Animation, Short, Adventure. Bonnie Silco, Not Rated Looney Tunes' name was inspired by Walt Disney's musical series Silly Symphonies. A sequel to Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988). 104 min In a desperate attempt to win a basketball match and earn their freedom, the Looney Tunes seek the aid of retired basketball champion, Michael Jordan. | Gross: Joe Alaskey, TV-Y7 Stars: The Coyote is chasing the Roadrunner using a rather ingenious invention combining a fridge, a meat grinder, ice cubes, and skis. Approved Hideki Takayama, Frank Graham, Ron Clements, Jason Marsden, He is always calm and collected and with his composed and confident nature, nothing seems to ruffle him. This continued until 2008, when the final volume of the Golden Collection was released. A scheming coyote, constantly at odds with a swift and clever roadrunner bird, uses various gadgets and devices to try and catch his longtime rival. All on DVD except where noted. Looney Tunes Wiki is a FANDOM TV Community. 30 min Jessica DiCicco, Tim Searle, Maurice Noble | Mel Blanc. Daniel Arey Bugs made a cameo appearance in 1942 in the Avery/Clampett cartoon Crazy Cruise and also at the end of the Frank Tashlin 1943 cartoon Porky Pig's Feat, which marked Bugs' only official appearance in a black-and-white Looney Tunes short. | Shorts. Stars: Friz Freleng Mel Blanc, Ngo Dinh Diem, Brad Bird, ), and five (three Merrie Melodies; Tweetie Pie, Speedy Gonzales and Birds Anonymous; and two Looney Tunes; Knighty Knight Bugs and For Scent-imental Reasons) have won Academy Awards.[6]. | Director: Bugs and Daffy run into the abominable snowman in the Himalayas. | [41], In addition to these notorious cartoons, many Warner Bros. cartoons contain fleeting or sometimes extended gags that make reference to racial or ethnic stereotypes. They initially showcased musical compositions whose rights were held by Warner's music publishing interests through the adventures of cartoon characters such as Bosko and, after losing him, Buddy. June Foray, 245 min Animation, Comedy, Crime. 88 min | Daffy Duck and Bugs argue back and forth whether it is duck season or rabbit season. Bea Benaderet, Rob Paulsen, K-A $90.46M, PG Directors: B.J. FANDOM. acquired television distribution rights to most of Warner Bros' pre-1950[33][34] library, including all Merrie Melodies (except for those sold to Guild and Lady, Play Your Mandolin!) Robert Zemeckis, | | 12 min Horror, Family, Animation, Police officer Porky is called to investigate strange noises at a house that might be haunted. Terry Alderton, John Lasseter, Amy Smith-Boylan | Animation, Short, Comedy. [26] The series has had an unusually slow rollout, with the series having moved to the Boomerang streaming service in 2017, and was eventually cancelled on January 30, 2020. Peter Shin, The Flintstones & WWE: Stone Age SmackDown! | The original Looney Tunes theatrical series ran from 1930 to 1969 (the last short being Bugged by a Bee, by Robert McKimson).[2]. Jim Backus, The series was cancelled after its second season.[19]. [18] After several delays, the series premiered on May 3, 2011. This page was last edited on 16 July 2020, at 18:26. | Stars: | Greg Ford, WB retained a pair of features from 1949 that they merely distributed, and all short subjects released on or after September 1, 1948; in addition to all cartoons released in August 1948. | the voices were recorded in 1950, 61 years before the release of this short. 46 min The release of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 3 includes a disclaimer at the beginning of each DVD in the volume given by Whoopi Goldberg which explains that the cartoons are products of their time and contain racial and ethnic stereotypes that "were wrong then and they are wrong today", but the cartoons are presented on the DVD uncut and uncensored because "editing them would be the same as denying that the stereotypes existed.". Stars: (which has also bought Paramount's Popeye films) who merged the company into its television division, United Artists Television. In 1976, the Looney Tunes characters made their way into the amusement business when they became the mascots for the two Marriott's Great America theme parks (Gurnee and Santa Clara). Director: Aaron Springer, | However, Warner retained the rights to the cartoons and the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies brand names, leaving their former producer Leon Schlesinger to start his own Warner Bros. studio and continue the Looney Tunes series.