Looney Tunes but out of context - pt.5

[@coolbunny]

Love how fluid and fast the frog was quick to just commit die

[@femf1372]

It be like that somedays

[@CrazyFoo501]

that Frog committed suicide for a punchline Joker would be proud

[@guyallen8844]

I'm genuinely shocked they had such a blatant suicide joke.

[@ratedr7845]

@@guyallen8844 the 1940s were a different time

[@thdgcfx]

Ahh croaking

[@illusionist1872]

the disintegrating pistol joke has to be my favorite. it did exactly what it said it'd do

[@KyuubiDragon4]

Well whadaya know, it, disintegrated.

[@Derfiam14]

I forgot how wacky the logic was so it caught me off guard.😂

[@Adrianovaz2007]

Brother, when it disintegrates, it disintegrates!

[@SuperSylar]

Acme quality, amirite lol

[@13576bard]

I also love Daffy as Robin Hood, with his trusty quarter staff. "It's really a buck and a quarter staff, but I'm not telling him that!"

[@GreyWolfLeaderTW]

One of the great things about Looney Tunes is that most of the jokes don't require any context to be amusing.

[@austinmorrison6953]

Hardest decision of looney tunes is deciding wether or not it’s funny with context or without

[@MiJi_29]

Sadly the suicide part was too good to exist 😂

[@Spynmaster]

no need for editing or censoring either

[@Nintendotron64]

The Michigan J Frog joke definitely requires context. The whole joke of that short relies on knowing the plot.

[@thdenwheja756]

Probably because most of these don't make any sense in context either.

[@skeepodoop5197]

0:22 I was trying to think of how this joke would go, but nothing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING could have prepared me for that one liner.

[@johnjoestar5111]

I was dying of laughter for a good minute.

[@Nano-go5dw]

@@johnjoestar5111 same

[@grandarkfang_1482]

Persona 3 Frog

[@scytheslash]

@@grandarkfang_1482 BABY BABY BABY BABY BABY BABY BABY BABY BABY BABY BABY BABY BABY BABY BABY BABY BABY BABY BABY BABY BABY BABY

[@glowworm2]

I remember being absolutely shocked when I first saw that punchline as I did not see it coming either. However, I now think it's hilarious.

[@BorgBunnie]

the frog croaking one caught me so off guard that a fencing teacher is yelling at me for my form

[@arcanelore3791]

This is a Quality Jest.

[@cmyk8964]

@@arcanelore3791 You mean a quality JOUST?

[@arcanelore3791]

@@cmyk8964 -- AYYYYY

[@Twinklethefox9022]

Same. I want to know where that's from

[@Crimson_Sun2486]

@@cmyk8964 touche

[@ChippNDipp]

Looney Tunes had unfathomable meme potential. There just wasn't a way to share with everyone so quickly.

[@pichass9337]

it was literally on tv

[@ing-acnl9455]

@@pichass9337 they talking about memes, on the Internet?? U couldn't share memes with the tv?

[@coolbunny]

With Multiversus growing in popularity, maybe we might see a surge.

[@milly-sy4bc]

people shared it through word of mouth everyday

[@pichass9337]

@@ing-acnl9455 Do you know what a "meme" is?

[@funnyvideoguy3216]

The frog killing itself had me laugh hysterically for like a solid minute maybe more

[@shadowhalk225]

same bro, im still going

[@blazryvlogs2535]

Well, it was a frog croaking, it was exactly as advertised

[@legendgames128]

@@blazryvlogs2535 True, just not in the sense we think of it.

[@Freakazoid12345]

The rate of sewerslide among frogs is very high, hence the term.

[@glowworm2]

2:42 will never cease being funny to me. "Hey, I better cut this out. I may get to like it!"

[@ing-acnl9455]

I dont get that one 😔

[@glowworm2]

@@ing-acnl9455 Quite simple, actually. It's a masturbation joke. In fact, that line wasn't supposed to be in this short. Bob Clampett, the director, was playing a game of bait and switch with the Hays Office, and purposely dropped this line in so that they would take it out, yet leave in the dog frantically rubbing his butt on the carpet. Surprisingly, they didn't catch it and the line thankfully stayed in.

