# Thufferin' thuccotash! Looney Tunes returning to Cartoon Network. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 13, 2009, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thufferin-thuccotash-looney-tunes-returning-to-cartoon-network/517457 "2009-11-13T17:40:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2009, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thufferin-thuccotash-looney-tunes-returning-to-cartoon-network/517457/1 "2009-11-13T17:40:21Z")
That’s right, maroons. Looney Tunes is returning to Cartoon Network starting this Sunday, the 15th, for a six-hour marathon, starting at 1:00 P.M., ET. The following day, it will run for an hour every weekday from 11:00 A.M. until noon. > **[Looney Tunes Return to Cartoon Network 11/15/09](http://toolooney.blogspot.com/2009/11/looney-tunes-return-to-cartoon-network.html)** > > Yes, you read that correctly. The classic Looney Tunes shorts are returning to Cartoon Network this Sunday. The return kicks off with a six... ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2009, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thufferin-thuccotash-looney-tunes-returning-to-cartoon-network/517457/2 "2009-11-13T17:52:05Z")
Wonderful! As a side note, Mel’s son is pretty good, but his Daffy Duck is different enough that you still notice. He was one of a kind. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2009, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thufferin-thuccotash-looney-tunes-returning-to-cartoon-network/517457/3 "2009-11-13T18:11:12Z")
Actually, Warner Brothers’ go-to-guy for the Looney Tunes voices seems to be [Joe Alaskey.](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0016085/) He started off playing Yosemite Sam in “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?,” has played Sylvester and Tweety in “The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries,” Bugs and Daffy in “Looney Tunes Back in Action,” and starred as Daffy and Marvin the Martian in the “Duck Dodgers” TV series. Here’s a [video interview](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MegEuHcONJk) in which Alaskey gets into character. ---
**Author:** ![PoorYorick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecccb3/32.png) [@PoorYorick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoorYorick)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2009, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thufferin-thuccotash-looney-tunes-returning-to-cartoon-network/517457/4 "2009-11-13T19:45:25Z")
Sweet! This will be a must-have on my DRV. I see from a [blog](http://forums.goldenagecartoons.com/showthread.php?t=14002) that one of my all-time favorites (Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2 Century) will be during the first hour. You have truly performed your good deed for the day, **cochrane**. ---
**Author:** ![Claire\_Beauchamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ec9cab/32.png) [@Claire\_Beauchamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claire_Beauchamp)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2009, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thufferin-thuccotash-looney-tunes-returning-to-cartoon-network/517457/5 "2009-11-13T19:51:14Z")
About Damn Time. As long as they are the classic ones, and not some new-fangled (post-1965ish) ones. ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2009, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thufferin-thuccotash-looney-tunes-returning-to-cartoon-network/517457/6 "2009-11-13T19:56:22Z")
I take it they left because of the WB Network. ---
**Author:** ![PoorYorick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecccb3/32.png) [@PoorYorick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoorYorick)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2009, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thufferin-thuccotash-looney-tunes-returning-to-cartoon-network/517457/7 "2009-11-13T20:05:58Z")
> [@Claire\_Beauchamp](#): > > About Damn Time. As long as they are the classic ones, and not some new-fangled (post-1965ish) ones. I agree. cochrane’s cite described them as “classic” episodes, so I’m hoping they’re from the Golden Age. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2009, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thufferin-thuccotash-looney-tunes-returning-to-cartoon-network/517457/8 "2009-11-13T20:50:37Z")
> [@PoorYorick](#): > > I agree. cochrane’s cite described them as “classic” episodes, so I’m hoping they’re from the Golden Age. They still might be the bowdlerized versions, though. There better be violence. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2009, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thufferin-thuccotash-looney-tunes-returning-to-cartoon-network/517457/9 "2009-11-13T20:53:41Z")
Who are you callin’ a maroon, ya nincowpoop? ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2009, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thufferin-thuccotash-looney-tunes-returning-to-cartoon-network/517457/10 "2009-11-13T21:31:33Z")
> [@Claire\_Beauchamp](#): > > About Damn Time. As long as they are the classic ones, and not some new-fangled (post-1965ish) ones. I think you mean post-1966, the last of the original run of Coyote & Road Runner shorts. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2009, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thufferin-thuccotash-looney-tunes-returning-to-cartoon-network/517457/11 "2009-11-14T00:42:52Z")
