History Trivia / LooneyTunes

** There are at least two cartoons that have a true AlanSmithee credit. Both directed by Friz Freleng. "Hollywood Daffy", Freleng refused credit on after Mike Maltese presented the story and gags. Freleng felt the cartoon was too wild and crazy to suit his own style (something Bob Clampett would have directed), but was obligated to direct it anyway. This is why the cartoon has no director's credit. Freleng also isn't credited on "Dough for the Do-Do", a color remake of Bob Clampett's "Porky in Wackyland". Freleng felt it was based on Clampett's idea, and he felt it would be plagiarism if he credited the cartoon as his own.

** On December 31, 2022, HBO Max removed ''half'' of the classic shorts from its service (specifically, the ones released from 1950 to 2004) due to the expiration of a licensing agreement with Warner Bros. the streamer chose not to renew.

* CowboyBebopAtHisComputer: The United Press International obituary for Creator/MelBlanc in 1989 reported that "The voice of Elmer Fudd, often attributed to Blanc, was actually done by Cliff Nazarro." Nazarro did some voices for the studio (mainly celebrity impressions), but never did Elmer's voice, which Arthur Q. Bryan originated and did until his death in 1959. And Blanc ''did'' reluctantly do Elmer's voice a few times after Bryan died. The Associated Press obituary wrongly listed Elmer among the voices that Blanc "invented".

* CowboyBebopAtHisComputer: The United Press International obituary for Creator/MelBlanc in 1989 reported that "The voice of Elmer Fudd, often attributed to Blanc, was actually done by Cliff Nazarro." Nazarro did some voices for the studio (mainly celebrity impressions), but never did Elmer's voice, which Arthur Q. Bryan originated and did until his death in 1959. And Blanc ''did'' reluctantly do Elmer's voice a few times after Bryan died.

* PronounTrouble

* TropeNamer: For...
** AcmeProducts (indirectly) -- the Coyote's quest to catch the Roadrunner with gadgets inevitably purchased from the Acme Corporation
** AndCallHimGeorge -- the Abominable Snowman
** DuckSeasonRabbitSeason -- Bugs and Daffy, respectively.
** EarthShatteringKaboom -- Marvin's snit fit in "Hare-Way to the Stars" when Bugs foils his attempt to clear the Earth out of his view of Venus: "WheresTheKaboom There was ''supposed'' to be an Earth-shattering kaboom!"
** ElmuhFuddSyndwome
** HadTheSillyThingInReverse
** HairRaisingHare -- a Chuck Jones-directed Bugs cartoon from 1946 (which marked the debut of Gossamer)
** MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales
** OneBuwwetWeft (formerly)
** PorkyPigPronunciation
** PronounTrouble (possibly; the phrase turns up in "Rabbit Seasoning", but refers to a series of variations on DuckSeasonRabbitSeason and has nothing to do with gender)
** RoadRunnerVsCoyote
** SeenItAllSuicide -- one of many reasons why the Looney Tunes get edited on TV
** ThatsAllFolks -- but often subverted, see below
** WheresTheKaboom -- "There was ''supposed'' to be an EarthShatteringKaboom!"
** WrongTurnAtAlbuquerque

** Cartoon Network and Boomerang feel this way about the ''WesternAnimation/SpeedyGonzales'' cartoons considering they dropped them completely in 1999 due to their Mexican stereotyping. After backlash from Hispanics who had [[MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales fond memories of watching Speedy Gonzales growing up]], Cartoon Network returned them to rotation in 2002 and kept them in until 2004, when they dropped the shorts entirely. When the ''Looney Tunes'' shorts returned full time in 2011, Speedy's cartoons were rarely aired at all, even when the shorts were brought back to Boomerang in 2013, after dropping them in 2007. "Cannery Woe" did sporadically air on Boomerang from 2014 to 2016, before being dropped altogether. Only one short, "Nuts and Volts" was available on Creator/HBOMax, but has been removed as of February 2021. Though, as of 2021, some Speedy shorts have aired on [=MeTV=], making it the first time in roughly 15 years Speedy shorts have consistently been shown on American TV.

