Posted on 03/14/2021 11:21:59 AM PDT by Rummyfan
I love Looney Tunes, and I couldn't be less interested in discussing whether Pepe LePew is directly responsible for Andrew Cuomo #MeTooing his staffers or Joe Biden tweaking grade-school nipples. Even for a self-moronized suicide cult like 21st century western civilization, that's too stupid - even more stupid than, say, crediting Yosemite Sam continually shoving dynamite down his pants for our societal death wish. I miss the grand comic spirit of Looney Tunes, and the high artistry they brought to it. So screw the wokesters and let's spend our Saturday movie date with a certain anthropomorphized lagomorph and the other enduring, indestructible stars of the Looney Tunes funny farm.
It was their defining animator Chuck Jones who liked to tell the story of a young man who came to work with him in the Warner Brothers animation department and sent a letter home to his grandmother proudly telling her that he was writing scripts for Bugs Bunny. "I can't understand why you're writing scripts for Bugs Bunny," she replied. "He's funny enough just as he is."
Gran'ma had a point. Some art forms are heavy with authorial presence; others wiggle free of their creator, so popular, so known that the idea of anybody sitting down to "make" them seems absurd. But the Looney Tunes guys were more wholly "made" than their dull counterparts at Disney - Mickey, Donald, Goofy, Minnie, etc. In Bugs' case the buck stops here - on the desk of Chuck Jones, the producer and director who made the Merrie Melodies merrier and the Looney Tunes loonier.
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
Pepe Le Pew, the bon vivant French skunk who starred in "Odor-able Kitty" (1945), "For Scent-imental Reasons" (1949), "A Scent Of The Matterhorn" (1961) and many others. A sophisticate skunk who talks like Charles Boyer and keeps hitting on cats is a fine comic idea: "He's like most of us men," said Jones. "He doesn't know he's a stinker." Which ought to be the end of it.
If Whoopie appears, I'm out. Cannot abide her.
Or he should be. Here's hoping that's not all, folks.
Anyone as rude as Mark Steyn can’t be all bad.
I’m a big fan of Wile E. Coyote, but I’ve never dropped an anvil off of a cliff or tried to launch myself in a catapult to catch an animal. However, a friend did make me a portable Acme escape hole.
The left is going after cartoon characters for their alleged pernicious influence on young people, but rap - arguably the most pernicious influence of all - remains untouched.
My dad used to occasionally bring home the 16mm movie projector and a box full of cartoons and movies. Mom would invariably invite several neighbors and it would become our local movie night.
So I blame my parents for my Loony Tunes addiction!
Little did I know that Pepé was a multi-species romancer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DAMSGTC1Sg
Lol!
Yeah, odd isn't it?!
At age 5/6 most children would prefer to watch Bugs Bunny than be forced to sit through a discussion of homosexuality, transgenderism, or white privilege. At that age all children would be better prepared for life spending time practicing the alphabet, practicing counting, and beginning to recognize words. Certainly they should be learning positive things about our culture and the unique characteristics of this nation that allowed so much innovation and technology to be developed here instead of in other nations. The concept of creating a place where the individual can be the best he/she wants to be is compelling but little understood by today’s youth.
Today, instead of teaching the positive, and encouraging our youth to achieve even more, our education system dwells on the shortcomings of the past, the grievances of the disgruntled, and the negativity of those whose vision of utopia can only be achieve with brute force and suppression.
A society that will not allow children to enjoy the innocence of childhood, and to appreciate the goodness in life, will reap the whirlwind as we are experiencing today.
I guess I can stop holding my breath, waiting for Desney to release Uncle Remus.
If Mark would’ve used the Porky Pig “That’s all Folks” cartoon he would’ve had to mention Michigan Medusa. She hasn’t fattened her curves yet. : )
Hey Wretched...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAe2Q_LhY8g
At least Mark hasn’t lost his sense of humor and transed to Mary Steyn and named the baby Frank N.
The amount of research that Styne added to this article is amazing. Recommend it as a thoroughly enjoyable read. It’s makes me wish I had paid better attention to the art. I’m happy to know that this writing will always be available on line, and studied as an excellent piece of history of ‘the way it used to be”.
Why do the libs feel the need to stick their rear ends in our faces at every opportunity? I’m sure there are black actresses who can do just as good or better. One of my favorite TV shows ( Blue Bloods ) decided that to balance out Tom Selleck they have to run Whoopi at us in some episodes. Recently there was a remake of the movie “The Stand.” Just because Whoopi is in it makes me have no desire to see it.
Fauci is a unlovable personification of Bugs Bunny down to the accent. He is absolutely looney and can distort reality in every direction and dimension and always get away with it.
I love Bugs Bunny but I don’t want him running my life or government.
I am glad Mark did not credit Chuck Jones with EVERYTHING good about Looney Tunes. He did at least bring in Friz Freleng for honorable mention. Bob Clampett and Robert McKimson did a lot of great ones also (McKimson came up with Foghorn Leghorn).
My love for classical music started with Bugs Bunny.
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