# Top five looney tunes **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** cartoons-animation\ **Created:** [August 13, 2024, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-looney-tunes/1005663 "2024-08-13T16:11:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![teelabrown](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teelabrown/32/8412_2.png) [@teelabrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teelabrown)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2024, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-looney-tunes/1005663/21 "2024-08-13T17:47:05Z")
> [@themapleleaf](#): > > Funny, most people seem to prefer “Duck Amuck,” I get more laughs from its spoof, “Rabbit Rampage.” I dearly love Rabbit Rampage, too, but for some reason Daffy knows the way to my funny bone better. Anyone ever notice how Chuck Jones’s Daffy shares a lot of characteristics with Jack Lemmon? ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2024, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-looney-tunes/1005663/22 "2024-08-13T17:50:41Z")
I don’t see any Roadrunner / Coyote listed yet. I’ll fix that when I compile my list. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2024, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-looney-tunes/1005663/23 "2024-08-13T18:08:38Z")
So many great titles. But as much as I appreciate Mel Blanc’s genius, I’m also a big fan of Stan Freberg. Two of his greatest contributions to the WB catalog are his turn as Pete Puma in [Rabbit’s Kin](https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8jgd4p) (link goes to Dailymotion), and as primary voice artist in the classic [Three Little Bops][Redirecting...](https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=527464311469408)) (link goes to Facebook). The great Shorty Rogers is a special feature of this one. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2024, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-looney-tunes/1005663/24 "2024-08-14T00:03:01Z")
theres 2 i think one where the dog adopts a totally loveable kitten and has to hide it from its owner and the other one is the same scenario but its a cat… ---
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2024, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-looney-tunes/1005663/25 "2024-08-14T01:30:03Z")
_Hare We Go_ the one with Christopher Columbus “She’s flat like your head!” “Who’s a the wise a guy” ---
**Author:** ![Briny\_Deep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/briny_deep/32/17188_2.png) [@Briny\_Deep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briny_Deep)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2024, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-looney-tunes/1005663/26 "2024-08-14T02:19:41Z")
_Transylvania 6-5000_ (“La da, la di, la da, la da, la di, la da, Abracadaaaaaaaaaaaabra…”) (“…Hocus pohhhhhhhhhh-cus…”) ("Abraca-pocus! “Hocus-cadabra!”) ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2024, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-looney-tunes/1005663/27 "2024-08-14T02:24:47Z")
> [@nightshadea](#): > > theres 2 i think one where the dog adopts a totally loveable kitten and has to hide it from its owner That’s _Feed the Kitty_. ---
**Author:** ![Pavelb1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@Pavelb1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pavelb1)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2024, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-looney-tunes/1005663/28 "2024-08-14T03:25:35Z")
There’s another too with Marc Antony and the kitty ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2024, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-looney-tunes/1005663/29 "2024-08-14T03:32:09Z")
Claws for Alarm (another of the Porky, Sylvester, haunted house) A Lad-in-his Lamp. Jim Backus as the genie. “Sweet spirits of camphor…can’t a man get any sustenance around here??” Duck, Rabbit, Duck! (another Rabbit Season) Hasty Hare (Marvin the Martian and his dog. “How Halloweenie can you get??” There They Go Go Go. Classic Roadrunner…with the Coyote holding up a little sign saying “In heaven’s name…what am I doing??” ---
**Author:** ![Llama\_Llogophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2024, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-looney-tunes/1005663/30 "2024-08-14T04:25:11Z")
[Don’t Give Up the Sheep](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Wolf_and_Sam_Sheepdog) This was the first in the series about Ralph the Coyote and Sam the Sheepdog. They go to work together, punch the clock, stop for lunch and the rest of the time are mortal enemies. I remember this striking me as so absurdly funny when I was a kid. I loved that they were very nice to each other off the clock, and all the violence (with Ralph always getting the worst of it) was just business. Interestingly, Ralph is not the same coyote as in the Road Runner cartoons. He seems to specialize in sheep. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2024, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-looney-tunes/1005663/31 "2024-08-14T04:43:47Z")
