General Looney Tunes / Assorted WB Animation (that isn't DC) Thread.

Gee, thanks. Never mind then, I realized it's not worth the effort anyway.

Edited by TomWithoutJerry on Apr 23rd 2024 at 11:46:02 AM

This I have to know more about.

Edited by KnownUnknown on Apr 23rd 2024 at 11:46:48 AM

Evidently one of the hot new meme trends is photoshopping Foghorn Leghorn into animes. One example here, and if you look on Twitter there's a lot more...

Edited by Aldo930 on Apr 23rd 2024 at 11:48:42 AM

How would you all react if they decided to make a Looney Tunes anime?

Eric Bauza has posted a voice recording of one of these anime Foghorn memes on Twitter here: https://x.com/bauzilla/status/1782847606592532864?s=46&t=7YT7yMPCw2VMMwQUxWj5_A

Actually, he’s posting a few. This and the last one is Dragon Ball: https://x.com/bauzilla/status/1782844117736910961?s=46&t=7YT7yMPCw2VMMwQUxWj5_A

Here’s Frieren: https://x.com/bauzilla/status/1782845929026121867?s=46&t=7YT7yMPCw2VMMwQUxWj5_A

Loonatics Unleashed doesn’t count?

Edited by BigBadShadow25 on Apr 23rd 2024 at 3:45:57 PM

That looked more like their attempt at making something like the X-Men, really.

"No wonder you're a Saiyan, all talk and no show," is such a great line.

To think, a few years back, Doobus Goobus made a video of Foghorn ragging on anime.

They don’t think the Looney Tunes are popular enough so they decided to cast Zendaya to voice Lola Bunny at the last minute.

Edited by rwinger24 on Apr 24th 2024 at 11:35:00 AM

If I'm being honest, I think the latest generations just prefer more serialized story telling to wacky shorts. If you look at some of the more popular cartoons in the semi-recent years, they all tend to focus hard on character development and serialized story telling.

I think that may be why Looniversity took a more down to earth approach as to the original show. Make it more character focused than gag focused. The real problem is most of the Looney Tunes gimmicks don't really work for serialized story telling, as the many attempts in the past have shown.

... Although a Looney Tunes take on a DuckTales (1987) would be interesting.

The Looney Tunes popularity "problem" is easily resolved if they simply put the classic cartoons in a place kids can actually find them, meaning Cartoon Network (basic cable) and YouTube. People talk like the Tunes recently became irrelevant, but they are in fact as close to timeless as any media property can realistically hope to get and the reason they were a cultural touchstone for ninety years is that kids had easy access to them.

They are in a place kids can see, Me TV, and kids have actually sent fanart too!

Not just the toons but their libary of Merrie Melodies as well

Le Bron Space Jam and Looniversity are both at fault for censoring and restricting them to just be good moral compasses as opposed to just being anarchic. Making them a happy family working together instead of going against each others throats like The Bugs Bunny Show in the 1960s. Brand sanitization is my biggest fair. The only characters that are not violent or have a checkered past are Tweety and Lola Bunny.

Tiny Toon Adventures also did that too. Same with The Looney Tunes Show.

Tbh, having more character focused stories vs gag centric stories was always Tiny Toons’ thing. It’s the primary thing that I’d argue sets it apart from Animaniacs, which was a staunchly gag and formula centric series.

So the show would have feel good slice of life story episodes, or Aesop focused adventures about friendship and so on - it had shorts episodes, but they were more occasional - vs Animaniacs which usually ruthlessly mocked such things.

Edited by KnownUnknown on Apr 24th 2024 at 12:15:25 PM

I know I got flack for it the last time I said something like this, but Looniversity is actually a success, especially with children. Looneyversity is on the Top 10 for CN and Max's kids show chart. Adults have Adult Swim for themselves, cant we just treat the kids show as a kids show? Do we REALLY NEED to go "I as an adult HATE this kids show and thus its a flop."

I will readily admit NO ONE here said anything like that but I still hope seeing this post will give people pause and rethink their position to a more reasonable one.

I'd say people are free to have whatever opinion of the show they care to have, even if they aren't the show's target audience.

I agree, though, that it's ridiculous to refer to a show as a failure when it's clearly not. But, if the show is a success, it's not like the grousing of adults who don't like it is going to hurt it in any way (which is why those Teen Titans Go episodes where they lampoon complaining adult fans strike me as a seriously odd and, frankly, kind of childish response).

Edited by Robbery on Apr 24th 2024 at 12:24:41 PM

I never said anyone is not entitled to their opinion, or even disagreed with anyone who dislikes the show, but the show is not a flop with its intended demographic and that's all I objected to.

WB animation has a long history of making fun of their more caustic adult fans.

Obsessive adult Tiny Toons fans in particular led to a lot of piss takes directed at the adult fandom in both Animaniacs and Freakazoid. Even BTAS got in on the act on occasion.

Generally, if you make yourself a target, a comic is going to shoot an arrow at you for laughs and those fans - including the TTG hatedom - generally did make pretty large targets of themselves.

Edited by KnownUnknown on Apr 24th 2024 at 1:19:08 AM

I loved that skit.

With Animaniacs, they previewed the Please Please Please Get a Life Foundation skit to fans who came to visit in 1995, and they got the joke and took it in good humor.

The joke about "The World's Biggest Tiny Toon Fan" in Night Ghoulery, however...

Edited by Aldo930 on Apr 24th 2024 at 2:09:58 AM

I wanna ask but I feel I am better off not knowing.