![]() It’s two characters in conflict, sometimes getting pretty violent. ![]() “Looney Toons is pretty much the antithesis of that. ![]() “We’re going through this wave of anti-bullying, everybody needs to be friends, everybody needs to get along,” he said. “Some of them have maybe gone a little too far, so they might come out in a different format,” Browngardt told the outlet. Here we bring you a collection of these funny, unusual Elmer Fudd rabbit quotes that will leave you in splits. Elmer Fudd refers to Rabbit as 'Wabbit' due to his unusual way of talking. 12.'Wabbits love to eat carrots.'-Elmer Fudd. The 200 new cartoons, which will feature other Looney Tunes “stars,” will still have an edge - Porky Pig sucks the poison out of Daffy Duck’s leg in one skit, Sylvester the Cat is haunted by the ghost of his traditional target, Tweety Bird, and Satan even makes a cameo in one toon. 11.'Uh, have one on the house, wabbit.'-Elmer Fudd. All of that was kind of grandfathered in.”įudd won’t be empty-handed, however - he’ll now use a scythe to try to bag Bugs “But we can do cartoony violence - TNT, the Acme stuff. “We’re not doing guns,” Peter Browngardt, executive producer of the new series, told the New York Times. I’m hunting wabbits,” gets outsmarted by Bugs at every turn, even though he’s always had his trusty shotgun at his side - until now. Historically the toons have largely revolved around Fudd’s persistent chase of the carrot-chomping Bugs, with his classic catchphrase, “What’s up, Doc?”įudd, known for his own catchphrase, “Shhh. The change in the latest incarnation of the iconic animated series is a response to the gun violence in the US, the Telegraph reported. Warner Bros is stripping Elmer Fudd of his rifle in a new Looney Tunes cartoon series on HBO Max, handicapping the grumpy hunter as he continues his decades-long pursuit of the wise-cracking Bugs Bunny, according to reports. It just got a lot harder to hunt wascally wabbits. Laws banning semi-automatic weapons and library censorship to take effect in Illinois Israeli TV news anchor does broadcast with gun strapped to her hip They are real crowd pleasers.NRA boss LaPierre failed to disclose trips on ad exec vendor's lux 108-foot-yacht, NY AG claimsĬalifornia law banning firearms in public places blocked once again as judge says it violates 2nd Amendment Despite what Maltese said I will wager they brought the house down when originally shown. I have shown both those films to paying audiences in packed theaters so often I have lost count. Writer Mike Maltese later claimed it died in theaters because the rabbit needed to be "put-upon" by an adversary in order to be lovable. Incidentally, Clampett's next Bugs, THE WACKY WABBIT, also had him harrassing fat Elmer for no good reason. Although it has elements that make it a fan favorite ("Oh, we're the boys of the chorus."), I've always found its whole to be far less than the sum of its parts, mainly because Bugs-as-patsy doesn't much work. Hayde said.Īnother cartoon that makes Bugs the butt of the joke is McKimson's WHAT'S UP DOC? (1950). I never minded the nihilist Bugs, or any of the other mindlessly vicious character (even early Woody Woodpecker), so long as they were clever in their destruction. Bugs doesn't even put up a fight - he just registers annoyance. The same principle is applied - less successfully - in "Rabbit Rampage", a mild "Duck Amuck" clone that pits Bugs against an unseen artist. The fun is seeing Bugs reduced to sputtering fury by the small, laid-back turtle ("Uhhhh. There are three cartoons - each by a different director - where Bugs Bunny is defeated by Cecil Turtle: 6:09 PM John McElwee said.ĭonald Benson cites some occasions where Bugs ate humble pie: That fat Elmer was designed to look like the man who did his voice, Arthur Q. That guy makes the early Bugs Bunny look like Mary Pickford. I take it, then, you're no fan of Tex Avery's Screw Squirrel at Metro. From that dire beginning, Bugs and I could Once, at ageįour, I asked my mother for a raw carrot so as to emulate the Bunny's eating Bugs hadĬonfidence we needed to win a war ( Wabbit Twouble released right after Pearl Harbor), but I always found him smug. Runner, Sylvester, Hubie/Bertie, and all time favorite, Daffy Duck. I don't come to the debate fairly for lifelongĪntipathy toward Bugs, him way down my list of likes behind Porky, Road Bob Clampett had anything-goesĪttitude regarding Bugs, not like Chuck Jones later on who insisted the rabbitīe provoked into mischief. So than BB, does their uncalled-for stuff. Rabbit, putting our sympathy square with him as obnoxious wildlife, none more Makes Bugs' aggression the more off-putting). Merely trying to enjoy his camp-out in peace (no gun with Fudd this time, which Is it Pfudd, Phudd, or the correct Fudd? (had to confirm yet again today) Here is Elmer, portlier than customaryĪnd therefore less mobile, being victimized by Bugs Bunny where the man is I can never remember how you spell Elmer Fudd.
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