"New ‘Looney Tunes’ Cartoons Ban Elmer Fudd From Having A Gun – But Other Mayhem Is Okay"

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There’s some “wrong” aspect about Looney Tunes and Disney characters in all decades.

Sure Mr Fudd has a gun, but that’s tame. Marvin the Martian threatened terroristic acts with WMDs regularly. Bugs Bunny cross dresses and arguably catfishes others. And Pepe Is Pew is a serial sexual harasser if not assaulter.

And let’s not get into Disney’s issues.
 
Pitcairn17 said:
Actually, I’m surprised PETA hasn’t taken on Wile E. Coyote and tried to get him banned for harassing the Road Runner.
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Clearly, it’s fur privilege . . .

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Elmer was kind of a ridiculous character who was ineffective at accomplishing anything
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He was also initially quite tall, until they realized that he was more ridiculous short . . .
 
More political correctness. I’ll take the old Elmer Fudd, if you please. I suppose next, Porky Pig’s stuttering will get targeted.
 
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I just happened to find this video of Elmer:


I’m not sure why the news story is that Elmer Fudd has no more gun. It should be that the New Looney Tunes isn’t funny, the animation is different, and thankfully, the classic ones with Mel Blanc’s voice are still available and still broadcast.
 
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These are how some of the characters are now drawn:

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You realize we are now the old folks saying “back in my days…”
 
Yep. These whipper snappers of today don’t appreciate a good cartoon!

I remember when you had to wait until Saturday to watch cartoons!
 
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So a hunter, hunting rabbits is too extreme now, even when the hunter was always portrayed as an idiot?

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F_Marturana said:
The new looney tunes are on Cartoon Network I believe. The real Looney Tunes is normally on following it.

Real Looney Tunes is better and funnier.
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A hunter having a rifle on Cartoon Network is bad. But sexual comedy on Cartoon Network is totally ok.
 
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What about that Acme Corp. anvil that’s always falling upon Wile E. Coyote? Not to mention the explosives and cannon.
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Actually, I’m surprised PETA hasn’t taken on Wile E. Coyote and tried to get him banned for harassing the Road Runner. Just the sort of action they’re known for. Of course, when anvils are outlawed, only outlaws will have anvils.
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PETA simply looks the other way when it comes to animal on animal violence…
 
Beryllos said:
One way to identify fascination vs. liking is whether you have significantly more than you need. For example, I have a thing about flashlights. I estimate that I have about 20, although half of those are from an inexpensive 10-pack. Sure, I use them and can tell you why I got each one, but all I really need is one hand-held and one headlamp. That’s a fascination.

I think anyone who has more than about 3 guns could fairly be characterized as having a fascination with guns. Just my opinion.

Edited to add: I’ve also upgraded a couple of my old flashlights with LED replacement bulbs. That too is the sort of thing that fascination will make you do.
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I have more than three. I shoot different calibers with different design features. And my son and I have an extensive collection of airguns, which is the only thing we can shoot in our small suburban HOA backyard. I do not yet allow him to shoot “the real thing” — some 13-year-olds do, but I choose not to allow this yet, and his grandparents and (probably) his mother would have a fit!

I’d be careful about talking about fascination with socially eccentric things — there is a tendency in this country to stigmatize every kind of expertise in arcane things, unusual hobbies and collections, and idiosyncratic verbal and interpersonal styles, as being “on the spectrum” or as symptoms of Asperger syndrome or autism. I’m kind of glad that Edison was “obsessed” with inventing and that brain surgeons and cardiologists have a singular laser-focus on their fields of expertise, myself. Whatever happened to allowing people to be unique individuals, and not speculating on their neurological structure?
 
Thanks for the reminder. The human race is made up of unique individuals. Thank and praise God for that!
 
0Scarlett_nidiyilii said:
He shot Daffy Duck about a zillion times…
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But hit himself more often than the duck . . .

(the joys of cartoon physics. There’s a great essay out there on the subject, explaining what can and can’t be done for watchability . . .)
F_Marturana said:
These are how some of the characters are now drawn:
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😱 🤯 😡

And they took both of Yosemite Sam’s guns . . . that’s worse than taking Fudd’s . . .
 
Pattylt said:
Well, Foghorn Leghorn looks the same…so there’s that…😤
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I’m surprised they didn’t reboot Foghorn Leghorn to be President Trump in rooster form.

My gut response when someone says “New Looney Tunes cartoons” is “who cares, who wants to watch new Looney Tunes cartoons when the old ones are so great?”
It’s like someone trying to re-create Laurel and Hardy.
 
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Foghorn Leghorn reminded me of an obnoxious Andy Griffith as a little girl.

My youngest son likes the show. But he prefers the classic ones.

We recently saw part of Treasure of the Sierra Madre. A satirical version of Humphrey Bogart’s character is in the episode “8 ball bunny”

My son realized, “hey that’s the guy from Bugs Bunny!”
 
Oh please — I’ve seen bumper stickers that read “Republicans for Voldemort” 🤣🤣🤣
 
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