#warner bros anniversary

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Happy Birthday Porky! Eighty-nine and lookin’ fi-fi-fi…you look wonderful!

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The Bugs Bunny Film Festival (1998)

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Animaniacs VS Crunch: WHY are they insane-y?

Despite being the creator (in-universe) of the main trio of Animaniacs, Lon Borax himself is a relatively obscure, and more often than not, absent character.

In "The Warners' 65th Anniversary Special", it's revealed that before he drew the Warner siblings, he created Buddy (again, only in-universe).

Buddy (both in-universe and out) was seen as a boring character, suggesting that Lon Borax himself perhaps wasn't the most creative person. In that case, isn't it strange that he went from creating a character as unremarkable and bland as Buddy to characters as boisterous and bizarre as the Warners? Especially, as it turns out, in such a short amount of time:

"Congratulations, Borax, you’ve discovered a cure for insomnia. That’s the most boring cartoon I’ve ever seen. Do you realize we have to show this cartoon to the front office tomorrow?"

This was Weed Memlo's response to the Buddy cartoon. When Lon tried to defend himself, claiming that is wasn't "that bad", Weed was having none of it:

"No! It’s worse! Fix it! Add more characters! Poof it up! Stay up all night if you have to! I want funny! If you need me, I’ll be at the smokehouse."

Weed Memlo (a director at WB) demanded that Lon work overnight, all the while he would be lounging around at a restaurant. Now, if you know even the slightest bit about how to make a cartoon, you'll know that it takes time...ALOT of time. As in, it takes over half a year to make just one episode of most cartoons, amount of time. So you'll also know that, even if he wasn't starting from scratch, expecting Lon to create new characters and heavily modify an existing cartoon in just one night is absurd.

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What Animaniacs is depicting here is an overt example of an animator being forced to partake in crunch culture. And how did this affect Lon? Well, in his own words:

"I worked all night on that cartoon. I was exhausted, and then...and then I remember it was exactly 2:43 a.m. on the morning of February 30th, I-I started drawing these weird characters!"

What seems to be heavily implied here is that the stress and exhaustion he experienced due to crunch drove Lon mad, and that's why the Warners are as insane as they are.

As we know, the Warners go on to appear in more Buddy cartoons, then get their own shorts to star in (even if they didn't make any sense), but end up locked in the water tower once the studio didn't want to deal with them anymore. After a few brief escapes or instances of the studio temporarily letting them out (either to loan them out to other studios to make more money or to have them star in war propaganda short films), they escape in 1993 and end up starring in their own TV show.

But Lon Borax?

He went nuts.

Yeah he doesn't get better, they just put him in a home.

This is all portrayed comedically, but unfortunately crunch culture actually does have harmful affects on animators and people who work in the video game industry in the real world. 100-hour weeks, cases of sickness and depression, just really awful stuff. However, I don't think this was the writers necessarily making light of crunch, quite the opposite.

Weed Memlo got so fed up with the Warners he quit directing their cartoons. They constantly annoyed everyone who worked at the studio. Pulling pants down, scaring their crushes, playful teasing, stuff like that. They never did anything too harmful, in fact sometimes people just ran away screaming before they even did anything. This was their response to Wakko simply asking "Can we eat with you?":

Still, the studio certainly wasn't peaceful with them around. Most of the human actors were clearly bothered by them (although toons like Bugs and Daffy seemed to be more lenient to the Warners). It wouldn't have been like that if the Warners were sane. Sure they're kids (toon kids on top of that) so they probably still would've ran around and misbehaved here and there regardless, but not to the extent that they're known for.

The Warners made people afraid of going to work, and probably stalled if not halted production of a lot of what the studio was working on (Plotz even says "The Warners had single-handed brought this studio to a screeching halt.") The studio would've saved themselves a lot of trouble if they had given Lon more time, prioritised their worker over money.

But they didn't.

Watching this episode, it feels like writers were trying to get that message across. That the studio deserved to have to deal with Warners; that they were the consequences for partaking in crunch culture. The Warners had been serving large doses of karma for almost a full season at that point, only this time, their "special friend" wasn't just one person.

It was the corrupt industry that birthed them in the first place.

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The Batman (2004) | Wednesday, 09.11.24

On this day, The Batman (2004-2008 TV series) premiered on Kids WB 20 years ago, starring Rino Romano as The Batman himself!

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Happy birthday to my all-time favorite Looney Tunes duo!

And as Wakko Warner used to say, "you gotta cheer up and never ever give up hope!". Basically, just keep fighting for Coyote vs. Acme to be released, especially since I found an interesting reply from one of Steven Ray Byrd's tweets stating that he completely knows the film is still intact because, in his own words, things could change and Warner Bros. still wants to have it for distribution just in case.

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Happy 25th birthday, the classic movie with the songs you grew up and loved: South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut

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Day 39

Picture found here.

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Today's the release of Animaniacs reboot! Happy anniversity!!!

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Wouldn’t be a warners celebration without the warners themselves!

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Here's my first The Batman fanart, a portrait of Harley Quinn. I'd like to say that I've been a huge fan of the show for a long time, and it's nice to see some recognition in this website there and then, especially on its 20th anniversary. I never found out that yesterday was that day. Anyway, here's a picture of our pop psychiatrist Harley Quinn if she got dunked into a vat of chemicals like her precious Puddin'. I wanted to give her red and black eyes to maintain her harlequin motif.

Happy 20th anniversary, and happy birthday, Harley!

The Batman © Warner Bros. Animation

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First poster for the 20th anniversary of The Polar Express!!!🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

[skullislandproductions]

Rough suggestion for trade ad featuring Scooby Doo, Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Tom & Jerry celebrating Cartoon Network’s 25th anniversary in 2017.

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ACME Birthday Surprise “50th Anniversary Bugs Bunny Magazine” (1990)

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Classic Warner Bros cartoons - My Meme

Similar to the Disney meme I made a few months ago, which you can see here: https://ducklooney.tumblr.com/post/736089880235524096/classic-disney-cartoons-my-meme-a-meme-a-few

Unfortunately, due to numerous commitments, I am not able to dedicate myself outside of classic Disney, but certainly Warner Bros deserves attention, since this year is the 100th anniversary of its existence, and I am grateful for the many cartoons and ordinary films that they have given. Especially the Looney Tunes and ACME cartoon universe that I enjoyed as a child. So I made a similar meme to Disney's, only with Warner Bros. Yes, I don't like the Wabbit, as that is one of the weakest points of the Looney Tunes for me, but they are certainly still excellent, each in their own way. Classic Looney Tunes, Tiny Toons, Tazmania, Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain, Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries, Duck Dodgers and Looney Tunes Cartoons.

However, this is my opinion and my meme, and this is just for good humor, so please don't be offended. If you like this meme, and these cartoons, feel free to like and reblog this. And happy 100th anniversary Warner Bros, 30th anniversary of the original Animaniacs, and 20th anniversary of Duck Dodgers!

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Animane-y, totally insane-y

JUST TURNED 30

Animaniacs! Those are the facts!

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If I don't see them beating up David Zaslav in this episode, I will riot.