Bugs and Daffy 02-13-2002 (1pm)

[Pilmedium]

Satan's Waitin' (1954, Sylvester/Tweety)
Mouse Mazurka (1949, Sylvester)
Three Little Bops (1957, Three Little Pigs)
The Hole Idea (1955, one-shot)
Devil's Feud Cake (1963, Bugs Bunny/Yosemite Sam)
Show Biz Bugs (1957, Bugs Bunny/Daffy Duck)

[Billy]

Was 'Showbiz Bugs' edited?

[Pilmedium]

Originally posted by BillyH
Was 'Showbiz Bugs' edited?

Yes, it was. :(

[Tintin]

Evil theme today

[Jon Cooke]

Originally posted by Cartoon Man
Evil theme today

Death and the devil must have been the theme of the day. :p


-Jon

[Matthew Hunter]

Weird theme...Die-and-go-to-Hell day. Rather morbid. Well, at least it's a discernable theme. Tomorrow will probably be valentine cartoons...either an all Le Pew show or stuff like "Don't Look Now" and "Porky's Romance". does the latter have a colorized version?
-Matthew

[Tintin]

I hope a Valentine special for tommorov, my list are:

"Hare Splitter" (1948)
"Porky's Romance" (1937, B&W)
"The Stupid Cupid" (1944)
"Hare Trimmed" (1953)
"Louvre Come Back to Me" (1962)
"Plane Daffy" (1944)

[Do-Do]

Originally posted by Matthew Hunter
does the latter have a colorized version?
-Matthew
It does, but I doubt CN will show it.

(200th post!!!) :D

[Dave Mackey]

Originally posted by Matthew Hunter
Weird theme...Die-and-go-to-Hell day. Rather morbid. Well, at least it's a discernable theme.

And except for "The Hole Idea", they were all Freleng cartoons. I always liked the concept unique to Freleng cartoons of taking the escalator down to Hell.

[J Lee]

I'll give Hanna-Barbera a lot of the credit for the escallator idea -- they used it first in "Heavenly Puss" though they only had one going up to heaven, not down (and after the "Rhapsody Rabbit" -- "Cat Concerto" incident, Friz was probably owed one steal from Bill and Joe).

[Pilmedium]

The Hole Idea (1955, one-shot)
Three Little Bops (1957, Three Little Pigs)
Satan's Waitin' (1954, Sylvester/Tweety)

[Tintin]

No Bugs/Daffy last night. just normal characters

[comicfan]

I remeber being very disturbed by "Satan's Waitin" when I first saw it as a little kid, and I still find it a bit morbid to this day. The cartoon ends on a rather downbeat note, with Sylvester being condemned to Hades forever. It always seemed to me that Sylvester didn't deserve it. He wasn't evil, he was just a hungry cat. Ah well, at least he got to go to heaven in "Mouse Mazurka". which I rather like.

Come to think of it, "Satan's Waitin'" might make a good Halloween Toon Heads. [It might offend some people, though..] The show could have "Satan's Waitin'", "Devil's Feud Cake", and "Heavenly Puss."
BTW, did any other major studios do similar death themed toons? The closest I can think of is Disney's "Hell's Bells", and [more recently] a Darkwing Duck episode called "Dead Duck." I just find it curious that death and Hades would be a relativly common cartoon theme...

[Howard Fein]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by comicfan
[B]I remeber being very disturbed by "Satan's Waitin" when I first saw it as a little kid, and I still find it a bit morbid to this day. The cartoon ends on a rather downbeat note, with Sylvester being condemned to Hades forever. It always seemed to me that Sylvester didn't deserve it. He wasn't evil, he was just a hungry cat. Ah well, at least he got to go to heaven in "Mouse Mazurka". which I rather like.

CBS, which aired SATAN'S WAITIN' from 1975-85, edited out the entire last scene in which Sylvester, down to his ninth life, holes up in the bank, only to be condemned to Hades along with the two bank robbers who didn't know how to handle nitroglycerine properly

The reasoning was probably that kids who followed the storyline (Sylvester losing each of his nine lives, one by one), would be upset to see him lose his NINTH life, which of course be irreversible in feline lore. In this particular instance, he didn't do anything to bring about his demise, unlike the way he lost his eight other lives: pursuing Tweety. Of course, the robbers clearly deserved their fate! :p

Hence, CBS would abruptly end the cartoon at the fade-out when Sylvester ran away from the bulldog Devil, yelling "I d-o-o-on't want him!"

However, ABC aired this cartoon unedited from 1985 on.

Other non-feline characters have died on-screen in cartoons, only to appear in their next short good as new: Daffy (SHOW BIZ BUGS, DAFFY DUCK AND THE DINOSAUR); Elmer (BACK ALLEY OPROAR); Sam (DUMB PATROL). Several Three Stooge shorts have ended with the boys' direct or implied deaths.

Of course, SOUTH PARK completely demolished this whole conceit with Kenny.

[Pilmedium]

It wasn't really "forever". That's only the way it seemed. Cartoon characters come back as good as new in the next cartoon. Therefore, I happen to like "Satan's Waitin'" at least as much as other Sylvester cartoons. I don't find it disturbing, but that's only my opinion.