My comments ofo, "The Bugs and Daffy Show" (3/4/02)

[Pietro]

I just thought I'd bring back some old tradition,

"To Duck or Not to Duck" (1943)
An okay cartoon. But I think Jones' Daffy from the early 50s would be better suited in this cartoon than the early Daffy.
Rating: ***

"Bunny Hugged" (1951):
Very good cartoon! It's kinda a follow-up to "Rabbit Punch" made 4 years earlier (which I think is just a tad better than this). Very well animated. A Chuck Jones classic.
Rating: ****

"The Dixie Fryer" (1960):
Okay, but it's not one of McKimson's best. Foghorn Leghorn tries to fly south for the winter but two hillbilly chicken hawks (who appeared earlier in "Backwoods Bunny") try to eat him. Fair.
Rating: **

"Zip 'N Snort" (1961):
A classic Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote short. Very funny. The best gag is when Wile E. gets shocked by the wires that get pulled by the magnet on the fishing rod. Great!
Rating: *****

"Bully for Bugs" (1953):
Another Chuck Jones classic. Bugs burrows into the middle of a bull fight and ends up being the toreador. Excellent and very clever!
Rating: *****

"Porky the Rain-Maker" (1936):
Very early Tex Avery cartoon that he made at Warner's. This isn't Tex's best work. And it wouldn't reflect in his later cartoons. Okay.
Rating: ***

-Pietro:D

[Pilmedium]

I don't understand why that wasn't done in the original thread. :confused:

[Pietro]

Okay, maybe I should fill you in here, back on the ol' TTTP fourm we commented on "The Bugs and Daffy Show" all the time. The tradition has been long forgotten here, until we checked out the old archives just recently. So, I decided to bring back the tradition.

-Pietro:D

[PorkyandDaffy]

Awesome, I'm feeling in the reviewing mode again:

TO DUCK OR NOT TO DUCK
A very good cartoon. The boxing scenes are classic, especially "no doing this...or this..or like so..."
4.5/5

BUNNY HUGGED
I don't like this as much as RABBIT PUNCH, but it's still alright. Still, I saw no reason for them to re-do the cartoon.
2.5/5

THE DIXIE FRYER
I liked this one. The two redneck bird were very funny characters in the two cartoons they appeared in, and were good foils for Foghorn in this one. This toon is one of the reasons I think McKimson's post-55 work was underrated.
4/5

ZIP 'N SNORT
Okay, I don't remember this one specifically, but I generally fill the same about all of Jones' Road Runner and Coyote cartoons, I think they're all excellent, and they put Larriva's second-rate ones to shame. In my opinion, the only consistently great stuff Jones did at WB from 1955 till he left.
5/5

BULLY FOR BUGS
An absolute classic. One of my favorites. Lots of laughs, especially the clever ending.
5/5

PORKY THE RAIN-MAKER
Just one of the many reasons I'm not too crazy about most of Avery's work at WB. Most of then didn't equal the quality of cartoons he made at MGM. I found this cartoon really boring.
1/5