Favorite and Worst Cartoon

[Emmanuel Cruz]

I would like to know what is your favorite and worst cartoon from a certain director. Post the director and your favorite cartoon from them. You can put anyone and as many directors as you want.



Friz Freleng:
Favorite Cartoon- Three Little Bops
Worst Cartoon- Flowers for Madame

Frank Tashlin:
Favorite Cartoon-Porky the Fireman, Porky at the Crocadero
Worst:?

Ben Hardaway and Cal Dalton:
Favorite Cartoon- Porky the Gob
Worst-Gold Rush Daze

The rest I don't know yet.

[PorkyandDaffy]

In general…

Favorite
BOOBS IN THE WOODS

Worst
I WAS A TEENAGE THUMB


Bob Clampett:

Favorite
THE GREAT PIGGY BANK ROBBERY/BABY BOTTLENECK/TORTOISE WINS BY A HARE

Worst
BACALL TO ARMS (that’s not saying much, because I still like it. Just not as much as his other cartoons)


Tex Avery (at MGM):

Favorite
MAGICAL MAESTRO/HENPECKED HOBOES/HAPPY-GO-NUTTY

Worst
ONE CAB’S FAMILY


Chuck Jones:

Favorite
BEAR FEAT/BULLY FOR BUGS/THE BEE-DEVILED BRUIN

Worst
THE BIRD CAME C.O.D.

[bushnader666]

Bill Hanna/Joe Barbera

Best: Mouse Trouble (MGM)
Worst: any scooby-doo cartoon

Bob McKimson

Best: anything from 1946-1950, esp. "Hillbilly Hare"
Worst: Post '55, esp Hippety Hopper

Bob Clampett:

Best: anything between 1942-1946.
Worst: ??? maybe "Porky's Poor Fish," too cutsie for BC

Chuck Jones

Best: Long Haired Hare, What's Opera Doc, Cheese Chasers
Worst: Good Night Elmer, MGM T&J's

[Sveven Dvorking]

Bob Clampett
Best: I am taking a quick guess here, but I like "Farm Frolics" and "The Big Snooze".
Worst: Bacall to Arms (yes, I was going to say this before I read someone else's post).

Tex Avery
Best: Egghead Rides Again
Worst: His "Nice Mice" cartoons

Chuck Jones
Best: Operation: Rabbit
Worst: Any early Pepe LePew cartoon

Friz Freleng
Best: Tree Cornered Tweety
Worst: Mouse Mazurka

[L00nE2n]

Jones -
Favorite: Rabbit of Seville
Worst: anything he made during his first decade

Clampett -
Favorite: Porky in Wackyland
Worst: Wabbit Twouble/The Wacky Wabbit/Buckaroo Bugs

Freleng -
Favorite: Show Biz Bugs
Worst: Fresh Hare

Avery -
Favorite: A Wild Hare
Worst: not sure

McKimson
Favorite: Devil May Hare
Worst: not sure

[sun]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by DarkEJ310
[B]I would like to know what is your favorite and worst cartoon from a certain director. Post the director and your favorite cartoon from them. You can put anyone and as many directors as you want.

My favorite cartoon, Fast and Furrious, Chuck Jones ,1947, there is a bit in there that makes me smile every time I think of it Wiley is trying to catch the road runner, (this was the first road runner cartoon ever made) and he uses an old refridgerator to makes ice cubes, and skates over the ice with the refridgerator on his back, as the refrigerator is creating continues to create ice. Unfortunately, the refridgerator runs out, and we all know the rest. Chuck and Mike Maltese, who wrote that were true geniuses. Does any one know if Christy Maltese, the background direcor of the recent full length Disney movie "Dinasour" was related to Mike? Good luck to all, old toon guy

[barnyarddawg]

It's too hard to pick favorites, because there are so many I like, but it's easy to pick worsts, because there aren't nearly as many.

Friz- Jungle Jitters

Tex- Aviation Vacation (arguably the worst ever)

Tashlin- Porky of the Northwoods

McKimson- What's my Lion?

