Now Accepting Nominations...

[happyheathen]

For RAREST LT/MM known to exist

I will start with:

Milk and Money
The Fire Alarm

what others?

[Matthew Hunter]

Either one of the "Injun Trouble" cartoons. I don't think I've seen either one. Also, "Norman Normal" is pretty hard to find, too.
-Matthew

[BobChief]

"Shake Your Powder Puff". The copy I saw on WB's
Web site was pretty shaky (!), and forget about
ever seeing it on CN...:(

[Cartoon King]

I nominate Hocus Pocus Pow Wow and Injun Trouble (1969), the only two LTs/MMs that I don't have. As far as I know they have never aired and have never been released to video or DVD.




Oh, The Shame of It! My Onliest Father Throw Out By a Mouse!

[Patrick McCart]

Lady Play Your Mandolin

Aired once, never put on video (One PD video, though)

Also, those 3 lost Spooney Melodies are rare (being that no one knows what the lost 3 are)

[happyheathen]

Lady Play Your Mandolin
and
Shake Your Powder Puff

can sometimes be found on ebay by doing a search in 'movies' for keyword 'looney' (our friend avidius, aka matinee-classics)

[PorkyandDaffy]

Not the entire cartoon itself, but the lost ending to Avery's THE HECKLING HARE is very rare. In fact, I don't think it's been found yet.

[The Dork Knight]

Injun Trouble (1969)

[kiddiesunshine]

I'll bet the ending to The Heckling Hare has left this world a long time ago. Someone might have an illegal copy or something.
The rarest cartoon ever would be "Alone With Kiddiesunshine". It's so rare you'd think it was NEVER MADE.

[PorkyandDaffy]

I really want to see that ending. I still don't know why Schlesinger told Avery to nix it. I've heard more than enough stories about the whole thing, but I still can't figure out what Schlesinger found so wrong or offensive about the original ending. It just had Bugs going, "Hold on to your hat, folks. Here we go again!"

[happyheathen]

Originally posted by PorkyandDaffy
I really want to see that ending. I still don't know why Schlesinger told Avery to nix it. I've heard more than enough stories about the whole thing, but I still can't figure out what Schlesinger found so wrong or offensive about the original ending. It just had Bugs going, "Hold on to your hat, folks. Here we go again!"

as I understand it, that was the punch line of a very vulgar ('dirty') joke of the time (no, I don't know the joke - does anyone?).
as the 'toons were for all ages, the LAST thing Leon needed was a million kids asking their parents "Why are all these people laughing?"

[Bobby B]

Originally posted by happyheathen
For RAREST LT/MM known to exist

I will start with:

Milk and Money
The Fire Alarm

what others?


"Milk and Money" has aired on LNB&W.

I'm pretty sure "The Fire Alarm" aired on Nickelodeon. I remember that it included the sound effect later associated with the Tasmanian Devil.

[NickM]

What keeps CN from showing "Lady Play Your Mandolin"?

I don't think it has anything offensive (having watched the toon from Goopy Geer's page [thanks Goopy!]), so what keeps CN from showing it on LNB&W, but then we could say the same thing about the post-Harman/Ising B&W MM's too, there must be non-offensive ones in that mix too...

CN is nothing but a big mystery nowadays (except for their editing, when and if they're responsible [WB is just as guilty, I agree with everyone else])

Nicholas J. Mooneyhan

[hippety hopper]

You guys are soooo lucky in the US,
If it doesn't have Bugs,Daffy or Tweety in it CN UK wont bother showing it,So theres loads of shorts I've not seen.