History Trivia / LooneyTunes

* Mike Maltese originally considered calling Yosemite Sam "Texas Tiny", "Wyoming Willie", or "Denver Dan", but then settled on the final name.

** Matthew O'Callaghan: Is currently directing the CG Road Runner theatrical shorts.

** Abe Levitow: Directed four cartoons in 1959: "Baton Bunny" (with Chuck Jones), "Really Scent" (one of two Pepe Le Pew cartoons -- three, if you count the cameo at the end of Friz Freleng's Sylvester and Tweety cartoon, "Dog Pounded" -- that wasn't directed by Chuck Jones; the other is Arthur Davis's "Odor of the Day"), "A Witch's Tangled Hare", and "Unnatural History".

** Frank Perkins: Composed only for 1967's "Quacker Tracker".

** John Seely: Not an actual composer per se, but a stock music arranger who was hired to provide music for six cartoons during a musicians' strike in 1958, which prevented Milt Franklyn from working. Most of the stock tracks he selected were by William Loose and Philip Green.

** John Seely: Not an actual composer per se, but a stock music arranger who was hired to provide music for six cartoons during a musicians' strike in 1958, which prevented Milt Franklyn from working.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes and [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Merrie Melodies]] short format was planned to be permanently revived in the early 2000s to coincide with the release of ''LooneyTunesBackInAction''. These were planned to add a few modernised twists to the series, as well revive some forgotten concepts (eg. DaffyDuck returning to his less neurotic 1940s form, Merrie Melodies once again being music oriented, obscure stars like Hubie and Bertie being revived). ''Back In Action'' fared badly in box office however, leading the project to be binned, with only a handful of shorts being completed (the majority of which can be found in certain DVD releases of the movie).

* CommonKnowledge: Mel Blanc, as talented as he is, didn't voice every Looney Tunes character as is occasionally claimed. The series had a wide range of voice actors, but most of them went uncredited (June Foray, who voiced most lady characters like Granny and Witch Hazel, was usually the only other one whose name appeared in the credits).

* CommonKnowledge: Mel Blanc, as talented as he is, didn't voice every Looney Tunes character as is occasionally claimed. The series had a wide range of voice actors, but most of them went uncredited.

* CommonKnowledge: Mel Blanc, as talented as he is, didn't voice every Looney Tunes character as is occasionally claimed. The series had a wide range of voice actors, the vast majority of them uncredited.

* SuperlativeDubbing: The Mexican Spanish dub, to the grade that Warner Bros. normally excludes anything related to the Looney Tunes (even stuff like WesternAnimation/LoonaticsUnleashed) from being dubbed in Venezuela (due to internal politics in WB and also for cost reasons), possibly due to the complains when they tried to dub some shorts in Venezuela and due the way they were voiced in TinyToonAdventures. In fact, when some of the Looney Tunes' shorts appears as cameos in other Venezuelan-dubbed series like WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}, WB decided to keep the Looney Tunes' voices ''in English'' rather than being voiced in Venezuelan Spanish.

** After Mel Blanc died, numerous other voice artists filled in for his various characters.

* EnforcedMethodActing: This happened in the Japanese-dubbed version, when it was dubbed for first time: According with an American WarnerBros employee sent to Japan to supervise the dub, {{Mugihito}} (Taz's Japanese [=VA=] and its current one) had too many problems at first for dubbing Taz right, since it barely spoke any reasonable lines and adapting his HulkSpeak to Japanese was becoming a pain for him and he was starting to getting frustated. Since Mugihito didn't speak English nor the American supervisor spoke Japanese to help him, the American employee decided to enter to Mugihito's recording booth and started to imitate ''Taz'' as best he could, so the Japanese voice actor could be able to understand how to dub Taz right. After laughing really hard after that stunt, Mugihito got the message quickly and managed to solve the issue right away.

** George Daugherty and Cameron Patrick: Often worked together when composing for many shorts in the '90s. Shorts worked on include "Chariots of Fur", "Father of the Bird", "From Hare to Eternity", "Superior Duck", "Pullet Surprise", and "Another Froggy Evening".

** [[HarmanAndIsing Hugh Harman and Rudolph Ising]]: 1929-1933. They directed the first 67 shorts in the franchise, their last short being "Bosko's Picture Show".

** Earl Duvall: 1933-1934; he got five shorts, starting with "Buddy's Beer Garden" and ending with "Buddy's Garage".
** FrizFreleng: 1934-1938; 1940-1965; He directed approx. 246 shorts total, the most of any director at the studio. He also directed a few TV specials, "The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie", "1001 Rabbit Tales", and "Daffy Duck's Fantastic Island". His (credited) debut was "Buddy the Gob", while his last-released theatrical short was "The Wild Chase" (co-directed with Hawley Pratt).
** Bernard Brown: 1934. Credited on "Pettin' in the Park" and "Those Were Wonderful Days", but it's generally believed that the real director of those shorts was actually Frank Tashlin, who had quit the studio after a brief initial stint from 1933-34, resulting in Brown's name being put on simply so that there would be a credited director.