[@mihaiteodor7763]

The dog be like: Hope this doesn't awaken anything in me

[@Cartoon_Ej]

That's the word Plucky and Peanut used but reword it

[@markschildberg1667]

Bob Clampett was supposed to cut that gag out of the cartoon, but somehow it stayed in.😁

[@apertureemployee215]

1:09 Anyone who's owned a cat knows this isn't a joke, its just accurate

[@flea3745]

I didn't know cats wore boots

[@panthererousse]

idk i dont have stairs in my hiuse

[@whatusernameis5295]

though the sound delay isn't (especially as it's only for the footsteps not the noises lol)

[@Ghostpopz]

Can confirm. My cats are either making the loudest thuds with their tiny paws by bouncing everywhere or they're screaming at a bird they saw. Or both.

[@RoseyStoleYourToast]

Literally I’ll be sleeping and wake up to my cat running back and forth through hallway while her little bell jingles 😭

[@mooparr]

What really sells it is how aggressive the sound effects are and how hard the actors are trying. It's the sound that completes it.

[@HesmiyuMC]

And the fun thing is, most of the voices you heard were by one guy, Mel Brooks.

[@JetFalcon710]

@@HesmiyuMC I think you meant Mel Blanc?

[@HesmiyuMC]

@@JetFalcon710 yep, Blanc is what I was meant to say :P

[@PixelationMusic]

0:21 I was caught so off guard. I cried laughing. The randomness. The pun. It’s all amazing.

[@sparrowhawk3723]

also not to mention the abrupt cut

[@yosh-the-yosh]

isn’t loony toons a kids show or am i wrong

[@angryboi595]

@@yosh-the-yosh not really, it’s a cartoon but there are some dark things and jokes in this

[@21specter]

As a child, I saw way more of Pepe Le Pew pretending to off himself to manipulate the girl than I had any business seeing

[@TheScarletSlayer]

You know a show is good when it could hold up even after a few hundred years. Don't tell me this won't still be funny 100 years from now

[@ceddavis7441]

Linguistic changes may make this absolutely incomprehensible. But that's the way it should be.

[@TheScarletSlayer]

@@yellowbird5 what? The revamps?

[@pyrotechnick420]

@@ceddavis7441 We can clearly understand recording's of people from the 1920s, besides slang, language doesn't deviate that much within 100 years. Try 300 years

[@ceddavis7441]

@@pyrotechnick420 fair enough

[@toadfan64]

I mean some of these shorts are almost there. One of my favorites from when I was a kid with Daffy and The Dinosaur was from 1939, so 83 years and it's still just as funny.

[@Rolach]

I don't know why but the joke of: Character making a lot of noise, stopping suddenly, and then saying something in a perfectly calm voice, and then resuming, is one of the funniest things ever.

[@glowworm2]

It's a classic. The one near the end with the bull in the spider's web kills me along with the one of the dog frantically rubbing his butt across the carpet.

[@ShadowHunter24681]

Yep,even outside of looney toones

[@ForTheOmnissiah]

And they usually break the fourth wall when doing so. It is, and always will, be funny.

[@angelsanchez5961]

ay bro you should buy more league skins

[@dakota3047]

Yess, pure golden comedy right thar! 👌

[@mordekaihorowitz]

The "frog croaking" joke was amazing and totally unexpected because I forgot that croaking used to mean dying

[@henrybierman8431]

It's also perfectly timed

[@SkiKoala]

Looney Tunes are always out context and that's what makes them hilarious.

[@CheeseMiser]

One, you aren't the first person to say that. Two, you are wrong

[@krmiistudios2479]

Could agree with u more.

[@Colorado-inhabitant]

​@Joshua Landeros 🤡

[@TheDownUnderGamer01]

0:33 When someone has an unpopular opinion on the internet.

[@uldisbergvalds1]

When one makes the mistake of missing a joke (speaking from experience, especcially from me, i recoil when remembering foolish mistakes i made, and ig feel haunted by my past & shit)

[@friendlytexangamer9582]

That's the dog that tried to say their opinion on Twitter.