If Daffy’s getting shot in the face, I want to _see_ Daffy getting shot in the face. Only pansies and their weaker younger siblings need the censored versions. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2009, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thufferin-thuccotash-looney-tunes-returning-to-cartoon-network/517457/12 "2009-11-15T19:09:37Z")
Just bumping this to remind everyone that the Looney Tunes marathon has already started if you’re in the East. For those on the Left Coast, it starts at 1:00 P.M. It becomes an hourly part of CN’s programming tomorrow at 11. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2009, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thufferin-thuccotash-looney-tunes-returning-to-cartoon-network/517457/13 "2009-11-15T20:23:07Z")
I’m enjoying the marathon, but the commercials are disgusting. Barbie has a sister who sits on the toilet and flushes it? A baby doll that says “I made a stinky?” To say nothing of all the regular shit they’re advertising. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2009, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thufferin-thuccotash-looney-tunes-returning-to-cartoon-network/517457/14 "2009-11-16T03:31:56Z")
[Little Red Riding Rabbit](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Red_Riding_Rabbit) was on twice for some reason. > [@bup](#): > > They still might be the bowdlerized versions, though. [Daffy’s grand finale](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEYYYMuwCyA) was cut from [Show Biz Bugs](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbW5hrc85-4), as usual. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2009, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thufferin-thuccotash-looney-tunes-returning-to-cartoon-network/517457/15 "2009-11-16T03:35:00Z")
The thing that gets me about Looney Tunes on television today is not the censorship, but the fact that they’re still using the old faded television prints and not the restored prints they made for the DVDs. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2009, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thufferin-thuccotash-looney-tunes-returning-to-cartoon-network/517457/16 "2009-11-16T03:49:19Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > [Daffy’s grand finale](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEYYYMuwCyA) was cut from [Show Biz Bugs](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbW5hrc85-4), as usual. I’ve never seen that clip, but I have seen the nearly identical one about Porky Pig doing a casting for a talent agency or something like that. I wonder which came first? Since Daffy has the addition of Uranium-238 that the Porky one didn’t have, I’m tempted to say the Porky one was. ---
**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2009, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thufferin-thuccotash-looney-tunes-returning-to-cartoon-network/517457/17 "2009-11-16T03:53:17Z")
I’m hoping for the _Daffy Duck’s Fantastic Island_ event. I love this movie, and miss it. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2009, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thufferin-thuccotash-looney-tunes-returning-to-cartoon-network/517457/18 "2009-11-16T03:53:39Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > If Daffy’s getting shot in the face, I want to _see_ Daffy getting shot in the face. Only pansies and their weaker younger siblings need the censored versions. I used to watch them on CBS on Saturday mornings, and didn’t even realize there was any reason to edit anything out. The first time I saw Bugs flailing away at Elmer’s face with a straight razor in _The Rabbit of Seville_ was a real eye-opener. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2009, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thufferin-thuccotash-looney-tunes-returning-to-cartoon-network/517457/19 "2009-11-16T14:19:33Z")
> [@mobo85](#): > > The thing that gets me about Looney Tunes on television today is not the censorship, but the fact that they’re still using the old faded television prints and not the restored prints they made for the DVDs. I noticed a bunch of the shorts in the marathon had two copyrights for 1995 at the end. Didn’t quite catch what they were for but I assume it was restoration; first said something about audio. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2009, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thufferin-thuccotash-looney-tunes-returning-to-cartoon-network/517457/20 "2009-11-16T15:32:41Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > I noticed a bunch of the shorts in the marathon had two copyrights for 1995 at the end. Didn’t quite catch what they were for but I assume it was restoration; first said something about audio. Those prints have been around for a while. I believe the copyright reads to the effect of “Dubbed version ©1995 Turner Entertainment Company, Looney Tunes Characters ©1995 Warner Bros, Inc.” I’m not exactly sure what was done in those restorations, but I know one of the major things was removing the old Associated Artists syndication titles. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thufferin-thuccotash-looney-tunes-returning-to-cartoon-network/517457.md?page=2)