Looney Tunes marathon on Boomerang

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Over the Thanksgiving weekend Boomerang (Cartoon Network’s channel for older cartoons) aired a Looney Tunes marathon. Unfortunately I only caught the tail end of it more or less, having tuned in Sunday evening and watching it until about midnight.

It seemed that they grouped the cartoons shown by character. In the time I watched they showed the Tasmanian Devil, then Marvin the Martian, which was followed by a series of the older Elmer Fudd episodes (where he is drawn twice as large and with a red nose). Next were a few clips of Bugs Bunny vs. Yosemite Sam and one of my personal favorites, “Operation: Rabbit”, which pits Bugs against Wile E. Coyote. After this was an hour or so of a lesser-known character called Sniffles the Mouse (I thought these were rather boring). This was followed by several of the Goofy Gophers episodes. The program then looped back to the Tasmanian Devil and Marvin the Martian. At this point I figured they were going to just repeat everything I had seen and I needed to get to bed by then anyway.

What I’d like to know is what I had missed during the previous days. My goal is to get recorded on tape all of my favorite Looney Tunes/Merry Melodies episodes. This weekend-- had I known about it :smack: – would have been a good opportunity to catch several of the episodes I never see aired during the regular weekly shows on Cartoon Network.

And yes, I do know there is a DVD set out with several of the Looney Tunes classics, but it won’t have all the ones I want to see, plus it has some I don’t really care for.

So, fill me in on what I missed. Maybe next time they do another Looney Tunes marathon I’ll know about it ahead of time.

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  • BUMP *

Anyone? Anyone?

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All bloody month. Every weekend. 48 hours o’ Looney Tunes.

The Skeezling has discovered the joys of Bugs Bunny this month. We taped about 12 hours worth this weekend, as at the age of three she hasn’t quite got a grasp on TV scheduling yet, and “We can’t watch it because it’s not on right now,” doesn’t fly when she’s tired and cranky and wants Looney Tunes right before her nap.

The bit you saw, the last weekend of it, was the best bit to tape, I’m afraid to tell you.

They ran four hour blocks, repeated in a staggered pattern. The block of Bugs and Daffy (with all of the Elmer Fudd toons) was on the most often. There was also a block of Sylvester and Tweety, which finished with the infamous Scarlet Pimpernel spoof, with the ending edited.

Curiously, the Bugs cartoon (I know damn few actual episode names) with the dog with the semi-Italian accent, which ends with the dog shooting himself (ala Scarlet Pimpernel) was shown unedited. First time in years I’ve seen that one intact.

The third block was the oddball characters, Taz, Marvin the Martian, Sniffles and the Gophers.

The fourth was Foghorn Leghorn and the Roadrunner/Coyote toons, I b’lieve.

The name of the marathon (if you can call it that) was Back to the Drawing Board. Keep an eye out for it in the future is all I can offer. Quite a few of the very early toons were shown, including the first Bugs Bunny, where he looks nothing like the classic Bugs we’re all familiar with. (And come to think of it, he acts a lot more like Daffy Duck than Bugs Bunny in that one.)

Sorry you missed it.

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From Jon Cooke’s entry on Toonzone:
(see Toonzone forums for other weeks of the marathon)

Friday
11/21/2003

8AM-
LOONEY TUNES [TV-G]
#103300 Bewitched Bunny
#103368 Stupor Duck
#103369 SUGAR AND SPIES
#103370 Super Snooper
#108473 Suppressed Duck
#103372 This is a Life
#108475 Thumb Fun
#109298 Tick Tock Tuckered
#800644 To Hare Is Human
#108528 To Itch His Own
#109301 Tom Thumb in Trouble
#109306 Toytown Hall
#103377 Transylvania 6-500
#103378 TREE FOR TWO
#109308 Trial of Mr. Wolf
#108595 Tweet and Sour
#108577 Unexpected Pest, The
#103381 Unnatural History
#109003 Ain’t We Got Fun
#109007 Along Flirtation Walk
#103444 Porky’s Spring Planting
#109179 I’d Love to Take Order
#800394 By Word of Mouse
#109075 Day At the Zoo, A
#103142 Bear For Punishment, A
#109026 Bird Came C.O.D., The
#109033 Boulevardier From the Bronx
#105043 Busy Bakers
#109050 Cinderella Meets Fella
LOONEY TUNES [TV-G]
#103293 Wild Wife
#108565 Birds of a Father
#108516 Mouse On 57th Street, The
#109099 Farm Frolics
#103206 Nuts And Volts
#800400 Cat’s Paw
#103145 Blow Out, The
#103239 Porky’s Midnight Matinee
#108530 Waggily Tale, A
#103361 A Sheeep In The Deep
#109176 I Wanna Be a Sailor
#103284 We, the Animals Squeak
#103271 Snow Excuse
#108520 No Barking
#103172 Feud With A Dude
#108549 PORKY’S ROMANCE
#103330 His Bitter Half
#109133 Hardship Mile Standish
#108416 Big Top Bunny
#109328 What’s Cookin Doc?
#800477 Grey Hounded Hare
#109252 Rackateer Rabbit
#103383 Water Water Every Hare
#108426 From Hare to Heir
#800829 Hare Breadth Hurry
#800350 Abominable Snow Rabbit, The
#108410 A-Lad-In His Lamp
#800365 Baton Bunny
#108422 Bunker Hill Bunny
Rabbit stew and rabbits too,
Don’t Give Up the Sheep,
Dough Ray Me-ow,
Dog Tales,
Box Office Bunny

