The New Stars and Management of Warner Bros. Cartoons | THE MERRIE HISTORY OF LOONEY TUNES

[@brockpifer9929]

I love how Bob Clampett knew he wasn’t going to be sticking around when he made his 1946 cartoons. I love how he and his unit poured their hearts and souls into the cartoons to make them their best. They made them to their fullest. I just loved how he predicted his future. I just think it’s precious

[@martysmith7803]

I couldn't help thinking about how NBA players always seem to play better in the final year of their contract-they're trying to make themselves look good to up their value when they go looking for their next contract. is it possible Clampett knew he was leaving and was auditioning for whatever his next job would be? Or do I just watch too much basketball?

[@Lars_E_Mou]

Yeah! He wouldn't go quietly. Nooo! He would go out with a BANG!

[@the_most_ever_company]

Clampett -- whose post-WB "Time for Beany" puppet show was beloved equally by physics genius Albert Einstein (in his twilight years) and music genius Frank Zappa (a child at the time) -- was such a pure creative force (and an obnoxious unprofessional prankster around the studio) that the sheer squareness of Eddie Selzer appearing over him at TT seems to have catapulted him from the premises like a reverse-polarity magnet -- also, I'll bet the reason Eddie Selzer objected to Friz using Tweety is because Tweety had originally been Bob Clampett's creation

[@gabe_s_videos]

I recently heard a wonderful interview with Bob Clampett's daughter Ruth, who's a novelist, where she gave some credence to the idea that Bob Clampett left WB in 1946 specifically because of the change in management. According to her, Bob and Leon Schlesinger were friends long before Looney Tunes, Leon had helped Bob with a short film he'd made when he was 12, so if it seemed like Leon showed a lot of favoritism to Bob, it was probably just because they already had a lot of trust in one another. Once Leon left, Bob probably knew that he wouldn't have that same kind of trust any more, so it was as good a time as any to seek greener pastures. I was also happy to hear that he was apparently nothing if not an extremely attentive and loving father, hence why he didn't do any more projects after the mid-60s (she also said that he was intrigued by the concept of music videos, but passed away before he had a chance to get involved with them).

[@brockpifer9929]

@@gabe_s_videos yeah I’ve heard about that yeah. Leon and Bob were very close, also cause Leon was friends with Bob’s mom. Cause of that, Bob had the reputation around the Warner Bros studio as Leon’s golden boy or teacher’s pet. Leon allowed Bob to do a lot of stuff that he wouldn’t tolerate with the other directors. Like go a little bit over budget on his cartoons if he wanted or walk out of story meetings that he didn’t like or wasn’t interested in. So when Leon retired and Eddie Selzer took his place, Bob knew that with Leon no longer there and those privileges were over and wouldn’t be tolerated and put him on thin ice with Selzer. So Bob thought it would be best if he left Warners and seek other opportunities. Bob did go to Screen Gems briefly and then made a short called It’s A Great Old Nag for Republic Pictures. But that also didn’t go anywhere cause Republic wasn’t interested in doing cartoons. That’s when shortly after he was one of the first people to have one of the first hits on television, Beany and Cecil with his first show Time For Beany. And Bob brought his characters back to the first medium he mastered, animation with Beany and Cecil. He pretty much retired after the show ended in 1962. But one interesting fact, when Warner Bros wanted to reopen the animation studio after the original shutdown in 1963 and when Warners’ contract with DePatie Freleng ended, Bob was offered back at the studio to be the head director, but he refused and that’s when they got Alex Lovy from Hanna Barbera to be the director and was during the Warner/Seven Arts period. And, Leon helped Bob do a short film when he was 15 in 1927 when Leon owned and ran Pacific Title and Art

[@KTChamberlain]

Fun Fact: Mel Blanc's normal voice was most like Sylvester the cat, just without the lisp.

[@bethanyauble7934]

0:00: Tweety Bird 1:49: Opening Sequence 2:22: Goodbye, Leon. Hello, Warner Brothers. 5:28: The New Producer 6:55: Frank Tashlin, the World's Greatest Yo-Yo 10:14: Robert McKimson, New but Old 14:03: Friz Freleng, the Defacto Director 18:28: Tweety and Sylvester, the Second Greatest Duos 20:47: Chuck Jones, No Longer Like Disney 24:52: Pepé Le Pew, Problematic, No? 28:35: Bob Clampett, The Director of 1946 33:46: Art Davis, the New Bob Clampett 40:16: Goodbye, 40s

[@robbiewalker2831]

For Pepe, I wouldn’t say he’s problematic 100%, but I do think some of his methods are a bit iffy. It’s just that he has good intention to get in a relationship, but his body odor drives away those he comes near. I would agree that Odor-able Kitty is problematic for different reasons: specifically that Pepe was perusing a male cat, while also cheating on his wife that, along with his supposed kids, only appeared in one short. The following Pepe short “Scent-imental Over You” improved on the formula greatly, despite the short changing to a female dog; but there was a happy ending for any of you who liked Pepe being a Romeo.

