(Slightly OT) New wartime cartoons!!!

[alstin]

Did any of you see South Park today? It was about the war. It had some very funny Osama ridicules and actually had a moral to it!!! What surprised me more was that there was MANY WB gags in it (kind of towards the end). It was Osama and Cartman as Daffy and Elmer, (sort of). I don't want to spoil it for you, so check it out. If you can, you should all take a look for this weeks South Park. It comes out at 9:30 PST today, (12:30 EST?) It regularly gets repeated throughout the weak, so check it out! Let me know what you think about it, because I thought it was the best!!!:D :D :D Also, if you have no access to Comedy Central, just let me know and I'll pm you some of the gags.:D :D :D

[Jack]

That was the strangest episode of South Park I'd ever seen. They obviously watched a lot of WB wartime cartoons.


Jack:D

[Calhoun07]

I'd just rather see WB give us NEW Looney Tunes wartime cartoons. Why are they letting other people steal their gags? Obviously, people want to see this stuff. I don't know, I am not a CEO or a business man, but I think if I was sitting on properties like the Looney Tunes I'd do more with it than put the characters on ties and underwear and sell stupid clocks with them on it.

[lislebartman]

Calhoun07:

I wouldn't necessarily say that the writer of last night's 'South Park' (Trey Parker) was 'stealing' material...

Look at it as a homage to the WWII-themed cartoons WB produced at that time and what an influence they have had over the years on us. Cartman producing a large mallet and dressing up in drag brings to mind "Daffy - The Commando" and "Bugs Bunny Nips The Nips" respectively. My friend's 8-year-old was laughing hysterically, actually knowing that Cartman & Osama bin Laden were acting like they were in a WB cartoon.

I thought it was a great episode!:cool:

[DR. BELCH]

Did anyone else notice that Osama had this odd herky-jerky bowlegged walk? Is that a parody of an old Looney Toon or of Osama himself and the way he moves? I've heard he had kidney trouble that may kill him...do stones affect one's gait?

Great homage to Avery, Jones, and Clampett--esp. the Lew Lehr impersonation a la "Russian Rhapsody". "Tewwowists is the cwaziest peoples!"

[Matthew Hunter]

As much as I don't like South Park, I do want to see this at some point. I do catch the show occasionally, and I cracked up when they did "That's All Folks" at the end, with Cartman in place of Porky. I don't know whether they are making fun of or paying tribute to Looney Tunes when they do that kind of gag, but I applaud them for doing it. And I also like the fact that they're not afraid to make fun of Bin Laden. I think WB at the moment is the wrong company to be owning Looney Tunes, over the past few years they've really killed their own toons. I wish they would take a serious interest in it and make some new ones, I believe the occasional new theatrically-released ones have been fairly popular, but they're not all very good. They need to come up with an animation unit and make shorts for theaters or TV, and make them as good as that "Flintstones" movie that was on last week, or some of the other Hanna-Barbera stuff they've done. They would need a fuller budget and have less opportunity for corner-cutting, but it could work. Why not CN? They could create a showcase for all-new LT's, and I feel sure they would be just as successful as the Cartoon Cartoons, if not more so. The internet cartoons are on the right track, but they need longer cartoons with better writers and some tweaking to the slate of voices. I'd recommend they use the writers from the Looney Tunes comic books, with the character designs from those, and get rid of that horrible Foghorn Leghorn voice, and go from there. I'm not particularly thrilled with Billy West's Bugs Bunny either.
-Matthew

[Thad Komorowski]

I'd like to see this, perhaps I will be able to Saturday night.

Like Matthew said, I'd like to see them take a crack at making a new series of LT cartoons on CN. Like he also said, the comic book writers should do the show's stories and artwork. I'm pretty sure if "Munchie Madness" (of issue #83) was made into an actual cartoon, it'd win some sort of Emmy or something... :)


-Thad

[alstin]

I think that was a great tribute to the old WB cartoons. I'm glad that the country has losened up enough to laugh at its situation. Bring on the George Bush jokes!:D

[PorkyandDaffy]

I hardly watch South Park, but I saw that one episode last night, and was kinda surprised, and I actually watched the entire thing. Anytime you bash Osama is good enough with me. ;)

They must've made that episode real fast considering how topical it is.

[Captain Caps]

They finish up episodes rather quickly. Just 2 or 3 weeks after they saw "South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut" lose the Oscar for Best Song to Phil Collins (one of the Academy's greatest mistakes, in my opinion), Parker and Stone started laying in Mr. Sssudio big time. While I like Phil Collins (go ahead, shoot me. I don't fear death), "South Park" is really funny whenever they make fun of him.

Sincerely,

John "Captain Caps" Kilduff

[Jack]

I thought the episode was okay, though it put just as much South Park humor into the jokes as it did WB humor (like when Cartman pulled Osama's pants down). Also, I think Osama's odd walk was supposed to be an attempt to immitate Elmer Fudd.

I wouldn't mind new Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies (they gotta make both), just as long it isn't a TV show like Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries (it had some unique and great production, but it was so dull). I can't find any comics around here, but I really want to see that issue 83, I've heard so many good things about it that it may make me feel there is hope for stuff with the WB characters.

And if they made new cartoons they would have to use hand inked cells (I think that's a big reason those new commercials look fake), burn the Daffy model sheets used for those commercials, and get either someone who can sound like Yosemite Sam, or just retire the character (I know that sounds drastic, but Sam just sounds awful, it takes too much away from his character when the voice is THAT bad). They also need a new Bugs as well.



Jack:D

[Matthew Hunter]

Joe Alaskey does an okay Sam, as does Jeff Bergman. Unfortunately, neither one does him now. Go figure.
-Matthew

[chuckamuck43]

I can do all of the classic voices - it is REALLY frustrating to hear these sorry Mel Blanc imitators. Props to Jeff Bergman, though for his Fudd and Fred Flintstone voices - the closest to the real thing I've heard.

As regards South Park : I was going to start a new "silly" thread - if some NEW wartime cartoons were made, what would they be?
It seems that Stone and Parker beat me to it.

Oh well, the best I could come up with was "AFGHAN-HOUNDED"
CharlieDog accidentally gets airlifted in a foodbundle to Afghanistan. Not realizing dogs are unclean, he decides Osama Bin Laden needs a pet.
Toon ends as Osama kills himself to escape Charlie, who finds another likely master - Saddam Hussein!

Anybody else?

[The Dork Knight]

That was a great SP eppy last Wendsday! I loved the stuff with Stevie Nicks. All I can say about Bin Laden is "Tiny is'nt it?".