The Bob Clampett Show

The Bob Clampett Show is an animation anthology television program that ran from 2000 to 2001. Produced by Cartoon Network, it featured animated theatrical shorts from the Warner Bros. library that were animated or directed by Bob Clampett, as well as a selection of shorts from the Beany and Cecil animated television series. It originally aired on Cartoon Network, with reruns airing at the tail end of Cartoon Network's Adult Swim program in the mid-2000s. Twenty-six episodes were made in all.
This was one of two animated anthology shows on Cartoon Network (joining The Popeye Show) that aired uncut and uncensored shorts, as well as shorts that normally get little to no airtime on American TV due to racially insensitive and problematic content (such as "Russian Rhapsody" and "Bacall to Arms"), though "Pilgrim Porky", "Kristopher Kolumbus Jr.", the 1938 version of "Injun Trouble" (ironically, its color remake, "Wagon Heels" aired), and the Censored Eleven shorts "Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarves" and "Tin Pan Alley Cats" were the only Bob Clampett shorts that never aired on the show; the version of "Farm Frolics" shown was the Blue Ribbon Merrie Melodies reissue with a missing tobacco spitting joke and a truncated beginning (the original version has been found as of 2023), and, while there was mention of the violent "director's cut" ending of "Hare Ribbin'", the version that aired had the general release ending.
== List of Cartoons Featured ==
=== Season 1 ===
* Draftee Daffy
* Falling Hare
* The Timid Toreador
* A Corny Concerto
* The Hep Cat
* Porky's Hero Agency
* Baby Bottleneck
* Buckaroo Bugs
* A Tale of Two Kitties
* The Big Snooze
* The Cagey Canary
* Porky's Last Stand
* The Great Piggy Bank Robbery
* Porky in Wackyland
* Porky in Egypt
* What's Cookin' Doc?
* Porky's Picnic
* The Wise Quacking Duck
* Kitty Kornered
* Rover's Rival
* Wabbit Twouble
* Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid
* A Gruesome Twosome
* Book Revue
* Tick Tock Tuckered
* Wacky Blackout
* The Daffy Doc
* Hare Ribbin' (general release edit, though the director's cut was mentioned in the host segment)
* The Lone Stranger and Porky
* Porky's Movie Mystery
* Birdy and the Beast
* Porky and Daffy
* Porky's Tire Trouble
* The Old Grey Hare (with original ending card that shakes from the off-screen explosion)
* Wise Quacks
* Porky's Naughty Nephew
* The Wacky Wabbit
* What Price Porky
* The Bashful Buzzard
=== Season 2 ===
* Tortoise Wins by a Hare
* Porky's Poor Fish
* The Film Fan
* Porky's Badtime Story
* Scalp Trouble
* Horton Hatches the Egg
* Naughty Neighbors
* Patient Porky
* Slap Happy Pappy
* Pied Piper Porky
* Russian Rhapsody
* The Henpecked Duck
* Porky's Poppa
* Wagon Heels
* Farm Frolics
* Porky's Pooch
* Porky's Five & Ten
* Jeepers Creepers
* An Itch in Time
* Porky's Hotel
* Eatin' on the Cuff
* Prehistoric Porky
* Meet John Doughboy
* Chicken Jitters
* We, the Animals - Squeak!
* Nutty News (with original upside-down title card)
* Bacall to Arms
* Porky's Party
* Get Rich Quick Porky
* Goofy Groceries
* Polar Pals
* The Chewin' Bruin
* Porky's Snooze Reel
* The Sour Puss
==Notes==
*The show's opening sequence is produced entirely using puppetry and stop-motion. This is in contrast to other Looney Tunes-related anthology shows airing on Cartoon Network at the time, such as The Tex Avery Show and The Chuck Jones Show, which were traditionally animated like the classic cartoons themselves.
*Archival audio from a handful of Bob Clampett-directed Looney Tunes cartoons are played in the show's opening sequence. These are Bugs Bunny's "Gosh, ain't I a stinker?" line from "The Wacky Wabbit" (1942), Beaky Buzzard's "Oh-no-no-no-no-no" line from "Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid" (1942), Daffy Duck's "Shortnin' Bread" song, "Hoo-hoo! Hoo-hoo! Hoo-hoo! Hoo-hoo!" wacky laugh and "I see you!" line from "The Wise Quacking Duck" (1943), and Porky Pig's "Quick! T-T-Tell me wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-where did he go?" line from "Porky in Wackyland" (1938).https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxDqFKmEqy0&ab_channel=iamstevepatrick
==References==
Category:TV Shows
Category:2000
Category:2001