[@AllForSpeedyCollabs2ndAUTTP]

0:35*

[@KinitoPET_HERE]

When you type anything on twitter/X

[@amirgarcia547]

I love how the baseball segment feels exactly like something outta Rhythm Heaven, or any rhythm game for that matter.

[@TheIrkenEmpire420]

I was thinking the same thing

[@Wyrmington]

Exhibition match on crack

[@Doug_Edwards99]

That’s Friz Freleng for you. He was the master of syncing up the animation with the music.

[@davidw.2791]

@@Doug_Edwards99Conga music, right?

[@maxxdoutt3585]

3:01 Y’know I completely forgot about the toothpaste ad line that everyone is referencing, but the way Daffy suddenly hit that wall is froze in that position is so fresh in my mind. I can’t explain any better than that why that was always so funny to me lol

[@leonardoquickgyro12]

I realize now that the reason why Boomerang has such a small selection of reruns for Looney Tunes is because so many jokes would be considered inappropriate

[@KingRandor82]

most of the good stuff was already out of circulation by the late 60s; almost everything that was left over was just bland mush.

[@victori4027]

Some of these episodes are actually banned from airing on TV. So that def limited their selection

[@OneBiasedOpinion]

We got way too soft as a society, and so we lost the best of our comedic creativity as a result.

[@HJSDGCE]

It's also because they probably lost most of them. Remember, this was back in the 50s. Data storage was super expensive back then, so it's not uncommon they'd just delete stuff they don't use anymore.

[@csonweedagain5054]

@@donottouchmyfood anytime I hear this argument I immediately think of the disclaimer at the beginning of the vhs tapes and DVDs "The cartoons you are about to see are products of their time. They may depict some of the ethic and racial prejudices that were commonplace in American society. These depictions were wrong then and are wrong today. While the following does not represent the Warner Bros. view of today's society, these cartoons are being presented as they were originally created, because to do otherwise would be the same as claiming these prejudices never existed." Maybe try teaching kids instead of pretending the past never happened, unless you want the new generations to fall down the same path. Oh wait.

[@MMTrigger]

What's wild is that most of, if not all, the characters were voiced by Mel Blanc. Man had phenomenal range, with Sylvester being the closest to his natural voice.

[@stephenholloway6893]

Most in this case there were exceptions even in these clips. Like Bugs pretending to be Groucho Marx, that was Daws Butler. Plus Elmer and Bosko for example, wasn't voiced by Mel. Though Mel rarely voiced Elmer in the Golden Age of Animation, but he didn't fully took over the voice of Elmer til after the studio was closed for good (far as the Golden Age goes).

[@sheilaolfieway1885]

Mel blanc and Micheal Winslow: The human soundboard.

[@sashimiroll5055]

The frog commuting un-alive caught me off guard tbh.

[@robbiewalker2831]

0:39: This joke was censored in syndication broadcasts.

[@canaisyoung3601]

You should see how the "You Beat Your Wife" part is edited. Cutting that line is only the tip of the iceberg.

[@Thelowestofthelowtiers]

0:34 is hilarious as all hell.

[@Randomest_king]

Twitter when you have an opinion:

[@EthanTheGamer77]

3:02 I saw this in a toothpaste ad once

[@Randomest_king]

Tadaaaaa *BANG*

[@Ipoopedeveryparents]

3:01

[@pikminfan6778]

3:02 You just couldn't resist, could you?

[@samp.8099]

Gotta keep up with the times

[@YourFaulty]

just for myself: 3:01

[@mr.nerd3.142]

He saw it in a toothpaste ad once.

[@elliotttafel578]

Daffy: OOF! Bugs: looks like brushed away half my troubles

[@Hellwaterva]

it’s so good

[@yoshi_chuck05]

2:56 Yes cow this honestly does look hard to believe how strong that spider web is 😂😂😂

[@Whyiseveryhandletaken6942]

Spider webs are some quantity stronger than steel, but they break easily because they’re thin

[@glowworm2]

*Frantic mooing* "This is hard to believe, isn't it?" *Frantic mooing resumes.*

[@theycallmeflipper4515]

"When it disintegrates, it disintegrates"

[@malcontender6319]

Quality jokes only get better with age.

