Looney Tunes Showcase: Volume 1
Contents
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Title

Characters

Year

Director

1

Hare Tonic

Bugs, Elmer

1945

Chuck Jones

2

Baseball Bugs

Bugs

1946

Friz Freleng

3

Buccaneer Bunny

Bugs, Sam

1948

Friz Freleng

4

The Old Grey Hare

Bugs, Elmer

1944

Bob Clampett

5

Rabbit Hood

Bugs

1949

Chuck Jones

6

8 Ball Bunny

Bugs, Playboy Penguin

1950

Chuck Jones

7

Rabbit of Seville

Bugs, Elmer

1950

Chuck Jones

8

What's Opera, Doc?

Bugs, Elmer

1957

Chuck Jones

9

The Great Piggy Bank Robbery

Daffy, Porky (cameo)

1946

Bob Clampett

10

A Pest in the House

Daffy, Elmer

1947

Chuck Jones

11

The Scarlet Pumpernickel

Daffy, Sylvester, Porky, Elmer, Henery, Melissa, Mama Bear

1950

Chuck Jones

12

Duck Amuck

Daffy, Bugs (cameo)

1953

Chuck Jones

13

Robin Hood Daffy

Daffy, Porky

1958

Chuck Jones

14

Baby Bottleneck

Daffy, Porky, Drunken Stork

1946

Bob Clampett

15

Kitty Kornered

Porky, Sylvester

1946

Bob Clampett

16

Scaredy Cat

Porky, Sylvester

1948

Chuck Jones

17

Porky Chops

Porky

1949

Arthur Davis

18

Old Glory

Porky

1939

Chuck Jones

19

A Tale of Two Kitties

Tweety, Babbit and Catstello

1942

Bob Clampett

20

Tweetie Pie

Sylvester, Tweety

1947

Friz Freleng

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Hare Tonic is a 1945 Warner Bros. cartoon in the Looney Tunes series , directed by Chuck Jones and written by Tedd Pierce . It stars Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd , making this the second cartoon directed by Jones to co-star the two ( the first being Elmer 's Pet Rabbit ) . Voice characterizations are by Mel Blanc and ( uncredited ) Arthur Q. Bryan , respectively . The title is a play on hair tonic , a type of patent medicine , reinforced by Bugs ' portrayal of a fake doctor at a few points in the picture . A bottle of hare tonic appeared as a prop in a 1946 cartoon , The Big Snooze .
Bugs Bunny is an animated cartoon character , created in the late 1930s by Leon Schlesinger Productions ( later Warner Bros. Cartoons ) and voiced originally by Mel Blanc . Bugs is best known for his starring roles in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of animated short films , produced by Warner Bros . Though a similar character called Happy Rabbit debuted in the WB cartoon Porky 's Hare Hunt ( 1938 ) and appeared in a few subsequent shorts , the definitive character of Bugs is widely credited to have made his debut in director Tex Avery 's Oscar-nominated film A Wild Hare ( 1940 ) . Bugs is an anthropomorphic gray and white rabbit or hare who is famous for his flippant , insouciant personality . He is also characterized by a Brooklyn accent , his portrayal as a trickster , and his catch phrase Eh.What 's up , doc ? . Due to Bugs ' popularity during the golden age of American animation , he became not only an American cultural icon and the official mascot of Warner Bros. Entertainment , but also one of the most recognizable characters in the world . He can thus be seen in the older Warner Bros. company logos . Since his debut , Bugs has appeared in various short films , feature films , compilations , TV series , music records , comics , video games , award shows , amusement park rides , and commercials . He has also appeared in more films than any other cartoon character , is the 9th most-portrayed film personality in the world , and has his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame .
Elmer J. Fudd is a fictional cartoon character in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies series , and an adversary of Bugs Bunny . He has one of the more disputed origins in the Warner Bros. cartoon pantheon ( second only to Bugs himself ) . His aim is to hunt Bugs , but he usually ends up seriously injuring himself and other antagonizing characters . He speaks in an unusual way , replacing his Rs and Ls with Ws , so he always refers to Bugs Bunny as a scwewy wabbit . Elmer 's signature catchphrase is , Shhh . Be vewy vewy quiet , I 'm hunting wabbits , as well as his trademark laughter . The best known Elmer Fudd cartoons include Chuck Jones ' work What 's Opera , Doc ? ( one of the few times Fudd bested Bugs , though he felt bad about it ) , the Rossini parody Rabbit of Seville , and the Hunting Trilogy of Rabbit Season/Duck Season shorts ( Rabbit Fire , Rabbit Seasoning , and Duck ! Rabbit , Duck ! ) with Fudd , Bugs Bunny , and Daffy Duck . An earlier character named Egghead set some of Elmer 's aspects before the character 's more conspicuous features were set .
