Every Looney Tunes Seven Arts Intro + Title Card (1967-1969)

[@I-like-Looney-Tunes]

It's humorous that most of the title card's music sound better than the actual short/cartoon!

[@existentialhumanbeing7299]

Even Daffy was in pain for being involved in this dark era, you can judge it by the thumbnail

[@krmiistudios2479]

I gotta admit Those 1960s Music cues are pretty catchy, dynamic, and somewhat nostalgic

[@noseyentertainment1599]

It boggles my mind how this video is somehow my most viewed so far, like all I did was just lazily slap all the title cards together and called it a day, I just hope soon that one of the videos I actually put time and effort into surpasses this

[@arandomchannel2703]

one of The most imfamous of all eras of Looney Tunes, Also R.I.P Larry Storch, the voice of Cool Cat

[@jnadle1]

Lava's music felt more sitcom-like than other efforts for WB cartoons.

[@noseyentertainment1599]

I have never seen anybody say this, but your right

[@ZakWolf]

But at least it wasn't as bad as Andy Sturmer's music for "The Looney Tunes Show," which actually WAS a sitcom, and a lot of Sturmer's music was far more atonal than Lava's.

[@UnicornDreamsPastelSkies]

To me, the W7 era's music sounds like... the 1960s and all its' organic funkiness, especially the drums, bass and electric guitar bits in shorts like "Chimp and Zee", "Bunny and Claude", "Rabbit Stew and Rabbits Too" and "Bugged By a Bee". I am kind of reminded of "The Banana Splits" music as well, or at least the theme song. Even the DFE era's music sounds more cartoony to me, as little instrumentation as those may have.

[@ZakWolf]

@@UnicornDreamsPastelSkies, I actually really like Lava's music in the four shorts you mentioned. It seems his music often sounded better when he was scoring something not starring any popular Looney Tunes characters (this also includes the early Pink Panther and The Inspector shorts at DePatie-Freleng).

[@WildDiamond07]

Bill Lava's music in Rabbit Stew and Rabbits Too! is pretty funky. And honestly, this one-off duo should've had more appearances.

[@Mattcai2004]

3:13 my favourite one of the bunch

[@thehernandezmediacorporation]

RIP Larry Storch, the voice of Cool Cat

[@abdullahibouraleh6919]

He also voiced Merlin and Second Banana, aside from their first cartoon.

[@toonalootown2331]

10:10

[@neilagbada6744]

Before Kinney National Co. took over Warner Bros.-Seven Arts in 1969 until 1972.

[@CrashFan03]

0:35 damn i think that's the first time i've heard a bill lava score quote a pre-existing song that isn't merry go round broke down. it's a great way to compare styles since carl stalling used that song quite a few times

[@stephenholloway6893]

He did a few like 42nd Street in The Spy Swatter during the Format Films era.

[@ZakWolf]

The precursor to the Warner Bros. Discovery merger. I enjoy Cool Cat's theme music; I like the renditions from "Hippydrome Tiger" and "Bugged By a Bee" the best.

[@WildDiamond07]

And your favorite short from this era is "Rabbit Stew and Rabbits Too!". Mostly because it's got no dialogue and because Bill Lava's music sounds funky.

[@ZakWolf]

@@WildDiamond07 That's right!

[@WildDiamond07]

@@ZakWolf And it's my favorite short of this era too!

[@DLCOrganization]

Zak -- Are you just now getting into this? This material here came *_LONNNNNNNG BEFORE_* the Warner Bros. Discovery merger! You're way off the precursor by about... meh, I dunno... *_49 YEARS!!_*

[@ZakWolf]

@@DLCOrganization I know it did, but I meant by how Warner Bros. merging with Seven Arts and that not going so well is pretty similar to what's currently going on with Warner Bros. Discovery. Then there was also the AOL Time Warner merger.

[@abneramaya1736]

Well because of both Merlin the Magic Mouse and Cool Cat appearing in Tiny Toons Looniversity, this video hits different now.

[@zacharyspinks6207]

This is Great, The Seven Arts Cartoons Intros, and also the Cool Cat Cartoons is the Best!👍 also R.I.P. Larry Storch [aka the Voice of Cool Cat].🙏

[@tinkywinky9087]

You know what the sad thing is? The music for all the title cards are actually a little better than the cartoons themselves.

[@SantiagoRevecoLepeReborn]

The only thing I like about the W7 era is the soundtrack.

[@caiogomesguedes462]

And not to mention the way these shorts were produced to mimic Hanna-Barbera's style of humor (sound effects and all)...

[@ZakWolf]

It seems Bill Lava's music usually sounded better when he was scoring something that wasn't starring any of the main/popular Looney Tunes characters (i.e. Speedy Gonzales, Daffy Duck, etc.) This also includes his "Pink Panther" and "The Inspector" soundtracks for DePatie-Freleng. My favorite WB-Seven Arts music scores from Lava are "Chimp & Zee," the two "Bunny and Claude" shorts, and "Rabbit Stew and Rabbits Too".

