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FngKestrel · 03-10-2005, 05:12 PM

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6989380/

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Bugs Bunny gets an extreme makeover
Kids’ WB network updating Looney Tunes characters
LOONEY TUNES FUTURE
The WB Network / AP
Bugs Bunny and his pals are shown updated for the future. The characters' descendants, Buzz Bunny and the like, will be superhero action figures for a cartoon set in the year 2772.

The Associated Press
Updated: 7:19 p.m. ET Feb. 17, 2005

NEW YORK - Bugs Bunny and his pals are being updated for the future — way in the future.

The WB network will take the famed Looney Tunes characters as models for a new children’s series, “Loonatics,” that will air on Saturday mornings starting this fall. The characters’ descendants — Buzz Bunny and the like — will be superhero action figures for the cartoon set in the year 2772.

The network’s animators have re-imagined Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Wile E. Coyote as sleek new figures for a modern age.

“We all flipped for it,” David Janollari, president of the Kids’ WB, said this week. “We just said, ‘Wow, what a great way to take the classic Looney Tunes franchise that has been huge with audiences for decades and bring it into the new millennium.”’

Janollari said both boys and girls enjoyed the new action figures in test runs of the show. Their parents may be a little surprised, however.

“I think the legacy is intact,” he said. “If anything, it’s an homage to the legacy instead of a destruction of the legacy.”

Link has photos to this travesty.

I want to be open-minded, but having been weaned on Bugs Bunny, and seeing the new characters, this is making my stomach churn.

sgn43 · 03-10-2005, 05:14 PM

I saw this back when it first came out, and it took me a while to get over it but I managed somehow. But, you just made me cry all over again. Thanks, jerk.

heh.

FngKestrel · 03-10-2005, 05:17 PM

Sorry, I just realized that this was already posted. Mods, please merge or close as necessary.

Curse my shoddy searching skills!

Fire · 03-13-2005, 09:57 PM

duck dogers = good

this = shit

christ, they look like a bad visions from the peyote ravaged brain of the guy that thought up Tron- wait, tron did not look like SHIT

Redlemon · 03-14-2005, 11:31 AM

Here's a flash animation that might cheer you up: "A New Bunny". Please note "Excessive Audible Explicit Language, Mild Textual Explicit Language, Mild Adult Themes".

Undercover_Man · 03-14-2005, 12:38 PM

^^^
LOL. That's awesome. TWhoever did that should do one with all the "new" characters. WB is totally destroying Bugs Bunny and company. I hope the new series sux so badly that it's cancelled and whoever was involved get fired and kicked to the street. This is terrible.

m0rpheus · 03-20-2005, 02:58 PM

God I can just hope that this is one of those things where in a few years people will see this thread and go "hey I remember that... god did it ever suck...".

TexanAvenger · 03-20-2005, 05:39 PM

lol... man, I remember back in the day when Bugs making Daffy say, "DUCK SEASON! FIRE!" was enough to get a kid like me laughing...

maleficent · 03-20-2005, 06:07 PM

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Originally Posted by TexanAvenger

lol... man, I remember back in the day when Bugs making Daffy say, "DUCK SEASON! FIRE!" was enough to get a kid like me laughing...

That still makes me laugh...

TexanAvenger · 03-20-2005, 06:30 PM

lol... me too, but I was trying to preserve the air of nostalgia for the moment, not point out that, for all my other traits, I can still act like a kid.

Charlatan · 03-20-2005, 06:53 PM

Do you want to shoot him now or wait 'till you get home?

Shoot me now! Shoot me now!

BLAM

You're dispecable...

K-Wise · 03-21-2005, 12:54 AM

Bugs Bunny was overrated. Ta hell with him. Daffy is the most underrated Looney Toon ever. Bugs never said some shit like

Please pass the ketchup I want to fly a kite!

Daffy = G.O.A.T.

Asta!!

wolf · 03-21-2005, 01:26 PM

Haven't they ever heard the expression "If it ain't broke don't fix it."? Why mess with something that is as timeless as Looney Toons?

00111000 · 03-21-2005, 01:50 PM

So sad. As so many others I grew up on these cartoons and to see this done is a travesty! At least I have the dvds to keep me happy. I still laugh at the jokes and gags to this day. Without Looney Toons how would I know my classical music??? Or that the Acme company is not to be trusted at all? Or that a giant mass of orange hair would wear white sneakers?? Will the new versions of these cartoons teach our kids stuff like this? I think not.

m0rpheus · 03-27-2005, 02:01 PM

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Originally Posted by 00111000

Without Looney Toons how would I know my classical music???

I know, how many people hear Ride of the Valkyries and think "Kill the wabbit, kill the WABBIT..."

TexanAvenger · 03-27-2005, 02:10 PM

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Originally Posted by 00111000

So sad. As so many others I grew up on these cartoons and to see this done is a travesty! At least I have the dvds to keep me happy. I still laugh at the jokes and gags to this day. Without Looney Toons how would I know my classical music??? Or that the Acme company is not to be trusted at all? Or that a giant mass of orange hair would wear white sneakers?? Will the new versions of these cartoons teach our kids stuff like this? I think not.

Acme might stay... but really, would you want to see Wiley Coyote use the high-powered "Acme Road Runner Sniper Rifle?" I'll stick with his Rube-Goldberg devices, thank you.

