Looney Tunes 101

[Jon Cooke]

You have just met somebody who's never heard of the Looney Tunes before and is not familiar with the characters. They think the best cartoon of all-time is that show where the Rugrats are teenagers. You need to save the day. You will be the first one to introduce them to the characters and cartoons. You have to make them a tape with only 15 cartoons. What cartoons would you choose to introduce someone to the LT cast of characters?

Each of the following characters must be represented at least once among the 15 cartoons:

Bugs :bugs1:
Daffy :daffy:
Porky
Tweety :tweety:
Sylvester :sylvester
Coyote :coyote:
Road Runner :beepbeep:
Pepe Le Pew :lepew:
Speedy Gonzales :speedy:
Foghorn Leghorn
Yosemite Sam :ysam:
Elmer Fudd

Have fun,

-Jon

[Pietro]

"The Rabbit of Seville"
"Daffy Doodles"
"Bad Ol' Putty Tat"
"Feline Frame-Up"
"Beep! Beep!"
"Hare Do"
"The Daffy Doc"
"For Scent-Imental Reasons"
"Speedy Gonzales"
"The Foghorn Leghorn"
"Congo Jazz"
"Bugs Bunny Rides Again"
"The Great Piggy Bank Robbery"
"Gee Whizzz...."
"What's Opera Doc?"

-Pietro:daffy:

[UncleJunior]

"Great Piggy-Bank Robbery"

"Rabbit Fire"

"Knighty Knight Bugs"

"What's Opera Doc"

"Duck Dodgers in the 241/2 Century"

"For Scentmental Reason"

"Speedy Gonzales"

"Crowing Pains"

"Birds Anonymous."

"Beep Prepared"

"Duck Amuck."

"Big Snooze"

"Porky In Wackyland"

"The Scarlet Pumpernickel."

"Kitty Kornered."

[Dan Porceddu]

1.) "Wabbit Twouble"
2.) "Duck! Rabbit! Duck!"
3.) "The Ducksters"
4.) "A Corny Concerto"
5.) "Tweetie Pie"
6.) "Fast and Furry-Ous"
7.) "Odor-Able Kitty"
8.) "The Pied Piper of Guadalupe"
9.) "Crowing Pains"
10.) "Horse Hare"
11.) "Ant Pasted"
12.) "A Wild Hare"
13.) "Porky in Wackyland"
14.) "The Unmentionables"
15.) "The Great Piggy Bank Robbery"

-Dan

[Martin Juneau]

1. Elmer's Pet Rabbit (1941)
2. Rabbit Seasoning (1952)
3. Fast and Furry-ous (1949)
4. Odor of the Day (1948)
5. The Ducksters (1950)
6. Home Tweet Home (1950)
7. Little Boy Boo (1954)
8. Water, Water, Every Hare (1952)
9. Speedy Gonzales (1955)
10. Hare Brush (1955)
11. The Great Piggy Bank Robbery (1946)
12. Porky the Fireman (1938)
13. What's Opera, Doc? (1957)
14. Wild and Woolly Hare (1959)
15. Mississippi Hare (1949)

[Philo & Gunge]

"What's Opera Doc?"
"Duck Amuck"
"Porky In Wackyland"
"Tweetie Pie"
"Life With Feathers"
"Fast and Furry-ous"
"Beep Beep"
"For Scent-Imental Reasons"
"Speedy Gonzales"
"Crowing Pains"
"Honey's Money"
"An Itch In Time"

[J. B. Warner]

"Bully for Bugs"
"Rabbit Fire"
"High-Diving Hare"
"Birds Anonymous"
"The Foghorn Leghorn"
"What's Opera, Doc?"
"For Scent-Imental Reasons"
"Speedy Gonzales"
"Guided Muscle"
"A Wild Hare"
"The Great Piggy Bank Robbery"
"Duck Amuck"
"Porky Pig's Feat"
"Canned Feud"
"One Froggy Evening"

Each of these cartoons says something about ithe way its director handles the characters. For instance, the ability to keep a cartoon interesting, despite the fact that it's basically the same joke over and over ("High-Diving Hare", "Guided Muscle", "Canned Feud", "For Scent-Imental Reasons", "Speedy Gonzales"), or its exploration of a character's psychology ("Bully for Bugs", "Duck Amuck", "Rabbit Fire", "One Froggy Evening", "Birds Anonymous"). Others are an example of the great artwork accomplished by the Warner crew ("The Great Piggy Bank Robbery", "What's Opera, Doc?"), and others are just great examples of the characters at their best, brightest, and funniest ("The Foghorn Leghorn", "A Wild Hare", "Porky Pig's Feat"). In addition to the characters mentioned above, I tried to get something from each big director (Jones, Freleng, McKimson, Avery, Clampett, and Tashlin).

[Merrytoon]

1."Rabbit Fire" (Or "Rabbit Seasoning" or "Duck Rabit Duck")
2. "Rabbit of Seville"
3."The Daffy Doc"
4."Tweetie Pie"
5."Wild About Hurry"
6."For Scent-Imental Reasons"
7."Speedy Gonzales"
8."Walky Talky Hawky"
9."The Foghorn Leghorn"
10.Ballot Box Bunny"
11."The Ducksters"
12. "What's up Doc?"
13."What's Opera Doc"
14."The Scarlet Pumpernickel."
15."Duck Amuck"

[Daffysleftfoot]

1. Rabbit Seasoning
2. Rabbit of Seville
3. Stop, Look and Hasten
4. Book Revue
5. Catty Cornered
6. High Diving Hare
7. For Scent-imental Reasons
8. Henhouse Henery
9. Speedy Gonzales
10. The Daffy Doc
11. Bedevilled Rabbit
12. Birdy and the Beast
13. Pop 'Im Pop
14. Duck Amuck
15. Scrap Happy Daffy

Not necessarily in that order.

