How we can be 3 posts in and not have Bugs, Daffy or anything Looney Toons is beyond me. Rabbit Fire, Rabbit Punched, Bunny Hugged, c'mon man.
Exactly. Looney Tunes (and their sister series Merrie Melodies) were by far the best cartoons of all time, particularly if you liked slapstick and visual humor. Right up there, aimed more at the intellectual crowd, was Rocky and His Friends (including Fractured Fairy Tales and Mr. Peabody!). Who didn’t love Moose and Squirrel? A little-remembered gem was Crusader Rabbit, which was actually the first animated series made specifically for TV. The adventures of Crusader and his pal Ragland T. Tiger were wonderfully satirical; Jay Ward was co-creator, and later took that same sensibility to Rocky and Bullwinkle.
Yes, those are some other great ones there. Rocky and Bullwinkle, Mr.Peabody and Sherman were both great. I also liked Tennessee Tuxedo and Quick Draw McGraw. My Sunday mornings in the early 70's were get up, bowl of cereal while watching Looney Toons and other cartoons and then at 11am had either Three Stooges or Abbott and Costello. I think it was mostly Abbott and Costello movies but may have been a few Three Stooges mixed in. I'm a little fuzzy on which cartoons were Saturday morning and which were Sunday but always one of them on before heading out for the day.
I remember that I watched Thunder Cats but I don't remember the first thing about them. I had to google to even remember the name.
No, Tom and Jerry was Hanna-Barbera (who also did The Flintstones and The Jetsons). Before 1944 Looney Tunes was completely separate from Merrie Melodies; the latter had a deal with Warner Brothers to have excerpts from two of their songs in each short (hence the name). In 1944 Warner Brothers acquired Looney Tunes, music wasn’t required in Merrie Melodies after 1941, and there effectively was no difference between them.
