Bugs Bunny End title oddity! Please Read

[Looney Man]

:) [SIZE=3]Just saw piker's Peak on June Bugs and it ended with the oompah music continuing into the] "That's all Folks!"end title!

I had a feeling for years that it ended this way even when I
only saw it on network TV

This makes the only other Bugs Cartoon other than
"What's Opera Doc?" to end that way.

Anybody care to comment?

[Cartoon King]

Originally posted by Looney Man
:) [SIZE=3]Just saw piker's Peak on June Bugs and it ended with the oompah music continuing into the] "That's all Folks!"end title!

I had a feeling for years that it ended this way even when I
only saw it on network TV

This makes the only other Bugs Cartoon other than
"What's Opera Doc?" to end that way.

Anybody care to comment?

I kind of like the variety. I actually remember this ending from Nickelodeon a few years ago. Another unique ending is from Two Crows from Tacos, I believe, where instead of the familiar rings, the Merrie Melodies/ That's All Folks pop up over a sunset from the final scene.


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[PorkyandDaffy]

For some strange reason, I'm always left with an empty feeling whenever I see a cartoon that ends with music that continues from the last scene in the cartoon (like the early Merrie Melodies), instead of the traditional ending music. Maybe I'm just too used to the LT and MM themed endings, plus I like listening to the familiar tunes.

Some other cartoons that have different ending cards:

* COAL BLACK AND DE SEBBEN SWARFS: "That's All Folks" shows up over the ending scene.

* NELLY'S FOLLY It didn't have the traditional MM ending card, nor the traditional closing music.

There are some others I can't remember at the time.

[Jack]

There's "Three Little Bops," which just has a plain "The End" card, then there's "Old Glory" (it wouldn't have been right to end such a serious cartoon with the silly MM theme)

There's "Bartholomew Versus The Wheel", and "Now Here This," and "Seniorella and the Glass Huarache," all of which end with the modern theme.


Jack

[Dave Mackey]

Here's some more variations.

The "Nelly's Folly" end title just reads "Merrie Melodies/A Warner Bros. Cartoon/A Vitaphone Release", and it is presented against a black background.

"Three Little Bops" just ends on a plain "The End" title slide with no studio or other identification.

There were about three or four end title variants that Chuck Jones used for Road Runner cartoons. One had the Road Runner writing out "That's All Folks!" with his vapor trail and faded into the ring shot, another had the Coyote running through a field of abandoned mines and the Road Runner pulling down the end title like a shade, and the third was "Guided Muscle" where the Coyote posts a job opening for a "gullible coyote" and walks off stage and walks back on pulling the end title slide.

"Coal Black And De Sebben Dwarfs" has a different end title, I believe. I don't have a copy to check.

"Lumber Jack-Rabbit", the cartoon that seemed to do a lot of things differently, had the "That's All Folks" and "Looney Tunes/A Warner Bros. Cartoon" fade in one line at a time instead of being written out.

And let's not forget "Porky's Duck Hunt" and its unique end title with Daffy sailing around the ending credits as the orchestra plays a loopy version of "A Hunting We Will Go".

[Jon Cooke]

Two more...

"The Major Lied Till Dawn" ends with the forgetful elephant (the cartoon's running gag) finally remembers that what he was going to say: "That's all, folks!"

The explosion that shakes the ending card of "The Old Gray Hare". Of course, this gag has been ruined on the "dubbed version".

Can't wait to see "Piker's Peak"!


-Jon

[Brandon Pierce]

...Bugs says, "And, that's the end."
In Box Office Bunny, Elmer and Daffy rip up the end title card, and Bugs says, "That's all folks!"
Blooper Bunny, film code-like That's all Folks words flash up the screen.
Carrotblanca, Tweety says "That's all folks" with a Peter Lorre voice.

[Jack]

"The return of Duck Dodgers,,,," ends with marvin telling us it's only a cartoon, and Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers has that wierd Porky in a drum ending.



Jack:D