Well, the cast is a bit encouraging. I’m interested to hear Billy West’s Elmer and Maurice LaMarche’s Yosemite Sam. Plus June Foray! I didn’t realize she was still with us, and still working at the age of 93!
And of course Frank Welker is there, too.
Billy voiced Elmer in the 2003 film Looney Tunes: Back In Action. He also did Elmer in the Geico commercial. (Does Elmer Fudd really have trouble with the letter “R”?) I think he does an excellent job.
And yes, June Foray is still with us, thank Og. I’ve heard her voice in the new CGI Garfield cartoons, in which Welker is the voice of the lasagna-loving feline.
Wow, it’s hard to tell which is the greater blasphemy.
The voices of Bugs and Daffy seem just…off. And I know Jeff Bergman has done Bugs and Daffy in the past. I have seen a few cartoons featuring his voice work, but they were some 20 years ago or so. I’m not the casting director, but it seems to me that Billy West ought to do Bugs. Joe Alaskey ought to be Daffy, and he can also do an excellent Bugs. But Jeff Bergman just doesn’t seem right, despite his resume as essentially being the first to succeed Mel Blanc.
And they keep postponing the release date. I think the show was supposed to premiere some time last year, then it got pushed to April. Now the announced release date is in May. This cannot be a good sign.
Despite the voices being a bit off that was funny. “…and Serena Williams got game!”
That show was awesome. I watched both seasons when it was on TV. It was a mix of the Looney Tunes and superheroes. The animals had the same charactoristics of their Looney Tune counter-parts and that is what their superpowers were based on.
I almost dropped an O-ring a few hours ago, when watching the DVR of today’s episose. They played “Bugs Bunny Rides Again,” with Yosemite Sam, and they showed Bugs rolling a cigarette and putting it in his mouth! I remember it from childhood, but was shocked that it wasn’t censored.
Joe
8 Ball Bunny, the one with the penguin, also had Bogie with his cigarette dangling from his mouth.
If you like, but there was a lot of set-up for that line. And there is almost nothing going on visually. The characters have no elasticity. The only thing even close to a visual gag is Daffy slamming into the pole, but nothing looney happens, either to him or the pole. It’s presented as if it’s just funny that he’s such a moron.
“Pen-goo-ins is practically chickens.” One of my all-time favorites.
It was just on today, uncut.
Which is more than you can say for Elmer.
Are you saying Elmer’s face looked like it Had Been Through A Ma-Chine?
Nice and clean though he was, yes, that is exactly what I’m saying.
Cool. I have a bunch of Looney Tunes (digitized VHS versions) on my computer, my favorite is the Best of Bugs Bunny series. Uncut! I don’t watch tv but it’s nice to know that kids today might see some great classics.
Today’s noon set was pretty great, though CN seems determined to show nothing but Bugs Bunny vehicles, with the occasional Tweety & Sylvester bit.
“Dumb Patrol,” Chiniquy, 1964.
Bugs is a WWI French flying ace, Sam his German rival. Bugs initiates the attack this time, rather than being disturbed by or dropped into trying circumstances. The animation and writing are fairly mundane, but the rare setting is fun.
“French Rarebit,” McKimson, 1951.
Bugs is an American rabbit who falls off the carrot truck in Paris. Rival cooks want to make a meal of him, but he turns the tables in classic fashion, beating and stretching them elastically and finishing off with dynamite. Includes an alcohol joke.
“Tweet and Lovely,” Freleng, 1959.
Sylvester takes a Supergenius turn as he schemes and invents to reach the passive birdhouse-living Tweety, who is defended by Spike. Fortunately cats have nine lives.
“Hurdy-Gurdy Hare,” McKimson, 1950.
New York Bugs buys a hurdy-gurdy but has to fire his monkey. The monkey’s gorilla buddy comes for revenge, initiating a string of classic cartoon-physics gags and dizzying constant motion. Includes a peeping-tom joke.
“Rabbit Rampage,” Jones, 1955.
A surreal Chuck masterpiece continuing the theme of “Duck Amuck.” Previous antagonist Bugs is now tormented even harder by an Animator who constantly reaches in with paintbrush or eraser to remake Bugs’ world and Bugs himself. Too many gags to mention. Bugs finally puts a stop to the madness by yanking down “The End” card, and we see that vengeance has belonged not to Daffy, but to Elmer.
“My Bunny Lies Over the Sea,” Jones, 1948.
Missing that left turn at Albuquerque this time leads Bugs to Scotland. Bugs and MacRory (some cousin of Sam’s, no doubt) contend like true Scotsmen!
Like I said, you better get this stuff while you can.
One of my most oft-quoted toons.
Siddown, pigeon…
That horrible monster is attacking that poor ol’ lady! I’ll save ya, granny!
Mac: We dinna play that game. Bugs: Is there another?
Golf? Don’t you get tired runnin’ them 18 bases?
You left out:
He put up a terrific fight, ma’am, but clean livin’ prevailed.
I was a bit surprised that Bugs actually said the word “Hell.”
“I knew there was such a thing as Hell’s Angels, but I never thought I’d see one.”
Back in 1964, no one used the word “Hell” in a cartoon. Now with shows like the Simpsons, Family Guy and South Park, “Hell” seems quite tame in comparison.
I remember being surprised to hear Beast use the word in the 90’s X-Men cartoon, while quoting Emily Dickinson: “Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.” I don’t think they were even permitted to use the word “kill” on those cartoons.
I’ll be really surprised if they leave any blackface/racial stereotype jokes intact. The Hub skipped the episodes of 60’s Batman with Chief Screaming Chicken, which disappointed me as they also happened to be Egghead episodes.
Oh, Sylvester just clobbered Spike right in the head with a brick. That’s imitable!
Here’s an article on the new show that may be of interest.
Some reviews of the new show.