Clampett- The Wacky Blackout

Jones- I really don't like Rabbit's Feat

[lislebartman]

Here are my picks:

Clampett:

best - "Wabbit Twouble"
worst - "Pied Piper Porky"

Freleng:

best - "Pigs in a Polka", "Show Biz Bugs" & "Goldilocks & the Jivin' Bears"
worst - "Jungle Jitters"

Avery:

best - "Magical Maestro", "Uncle Tom's Cabana" & "Little Rural Riding Hood" (all MGM)
worst - "A Sunbonnet Blue"

Jones:

best - "Rabbit of Seville", "Hot-Rod & Reel" & "Dog Gone South"
worst - "Snowman's Land" and any of the '2 Curious Dogs' cartoons

McKimson:

best - "A Ham In A Role" & "Hillbilly Hare"
worst - "Bartholemew Versus The Wheel"

Tashlin:

best - "The Case of the Stuttering Pig", "Scrap Happy Daffy" & "Plane Daffy"
worst - not exactly the worst, but my least favorite is "Porky of the Northwoods"

Davis:

best - "What Makes Daffy Duck?" & "Riff Raffy Daffy"
worst - "The Rattled Rooster"

[hippety hopper]

Clampett:
BEST-The great piggy bank robbery/Coal Black and de sebben dwarfs/The old grey hare.....
WORST-Baby Bottleneck(I still really like this one though)

Jones:
BEST-Bedtime for Sniffles(This is one of the best Christmas cartoons ever along with MGM's "The night before Christmas")
WORST-The T&J cartoons he did with MGM

Avery:
BEST-Daffy Duck in Hollywood(I always crack up when Daffy burst thro the door and say "Hey bub do you need any good duck actors?"
WORST- ?????

Freleng:
BEST-Something with classic Sylvester and Tweety
WORST-Rabbit every monday(CN has shown it too many times to be good anymore)

Tashlin:
BEST-Stupid cupid
WORST-?????

[Mibbitmaker]

CHUCK JONES is the easiest:

BEST: Duck Amuck (my favorite cartoon of all time, overwatching notwithstanding)

WORST: Tom Thumb in Trouble (UGH!!! At least the 1939 Porky flagwaver was impressive. TTiT's STORY was even annoying!)

[Sveven Dvorking]

I don't see how the story of Tom Thumb in Trouble is so annoying. I may not like the false statement in the cartoon, but it is far from annoying.

[Pietro]

WORST:
"Buddy the Dentist"
"I was a Teenage Thumb"

BEST:
"The Daffy Doc"
"Bosko in Person"

-Pietro

[sun]

There were a series of Road Runner cartoons, made after 64, where they got rid of the orchestra, and were directed by someone other than Chuck Jones.. They were done cheaply...and they were poor..old toon guy

[hippety hopper]

Saying that oldtoonguy
I hate that series of Tom and Jerry cartoons done by Gene whatever-his-name-is that ONLY used an orchestra and very little sound effects!!!!

[Sveven Dvorking]

Originally posted by oldtoonguy
There were a series of Road Runner cartoons, made after 64

I think those are excellent cartoons.

[lislebartman]

You actually like those horrible Road Runner cartoons?!?:confused:

Right there is reason enough for us to try to expand your cartoon viewing horizons!!

[Jack]

I wouldn't call them "excellent," but I sort of like them too. McKimson did a good job on his two, and some of them can be pretty original, like the one with the Indian rain dance. I hold them in higher regard than the other cartoons WB was releasing at the time, but maybe that's because the blackout gag format of the Roadrunner cartoons isn't too terribly difficult to screw up, eccept in the instances where they tried to give the cartoons a plot...


Jack:D

[happyheathen]

Originally posted by Jack
... I sort of like them too...

Jack:D

\time to take your medicine - you're getting weird again...

[Pietro]

I sort of like those Road Runners too.
I also like the Gene Deitch T&Js.

