#LOONEY TUNES

[emirrart]

guys im about to LOSE my shit

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[deva-26]

LOL!!!

The duel is freaking hilarious!! 🤣

“What a goon!”

Bugs Bunny: Mississippi Hare Director: Chuck Jones | Studio: Warner Bros. | USA, 1949

[daffydoodles]

Happy eh-bih-be-ehh-eh-beh-bih-eh-bih-ehh—aw, the ol’ boy’s 90! As the self proclaimed number one Porky Pig fan, this isn’t an occasion to take lightly; I had to just devote a piece to the wonderfully chaotic Porky’s Party to celebrate! Happy birthday, fat boy!

[dailylooneys]

Happy 90th B-B-Birthday, Porky Pig!

Yeap! Happy 90th Birthday to Warner Bros. first ever true cartoon star and the oldest continuing character in the Looney Tunes character.

After many (somewhat) failed attempts at creating a starring character for the very young Termite Terrace, many of them being Mickey Mouse-equse characters, such as Bosko, Foxy (most infamously and obviously) and Buddy....

.....there came a point in the mid-30s' where the directors, particularly Friz Freleng and Tex Avery, wanted to try and do something different, and that was to create a character who had a unique voice and embodied the soon-to-become irreverent style of humor of the WB cartoons.

First appeared in 1935's I Haven't Got a Hat, directed by Friz Freleng, part of the color one-shot series of Merrie Melodies shorts, was an attempt for Termite Terrace to see which character who appeared in the short could be there next star. Porky appeared in a somewhat supporting role in the film, voiced by Joe Dougherty, who had an actual stutter. The character's iconic stutter was inspired by a real-life pig guttering noise, according to Mel Blanc.

Well, I had trouble with, Porky, because he stuttered, and a lot of people said, "you can't do that". That's why I did it, because everybody was using falsetto voices, everything sounded the same. And I said, what can I do to make this character different? So I called up Warners' casting and said, do you got anybody who stutters? And they had this [Joe] Dougherty guy, who stuttered, and the guy could not just get through a line. And we were doing all of our sound on film then, there wasn’t any tape. If Jack Warner knew how much film I was using, I was through with animation. So I had to get somebody to mimic, and that was Mel. And of course, Mel can do anything. - Friz Freleng (”Friz on Film” documentary)

According to animation historian Jerry Beck, there was some thought that Beans would be the studio's next big cartoon star, as he would appear in a handful of shorts in the black-and-white Looney Tunes, while Ham and Ex were the only other characters of I Haven't Got a Hat to also make one more appearance, starring alongside Beans in The Fire Alarm (1936).

Goes without saying, nobody found Beans or Ham and Ex at all interesting, leading to Porky overshadowing them, and the rest is history.

From then on, Porky became the star of the Looney Tunes series, which were still in black-and-white up until '43. Like many classic cartoons character from the Golden Age of Animation, Porky's role varied from kid to adult character, to dealing with many everyday mundane things or having a specific position, including, but not limited to, farmer, hunter, waiter and zoologist, usually accompanied with other characters such as Porky's dad, Daffy Duck, Gabby Goat, or other one-offs.

The director who perhaps was responsible for giving Porky an even more distinguishing personality and design that we associated with today is Bob Clampett, as he was relegated to directing the main Looney Tune shorts up until the early '40s, which was possibly when Porky shorts were at their best.

(an image of the now-famous "blooper" (Breakdown of 1939) of Porky swearing, directed by Clampett, was made as part of a compilation of bloopers from live-action films, was screened during WB Christmas party reels, but was never released to theaters. This was made a year earlier before Gone with the Wind gained controversy for the use of the word "damn", as swearing was beyond prohibited in films up until the 1960s, when the Hays Code was starting die out.)