Charles Martin Jones ( September 21 , 1912 - February 22 , 2002 ) was an American animated filmmaker and cartoonist , best known for his work with Warner Bros. Cartoons on the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts . He wrote , produced , and/or directed many classic animated cartoon shorts starring Bugs Bunny , Daffy Duck , Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner , Pepé Le Pew , Porky Pig , Michigan J. Frog , the Three Bears , and a slew of other Warner characters . After his career at Warner Bros. ended in 1962 , Jones started Sib Tower 12 Productions , and began producing cartoons for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer , including a new series of Tom and Jerry shorts and the television adaptation of Dr. Seuss ' How the Grinch Stole Christmas ! . He later started his own studio , Chuck Jones Enterprises , which created several one-shot specials , and periodically worked on Looney Tunes related works . Jones was nominated for eight Academy Awards , winning three times . He won for the cartoons For Scent-imental Reasons , So Much for So Little , and The Dot and the Line . Robin Williams presented Jones with an Honorary Academy Award in 1996 for his iconic work in the animation industry . Film historian Leonard Maltin has praised Jones ' work at Warner Bros. , MGM and Chuck Jones Enterprises . He also said that the feud that there may have been between Jones and colleague Bob Clampett was mainly because they were so different from each other . In Jerry Beck 's The 50 Greatest Cartoons , ten of the entries were directed by Jones , with four out of the five top cartoons ( including first place ) being Jones shorts .
Baseball Bugs is a 1946 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes theatrical animated cartoon starring Bugs Bunny which was originally released on February 2 , 1946 . In the short , Bugs Bunny singlehandedly defeats the Gas-House Gorillas , a baseball team of hulking , cigar-chomping bullies . The cartoon has been called Bugs at his best and is still referenced by baseball fans and observers .
Isadore Friz Freleng ( August 21 , 1906 - May 26 , 1995 ) , often credited as I. Freleng , was an American animator , cartoonist , director , producer , and composer known for his work at Warner Bros. Cartoons on the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons . He introduced and/or developed several of the studio 's biggest stars , including Bugs Bunny , Porky Pig , Tweety , Sylvester the Cat , Yosemite Sam ( to whom he was said to bear more than a passing resemblance ) , and Speedy Gonzales . The senior director at Warners ' Termite Terrace studio , Freleng directed more cartoons than any other director in the studio ( a total of 266 ) , and is also the most honored of the Warner directors , having won five Academy Awards and three Emmy Awards [ disputed - discuss ] . After Warners closed down the animation studio in 1963 , Freleng and business partner David H. DePatie founded DePatie-Freleng Enterprises , which produced cartoons ( including The Pink Panther Show ) , feature film title sequences , and Saturday-morning cartoons through the early 1980s . The nickname Friz came from his friend , Hugh Harman , who initially nicknamed him Congressman Frizby after a fictional senator who appeared in satirical pieces in the Los Angeles Examiner . Over time , this shortened to Friz .
Buccaneer Bunny is a 1948 Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Friz Freleng .
Yosemite Sam is an American animated cartoon character in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons produced by Warner Bros . Animation . His name is taken from Yosemite National Park . Along with Elmer Fudd , he is an adversary of Bugs Bunny . He is commonly depicted as an extremely aggressive gunslinging prospector , outlaw , pirate , or cowboy with a hair-trigger temper and an intense hatred of rabbits , Bugs in particular . In cartoons with non-Western themes , he uses various aliases , including Chilkoot Sam ( named for the Chilkoot Trail ; Sam pronounces it Chilli-koot ) and Square-deal Sam in 14 Carrot Rabbit , Riff Raff Sam in Sahara Hare , Sam Schultz in Big House Bunny , Seagoin ' Sam in Buccaneer Bunny , Shanghai Sam in Mutiny on the Bunny , and Von Schamm the Hessian in Bunker Hill Bunny and many others . During the golden age of American animation , Yosemite Sam appeared in 33 shorts .
