September 19, 2010
Looney Tunes Get Active...at McDonald's?
The United States isn't the only place where the Looney Tunes characters are promoting a healthy/active lifestyle. In France, you can now find "Looney Tunes Active" toys inside McDonald's Happy Meals... wait. What? Here's the now-airing ad featuring CGI versions of Tweety, Daffy and Bugs shooting some hoops with an anthropomorphic Happy Meal box.
Porky goes to Wackyland to get some Dough for the Do-Do
Speaking of cool YouTube videos, here's one I posted on the GoldenAgeCartoons Facebook page the other day. I felt it was worth posting here as well. YouTube user xrstoph created this side-by-side comparison video featuring footage from Bob Clampett's classic "Porky in Wackyland" beside the footage from Friz Freleng's 1949 remake, "Dough For the Do-Do". Check it out.
Looney Tunes Cartoon Checklist
Looney Tunes Cartoon Checklist
What follows is a very short and complete listing of every Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoon in order of release. This listing also includes movies and TV specials which feature the classic characters (Bugs, Daffy, Tweety, Porky, etc.). Some miscellaneous shorts are listed which either have a significant link to the years of 1930-69 or which feature the famous WB characters.
NOTE: This list is not a complete filmography of all of Warner Bros. animation. There are other sources on the Internet, such as Toon Zone, that deal with modern TV shows such as Animaniacs, Histeria, and Batman. Animated movies from Warner Bros. that do not star the Looney Tunes characters are not listed (Wakko's Wish, The Iron Giant, Quest For Camelot, etc.). The same goes for TV specials which do not feature the LT characters (Tiny Toons' Spring Break, etc.).
See the following links for episode guides to the modern TV series featuring the Looney Tunes characters (or an unreasonable facsimile of the Looney Tunes characters): Tiny Toon Adventures, Taz-Mania, The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries, Duck Dodgers, Baby Looney Tunes, and Loonatics.
Also not listed on the following Checklist but worthy of mention: Bugs Bunny's short appearances in the feature films such as Two Guys From Texas and My Dream Is Yours; the 1964 feature film The Incredible Mr. Limpet (which featured animation done by the WB cartoon studio); the 1972 TV special by Filmation Daffy Duck and Porky Pig Meet the Groovy Ghoulies; and documentaries such as The Boys From Termite Terrace and Chuck Amuck: The Movie.
The movie Bugs Bunny Superstar (1975) is listed even though it was not released by Warner Bros. It was made by "Hare Raising Films Inc." and used the pre-1948 A.A.P. package of Warner cartoons (which at the time were owned by United Artists). The film is now owned by Turner/Time-Warner.
The various TV series which have broadcast Looney Tunes over the years (The Bugs Bunny Show, etc.) are featured in the Looney Tunes On TV section of this website.
---------------------------------------- LOONEY TUNES & MERRIE MELODIES FILMOGRAPHY: 1930: ____ Sinkin' in the Bathtub ____ Congo Jazz ____ Hold Anything ____ The Booze Hangs High ____ Box Car Blues 1931: ____ The Big Man From the North ____ Ain't Nature Grand? ____ Ups 'n Downs ____ Dumb Patrol ____ Yodeling Yokels ____ Bosko's Holiday ____ The Tree's Knees ____ Lady Play Your Mandolin ____ Smile, Darn Ya, Smile ____ Bosko Shipwrecked ____ One More Time ____ Bosko the Doughboy ____ You Don't Know What You're Doin' ____ Bosko's Soda Fountain ____ Hittin' the Trail For Hallelujah Land ____ Bosko's Fox Hunt ____ Red-Headed Babysee the rest here
Bin Laden Suffers Twin Miscarriage Cartoon
Bin Laden Suffers Miscarriage Cartoon Bin Laden Animated to Death Osama bin Laden, the Al-Qaeda leader and mastermind of the September 11 attacks had been expecting twin grandchildren, but British surrogate mother Louise Pollard suffered a miscarriage after she was attacked in Syria. Louise Pollard had been carrying the children of Omar and his British wife, Zaina. Omar is Osama bin Laden's fourth son.