However, with the introduction of other, more colorful and quirky, mischievous characters such as Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny, the directors would have admitted to having gradually grown tired of Porky as a character, even as early as 1939, he would play a very minimal role in much of the shorts, such as Porky's Hotel, Porky's Poor Fish, Meet Joe Dougherty and The Chewin' Bruin to name a few. Frank Tashlin infamously stated that he straight up hated Porky, referring to him as "a terrible character", due to the fact that a majority of the shorts he directed always starred Porky, finding him to be very inflexible, compared to his favorite character, Daffy. As a result of Porky's lack of popularity with the directors, Porky would end up becoming more of a side character, often alongside Daffy, Sylvester, Charlie Dog and so on, worked to Porky's benefit as not only did he continue to have sustained popularity with movie theater audiences, but the humor often derived from Porky being the most fairly grounded character being caught in the center of the character's wacky, off-the-wall personalities, or that when he's pushed to his limits, Porky will too snap!

"Nobody liked to work with Porky, because he was too square of a character." - Friz Freleng

Thankfully, this resulted in Porky never losing his popularity as he continues to be as world-famous and recognizable as Bugs, Daffy, Road Runner, Foghorn Leghorn, ect. After over 30 years, Porky would make his last appearance in the original theatrical series' in 1965's Corn on the Cop starring Porky and Daffy as Keystone Kops-looking cops trying to capture a crook whose dressed as Granny.

This cartoon has many significance: it being the only latter-day WB short he ever appeared in. The only Porky short directed by Irv Spector. And the only time Porky appeared alongside Granny, having almost the longest-lasting appearance of any of the characters in the original Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series, defeating only by Daffy Duck, who's last original appearance was in 1968 (31 years), near the ending of the original theatrical cartoon series and the closure of Warner Bros. animation department.

After the end of his movie career, Porky would continue to appear in many other Looney Tunes-related material, one of them being The Porky Pig Show (1964 - 1967) which is a compilation of various of the original shorts, an appearance on Tiny Toon Adventures as Hampton J. Pig's idol and mentor, and many more, especially more recently, one of the main stars of The Day The Earth Blew Up (2025) where we see him in his original Bob Clampett design.

So, despite not being considered the immediate favorite of either the creators (both the original and new) and/or casual viewers', we should not forget the importance of Porky Pig and the impact he left on the original Looney Tunes, and the franchise as a whole. I mean, we got a whole DVD set entirely dedicated to the pig himself:

[taxlthomas]

it’s his birthdayyyyyyy he’s a little birthday boy

[artoflooneytunes]

Production cels for The Wise Quacking Duck (1943).

[dompler]

hey man, what are you shooting me for? it's obviously pim season!

[zero06iranosaurusrex]

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[jakecuervodelespacial]

Happy Bday babe.

Daffy x Porky

[emirrart]

02,03,2025

anyone else not give a fuck about this show /j

[acmeoop]

The Snerd Bird “Bugs Bunny Gets The Boid” (1942)

[astrinexvier]

🐷HAPPY BIRTHDAY YOU SILLY OL' SWINE YOU!🐷

[phantaevel]

bullying bowling

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[dailylooneys]

Happy 85th Biwthday to Elmer Fudd!

85 years of the world-famous cartoon hunter, created by Chuck Jones and voiced by Arthur Q. Bryan.

Before becoming the famous hunter we know him as, made an appearance as a prototype character in Tex Avery's Little Red Walking Hood (1937), named Egghead.

Though his official name didn't appear until A Feud There Was (1938), also directed by Avery.

His first official appearance was in Chuck Jones's Elmer's Candid Camera (1940) with the Bugs Bunny prototype.

While the short has it's significance of introducing Elmer, the film was not really favored among fans and even director Chuck Jones himself:

"Perhaps the kindest thing to say about “Elmer's Candid Camera” is that it taught everyone what not to do and how not to do it." - Chuck Jones

The famous and well-known dynamic between Bugs and Elmer wouldn't be firmly introduced until Tex Avery's A Wild Hare (1940), the debut of the world-famous screwy rabbit.

Despite this, the directors still experimented with Bugs and Elmer as a duo in shorts like Elmer's Pet Rabbit (1940) by Jones, that starred this early, more aggressive version of Bugs, complete with yellow gloves and a different voice, depicted as an unwelcome guest in Elmer's home.

It would take a while for Bugs and Elmer to become a prominent duo in the series, as Bugs would be paired up with many different characters, such as Willoughby The Dog and Cecil Turtle to name a few, all during 1941.

