# 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:** 4
**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 15, 2024, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-looney-tunes/1005663/61 "2024-08-15T06:24:20Z")
And, as already mentioned, Carl Stalling. A towering triumvirate of talent. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2024, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-looney-tunes/1005663/62 "2024-08-15T07:49:43Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > > [@What\_Exit](#): > > > > I hope I have the right one, > > you might, rabbit, you might. And then there’s Rocky and Mugsy in “Bugsy and Mugsy” (1957): “I don’t know how you’s done it, but I know you’s done it!” 😃 And let’s not forget “HIgh Diving Hare” (1949) and “Knighty Knight Bugs” (1958), the latter a re-enactment of the King Arthur legend featuring noble knights like Sir Osis of Liver and Sir Loin of Beef! ---
**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 15, 2024, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-looney-tunes/1005663/63 "2024-08-15T08:28:02Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > And let’s not forget “HIgh Diving Hare” (1949) and “Knighty Knight Bugs” (1958), the latter a re-enactment of the King Arthur legend featuring noble knights like Sir Osis of Liver and Sir Loin of Beef! Fearless Freep! And Sir Osis of Liver, and Sir Loin of Beef. Went way over my head when I was six. Just a funny name for those guys. But my parents got it, and laughed. One of the great things about Looney Tunes was that they were written for adults (though certainly not in a Ralph Bakshi sense), and adults would understand them, but that they were harmless enough that kids could enjoy them too. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2024, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-looney-tunes/1005663/64 "2024-08-15T16:47:24Z")
I’ve never been able to find this one, it is one of the “Elmer chases Bugs through a TV studio and hilarity ensues” toons, but as Bugs is running by a phone booth, there’s a call, one of those game shows that used to call people at random, and they had a question: “What is 527 times 325” and Bugs rattles off with no hesitation “one hundred seventy one thousand two hundred and seventy five”\* and coins start pouring out of the coin return. Bugs looks at the camera and says, “If there’s one thing us rabbits can do, it’s multiply!” Went right over my head as a kid, but is funny now. 🙂 \*numbers not correct from the cartoon, just an example ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2024, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-looney-tunes/1005663/65 "2024-08-15T17:27:17Z")
“Thrust, spin, dodge, perry, twirl!” “Let me cut your mop Let me shave your crop Daintedly, daintedly” ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2024, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-looney-tunes/1005663/66 "2024-08-15T21:37:41Z")
I was always fond of Yosemite Sam. It always amused me that, no matter what kind of animal he was riding (horse, camel, elephant, dragon), he would always spur it on shouting “Hyah, mule! Hyah, mule!” ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2024, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-looney-tunes/1005663/67 "2024-08-15T23:38:08Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > > [@dorvann](#): > > > > but I would like to point out quite a few mentioned are **“Merrie Melodies”** not **“Looney Tunes”**. > > The distinction between the two became more and more thin as time went on, and most sources put them both under the broader LT umbrella. > > Friz Freleng himself was on record as indicating, “I never knew if a film I was making would be _Looney Tunes_ or _Merrie Melodies_, and what the hell difference would it make, anyway?”. Hah! You have a good point—well, a point anyway—@dorvann. Obligatory Straight Dope link: > **[What’s the difference between a Looney Tune and a Merrie Melody?](https://www.straightdope.com/21342205/what-s-the-difference-between-a-looney-tune-and-a-merrie-melody)** ---
**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 15, 2024, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-looney-tunes/1005663/68 "2024-08-15T23:44:14Z")
> On a practical level it prepares us to deal with the many meaningless distinctions of life, e.g., Pepsi versus Coke, MasterCard versus Visa, and the Democrats versus the GOP. Well, that is disconcerting. ---
**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 15, 2024, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-looney-tunes/1005663/69 "2024-08-15T23:49:37Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > I’ve never been able to find this one, it is one of the “Elmer chases Bugs through a TV studio and hilarity ensues” toons _People are Bunny_ It was Daffy; not Elmer. > **[People Are Bunny](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_Are_Bunny)** > > People Are Bunny is a 1959 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon, directed by Robert McKimson The short was released on December 19, 1959, and stars Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck. > People Are Bunny spoofs the Art Linkletter show People are Funny (where people performed different "stunts" to win money) where the parody of Art Linkletter is voiced by Daws Butler. It was also the last Bugs Bunny cartoon released in the 1950s. > Watching TV, Daffy Duck is excited by an episode of the hunting show called "T... ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2024, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-looney-tunes/1005663/70 "2024-08-16T00:41:30Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > _People are Bunny_ > It was Daffy; not Elmer. Thanks! I don’t think that’s on any of my Looney Toons DVDs. I never knew the TV scenes were B&W. When Iw as a kid, everything was black and white. ---
**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 16, 2024, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-looney-tunes/1005663/71 "2024-08-16T01:06:06Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > When Iw as a kid, everything was black and white. Oh, man, I was over at my cousin’s friends’ house, they had _Star Trek_ on, in color. Damn that thing made my eyes bleed. