"The Looney Tunes Show": On with the show...this ain't it - Never Forgotten: a Foster's Home Community

Ccook50 · 05-03-2011, 05:53 PM

As a matter of personal taste and opinion, The Looney Tunes Show (Cartoon Network, Tuesdays 8 PM Eastern) isn't as offensively awful as Cartoon Brew and Toonzone make it out to be.

What's wrong with it is that it's talky, dull, and distractingly clueless. The classic Warner Bros. characters have been streamlined, some to quasi-unrecognizability and plopped into a sitcom milieux. It stars Bugs and Daffy as a Felix and Oscar of the 21st Century. The debut had the two on a game show where two teams of friends predict how well they know each other, with Daffy knowing absolutely nothing about Bugs and blowing a chance to win a sea cruise. Of course, Daffy is challenged by Speedy Gonzales (his sparring partner in the cheesy mid 60s cartoons) to find his inner best friend and treat Bugs right.

Daffy's self-absorption had always been a "vain" (pun intended) of comedy gold from 1950 on, but here it's taken to witlessly cynical extremes, as if Daffy has terminal ADD and he felt the need (as in the debut) to have every response a non-sequitur. Bugs is long-suffering and it's completely out of character for him. The animation in the show has flashes of life but is rendered inert by its dependence on a dialogue-heavy script. It's composited to have the character designs simulate being on cels with their shadows just being noticeable. At least it's not that much of a distraction.

Rotating each week is "Merrie Melodies," a music video with a WB cartoon star (the first being Elmer Fudd's bizarrely romantic ode to a melted cheese sandwich) and a 2-and-a-half minute CGI short with the Road Runner and Coyote.

There is still time for the show to present some improvement, but if the mid-60s Warner cartoons (farmed out after WB shut the cartoon studio down) was considered an austerity period and the Tiny Toons-to-Duck Dodgers era is something of a renaissance, then The Looney Tunes Show may be the fearful start of a new austerity with the character brands.

Howard · 05-03-2011, 08:45 PM

Yikes! That is why I hide myself in the classics.

05-03-2011, 05:53 PM	#1
Ccook50 Foster's Legend Don't forget to turn left at Greenland Join Date: May 2007 Location: Cumming GA Posts: 510	"The Looney Tunes Show": On with the show...this ain't it As a matter of personal taste and opinion, The Looney Tunes Show (Cartoon Network, Tuesdays 8 PM Eastern) isn't as offensively awful as Cartoon Brew and Toonzone make it out to be. What's wrong with it is that it's talky, dull, and distractingly clueless. The classic Warner Bros. characters have been streamlined, some to quasi-unrecognizability and plopped into a sitcom milieux. It stars Bugs and Daffy as a Felix and Oscar of the 21st Century. The debut had the two on a game show where two teams of friends predict how well they know each other, with Daffy knowing absolutely nothing about Bugs and blowing a chance to win a sea cruise. Of course, Daffy is challenged by Speedy Gonzales (his sparring partner in the cheesy mid 60s cartoons) to find his inner best friend and treat Bugs right. Daffy's self-absorption had always been a "vain" (pun intended) of comedy gold from 1950 on, but here it's taken to witlessly cynical extremes, as if Daffy has terminal ADD and he felt the need (as in the debut) to have every response a non-sequitur. Bugs is long-suffering and it's completely out of character for him. The animation in the show has flashes of life but is rendered inert by its dependence on a dialogue-heavy script. It's composited to have the character designs simulate being on cels with their shadows just being noticeable. At least it's not that much of a distraction. Rotating each week is "Merrie Melodies," a music video with a WB cartoon star (the first being Elmer Fudd's bizarrely romantic ode to a melted cheese sandwich) and a 2-and-a-half minute CGI short with the Road Runner and Coyote. There is still time for the show to present some improvement, but if the mid-60s Warner cartoons (farmed out after WB shut the cartoon studio down) was considered an austerity period and the Tiny Toons-to-Duck Dodgers era is something of a renaissance, then The Looney Tunes Show may be the fearful start of a new austerity with the character brands. __________________ "God forgot to make stupidity painful." --Ivan Stang (Church of the SubGenius)

05-03-2011, 08:45 PM	#2
Howard Desert Rat Only the best! Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: AZ desert Posts: 1,356	Yikes! That is why I hide myself in the classics.