Bugsy and Mugsy | Looney Tunes Critic Commentary

[@blukmage19typeR]

5:33 "I don't how you's dunnit, BUT I KNOW YOU'S DUNNIT!!"

[@PieFights]

and that folks is why Mel Blanc is such a voice genius

[@emcvideoproductions500]

“But boss, you know I don’t get any idears!” Imagine if the crew at Filmation reluctantly said that just to appease Lou Scheimer 😂

[@kingovharts]

Racketeer Rabbit is a gem too. My favorite of the Friz gangster cartoons. Bugs and Thugs is hilarious too. This one has a similar premise to the Sylvester short.

[@thatvamp]

5:33 this will always be my favorite rocky rage moment.

[@chrismulwee4911]

This is a remake of Freleng's earlier 1950 cartoon, STOOGE FOR A MOUSE, which had Sylvester, Hector the Bulldog, and an unnamed mouse. This is one of the rare remakes that's actually better than the original.

[@chrismulwee4911]

@Joseph Castiglione Oh yes, I noticed how the Paramount-Noveltoon foreshadowed the two cartoons I mentioned

[@chrismulwee4911]

@Joseph Castiglione Famous was, as a whole, an underrated Cartoon Studio. Sure they were no match for Warner's, MGM, or even their immediate ancestor. Fleischer. But they still had fluent animation and bright vivid colors. Especially now when you see those restores Popeye Cartoons from Warner Archive.

[@drawwing]

Rocky first appeared in the 1946 film Racketeer Rabbit (which you must do one day). Rocky and Nick appear in Golden Yeggs and Catty Cornered . Mugsy first appears with Rocky in Bugs and Thugs. The next appearance of Rocky & Mugsy is in this cartoon (huh, yah learn somethin' new every day) Bugsy and Mugsy then They last appeared together in The Unmentionables and Mugsy's design has reverted back to the Bugs and Thugs version. Crazy, this due is famous for pretty much 2 cartoons.

[@warnerbrosanddisneyvhsdvdb9015]

drawwing i'm so glad to get to watch Racketeer Rabbit on VHS today i also enjoy watching bugsy and mugsy i hope those 2 shorts gets it's dvd release soon too

[@fluff1353]

Yeah...but the difference is that the Mugsy from Racketeer Rabbit was a caricature of Edward G. Robinson. For some reason they decided to go with a newly-created character in the later shorts.

[@Dstone1187]

In the Sylvester and Tweety cartoon (Catty Cornered) Rocky’s henchman was named Nick Rocky and Mugsy debut cartoon together was Bugs and Thugs released in 1954

[@jeffreywilliams8499]

I don't know how you's done it but I KNOW YOU'S DONE IT! Funny childhood memories 😂

[@joshuariddensdale2126]

The Sylvester cartoon with Rocky was in the Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie.

[@williamlangan5902]

Well, Trevor, I'm going to say one nice thing- I always look forward to your commentaries every Saturday morning and today, I wasn't disappointed! I think Musgsy's 1st appearance is Bugs And Thugs. I remember making a video of Looney Tunes from TV (Bugs Bunny and Tweety, TBS Looney Tunes, Nick At Nite, Merry Melodies, etc) for a cousin of mine who's also a big Bugs Bunny fan and this was one of the cartoons I was lucky to capture. I must agree "I don't know how ya''s done it but ya done it" is a classic line and I liked your impersonation of it!

[@mikew1507]

I love the Bugsy & Mugsy shorts!

[@vincentfranklin17]

Trevor, I agree. This cartoon IS great! One of my favorite Mugsy lines: But boss! You KNOW I don't get any idears! Lol!

[@NeoKokoro20]

My favorite of the three Rocky and Mugsy shorts. The fact they never released this one to DVD when the other two have been is ridiculous. It deserved to be in the Golden Collection.

