YMMV / The Looney Tunes Show

• Accidental Innuendo: "I love all the shiny balls." As in, Christmas tree ornaments.
• Adorkable:
  • Porky Pig. They used a more appealing design than his classic appearance, in part because they knew they'd be depicting him as shy, lonely, frequently depressed and generally taken for granted.
  • Lola Bunny is a bubbly, perky Genki Girl who takes her adorable ditziness to new heights.
• Alternative Character Interpretation:
  • Some see Daffy Duck as a plain old Jerkass (his torment of Porky), others see him as a Jerkass Woobie (he hasn't had the best life, he's suffering from an unspecified mental condition, and it's implied he's from a Dysfunctional Family) or even an Strawman Political (with Daffy usually questioning "bureaucracy", comparing it to the Soviet Union). That he suffers a lot from Depending on the Writer only adds to this trope.
  • Going by the revelations about how his high school life was like it's possible that Daffy's especially poor treatment of Porky is payback for being bullied back then. Similarly it's just as possible that Porky's Extreme Doormat behavior with Daffy in particular is because of guilt that his bullying played a role in how screwed up Daffy has become as an adult and that he feels he deserves Daffy's abuse for it.
  • Lola, in general. Some people think she's a Dumb Blonde, but others claim she's just crazy but not stupid.
    • In "Double Date," was Lola really stupid/crazy enough to fall for the lines she'd just fed Daffy, or was it all a Batman Gambit to get Bugs Bunny to call himself her boyfriend? Or both?
  • In "Bugs and Daffy Get a Job", was Daffy annoying Bugs with his snoring on purpose?
  • At the beginning of "Casa de Calma", Bugs blames getting lost on the way to the hotel and ending up at Daffy's uncle's home on a G.P.S. he claims to have bought from a vending machine. Was Bugs telling the truth? Or was he lying and he misdirected the both of them on purpose to screw with Daffy, fully knowing that he's embarrassed by his uncle. Both interpretations fit Bugs' character.
• And You Thought It Would Fail: Classic Looney Tunes fans ripped this show apart for its tone being completely different from a regular Looney Tunes show. The show premiered to high ratings with Season 1 regularly meeting or getting close to the 2-million mark (they sagged in Season 2, with the lowest rated episode ("Super Rabbit"), while still gaining a million viewers, representing a 50% drop from peak figures. That said, the show gained a sizable fanbase as well, which included even a few classic LT fans.
• Awesome Ego: Downplayed in the show itself, but the song number "Cock of the Walk" shows Foghorn Leghorn at his most boastful, listing off a bunch of accomplishments that may or may not be true, but it makes the song all the more awesome for it. Even though it's not as present in the show, there are some instances that show Foghorn as being an egotist, but still a likable character.
  Carol: Sir, don't you remember? He's the idiot who destroyed your company!
  Foghorn: I only remember the positive, Carol. That's why I'm a success!
• Awesome Music: In some episodes, there were mini music videos called 'Merrie Melodies', and some of them were pretty fun to listen to. "Daffy Duck the Wizard" in particular stands out.
  • "Cock Of The Walk" Foghorn Leghorn "I Am Great!" Song which shows Foghorn listing off a bunch of his many accomplishments (getting Oscar for his debut cartoon, catching Loch Ness Monster, wrestling a killer whale, being teacher at Harvard, and getting Nobel Prize for the best joke in the club). The Polish version of the song is equally awesome or maybe even surpasses the English version!
• Base-Breaking Character:
  • Lola Bunny has been this since she was introduced in Space Jam, and this initially continued when this new iteration was introduced. Those who weren't fans of her original one-note Ms. Fanservice personality incarnation see this Denser and Wackier version as a vast improvement, while those more nostalgic for her original version (or felt that it needed, at best, a little improvement) find her blatant stupidity annoying and her stalker tendencies outright offensive. It didn't help that the writers admitted they'd never even seen Space Jam and just wrote the new version of Lola to play to Kristen Wiig's strengths. To be fair, the arguments have died down in later years, with opinions of the new Lola leaning much more towards positive.
  • Depending on who you ask, Daffy is either one of the funniest characters on the show or an obnoxious douchebag Bugs and Porky should just get rid of.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: Daffy, Tina, Bugs, Lola, Yosemite Sam and Speedy dancing in Daffy's disco room at the end of "Daffy Duck Esquire".