-Pietro

[Thad Komorowski]

In general (by my favorite studios), here's what I think are the best and worst:

WARNER BROS.:

Best:

"Hare Ribbin'"
"Porky in Wackyland"
Any Road Runner Cartoon
"Tabasco Road"
"Bowery Bugs"
"Book Revue"
"Tin Pan Alley Cats"
"Rabbit of Seville"
"Hush My Mouse"
"Back Alley Oproar"

Worst:

"The Tree's Knees"
"Jungle Jitters"
"Hobby Horse-Laffs"
"I Was a Teenage Thumb"
"Assault and Peppered" (this has a good plot, but Daffy's EVIL!)


MGM:

Best:

"The Lonesome Mouse"
"Sleepy-Time Tom"
"The Framed Cat"
"Mouse Cleaning"
"The Milky Waif"
"Uncle Tom's Cabana"
"Henpecked Hoboes"
"The Lonesome Stranger"
"Slap-Happy Lion"

Worst:

"Busy Buddies"
"Tot Watchers"
"Sorry Safari"
Most of the early Happy Harmonies


Walter Lantz:

Best:

"Apple Andy"
"The Poet and the Peasant"
"The Barber of Seville"
"Wacky-Bye-Baby"
"Ski for Two"
"Woody Dines Out"
"The Legend of Rock-a-bye Point"
"Drooler's Delight"
"The Woody Woodpecker Polka"
"Fish Fry"

Worst:

"The Redwood Sap"
Most of the post 1960s Woodys

-Thad:D

[PorkyandDaffy]

I don't like those post-63's either. To those sticking up for them, I respect you for that, but I don't think they match the energy and quality of the WB cartoons from the 30's, 40's and 50's. It's not their fault, they had lower budgets and not much else to work with. I also don't care for those later Road Runner and Coyote cartoons. I don't know about McKimson's RR&C cartoons, but I always had a problem with Larriva. He really didn't know how to handle RR&C, and his RR&C cartoons had bizarre timing and repetitive gags. They also used the same music in the later RR&C's ALL the time, and the funny thing is, it never fits the scene it was used in. In fact, I occasionally pop a Larriva RR&C cartoon in the VCR for some laughs because of how poor they are. Sorry if I'm offending the post-63 fans, this is only my opinion.

As for the Gene Deitch T&J's, I just can't watch those (not to mention that CN shows DICKY MOE all the time). Those are really strange, and Jones' T&J's aren't any better.

[Lonestarr]

Chuck Jones:
Best - So very many to choose from ("The Ducksters", "Rabbit of Seville", "Robin Hood Daffy", etc.)
Worst - Definitely "Tom Thumb in Trouble". Way too cutesy, and lightweight in the extreme compared to Jones' later, better work.

Bob McKimson:
Best - Any Porky & Daffy cartoon ("Fool Coverage", "Daffy Doodles", "Daffy Duck Slept Here", etc.)
Worst - Just about anything after '64 (except Bunny and Claude)

More to come...

[Pietro]

Originally posted by Thad Komorowski
Worst:

"The Tree's Knees"

"The Tree's Knees" is probably the worst WB cartoon ever.
I sould've remembered this one when I was saying my
BEST and WORST.

-Pietro

[Jack]

but I don't think they match the energy and quality of the WB cartoons from the 30's, 40's and 50's.
Oh I agree with what you said completely, they don't have the energy, music, or animation of the other shorts. I think the only thing about them that was on par with the later Jones shorts were the backgrounds in a few of them.

I never cared for the Dietch or Jones Tom and Jerry cartoons, but there are a few I like. I sort of give the Dietch cartoons a bit of extra credit for at least getting some of the expressions of the characters right. If you look at the H-B Tom and Jerrys, you'll see that the characters had similar expressions all throughout the series, like a normal people would have. My favorite of these was the evil look Tom would sometimes get with his toung hanging out of his mouth. Jones threw all that out and tried to re-invent the characters. It works sometimes, though.


Jack:D

[Sveven Dvorking]

Originally posted by lislebartman
Right there is reason enough for us to try to expand your cartoon viewing horizons!!

