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Here’s the First of the Newest Batch of Looney Tunes Shorts “Dynamite Dance”

June 14, 2019

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That’s right. The original Looney Tunes animated shorts are coming back again, trying to maintain their signature absurdity from their original 30s/40s counterparts and being updated for today’s sensibilities/audiences.

The Annecy Film Festival got to showcase many of these new Looney Tunes including this one, Dynamite Dance, that has been officially released on YouTube, directed by David Gemmill and written by Gemmill, Pete Browngardt, and Johnny Ryan.

There is definitely spirit from the original Looney Tunes, but it’s interesting that this first one featuring iconic characters Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd without either one speaking. We are definitely curious who Warner Bros. has lined-up to follow the legendary Mel Blanc.

Most of us will just have to wait and see when the rest are released sometime in 2019.

RIP The Voice Behind Bugs Bunny/Daffy Duck and Bob from ‘Bob and Ray’

February 7, 2016

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This week, the comedy world lost Joe Alaskey and Bob Elliott.

Alaskey was most noted for voicing some of Warner Bros. most beloved characters after the legendary Mel Blanc including Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Sylvester the Cat, and Tweety Bird as well as voicing roles in Rugrats and Tom and Jerry just to name a very few. He passed away at 63 this week.

Bob Elliott, father to Chris Elliott and grandfather to Abby Elliott, was one half of one of the longest running duos in the history of comedy. With his partner Ray Goulding, Bob has performed on radio, TV, movies, and Broadway all the way back to the 1940s. It’s hard to think of such an achievement ever being bested these days. As noted above, Bob Elliott heads a sort of comedy dynasty. Bob passed away at 92 at the beginning of this week.

May the memory of their comedy live on as you’re probably looking both of them up on Wikipedia and YouTube right now.

Bugs Bunny and Scooby Doo Getting Rebooted For Boomerang

June 30, 2015

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(via Variety)

All the cable networks that were relying on playing reruns of hit shows from yesteryear are now having to produce many new original series. First, TV Land and now Boomerang.

Two of the most recognizable cartoon characters of all time, Bugs Bunny and Scooby Doo, are getting brought to a new life in 2015 as a bunch of shorts and new series are being made by Warner Bros. to be fulfill the goal of having new original programming at Boomerang, a network originally dedicated to playing old cartoons.

We’re curious to see if they’ll try to aim the cartoons at kids or take the Pixar/Adventure Time route and have something there to grab the attention of adults, especially considering that adults are the ones that probably remember “What’s up doc?” and Scooby Snacks the most.