• Broken Base:
  • "Casa de Calma." Some fans liked it for how it harkens back to classic Looney Tunes formulas, but at the same time, it was hated by other fans for that reason as well. It's notable for being reworked from the pilot for Looney Tunes Laff Riot, the series that was originally pitched to network execs that was instead put into turnaround and reworked into this series.
  • "Roadrunner and Wile E. Coyote" CGI shorts. Either they're fresh breath of air from show's usual sitcom aesthetic and being on par with their classic cartoons, or they're just unnecessary fillers that have no connection with the main show, and don't have the same feel as the original shorts. The fact that they're CGI while the rest of the show is traditionally animated doesn't helps.
• Cargo Ship: The songs have this as a theme: Elmer Fudd x grilled cheese sandwiches: Marvin the Martian x his laser cannon.
• Catharsis Factor:
  • Anyone who hated Cecil the Turtle in the original cartoons would be overjoyed to see Bugs Bunny take him on and actually winning against him. TWICE!
  • Due to the amount of abuse that Porky endured from Daffy, it is extremely satisfying to see pissed off Porky beating up Daffy in The Float.
• Critic-Proof: If the Wayback Machine is any indication, the series always maintained a respectable IMDb rating (hovering around the 7 to 8 range, which is actually about the same as a good chunk of the classic shorts) despite being infamously trashed by Looney Tunes purists back when it still on the air.
• Crosses the Line Twice:
  • The "Grilled Cheese" video by Elmer Fudd. Some fans find it unsettling due to how it's a sensual video sung about a grilled cheese sandwich... but comedy gold at the same time for that exact reason. One commenter put it best:
  "Why was that so wrong yet so hilarious?"
  • In "Reunion", the real history shows after Porky pushes Daffy's face into a piece of cake, everyone else just picks him up, chants "Daffy Dork", and toss him into the Mashed Potatoes. It's so cruel that it's hilarious.
  • From "Sunday Night Slice": Porky gleefully enjoying a pepperoni sausage? Unsettling. Bugs only giving him a Thousand-Yard Stare in response? Funny. Porky realizing later into the episode that he was actually eating pork, and stress-eating even more pepperoni in response? Absolutely hysterical.
  • From "The Grand Old Duck of York", the ending shows Sylvester and Tweety miserable from having to listen to Daffy's awful piano playing (if you can call it that). Tweety eventually just opens Sylvester's mouth and gets in. And Sylvester is still too miserable to care.
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • Marvin the Martian as always.
  • Foghorn Leghorn and his blonde secretary, Carol.
  • Both of Lola's parents are liked for their ditzy but warm personalities and brutally subverting the overprotective parents tropes and becoming quite close to Bugs. Lola's mother Patricia especially is liked for her design which has sparked quite a lot of... mature fan art.
  • Faora, the Zod!Daffy girlfriend from "Super Rabbit".
• Fan-Preferred Couple: Although Bugs and Daffy are in relationships with Lola and Tina respectively, it's far more popular to ship the two with each other instead. The show loads their dynamic with lots of Ho Yay, and they often come off Like an Old Married Couple in their interactions. Most of the fanfiction, fan art, and fanvids of the show is about them together. The show is also believed to be responsible for the Baffy ship becoming the dominant pairing within the Looney Tunes fandom in general.
• Growing the Beard: Season 2. Daffy is less of a jerk, Bugs gets more screentime, Lola is funnier and less of a creepy stalker, no more CG shorts of Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote, a redesign of all characters and better plots in general.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • The background art in "Tasmanian Meltdown" resembles the one used in Season 2.
  • Daffy makes a big deal about Porky stealing his fries. Doesn't that remind you of a couple of other Cartoon Network shows?
  • In "Members Only", Lola misperceives Bugs to be a bad boy after a failed attempt to get Lola to break up with him. In "Rebel Without a Glove", Bugs really does become a bad boy by way of leather gloves.
  • The scene which Daffy questions why there's a name plate with the name "Darvin" on it is this, since some fans who ship Daffy/Marvin call the ship "Darvin".
  • "Bobcats on Three!"'s B-plot sees Bugs becoming hooked on Porky's cooking and becoming tremendously fat from it, years before the "Big Chungus" meme would take off.
  • The fact that Mac and Tosh are voiced by Rob Paulsen and Jess Harnell respectively, who're best known for playing the Warner Brothers Yakko and Wakko. Only this time, they're obsessed over each other rather than girls.
