Chuck Jones Show 02-24-2002 (8:30pm)

[Pilmedium]

One Froggy Evening (1955, one-shot)
Rabbit Seasoning (1952, Bugs Bunny/Daffy Duck/Elmer Fudd)
Fast and Furry-ous (1949, Roadrunner/Wile E. Coyote)

[The Dork Knight]

Wow, what a great "tribute" this is turning out to be....

- Foley Is Good

[dendawg]

Why am I not surprised? They did more for Bill Hanna, for the love of God! :rolleyes:

[Matthew Hunter]

they did?

[dendawg]

Originally posted by Matthew Hunter
they did?

Sure did. Remember the Tom & Jerry marathon the weekend after he passed?

[Jon Cooke]

Originally posted by dendawg
Sure did. Remember the Tom & Jerry marathon the weekend after he passed?


Actually, that Tom and Jerry Marathon was scheduled awhile ahead of time, it was to tie-in with Boomerang's 1st anniversary. Boomerang ran a week of Tom & Jerry cartoons to celebrate their first year on the air.

I personally don't see what is so god awful about what CN is doing. They aired 4 hours of Jones shorts this morning, I thought it was actually a enjoyable mix of his well-known (like "From A to Z-z-z") and lesser-known shorts (like "Fin 'N Catty"). We even got "Frigid Hare". I didn't mind rewatching the "Early Works" on Toonheads or the "greatest hits" this evening.


-Jon

[dendawg]

I'll have to respectfully disagree with you on that one, Jon. Granted, the LT Show was a good step, but might have been better if they put on a "Dedicated to the memory of...." Thingamajig. Chuck is a big reason (albeit not the only reason) why Looney Tunes are as popular as they are today, like it or not, and the man simply has not been given his due today, IMHO. I'd rather they'd take another day off to make some more tribute bumpers and SOME kind of special "Toonheads" memorial edition.

They probably could've saved some money by making a montage of LT & MM characters crying their eyes out, followed by a memorial message from the head of AOL Time-Warner, or at least Linda Jones Clough or something other than this so-called "tribute."

[J Lee]

Given the time constraints, I don't think the nine cartoons that aired tonight were such a bad selection. Since Chuck's death wasn't annouced until Friday night, it would have been tough to get a full tribute together in time for a Sunday show (and someone at CN would be able to say if the 30 second animated Jones tribute was -- like newspaper obituaries of famous people -- done in advance). However, I would assume they will do something else in the near future that will have some more background information than just the Toonheads episode that ran tonight.

[Tintin]

Originally posted by Pilmedium
One Froggy Evening (1955, one-shot)
Rabbit Seasoning (1952, Bugs Bunny/Daffy Duck/Elmer Fudd)
Fast and Furry-ous (1949, Roadrunner/Wile E. Coyote)

Hey! That's the repeat of early first Chuck Jones Show air this april 8th 2001. :)

[Matthew Hunter]

My view on it is that yes, they did a good job today. All Jones cartoons on this morning, and the tribute tonight. If that's all they could do in 2 days notice, that's above and beyond. What I *DONT* like and we should barbecue CN for is the edits and time compression and bad prints. Sure, they couldn't undo the bad copies in only 2 days, but it goes to show that they should have done it a lonmg time ago. "Fast and Furryous", "A Scent of the Matterhorn", "From A To ZZZ", "Rabbit Fire", "Rabbit Seasoning", "Dripalong Daffy", "Robin Hood Daffy". All of these are classics, most of them rank pretty high up there in terms of people's favorites and critical acclaim. Yet every one of them has something unforgiveably wrong when it airs on CN. Time compression, editing, bad image quality. CN didn't do a lot of it, but shame on Warner Bros. for sending them to CN like that, and shame on CN for not fixing the problem, as soon as they got it. You can blame that one on both parties, and darnit, it's despicable. I do think CN was right in what they did though, I have nothing against the tribute or selections therein. :)
-Matthew