[@felixleidig8307]

its 4 Rocky and mugsy shorts

[@NeoKokoro20]

@@felixleidig8307 There's only three Rocky and Mugsy shorts, which are "Bugs and Thugs", "Bugsy and Mugsy" and "The Unmentionables". Rocky also appeared in "Golden Yeggs" and "Catty Cornered," but his sidekick in those were Nick, rather than Mugsy. There was also a prototype of Rocky in "Racketeer Rabbit."

[@felixleidig8307]

@@NeoKokoro20 Well i consider the rocky shorts part of the rocky and mugsy thats why i see the mas four

[@sicknick7558]

I don't know how ya's done it. BUT I KNOW YA'S DONE IT!!!

[@brockpifer9929]

Rocky’s sidekick in the Sylvester and Tweety cartoon called Catty Cornered and Rocky’s sidekick is named Nick

[@robbie1kenobi453]

4:56 5:35 Two of Trevor’s finest moments during his reviews! 😁😃😂

[@gilition]

I saw this cartoon last summer in theaters

[@fromthesidelines]

Which is where it SHOULD be seen! :)

[@icecreamhero2375]

That magnet gag HAHAHAHAHAHA

[@roguerebel66]

My personal favorite bit of this episode among all the others was when rocky falls through the floor after bugs saws the hole, he jumps out gun blazing. Just something about that is so funny to me.

[@nightisright1873]

I’ve never been a fan of the backgrounds in this cartoon was around the time started slashing the budgets

[@TheLooneyTunesCritic]

I beg to differ! They didn't slash the background budgets, are you kidding me, these things are gorgeous! Plus, they got the colors right in the restoration. Sadly, I did this commentary before it came out. You can really see the blend work in it, though. Amazing. It's really hard to do backgrounds that feel solid and concrete but wonky and loose at the same time. Almost every amateur cartoon artist today tries to do that, but they just end up looking like mushy balls of garish colors that don't mesh well; these backgrounds could be studied JUST in a 'color as mood/environment conveyer' class. That house FEELS old and moldy just because of the blends of chartreuse and violet!

[@nightisright1873]

@@TheLooneyTunesCritic To me they look a little like Chucks work in the 90s

[@REALmikegordan]

I remember there was an older Rocky cartoon where Rocky was essentially Edward G. Robinson. I think it was called Racketeer Rabbit.

[@JHATDRUMMER1976]

now get in there AND GO TO SLEEP!

[@warnerbrosanddisneyvhsdvdb9015]

another good one also i got A rare vhs copy of Racketeer Rabbit in the mail this afternoon

[@fluff1353]

Nope. The animation is VERY different than the slightly earlier Bugs And Thugs offering, and that's because they reused some of the cells from the earlier Mouse short. Not as crisp and vibrant...almost like a Pink Panther deal.

[@TheLooneyTunesCritic]

You're not making sense, at least, none that I can see. . First of all, not that they were still in the practice of re-using cels in 1957, because they weren't, but even if they were, how would that effect the animation itself? It wouldn't, and even if it did, the animation would neither get more crisp or vibrant, as both of these things have nothing to do with animating. It being crisp is a result of it being photographed well, and vibrancy is color (ink and paint, not animation). . More to the point, the first Pink Panther short wouldn't hit theaters for at LEAST a decade after this cartoon. So since nothing you just said makes any sense, I don't know what you're overall point is (although, in all fairness, I just woke up, so maybe I don't fully see what portion of the commentary you're responding to as I'm not about to watch the full cartoon/commentary again just to get the full context of your reply). . Whatever it is you're trying to say, I'm sorry if I missed your point, appreciate the comment and thanks for watching! . - trevor.

[@fluff1353]

@@TheLooneyTunesCritic Wrong. Look up links at Getty and TVTropes. Disney was doing it in the Thirties...recycling cels. Why in hell would they up and quit, Disney OR Warner? They wouldn't. Second, I never said anything about WHEN Pink Panther broadcast...only that it looked similar.

[@josequintero520]

5:37

[@2idiot2animate28]

Do dough for the dodo 1949

[@animefan25]

Basically, the same thing I told Rayqwan