[@arthurmartin4616]

Gotta love accurate advertising

[@jamesdude4025]

That one caught me off guard 🤣

[@reese_zero3437]

0:30 is an underrated clip from this compilation. I laughed so hard 😂😂😂😂

[@chaoticcanine]

I remember having that episode on a compilation dvd as a kid and that joke made me laugh every single time

[@Radman1889]

1:39 - accurate depiction of a typical Orioles inning

[@greenflame246]

0:33 bro this part gets me everytime

[@ANDROLOMA]

0:49 That bizarre creature said "The dirty fuck?"

[@glowworm2]

That would be Bosko. To this very day, however, it has not been confirmed by animation historians whether he actually cursed or not.

[@ANDROLOMA]

@@glowworm2 I did not know that creature had a name! Thank you for relaying that tidbit of trivia!

[@glowworm2]

@@ANDROLOMA Yep, Bosko was basically the first Looney Tunes character, basically their answer to Mickey Mouse (All of the rival animation studios were trying to create their own "Mickey Mouse" characters back then) and he starred in numerous shorts. When I was a kid, Nickelodeon actually would air his shorts among the Looney Tunes so he was a rather early memory.

[@tonycanabal1659]

Some cartoons made before the Hays Code in 1934 had profanity, inuendo, flipping the bird. They weren't always family friendly.

[@georgeoldsterd8994]

@@glowworm2 yeah, i think he was actually _the_ first Looney Tunes/ Merry Melodies character, the first short being in 1929, featuring a live action video of the animator drawing Bosko for the very first time on a big sheet of paper, and an animated Bosko coming to life and singing, playing the piano, and doing some light shenanigans, before the animator gets tired and pulls him back into an ink pen.

[@usuallyangry]

1:39-1:53 I would pay to see this recreated in an actual baseball game.

[@Lisapancakes]

0:57 This scene still gets me every time 🤣🤣🤣

[@dariusbrock2713]

every tiktok couple off camera

[@BenBlackEquinoxEngelhard]

The bit with Silvester stomping up and down the stairs is EXACTLY what my cat does irl.

[@firecrakerj3312]

1:31 It was then the old man realized…he wasn’t in Kansas anymore…

[@jakey3273]

He was in Australia the whole time 🇦🇺

[@SBSP02]

Moo?! MOOOOOOOO!!!

[@meese9140]

The frog croaking made me laugh WAY harder than it should’ve

[@pyrotechnick420]

1:31 The way the farmer screams moo really gets me

[@hunderslash]

the joke where a character doesn’t fall until they realize they are in mid-air will never not be funny

[@acehealer4212]

1:54 This disintegrating pistol gag. I love it.

[@eggsbenedict7711]

"Here, we show you a close-up of a frog croaking" **Fucking kills himself**

[@HappyMatt12345]

0:21 You know you're watching an old cartoon when there is humor modern cartoons would never in a million years be able to get away with.

[@NotSteveCook]

😆 Sylvester being deliberately obnoxious to disturb Elmer Fudd has always been funny to me

[@glowworm2]

That part alone has always made me laugh.

[@carlymara88]

😛 tralalalala (stomps upstairs/downstairs)

[@joshuamurphy944]

Naw that part where we plays noisy instruments and wakes up Elmer and he runs still making noise

[@ma3mc3mu-X]

*Ducks:* BOO! *Dog:* Hooray! (Gets pelted with garbage) *Ducks:* HOORAY! *Dog:* Boo! (Gets pelted with garbage again)

[@crnkmnky]

Hey, a lot of that was fresh produce. Who needs a grocery store, when you can just piss off a gang of screwball ducks every night. 🥗

[@ErikFlores-mo3fs]

@@crnkmnkyquiet ducks

[@crnkmnky]

@@ErikFlores-mo3fs 🦆🦆🦆

[@ErikFlores-mo3fs]

@@crnkmnky it’s woo ducks

[@abnowacky]

@@crnkmnkyWe ducks are not crazy! We just don’t give a darn!