[@KamenFighter]

"Dick Humor (still his real name)" was my favorite part of this episode.

[@Uetti]

Huemer actually

[@jacobyoung1933]

Sucks that we never got to see what 50's era Clampett cartoons would be like, but I guess it's nice to see him go out on a high note.

[@kayokango]

It's true. Although we did get a glimpse of it in Clampett's Beany & Cecil television series. The show retains a lot of Bob's signature humor and has an extremely high production value for a cartoon show that was produced in the 50's and 60's. You might want to check it out. Also, it got a short lived reboot in the 80's with animation from John K the Ren & Stimpy guy.

[@PatrickDoran2319]

I think too clampett would not have liked the working environment under Eddie Selzer because Selzer was terrible to work for. Mel Blanc wrote in his autobiography that a few weeks after Leon Schlesinger retired the animators begged Leon to return but it was no use.

[@olive06]

"-and it all started with the creation of a cat." Me, a Sylvester simp: **SLAMS FISTS ON THE TABLE EXCITEDLY**

[@NicoAnimation]

Who knows exactly why it happened, but one thing is certain: What a major blow to Looney Tunes to lose Clampett so early in the game. Just imagine how many more amazing Clampett cartoons there could've been that we'll never get to see. I wonder how his work would've changed and evolved had he stayed the rest of the 40s, thru the 50s and even early 60s.

[@teddyfurstman1997]

Hi, Nice work on Kid Cosmic on Netflix.

[@jamesklatt]

By the last 60s warner bros was phasing out their animation department along with most of hollywood.

[@thesteelshow433]

I have a feeling that if Clampett had stayed into the 1950s, his work would've more closely resembled the type of humor and style of Beany & Cecil, whilst keeping to a more UPA-esque, though still rubbery style. By 1946, any realism that Clampett had in his style was phased out for complete abstraction - and most likely his cartoons would've continued down that path into pure, unadulterated impressionism.

[@ledetbrothers9210]

To be fair, almost all of 1990s television animation emulated Clampett’s style.

[@gabe_s_videos]

@@ledetbrothers9210 Mostly because they were trying to imitate Ren & Stimpy, who's visual language was heavily inspired by Bob Clampett.

[@poparena]

Bugs and Porky are great and all, but my heart always goes to the Looney Tunes secondary cast, which makes this my favorite era. Foghorn Leghorn, Marvin the Martian, Yosemite Sam, that's my JAM! Good work as always, and pointing to your videos is gonna be a great way of getting out of detailing Looney Tunes history on my show :P

[@KaiserBeamz]

Always happy to be of service

[@Launchpad05]

I think this particular era would be the definitive era of 'Looney Tunes' in terms of star characters. While not as wild, or experimental as the Leon Schlesinger era, it would give rise to new characters while the older characters continued to grow.

[@superbowsermatt4432]

chuck jones got the better decade in the 50s without having any compeition

[@felixleidig8307]

@@superbowsermatt4432 Absolutley Not How can you say that Tex Avery is Number 1 and will alwyays be dont know how many Jokes Jones stole from Tex also ... Friz Freleng made the better bugs shorts

[@robbiewalker2831]

@@KaiserBeamz Hope we get to Taz-Boy soon? And yes, that's Taz's name from "The Bugs Bunny Show".

[@95Space]

“…with a barnyard dog.. named Barnyard Dog” That made me chuckle

[@alejandrokudo5463]

No: its Barnyard _Dawg_

[@robbes7rh]

As a kid I was instinctively drawn to the Warner Bros. cartoons for their imaginative and clever storylines, the rich colors, fantastic drawings, and the music. Of course not cognizant of all the work, politics, experimentation, collaboration, etc. that went on for years prior to hitting their stride in the 50's. Great story how this rich legacy came about and all the real life people whose unique talents, vision, and hard work contributed to the incredibly vibrant and entertaining end product. An amazing legacy of art every bit as captivating as Vermeer's girl with a pearl earring.