  • This series established Dariusz Odija as the official voice of Foghorn Leghorn in the Polish dub of Looney Tunes. Years later in Bugs Bunny Builders Odija voices Foghorn's main adversary George P. Mandrake/Barnyard Dawg.
• Hollywood Homely: One season one episode suggests Daffy is viewed as unattractive in-universe, not that the animation makes him come off this way.
• Ho Yay:
  • You could easily say the premise is that Bugs and Daffy are married, and nothing would change at all. It doesn't help that in the first episode they're on an Expy of The Newlywed Game. And of course their opponents, the Goofy Gophers, have long been an embodiment of Ambiguously Gay.
    • After 'Double Date,' we should just make a separate page for this. Here's the short and long of it: Daffy wins an romantic evening for two, so who is the first person he asks? Bugs. If that wasn't enough, when Bugs clarifies that a 'romantic evening' means a date, Daffy calls and asks Porky to a date. The kicker is when Porky accepts. And waits outside his house. With flowers. Even the SONG from that episode, 'Be Polite,' had gratuitous amounts of Ho Yay, but that's to be expected when you're dealing with Mac and Tosh.
    • With respect to the two latter, the song "You like/I Like" takes things even further.
    • Their other song, "Drifting Apart", has all the earmarks of a failing marriage.
    • There's also the fact that their established love Lola and Tina come off as gender/species-inverted versions of each other.
  • Walter (Lola's dad) seems to approve of Bugs a bit too much.
  • Tweety and Sylvester in "Ridiculous Journey." They spend the episode bickering like an old married couple, have a Sleep Cute moment, then an Aw Look They Really Do Love Eachother moment towards the end. Sylvester denies it ever happened, of course, but it doesn't stop Tweety from gloating about it.
    • That said, whether or not this is ho yay depends on if you think Tweety is a boy or a girl.
• Jerkass Woobie: Daffy is often a jerk (especially to Porky), but he comes from a Dysfunctional Family, had a terrible childhood, he was bullied at school, suffers from an unspecified mental disorder, and has a very low self-esteem.
• Love to Hate: Cecil's characterization as a sinister con artist and criminal in the show has been widley praised for portraying him as a genuine and effective antagonist to Bugs.
• LGBT Fanbase: Due to the massive amounts of Ho Yay between Bugs and Daffy, the show has a sizeable LGBT fanbase.
• Memetic Mutation: Several clips from the show have gone viral on Tiktok including "Mall Pants" and "Daffy's not your boyfriend, I'm your boyfriend".
• Moral Event Horizon: Cecil crosses this in "The Shell Game" when he plans to shoot Bugs and Porky in order to keep them from exposing his scam. It's not even played for laughs. Not even Yosemite Sam or Elmer Fudd in this incarnation or any other would go this far.
• More Popular Replacement: Tina Russo was created as a stand-in for Melissa Duck from the classic shorts and Baby Looney Tunes, and is far more popular among fans than Melissa, who's a rather obscure Flat Character in the shorts, while in Baby Looney Tunes, she is a Bratty Half-Pint who shares several Jerkass tendencies with Daffy. By contrast, Tina is portrayed as more likable and Closer to Earth than her love interest.
• Nausea Fuel: All that needs to be said is the buildup to this scene to firmly plant it in one's head.
  Bugs: Was he... wearing my robe?
  Daffy: Yeah! He used your bathroom.
• Older Than They Think: This isn't the first time Looney Tunes characters were placed in a sitcom — in 1991 there was Taz-Mania, which put the Tasmanian Devil in a sitcom setting with a Nuclear Family. The difference here is that the main ensemble of Looney Tunes characters are included rather than focusing on a single character.
• One-Scene Wonder: Sam's backup singers from the "Blew My Stack" song. They only appeared that one time, but are remembered for their designs.
• One True Threesome: Bugs/Daffy is an extremely popular ship due to how much Ho Yay fuel the show provides. However, because Lola and Tina bounce off the two so well, some fans like to extend the ship to a foursome of Bugs/Daffy/Lola/Tina.
• Paranoia Fuel: Lola's stalker-centric song, "We Are In Love" was just filled to the brim with Yandere undertones. She going far as infiltrating his security system, invading his private space, going into stalker territory, and following him wherever he goes.
• Platonic Writing, Romantic Reading: Bugs and Daffy eventually get separate love interests with Lola and Tina respectively, but the romantic subtext in their own relationship is just as blatant, especially since the show's entire premise is built around it. Not helping matters is that Tina and Lola are a lot like Bugs and Daffy, respectively.
