Looney Tunes out of context but if I Smile I restart!

[@Shiirow]

people forget that these animated shorts were never intended for children, they were mostly used as filler between movies in theaters which were frequented by adult customers. they were easy and cheap to produce in large batches. It wasnt until way later when TV became more widely available that you would see them broadcast and toned down due to the odds of children being able to view them. This was the time when animation was switched from a general audiences thing to mostly the realm of childrens entertainment.

[@jaguarcap6494]

except the classic Loony Tunes episode were 7 mins and it was very expensive (500k per cartoon) and took 7 to 8 months to create...

[@GaryTongue-to3pw]

@Shiirow It was NOT Cheap, dumbass!

[@Shiirow]

@@jaguarcap6494 you speak of episodes, Im talking about shorts that were no more than 60 seconds at best. like the strip teasing lizard. they were done in large batches and sold to hundreds of theaters who simply recycled them endlessly. they were not paying 500k per either. the numbers you speak of are when they came to television, not when they were simple shorts in movie theaters.

[@gloryshadow8710]

Easy? I wonder how many animated shorts have you created if you think it is so easy. My guess is zero. You probably can't even draw.

[@MWSin1]

@@Shiirow The animation studios were pretty much gutted by the time they were switching to television. The heyday of Warner and MGM animation were the 1940s and 50s, when they were each producing a dozen or more theatrical shorts (5 to 8 minutes long) a year. Most of the classical animation was done during this period. Early television animation starting in the late 50s and early 60s was mostly low budget affairs like the limited animation and simple backgrounds of Hanna-Barbera cartoons like Huckleberry Hound and The Flintstones, the repackaged theatrical shorts of The Bugs Bunny Show starting in 1960, or the back catalog of Warner black and white shorts bought by Guild Films in 1955.

[@sunshower6560]

Looney Toons was a sheer masterpiece of work that both children and adults could enjoy. To this day, they’re still entertaining even as an adult, because you go back, watch it, and you recognize things you’ve missed as a child.

[@GaryTongue-to3pw]

*Tunes, Learn to spell!

[@the40kboyz11]

@@GaryTongue-to3pw they are toons because it's a shortening of cartoons. dumbass.

[@charlieuetz2539]

Yea I watch looney tunes episodes with my family of 5 all the time. And genuinely everyone loves them

[@vinsonevans1402]

Its tunes buddy. I make the same mistake to this day

[@hamhockbeans]

Its fine wine that even better with age.😊

[@mohoodie8728]

"Speedy Gonzales friend of everybody's sister"🤣🤣

[@Spongycool]

💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

[@bob7975]

I admire the fact that they used the traditional, NSFW version of "La Cucaracha". It was a long time ago, and most people who didn't speak Spanish didn't know what it meant.

[@SeenHeard]

​@@bob7975marijuana por fumar. 10:207

[@bdbyt6835]

They deleted poor speedy and slowpoke. Rip the real ones

[@W31rd4v4]

My bruh *reeeeaaaalllly* gets around😂

[@aaronmicalowe]

That frog croaking broke me. There wasn't even any leadup. 😂

[@atomicviking2497]

Me too. The setup was perfect. The narrator's voice was perfect.. I did not see that coming.

[@Futuretense101]

Seriously, I didn't see that coming 🤣🤣🤣

[@YouthfulCrusader]

get it? ¨Croaking" LOL

[@mackenziewoloschuk7375]

And the pun was fucking perfect

[@phantomthiefjoker939]

That is NOT what "croaking" is about!!!!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@keithg222]

That frog one had me crying laughing lol 😂

[@chrisrj9871]

It was perfectly cut

[@AnimationNation2004]

It’s even better when you get the pun. At first I thought it was completely random.

[@kurlykayla9013]

bro it had me screaming like a hyena good lordt 😭

[@malikholmes5045]

I swear I almost died😂😂😂

[@malikholmes5045]

I swear I almost died😂😂😂

[@MikuFan3931]

7:39 I lost it there too. 😂 8:04 Even the doctor did it as well! 🤣

[@CoreyGIvey]

Originally, Looney Tunes wasn't a Saturday morning cartoon show. They were short features before movies for grown ups.

[@markoprskalo6127]

True This is golden

[@billybarnett2846]

Also, they were something for kids to watch in theaters on a Saturday afternoon.

[@saveragelivevlogs9992]

They were adult swim before adult swim

[@Ivan-y6z5m]

Huh, I've been watching them ever since I was about three years old, but I've never been allowed to watch "Adult cartoons"

[@robertwolfgan]

As a Mexican, we all fucking LOVED that first Daffy Duck song so much, you have no idea how it made us all laugh. The voice actor is a GENIUS.

