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Truly one of the greatest American artforms, and a true barometer of the times in which they were made. I have been a fan since I sat in front of the tv on saturday morning laughing at all the funny gags, little did I realize at the time that when I got older and could understand much more of the subliminal humor and inuendo expressed in them that these were not made for little children. In that Golden Era of the wartime toons till the late 50's all the directors and storyboarders were making short stories for the adult population disguised as cartoons for the kiddies. Always a big fan of Chuck Jones toons and the Man of a million voices Mel Blanc, many happy hours have been spent in front of tv watchings these little vignettes of American humor at its finest. I will never forget in 1990 when Warner Bros was celebrating Bugs 50th birthday that they actually showed toons at the movie theaters in Dallas when there was a WB movie showing. In the listings in the paper they would tell you what toon would be showing with the movie and we made a 20 mile trip to see a totally terrible movie-Robocop II-just to be able to watch one of my alltime favorite toons-Feed the Kitty(with Marc Anthony the dog and the little kitten)-that forlorne face when he sees the kitten cookie has always been one of my favorite images from Looney Tunes. Although I still watch the Cartoon Network for some of the Adult Swim shows I have still been unable to forgive them for taking Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies off of their schedule, for without them how can they in all good conscience call themselves the Cartoon Network.
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11-19-2008, 09:24 PM
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I bought my nephew a boxed set of Looney Tunes quite a few yrs back. he is 12 now.
his friends and the kids he goes to school with have never heard of looney tunes! can you imagine it? you hardly see them on tv anymore. i grew up with them as a kid... would always watch them in the mornings before going to school ... even when i was in high school. I cant imagine kids not knowing what looney tunes are.
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11-19-2008, 10:48 PM
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The ACME Company
The ACME Company had everything.....
http://home.nc.rr.com/tuco/looney/acme.html
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11-20-2008, 05:40 AM
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http://home.nc.rr.com/tuco/looney/acme/instantgirl.html Sure couldn't get away with putting that in a cartoon today... 
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11-20-2008, 09:03 AM
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As I'm a chief engineer for a couple of radio stations, I'm very familiar with "gremlins". So much so, one of my daughters painted an absolutely incredible picture of the Bugs and the little guy for my last birthday, and not to be outdone, my other daughter made a statuette of the gremlin I keep on my bar at home. jdiamantis
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Two of my faves from Foghorn Leghorn: "Nice girl, but she's about as sharp as a sack of wet mice" "That boy's about as sharp as a bowling ball" jdiamantis
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11-20-2008, 09:40 AM
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Another fan here!   And another collector of Looney Tunes Laserdiscs. I have several boxed sets and a couple of singles, and periodically pull them out and watch a few, just for laughs and also for a bit of nostalgia. Like many here, when I was a kid growing up, sitting in front of the TV on Saturday mornings and watching those cartoons was one of the highlights of the week!...and as for the political correctness thing, I'll withhold comment, lest I violate rules on political content in posts. But I will say that I find those old, uncensored Looney Tunes pretty funny! 
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11-20-2008, 09:52 AM
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You can view higher quality versions of You Tube viddies by adding "&fmt=18" to the end of the url. If you download them via www.keepvid.com, do the same and save the high quality link...it will save as an mp4 instead of a flv. If you use the open source DVDFlick to burn, you can then burn right to DVD and enjoy on your own TV. The quality isn't wonderful, but it wasn't on that old 1967 Packard Bell you used to watch them on, either...
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11-21-2008, 06:30 PM
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Shhhhhhh!
Be vewy, vewy quiet....I'm hunting wabbits, heh-heh-heh. Here's a picture of an old WB cartoon building The entrance doors and windows were removed long long ago. 
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true tunes I watched as a kid along with Tom & Jerry, the Tex Avery Collection etc...
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