Every "Looney Tunes" Reviewed (Part 3)

[@glowworm2]

29:29--This one actually has a reason for the unusual designs for the Native Americans. This short was based off of the work of Jim Swinnerton, an American cartoonist and a landscape painter. He produced a series of picture stories titled "Canyon Kiddies" for Good Housekeeping magazines from 1922-1941. So these pint-sized Natives are his characters brought to life through animation, much like how Peanuts or Garfield would later get their own cartoon series. Swinnerton even provided the background art for this short. I've heard that this short was a test for possibly creating more shorts with these little guys. Unfortunately, that idea was scrapped and this short instead fell into obscurity. Heck, I forgot all about this one until you mentioned it.

[@thehickcritic]

Correction: 37:06. "The Chewin' Bruin" was directed by Bob Clampett, not Chuck Jones. That's my bad and I should've caught it.

[@canaisyoung3601]

Porky's Party having drawn-out pacing is the reason why the penguin top hat scene was shortened on Nickelodeon (it wasn't offensive or violent. It just ate a lot of clock that, in Nickelodeon's eyes, would be more suited for toy commercials, promos for their programming, and freaky station identification bumpers that will give their viewers nightmares later in life when they're yearning for their wasted youth).

[@brfan984]

I really like seeing you review these shorts. I actually agree with many of your opinions, I’m looking forward to Part 4!

[@laurianelivi]

Your reviews are great thank you so much for this!

[@FrozenUSA]

I haven’t given much thought to who created the cartoons from this era and that kind of surprises me. I am a huge Chuck Jones fan. He is my favorite animation director and I’m really disappointed to see how poorly many of his early cartoons were received. I think the more surreal he became (Now Hear This is my all time favorite Looney Tunes cartoon) the far and away better he became. I find the late 30’s and early 40’s to be a transitional period for Warner Brothers. Porky and Daffy were well established but they were just beginning to introduce Bugs and Elmer into the mix. The late 40’s and 50’s are IMO some of the best years Looney Tunes had to offer.

[@haileymaurer122]

I so appreciate the time you took to delineate all of the Looney Tunes/Merry Melodies as well as the historical shifts that noted them as unique or groundbreaking. Thank you and looking forward to more! Was really looking forward to the advent of Bug Bunny! (although the prototypes were interesting material in their own way)

[@cherylshover6728]

It's kind of insane going through these videos and seeing how my personal favorite director, Friz Freleng, evolved throughout his early years at Warners and post-coming back from Captain and the Kids. Like, wow, early Friz was kind of terrible, but You Oughta Be in Pictures showed a really bright sign for his future and I'm happy about that.

[@felixleidig8307]

I adore him so much more than Chuck

[@mangoman2637]

I really enjoyed this part. I cannot wait for part 4

[@mangoman2637]

alot of the shorts in this batch just felt off. not in a bad way, far from it. and i was expecting to see a lot more daffy shorts concidering he was going to be their next big star

[@mangoman2637]

Speaking of Daffy. I was expecting more people like Tex Avery and Bob Clampett to make WAY more Daffy shorts, especially Avery. It didn't feel right that Avery made alot of travel log parodies and not make much more Daffy shorts considering that he made a lot of them in the last batch. anyways i love this part and i can't wait for the next

[@the_most_ever_company]

On the edge of my seat for Part 4 ! The 40's are by far my favorite Looney Tunes era, I feel like that's when the studio hit its absolute peak -- the more well-known post-48 Chuck Jones stuff is classic of course, but for me personally -- give me the manic energy of Bob Clampett's Bugs and Wacky Daffy over Chuck's Loser Daffy, Road Runner, and the Kafka-esque misery of Michigan J Frog any day !

[@cursiveM]

28:28 i think i know the reason why that is for sources, see “the merrie history of looney tunes” and it’s own sources i believe warner bros had a mandate back then that a good slab of the looney tunes shorts had to be porky pig focused but wb animators found a way around making both porky’s short and their short; their battle plan went something like this: -introduce porky at the start -let daffy or a one off character take the cake the rest of the way down but yeah, me personally, i would’ve named this short “daffy’s best ham” or whatever, because… as you said, this is more about daffy finding the best hamburger meat for a diner customer, than porky and daffy running a diner then again how would i know, i haven’t heard of this short until now

[@e.d.t.]

Cut the reused animation some slack. At the studio I work at we're told to reuse when we can because we gotta meet those deadlines. I get that it's not exactly the same situation but making cartoons is not a quick process yet studios are still expected to churn them out. Gotta do what you can to save time.