The Old Grey Hare is a 1944 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Bob Clampett .
Robert Emerson Clampett ( May 8 , 1913 - May 2 , 1984 ) was an American animator , producer , director , and puppeteer best known for his work on the Looney Tunes animated series from Warner Bros. , and the television shows Time for Beany and Beany and Cecil . Clampett was born and raised not far from Hollywood , and early on expressed an interest in animation and puppetry . After leaving high school a few months shy of graduating in 1931 , Clampett joined the team at Harman-Ising Productions and began working on the studio 's newest short subjects , titled Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies . Clampett was promoted to a directorial position in 1937 and during his fifteen years at the studio , directed 84 cartoons later deemed classic and designed some of the studio 's most famous characters , including Porky Pig , Daffy Duck , and Tweety . Among Clampett 's most acclaimed films are Porky in Wackyland ( 1938 ) and The Great Piggy Bank Robbery ( 1946 ) . Clampett left Warner Bros. Cartoons in 1946 and turned his attention to television , creating the puppet show Time for Beany in 1949 . A later animated version of the series , titled Beany and Cecil , was initially broadcast on ABC in 1962 and was rerun until 1967 . The series is considered the first fully creator-driven television series , and carried the byline a Bob Clampett Cartoon . In his later years , Clampett toured college campuses and animation festivals as a lecturer on the history of animation . His Warner cartoons have seen renewed praise in decades since for their surrealistic qualities , energetic and outrageous animation , and irreverent humor . Animation historian Jerry Beck lauded Clampett for putting the word 'looney ' in Looney Tunes .
Rabbit Hood is a 1949 Bugs Bunny cartoon which parodies the Robin Hood story . Originally released on December 24 , 1949 , the short was directed by Chuck Jones and written by Michael Maltese . As usual , Mel Blanc picked up all the voice characterizations . The layouts were done by Robert Gribbroek and the backgrounds by Peter Alvarado . This is the last Warner Bros. cartoon to ever release during creator Leon Schlesinger 's lifetime , as he died the day after this cartoon was released . This cartoon is the origin of the infamous knighting exchange , where Bugs Bunny is dressed up like a king , and proceeds to pound the Sheriff 's head with his sceptre while dispensing an oddball title with each strike :
8 Ball Bunny is a Looney Tunes cartoon ( reissued as a 1961 Blue Ribbon Merrie Melodies cartoon ) directed by Chuck Jones and written by Michael Maltese . It was shot in 1949 and released theatrically on July 8 , 1950 .
Playboy Penguin is a character in the animated cartoon Looney Tunes , created by Chuck Jones in the late 1940s and early 1950s . He debuted in 1949 's Frigid Hare and he re-appeared in 8 Ball Bunny .
Rabbit of Seville is a Warner Bros. Looney Tunes theatrical cartoon short released on December 16 1950 . It was directed by Chuck Jones and written by Michael Maltese .
What 's Opera , Doc ? is a 1957 American animated cartoon comedy-drama musical short in the Merrie Melodies series , directed by Chuck Jones for Warner Bros. Cartoons . The Michael Maltese story features Elmer Fudd chasing Bugs Bunny through a parody of 19th-century classical composer Richard Wagner 's operas , particularly Der Ring des Nibelungen ( The Ring of the Nibelung ) , Der Fliegende Holländer , and Tannhäuser . It borrows heavily from the second opera in the Ring Cycle Die Walküre , woven around the typical Bugs-Elmer feud . Originally released to theaters by Warner Bros. on July 6 , 1957 , What 's Opera , Doc ? features the speaking and singing voices of Mel Blanc and Arthur Q. Bryan as Bugs and Elmer , respectively . The short is also sometimes informally referred to as Kill the Wabbit after the line sung by Fudd to the tune of Wagner 's Ride of the Valkyries , the opening passage from Act Three of Die Walküre ( which is also the leitmotif of the Valkyries ) . In 1994 , 1,000 members of the animation industry ranked What 's Opera , Doc ? first in a list of the 50 greatest cartoons of all time . This is the third of the three Warner Bros. shorts ( the others being Hare Brush and Rabbit Rampage ) in which Elmer defeats Bugs ( though here the former shows regret for defeating the latter ) , as well as the last Elmer Fudd cartoon directed by Jones .