[@bucketsdoesstuff2824]

I grew up on Looney Tunes since my parents both loved it, and honestly rewatching these clips shows just how much that influenced my sense of humor. (And I I BEYOND GRATEFUL for that)

[@otaking3582]

"Here we show a close-up of a frog croaki- *OH GOD THAT'S NOT WHAT WE MEANT!"*

[@DangerAngelous]

Looney Tunes is the root cause of why my humour is so maniacal and I love it 💚💚💚

[@Damian_1989]

0:49 that dirty *what*

[@RightBoyKA-POW]

2:13 It really sounds like he's laughing. Lol

[@lightning_bishop260]

2:38 this is exactly why Daffy is my favorite Looney Tunes character. He’s my spirit animal.

[@Naro_Rivers]

I think I remember seeing that episode, but I can’t remember which it was.

[@Mommy_Makima20]

​@@Naro_RiversOne of the "duck season wabbit season' episodes if I'm not mistaken

[@abnowacky]

The episode is “Rabbit Seasoning”

[@dartheleven2108]

I'm so glad I grew up with this era of cartoons

[@sml2k186]

The best thing of looney tunes is that things do the exact opposite of what you expect and it is hilarious

[@sullsosoto256]

Decades later and the "Acme Disintegrating Pistol" still gets me every time.

[@DoctorInk20]

*Animation writing* owes so much to these shorts; between being absurd, clever and just a little edgy (for want of a better word), I'd argue it set up the future for things like _The Simpsons, Shrek_ and many other modern works in the medium. Makes me look at those *HBO shorts* with a bit more of a frown, really. They miss the point entirely.

[@roblox_boosa]

0:21 from PG to R in one second

[@Tony_Baloney_69420]

0:16 Instagrammers be like:

[@AlluSRJ]

2:20 "cruesom isn it"😅

[@emanuellymtc]

2:23 so THAT is the origin of that gore edit

[@Koishi97]

The 1940s sure was an interesting time huh?

[@Broomer52]

The kind of jokes in cartoons we just don’t see anymore

[@Koishi97]

@@Broomer52 "tOo ViOlEnT" Meanwhile in modern cartoons: toilet humor

[@Broomer52]

@@Koishi97 ?

[@WAEVOICE]

Some of us were at war; anything to keep that off our minds for a few minutes was a warm welcome.

[@mario4everd]

@@Broomer52 we see this often tho, a lot of it just transitioned into adult cartoons. If anything its mostly the 60s and 70s when cheesy hannah barbarra stuff took over which was really tame by comparison.

[@Kakmanmartinez666]

As a former cat owner, I can relate to this clip 1:09

[@v2actingsus]

1:02 wow the only time im ever gonna be confused in an out of context vid.

[@RedRaikou]

Looney tunes and Tom & Jerry are classics that will never be unfunny

[@seasonsstarsstudios]

1:20 my dad used to work on a dairy farm a long time ago. I imagine he used to do this while milking the cows. I still make that noise on a regular basis when I’m squishing something.

[@jacobcox4565]

0:21 I'm laughing so hard I'm gonna croak

[@michaelvuong9302]

0:41 The ram is getting turned on by Porky

[@thatonepianoguy_]

I lost it at 1:58 😭

[@unique_avi749]

0:21-0:25. Naw we can’t just overlook this one lmao

[@GalenNight]

0:15 they were starting furries off way longer than I thought they’d be around

[@JDT-Loadsamoney]

I don’t think that’s count as a furry, it’s like a wasp bee thing and they don’t really _have_ fur, and I doubt they’ll fall into any subcategories (scalies, avians, probably more) so it’s more just an overly sexualised wasp bee thing.

[@AlexBigShid]

0:23 Quite possibly the last thing I expected to happen there

[@didntcaretonameitstudios]

0:20 i was not mentally prepared for that...

[@matpidrums7006]

1:30 bro knows the workings of cartoon physics

[@M_is_lost]

Ok I thought that frog one was kinda random, but now I understand it, it's hilarious!

[@georgeoldsterd8994]

Care to explain?