[@stevena488]

It's nice that you're helping to shed light on the whole thing that the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies had one of the most tumultuous and turbulent histories ever. People came and left, were fired and hired and how the Looney Tunes didn't just come out of nowhere and were the result of near DECADES of work and failure until they started getting the comedy beats right. Thanks man!

[@itsyeeoledskoolfurry3208]

is your picture/icon a Big Mac? ^u^

[@anomymous1286]

Clampett was a genius… what he would have done in the 50’s would have been magical

[@PatrickDoran2319]

It would have been. However Clampett very likely would have not enjoyed being in the working environment under Eddie Selzer. Chuck Jones once called Selzer “Evil”

[@robbiewalker2831]

@@PatrickDoran2319 31:46: The culmination of both narratives gave a more reasonable, and understandable, explanation on why Bob Clampett would suddenly vanish.

[@laurababyyy1]

@@PatrickDoran2319yeah,plus his beef with other directors,especially Chuck,it’d be difficult for Clampett to get along well with Chuck and Selzer.

[@gorgorhaadka8824]

Unlike Robert Mckimson, Friz Freling, or even his replacement Art Davis, Clampett created many of the greatest cartoons, like Jones.

[@PatrickDoran2319]

It has been debated on Leon Schlesinger’s personality. Tex Avery and Bill Melendez say Schlesinger was a great boss. Bob Clampett stated it was really exciting to work for Schlesinger. And Friz Freling said Leon was better to work for than Walt Disney.

[@gabe_s_videos]

He was, like most of us, a human being.

[@PatrickDoran2319]

@@gabe_s_videos Yup he was. Schlesinger also was not a cartoonist or a writer but when it came to being the head of termite terrace he knew how to make it work

[@gabe_s_videos]

@@PatrickDoran2319 I found the detail of him having been both a theater manager and an actor most interesting. It sounds to me like he had a fair amount of experience in both the show and business sides and show business to know how to get the best cooperation between both.

[@PatrickDoran2319]

@@gabe_s_videos And without Schlesinger there wouldn’t be all that great talent and cartoon characters that made their on screen debuts

[@gabe_s_videos]

@@PatrickDoran2319 Yup. It really was a matter of the right people being in the right place at the right time.

[@val566]

Frank Tashlin is so underrated Unfortunately he didnt direct enough cartoons to left a big mark but in some of his cartoons (like Porky Pigs's feat which is my favourite) he is close to the genius of Bob Clampett

[@brockpifer9929]

I agree that 1946 is one of Bob Clampett’s best years. I learned that usually the last year that the directors have at the studio before they left is usually great and one of the best years where they made great cartoons. Like 1941 with Tex Avery. 1941 was one of Tex’s best years

[@brockpifer9929]

The great 1941 Avery shorts 1. Tortoise Beats Hare 2. The Heckling Hare 3. Hollywood Steps Out 4. The Haunted Mouse 5. Wabbit Twouble (with Clampett) Tortoise Beats Hare, The Heckling Hare and Wabbit Twouble are the best shorts in the mix

[@daseal1479]

Bob Clampett's Daffy Duck shorts were some of the funniest things I ever saw as a kid, and for years after I missed the zanier Daffy of the 40's. Glad to see in the most recent cartoon that Daffy, as well as the other Tunes have once again returned to their 40's personalities and designs after sooo many years.

[@PatrickDoran2319]

My favorites were The Daffy Doc and Wise Quacks

[@wahmaster2788]

Its so interesting to see how the iconic well known looney tunes characters came to be over what feels like random circumstance. Or how Daffy for so long was just not the character we know today.

[@jeremy1860]

Looney Tunes and Hanna-Barbera were my bread and butter when I was a kid 😊

[@Dtoons]

I waited a long time for this! I love this series! This and Anthony’s Animation Talk are a fun series exploring the history of Looney Tunes!

[@gilition]

Rip Anthony's Animation Talk.

[@jade1jadefriends974]

Hi dtoons Edit: Sorry for the mis typing

[@jaredhebert942]

@@gilition It seems he's been posting new videos right along, no discernible gaps in uploads; I've not watched much of his stuff, but I guess I'll have to check it out!

[@stephenholloway6893]

The commentaries were removed on the copyrighted shorts but not the public domain ones. But he does reviews now for the shorts.

[@robertschlesinger1342]

Excellent video. Very interesting, informative and worthwhile video. I feel fortunate my wife, daughter and I were able to meet and be photographed with many of the early studio animators, or their children or grandchildren. Leon managed to get the Studio through the Depression, and as other family members noted, that was no small feat. Many thanks for a great documentary video.

