YMMV / Walter Lantz

• Archive Panic: 617 theatrical cartoons made from 1929 to 1972.
• Audience-Alienating Era: His run on Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, for Disney fans.
  • For fans of Lantz's own cartoons, the studio is considered to have gone into this phase from the mid- to late-1950s and on.
• Awesome Music: Some of Lantz's shorts have very well orchestrated music—to name a few:
  • The Barber of Seville
  • 21 Dollars a Day (Once A Month)
  • Scrub Me Mama with a Boogie Beat
  • Abou Ben Boogie
  • The Greatest Man In Siam
• Growing the Beard: The studio had its ups and downs over the years, but its peak years are easily from 1944 to 1949, when Disney veterans Shamus Culhane and Dick Lundy took over directing duties at Lantz, making some of the best cartoons in the studio's history.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: The first names of three of his characters (Andy Panda, Woody Woodpecker and Buzz Buzzard) would later become the names of three certain Disney-Pixar characters.
• So Okay, It's Average: The general film historian opinion of Walter Lantz's work; not as good as Walt Disney's or Looney Tunes, but at the same time, around the same artistic level as Famous Studios and Screen Gems, and superior to Terrytoons.
• Values Dissonance: Some of his shorts suffered from this, but they're much rarer cases than you would find from the other studios. "Scrub Me Mama with a Boogie Beat" in particular is full of this.

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