Looney what now? ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2024, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-looney-tunes/1005663/32 "2024-08-14T05:24:56Z")
I can think of only _Powerhouse_, first recorded in 1937. Lost my mind-boggling Carl Stalling CD many moons ago. 😧 ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2024, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-looney-tunes/1005663/33 "2024-08-14T06:37:29Z")
“Powerhouse” is originally by Raymond Scott, just for the record [sic]. But Stalling’s use of it - and composition for the cartoons in general - was brilliant. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/6ft60BtJ5sY/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AG-AoAC8AGKAgwIABABGHIgXig7MA8=&rs=AOn4CLAnvi60NXFHjNl8zd9rhRH2HSn-xg "Raymond Scott -- Powerhouse") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ft60BtJ5sY) ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2024, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-looney-tunes/1005663/34 "2024-08-14T07:51:07Z")
Come on, people, _Hillybilly Hare_ is an absolute classic. ---
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2024, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-looney-tunes/1005663/35 "2024-08-14T07:52:31Z")
I don’t know the names of the shorts, but I loved them all. I’d still watch 'em if I could. I remember my brother watching one of the Rabbit Season shorts. And every time Bugs would get Daffy to look up for Elmer and get his beak shot, and come back down and say, “Still lurking about” my brother would laugh like he’d never seen it before. I loved Yosemite Sam, “Stupid camel,” Bugs, “Well batten 'em down again! We’ll show those hatches!,” Elmer wearing the bunny suit. The cat sticking to the ceiling every time he got scared. Oh, yeah and Bugs getting the hillbillies to beat the crap out of each other by calling a very violent square dance. I know they were, “violent,” but they were fun. Kid’s cartoons now are wretched, at least what my grandkids watched. Now all they watch is youtube. I think a bit of Loony Tunes would be a lot better. Shaking my metaphorical cane and yelling get off my lawn!! ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2024, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-looney-tunes/1005663/36 "2024-08-14T08:26:35Z")
1. Duck Amuck 2. What’s Opera, Doc? 3. Little Lion Hunter 4. Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2 Century 5. Feed the Kitty _Little Lion Hunter_ introduces Chuck Jones’s most inexplicable character: the Mynah Bird. It’s unfortunate that it features Inki, who is drawn as a racist stereotype of the time, which means it’s not often shown. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2024, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-looney-tunes/1005663/37 "2024-08-14T08:39:28Z")
All of my favourites have been mentioned. “What’s Opera, Doc?” “The Rabbit of Seville,” “Feed the Kitty,” “Bully for Bugs,” “Duck Dodgers,” and so many others. Honorable mentions go to the one that features Bugs and Daffy in “Pronoun Trouble” (not sure of the title, but that should be recognizable), and the one where Blaque Jacques Shellac and Bugs Bunny try to outdo each other in damming a river. Loved the Roadrunner and Coyote, and Sylvester and Tweety and Granny, and the Wolf and the Sheepdog. I say I never cared much, I say, for Foghorn Leghorn. But as we were discussing music above, I have to mention “The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down,” which is basically the Looney Tunes’ theme song. There are too many versions to post just one example, but you can take your choice from its Wikipedia entry: > **[The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Merry-Go-Round_Broke_Down)** > > "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down" is a song written in 1937 by Cliff Friend and Dave Franklin and published by Harms Inc., New York. It is best known as the theme tune for the Looney Tunes cartoon series and Merrie Melodies reissued cartoon series produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons, used from 1937 to 1969. > Popular recordings of the song included versions by Shep Fields, Russ Morgan and Eddy Duchin. > The original version contains an introductory verse that leads up to the main part of the song, as a... ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2024, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-looney-tunes/1005663/38 "2024-08-14T10:30:57Z")
> [@Llama\_Llogophile](#): > > Interestingly, Ralph is not the same coyote as in the Road Runner cartoons. He’s not a coyote at all - he’s a wolf. ---
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Some of my favorites are from the 1940s and are so non-PC I can’t post them here. 😳 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-looney-tunes/1005663.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-looney-tunes/1005663.md?page=3)