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2024, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-looney-tunes/1005663/72 "2024-08-16T03:27:03Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Oh, man, I was over at my cousin’s friends’ house, they had _Star Trek_ on, in color. Damn that thing made my eyes bleed. I had the viewmaster of Star Trek before I got color TV, so I was really surprised to find the command uniforms were yellow/gold on TV, but nearly fluorescent green on Viewmaster. It was nearly the green of Kirk’s casual wrap around uniform.That material really didn’t photograph correctly! ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2024, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-looney-tunes/1005663/73 "2024-08-17T05:20:02Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > I had the viewmaster of Star Trek before I got color TV, so I was really surprised to find the command uniforms were yellow/gold on TV, but nearly fluorescent green on Viewmaster. It was nearly the green of Kirk’s casual wrap around uniform.That material really didn’t photograph correctly! Actually, it probably photographed just fine; my understanding is that those “yellow” uniform tops were actually a lime green material, which came out looking yellow when filmed for TV (due to the lights and the film stock). Thus, the pictures you saw on those Viewmaster reels were a truer representation of what those shirts actually looked like. > [@](#): > > The reason for the retcon was that the Command uniforms had never actually been gold at all in _The Original Series_ thanks to a trick of light and early color television. [_Star Trek_ premiered in 1966](https://screenrant.com/star-trek-picard-best-season-1-tos-reason/), just after the color television transition of ’65, when most networks began switching their broadcasts to at least 50% color. Desilu Productions, the studio producing _Trek_ for NBC, wanted to capitalize on this and demanded a color palette of bright, primary colors. In accordance with this directive, William Ware Theiss, the designer of the original Starfleet uniform, chose a distinctive palette for the crew: a bright cherry-red, a steel-toned blue, and lime green. The red and blues of the on-set fabrics maintained their color on the film stock of the day. But the green uniforms appeared gold on screen through a combination of studio lighting, velour material, and the film stock used. > **[Star Trek: Kirk's Iconic Uniform Color Was A Mistake](https://screenrant.com/star-trek-kirk-uniform-tos-original-series-green-yellow/)** > > It was a technical mistake. ---
**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 17, 2024, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-looney-tunes/1005663/74 "2024-08-17T05:42:17Z")
The story of the green woman is hilarious, but it would just be a thread derail. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2024, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-looney-tunes/1005663/75 "2024-08-18T17:59:17Z")
Mods can delete if I am broaching the rules, but all of these cartoons should be on www .supercartoons. net, which I _think_ is a legit licensed site. ---
**Author:** ![banjo\_scruggs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banjo_scruggs/32/17439_2.png) [@banjo\_scruggs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/banjo_scruggs)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2024, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-looney-tunes/1005663/76 "2024-08-18T17:43:14Z")
### [Robin Hood Daffy: Yoicks!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/robin-hood-daffy-yoicks/1005878) Is the above mentioned short the funniest 5 minutes in the history of Funny? Whomst among us can say that it is not?! I am sorry to say that I cannot find the complete version online. That means you will have to find the whole thing somewhere else. You will not be disappointed, if you have a sense of humor. Sorry Republicans, but that rules all of you out! 🙂 🙂 I kid, I just like the joke so much. My beloved mom is a Republican! Now then: Well, shucks. I can’t even post a part of this from YouTube. But you gotta look it up. Unless you don’t want to die from laughing. ---
**Author:** ![Mallard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Mallard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mallard)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2024, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-looney-tunes/1005663/77 "2024-09-09T21:05:44Z")
Fearless freep, Duck season/wabbit season Are my all time favs! ---
**Author:** ![Hatchie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hatchie/32/3983_2.png) [@Hatchie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hatchie)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2024, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-looney-tunes/1005663/78 "2024-09-10T00:07:31Z")
Bugs: “Err ah, what’s all the hubbub, bub?” Gremlin, swinging giant mallet at artillery shell: “These blockbuster bombs don’t go off unless you hit them ju-u-u-u-ust right.” Bugs: “Umm, hey Mac, let me take a whack at it.” (swings mallet back, takes aim, takes a mighty swing at bomb… then brakes) “WHAT AM I DOING?!!” (from _Falling Hare_) [![](https://i.postimg.cc/d1MPHk8t/falling-hare.jpg) ](https://i.postimg.cc/d1MPHk8t/falling-hare.jpg) ---
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“Never send a monster to do the work of an evil scientist!” ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2024, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-looney-tunes/1005663/80 "2024-09-10T00:27:00Z")
I’ve seen publicity stills in which it’s clear that the Command shirts were green. There’s a company that produces stuff like replica uniforms for Trekfans. They offer a choice between shirts of the original green and the gold that appeared on color TV screens. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-looney-tunes/1005663.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-five-looney-tunes/1005663.md?page=5)