And yet another Speedy link

[Jon Cooke]

Jerry Beck now links to a piece about Speedy on a website called "POV Online" (you have to scroll down a little bit): http://www.povonline.com/News033102.htm#040202

Any thoughts?

I don't know. It makes us sound like we are demanding non-stop Gonzales on the WB cartoon showings. It's not like we're asking for a special Speedy Show or regular 3-hour Cartoon-Oli marathons with him. I'd bet most of us would be happy if CN gave us one or two each weekend during the Looney Tunes blocks. In other words, like any of the other WB characters (Pepe, Foggy, Road Runner, etc.).

There's a line about how the other WB cartoons from the later years are "rarely" shown on CN. Cool Cat, Merlin, Bunny and Claude, Rudy Larriva's Road Runners, "Corn On the Cop", "Suppressed Duck", "Chimp and Zee" --- I wouldn't exactly call them "rarely" shown. Sure, they aren't played as much as something like "Feed the Kitty" or "Rabbit of Seville", but they still show up regularly.

Oh well, those are just my thoughts.

-Jon

[Matthew Hunter]

Yeah, that's the opinion many people have though, that all post-1964 Warner Brothers cartoons sucked. But they didn't...only certain films did, and some were just not as good as the earlier heyday's output. That does not make them 'bad'...and the Speedy cartoons, Daffy or not, are probably among the most enjoyable of the era, until you get past 1966...but we won't go there... :eek: . Even then, Cool Cat and Merlin make up for Daffy and Speedy's losses...they're kind of underappreciated for what they are. I don't think Speedy will be ignored if he is played, and all they really need to do is give him an occasional appearance during "Bugs and Daffy" or "Looney Tunes"...just like everyone else who's played those films has.
-Matthew

[J Lee]

E-mail him and say you want those awful Garfield cartoons banned and see what happens. ;)

Seriously, Mark's view isn't that far off -- of the 12 major characters in the Warners' stable, Speedy's cartoons are on average the weakest of the lot, and in the last year Nickelodeon had the LT package, after the first of the post-48s were moved over to Cartoon Network, there was a seeming glut of Speedys on each Saturday afternoon. But as Jon said there's a difference between a glut of Speedys on Nick and the total absence of the cartoons on CN.

The cartoons that focus on Speedy and Sylvester or Speedy and Daffy should be put back into the rotation, and even some of the other cartoons with a few supporting characters, like "Here Today, Gone Tamale" or "Pancho's Hideaway" really don't contain anything that objectionable (unless CN thinks starving Mexican mice are a problem). You would lose some of the funniest cartoon of the series, but so long as the others aren't played to death (not likely to be a problem) ruunning even the weak ones occassionally isn't going to drive away WB fans.

[rodney]

CN airs lots of bad cartoons, like most of HB's TV stuff. They still show it. I'm not saying the Speedy 'toons are all classics, but they're not as bad as some stuff that passes for animation.