[@felixleidig8307]

such a shame that Arthur Davis never got what he deserved i love almost everyone of his shorts

[@byrondoggofficial]

Arthur Davis worked at Screen Gems and on some of the Scrappy Cartoons in the 1930's

[@canaisyoung3601]

Same here. His WB work (barring Quackodile Tears from 1962) is a lot of fun to watch and captures a lot of what Clampett left behind.

[@felixleidig8307]

@@canaisyoung3601 Absolutely also Jones is overhyped which we will be see in the next Episode this documentary maker seems to be also fully on Jones train

[@daelen.cclark]

@@felixleidig8307 He earned his position, but had too much ego.

[@stephenholloway6893]

Some of Arthur Davis' Pink Panther shorts are good as well.

[@epicgamer127thehedgehog2]

Also, the Final Looney Tunes short to credit Leon Schlesinger as the producer was Buckaroo Bugs, the first Bugs Bunny Cartoon under the Looney Tunes series, further blurring the line between Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies even more, since Bugs Bunny cartoons were only under the Merrie Melodies series before the release of Buckaroo Bugs.

[@PastelSkies-n3v]

Sans his cameo at the end of "Porky Pig's Feat", his ONLY appearance of any sort in a black and white WB cartoon short.

[@ducktwacy161]

EXCELLENT WORK!!! Super glad that this series exists, it's much appreciated--and needed--and I'm eagerly looking forward to the next one! (and thanks again for the credit!)

[@cousinted]

Small correction to your description of the ending of "For Scent-imental reasons" starting at around 27:11 - The paint doesn't mask Pepe's scent, rather Penelope catches an instant cold from falling into the rain barrel and can no longer smell Pepe.

[@shadowking1380]

“Oh the poor titty tat. Tsk tsk tsk. He fall down. Go BOOM!!” 😂😂😂😂

[@RogerFusselman]

I most appreciate this series when the specifics of the history reveal something about the creative process. Don't preach to us about how to create, of course. Keeping these wonderful installments concrete yet insightful makes these interesting to me.

[@ComicKelsey]

So good! I've always been on "Team Chuck" since I was a kid, but hearing some of these stories makes me want to revisit some of the shorts.

[@martinefrensoquigomez7835]

That animation from the Gopher shorts... the yellow dog is probably my favorite thing out of that one particular short, he gives off a very abstract energy

[@TheStarBot]

I love pausing to see if any of the shorts listed here are on HBO Max, and then get disappointed when they aren't on there

[@gnarrcan108]

They cut a lot of stuff out. All the war stuff is gone all the racist stuff is gone a lot of the stuff with one off characters is gone. But they do have all the really classic stuff from the late 40s and 50s like duck amuck, the barber of Seville, rabbit seasoning, and duck dodgers.

[@Poever]

This is why you buy the DVDs and Blu-Rays. Many shorts not streaming are spread around those

[@patfreak97]

Go to me tv, weekdays at 7am, they show a lot of the one offs. Sad to say, don’t look for speedy from the 50’s, not pc, or Pepe, not pc

[@Neville60001]

@@patfreak97, again, as mentioned above, that's why you buy the DVD and Blu-Ray sets.

[@ETBX1]

Tweetie Pie was not the same project as Fat Rat and the Stupid Cat. Freleng was working on a followup to Peck Up Your Troubles (hence why the woodpecker was in it in the first place), and Freleng decided to replace him with Tweety who he had just gained the rights to. FRSC was a totally separate thing Clampett was working on, which was shelved when Freleng decided to convert his own project to Tweety, and the storyboard was auctioned off last year with six panels shown (and it seems this was where the title was revealed), and it was a completely different story. (Sure hope it was bought by a library or museum that will reveal the whole thing!)

[@cagefreeowl843]

Im not gonna lie Bob’s 1940’s looney tunes cartoons were the funniest ones yet, Amazing visual, Perfectly time and paced jokes, the zany and fast pace the movement of the characters, and most funniest of all is when The characters movement or Camera starts or moving so fast they’re bodies are loose, rubbery, and stretched out

[@beximus]

27:20 i don't remember pepe ever looking this buff anywhere else lol

[@Mekasoundwave]

pepe lookin kinda thicc ngl

[@Davethe3rd]

I'm loving this series! Are you going to continue into the modern era? I'd love to see shows like Tiny Toons, Animaniacs,Taz-Mania, Duck Dodgers and movies like Daffy Duck's Quackbusters, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Space Jam, and Back In Action covered. Then again, that might be best separated into their own series...