** The esoteric director Norm [=McCabe=] grew to despise every short he directed, dismissing them all as terrible (though a lot of his shorts aren't seen much today, as they're all very dated -- particularly his UsefulNotes/WorldWarII-era shorts like ''WesternAnimation/TheDucktators'' and ''WesternAnimation/TokioJokio'' which are seen more as historical artifacts rather than cartoons you can watch for fun[[note]]unless World War II history is your idea of fun[[/note]]). According to [[http://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/animation-anecdotes-178/ this]], [=McCabe=] liked the three shorts he did with Daffy Duck.

* AndCallHimGeorge

* ApprovalOfGod: Eddie Cantor, the original musician who composed "Merrily We Go Round" (which became the opening theme of ''Merrie Melodies'' and later the BootstrappedTheme of the franchise as a whole), was reportedly fond that it became the theme of "those cute cartoons".

* UncreditedRole: For many years, Creator/MelBlanc received no onscreen credit for all the voices he did. He only was given a credit after asking for a raise. His bosses refused to give him one but grudgingly agreed to put his name in the credits. The most notorious example was Arthur Q. Bryan, who voiced Elmer Fudd in over fifty cartoons but was never given on-screen credit.

* WriterRevolt: Leon Scheslinger's replacement, Eddie Selzer, had a lot of issues with some of the cartoons being turned out in the late 1940s/early 1950s, citing some of the ideas as [[ItWillNeverCatchOn not being funny enough for a general audience]] -- the ones Selzer really had issues with were the Pepe Le Pew cartoons and the idea of having Bugs square off against a bull during a bullfight ("WesternAnimation/BullyForBugs"). "Bully for Bugs" has become one of many classic cartoon shorts Looney Tunes fans remember from beginning to end, and the 1949 Pepé Le Pew cartoon "For Scent-imental Reasons" won an Oscar (which -- ironically, and rather hypocritically -- Selzer accepted).

* RelationshipVoiceActor:
** The Japanese dub shares ''almost the entire cast'' with ''Manga/OnePiece'', something that is not very difficult to do, due of the animated adaptation's very large cast. The interesting part is, most of the cast are voiced by ''One Piece'''s regular or important characters: [[Creator/KappeiYamaguchi Bugs]] is Ussop, [[Creator/WataruTakagi Daffy]] is Bellamy, [[Creator/YuichiNagashima Elmer]] is Brook, [[Creator/DaisukeGori Yosemite Sam]] was Jinbei and his replacement (Creator/KoujiIshii) is Fisher Tiger, [[Creator/MasashiEbara Sylvester]] is Raizo of the Mist, Willie E. Coyote and the male Narrator (Hideyuki Umezu) is Diamante, while his female counterpart in narrating duties (Creator/AkemiOkamura) voices Nami, [[Creator/YujiMitsuya Speedy Gonzales]] is Pica, [[Creator/TesshoGenda Foghorn]] is Kaido, [[Creator/{{Mugihito}} Taz]] is Baron Tamago and Porky Pig (Naoki Tatsuta) is Capone Bege. And, if we include spin-offs and films, we have UsefulNotes/MichaelJordan (Creator/KoichiYamadera) as Corazon and Hector (the late Ginzo Matsuo) as Smoker.
** Likewise, many of the Japanese voice actors also worked in the ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' series: [[Creator/KappeiYamaguchi Bugs]] is Shigekiyo "Shigechi" Yanguu, [[Creator/WataruTakagi Daffy]] is Okuyasu Nijimura, [[Creator/MasashiEbara Sylvester]] is Muhammad Avdol from ''VideoGame/JoJosBizarreAdventureAllStarBattle''. [[Creator/NobuoTobita Speedy Gonzales (1980s-1995)]] is Straizo, [[Creator/TesshoGenda Foghorn]] is Captain Tenille, [[Creator/YojiUeda Squeaks the Squirrel]] is REO Speedwagon, Pepe Le Pew (the late Hidetoshi Nakamura) was Messina, [[Creator/{{Mugihito}} Taz]] is J.Geil from the ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Stardust Crusaders]]'' [=OVAs=]. [[Creator/KoujiIshii Yosemite Sam]] is Daniel J. D'Arby from ''All-Star Battle'', [[Creator/YuichiNagashima Elmer Fudd]] is Wilson Phillips, [[Creator/BinShimada Marvin The Martian's first dub voice]] was Yoshihiro Kira from ''All-Star Battle'' and the Bigfoot (Taketora) is Dire.

