Looney Tunes

Looney Tunes, and its sister series Merrie Melodies, is a series of cartoons created for Warner Bros. by Leon Schlesinger, Hugh Harman, and Rudolf Ising. Looney Tunes remains one of the most popular American cartoons from The Golden Age of American Animation. The Simpsons references many components of the long-time cartoon series.
==Citations==
*"Krusty Gets Busted" - The opening of Kent Brockman's news report about Krusty the Clown's arrest for armed robbery opens with a smiling Krusty head zooming towards the camera with a rising "twang" sound effect, very much like the WB shield at the start of many classic Looney Tunes cartoons.
*"Treehouse of Horror II" - At school, Principal Skinner sings "Hello, My Ragtime Gal" for Bart on the PA system, a song Michigan J Frog is known for singing and dancing to. Additionally, Snowball II's crazier fire-breathing form resembles Daffy Duck when painted into a "screwball" creature in the 1953 short Duck Amuck.
*"Bart the Murderer" - Two horses in the race the Mafia watch on television are named "Ain't I a Stinker?" (a catchphrase of Bugs Bunny) and "That's All, Folks" (a recurring statement that appears at the end of many Looney Tunes shorts).
*"Homer Alone" - The episode opens with Bart and Homer chasing through the house in a parody of the freeze-frame Latin name introductions used in the Road Runner cartoons.
*"Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie" - A TV spot for The Itchy & Scratchy Movie features an announcer quickly saying "53 percent new footage", in a reference to the Looney Tunes theatrical compilation movies that combine new framing animation with clips from the classic cartoons (The Bugs Bunny Road-Runner Movie, The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie, Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales, Daffy Duck's Movie: Fantastic Island and Daffy Duck's Quackbusters).
*"Lisa's First Word" - When toddler Bart hears Lisa say her first word, he exclaims "Sufferin' succotash!", Sylvester's famous catchphrase.
*"Treehouse of Horror VI" - The way Bart is holding up a sign that says "Help me" is how Wile E. Coyote did it.
*"Treehouse of Horror IV" - Homer Simpson spends a day in Hell. In the "Ironic Punishment Department," a demon has Homer strapped in the Feed-A-Matic chair from Pigs is Pigs, by forcing him to eat "all the doughnuts in the world!"
*"Bart's Inner Child" - The scene where Homer dumps the trampoline of a cliff is a parody of the Road Runner cartoons.
*"The Springfield Files" - Marvin the Martian appears in a line-up of aliens.
*"The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show" - June, the voice of Itchy and Scratchy, claims she did the voice of the Road Runner, but only was able to do one meep as the studio doubled it up.
*"Brother's Little Helper" - Chief Wiggum says to Bart, "That's the end of your Looney Tune, Drugs Bunny."
*"Tales from the Public Domain" - Poseidon (as portrayed by the sea captain) says Bugs Bunny's catchphrase "Ain't I a stinker?" after sending Odysseus and the other soldiers away from Ithaca.
*"The Last of the Red Hat Mamas" - The rabbit at the Easter celebration is called Hugs Bunny. Later Homer mentions the Road Runner when he learns there is a bird by that name.
*"There's Something About Marrying"- After Bart and Milhouse's attempt to get a seedless watermelon dropped on Barney Gumble by using a can of Duff Beer as bait backfires, Barney says to the boys "Now, as the Road Runner said to the coyote..." then jumps up ala the Road Runner saying "Meep-meep!" and zips off with a ricochet sound effect.
*"G.I. (Annoyed Grunt)"- The scene where Homer is getting chased by the predator drone is a parody of Looney Tunes. Homer fools the drone by reading a newspaper, dressing like a female drone, using soap suds to disguise himself as an old man in the bath (which prompts the drone to hold up a sign saying "Sorry, sir") and then sneaking around, hiding behind objects and luring the drone into a dark cupboard full of TNT and when the drone lights a match to see, it explodes. The monitor that the Army colonel is watching this on then says "That's All Folks!"
*"The President Wore Pearls" - One of the postage stamps Homer shows Lisa has Bugs Bunny on it.
*"Smoke on the Daughter" - The couch gag shows Wile E. Coyote painting the couch on wall. After he tiptoes away, the family runs right into the wall as Maggie zooms in and exclaims the Road Runner's "Meep Meep" and signature tongue bit.
*"Apocalypse Cow" - One of the chickens is named "Leghorn", a reference to Foghorn Leghorn.
*"The Greatest Story Ever D'ohed" - When Ned Flanders keeps trying to explain to Homer that they are at the tomb of Jesus Christ and, getting more frustrated, refers to him as "the most famous man who ever lived," Homer asks, "Porky Pig?" Ned snaps, "Porky Pig's not a man! He's a pig, and he's not even a real pig!"
*"Treehouse of Horror XXVI" -In Sideshow Bob's song, he sings the lyrics "I did what could not be done", to Bugs Bunny by Elmer Fudd.
*"The Scorpion's Tale" - A real coyote appears chasing a real roadrunner in a parody of the Road Runner cartoons.
*"Treehouse of Horror VIII"- When Bart's head is in the fly Taz's sounds are used theres another reference to the character named Witch Hazel when Marge, Patty and Selma float on their brooms and click their heels before flying away on their brooms. And >the view of the cliff is similar to a Road Runner cartoon.
*"Homer the Father"- The Itchy & Scratchy cartoon is titled "Ain't I a Stinger?", punning one of Bugs Bunny's catchphrases, "Ain't I a stinker?"
*"Treehouse of Horror XXII"- Ned Flanders killing Patty and Selma with a rock is a parody of the Road Runner cartoons. He then runs off with a "meep meep".
*"Treehouse of Horror XXIII" - Th-Th-Th-That's Al, Folks! is a reference to Porky Pig's catchphrase, "That's all, folks!" from Looney Tunes.
*"The Simpsons Game"- The chasm death cliché in the level Bargain Bin is a reference to Wile E. Coyote.
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