[@KaiserBeamz]

Wait and see

[@daelen.cclark]

That could very well be the last two ones.

[@gabe_s_videos]

According to Tom Sito, Chuck Jones said he created Pepe Le Pew because he was tired of characters always trying to eat each other, so he created a character who "just wants to get laid."

[@awsome1605]

I highly suspect this is a fabrication by Chuck, which many animation directors are guilty of. In reality Mike Maltese the story man is the one who submitted the idea about a horny skunk. This is told by fellow Warner Brow story man Lloyd Turner in his 1989 interview with Micheal Barrier

[@Mamin9k]

⁠@@awsome1605and in the end, Mike disliked Pepe

[@PetProjects2011]

@@awsome1605 This is *kinda* addressed in The Bugs Bunny Road Runner Movie, when Bugs brings up how Pepe Le pew is different than most of the other LT characters, in that he chases not for food, but for love.

[@LiamPennington]

I want to say a huge thank you for this series. I was searching for cartoons and old memories and Episode 1 appeared through the algorithm and here I am. I've really, really enjoyed your knowledge, the clips, the insight, everything. Genuine applause. Genuine. Loved it, so well done. Thank you for entertaining and informing me.

[@JoeG_420]

Art Davis was another under appreciated director alongside men like Earl Duvall, and the one time director Irv Spector (he made one of the only good DePatie-Freleng shorts Corn on the Cop, I thought it was a good one)

[@J.D_Force]

This is one of my favorites series on KZbin. Thank you for making it.

[@garyflinn3989]

Why didn't you talk about Bob Clampett's post-Warner career after you mentioned Frank Tashlin's post-Warner career? Clampett joined the Columbia-Screen Gems cartoon studio as a storyman until that studio closed. Clampett then turned to his childhood interest in puppetry and the brand new medium of television to create the six-time Emmy award winning TV series Time For Beany which counted among its fans Albert Einstein. After Associated Artists Productions bought the pre-1948 Merrie Melodies and color Looney Tunes, he was hired to catalog the cartoons. Later, he sold to ABC-TV and Mattel the animated Beany & Cecil cartoons which became enormously successful and set Clampett financially for life. He was in Detroit to promote the home video release of the Beany & Cecil cartoons when he died of a heart attack in 1984, just six days short of his 71st birthday.

[@acholl980]

Outside of Leonard Maltin for his Of Mice and Magic no one talks about Clampetts Columbia-era efferts despite it being short lived and he work only as story writer. They seem want to write that off as a minor effort due to Schlesinger's associate Bob Katz going there to try to save it and Clampett joining him since he was the last of leon's head still available.

[@kendrarasberry3078]

So unfair Bob Clampett didn’t see his 90s like Hanna-Barbera and Friz Freleng.

[@chiebukachibee-zoraedu]

He does touch upon that in his later episodes

[@Ender-kk7gg]

Clampett's career after WB gets mentioned later in the sereis

[@hacim42]

Just binged this whole thing, these are insanely well made, I cannot wait for the next one.

[@ocass66]

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! One of the few KZbin series to make me cheer out loud with hype when I see a new upload

[@M644theawesome]

Idk why but i just find it funny where first two times the won the Oscar for best animated shorts, he had to eat his words

[@edryba4867]

“Mac & Tosh”, the Goofy Gophers, did not have names until The Bugs Bunny Show in the early 1960’s.

[@Wittcassidy]

Great job! Very in depth. You should consider doing some of the Hanna Barbera produced MGM shorts like Tom & Jerry, Barney Bear, etc. Maybe even some of their 60s stuff, too, like Top Cat & Huckleberry Hound!

[@CartoonEj203]

1:25 He fall down and go BOOM!

[@Kain5th]

finally getting into the familiar characters we all know and love

[@XxbelligerentxX]

It’s always a good day with KaiserBeamz upload a new video.

[@jbanks979]

A simply excellent continuation of what already was an amazing series. I’ve already a huge fan and the 40’s Warner cartoons are my favorite period (largely from the variety the 4-6 teams going strong during this period provided). It’s still fascinating to learn a bit about the personalities behind this period, and how they thrived/bailed during the Schlesinger->Selzer transition. As others have noted it’s a shame Clampett couldn’t have found a way to stick around. It would have provided such a contrast to Jones in the more sedate/stylized 50’s

[@Musicradio77Network]

38:31 is the part that it’s quite interesting. The “Blue Ribbon” reissued that started around 1944 and it continued right up until the end of its run in 1964, because of television was at the top of its game for cartoons when many of the WB cartoons were shown on the “Bugs Bunny Show” and the pre-48 shorts were shown in syndication as part of the AAP package along with the theatrical Popeye cartoons from the Flesicher and Famous Studios eras at Paramount until it was sold to United Artists in 1959 and rebranded as Associated Artists United and later renamed as United Artists Television.