[Jon Cooke]

It took awhile (this was tougher than I thought!), but I finally managed to come up with my list for an "Introduction to Looney Tunes":

01. Rabbit Seasoning
02. Porky Pig's Feat
03. Boobs in the Woods
04. Bad Ol' Putty Tat
05. Bugs Bunny Rides Again
06. Speedy Gonzales
07. What's Up, Doc?
08. The Leghorn Blows at Midnight
09. Fast and Furry-ous
10. Pop 'im Pop!
11. The Great Piggy Bank Robbery
12. One Froggy Evening
13. Baseball Bugs
14. Scent-imental Romeo
15. Rabbit of Seville

[ToOn~g@l]

1. A wild hare
2. I haven't got a hat
3. Duck Amuck
4. The old grey hare
5. odor-able kitty
6. Bugs bunny rides again
7. Fast and Furry-ous
8. Home Tweet Home
9. The Scarlet Pumpernickel
10. Robin Hood Daffy
11. Plop goes the weasel
12. Birds annonymous
13. Rabbits Kin
14. Dripalong Daffy
15. A Corny Concerto

[RetroMan]

- A Wild Hare
- For Scent-imental Reason
- Bugs Bunny Rides Again
- Speedy Gonzales
- Fast And Furry-ous
- The Foghorn Leghorn
- Tweety Pie
- Porky's Duck Hunt
- Ali Baba Bunny
- Baby Bottleneck
- Slick Hare
- The Big Snooze
- The Great Piggy Bank Robbery
- Duck Amuck
- What's Cookin' Doc?

Geez, I pity that guy... teenage rugrats indeed! :(

[Nick]

"Porky In Wackyland"
"Book Revue"
"Odor-Able Kitty"
"Bewitched Bunny"
"Coal Black And De Sebben Dwarfs"
"Walky Talky Hawky"
"Rhapsody Rabbit"
"Holiday For Drumsticks"
"Going! Going! Gosh!"
"Tweetie Pie"
"Kitty Kornered"
"Porky Pig's Feat"
"Mexican Borders"
"A Corny Concerto"
"The Unruly Hare"

[Cartman]

Each of the following characters must be represented at least once among the 15 cartoons:

Bugs :bugs1:
Daffy :daffy:
Porky
Tweety :tweety:
Sylvester :sylvester
Coyote :coyote:
Road Runner :beepbeep:
Pepe Le Pew :lepew:
Speedy Gonzales :speedy:
Foghorn Leghorn
Yosemite Sam :ysam:
Elmer Fudd

Have fun,

-Jon
With that in mind, here's my list:


One of the "Hunter's Trilogy" cartoons
A Tale of Two Kitties
Claws for Alarm
Cannery Woe
Mutiny on the Bunny
Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarves
Ready, Set, Zoom
The Great Piggy Bank Robbery
Bosko's Soda Fountain
Buddy's Beer Garden
Private SNAFU: Spies
Leghorn Swoggled
The Pied Piper of Guadalupe
Herr Meets Hare
Porky in Wackyland

[Thad]

In chronological order:

"I Love to Singa"
"What Price Porky"
"A Wild Hare"
"Wise Quackers"
"High Diving Hare"
"Fast and Furry-Ous"
"For Scent-Imental Reasons"
"Canary Row"
"Rabbit of Seville"
"Canned Feud"
"Chow Hound"
"Early to Bet"
"Leghorn Swoggled"
"Duck Dodgers in the 24th 1/2 Century"
"Cat-Tails for Two"


-Thad

[Daffyfan2004]

Let's see here...

Bugs :bugs1: "Hilbilly Hare"
Daffy :daffy:
Porky "Duck Dodgers" "Boobs in the Woods" (That way I can introduce both incarnations of Daffy)
Tweety :tweety:
Sylvester :sylvester "Hyde and Go Tweet" "Hoppy Go Lucky"
Coyote :coyote:
Road Runner :beepbeep: "Beep Beep!" "Rabbit's Feat" (Both incarnations of Wile E.)
Pepe Le Pew :lepew: "Heaven Scent"
Speedy Gonzales :speedy: "Speedy Gonzales" (of course)
Foghorn Leghorn "A Fractured Leghorn" "Of Rice and Hen"
Yosemite Sam :ysam: "High Diving Hare" "The Fair Hared Hare"
Elmer Fudd "Hare Do" "What's Opera Doc?"

[Bugsmer]

Bugs --Hare Force
Daffy --Plane Daffy
Porky --Porky's Romance
Tweety --A Gruesome Twosome
Sylvester --Goldimouse and the Three cats
Coyote and Roadrunner--Stop, Look and Hasten
Pepe Le Pew --Heaven Scent
Speedy Gonzales --Mexicali Shmoes
Foghorn Leghorn --The Leghorn Blows at Midnight
Yosemite Sam --Bugs Bunny Rides Again
Elmer Fudd --The Wabbit Who Came To Supper
The other cartoon --Naughty But Mice

[Lee Glover]

1. A Wild Hare
2. The Great Piggy Bank Robbery
3. Porky In Wackyland
4. I Taw A Puddy Tat
5. Fast & Furry-ous
6. For Scent-imental Reasons
7. Speedy Gonzales
8. A Fractured Leghorn
9. High Diving Hare
10. Yodelling Yokels
11. Duck! Rabbit! Duck!
12. What Makes Daffy Duck?
13. I Love To Singa
14. Coal Black & De Sebben Dwarfs
15. Chow Hound