[@canaisyoung3601]

I would cut it some slack, but Friz Freleng often uses recycled animation to comically annoying degrees. At the same time, it's every much a creative thumbprint of his as showing characters going to Heaven or Hell or using The Civil War as a setting (and focusing on the Confederate side, which I'm chalking up to "Back then, people thought like that" rather than "Friz had problematic beliefs that wouldn't fly today.")

[@Scott89878]

I'm enjoying this series. There seemed to be quite a period of time between Porky+Daffy and Bugs. And I remember seeing a lot of the cartoons in this segment. The earlier ones largely didn't make it as reruns.

[@macsnafu]

And then in his old age, he reverted back to 'cuteness' being his higher priority. Someone or something must have been pushing him into making those great cartoons from the 40s and 50s. Although I must admit that his How The Grinch Stole Christmas is very good in spite of its "cuteness" factor.

[@Pixel-Jamboree]

Cant Wait for Part 4

[@FrozenUSA]

I love Chuck Jones so much as an animator and director that I just pretend his early attempts that blatantly rip off Disney’s style don’t exist. My favorites from him are the ones where it was pretty clear someone was on some pretty psychedelic drugs when they made them. This is more like the 50’s and early 60’s for me. “Now Hear This” is perhaps my all time favorite Looney Tunes cartoon. Fun fact, it is one of if not the first cartoon to use the triply looking WB logo and perhaps the only one with a whole background and a bicycle horn when the two o’s in “Looney” pulse for two seconds. This is an amazing look at all the Looney Tunes cartoons. I didn’t realize how many I hadn’t seen. Also I had a vhs tape as a kid that had a ton of 1930’s and early 40’s Porky Pig, Daffy Duck, and a random Bugs Bunny cartoon or two on it and I watched it constantly when I was a kid. One of my favorites from that video is the Porky Pig one called “Notes to You” with a prototype of Sylvester in it. This is the one where Porky is exhausted and can’t wait to go to bed but a stray cat just outside his window won’t let him and keeps singing a bunch of current popular songs at the top of his lungs. The ending was both incredibly shocking /cruel and hilarious at the same time. This cartoon was remade about 10-12 years later with I believe Elmer Fudd replacing Porky and Sylvester replacing the alley cat. I can’t wait to see the next part which I hope will come before the end of the year.

[@cincaninca]

there is a page on the internet archive that has all the lt and mm in best quality that has been published on 2020. the page has been deleted TODAY. (aka 28/10/2022) also i have a slight suspicion if i watched the same sources, the same MeTV episodes as you did. if i guessed right, then i hope you made it thru all the shorts.

[@robbiewalker2831]

4:43: What?!? No mention, or note, saying how the “Egghead” in this short is named Elmer Fudd? 6:18: (in response to the closing statement of the short): Well, yeah; in fact, there’s a video from Adam Ruins Everything that talks about the truth of the Pocahontas myth. 6:52: (in response to how this short has “no highlights”) Well, the one thing I would deem as “noteworthy” would be the “Desert Madness” scene with the Camel, which I guess predates Ren and Stimpy’s version with a Yak in “The Royal Canadian Kilted Yaksmen”. Here’s the Porky version: kzbin.info/www/bejne/sJy7lXara7hjiLc And here’s Ren and Stimpy’s: kzbin.info/www/bejne/l4LFkHecm7KnaLM

[@Randomlad.0737]

John.K said the camel scene from Porky in Egypt inspired the Freakouts on Ren & Stimpy, the Yak freakout is a direct homage to the camel freakout.

[@chrisrj9871]

With Old Glory, you can at least see how the Pledge of Allegiance used to be, at the very end of the cartoon. The PoA didn't become the one we have today until 1954 when people were scared of people.

[@SpamEggSausage]

It's the version with no religious references so it can be recited by ALL Americans.

[@canaisyoung3601]

So the 1950s Red Scare is the reason why the Pledge of Allegiance is the way it is. Good to know.

[@dbanimators]

Please keep this series up. Personally, I've never been a massive fan of the '30s Warners, which did have some highlights, but the amount of musical numbers, of lackluster disposable characters and engaging plots kinda diminishes the decade. Still necessary, but nowhere near as strong as the '40s. There's deep gaps between b&w Clampett, suffering a burnout due to releasing exclusively Porky shorts, and "Edgelord" Clampett from the '40s, or '30s Tashlin and '40s Tashlin. The latter did suggest something "new" like giving life to books and brochures, and despite the likes of Bob McKimson and Ken Harris in the animation department, they're pretty lacking in terms of story. Clampett's Book Revue would throw these tropes away craftily. On top of that, it may be an unpopular take, but Tex Avery's WB experience definitely had more downs than ups: regardless of his importance at Schlesinger's studios, I feel he's at his best when he can express his zaniness to the fullest, in shorts like Daffy Duck and Egghead, Dumb-Hounded and Red Hot Riding Hood at MGM. Unfortunately, his documentaries represent Avery at his dullest, they have the same old, tedious gags without a trace of an organic plot.