[@MicahEddyOfficial]

I can't tell you how much I love this series.

[@Donjuggaxote]

Dick huemer... his real name. Dick huemer... still his real name Lol this is gold

[@davidbaise5137]

Bob Clampet is one of the best! I have noticed since ATT buy, there are no complete WB cartoons on YT. Thanks for uploading!

[@xdluck_xd7481]

This aged like milk, considering now WB is now releasing their non-PD shorts on their official channel.

[@edryba4867]

“Tweety bird” is his SPECIES. His name is “Tweety Pie”, as in “Sweetie Pie”. And Frank Tashlin was the only “Looney” Director who ended up working in REAL movies! There’s a story about “Rhapsody Rabbit” having an M-G-M Tom and Jerry cartoon be so similar. “Rabbit” was made first, but the story goes that Technicolor mistakenly delivered a print of it to M-G-M!

[@markbanash921]

"The Unruly Hare" remains my favorite BB cartoon as it is just breakneck funny and yet remains true to Bugs' character. I love all of the directors but Tashlin has a special place in my heart.

[@DigiRangerScott]

Great job as always! Now the wait begins for the next part

[@donniehuynh2391]

I enjoyed this series so far. Keep up the good work.

[@blueridger28]

This was a really awesome and comprehensive series, I loved and thank you for your hard work in putting it together.

[@LittleMissLounge]

This series is up there with AniMat's Disney series. They really complement each other, too, by pointing out just how incestuous the animation business really was (and probably still is). I found this is my recs by chance, and I'm so glad I clicked! I especially love learning about the little details I never knew, like Foghorn Leghorn's voice being based on a radio show character. And some of the animators' later comically evasive answers to the question of WTF Bosko was. 😂

[@inovakovsky]

"incestuous". One of the biggest understatements in my life. If you read credits, you would recognize people who contributed to varying studios.

[@daelen.cclark]

@@inovakovsky They really got around, didn’t they?

[@Randomlad.0737]

It's better then Animat's video

[@deathcatg]

Ahhh "Book Revue", the father of many "Jojo's Bizarre Adventure" KZbin memes.

[@drewdederer8965]

Clampett left in fine form (most of his last work was his best). I personally love "Draftee Daffy" and "The Great Piggy Bank Robbery". The problem was, by the time he left, there weren't a lot of positions for him to fill (unlike say the late 30s), and TV wasn't really going yet (he would bounce about for quite a while before getting into that). Those two have all the manic energy of his best work, but there are issues. "Draftee" is fun and exhausting, but it lacks the touch Avery would use in say "Bad Luck Blackie", another short built around one joke. Draftee, sets the joke, tells it, has a chase scene, then cranks the speed up and does it again and again. In this case, it works, but it's almost exhausting. By comparison, Avery takes a basic situation (kitten blows whistle, cat crosses dog's path, something bad happens to dog) and resets and modulates. He tells that same joke 6 different ways, before varying it for his climax. Clampett for good or ill just didn't work that way. "Piggy Bank" gets the feel of Dick Tracy's rouges gallery spot on, but seems to be missing a set of gags. There just isn't any commentary on what works (or is ridiculous) about the strip, it's beautiful but a mite shallow. Between suicidal birds and addicted cats, I think Freling was reaching normality as the years went on. He also holds what may be the "Most Meta" gag in the Studio's history. Halfway through "high diving hare" Sam has jumped off the diving board for the who knows what time. We cut to a long shot of the ladder, with the platform being just out of shot above. We see Sam furiously climbing up the screen out of frame, beat, beat and Sam comes hurling down through the shot. How'd bug's get him? Does it matter? If Avery could do the same joke 6 times Jones and Maltese seemed able to vary a scenario 10 ways. What's amazing is how many series got spun off from what would normally be one-off cartoons (Pepe, Road Runner, the Sheepdog and Wolf). What's odd is that, of his high-rated cartoons about half are standard cast stories, but another half are pretty near one-offs (Froggy Evening, Feed the Kitty, Dover Boys..)