And, of course, there was still some experimenting going on, design-wise. The famous Fat Elmer was first seen in Bob Clampett's Wabbit Twouble (1941) for a few shorts, phyiscally resembling his voice actor, before retrieving back to the original, more familiar design.

In this short, Bugs was the heckler to Elmer, a role that continued on in Friz Freleng's The Wabbit Who Came to Supper (1942) and The Wacky Wabbit (1942) as by Clampett, until the roles were switched to Elmer being the antagonist, to help make the rabbit more tolerable to movie theater audiences, as his fame and popularity grew bigger and bigger by 1942 as the most popular character of the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies film series.

From then on, Elmer and Bugs would become one of the more well-known pairings in animation and film history, featured in many of the greatest shorts ever done.

Though many sometimes forget that Elmer did have different co-stars through his tenure, such as Sylvester and Daffy, like in To Duck or Not to Duck (1943) by Jones, Kit for Cat (1948) and Wise Quacks (1949) both by Freleng, serving a different dynamic as the straight man to Sylvester and Daffy in Design for Leaving (1954) by Robert McKimson.

After sometime, according to David H. DePatie, who later became the executive producer for Warner Bros. animation studio for much of the 1960s, would state that none of the directors were all that fond of Elmer Fudd, believing he wasn't threatening enough for Bugs and his very limited role as the hunter. Friz Freleng was the most vocal of his disdain towards the rabbit-hunting formula and Elmer as a character, which is evident in both Stage Door Cartoon (1942) and The Hare-Brained Hypnotist (1942) where Elmer technically doesn't hunt Bugs, but does something different. Even in Hare Brush (1955) features a parody of the formula in the most humorous and memorable of the much later Bugs shorts.

“Friz didn’t like Elmer Fudd. As a matter or fact, I don’t think any of the directors liked him. The quota would come down, from the head of the cartoon studio, how many we’re gonna do, and Elmer was always in one of them. And they always hated the idea doing Elmer, really, none of them. I’m talking about Chuck, Bob McKimson or Friz Freleng, they didn’t want anything to do with Elmer Fudd. I think, in self-defense, that’s where Friz got the idea for Yosemite Sam.”

— David H. DePatie on Elmer Fudd (Friz on Film)

This disinterest of Elmer is made clear, as the character would appear infrequently in later shorts from the 1950s, resulting in smaller roles and cameo's. His last original appearance in the classic film series would be Crow's Feat (1962) by Freleng and Hawley Pratt, where he barely even appears and has no lines whatsoever. Additionally, Arthur Q. Bryan died in 1959, Elmer was voiced by Hal Smith in Pre-Hysterical Hare (1958) and What's My Lion (1961), but not as effective as Q. Bryan, sadly and respectively.

Though, Elmer continues to appear in many Looney Tunes-related movies and TV shows, continuing the famous rabbit-hunting formula and having a character in Tiny Toon Adventures who is a complete contrast to Elmer, Elmyra Duff.

In some ways, Elmer's legacy and notability as one of the most famous fictional animated cartoon character counts as something, to Bugs Bunny's popularity, among other things.

[ducksinspaceadventure]

I haven't commented on this for a long time, I'll just say that I really like how you did all this. I can see that you've been struggling with this for a long time, but it's definitely commendable. I really liked what you did for me regarding DuckTales in space and DuckTales characters in spacesuits and regarding my Moonwalk Day contest, it was phenomenal. Thank you very much for that. I hope you'll continue where you left off and that there will be even more of your drawings than last year. I support your work in any case. Keep it up, you're the best! 🤩😍 😁😊

My artworks during 2024. - My drawings and my most viewed works over the months of the past 2024

Once again, I wish you all the best in 2025 and a Happy New Year 2025 as well as the upcoming Chinese New Year!

Sorry for my delay in posting this last month, because I had a lot of troubles and commitments and simply didn't have time to post my most viewed works by month. I did post about my drawings I did last year and my description of my experiences over the past year. See this: https://ducktoonsfanart.tumblr.com/post/771518951479967745/summary-of-my-art-in-2024-i-wish-everyone-a-happy

Although I already have my retrospective from my post here: https://ducktoonsfanart.tumblr.com/post/771397567733022720/2024-tumblr-top-10

Without going into too much detail, I'll just say thank you very much for the support you gave me last year because I wouldn't have done this without you. Of course, like every year, this year I will publish my drawings that I did last year and which received the most views with the most likes and reblogs. The only thing that will count is the review of my drawings during January 2025.

