Join us as we take a look at three more Looney Tunes shorts that have not aged well! Marc covers the Academy Award Nominated (but lost...much to the chagrin of Bob Clampett) with 'Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt' Jordan finds the other Playboy Penguin/Bugs Bunny team-up with a not aged well nemesis with 'Frigid Hare' And we both look at....just....a perfect amalgamation of everthing we don't like about Robert McKimson with 'China Jones'Links:Jonathan’s GoFundMeSupport us on PatreonFollow us on TwitterFollow us on BlueskyFollow us on Instagram
Marc and Jordan look at three shorts where characters that arguably should have been in one-shot cartoons are given a second, or fourth, chance. These include 'Greetings, Bait', starring The Wacky Worm, 'Cheese-It, The Cat', starring The Honeymousers, and 'Often An Orphan', starring the much-maligned Charlie Dog. Some of these work, and could have been longer running characters. Some show signs of limitations in their concepts. And some bring us to a two-minute-long laughing standstill.Links:Jonathan’s GoFundMeSupport us on PatreonFollow us on TwitterFollow us on BlueskyFollow us on Instagram
Join us as we cover more Hubie and Bertie! Marc looks at an early attempt of the characters (VERY loosely) in 'Trap Happy Porky' Jordan finds Hubie and Bertie in the HOUSE OF THE FUTURE (Hey didn't we just cover one of those? thankfully this isn't a McKimson episode!) in 'House-Hunting Mice' and we conclude with....a little more on the dark side of the Hubie and Bertie story with 'Cheese Chasers'Links:Jonathan’s GoFundMeSupport us on PatreonFollow us on TwitterFollow us on BlueskyFollow us on Instagram
It had been a while since Marc and Jordan had covered shorts featuring Mac & Tosh, the Goofy Gophers, and it's mostly because their overly-nice schtick can get old after a while. But there were still a handful for us to cover, including the classic 'A Ham in a Role', featuring an opening minute that animation historians love to showcase [without really going into detail about the rest of it], and a pretty strong outing in 'A Bone for a Bone'. They also had to watch a 1965 short called 'Tease for Two'. It doesn't go as well, but it does lead to funnier bits.Links:Jonathan’s GoFundMeSupport us on PatreonFollow us on TwitterFollow us on BlueskyFollow us on Instagram
Join us as we take a look at even more Foghorn Leghorn cartoons, because doing one Robert McKimson episode wasn't enough! Marc sees the first appearance of the Weasel in the Foghorn cast with 'Plop Goes the Weasel', Jordan watches a short that seems a little too similar to a certain rabbit with 'The Dixie Fryer', And we round out with Henry Hawk trying to get a chicken with 'Leghorn Swoggled'Links:Jonathan’s GoFundMeSupport us on PatreonFollow us on TwitterFollow us on BlueskyFollow us on Instagram
Marc and Jordan cover three different Robert McKimson Daffy Duck shorts that features Daffy paired with a love interest. That's it, that's the theme of this one. Is it that shocking that we didn't especially like these? Be it a noir-ish takedown of a femme fatale in The Super Snooper, a beachside show of machismo in Muscle Tussle or a European spy caper in Boston Quackie, McKimson and his crews have no shortage of things to groan at.Links:Jonathan’s GoFundMeSupport us on PatreonFollow us on TwitterFollow us on BlueskyFollow us on Instagram
Join us as we cover the salesman antics of Daffy Duck! Marc sees Daffy try to make JB Cubish laugh in 'Daffy Dilly'. Jordan finds Daffy trying to sell life insurance to Porky Pig in 'Fool Practice', and we both watch Daffy try to sell the home of the future to Elmer Fudd in 'Design For Leaving'Links:Jonathan’s GoFundMeSupport us on PatreonFollow us on TwitterFollow us on BlueskyFollow us on Instagram
For our latest movie episode, Marc and Jordan cover the Warner Animation feature film...though technically the credit for this one goes to Turner's animation department with Cats Don't Dance. Released in early 1997 to literally no fanfare, its failure at the box office was engineered by a studio who had no interest in its success [sound familiar?] Yet the cult following for this animated tribute to 40s Hollywood and 50s musicals has persisted to this day, and we're going to take a look at why.Links:Jonathan’s GoFundMeSupport us on PatreonFollow us on TwitterFollow us on BlueskyFollow us on Instagram
Join us as a lead-up to our next movie episode as we look at the historic (and Clampett-y) Cats of Termite Terrace! Marc covers the first Technicolor Looney Tunes short with the BIG NAME SENSATION of 'The Hep Cat' Jordan watches a Porky vs 4 Cats cartoon that divulges into madness with 'Katty Kornered' And we both see a more simplified Frelelng effort with 'Pizzacato Pussycat'Links:Jonathan’s GoFundMeSupport us on PatreonFollow us on TwitterFollow us on BlueskyFollow us on Instagram
Join us as we take a look at a character that Robert McKimson tried to make happen, but didn't with the W.C Fields inspired Dodsworth! Jordan sees his origins, with a kitten that's a better lead than our main character with 'Kiddin' The Kitten' Marc finds the return of THE WOODPECKER in 'A Peck O' Trouble' And to make this episode fun for us, we conclude by looking at the Academy Award Nominated Sylvester 1960 short 'Mouse and Garden'Links:Jonathan’s GoFundMeSupport us on PatreonFollow us on TwitterFollow us on BlueskyFollow us on Instagram