[@zerobyte802]

Mel Blanc was a legendary talent.

[@MajorAce7HasTheP0werT0Win.]

I wish cartoons like this still existed! Dark as they were, they were so much funnier, and unpredictable too!

[@pixadragon46]

Anime exists

[@MajorAce7HasTheP0werT0Win.]

@@pixadragon46 Anime is Great, but it’s not really a Genre it’s an art style, not all anime are as I’m describing.

[@emanuelvasquez3380]

not dark but more out of pocket and wack

[@zemorph42]

Animaniacs.

[@felixleidig8307]

^the new looney tunes cartoons produced for HBO were pretty dark

[@Eternitycomplex]

"Speedy Gonzalez is a friend of everybody's sister...". Duuuude! How did they get away with these? 😂

[@josekravitz3311]

He even was singing something about marijuana!

[@MeCanik79]

Check out Speedy's cousin, Slowpoke Rodriguez 😂

[@freedustin]

@@josekravitz3311 That's a different version of La Cucaracha, there are many alternative verses.

[@el_fantasma3]

1:38 made me laugh 😅😅😅, "aint i repulsive?"

[@kizunadragon9]

Bugs Bunny taught us that there is no greater victory than humiliating your enemy.

[@RighteousnessWillPrevail]

But not really my friend. There's no greater victory than one fir a Righteous cause. And one of honour.

[@TitusWells-r2u]

@@RighteousnessWillPrevailJesus name?

[@ThxtBxyNatx]

These screams got me dying " now that I got " " but I didn't say AAAHHHHHHH " best cartoons to air in America 😂🤣

[@brendan4859]

2:48, 6:47 Those Looney Tunes animators drew poor Peter Lorre into every scene they possibly could

[@shoryu87]

The last one scared me long ago 😂

[@JCourts2k23]

Loved this growing up, still do in my 40’s. Nothing better

[@travarturner6547]

13:27 the frog off himself is crazy 😂

[@malikholmes5045]

Wrong time stamp lol

[@danieldonahue8133]

⁠13:26

[@simoneracioppa5733]

13:23

[@charliemartin-k7m]

The full video of this clip is more funny because he had time to drop the gun and jump backwards into the water lol.

[@gr8myndmuzic]

When Bugz shot that guy for coughing lol I remember that episode 😂

[@anthonyg5583]

Back when offing yourself was hilarious because we knew it was a damned joke 😂

[@hindenpeter1]

Now I've seen everything *gunshot *

[@tonitoons8001]

Yo true

[@confirmreality]

Ohhhhhhhh

[@mugenshiratori6825]

Back when people were not snowflakes who got hurt over every little thing!

[@TheLexoDex]

@@mugenshiratori6825finding suicide unfunny doesn’t make you a snowflake, retard.

[@ThePebble_20]

I lost it on the cow handing Porky the chocolate milk 🤣🤣🤣

[@wicked39]

Yo that frog croaking wtf🤣

[@matthewabln6989]

Best cartoons ever.

[@devonniewatson]

Umm I guess Tom and jerry doesn’t exist

[@matthewabln6989]

@@devonniewatson You are mistaken.

[@Accam570]

@@devonniewatson Tom and who?

[@chrisrj9871]

Mickey, Bugs, Tom & Jerry, Popeye, Woody Woodpecker.... IMHO, they're the big 5 in classic cartoons! 😊

[@LoganPrimm]

​@@chrisrj9871mickey!???? Don't add him

[@Cybusmaster92]

2:07 That was 'Daffy the Commando'. That one clip shows Daffy deserves all the respect.

[@leestrz4153]

Kinda wholesome how he just gives up on the challenge and genuinely enjoys the rest of the cartoons

[@taosophymusic]

Mel Blanc had a serious set of pipes man!!!! Dang! Thx for this bro. I needed this nostalgic laughing fit.😂😂

[@Solitaire001]

Sadly, I don't think we will see his like again. He came up through the ranks, working in cartoons and on radio (he had his own radio show, The Mel Blanc Show). Sadly, he only worked for Disney once (excluding "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" where he voiced the Warner Brothers characters except for Yosemite Sam) where he was going to be the voice of Gideon the Cat in "Pinocchio" but they then made the character mute so he got paid for doing one hiccup.

[@taosophymusic]

@@Solitaire001 and I can hear that very hiccup. His voice was THAT iconic!

[@ElTigreMaster]

I laughed the most at 9:40 to 9:48 the most. Man got shot cause he coughed during bugs' performance lol 😆

[@davorzdralo8000]

To be fair, he did it multiple times in the actual episode 😂

[@fractalisomega9517]

3:18 was a political joke I believe, poking fun at both Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan...