Did you, nelson, joe tully and everyone else who bothers me think about putting me on your ignore list? I am losing my temper, and it's all your fault!

And I don't want any lame excuses, because every excuse you think of is lame!

[Crazy Tom]

Originally posted by lislebartman
You actually like those horrible Road Runner cartoons?!?

I certainly do, but here are my best/worst of the DePatie/Freleng Road Runner films:

Best: The Solid Tin Coyote (1966). I especially love when a) the Road Runner is scared out of its wits and b) the two statements commanded--Eat, Stupid and One More Try, You Idiot! That is an overlooked classic.

Worst: Sugar And Spies (1966). I don't particularly care for a crossover of Wile E. with The Inspector (also DePatie/Freleng). Coincidental crossover? It's a possibility...but I sure don't like it.

More replies forthcoming in other categories!!

[Crazy Tom]

Originally posted by Jack
I never cared for the Dietch or Jones Tom and Jerry cartoons.


I'll stick to Dietch/Snyder, but here are my best/worst of his crop:

Best: Carmen Get It! (1962) and It's Greek To Me-ow! (1961) . I love them both...the musical magic of Carmen with all the Tom and Jerry trimmings. The other...well, the gags were painfully funny to watch...as Tom experienced.

Worst: Buddies...Thicker Than Water (1962) . The cartoon was outright cold, and even a message in a bottle couldn't keep my interest. Cold, dry, stormy...felt like a Jerrysicle after that one!

Stay tuned for more...

[Crazy Tom]

Originally posted by Sveven Dvorking
I don't see how the story of Tom Thumb in Trouble is so annoying.

Call me a meathead like Screwball Squirrel, but here's my best/worst "Thumb" films:

Best: Thumb Fun (1950) . Easy one there, with Porky, Daffy, and the AAA Hitchhiker's Thumb at the end.

Worst: Tom Thumb In Trouble (1940) . No offense, but there wasn't much comedy in that film. I guess there needed to be some drama instead of comedy. It's OK, but I'd rather be dealing with a Teenage Thumb.

Still more coming up...

[Crazy Tom]

Originally posted by Thad Komorowski
"Assault and Peppered" (this has a good plot, but Daffy's EVIL!)

I would not say that was a bad cartoon. The title is creative, but the concept had to be taken from Bunker Hill Bunny (1949) .

[The Dork Knight]

WB Best:
Porky In Wackyland
The Ducksters

MGM Best:
Magical Miestro
One Ham's Family (If I did'nt say it, I'd get a whippin'!)
Symphony in Slang

Warner Worst:
Crazy Cruise
Devil's Fued Cake

MGM's Worst:
Can't think of any

[Thad Komorowski]

Also, on my worst WB list I'd have just about any of the Turner owned B&W Merrie Melodies. God, those stink. Who honestly cares about garbage coming to life?!?! I really like the ones with the "star characters" (like Foxy and Piggy). The others tend to get REAL boring. I remember every time I watched LNB&W late, I'd fall asleep during one of those, or those awful PD Betty Boops they show. When a Porky or Popeye cartoon comes on, I'm up. :)

-Thad:D

[Matthew Hunter]

It's tough to say, there are so many I like and so few I hate, but I'll do a top 4 best and worst of each director::
___________________________
Harman/Ising:
Best:
"Hittin' the Trail For Hallelujia Land'
"Lady, Play Your Mandolin!"
"Bosko's Mechanical Man"
"Bosko the Doughboy"

Worst:
"I Wish I Had Wings"
"It's Got Me Again"
"Tree's Knees"
"Crosby, Columbo and Valee"
________________________-
Friz Freleng:
Best:( Wish I could name more)
"Gonzales' Tamales"
"Birds Anonymous"
"Wild and Woolly Hare"
"Rhapsody Rabbit"

