WB Toons of the Future...literately!!

[jester47]

Loony tunes really stopped being funny when they stopped making the characters insane.

It was like they started giving daffy and bugs meds in the mid fourties.

It pretty much ended in the 50's when they started gearing them for kids. While a lot of it was fun to watch, it just did not have the same hilarity as the earlier ones. The earlier fifties were good. I think the lack of PCness is really the treasure here. I mean would anyone be able to get away with any of these characters today? Especially Speedy Gonzales and Slowpoke Rodriguez?

The 30's and 40's rocked though.

Aaron.

 

[Mad Mac]

Heh, so true. It's the older ones that really rock. Especially Daffy, I mean, he used to be somebody worth watching. Bugs started as a knock off of Daffy even, but then they had to go and make the duck nothing more than Bug's jealous sidekick. Bring back the crazy duck!

 

[jester47]

It ended when Bugs was no longer sausage shaped.

A.

 

[stevelabny]

Tiny Toons was fairly different from the original Loony Toons, and at first look it appeared to be nothing more than a rip of Muppet Babies and Disney Babies (or something along those lines; I know there was a Loony Tunes babies show also). Anyway, Tiny Toons was awesome.

Duck Dodgers is also awesome.

I will give this show a chance.

what he said.

did the rest of you all take grumpy old men pills?

lets check the wb animation track record.

tiny toons was "rehashed" characters...but great.

animaniacs looked like it was going to be rehashed personalities in new shapes... although all the shapes were very old-school style. instead if was one of the best shows ever.

pinky and the brain was great

freakazoid was great.

even road rovers was watchable.

better futuristic BUZZ BUNNY and pals than more Michael Jordan or Brendan Fraser live-action hybrids.

bring it on, ill be there with bells on for the first episode.

 

[Mad Mac]

Not really the same thing, I'm afraid.

Animaniacs was great, but it created it's own characters, rather than mutating bugs into Wakko, for example. That's kind of my point. You can do homage without lifting things wholesale, and be better off for it, instead of creating a supervillian version of Foghorn Leghorn.

Tiny Toons was really an attempt at creating a "modernized" looney toons, with characters aimed more directly at younger viewers. It did well enough, but it was still a direct homage to it's roots...

Making it a show where "Buzzsaw Bugs", ruthless infernal kung-fu death machine and leader of a ragtag group of "badarse" (in the worst, designed by committe looking way possible) intergalactic superheroes is...something entirely different, and would be better served by creating new characters, imo.

Like I said, I'll watch it. That doesn't mean I can't point out that the concept so far strikes me as...wrong, as many others have noted.

Nor does it invalidate my earlier point, that I'd rather see people coming up with their own ideas, instead of relying on characters drawn up over half a century ago. I mean, call me crazy, but back when people were first doing Looney Tunes, they seemed able to handle making stuff up on their own. Sure, most new ideas were based on older ideas, but that's fine...a good character will mature over time.

Bugs started as a blatant Daffy Duck clone, you know. Over time he surpassed Daffy and became a star in his own right. This isn't a gripe directed soley at WB either...the latest Batman show(He's a teenager! He's cool!) just leaves me cold, as well.

 

[Terath Ninir]

We are all old and crotchety -- Grumpy Old Men (and Women) of Geekdom.

It's not nostalgia for me, bub. Or at least mostly not nostalgia. It is mostly the fact that this show looks DUMB. I've seen enough dumbass shows over the years to spot another one coming down the pipeline. Sure, they could surprise me. Betcha they won't, though.

Talk to me again when you've seen clips of them. Gah, lame lame lame lame lame...

 

[ShadowDenizen]

and be better off for it, instead of creating a supervillian version of Foghorn Leghorn.

Boy!
I say, boy!
You're doing that all wrong!



Sorry: but it had to be done, you understand.

 

[nakia]

It's not nostalgia for me, bub. Or at least mostly not nostalgia. It is mostly the fact that this show looks DUMB. I've seen enough dumbass shows over the years to spot another one coming down the pipeline. Sure, they could surprise me. Betcha they won't, though.

Talk to me again when you've seen clips of them. Gah, lame lame lame lame lame...

All we have is a poster and a news story. I'll grant that it does not get me all that excited, but one never knows. They could insert some nice homage pieces, something only older folks who have watched the other cartoons a lot would get. It could be good, or not. Maybe we should both talk again when we've seen clips.

 

[nakia]

Loony tunes really stopped being funny when they stopped making the characters insane.

It was like they started giving daffy and bugs meds in the mid fourties.

It pretty much ended in the 50's when they started gearing them for kids. While a lot of it was fun to watch, it just did not have the same hilarity as the earlier ones. The earlier fifties were good. I think the lack of PCness is really the treasure here. I mean would anyone be able to get away with any of these characters today? Especially Speedy Gonzales and Slowpoke Rodriguez?

The 30's and 40's rocked though.

Aaron.

*ahem!*

"What's Opera Doc?" was released in 1957. Damn funny, and not (totally) for kids.

But I think you're right about the PC-ness, or lack thereof, in the cartoons. My guess is it is hard to find or see many of those cartoons now. Are there Speedy cartoons on the DVD's?

 

[Klaus]

Two words.

Chuck.

and

Jones.

The best Looney director/creator ever.