[@AluminumFusion22]

It is, it's more than likely a propaganda cartoon, but the imagery of Hideki Tojo and Adolf slapping their asses together is an odd sight to see.

[@HaveYouTriedGuillotines]

@@AluminumFusion22 Before all the "woke" stupidity, political comedy was both absurd and incredibly funny.

[@Bluealien-jv1fz]

@@HaveYouTriedGuillotines o don’t have a problem with woke but you are right

[@dannyphantom3090]

Ok so when it comes to the older looney toon shorts kids weren't the main demographic these were theatrical shorts played before movies so that's why the older clips could get away with more adult jokes before the had to tone it down in the modern era since now it's actually made with a younger demographic in mind.

[@DJTechno94]

They had to tone it down to frogs croaking

[@MemeKing699]

8:02 The horse loosened me up, it was the doctor’s loud ass scream that got me

[@starbrand3726]

Looney Tunes (or Looney Toons as it was called in the other universe) was filled with dark humor, racism, sexism, cross dressing, self violence, general violence, homophobic/homoerotic imagery and death. Funny stuff.

[@NitrousDragon]

Basically... Anything (animated) for a laugh. 🤣👌🏻

[@ZxCv134-n3b]

Don't forget the s word aka oofing themselves with gun

[@Ivan-y6z5m]

I don't recall anything homophobic, and the sexism/racism still disturbs me, but I still deeply enjoy rewatching the cartoons on account of still finding them funny, and they fill me up with a certain sense of warmth and nostalgia, they are truly masterpieces otherwise 🤌 (Despite me hating the fans who are only in it for the dirty jokes)

[@starbrand3726]

@Ivan-y6z5m The homophobia was subtle and deeply hidden. For example: Elmer Fudd is hunting Bugs, Bugs kisses Elmer on the mouth, Elmer reacts by wiping and spitting. Why? Afraid of germs? Elmer is hunting Bugs to eat him, so what kind of germs are only present in his kiss and not his meat too? Plus, female characters (or Bugs whenever would dress as a female) would also kiss Elmer and he simply turned pink and got embarrassed not disgusted. It's a subtle form of homophobia teaching kids that a same gender kiss is bad.

[@Ivan-y6z5m]

@@starbrand3726 Ok 👍

[@patthecat5536]

man i just love looney tunes. childhood right there. i love that jc broke so fast lol

[@Yalro6]

I remember like 98% of those cartoons. I loved them so much I bought like 3 dvds worth when my kids were born.

[@dakotalively5171]

13:23 was hands down my favorite 😂 the cutoff immediately after the shot made it twice as funny.

[@misterburger4648]

5:44 the random flex of your arms... random as hell... but I am not complaining! haha

[@kalebphillips9281]

What the fuck did I watch as a child? This is a goddamn fever dream.

[@JoseChavez-ct1db]

4:56 Foghorn Leghorn is a character that Looney Tunes lifted from an old time radio show called The Fred Allen Show back in the 30s or 40s. On the show there was a character that spoke exactly like this, who was in turn a character that was satirizing a popular senator from the South at the time. I'm not sure if Col Sanders sounding like this, is tied into any of these characters.

[@lumaplays4732]

cow saying "it's hard to believe isn't it" right after you asked how it got stuck there sent me 😂😂😂😂

[@veronicagonzalez2889]

nahh man we started off strong XD 0:12

[@veronicagonzalez2889]

AYOO 1:47

[@deniszlatevski9269]

13:26 Frog: *shoot himself in head with gun* JC Stellar: start to laughing hard 😂😂😂

[@sneekydsnewchannel9705]

I mean... it did croak after all.

[@eugeneveziridis]

It happened so flippin sudden!!! Lololol

[@rccraig7580]

Yep according to the laws of "Cartoon Physics" cartoon characters may access or reveal various objects needed to move the story line along for added convenience no matter if its matches, anvils, tools or even foods like pies and or a wedge of cheese. Also the law gravity can be ignored by some characters until they notice it and start to fall LOL! This was a fun comp to watch thumbs up!

[@Solitaire001]

The anime equivalent is "Mallet Space" where a character can pull literally anything out of mallet space.

[@BrotherYarmoth]

Yoooo! I lost it at the chocolate milk!!! 😂🤣😂🤣

[@Solitaire001]

The character of Foghorn Leghorn is based on the character of Senator Claghorn from the old Fred Allen Radio Show. Much of Leghorn's dialog came directly from Senator Claghorn. BTW, in the first clip Daffy Duck is doing an impersonation of Danny Kaye. At that time Kaye was known for very fast patter dialog.

