Have you ever given a cartoon a second look?

[Jack]

Has there ever been a cartoon you really didn't care for the first time around, or even the 10th time around, but then one day something clicks and you see it as a great cartoon? Or maybe you rediscovered a cartoon you had lost interest in?

That's happened to me a lot lately, I've gotten more mellow, mellow to the point where I was about three or four years ago, when I enjoyed many cartoons that I eventually came to not really like anymore, or resent (not a deep-seated obsessive resentment or anything like that, I don't take cartoons, or any film THAT seriously).

I like later Daffy cartoons again, I can enjoy "Beanstalk Bunny" and just see it a great cartoon with funny dialog. I also enjoy the Bugs-Daffy rivalry cartoons again, I just have to ignore the now-annoying CN bumpers.

Boobs In The Woods- I didn't really like this cartoon very much, ever. I guess I could never really get past the way Daffy sings the Looney Tuney song. I didn't like how he sang that, it just seemed flat and boreing to me. But after giving the cartoon another look a while back, I came to realise that it's really good. I now love watching it.



Jack:p

[laugh4me]

I've experienced this Jack. Sometimes you just see a great cartoon so many times that you begin to take it for granted and underappreciate it. Then you see again with your your kids and their howls of laughter and character imitations that follow make it a bit like seeing the cartoon for the first time again.

The most recent case of this for me was "Duck Amuck".

[Matt Yorston]

Yeah, it's happened to me too. Some examples:

I used to view "Rabbit Rampage" (1955) as a pretty cheesy sequel to "Duck Amuck" with misplaced characterization (i.e. Bugs didn't jell in that situation as well as Daffy did). However, I've had a change of heart regarding it with more recent viewings. Some of the gags had me smiling from ear to ear (i.e. "That's a horse's tail, my friend. It belongs on a HORSE!!!"; Bugs is instantly erased and redrawn as a horse) and Milt Franklyn's music score for it is superb (one of the best non-Stalling scores I've heard in a WB cartoon). The animation by Ben Washam is also quite a feat (if credits tell any story, he animated the whole cartoon by himself). Needless to say, I've grown a lot more tolerant of that cartoon by now.

I also used to dislike "Sky Trooper" (from Disney) for reasons unclear to me now. I liked it a lot more when I saw it again last September. Again, it could be the musical score that helped boost it for me (Frank Churchill scored the cartoon in what would be his last score before his committing suicide that year). Also, some fun moments (Donald playing pin-the-tail-on-the-airplane and jamming it predictably onto Pete's behind; "Did I stick it, Sarge?", "Grunt... (POP!)... Yeah! You stuck it!").

I liked "What's Sweepin'?" (a Lantz cartoon) when I first saw it in 1996 but it wasn't quite one of my favorites. When I saw it again, however, in 1998, I loved it!!! The gags were some of the most well paced I'd ever seen and it has some of the best moments ever to appear in a Lantz cartoon (Wally constantly being mistaken for a child because of his shrunken police uniform; "Beat it, Junior! And take off that trick moustache!"). It is now one of my all-time favorite Lantz shorts.

There are probably a few others but that's all I'll mention for now.

[mmv3000]

I used to despise the Chuck Jones T&J cartoons, because as a kid, they just seemed so different and jarring from the "normal" T&J 'toons. These days, I prefer the Jones shorts over the rest. Go figure.

[Larry T]

"Love Me, Love My Mouse" was one of the cartoons I used to hate, mainly because of overplay. However, I watched it again recently and discovered that I actually quite like it!

Same goes for Paramount's Little Audrey cartoon, "Dizzy Dishes". I don't know why, but that one used to really get on my nerves whenever I watched it. I recently watched it again, and actually quite liked the "schlock" sci-fi references in it.

[hippety hopper]

I wouldn't go so far as say I perfer Chuck's Tom and Jerry over the Hanna/Barbera/Quimby ones but I don't HATE them like some people seem too.
I just don't like the Gene whatever ones.

I used to really like the cartoon from Disney "Pluto's surprise package" but then I watched it too much and it just got soooo boring,but then I saw it again the other day and I really like it again ;)

[Thad Komorowski]

I used to really find the T&Js with the Duckling pretty boring, but after viewing them recently, I like them. And I haven't been watching the T&J blocks lately, so I can't say that they're overplayed.

-Thad:D

[Sveven Dvorking]

Back in 1995-99, I hated all those cartoons (I would change the channel when one came on), but now I enjoy them as much as the '50s cartoons.