Favorite version of "This Is It!"

[Jack]

What was your favorite version? "This is It" was used for the original "Bugs Bunny Show" as well as "The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show." They all pretty much used the same soundtract, just different visuals.


Jack :D

[Jon Cooke]

This was a tough choice. I voted for the original version, but I also loved the Bugs & Tweety "neon-light" version.

Here's an image from that version, to refresh your memory.

http://looney.toonzone.net/tv/bugstweety/bnt881.jpg

All the characters also marched across the stage in their tuxedos (http://looney.toonzone.net/tv/bugstweety/bnt882.jpg).

-Jon

[Thad Komorowski]

I voted for the original version, though I like the other two versions. Jack, I'm surprised you forgot to add the Looney Tunes Singalong version of "This is It"! :eek: :p


-Thad

[Pietro]

As much as I really like the neon lights one, my favorite is the classic one from the BB Show.

-Pietro:D

[Tintin]

I voted for the opening Bugs & Tweety 80's with neon. This is the overture from airing last weekend on Teletoon. But i love the musical version of Bugs Bunny et ses amis/Quoi de neuf Bugs/Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie :D

[Pilmedium]

The third choice is the only one listed that I have seen, so there wasn't much to choose from.

[Jack]

I voted for the original too, I barely remember the neon version, but I put it above the more recent version (the recent version is just ugly, IMO). I wish they'd use either the original or neon (or both, original for Bugs and Daffy and neon for Looney Tunes) on Cartoon Network, I'm sick of the present openings.

...and sorry about not including the sing along version, Thad. I....uh....forgot :D


Jack :D

[Daffyfan2002]

I'd have to go with the recent (1992-2000) version, because that's the one I'm most familiar with. After all, I wasn't even born when the original "Bugs Bunny Show" aired.

[Thad Komorowski]

Originally posted by Jack
...and sorry about not including the sing along version, Thad. I....uh....forgot :D

Don't worry it was a joke...:p


-Thad

[Matthew Hunter]

I like them all, but I voted for the neon lights version.
-Matthew

[Daffyfan2002]

Jack, in response to what you said, I kind of like the present opening for "The Looney Tunes Show." At least they play an instrumental of "This is It." I always feel sorry for Daffy though, when he gets crushed by that Looney Tunes sign and at the end when he says, "Aren't We Forgetting Something?" And they still ignore him. "Cue the scenery." Now, on "Bugs & Daffy," that is annoying where the theme goes, "Bugs, Bugs, Bugs; Daffy, Daffy, Daffy." So I agree with you there. They should bring back Bugs & Daffy singing this is it. Well, goodnight everybody.

[Jack]

Originally posted by Daffyfan2002
Jack, in response to what you said, I kind of like the present opening for "The Looney Tunes Show." ......
I liked them both at first, but to me, "gag" openings quickly get booring and later annoying. I'm a sucker for good theme music. A catchy tune never gets old.

I feel sorry for Daffy too, he didn't do anything to deserve having that thing fall on him in the Looney Tunes Show. The Bugs Bugs Bugs/Daffy Daffy Daffy opening for the Bugs and Daffy Show is too long, and I can't stand it anymore. I try to avoid it whenever I watch the show.

I sort of like the other stuff that comes before the Bugs vs. Daffy gag in the Looney Tunes Show opening. The stuff with Porky and the Roadrunner and Sylvester...it would actually make a nice lead in for the neon light version of "This Is It." That version would probably match the style of the new animation better than the Bugs Bunny Show version or recent version would.

Just have the narrator say "and Starring Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck" before showing it (since they are the characters who first come out on stage). No Daffy-getting-humilated gag.

The original Bugs Bunny Show version would then get used for "Bugs and Daffy."


Jack :D

[Daffyfan2002]

Well, as I said before, Cartoon Network really listens to us. Maybe you should write to them about that. Heck, I remember the beginning of "The Bugs Bunny & Tweety Show," where Bugs pulls down Elmer Fudds hat and turns into Tweety and Elmer turns into Sylvester. Then Sylvester bumps into a tree and turns into Wile E. Coyote and so on... CN needs to do something like that.

[Thad Komorowski]

If you want to listen to the fabulous Looney Tunes Sing-a-Long version, click here! (http://looney.toonzone.net/thisisitsa.ra) :p


-Thad

[Geezil]

What else but the original version? Here we're supposed to be championing Classic WB, and that's the only version of "This Is It" with animation and sound certifiably by Classic WB Artists from start to end. :D No contest, IMHO.

[Pilmedium]

The Bugs Bunny Show version is way too far ahead of everything else! What's so good about it, any way? :confused:

[J Lee]

Well, aside from being the original, the Freleng-dircted, Gerry Chiniquy-animated scene works better with the music -- in the late-1970s/early 80s version the backgrounds and floor reflections take your eye away from the animation, and the merging of the voice and mouth movements on both that version and on the 1990s one are just a little off from where they should be at some spots (plus Daffy's beak looks funny in the 1990s one).

Also, Thad should put a parental notice on the link to the Ren and Stimp...er, I mean the Looney Tunes Sing-along version of the opening number (which reminds me -- if Joe Alaskey is viewing this thread -- please, please, please either you or someone else tackle Billy West, lock him in a closet, toss him in a basement, ship him back to Howard Stern -- do anything to prevent him from going into the booth any more to record Bugs and/or Daffy's voices. If he's allowed to record again the terrorists will have won). ;)