[@4v0c4t10n]

I missed it but I know it’ll be amazing

[@mangoman2637]

What source did you use to watch all of the shorts up to this point? I have always wanted to watch every short, but the only ones I seem to find are the same old ones I see time and time again on KZbin.

[@sonicfanboy3375]

I think you can find them on Internet Archive

[@Bonkatsu12]

Dailymotion and a website called Super Cartoons has all of them.

[@dedalus167]

- Part 1: Bosko, the doughboy Crosby, Columbo, and Vallee Bosko's Party The queen was in the parlor Ride Him, Bosko A great big bunch of you Wake up the gypsy in me Bosko's Picture Show Honeymoon Hotel Beauty and the Beast Buddy, the Detective Those Beautiful Dames I Haven't Got A Hat - Part 2: Along Flirtation Walk My Green Fedora Into Your Dance Buddy, the Gee Man A Cartoonist's Nightmare Gold Diggers of 49' I Wanna Play House Page Miss Glory The Blow Out Plane Dippy I Love to Singa Porky, the Rain-maker Porky's Poultry Plant Milk and Money Don't Look Now Little Beau Porky The Coocoo Nut Grove The Village Smithy Porky in the North Woods Porky's Road Race The Fella with a Fiddle Porky's Romance She was an Acrobat's Daughter Porky's Duck Hunt Ain't We Got Fun Uncle Tom's Bungalow Porky's Building Porky's Super Service Porky's Badtime Story Get Rich Quick Porky Speaking of the Weather Porky's Garden Rover's Rival The Case of the Stuttering Pig Little Red Walking Hood Porky's Double Trouble Daffu Duck and Egghead Porky's Poppa My Little Buckaroo What Price Porky Now that Summer is Gone

[@stevenallen9992]

Part 4

[@mangoman2637]

I know i said it already but the amount of Daffy shorts in this batch didn't feel right to me. I felt like there were WAY more Porky ones. And it also feels really, really odd that bugs bunny's first appearance wasn't until near the end of the video. Along with that, i felt like Porky's design was finally starting to be realised. I mean, in the last batch he went from being a fat and wrinkly adult to a small and cute kid. In a few shorts he even had bigger eyes and wrinkles on his kid like design. But I'm glad they found out his design because let's be honest, fat porky (including the one that appeared in openings of shorts from 1936-1938) looks incredibly UGLY.

[@mangoman2637]

Including Porky, Elmer Fudd ( or Egghead's) design was incredibly inconsistent. I know they technically count as two different characters but it's still extremely inconsistent for two characters that look incredibly similar

[@spikerobot4113]

Actually Confederate Honey was the first to use the Don't Open Until X mas joke.

[@jackatkinson3682]

I'm surprised The Major Lied Till Dawn didn't make The Censored Eleven because some of the racial stereotype jokes are way meaner than Isle Of Pingo Pongo or Uncle Tom's Bungalow.

[@canaisyoung3601]

Meaner how? I actually watched The Major Lied Til Dawn and don't see how it's any different from other cartoons that have African savage stereotypes, except for the fact that it's not a Censored Eleven cartoon.

[@jackatkinson3682]

@@canaisyoung3601 I might have been a little hard on The Major Lied Till Dawn. Watching it again, it's just one joke I hated, the gag with the one dude that had a record player in his mouth just hit a sour note for me. No pun intended. It was like Frank Tashlin didn't put it in there to make anyone laugh, but just to pad out the length of the short. It might have been funnier if the record was playing the same song the other natives were singing, and they all had to stop mid-beat because the record was skipping.

[@itsjoshua2508]

Can you please add timestamps.

[@efrenaguayo4109]

I’m actually planning to do a Timestamps for Part 2 and Part 3.

[@the-NightStar]

I was REALLY hoping you would give "Old Glory" your first 1/10, because my god hat's what I would give it. It's by FAR my least favorite and most hated Looney Tunes cartoon ever made.

[@chiebukachibee-zoraedu]

what's wrong with it?

[@canaisyoung3601]

​​@@chiebukachibee-zoraedu Too mired in patriotic fervor, not funny. It's probably not going to be anyone's favorite, but I like it for the artistry and because it shows that the Looney Tunes can do serious drama.

[@PetProjects2011]

24:19 Incidentally, Pinto Colvig did NOT voice the ghost in Jeepers Creepers. It's Mel Blanc. It's been speculated that Clampett wanted Colvig for this short, but he was unavailable, so he told Blanc to just do a Colvig impression.

[@BuddyFellows-xd9yn]

cut porky in egypt slack, for me its a 10