The Great Piggy Bank Robbery is a Warner Bros. Pictures Looney Tunes theatrical cartoon short , produced in early 1945 , and released in 1946 . It was directed by Robert Clampett , and features Daffy Duck in Clampett 's penultimate Warner cartoon , produced shortly before he left the studio . The cartoon is largely a parody of the popular Dick Tracy comic book series . This is also the last short Clampett directed that featured Daffy .
Daffy Duck is an animated cartoon character produced by Warner Bros. Styled as an anthropomorphic black duck , the character has appeared in cartoon series such as Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies , in which he usually has been depicted as a foil for Bugs Bunny . Daffy was one of the first of the new screwball characters that emerged in the late 1930s to replace traditional everyman characters who were more popular earlier during the decade , such as Mickey Mouse and Popeye . Daffy starred in 130 shorts in the golden age , making him the third-most frequent character in the Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies cartoons , behind Bugs Bunny 's 167 appearances and Porky Pig 's 162 appearances . Virtually every Warner Bros. cartoon director put his own spin on the Daffy Duck character . Directors such as Bob Clampett , Robert McKimson , and Chuck Jones are notable examples of the character . Daffy was number 14 on TV Guide 's list of top 50 greatest cartoon characters .
Porky Pig is an animated character in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons . He was the first character created by the studio to draw audiences based on his star power , and the animators created many critically acclaimed shorts featuring the character . Even after he was supplanted by later characters , Porky continued to be popular with moviegoers and , more importantly , the Warners directors , who recast him in numerous everyman and sidekick roles . He is known for his signature line at the end of many shorts , Th-th-th-that 's all folks ! This slogan ( without stuttering ) had also been used by both Bosko and Buddy and even Beans at the end of Looney Tunes cartoons . In contrast , the Merrie Melodies series used the slogan : So Long , Folks ! until the mid 1930s when it was replaced with the same one used on the Looney Tunes series ( when Bugs Bunny was the closing character , he would break the pattern by simply saying , in his Brooklynese accent , And Dat 's De End ! ) . He is the oldest continuing Looney Tunes character . Porky 's most distinctive trait is a severe stutter , for which he sometimes compensates by replacing his words ; for example , What 's going on ? might become What 's guh-guh-guh-guh - .what 's happening ? Porky 's age varied widely in the series ; originally conceived as an innocent seven-year-old piglet ( explicitly mentioned as such in Porky 's Preview ) , Porky was more frequently cast as an adult , often being cast as the competent straight man in the series in later years . In the ending of many Looney Tunes cartoons , Porky Pig bursts through a bass drum head , and his attempt to close the show with The End becomes Th-Th-The , Th-Th-The , Th-Th .
A Pest in the House is a Merrie Melodies animated short film released on August 2 , 1947.:429 It is directed by Chuck Jones and stars the characters of Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd . The title is an appropriate play on a guest in the house . The film is notable for featuring a sort of in-between interpretation of Daffy . He is not necessarily the zany , impish interpretation used famously by Tex Avery and Bob Clampett , nor is he the greedy , self-centered version that Chuck Jones later popularized in the 1950s . As Paul Dini said in the DVD audio commentary for this cartoon : [ In this cartoon , Daffy ] is really kind of almost like a sprite . He 's just a little , almost elfin creature who 's not really out to hurt anybody or has any ill will or malice toward anybody . He 's just absolutely out of his mind . It was only one of three non-Bugs Bunny cartoons from 1947 not to be reissued . The others were Catch as Cats Can and Mexican Joyride . The cartoon was followed up in 1948 by Daffy Duck Slept Here , wherein Daffy ( this time as a fellow guest ) again does n't let a hotel patron sleep - in this case Porky Pig .
