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The Best Looney Tunes Cartoon Ever Made


I reckon that this is the best Looney Tunes cartoon. The scene with Bugs and Elmer Dancing and the end are really beautiful scenes. 'Return My Love' is also a brilliant song, anyone wanna object?

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Like hell no am I gonna object. this still makes me giddy. I laughed so hard at this a few months ago that I snorted! Now, you have to believe it was funny!

Allison:)

"It's like people only do things because they get paid. And that's just really sad."

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I have to agree. This cartoon, along with "Rabbit of Seville", began for me a lifelong appreciation of opera at a time when I was listening to Ozzy Osbourne and The Scorpions. I still watch this cartoon regularly (I have it saved on my HD along with a great collection of wartime propaganda cartoons...thank you Kaazaa!).

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I think it is the best Looney Tunes short, but it needs to be on DVD! Or video for that matter!

T.H.

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I have an MP3 of this cartoon. Ya know just the music... I too was wondering if it was in a compliation. My daughter got into My Music folder and played it and threw a fit to watch the cartoon. Now I have a mad kid who cant watch the cartoon she loves hearing LOL! Maybe they will do a dvd soon of the all time greatest looney tunes!!!

-Amanda :)

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The Looney Tunes Golden Collection vol.2 not only includes this masterpiece (AND a small piece on its making),but also Chuck's One-Shot Masterpiece, "One Froggy Evening"...which SHOULD be on the Film Registry..

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mn i love replying to posts that are so old. I mean 2004! its gonna be sooo cool when u can find posts online from like 30 years ago.

Its so awesome how this guy mentions kazaa. So many people will have no idea what that is.

I dont even hve anything to say i just thought it was awesome that someone posted so long ago and its still up lol. thats over 8 years ago!!!

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Here's a post to you from 2014 LOL! and I posted up there in 2004 ^^^ How funny. I'm going through my old posts... Anyway, I was just going to say... I THINK it was from Kazaa where I first got the MP3 I mentioned in my original post LOL! Kazaa was ahead of it's time! My daughter who was a young'un at the time will soon be 15 LOL! Wonder if you will have seen this reply to you in the 2 years that it took me to see your reply on this thread. :) It is like a time machine for written text. :)

-A :)

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The only thing that bugs me about this is that Arthur Q. Bryan is uncredited. It's too bad that such an integral part of the Looney Tunes history is otherwise largely forgotten...

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they are all hysterical
i just received the golden collection vol 1 for my birthday
the one i watched today Rabbit Fire...so funny
everytime Daffy yells..."DUCK SEASON FIRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

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This cartoon is one of the many many many Looney Tunes that are amazing!



I have began to really appreciate the cartoons when I purchased my "Golden Collection" DVDs.



So many great cartoons, and not enough recognition. Like one of the commentators on the DVD had said, not verbatim, "Disney is the classical music of cartoons; but Looney Tunes is the jazz."




"Keep Ted Turner and his goddamned Crayolas away from my movie."--Welles


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i was about 3 when i saw this and burst into tears when i thought bugs was dead, then even more when it turns out he wasn't. when my parents asked me why i was crying and i said that Bugs was dead then he wasn't. i will never forget the looks on there faces...like i was mad

Thunderbirds Aren't Slow

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Possibly only "Duck Amuck" is slightly better, but not by much.

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I'd aruge that this is certainly the most beautiful Looney Tunes cartoon. The visuals are simply fantastic, reminding me quite a bit of german expressionism in their beauty.

The funniest Looney Tunes cartoon has to go to the Hunting Trilogy (Rabbit Fire, Rabbit Season, Duck! Rabbit! Duck!). The wit in those things and the way Bugs and Daffy play off each other is perfect.

As for the best though, I'd go with The Rabbit of Seville. The way every movement and shot is perfectly in tune with the music and how it manages to be both funny and exciting really puts it above all others.

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Id have to argue that the classic "one froggy evening" is the greatest Looney Tunes ever made. Despite the fact that it doesnt actually feature any of the recurring characters its still a masterpiece of animation.

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I totally get that. I burst into tears during "Mame"...
It still really gets me though - that end of "What's Opera Doc" - with the flower weeping onto Bugs' face.

"It's as if God created the Devil...and gave him...JAWS"

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Every year my husband gets me the next set of Looney Tunes DVDs, and I watch them so much that they are wearing out! This toon just slays me. As a resident of the LA area, "SMOGG!!!" just lays me flat every time. The musicals, like "Some Froggy Evening," "What's Opera Doc?" and the Porky Pig classic "Swooner Crooner" (the laying hens in a wartime egg factory are turned on by competing crooning roosters), just do it right!

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I've never been overly fond of this one. Stunning visuals, but the laughs are pretty scarce and feeble, and humour is my main priority. Maybe hardcore fans of Wagner or opera in general have a deeper appreciation than me, but I'll still far, far prefer the much funnier "Rabbit of Seville" or "Long-Haired Hare" for Bugs-goes-opera awesomeness. (Plus I think those two have better music.)

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Elmer (as Siegfried): "Kill the wabbit, KILL THE WABBIT!"


"Now THAT'S comedy!"--Slappy Squirrel



I love this brilliant Loony Tunes toon, but for my favorite, see "Duck Amuck." 50 years after seeing it for the first time, it still makes me lose my breath laughing.

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