularly fond of this trope, seeing the many cartoon installments he produced with this theme. And to different animation studios, to boot -- Creator/WarnerBros and Creator/DePatieFrelengEnterprises.. Some of the episodes included a HydeAndSeek routine, with Th Fool being Mr. Hyde while his partner is unaware of it.
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* Hyde and Go Tweet

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** Food and hunger also feature heavily in his cartoons (this isn't to say that Jones or [=McKimson=] didn't have this theme in their cartoons. It just crops up a lot in the Freleng shorts), specifically the Sylvester and Tweety ones and the Yosemite Sam ones where Sam tries to capture and cook Bugs ("Rabbit Every Monday", "Shiskabugs," and "Rabbitson Crusoe").

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** Food and hunger also feature heavily in his cartoons (this isn't to say that Jones or [=McKimson=] didn't have this theme in their cartoons. It just crops up a lot in the Freleng shorts), shorts as a character motivation and source of humor), specifically the Sylvester and Tweety ones ones, the Sylvester short "Canned Feud" where Sylvester is left behind when his owners go on vacation, finds that the milk supply has been cut off for two weeks, and fights with a mouse over a can opener after discovering that the only food in the house is all in cans; and the Yosemite Sam ones where Sam tries to capture and cook Bugs ("Rabbit Every Monday", "Shiskabugs," and "Rabbitson Crusoe").


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**A lot of {{NoodleIncident}}s and implied humor are seen in his shorts, such as the beginning of "Bad Ol' Puddy Tat" where the cartoon opens on Tweety's birdhouse being perched on a pole with some barbed wire wrapped around it as we pan down to a scratched-up Sylvester staring up at it (implying that he tried to climb it and got hurt) or Granny's line on "Hare Trimmed" about how she hasn't had any male attention since "...the boys got back from Gettysburg."
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** Detailed backgrounds that often show implied FunnyBackgroundEvents (such as the sinking ship after it exploded on "Buccaneer Bunny" or the mangled Army surplus rabbit finder on "Hare Do") or the names of fictional products and companies named after Friz Freleng himself or any member of his animation unit (usually Hawley Pratt, whose name was shown as "Hadley Pert").

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** Detailed backgrounds that often show an implied FunnyBackgroundEvents FunnyBackgroundEvent (such as the sinking ship after it exploded on "Buccaneer Bunny" or the mangled Army surplus rabbit finder on "Hare Do") or the names of fictional products and companies named after Friz Freleng himself or any member of his animation unit (usually Hawley Pratt, whose name was shown as "Hadley Pert").

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** Detailed backgrounds that often show the names of fictional products and companies named after Friz Freleng himself or any member of his animation unit (usually Hawley Pratt, whose name was shown as "Hadley Pert").

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** Detailed backgrounds that often show implied FunnyBackgroundEvents (such as the sinking ship after it exploded on "Buccaneer Bunny" or the mangled Army surplus rabbit finder on "Hare Do") or the names of fictional products and companies named after Friz Freleng himself or any member of his animation unit (usually Hawley Pratt, whose name was shown as "Hadley Pert").



** The American Civil War is often referenced or used for laughs, specifically the Confederate side (as seen on "The Rebel Without Claws", "Southern Fried Rabbit", and "Confederate Honey").

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** The American Civil War is often referenced or used for laughs, specifically the Confederate side (as seen on "The Rebel Without Claws", "Southern Fried Rabbit", and "Confederate Honey").Honey"), though "Hare Trimmed" implied that Emma (the old widow who looks like Granny from the Sylvester and Tweety shorts) was once courted by Union soldiers (her line about how the last time she was chased by a man was when "...the boys got back from Gettysburg").



** Music is often featured in his cartoons, whether it's the early cartoons that were used as a flimsy excuse to exploit Warner Bros. music library or something like "The Three Little Bops", which has a more fleshed-out story. Though, unlike most cartoons that have music in them, Freleng's shorts have a stronger sense of musical literacy and timing.

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**Food and hunger also feature heavily in his cartoons (this isn't to say that Jones or [=McKimson=] didn't have this theme in their cartoons. It just crops up a lot in the Freleng shorts), specifically the Sylvester and Tweety ones and the Yosemite Sam ones where Sam tries to capture and cook Bugs ("Rabbit Every Monday", "Shiskabugs," and "Rabbitson Crusoe").
** Music is often featured in his cartoons, whether it's the early cartoons that were used as a flimsy excuse to exploit Warner Bros. music library or something like "The Three Little Bops", which has a more fleshed-out story. Though, unlike most cartoons that have music in them, Freleng's shorts have a stronger sense of musical literacy and timing. Also: the piano is often used as the centerpiece of a gag in Freleng's shorts, whether it's a character getting trapped in a piano and hit by the hammers that hit the strings to make the notes (as seen in "Stage Door Cartoon" where it happens to Elmer or "A Hop, Skip, and a Chump" where it happens to two crows who look like Laurel and Hardy) or the gag where someone booby-traps a piano to explode when someone plays the first notes of "Those Endearing Young Charms" (though "Showbiz Bugs" substituted a piano for a xylophone).
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* Along Came Daffy