** UbIwerks: Allegedly directed two shorts in 1937: "Porky and Gabby" and "Porky's Super Service", but BobClampett claimed that he and ChuckJones actually co-directed the shorts, interpreting Ub's layouts into the Looney Tunes house style. These two cartoons plus two others ("Porky's Badtime Story" and "Get Rich Quick Porky") were farmed out to Iwerks' studio, where Clampett and Jones were sent to work on them.

** ChuckJones: 1938-1964; also directed a few TV specials, "The Great American Chase", and a few shorts in the '90s. His debut was "The Night Watchman", while his last Looney Tunes short in the original studio was 1964's "War and Pieces". His final short in general was 1997's "From Hare to Eternity". He directed 207 classic shorts (220 if you count his PrivateSnafu shorts, several of which were never released), directed four Looney Tunes TV specials, The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie, and seven modern shorts.

** Arthur Davis: 1946-1949; also 1962's "Quackodile Tears" (his final cartoon), using Friz Freleng's unit. His debut was "Mouse Menace". After his initial stint as a director, he reverted to being one of Freleng's main animators.
** RobertMcKimson: 1946-1967; 1969. His debut was "Daffy Doodles", while last cartoon was "Injun Trouble", which was also the last cartoon in the original studio. Was the only director to work for the original, [=DePatie=]-Freleng and Warner Bros.-Seven Arts studios. He directed 141 shorts total.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes and MerrieMelodies short format was planned to be permanently revived in the early 2000s to coincide with the release of ''LooneyTunesBackInAction''. These were planned to add a few modernised twists to the series, as well revive some forgotten concepts (eg. DaffyDuck returning to his less neurotic 1940s form, Merrie Melodies once again being music oriented, obscure stars like Hubie and Bertie being revived). ''Back In Action'' fared badly in box office however, leading the project to be binned, with only a handful of shorts being completed (the majority of which can be found in certain DVD releases of the movie).

** Ben Hardaway: 1934-1935; 1938-1940. His debut was "Buddy of the Apes", while his last released cartoon was "Busy Bakers". He directed 21 shorts, 12 of which were co-directed with Cal Dalton.

* SuperlativeDubbing: The Mexican Spanish dub, to the grade that Warner Bros. normally excludes anything related to the Looney Tunes (even stuff like LoonaticsUnleashed) from being dubbed in Venezuela (due to internal politics in WB and also for cost reasons), possibly due to the complains when they tried to dub some shorts in Venezuela and due the way they were voiced in TinyToonAdventures. In fact, when some of the Looney Tunes' shorts appears as cameos in other Venezuelan-dubbed series like {{Animaniacs}}, WB decided to keep the Looney Tunes' voices ''in English'' rather than being voiced in Venezuelan Spanish.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The LooneyTunes and MerrieMelodies short format was planned to be permanently revived in the early 2000s to coincide with the release of ''LooneyTunesBackInAction''. These were planned to add a few modernised twists to the series, as well revive some forgotten concepts (eg. DaffyDuck returning to his less neurotic 1940s form, Merrie Melodies once again being music oriented, obscure stars like Hubie and Bertie being revived). ''Back In Action'' fared badly in box office however, leading the project to be binned, with only a handful of shorts being completed (the majority of which can be found in certain DVD releases of the movie).

*** Speaking of Granny, she was voiced by Joan Gerber in "Corn on the Cop" and by GeGe Pearson in "It's Nice to Have a Mouse Around the House".

* SuperlativeDubbing: The Mexican Spanish dub, to the grade that Warner Bros. normally excludes anything related to the Looney Tunes (even stuff like LoonaticsUnleashed) from being dubbed in Venezuela (due to internal politics in WB and also for cost reasons), possibly due to the complains when they tried to dub some shorts in Venezuela and due the way they were voiced in TinyToonAdventures. In fact, when the some of the Looney Tunes' shorts appears as cameos in other Venezuelan-dubbed series like ''Animaniacs'', WB decided to keep the Looney Tunes' voices ''in English'' rather than being voiced in Venezuelan Spanish.

** Milt Franklyn: Franklyn began as Stalling's arranger/orchestrator in the late '30s and co-composed a few shorts with Stalling in the early '50s, but didn't begin composing on his own until 1954's "Bugs and Thugs". During the mid-50s, Franklyn was composing more than Stalling, and after Stalling's retirement in 1958, Franklyn became the sole composer for WB cartoons, including the wraparound footage for "The Bugs Bunny Show" series. His scores sounded very similar to Stalling's. He died in 1962 while composing for the cartoon "The Jet Cage". The last released cartoon to feature his music was 1962's "Mother Was a Rooster" (also two Road Runner shorts in 1965, though those were merely trimmed down from ''The Adventures of the Road Runner'' pilot).

** The Mexican Spanish dub also does that, but not in the same degree as in the Japanese dub.