[@tskmaster3837]

I love, just love, "Draftee Daffy". Where to begin... propaganda. Funny to say the cartoon was exhausting seeing how it's wartime cartoon produced in the last year of the war about a cartoon character being drafted in the final year of that war. I love how Daffy literally changes his tune the moment he's drafted, going from pro war jingoism to self pity once he learned he was going to have to do something more than talk... or not if he did something to little man from the draft board first. It's an escalation series of gags where Daffy gets more and more desperate to stop the inevitable, more frantic, more lethal as he worked... to do the exact opposite of every other WWII cartoon said to do. You can't variate an escalation theme, it'd kill it faster than the little man from the draft board. You have to repeat, speed it up, repeat and then go faster. The great "The Great Piggy Bank Robbery" is about overstatement and wish fulfillment. It's right there in the title, the bank being robbed is a piggy bank and that's hardly a job for Dick Tracy but it IS a job for Duck Tracy. THAT OTHER GUY would have simply called the short "Duck Tracy" and called it a day, making the work a parody but The Great Piggy Bank Robbery isn't a parody, it's a dream. A dream that turns into a nightmare. Be careful what you wish for, Duck, or you might get rubbed out.... erased? A cartoon character has a dream where he gets erased? That's impossi ble.

[@jedd.0322]

Thank you I was just thinking about this series yesterday u made my week.

[@mr.fearingtoon3549]

Foghorn Leghorn is my favorite Looney Tunes Character and he’s the reason why Robert Mckimpson is my favorite Director

[@roadrunnercoyote2263]

Awesome! Can't wait for the next part :)

[@LoesserOf2Evils]

Looking forward to the next installment.

[@antonmasters8626]

I couldn't stand Tweety, but I think the original incarnation of Tweety was waaaay funnier than his normal yellow version

[@mazimadu]

I keep forgetting that this is an anime channel. Good Work

[@KaiserBeamz]

It's primarily an anime channel, but animation history in general is always worth being covered.

[@mazimadu]

@@KaiserBeamz oh, you should do some French animation. Wakfu, Ulysses 31 etc

[@itsyeeoledskoolfurry3208]

10:23.. OMG... LOL. That photo.. I wonder what they were doing and discussing in that one. Hopefully something to do with one of the cartoon characters. ^u^

[@juliagoodwin9510]

...wait... the Goofy Gophers actually had names?!

[@JoseMorales-lw5nt]

25:00/ Thank you for helping to show the PC scaredy cats what real humor was meant to be.... funny! I hate this crap of being offended by Pepe Le Pew, who actually got removed from the new SPACE JAM film! Thank God I have the original Golden Collection DVD set to enjoy the smoking, drinking, skirt chasing humor previous generations laughed to completly uncut! Big props for acknowledging Robert McKimson, my all time favorite amongst the WB animation directors. Not only did he see the formation and termination of Termite Terrace, he gave audiences the 2nd most popular character in WB history... THE TASMANIAN DEVIL!

[@stealthskater5674]

Long Live Old School 😎🎸🥁🎸🤘✌️🕹️🎮😎

[@k-dogg9086]

VERY TRUE 👍

[@williamhild1793]

YAY!!! SOOO happy part four has been released!!

[@polixter421]

Been waiting for this one

[@megadrivesonic]

I am so happy to see more of this Looney Tunes series and cant wait to see the next part.

[@superbowsermatt4432]

yes i waited for this for a long time

[@morbidchid]

Best series out there. Cant wait to see more. Hope you talk about the 60s,70s,80s and 90s too. Animaniacs continue a lot of the tropes. Tiny Tunes also showcase Bosko and a bunch of the old 1930s characters.

[@sunwentai1]

Very informative and entertaining. Well done!

[@ocass66]

Question: is this series going to cover only up to the end of the original Looney Tunes series in 1969? Or will there be some coverage of the Looney Tunes movies some of the termite terrace veterans worked on and how the eventual creation of Warner Bros. Animation in the 80s?

[@stephenholloway6893]

From the looks of things they're going beyond the golden age and into the current era

[@nightisright1873]

Just a heads up guys Tex Averys death is incredibly depressing

[@DUTUGO]

These videos are so well produced. I eagely await more !!