The Scarlet Pumpernickel is an animated Warner Bros. Looney Tunes theatrical cartoon short released on March 4 , 1950 , directed by Chuck Jones and written by Michael Maltese . The title is a play on The Scarlet Pimpernel . In 1994 it was voted No . 31 of the 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time by members of the animation field .
Sylvester is a fictional character , a three-time Academy Award-winning anthropomorphic Tuxedo cat in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons . Most of his appearances have him often chasing Tweety , Speedy Gonzales , or Hippety Hopper . Sylvester appeared in 103 cartoons in the golden age of American animation , only behind Bugs Bunny , Porky Pig , and Daffy Duck . Three of his cartoons won Academy Awards , the most for any starring Looney Tunes character : they are Tweetie Pie , Speedy Gonzales , and Birds Anonymous .
Henery Hawk is a cartoon character from the American Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series , who appeared in thirteen cartoons . His first appearance was The Squawkin ' Hawk , directed by Chuck Jones and produced by Leon Schlesinger . Henery 's second appearance was Walky Talky Hawky which also featured Foghorn Leghorn and The Barnyard Dawg , directed by Robert McKimson . The last Warner Brothers short to feature Henery was Strangled Eggs . He appeared most recently on The Looney Tunes Show and Looney Tunes Cartoons .
Melissa Duck is an animated cartoon character in the Warner Brothers Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons and the animated television series Baby Looney Tunes . She is featured as main character Daffy Duck 's blonde girlfriend in several cartoon shorts but is only referred to as Melissa in one , The Scarlet Pumpernickel , where she is voiced by Bea Benaderet .
Duck Amuck is an American animated cartoon short directed by Chuck Jones and produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons . The short film was released in early 1953 by The Vitaphone Corporation , the short subject division of Warner Bros. , as part of the Merrie Melodies series . It stars Daffy Duck , who is tormented by a seemingly sadistic , unseen animator , who constantly changes Daffy 's locations , clothing , voice , physical appearance and even shape , much to Daffy 's aggravation and rage . Pandemonium reigns throughout the cartoon as Daffy attempts to steer the action back to some kind of normality , only for the animator to either ignore him or , more frequently , to over-literally interpret his increasingly frantic demands . In the end , the tormenting animator is revealed to be Bugs Bunny . In 1994 , it was voted # 2 of The 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time by members of the animation field , losing only to What 's Opera , Doc ? , also directed by Chuck Jones and written by Michael Maltese . It has been inducted into the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry . The short was included on the Looney Tunes Golden Collection : Volume 1 DVD box set ( with optional audio commentary by Michael Barrier ) , The Essential Daffy Duck DVD box set , and the Looney Tunes Platinum Collection : Volume 1 Blu-ray box set . The short inspired the 2007 Nintendo DS game Looney Tunes : Duck Amuck .
Robin Hood Daffy is a 1958 Warner Bros. Pictures , Inc theatrical cartoon comedy short , featuring Daffy Duck ( in the role of Robin Hood ) and Porky Pig , as part of the Merrie Melodies series , directed by Chuck Jones and written by Michael Maltese . It was the last of Jones ' parody cartoons with the duo , and the last appearance of Porky in a theatrical cartoon directed by Jones during the Golden Age of Animation . It was also the second parody of Robin Hood directed by Chuck Jones , after the 1949 Bugs Bunny short Rabbit Hood . An edited version of Robin Hood Daffy was included in the theatrical film The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie ( 1979 ) .