[@stephenholloway6893]

​@@ZakWolfHe does seem to put more effort in those shorts compared to the Daffy and Speedy shorts.

[@Deadchannel596]

I love these shorts to my heart idc what people say this was peak looney tunes

[@Lyrick1998]

It Looks Like I'm Not The Only One Who Likes These Cartoons. 🙂

[@Deadchannel596]

@Lyrick1998 wow a dark age looney tunes fan like me. I love these cartoons so much, I think there better than the previous. Very underrated

[@philly1919]

Classic Looney Tunes was legit except when Buddy was around

[@kidfil0947]

​@@Deadchannel596 Okay, bro. I understand that you like this cartoons, but saying that they are better than the ones that came before it is... NAH... I just don't know how to say it without offending you, because by now KZbin is taking down almost every single comment I make for the most stupid reasons and that pisses me off.

[@Deadchannel596]

@@kidfil0947 mhm

[@tsntana]

These cartoons seemed most at home during Saturday Mornings on CBS as part of the Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show.

[@stephenholloway6893]

They were going to television after their theatrical run ended. I do agree thst they should had just made them exclusive for television instead.

[@stephenholloway6893]

What funny is that all but 2 shorts of this era have been restored sadly for oblivious reasons those 2 probably won't get restored.

[@Thunderbolt18367]

I feel that most of 7 Arts’ budget went into the music because that’s the best thing about all of these cartoons

[@DennisTamayo]

After those cartoons produced, Warner Bros. acquired National Periodical Publications (now DC Comics) in the summer of 1969.

[@stephenholloway6893]

More like DC's parnet company Kinney National bought Warner Bros.

[@cincaninca]

the "merlin the magic rat" and "second banana" duo reminds me of blabbermouse

[@isabeld.paredes4923]

2:15 The theme music for this cartoon was later used in the opening of the Merrie Melodies Show starring Speedy Gonzales, Sylvester the Cat, and Daffy Duck

[@FrozenUSA]

This was the I can’t believe they are still going at it era. The music is pretty funky but IMO they were trying too hard. Most of Termite Terrace by this point had been either fired or moved on. Hanna Barbara and DePatie-Freling were the animation studios of choice during these years. Warner Brothers should have just shut down the animation studios completely by around 1960 or so. The last era of really great Warner Brothers cartoons in the Golden Age was in the 50’s. There are one or two outstanding IMO cartoons post 1960 but they are few and far between.

[@janebyrne6463]

I tend to agree, though I thought Bunny and Claude (a send up of "Bonnie and Clyde") had its moments. Ditto for Norman Normal. And I give Robert McKimson (one of Warner Brothers most underrated toon directors) credit for helming some of these cartoons. Still, while Bugs Bunny was ushered out of the classic era with Fresh Hare (1964), one of the last cartoons of the classic era, Daffy Duck was continuing to appear in the DFE and later Seven Arts era finally ending with See You Later Gladiator (1967) the last original Daffy Duck cartoon until The Ducksorcist (1987).

[@samuelcarrasquillo4590]

​@@janebyrne6463 Daffy Duck: "You're Despicable."

[@smoothcaliforniaarcade3366]

What are you talking about, those ones sucked ass, especially NN which was painful to sit through. The only good LT shorts post 1963ish are Wild Chase and Skycaper Caper. Now those ones are legit classics.

[@samuelcarrasquillo4590]

@@smoothcaliforniaarcade3366 I'm Sorry... I Was Mentioning That Thumbnail.

[@stephenholloway6893]

Given the situation at the studio was at this point it's a miracle they even bothered reopened the studio after Format Films did the 3 shorts.

[@damiencrossley7497]

It was the TV era the slow death of classic Looney Tunes. Even if they were 2nd rate I still enjoy them!

[@bernhardwall6876]

-i wish the cartoons with Cool Cat and Merlin weren't branded as "Looney Tunes" cartoons, because I would rather keep that name for the classic WB characters. That said, I wish I could have seen these cartoons as well as the classics. As it was, I only ever got to see the one' self-titled Cool Cat cartoon.

[@stephenholloway6893]

So what about the pre Porky characters Bosko Buddy and Beans do you think they belong with the Looney Tunes gang or would you rather had them be separated from them like Cool Cat and company?

[@lemon.1036]

The theme song that haunted the looney tunes/WB fans

[@stephenholloway6893]

They also got former Looney Tunes director Norm McCabe to help animate some of the last shorts as well.

[@KarlSturmgewher]

The kind of music I'm hearing it's almost as if Princess Knight, Tezuka anime got inspiration from it.