January 2024 - Happy New Year! - Celebrating New Years in Brazil or some tropical place with Donald Duck, his family and his friends - The Three Caballeros - Quack Pack AU - Duckverse (my version) - 52 notes (likes, reblogs and comments)

Also Duck Dodgers and Duck Avenger - Green Dodgers and Green Avenger - Ducks crossover - Meme - My version - 43 notes

February 2024 - John D. Rockerduck and Jeeves (Lusky) with Rockerduck’s family plus Donald and Scrooge - Duckverse - Gift for my friends - 39 notes

Also Donald and Daffy Duck with their wives and children in China - Happy New Chinese Year - Year of the Dragon - Crossover Duckverse and Looney Tunes and Tiny Toons - 38 notes

March 2024 - Donald Duck and his family mourn the dead in memory of the victims of the terrorist attack and bombing - Donald Duck and his family in Moscow (Russia) and Belgrade (Serbia) - Duck comics - Duckverse - 46 notes

April 2024 - Foghoron Leghorn with Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner - Pepe Le Pew and Penelope Pussycat - Looney Tunes - Cartoons - 46 notes

May 2024 - The Three Caballeros Together Again - My Redraw - The Three Caballeros and Saludos Amigos Movies - Duckverse - 45 notes

June 2024 - Birthday party for Donald, Daisy and Della Duck! - Happy Birthday Donald, Daisy and Della Duck - Ducktales 2017 - Duckverse June - Week 1 - My Version - Gift for my friends - 70 notes

July 2024 - Happy 90th Birthday Donald Duck! - Donald Duck and his family and friends - Tribute to Don Rosa (Happy belated birthday to Don Rosa) - The Duck Who Never Was - My redraw - Duck comics - Duckverse - 58 notes

August 2024 - Quack Pack Summer - Huey, Dewey and Louie vacationing with their sisters, cousins, brothers and friends and girlfriends in Hawaii - Quack Pack AU - Summer - Duckverse - Quack Pack - My version - Gift for my friend - 42 notes

September 2024 - I have 6 sides - Cartoon and Comic Edition - Meme - Crossover - Donald Duck and The Three Caballeros, Looney Tunes, Tiny Toons, Animaniacs, Woody Woodpecker, Sponge Bob Squarepants, Tom and Jerry and Garfield - My version - 43 notes

October 2024 - José Carioca (also known as Zé Carioca) celebrates his birthday and the holiday of his country (Brazil) with his family and friends - Ze Carioca Comics - The Three Caballeros Month - Feriado - Día Festivo - Holiday - Família - Familia - Family - Duckverse AU - My version - 27 notes

November 2024 - Quack Pack Kids (Preteens and Teenagers) and Young Adults (Boys and Girls) - My sketches -Game, Well-To-Do-Duck, Wild, Friend(s), Cultured, Emotional, Obscure and Nostalgic Duck (s) and FREE SPACE DUCKS (plus geese, parrots, rooster and pigeon) - Duckvember - Quack Pack AU and Duckverse (Donald Duck and Ze Carioca comics, Ducktales, Darkwing Duck and Quack Pack) - My style - 35 notes

December 2024 - Quack Pack and Goof Troop (A Goofy Movie) together again - Donald Duck meets Goofy - Max Goof comforts Louie - Max Goof with Huey, Dewey and Louie as teenagers - Duckverse and Goofyverse (Dogverse) - My style - 37 notes

And finally my most viewed drawing is:

Darkwing Duck and Duck Avenger (PKNA) with their families as superheroes in action (redraw) - Darkwing Duck, Duck comics and Quack Pack AU - Duckverse - Happy my birthday! - 78 notes

Of course, anyone who is interested can check out my art blog here and thank you all for this.

Once again, happy holidays to everyone and a happy new year 2025!

If you have any impression of what you liked the most and what you didn’t like about these drawings, feel free to say so.

Feel free to like and reblog this! And keep following me! :D

Just don't copy my ideas and my designs of these characters without mentioning me and without my permission. Thank you!