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** Detailed backgrounds that often show the names of fictional products and companies named after Friz Freleng himself or any member of his animation unit ("Friz Soda", "Hadley and Pert"[[note]]a take on "Hawley Pratt"[[/note]], etc).
** Heaven and/or Hell is featured.

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** Detailed backgrounds that often show the names of fictional products and companies named after Friz Freleng himself or any member of his animation unit ("Friz Soda", (usually Hawley Pratt, whose name was shown as "Hadley and Pert"[[note]]a take on "Hawley Pratt"[[/note]], etc).
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** Characters going to Heaven and/or or Hell (mostly Hell) is featured.


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** Did a handful of cartoons that showed insects going after humans. Mostly, it was the cliched scenario of ants at a picnic (as seen with "Ant Pasted"[[note]]a 1953 short where Elmer Fudd -- in one of the rare times he's not hunting Bugs Bunny or Daffy Duck -- sets up a Fourth of July picnic and causes a war with some ants after tossing fire crackers at them[[/note]], "The Gay Anties", "The Fighting 69 1/2th", and even "Ballot Box Bunny" had a sequence showing Bugs setting up a picnic and Yosemite Sam using ants to ruin it), but "Of Thee I Sting" centered on mosquitos trying to sting a man with a screened-off porch.

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**Detailed backgrounds that often show the names of fictional products and companies named after Friz Freleng himself or any member of his animation unit ("Friz Soda", "Hadley and Pert"[[note]]a take on "Hawley Pratt"[[/note]], etc).
**Heaven and/or Hell is featured.
**The American Civil War is often referenced or used for laughs, specifically the Confederate side (as seen on "The Rebel Without Claws", "Southern Fried Rabbit", and "Confederate Honey").
**Music is often featured in his cartoons, whether it's the early cartoons that were used as a flimsy excuse to exploit Warner Bros. music library or something like "The Three Little Bops", which has a more fleshed-out story. Though, unlike most cartoons that have music in them, Freleng's shorts have a stronger sense of musical literacy and timing.
**References to Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" featured in three or four of his cartoons for Warner Bros, specifically "Hyde and Hare" (with Bugs Bunny), "Dr. Jerkyl's Hide" (with Sylvester), and "Hyde and Go Tweet" (Sylvester and Tweety). Over at Depatie-Freleng, there was "The Inspector" episode "Sicque! Sicque! Sicque!" where Sgt. Deux-Deux drinks the classic potion and becomes a monster, the Pink Panther short "Pink Lightening" had the same thing happen to The Pink Panther's car and "Watch The Birdie" is pretty much a remake of "Hyde and Go Tweet" with "The Dogfather" characters instead.



* FreezeFrameBonus: Lots of his cartoons have businesses and/or products that are named after himself or members of his animation crew (i.e. "Friz Soda," "Hawley and Pratt, Attorneys At Law"[[labelnote:*]]named for animator Hawley Pratt[[/labelnote]], etc).

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* FreezeFrameBonus: Lots of his cartoons have businesses and/or products **"Back Alley Oproar" (the 1948 Sylvester cartoon that are named was more-or-less a remake of the Porky cartoon "Notes to You") is an interesting twist on how Friz Freleng showed Hell in his cartoons. While "Back Alley Oproar" does end with Elmer going to Heaven after himself or members of his animation crew (i.e. "Friz Soda," "Hawley attempt at blowing up Sylvester failed, it turns out to be Hell for him because Sylvester also died and Pratt, Attorneys At Law"[[labelnote:*]]named Elmer has to put up with Sylvester and his nine lives singing the sextet from Donizetti's ''Lucia di Lammermoor'' for animator Hawley Pratt[[/labelnote]], etc).all eternity (which causes Elmer to jump off his cloud after his halo gets taken).