Saturday
11/22/2003

8Am
LOONEY TUNES [TV-G]
#108413 Barbary Coast Bunny
#108455 Aqua Duck
#103429 Porky’s Poor Fish
#108454 Yankee Doodle Bugs
#108467 Good Noose
#103301 Boston Quackie
#108453 Witch’s Tangled Hare, A
#105326 What Makes Daffy Duck
#103424 Porky’s Naughty Nephew
#108451 Wideo Wabbit
#103351 Porky’s Prize Pony
#103204 Night of the Living Duck, The
#108424 False Hare
#103394 Case of the Stuttering Pig
#800762 Compressed Hare
#800665 Upswept Hare
#108465 Fast Buck Duck
#108450 What’s Up Doc?
#108460 Daffy’s Inn Trouble
#801023 Wet Hare
#103388 Windblown Hare
#105387 What’s Opera Doc
#103163 Daffy Flies North
#800381 Box Office Bunny
#108542 Often An Orphan
#108533 Bye, Bye Bluebeard
#802296 Half Fare Hare
#103297 Apes Of Wrath
#108452 Wild and Wooly Hare,
What’s Cookin Doc?,
Believe It or Else,
Booby Hatched,
Hoppy Go Lucky,
Porky’s Pooch,
Ali Baba Bunny

12PM
LOONEY TUNES [TV-G]
#108418 Blooper Bunny
#105117 Gay Anties,The
#105017 Bear’s Tale, The
#108524 Rocket-Bye Baby
#108522 Peck O’Trouble, A
#109065 Cross Country Detours
#109314 Up Standing Sitter
#801040 You Were Never Duckier
#108476 Yolks On You, The
#108576 Too Hop To Handle
#109242 Pigs in a Polka
#108570 Lighthouse Mouse
#802292 Egg Scramble, An
#109035 Brother Brat
#800025 Bingo Crosbyana
#108551 Wearing of the Grin
#109009 Aristo Cat, The
#103313 Deduce You Say
#103334 Hoppy Daze
#109327 What’s Brewin Bruin?
#108436 Portrait of the Artist as a Young Bunny
#800477 Grey Hounded Hare
#109121 Good Egg, The
#109163 Horse-Fly Fleas, A
#109002 Ain’t That Ducky
#103389 Yankee Dood It
#103393 Calling Dr. Porky
#103395 Chewin’ Bruin
#103396 Coy Decoy, A

Sunday
11/23/2003

8AM
LOONEY TUNES [TV-G]
#108544 Pest that Came to Dinner, The
#800504 Honey-Mousers, The
#103182 Hare-abian Nights
#109067 Curious Puppy, The
#800415 Cracked Quack
#109058 Count Me Out
#103299 Bell Hoppy
#108494 Bee-Deviled Bruin, The
#108493 Bear Feat
#109112 Fresh Airedale
#109108 Foney Fables
#103166 Double Or Mutton
#108431 Iceman Ducketh, The
#103291 Wholly Smoke
#108449 Unmentionables, The
#800923 Piker’s Peak
#103399 It’s An Ill Wind
#108543 Paying The Piper
#109328 What’s Cookin Doc?
#802313 Duck Dodger & The Return of the 24 1/2th Century
#800789 Dumb Patrol 1964
#108425 Frigid Hare
#103325 Golden Yeggs
#800834 Hareless Wolf
#800492 High and the Flighty, The
#103341 Louvre Come Back to Me
#103385 Who Scent You?
#109012 Baby Bottleneck
#800360 Baby Buggy Bunny,
Back Woods Bunny,
Ballot Box Bunny

12PM
LOONEY TUNES [TV-G]
#103168 Ducksters, The
#103169 Early to Bet
#800442 Eight Ball Bunny
#108414 beanstalk Bunny
#103144 Big House Bunny
#108456 Boobs In The Woods
#105029 Bone, Sweet Bone
#800382 Boyhood Daze
#109006 Along Came Daffy
#108421 Bully for Bugs
#108419 Bugs Bonnets
#109036 Buccaneer Bunny
#800727 Bonanza Bunny
#103302 Boulder Wham
#108536 Curtain Razor
#108461 Don’t Axe Me
#103160 Daffy Dilly
#109234 One Meat Brawl
#108537 Dough For The Do Do
#103326 Heir Conditioned
#105165 House Hunting Mice
#103308 Cat’s Aweigh
#800421 Design for Leaving
#103310 Cat-Tails for Two
#108498 Cheese It, the Cat
#108535 Claws for Alarm
#800417 D fightin’ Ones
#109085 Dover Boys
#800434 Dr. Jekyl’s Hide
#108497 Cheese Chasers
Show Biz Bugs,
Broomstick Bunny,
Road Runner a Go-Go

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Thanks for the info, Skeezix and Extraneous. Incidentally, I did catch a couple of the older Bugs Bunny cartoons (I call this one the “prototype” Bugs). He had a sort of Woody Woodpecker style of laugh.

I would have loved to see several of the Coyote/Roadrunner episodes back to back along with Foghorn Leghorn (I’m always quoting him). I wouldn’t have cared for the Tweety/Sylvester block (I’m a cat lover and I’ve always hated Tweety along with all the other characters who hurt poor Sylvester).

I’ll keep my eyes open for any future airings of this or other LT/MM marathons (e.g. “June Bugs”).

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Yeah, I’m not much of a fan of Tweetie either, but I caught the last minute and a half or so of the Scarlet Pimpernel toon, checked the guide, and saw it was included in that block, so in went the videotape.

That one doesn’t get much airtime, so I figured I oughtta catch it when I could. Dunno if that’s included in the new DVD release, but since I’m so broke I couldn’t pay attention this month, it’s a moot point.

If I’d had the time to sit with remote in hand, I’d have just taped that one toon, and given the rest o’ the block a miss, but hell.

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a. It’s “Tweety”, not “Tweetie”

b. Get it while you can - Boomerang has been running some rare stuff - who knows for how much longer.