** On December 31, 2022, HBO Max removed ''half'' of the classic shorts from its service (specifically, the ones released from 1950 to 2004) due to the expiration of a licensing agreement the streamer chose not to renew.

** On December 31, 2022, HBO Max removed ''half'' of the classic shorts from its service (specifically, the ones released from 1950 to 2004). The reason is unknown, although it likely had to do with the costly Discovery/Warner Bros. merger.

* NamesTheSame: Years later the name "Cool Cat" would be used by a band member on ''Series/PeeWeesPlayhouse'' and also by [[Film/CoolCatSavesTheKids a cat mascot who loves kids]].

** Creator/HBOMax has a dedicated Looney Tunes section, with over half the library, spanning every decade of the shorts (barring the ones that were [[BannedEpisode banned]] for having racially insensitive content).

* ScrewedByTheNetwork: The failure of ''Film/LooneyTunesBackInAction'' directly caused the theatrical release of new ''Looney Tunes'' and ''Tom and Jerry'' shorts to be cancelled (the former would later be released on DVD and the latter was scrapped entirely), the merchandise to stop completely and the old ''Looney Tunes'' and ''Merrie Melodies'' to be removed from Cartoon Network in late 2004 with the only reruns airing on Boomerang which were later removed in 2007 (this removed them from TV for a good 2 years until they were slowly added back on Cartoon Network in 2009 and Boomerang in 2013). This also indirectly caused reruns of ''WesternAnimation/TheSylvesterAndTweetyMysteries'' to be removed from Cartoon Network (this probably also prevented the show from airing reruns on Boomerang when ''Baby Looney Tunes'' and ''Duck Dodgers'' moved in 2005), ''WesternAnimation/BabyLooneyTunes'' to take incredible long hiatus before eventually burning off the rest of its episodes in late 2006, and ''WesternAnimation/DuckDodgers'' to move and quietly premiere its final episodes on Boomerang.

* TalkingToHimself:
** Mel Blanc frequently did this, as he did the majority of the voices in the series. During the Seven Arts era, Larry Storch did the same thing.
** Daws Butler talked to himself in the three Honey-Mousers shorts, as he played both Ralph and Ned.

** UsefulNotes/McDonalds released figures of Bugs, Daffy, Petunia and Taz with snap-on superhero costumes in 1991, and crazy cars of Bugs, Daffy, Taz, and Porky in 1992. A Canadian promotion in the 1992 holiday season featured plushes of Bugs, Taz, Tweety, and Sylvester. A ''Looney Tunes''-themed train car was also part of the Happy Birthday Happy Meal in 1994, which also had toys based on Ronald and Friends, ''Toys/{{Barbie}}'', ''Toys/HotWheels'', ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'', ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'', ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989'', ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians'', ''Toys/CabbagePatchKids'', ''Tonka'', ''Literature/TheBerenstainBears'', ''WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies1984'', ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'', ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'', and the Happy Meal Guys. In 1996 in Europe, a set of four train cars was released. This promotion featured a re-issue of the Bugs and Daffy toy that was included with the Happy Birthday Happy Meal, Tweety having locked Sylvester in a washing machine, Taz spinning through a crate, and Wile E. Coyote chasing Road Runner.