• Rescued from the Scrappy Heap:
  • While not everyone is sold, Lola has been better received in this show by those who didn't like the flat, eye-candy character she was in her first appearance, saying she had a more Looney Tunes-appropriate personality here as a modestly dressed Motor Mouth and Valley Girl who owns a Hammerspace Purse that throws Bugs for a loop. This went further with Season 2, which downplayed her Stalker with a Crush tendencies (since she and Bugs are already together) and gave her more moments of common sense, while still keeping her endearingly eccentric and looney.
  • Over time, particularly in the second season, Daffy shows signs of gradually becoming a better person, particularly towards Porky. But he still has his rough edges.
• Seasonal Rot: The 2nd half of the first season isn't considered as good as the 1st, a rare case of this happening within a season. "The Float", which aired in the second half, is considered the low point of the series by some. Fortunately, the show would hit its stride after this.
• Ships That Pass in the Night: Daffy and Marvin due to the two of them going to high school together and both having wishes to destroy earth. Also Marvin and Pete, who were reduced to Those Two Guys in Season 2.
• Signature Scene: The Grilled Cheese music video. Where else are you going to find Elmer Fudd sensually singing about eating his Trademark Favorite Food?
• So Okay, It's Average: Those who don't love or hate the show generally say it had an okay setup and a weak execution. And both sides felt this way about the new Road Runner / Wile E. Coyote shorts that follow some episodes. Unlike the main show, they kept to the classic formula - yet the folks that 'miss the classics' aren't delighted and the ones who 'love the new formula' aren't criticizing.
• Squick: "Daffy. Are you tellin' me that you don't use toilet paper?"
• Suspiciously Similar Song:
  • In "Bobcats on Three!", the kids throw Daffy into the pool while he exclaims he can't swim. Bugs, being fat, is the only one who knows this, and runs off to jump into the pool in slowmotion to save him. During that time, a song is playing sounding similar to Vangelis "Titles".
  • "The Wizard" has nearly the exact same guitar tab as Black Sabbath's "Children of the Gave".
  • The Merrie Melodies "Laser Beam" is a slow power ballad that's (probably deliberately) a Guns 'N' Roses sound-alike.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!:
  • Online fans of the classic shorts and 90's revivals were skeptical about this update. Then they saw the leaked images, and they were not pleased. This also happened months before the show premiered. Cartoon Brew is a classic case—it covered the show in several blog posts, each receiving 200-plus replies!
  • The news that Joe Alaskey wouldn't be returning to voice Bugs Bunny (or indeed, anyone) got this reaction. It would probably have been a lot worse if not for the fact that they brought back Alaskey's predecessor, Jeff Bergman to pick up the role — although Alaskey is near-unanimously regarded as the better voice artist, Bergman still has plenty of fans.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character:
  • The more purist Looney Tunes fans have said that, while the idea of putting wacky, over-the-top characters in a banal sitcom setting is a funny idea, the fact that they basically act like sitcom characters anyway, rather than their original "looney" selves, ruins the joke.
  • Despite being planned to appear early in the show's run, with early production art showing two different designs, Petunia ended up not appearing until towards the end of Season 2 and only for two episodes.
  • A lot of original Looney Tunes characters such as Sylvester, Tweety, Elmer Fudd, Marvin the Martian and Wile E. Coyote have minor roles in the first season and are all but forgotten by the second season. However, Sylvester and Tweety get an important role in "Ridiculous Journey" along with Taz while Bugs and Daffy are reduced to minor roles. Daffy, in particular, has only one speaking line in the entire episode.
• Vindicated by History: Opinions on the show were rather mixed upon its release, with criticism aimed at its blatant departure from the franchise's usual formula. Over the years, it's more fondly remembered by those who grew up with it and is regarded even by Looney Tunes purists as an underrated gem, with many fans lamenting that the series could have gone on for more seasons and become something even greater if it had been given the chance at the time.
• The Woobie:
  • Bugs Bunny has pretty much become this in the show, being stuck as the Only Sane Man.
  • You will feel bad for Porky Pig. He might be the biggest woobie in Looney Tunes history.
  • Sylvester becomes this in "Point, Laser Point" after undergoing a Sanity Slippage and turning out to be The Un Favourite son to his mother. You can't help but feel bad for him, especially after showing him in flashback as a small child with big gawky glasses and large braces. D'aww!

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