*sighs, goes off to think back on the good ol' days when surreal physics meant Wiley took 4 steps on open air then fell 300 feet and lived, instead of time travel or whatever the hell they have planned

FngKestrel · 03-27-2005, 02:26 PM

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Originally Posted by m0rpheus

I know, how many people hear Ride of the Valkyries and think "Kill the wabbit, kill the WABBIT..."

Guilty as charged. That and Rabbit of Seville.

Jackebear · 03-28-2005, 08:18 AM

Every time I hear the Barber of Seville (great music), I see Bugs shaving Elmer Fudd and then standing on his head massaging it and then using his big ears to massage his scalp some more. One of my favorite episodes.

Redlemon · 03-28-2005, 08:43 AM

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Originally Posted by TexanAvenger

*sighs, goes off to think back on the good ol' days when surreal physics meant Wiley took 4 steps on open air then fell 300 feet and lived, instead of time travel or whatever the hell they have planned

As my Engineering Mechanics professor told us, "Cartoons are funny because they break the laws of physics."

03-10-2005, 05:14 PM	#2 (permalink)
sgn43 Insane Location: Los Angeles	I saw this back when it first came out, and it took me a while to get over it but I managed somehow. But, you just made me cry all over again. Thanks, jerk. heh. __________________ To be great is to be misunderstood. -Emerson

03-10-2005, 05:17 PM	#3 (permalink)
FngKestrel Junkie	Sorry, I just realized that this was already posted. Mods, please merge or close as necessary. Curse my shoddy searching skills! Last edited by FngKestrel; 03-10-2005 at 05:23 PM..

03-13-2005, 09:57 PM	#4 (permalink)
Fire Warrior Smith Location: missouri	duck dogers = good this = shit christ, they look like a bad visions from the peyote ravaged brain of the guy that thought up Tron- wait, tron did not look like SHIT __________________ Thought the harder, Heart the bolder, Mood the more as our might lessens

03-14-2005, 11:31 AM	#5 (permalink)
Redlemon Devoted Donor Location: New England	Here's a flash animation that might cheer you up: "A New Bunny". Please note "Excessive Audible Explicit Language, Mild Textual Explicit Language, Mild Adult Themes". __________________ I can't read your signature. Sorry.

03-20-2005, 02:58 PM	#7 (permalink)
m0rpheus bad craziness Location: Guelph, Ontario	God I can just hope that this is one of those things where in a few years people will see this thread and go "hey I remember that... god did it ever suck...". __________________ "it never got weird enough for me." - Hunter S. Thompson

03-14-2005, 12:38 PM	#6 (permalink)
Undercover_Man Insane	^^^ LOL. That's awesome. TWhoever did that should do one with all the "new" characters. WB is totally destroying Bugs Bunny and company. I hope the new series sux so badly that it's cancelled and whoever was involved get fired and kicked to the street. This is terrible.

03-20-2005, 05:39 PM	#8 (permalink)
TexanAvenger Born-Again New Guy Location: Unfound.	lol... man, I remember back in the day when Bugs making Daffy say, "DUCK SEASON! FIRE!" was enough to get a kid like me laughing...

03-20-2005, 06:30 PM	#10 (permalink)
TexanAvenger Born-Again New Guy Location: Unfound.	lol... me too, but I was trying to preserve the air of nostalgia for the moment, not point out that, for all my other traits, I can still act like a kid.

03-20-2005, 06:53 PM	#11 (permalink)
Charlatan Getting it. Super Moderator Location: Lion City	Do you want to shoot him now or wait 'till you get home? Shoot me now! Shoot me now! BLAM You're dispecable... __________________ "My hands are on fire. Hands are on fire. Ain't got no more time for all you charlatans and liars." - Old Man Luedecke

03-21-2005, 12:54 AM	#12 (permalink)
K-Wise It's All About The Ass!! Location: In a pool of mayonnaise!!	Bugs Bunny was overrated. Ta hell with him. Daffy is the most underrated Looney Toon ever. Bugs never said some shit like Please pass the ketchup I want to fly a kite! Daffy = G.O.A.T. Asta!! __________________ "I love music and it's my parents fault (closing statement)." - Me..quoting myself...from when I said that...On TFP..thats here...Tilted Forum Project *It ain't goodbye, it's see ya later! I'll miss you guys!* - Asta!!

03-21-2005, 01:26 PM	#13 (permalink)
wolf Ravenous Location: Right Behind You	Haven't they ever heard the expression "If it ain't broke don't fix it."? Why mess with something that is as timeless as Looney Toons? __________________ Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as Gods. Cats have never forgotten this.

03-21-2005, 01:50 PM	#14 (permalink)
00111000 Psycho Location: Mostly standing in a blue semi-circle	So sad. As so many others I grew up on these cartoons and to see this done is a travesty! At least I have the dvds to keep me happy. I still laugh at the jokes and gags to this day. Without Looney Toons how would I know my classical music??? Or that the Acme company is not to be trusted at all? Or that a giant mass of orange hair would wear white sneakers?? Will the new versions of these cartoons teach our kids stuff like this? I think not. __________________ - And so he says, 'I don't like the cut of your jib.' And I go I says, IT'S THE ONLY JIB I GOT, BABY! -

03-28-2005, 08:18 AM	#18 (permalink)
Jackebear Insane	Every time I hear the Barber of Seville (great music), I see Bugs shaving Elmer Fudd and then standing on his head massaging it and then using his big ears to massage his scalp some more. One of my favorite episodes. __________________ Life's jounney is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well-preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn-out shouting, "Holy sh*t! What a ride!" - unknown