[@blaqmarc]

A lot of these cartoons were for intermission during the early days of films. Warner bros made these cartoons for adult audiences. But when intermission was no longer a thing because the movies were shorter then they put them on tv for kids on the weekends and week days. Which encouraged kids to copy the violent actions during the 70’s and 80’s, but a lot of those black and white toons were for soldiers during WW2. My grandparents saw these cartoons back during WW2 and my parents saw these in the theaters when they were kids during the 40’s, 50’s, and 60’s which was the last decade of showing cartoons at theaters.

[@MisterVercetti]

Can't blame you, man; you'd have to have no sense of humor whatsoever to be able to pass this challenge.

[@johnmorrow3251]

That eraser saying “I’m gonna run you out” got me 😂

[@JustCallMeDavid]

Old looney toons were something else. A lot of offensive jokes and I love it. ❤

[@Accam570]

10:00 In the UK and Canada, erasers on pencils are refered to as rubbers. Rubber actually got its name from its ability to rub out pencil marks.

[@Bluealien-jv1fz]

Never thought of it like that 🤔

[@Jds_7]

1:47 we all agree that this part with the toddler boy rizzing another toddler girl felt so wrong 💀💀

[@Ivan-y6z5m]

😭

[@02139atm]

7:11 oh hell no 😂😂😂😂😂 that boy liked it !!! #FreakyDuck

[@red-stapler574]

What most people don't realize is that at the time in the 40s and 50s, looney tunes were geared to teenagers and older along with tex Avery cartoons. Disney cartoons were for kids.

[@jamesmichael5525]

I just caught Speedy Gonzalez saying "marijuana par fubar" 😂😂😂

[@mfnsorceress2057]

It's "par fumar" (for to smoke)! 🌬️

[@ivetterodríguez-j4k]

It's actually the original lyrics. Made to make fun of a Mexican president who was known for recreational smoking of marîjuana.

[@Mar.Escobar24]

@@mfnsorceress2057para*

[@otoyayamaguchi9279]

What tf is par fubar?

[@jacobtrost5048]

Watching this makes it even more shocking that people think modern cartoons and video games are "corrupting" kids. Like if Looney Toons can shoot themselves in the heads fifty times I don't think Spongebob is going to have an adverse affect.

[@markoprskalo6127]

8:48 best

[@Vespyr_]

Looney Tunes are a masterclass in comedic timing.

[@Brame362]

Bro broke on the first clip😂

[@ivanelugo]

I didn't remember the rabbit gang shooting themselves, i think that was a censored scene back there where i grow up

[@AudioReplica2023]

I still remember that rubber band episode. Got my dying 😂 They are Rubber bands..but since they "playing music" that makes em a BAND…get it? Rubber Band😂

[@Will008]

Mel Blanc was an amazing voice artist. Definitely a genius when coming up with these voices for these cartoon characters.

[@Solitaire001]

Sadly, he barely worked for Disney. His only work for Disney was the character of Gideon (the Cat) in "Pinocchio" but they decided to make the character silent so his only voice work was one hiccup.

[@yosoyringodesanantonio8405]

1:40 and thus the big chungus meme was born.

[@saracuse8114]

I laughed at the horse saying ahhhhh too when I saw it as I kid. I remember waiting til the next time it came on to grab my dad and show him

[@deckofcards87]

The Looney Tunes... In fact all cartoons were made for all ages to enjoy. It wasn't until around the 50s when cartoons went to television and were given early morning slots, that children became the main demographic.

[@RealModax]

8:35 the dog is mad tho when he laughed it 💀

[@themistro1587]

Whoever compiled this compilation knew what they were doing with the lady walking by then daffy saying the yams did it smh lol

[@LionManatic]

Gotta remember with some of theses, they were made during the height of WW2. So the Hitler scene with Daffy, and the crazy scene between a Imperial Japan character (who's supposed to be the emperor) and hitler character, were ways to make fun of them, rightfully smear them, and to help moral at home and even help boost the spirits of those fighting the war.

[@redscorpion9411]

7:38 “Say Ah” “AAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!” 💀💀💀

[@jcmillzmusic8768]

Explains our sense of humor.

[@franciscoacosta580]

Speedy "porque le falta por que no tiene marihuana para fuma"

[@realhuman8305]

3:28 They are rubber bands in a rubber Marching Band

[@1visualfxguy]

The dancing frog always makes me think of when they had the Chestburster from Alien do that dance in Spaceballs lol.