In this episode, Jordan and Marc cover three Tweety & Sylvester shorts from the late 50s and early 60s, to end their month-long journey into the duo's golden age history. The shorts range from passable, like 1956's Tugboat Granny, to infuriating, like 1958's A Bird in a Bonnet, to whatever the hell 1962's The Jet Cage was going for.Links:Jonathan’s GoFundMeSupport us on PatreonFollow us on TwitterFollow us on BlueskyFollow us on Instagram
Join us as we continue Tweety June by looking at more Sylvester and Tweety shorts from the early to mid '50s! Jordan sees Tweety and Sylvester spend a Christmas together in 'Gift Wrapped' Marc watches an Arthur Davis Beach-themed short that...leaves a lot to be desired in 'Sandy Claws' And we conclude with a Tedd Pierce written classic, 'All A B-i-i-i-i-r-d'Links:Jonathan’s GoFundMeSupport us on PatreonFollow us on TwitterFollow us on BlueskyFollow us on Instagram
Continuing our Tweety June, where we dive into previously underlooked Tweety and Sylvester cartoons, we cover 3 from the early 50s, right around when Freleng and Foster got the formula down. Two of these are on the soon-to-be-released Looney Tunes' Collector's Vault that Warner Archive is putting out. Two of these were among Jordan's favorites from his years watching the Golden Collections. And one of these is something we've been meaning to cover for a while.Links:Jonathan’s GoFundMeSupport us on PatreonFollow us on TwitterFollow us on BlueskyFollow us on Instagram
Join us as we look at even more Sylvester and Tweety shorts, this time all from the year 1951! Jordan sees Warren Foster come into the writing stylings of S+T with 'Putty Tat Trouble' Marc sees double Granny's (and a whole ot of animals) in 'Room and Bird' And we finish with a short that gives us serious questions about the origins of Tweety with the simply titled 'Tweet Tweet Tweety'Links:Jonathan’s GoFundMeSupport us on PatreonFollow us on TwitterFollow us on BlueskyFollow us on Instagram
Marc and Jordan kick off Tweety June, a month of episodes full of Tweety and Sylvester shorts we somehow haven't gotten to yet, with three from the Tedd Pierce era, I Taw a Putty Tat, Bad Ol Putty Tat and Home Tweet Home. In here, we find great gags, early installment weirdness and writerly affectations, while Marc tries his damnedest to tell these two flagship characters apart.Links:Jonathan’s GoFundMeSupport us on PatreonFollow us on TwitterFollow us on BlueskyFollow us on Instagram
To kick off our summer of cats, Jordan and Marc go back to an old favorite, the 90s Kids WB favorite Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries, for two different episodes from their first season, 'The Cat Who Knew Too Much' and 'A Ticket to Crime'. We've discussed at length the issues of doing both a Murder She Wrote pastiche and a load of Sylvester and Tweety gags in one 22 minute episode, but does this tug and overflow threaten to derail the show for us, or do we still value the laughs over the issues? And how exactly did Granny get those beads anyway?Links:Jonathan’s GoFundMeSupport us on PatreonFollow us on TwitterFollow us on BlueskyFollow us on Instagram
In this exciting movie episode, Marc and Jordan look at the 1993 Warner Animation division effort Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, done on a tight schedule by the Batman The Animated Series crew and mis-marketed to catastrophic earnings. Fans have regarded this as one of the greatest Batman stories put to film, and while on paper there may not be a lot that's Looney about it, there's still zany performances, wild ideas and visuals, amazing animation, and Abe Vigoda.Links:Jonathan’s GoFundMeSupport us on PatreonFollow us on TwitterFollow us on BlueskyFollow us on Instagram
Join us as we take a look at three modern (at the time) cartoons that have done send-ups of the Looney Tunes! Jordan covers a 90's Nicktoon that, has its fleeting moments of loonery with Hey Arnold's 'What's Opera, Arnold?" Marc takes Jordan through the desert plane of the Kindergarten from Steven Universe with 'Kindergarten Kid' And we conclude with a pretty Looney segment from a Disney cartoon of all things with Timon and Pumbaa's 'Timon on The Range'Links:Support Jonathan's GoFundMeSupport us on PatreonFollow us on TwitterFollow us on BlueskyFollow us on Instagram
In this episode, Jordan and Marc look at three cartoons featuring the underrated Jones/Maltese creation Frisky Puppy, paired with Claude Cat. From humble beginnings in the 1950's Two's a Crowd, to more intricate gag work in Terrier Stricken, to what is essentially the Ken Harris Masterpiece Theatre in No Barking.Links:Support Jonathan's GoFundMeSupport us on PatreonFollow us on TwitterFollow us on BlueskyFollow us on Instagram
Join us as we see Bugs Bunny take on world leaders and foes from throughout history (and the world!) Bugs goes up against Christopher Columbus in 'Hare We Go' Then proceeds to go head to head with 'Napoleon. in 'Napoleon-Bunny Part' and we conclude with a short THAT IS FROM 1964 and don't you forget it, with Dumb Patrol!Links:Support Jonathan's GoFundMeSupport us on PatreonFollow us on TwitterFollow us on BlueskyFollow us on Instagram
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