[@shadowpriest2574]

@@georgeoldsterd8994 You can say "John croaked" to mean "John Died". "A frog Croaking" can mean "A frog dieing"

[@ivansimonov6076]

2:47 the line reused in cat burglar

[@spiffy3430]

Seeing animorphic characters speak to me in a calm ass tone after screaming their lungs out is funny as hell

[@tophatproduction2363]

2:14 Bugs bunny: **CRYING IN PAIN** Subtitles: [Laughter]

[@crnkmnky]

I mean, close your eyes and tell me that stinker ain’t laffin’ 😂

[@georgeoldsterd8994]

*_C O M E D Y_*

[@ArendAlphaEagle]

The subtitles were 20 seconds too early

[@abnowacky]

@@crnkmnkyain’t he a stinker?

[@nmn5550]

Ain't called "Looney", as in Lunatic, for no reason ya know.

[@InnocentC0]

0:10 that is odd style I never see much anymore.

[@crnkmnky]

Yeah! Perhaps it was rotoscoped (traced over footage of a real person). 🤔

[@billyline3558]

1:09 me at 3am cause I can't sleep

[@NoriMori1992]

2:25 - 2:37 This is incredible voice acting!

[@lekanraposte6732]

_"A frog croaking"_ Oh my god...

[@abnowacky]

him screwball

[@SpergusonAutismo]

"heres an example of a frog croaking" was fucking brutal.

[@gamenwatch6269]

Dude that frog croaking joke was genius!

[@moonbeaststudiosgaming]

one of my FAVORITE old cartoon tropes is when the character is freaking out, then suddenly stops and calmly addresses the camera, I love it

[@awsumsas]

The frog croaking joke has to be the funniest thing on earth for anyone who doesn’t know croaking is a synonym for dying

[@captainfluffy7232]

Holy shit! That clip with the frog was so quick!

[@hiimemily]

That "frog croaking" bit got me _good._

[@Twinklethefox9022]

That frog documentary caught me off guard....

[@captaindookey]

A frog croaking always gets me

[@soupalex]

every time the angry quacking of the all-duck crowd gets interrupted by laramore weakly chanting "hooray!", followed by a barrage of thrown fruit and veg (and cheese? mans loved drawing edam back in the day), i fucking lose it

[@antiUTTP1]

1:39 baseball bugs is one of my favorites

[@bookid1581]

0:22 I was not prepared

[@CrispyFajita]

The fact that these were recorded in a normal ass room with fuckin reverb blaring makes the yelling funnier

[@badcatalex]

*warehouse

[@usernamesarestupid7104]

THE FROG CROAKING MADE ME DOUBLE OVER IN LAUGHTER OH MY HOD

[@Tekkenandgaming]

No cartoon or other entertainment format will ever come close to how great these were, honestly almost every las one of these was a masterpiece.

[@kentoncompton3009]

“- and here we show you a closeup of a frog croaking” *BANG!*

[@AdmiNJessE]

0:23 here we show you a close up of the frog croaking *death*

[@thatdemoninthecar]

The only one that isn't marked as "for kids" and also one of the only ones that don't feature either Hitler, a reference to Nazi Germany, or... Daffy duck using a doorknob as a butt plug after trying to pretend he's sitting on an egg?

[@samp.8099]

Gotta love KZbin

[@tonycanabal1659]

Daffy's bossy wife made him sit on her egg while going out. When the egg disappears he grabs the doorknob out of desperation.

[@thatdemoninthecar]

@@samp.8099 TRUE

[@thatdemoninthecar]

@@tonycanabal1659 whoops, my bad.

[@marcusbullock630]

Everyones laughing at the frog but im dying at the lone dog saying hooray lol

[@newt2942]

“Here, we show you a close up of a frog croaking” LMAO

[@CipherWavesMemes]

You’ll know when a kids cartoon’s good if the adults laugh aswell.

[@stephenholloway6893]

They were actually made with adults in mind. Yes kids saw them in theaters as well but they wasn't the target demographic.

[@alibaba1550]

When it disintegrates

[@brandontaylor6677]

It disintegrates

[@JumbleJammyJokes]

Huh, what do you know, it disintegrated