** Likewise, many of the Japanese voice actors also worked in the ''Franchise/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' franchise: [[Creator/KappeiYamaguchi Bugs]] is Shigekiyo "Shigechi" Yanguu, [[Creator/WataruTakagi Daffy]] is Okuyasu Nijimura, [[Creator/MasashiEbara Sylvester]] is Muhammad Avdol from ''VideoGame/JoJosBizarreAdventureAllStarBattle'', [[Creator/NobuoTobita Speedy Gonzales (1980s-1995)]] is Straizo, [[Creator/TesshoGenda Foghorn]] is Captain Tenille, [[Creator/YojiUeda Squeaks the Squirrel]] is REO Speedwagon, Pepe Le Pew (the late Hidetoshi Nakamura) was Messina, [[Creator/{{Mugihito}} Taz]] is J.Geil from the [=OVAs=], [[Creator/KoujiIshii Yosemite Sam]] is Daniel J. D'Arby from ''All-Star Battle'', [[Creator/YuichiNagashima Elmer Fudd]] is Wilson Phillips, [[Creator/BinShimada Marvin The Martian's first dub voice]] was Yoshihiro Kira from ''All-Star Battle'' and the Bigfoot (Taketora) is Dire.

** Foxy and Roxy the Foxes, who were a blatant attempt at [[CaptainErsatz ripping off]] WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse and Minnie Mouse, were barred from appearing again after their three appearances in the Merrie Melodies series, due to Creator/WaltDisney ordering then-co director of the series, Rudy Ising, to stop using the character under the threat of a lawsuit. The characters would only resurface decades later in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'', and even then they had to be completely redesigned so they didn't resemble Mickey or Minnie.

** In TheEighties and [[TheNineties 90s]], Cartoon Network and other stations would flat-out refuse to air WesternAnimation/SpeedyGonzales cartoons and exclude Speedy from major ''Looney Tunes'' projects, even going as far as replacing him with Sylvester Jr. in the opening credits to ''WesternAnimation/TheBugsBunnyShow'' due to concerns of him being an EthnicScrappy towards Mexicans. When it was revealed that [[MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales Mexicans see the little mouse as a positive role model]], [[SubvertedTrope Speedy was brought back as a Looney regular]].
** WesternAnimation/PepeLePew suffered this in 2021. Due to his behavior, Pepe was called out online and Warner Bros. removed him from ''Film/SpaceJamANewLegacy'' and the Annecy remake of the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunesCartoons'' short "Happy Birthday, Bugs Bunny!". It unfortunately extended to his object of affection Penelope Pussycat, who was teased as being a member of the [=TuneSquad=] in the [=XBox=] trailer for ''New Legacy'', but ended up not appearing in the final version of the film either.

** June Foray replaced Bea Benaderet as the voice of many female characters, including Granny, starting around 1955.

** Billy Bletcher usually played Henry Bear, but Mel Blanc filled in for "What's Brewin', Bruin?".

** After Mel Blanc died, numerous other voice artists have filled in for his various characters, including his son Noel, Jeff Bergman, Greg Burson, Bob Bergen, Joe Alaskey, Billy West, Frank Gorshin, Bill Farmer, Jim Cummings, Dee Bradley Baker, Maurice [=LaMarche=], Rob Paulsen, Frank Welker, Jeff Bennett, Fred Tatasciore, J.P. Karliak and Eric Bauza.

** UsefulNotes/McDonalds released figures of Bugs, Daffy, Petunia and Taz with snap-on superhero costumes in 1991, and crazy cars of Bugs, Daffy, Taz, and Porky in 1992. A ''Looney Tunes''-themed train car was also part of the Happy Birthday Happy Meal in 1994, which also had toys based on Ronald and Friends, ''Toys/{{Barbie}}'', ''Toys/HotWheels'', ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'', ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'', ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989'', ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians'', ''Toys/CabbagePatchKids'', ''Tonka'', ''Literature/TheBerenstainBears'', ''WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies1984'', ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'', ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'', and the Happy Meal Guys. In 1996 in Europe, a set of four train cars was released. This promotion featured a re-issue of the Bugs and Daffy toy that was included with the Happy Birthday Happy Meal, Tweety having locked Sylvester in a washing machine, Taz spinning through a crate, and Wile E. Coyote chasing Road Runner.

* RealitySubtext: ''WesternAnimation/YouOughtToBeInPictures'' is arguably one of Creator/FrizFreleng's most personal films, because it's essentially a cartoon re-telling of Friz's experiences quitting WB to work for MGM, then being dissatisfied and returning to WB only a couple years later.