* JekyllAndHyde: It must have been his favorite book, because he did three or four cartoons on the theme for Warner Bros., and a couple more at Depatie-Freleng Enterprises, specifically
** ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' "Hyde and Hare" (with Bugs Bunny), "Dr. Jerkyl's Hide" (with Sylvester), and "Hyde and Go Tweet" (Sylvester and Tweety).
** Depatie-Freleng Enterprises: "The Inspector" episode "Sicque! Sicque! Sicque!" where Sgt. Deux-Deux drinks the classic potion and becomes a monster. In "Pink Lightening" the same happens to The Pink Panther's car and "Watch The Birdie" is pretty much a remake of "Hyde and Go Tweet" with "The Dogfather" characters instead.
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* WesternAnimation/PigsIsPigsWesternAnimation/{{Pigs Is Pigs|1937}}
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Friz is often (and unfairly) taken for granted because his sense of humor and visual style were more reserved than those of the other directors. Nevertheless, Friz is legendary among animation fans for his strong emphasis on literal, mechanical musical timing - while all of the staff at the studio were capable of this, nobody used it in quite the way Friz did. Having directed more cartoons than any other director at the studio, Freleng directed many, many worthy classics, such as the groundbreaking RogerRabbitEffect short ''Film/YouOughtToBeInPictures'', ''WesternAnimation/TheWabbitWhoCameToSupper'', "Rhapsody In Rivets", ''WesternAnimation/TheThreeLittleBops'', among others. He also directed the majority of the Sylvester and Tweety cartoons, including the acclaimed ''WesternAnimation/BirdsAnonymous'', which is considered his best cartoon.

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Friz is often (and unfairly) taken for granted because his sense of humor and visual style were more reserved than those of the other directors. Nevertheless, Friz is legendary among animation fans for his strong emphasis on literal, mechanical musical timing - while all of the staff at the studio were capable of this, nobody used it in quite the way Friz did. Having directed more cartoons than any other director at the studio, Freleng directed many, many worthy classics, such as the groundbreaking RogerRabbitEffect short ''Film/YouOughtToBeInPictures'', ''WesternAnimation/TheWabbitWhoCameToSupper'', "Rhapsody In Rivets", "WesternAnimation/RhapsodyInRivets", ''WesternAnimation/TheThreeLittleBops'', among others. He also directed the majority of the Sylvester and Tweety cartoons, including the acclaimed ''WesternAnimation/BirdsAnonymous'', which is considered his best cartoon.
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* Home, Tweet Home

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* [[WesternAnimation/SpeedyGonzales1955 Speedy Gonzales]]WesternAnimation/{{Speedy Gonzales|1955}}



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* His Bitter Half

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* Hare Life

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Friz is often (and unfairly) taken for granted because his sense of humor and visual style were more reserved than those of the other directors. Nevertheless, Friz is legendary among animation fans for his strong emphasis on literal, mechanical musical timing - while all of the staff at the studio were capable of this, nobody used it in quite the way Friz did. Having directed more cartoons than any other director at the studio, Freleng directed many, many worthy classics, such as the groundbreaking RogerRabbitEffect short ''Film/YouOughtToBeInPictures'', ''WesternAnimation/TheWabbitWhoCameToSupper'', "Rhapsody In Rivets", ''WesternAnimation/ThreeLittleBops'', among others. He also directed the majority of the Sylvester and Tweety cartoons, including the acclaimed ''WesternAnimation/BirdsAnonymous'', which is considered his best cartoon.

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Friz is often (and unfairly) taken for granted because his sense of humor and visual style were more reserved than those of the other directors. Nevertheless, Friz is legendary among animation fans for his strong emphasis on literal, mechanical musical timing - while all of the staff at the studio were capable of this, nobody used it in quite the way Friz did. Having directed more cartoons than any other director at the studio, Freleng directed many, many worthy classics, such as the groundbreaking RogerRabbitEffect short ''Film/YouOughtToBeInPictures'', ''WesternAnimation/TheWabbitWhoCameToSupper'', "Rhapsody In Rivets", ''WesternAnimation/ThreeLittleBops'', ''WesternAnimation/TheThreeLittleBops'', among others. He also directed the majority of the Sylvester and Tweety cartoons, including the acclaimed ''WesternAnimation/BirdsAnonymous'', which is considered his best cartoon.



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* Three Little Bops

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* JekyllAndHyde: It must have been his favorite book, because he did three or four cartoons on the theme for Warner Bros., and a couple more at Depatie-Freleng Enterprises, specifically
** ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' "Hyde and Hare" (with Bugs Bunny), "Dr. Jerkyl's Hide" (with Sylvester), and "Hyde and Go Tweet" (Sylvester and Tweety).
** Depatie-Freleng Enterprises: "The Inspector" episode "Sicque! Sicque! Sicque!" where Sgt. Deux-Deux drinks the classic potion and becomes a monster. In "Pink Lightening" the same happens to The Pink Panther's car and "Watch The Birdie" is pretty much a remake of "Hyde and Go Tweet" with "The Dogfather" characters instead.
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