[@deathmetal271]

it’s almost like that’s what it was a parody of or something

[@cellshock]

12:58 didn't expect that, got me bad 😅

[@c3p6]

Fun fact: the clip of the lizard dancing was taken from footage of an actual stripper that was brought into the studio and rotoscoped.

[@RexfromIslaNublar]

13:23 I was on the floor laughing for 5 minutes straight 😂😂😂

[@josejose-je6xu]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣no one can't control laughing when you see luny tunes 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@malikholmes5045]

Bro i completely lost it, just like you at the "Croaking Frog" legit cried and couldn't breath for 12 minutes 😂😂😂

[@Owenator26]

I remember when I was younger my brother and I would watch Looney Tunes and laugh our asses off. Some good stuff lol

[@Solitaire001]

Concerning Private SNAFU, it was a series of cartoons that were never intended to be seen by the general public. They were made for Army Personnel to provide training (SNAFU would show them want NOT to do) and due to that they could include adult humor that wouldn't have been permitted in regular theaters.

[@TreyMcDonaldAnimator]

The Stag Reel took me out clean LMAO

[@slowloudnbangn7938]

Man I miss these cartoons, sometimes I go back and watch random episodes while smoking haha That Doctor Aaaaahh one killed me when the doc said it back 💀 and the frog as well🤣🤣

[@lisemzarate4029]

I have a very clear memory of sitting on Sunday morning, watching these and hearing my moms boyfriend giggling and wondering what was so funny? The jokes went over our heads as kids, and I find them so much funnier now rewatching them. I miss the 70's, no one was safe from being clowned on.

[@MorinoRavenberg]

I loved these cartoons when I was a kid; so wholesome 😊. When people could actually make good quality media.

[@flap.d.jack247]

people still can, you're just too stuck with disney slop

[@Maestromedia27]

It’s strange to know that even looking at a couple of these clips, even people I know with little to no sense of humor, they’d chuckle at these

[@antonnyosalles]

10:45 speedy Gonzales says “Marijuana to smoke

[@TreyMcDonaldAnimator]

Legitimately, Looney Tunes was never meant for kids. It just wasn't. LOL

[@Ivan-y6z5m]

Really? I remember watching them when I was around 3, I never understood the racism/suicide/sexism, but I can watch it now and reflect on my life. I still find CERTAIN dark jokes funny, just not the ones I described. And don't get me wrong, it's still a masterpiece in my eyes.

[@ВадимЛукомский-ъ1ь]

3:59 - "You know **ultraPOG face**

[@hkoizumi3134]

Damn.... I am old enough to know who these looney tunes are parodying. And for those that didn't get the frog shooting himself. To croak is a slang back in the day. Much like being snuffed out.

[@travarturner6547]

This man jc never disappoint 💯

[@damiantanco9531]

1:17 "This is America..." ♫

[@FabledHeroes3351]

9:43 my favorite 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@DjDaizyNeon]

13:47 Hooyah😂😂

[@fusedruler]

First clip of Daffy looks like a Eurovision participant.

[@deadringer-cultofdeathratt8813]

2:05 I have this episode on dvd it’s the Shultz episode (this at the very end of the episode)

[@hebneh]

A lot of these gags were references to people or events that were newsworthy at the time the cartoons were produced, which most people today won't recognize.

[@timothymarkin4481]

So many pop culture references of the 40s & 50s (actors, catch phrases, movie tropes, slang) that nobody under 40 would understand today.

[@eduardoalvarez7546]

You can still laugh and appreciate a product even though it was a product of its time. Looking past the context of the era that influenced it, there’s still a lot of well thought out humor.

[@carl_anderson9315]

6:53 Peter Lorre is one running joke in the old Looney Tunes

[@Jonny-83]

Bugs blasted that dude head off 😮😅

[@sixstanger00]

Foghorn Leghorn had the exaggerated southern drawl because he's a rooster from a farm.

[@BLAHhappy7]

The frog absolutely floored me 🤣

[@MikuFan3931]

9:22 *WHAT AM I DOING?!?!* 😂

[@XontrosInstrumentals]

That 2 second clip is a whole mood

[@Futuretense101]

The Wasp with the Waist trainer killed me LMAO 🤣

[@SincerestSawa]

honestly the old cartoons we grew up on are tame compared to some of the newer stuff ive seen, like mr pickles or hazbin hotel

[@zerobyte802]

Honestly I think all that wild slapstick was good for us. Jokes of characters offing themselves were so over the top, and besides they never actually died. No more than whenever they got hit by cars, blown up by dynamite, electrocuted, smashed by falling pianos, or clobbered with anvils.