Baby Bottleneck is a Warner Bros. Looney Tunes ( reissued as a Blue Ribbon ) theatrical cartoon short released in 1946 and directed by Bob Clampett and written by Warren Foster . It features Porky Pig and Daffy Duck .
Kitty Kornered is a 1946 Looney Tunes cartoon , directed by Robert Clampett , produced by Edward Selzer and released by Warner Bros. Pictures . Considered among Clampett 's best and wackiest films , Kitty Kornered was Clampett 's final cartoon featuring longtime favorite Porky Pig ( although he made a cameo in Clampett 's next cartoon The Great Piggy Bank Robbery as a streetcar driver ) , and marks the only appearance of the ( then unnamed ) Sylvester the cat in a Clampett-directed cartoon and only one of two times Sylvester spoke in a Porky Pig cartoon . It was also the first appearance of Sylvester in the Looney Tunes series . Also , this is the only cartoon where Sylvester has yellow eyes and a black nose . This is the first Looney Tunes cartoon to have the red and blue rings as well as the written out That 's all Folks ! at the closing rings . The Merrie Melodies music is heard at the end though . Porky and Sylvester would later be paired in a trio of shorts directed by Chuck Jones : Scaredy Cat , Claws for Alarm , and Jumpin ' Jupiter . Both also appeared ( with Daffy Duck ) in The Scarlet Pumpernickel as the villain roles ( the only time Sylvester spoke in a Chuck Jones-directed cartoon ) .
Scaredy Cat is a 1948 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Chuck Jones .
Porky Chops is a Looney Tunes cartoon starring Porky Pig , directed by Arthur Davis and released on February 12 , 1949 . The short 's name is a pun on pork chops .
Arthur Art Davidavitch ( June 14 , 1905 - May 9 , 2000 ) was an American animator and a director for Warner Brothers ' Termite Terrace cartoon studio .
Old Glory is a 1939 Merrie Melodies animated cartoon directed by Chuck Jones , produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions , and released to theatres by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation . It premiered at the famed Carthay Circle Theatre at Los Angeles on July 1 , 1939 - three days before Independence Day .
A Tale of Two Kitties is a 1942 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Bob Clampett , written by Warren Foster , and features music by Carl W. Stalling . This short subject is notable for being Tweety Bird 's debut , although known as Orson in this short , according to the staff . It was also the first appearance of Babbit and Catstello , based on the popular comedy duo Abbott and Costello . The title is an obvious pun on the Charles Dickens classic , A Tale of Two Cities . Even in this initial appearance , Tweety reveals early on that his cute appearance masks a willingness to be merciless , even sadistic , towards anyone who threatens him . After slipping one of the cats a bomb which explodes ( offscreen ) , the bird remarks , Aw , da poor putty tat - he cwushed his widdow head ! Followed by a big grin . ( This line was patterned after a catchphrase from a Red Skelton character , and would be used in other Warner cartoons , such as Easter Yeggs . ) This is one of the few Tweety shorts that did not feature his main antagonist Sylvester , who would make his official debut in Life with Feathers ( 1945 ) . A Tale of Two Kitties is remarkable due to a clearly adult reference in 1942 . Catstello broke the fourth wall , took a direct shot at the Hays Office , and made a thinly-veiled reference to giving the middle finger . United Artists failed to renew the copyright in time in 1970 , so the short is now in the public domain in the United States .
Tweety is a yellow canary in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of animated cartoons . The name Tweety is a play on words , as it originally meant sweetie , along with tweet being an English onomatopoeia for the sounds of birds . His characteristics are based on Red Skelton 's famous Mean Widdle Kid . Tweety appeared in 46 cartoons during the golden age .
Babbit and Catstello are fictional characters , based on the comedic duo Abbott and Costello , that appeared in certain Warner Bros. animated cartoons .
Tweetie Pie is a 1947 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Friz Freleng . Tweetie Pie was the first pairing of Sylvester and Tweety and won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film , breaking Tom and Jerry 's streak of four consecutive wins on the category .