# Old habits dying hard (...)

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 4, 2021, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-habits-dying-hard/950104 "2021-09-04T16:32:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2021, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-habits-dying-hard/950104/61 "2021-09-18T18:33:59Z")

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I dunno, I like it, gives me hope for the future.

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**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2021, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-habits-dying-hard/950104/62 "2021-09-19T07:21:28Z")

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> [@teelabrown](#):
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> I’m still addicted to old cartoons.  
> …  
> Now I have them all at my fingertips!

Nuthin’ wrong with that. I bought the [Loonie Tunes Golden Collections](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looney_Tunes_Golden_Collection) as they came out and was disappointed when they ceased after Volume 6, about a third of WB’s total output. True, they were getting into (at best) the mid-level tending towards dross, but I’m a completionist, dammit!

One thing I noticed is that the disks were mastered from archive masters or really good prints and with the magic of Hi-Def, it’s really apparent they were made in a hurry. Every little ink or paint error shows as to dancing dust motes. I consider it part of the experience.

Likewise, I had the eight-box set of Betty Boop on VHS but have not set about upgrading it, yet. Disney shorts I’m not so keen on but I did buy a wartime collection just so I could (finally) see “Der Fuehrer’s Face.”

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**Author:** ![salinqmind1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@salinqmind1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind1)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2021, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-habits-dying-hard/950104/63 "2021-09-27T15:43:21Z")

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I like really really old cartoons, like early Disney with Mickey the Mouse and dancing skeletons. And those beautiful old color cartoons, I think by Warner Brothers, made in the 30’s and 40’s. Not featuring famous characters, but with nature themes and fairies and trees. I had a whole bunch I taped on videotape over the years, of course lost now.

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