[@orlandoesocrsa6632]

the wacky adventures of bonnie and clyde

[@-RIWIS-]

3:56 Actually kind of funny

[@brycelandon6387]

I really liked "Fiesta Fiasco" and "Skyscraper Caper". And I think I liked the Cool Cat cartoons, too.

[@ZakWolf]

Those were the two Speedy/Daffy cartoons of this era where Daffy and Speedy were actually friends for a change! Maybe Warner Bros. was getting hate mail from "Looney Tunes" fans about how bitter they made Daffy when pitted against Speedy, and so they responded with those two cartoons. But then Daffy became a jerk to Speedy again in that awful "See Ya Later, Gladiator" cartoon...

[@TacomasterStudios]

@@ZakWolf Or maybe Alex Lovy was getting bored and decided to switch it up

[@CheeseMiser]

Have you never watched the classics

[@albear972]

The absolute bottom of the barrel era of WB Animation. Very dark times. As a kid I hated these cartoons and still do.

[@tsntana]

Merlin The Magic Mouse Starring: W.C. Fields and Boo Boo Bear

[@youhan1145]

0:56

[@supermariojoshua9837]

I saw some of these shorts on tooncast.

[@JMFabiano]

First card looks suspiciously like the Space Ghost logo AND has the Rutgers Alma Mater, or the song that inspired it.

[@GiornoGiovannaTheBossofPassion]

It used to Air on metv before didn't know that...

[@Broccoli263]

9:40 wait did jim davis ACTUALLY help make these? if so then thats amazing.

[@ZakWolf]

No, it's a different Jim Davis than the "Garfield" guy.

[@Broccoli263]

@@ZakWolf oh okay

[@noseyentertainment1599]

@@ZakWolf ngl I also thought it was the same Jim Davis 🥶

[@meowkitty5588]

@@ZakWolf 9:40 is Jim Davis from Garfield

[@caiogomesguedes462]

​@@meowkitty5588 No, it's not the creator of Garfield, it's just an animator who has the same name as the cartoonist.

[@joshgalka9414]

Great!

[@firedragon7456]

Where did you find Hocus Pocus PowWow?

[@noseyentertainment1599]

I found it on the internet archive, in fact almost everything in this is from that, the only ones not are Bunny And Claude, and The Great Carrot Train Robbery, which I ripped from my copy of the Looney Tunes Superstars Porky Pig Hilarious Ham DVD

[@JeremyZyxo741]

Norman Normal isn't a Looney Tune nor a Merrie Melody.

[@noseyentertainment1599]

I still count it because it was made by Seven Arts, unlike “The Door” which is not made by the studio

[@JeremyZyxo741]

@@noseyentertainment1599 OK.

[@DLCOrganization]

@@noseyentertainment1599 -- Who made "The Door", then?

[@noseyentertainment1599]

@@DLCOrganization it was made by Warner but produced by the Sliver-Campbell-Cosby Corporation, but still released under Warner, as evident by the W7 logo in the beginning

[@jonathanadair6847]

Overhated era and I don’t care what anyone says.

[@donkeykong6426]

didn’t they also do some wile coyote and road runner cartoons??

[@stephenholloway6893]

No those shorts ended when the studio no longer subcontracted animation to DePatie Freleng or Format Films. They only did the Plymouth commercials with them. Or have any new animation for The Bugs Bunny Road Runner Show.

[@mahirakalucasahammed2443]

3:28 the beatles

[@themoonman143]

The garbage fire

[@supermariojoshua9837]

Did these shorts actually aired on cartoon network?

[@stephenholloway6893]

I think at least some of them did at some point after the Nickelodeon contract ended.

[@supermariojoshua9837]

Did these short are on dvd or blu rays?

[@stephenholloway6893]

Just 3 to my knowledge got a DVD release Norman Nirmal on the 6th Golden Collection one and the 2 Bunny and Caulde shorts on the Porky superstars DVD. The rest are or was depending on your country git restored and can already them or they air on MeTV and it's sister channels like MeTV Toons or Movies.

[@BuddyFellows-xd9yn]

I remember seeing the titles on boomerang… I think I saw corn on the cop. These are terrible excuses for a “cartoon”

[@paulonatanaeldossantossana3909]

O Norman normal nunca foi dublado no Brasil

[@caiogomesguedes462]

Na verdade, foi dublado sim, na extinta CineCastro (RJ e SP). Pelos rumores que ouço na internet, os canais Cartoon Network, Boomerang (atualmente Cartoonito) e, mais tarde o Tooncast já exibiram o curta "Norman Normal" somente uma única vez, mesmo não sendo parte de "Looney Tunes", mas sim um desenho especial. Se bobear, até o SBT exibiu também.

[@kidfil0947]

Brasileiro é f0d4! Fala a vdd, nós se inspirou no Julius.