[@tasctablet9510]

This video was a amazing video to see Possess keep on making videos

[@superbowsermatt4432]

Also the date for the next one is probably sometime around November or December

[@lrgogo1517]

I love how many of these clips are abruptly cut

[@yelloweyeball]

I wonder if the disneyfication of Fleischer studios following thier feature films, as well as the eventual ousting of the Fleischer bros to make Famous studios, helped Warner Bros. cartoons gain popularity too. Since before Loony tunes style was established, fleischers had a similar reputation at the time. Being the more violent, risque and edgy counterpart to Disney. It's possible that when the bros left, and Famous studios degraded in quality, Warner Bros cartoons had an opening to compete with Disney in a way they weren't able to in the 30s. Not that it was like the main factor or anything. Just that it helped them along.

[@jacktayl]

19:54 What I like about that shot in I Taw a Putty Tat is when Tweety was playing hide and seek with Sylvester, who was waiting to smash Tweety with a hammer, Tweety looked under a stool and I sometimes like to pause to see his rounded butt facing us before he keeps searching. Tweety says "Now where could that puddytat be?" and I pause at the right moment before continuing. Does that sound like a good freeze-frame bonus?

[@jadetealaaron2003]

30:53 Okay i really like this lmao

[@LL-bl8hd]

Inspiration for Steve Urkel? 😁

[@2ToyBoys]

I really love early Tweety. The big feet....the cutenesd...the cruelty... a riot.

[@jellykid1193]

Man these videos are excellent thank you

[@5uckUrMum]

I love this series!

[@Launchpad05]

Me, too. It's a worthy successor to stuff like 'Toon Heads', and almost the definitive story of 'Termite Terrace'.

[@Launchpad05]

@AP🏳️‍🌈 Yeah, 'Toon In With Me' is a lame attempt at a 'kids show' wrapped around the cartoons with bad skits, and lame characters.

[@brockpifer9929]

@@Launchpad05 i also loved when ElectricDragon505 or AniMat did a series of Termite Terrace and the characters

[@bartsimpson83]

If you care, somewhere out there on the interwebs is a fan made compilation of ALL the Warner Brothers shorts ever made from the very beginning up to the late 90s/early aughts. It even includes all the movies and most if not all of the prime time specials as bonus material. Since we're unlikely to ever see such a thorough release officially, this is one case where piracy is absolutely justified with no explanation needed. I won't tell you where to find it (after all, if the site becomes too popular it might be noticed by the copyright Nazis) but it's out there. Happy hunting!

[@claudelarose8831]

This is such a good series!

[@wanderinggstars]

In the future people are going to do documentaries like this about KZbin editing rings

[@jer19791]

Great job!

[@feralbluee]

this is such a brilliant series - so well researched, great visual and audio choices, wonderful editing, and narrating, great music! if i left any production value out, add it in your head as you watch. :) the time just disappears. this the 5th one in a row. :) 🐰🐔🐷🐥🐱🦆🐵

[@Mibbitmaker]

My favorite era covered in this masterpiece. Can't wait till I'll be watching the whole thing, when it's all done, in one sitting down the road (two if necessary).

[@sort-of-amusing8891]

I love this series Keep up the good work dude!

[@kayokango]

I've said it before and I'll say it again. Warner Bros cartoons were never better than they were in 1946. Not before, nor after. Don't get me wrong, there were truly great cartoons before and after, but they never were able to match what Clampett and his unit had done in the 40's in my opinion. Although we got Beany and Cecil out of it, I sometimes wish that Bob Clampett hadn't left when he did. His cartoons were on a whole nother level, and they were only getting better and better. I can only imagine what his next batch of cartoons would've been like. Though I do understand that the general lowering of budgets and lessening of detail that took place as the 50's and 60's rolled around would've likely effected his work over time. Still, it's fun to wonder what could've been.

[@nitrosherbert888]

I gotta ask where and how did you find this footage.I haven't even seen half of these.

[@KaiserBeamz]

Dailymotion, Golden Collection DVDs and a few "unofficial" streams here and there.

[@nitrosherbert888]

@@KaiserBeamz Let me guess you have to look them up individually one by one and there isn't just a convenient compilation of all of them.

[@KaiserBeamz]

Oh definitely

[@apexone5502]

You must be a young cat (no disrespect intended). All of those episodes were shown on tv throughout the '80s and '90s.

[@superbowsermatt4432]

Kasier beam you can also get some footage from HBO Max no offense

[@shelbymckinney8888]

Love your videos dud. Have you ever tried doing a KYOTO VIDEO on Rose of Versailles

[@LunchsackTheWise]

I love all of the Fallout 3 songs in the background

[@johnh.1446]

Really enjoying the series ... keep up the good work.

[@RollingClone221]

Amazing video hope you do more

[@bryanquick3349]

been looking forward to the second part!