"TOON"

[Jack]

When did this word become really popular? Was it really after Roger Rabbit? I know it existed before that, but no cartoon character in the classic shorts ever said it, and it doesn't sound right when Bugs uses it in "Toon Marooned."

I find the word a bit annoying, especially when people write "Looney Toons" rather than the more visually apealing and correct "Looney Tunes."


Jack:D

[Rob]

Yeah, it became popular after WFRR, the major thing I disliked about that movie.

It's as if people were searching for a way to shorten the term"cartoon character" because they're too lazy to say the whole thing!

[BobChief]

"Yeah, it became popular after WFRR, the major thing I disliked about that movie."

The whole gist of that film was that people, or enough of them anyhow, disdained 'toons - note the apostrophe, that's how Gary Wolf spelled it in the novel whence it came, about a Sunday-funnies character more resembling something out of Beatrix Potter - for their apparently-careless lifestyles.