* AlanSmithee: There were a few shorts where the director was left uncredited, but not because the work was so bad that the director wanted nothing to do with the project (even Norm [=McCabe=] put his name on his cartoons, [[OldShame despite revealing that they were awful years later]]). The uncredited Looney Tunes cartoons were mostly due to the director having been fired or quit and WB Studios at the time had a rule stating that only those who were employed were allowed to have their names in the opening credits of the shorts.

** The infamous [[DorkAge Daffy/Speedy pairing in the mid-to-late 60s]] were a result of this. In 1964, WesternAnimation/BugsBunny, WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck and WesternAnimation/SpeedyGonzales were the three most popular characters in the ''Looney Tunes'' series. Television companies, thus, demanded more cartoons featuring Daffy Duck and Speedy Gonzales (who, at this point, had only starred in about 20 cartoons). Unfortunately, since the newly-reopened Warner Brothers Animation Studio had a very limited budget (due in no small part to the UsefulNotes/FallOfTheStudioSystem), they decided to kill two birds with one stone and pair the two characters rather than continue their cartoons separately.

* OldShame:
** Warner Bros. tends to act this way about the Buddy era, along with ''WesternAnimation/LoonaticsUnleashed''...
%%** This was Cartoon Network for awhile after the failure of ''Film/LooneyTunesBackInAction''. In 2009, their love returned for the most part only to be gone again by 2017 when ''Looney Tunes'' shorts were removed entirely from the network.
** The infamous ''WesternAnimation/CensoredEleven'' shorts have been suppressed from [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes home video and television airings]] out of shame over the high amounts of ValuesDissonance present in them.
** The [[UsefulNotes/LooneyTunesInTheSixties mid-to-late 1960's shorts]], which are widely viewed as [[DorkAge the nadir of the franchise]] by critics and fans alike, are firmly an Old Shame, with the majority of the shorts in that era [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes rarely appearing on home video or television]] and the new characters introduced in them [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome almost entirely phased-out to never be acknowledged again]]. The sole exceptions are Cool Cat and Colonel Rimfire, who both prominently appeared on ''WesternAnimation/TheSylvesterAndTweetyMysteries'' and ''WesternAnimation/TweetysHighFlyingAdventure'' as well as the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunesCartoons'' short "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTDFoYPxhkY_title Happy Birthday, Bugs Bunny!]]".
** Cartoon Network and Boomerang feel this way about the ''WesternAnimation/SpeedyGonzales'' cartoons considering they dropped them completely in 1999 due to their Mexican stereotyping. After backlash from Hispanics who had [[MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales fond memories of watching Speedy Gonzales growing up]], Cartoon Network returned them to rotation in 2002 and kept them in until 2004, when they dropped the shorts entirely. When the ''Looney Tunes'' shorts returned full time in 2011, Speedy's cartoons were rarely aired at all, even when the shorts were brought back to Boomerang in 2013, after dropping them in 2007. "Cannery Woe" did sporadically air on Boomerang from 2014 to 2016, before being dropped altogether. Only one short, "Nuts and Volts" was available on Creator/HBOMax, but has been removed as of February 2021. Though, as of 2021, some Speedy shorts have aired on [=MeTV=], making it the first time in roughly 15 years Speedy shorts have consistently been shown on American TV.

** UsefulNotes/McDonalds released figures of Bugs, Daffy, Petunia and Taz with snap-on superhero costumes in 1991, and crazy cars of Bugs, Daffy, Taz, and Porky in 1992. A ''Looney Tunes''-themed train car was also part of the Happy Birthday Happy Meal in 1994, which also had toys based on Ronald and Friends, ''Toys/{{Barbie}}'', ''Toys/HotWheels'', ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'', ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'', ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989'', ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians'', ''Toys/CabbagePatchKids'', ''Tonka'', ''Literature/TheBerenstainBears'', ''WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies1984'', ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'', ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'', and the Happy Meal Guys.