Worst:
"Sunday Go To Meetin' Time"
"Devil's Feud Cake"
"I Wanna Play House"
"The Chocolate Chase"
_________________________
Tex Avery:
best:
"Porky's Duck Hunt"
"Daffy Duck and Egghead"
"A Wild Hare"
"I Love To Singa"

worst:
"A Sunbonnet Blue"
"I'd Love To take Orders From You"
"Circus Today"
"Penguin Parade"
______________________________
Bob Clampett:
best:
"Buckaroo Bugs"
"Kitty Kornered"
"Porky in Wackyland"
"Tin Pan Alley Cats"

worst:
"Farm Frolics"
"Porky's Hero Agency"
"Rover's Rival"
"Bacall To Arms"
_____________________________________
Chuck Jones:
best:
"Feline Frame Up"
"Gee Whizzz"
"Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2th Century"
"Duck! Rabbit! Duck!"

worst:
"Sniffles and the Bookworm"
"Good Night Elmer"
"Spaced Out Bunny"
"Hare Breadth Hurry"
__________________
Robert McKimson:
best:
"A Fractured Leghorn"
"Crowing Pains"
"Ducking the Devil"
"Rabbit's Kin"

worst:
"A Message To Gracias"
"Dr. Devil and Mr. Hare"
"Strangled Eggs"
"Slick Chick"
_______________________________________________---
I can't really include such people as Jack King, Earl Duvall, Art Davis and Frank Tashlin, because they did so few cartoons compared to the rest, and their cartoons are mostly good stuff anyway.
-Matthew

[Sveven Dvorking]

Originally posted by lislebartman
You actually like those horrible Road Runner cartoons?!?:confused:

Right there is reason enough for us to try to expand your cartoon viewing horizons!!

Roadrunner and Wile E. Coyote are my favorite WB characters. I don't care if they were made in the '50s, '60s, or even recently, as long as the cartoon has those characters, I am sure to like it.

[hippety hopper]

Since we on the topic.......
I kinda like some of the post '63 cartoons BUT after the DePatie-Freleng Era all the cartoons after just got plain crap!(is that a swear word?)

post '63 cartoons I like
*Moby Duck
*Corn on the cop
*Daffy's Diner.

On the other note we were talking about..
I'm Sorry but I HATE the Gene Dietch Tom and Jerry Cartoons,they are just the most boring cartoons I've ever seen.
I much perfer Chuck Jones Tom and Jerry compaired to those.

Thad-
I quite like the "Things-Come-life" cartoons.
Alright "Buddy steps out" and "How do I know its sunday" are Boring but the rest are quite nice,anyways your entitlesd to your opinion.

[sun]

One of the post 63 toons not mentioned yet, by Chuck Jones, is "The Dot and the Line"....Don't know if anything had ever been made like that before. (if you know, plese post, I would be interested. An interesting and enjoyable toon, with the prmise that a line, falls in love with a dot... a mathamatical type cartoon, full animation. good story, narrated by Robert Morly, I think..won the Academy Award for that year. (at least it was recognized) many great Avry, Clampet, Taskin, works were never officially recognized...hope all is well with all, old toon guy:D

[Jon Cooke]

I am actually kind of fond of the following Gene Dietch Tom and Jerry cartoons: "Carman Get It!", "Mouse Into Space", and "The Tom and Jerry Cartoon Kit"...


-Jon

[Crazy Tom]

I think I totally lost it! Here are my best/worst in kiddie cartoon stories:

Best: a tie for Three Little Bops (1956) and Goldimouse and the Three Cats (1959) , in my opinion Sylvester (and Jr.)'s best cartoon. They are both classics. In fact, I had the privilege of showing the Three Little Bops as an example of revised story writing in my Performing Arts classes last year.

Worst: well, I have to go with Foney Fables (1942) ...just felt that the cartoon was as good as the wolf gulping the boy in the final scene.

Honorable mentions go to Cinderella Meets Fella (1938) and The Bears' Tale (1940) --which was a great crossover of Red Riding Hood and Goldilocks.

[Matthew Hunter]

Well, since there now seems to be a best/worst list of themes in the WB cartoons going:

fairy tales
best:
"Three Little Bops"
"Cinderella Meets Fella"
"The Windblown Hare"
"Goldimouse and the Three Cats"
-runner-up: "Turn Tail Wolf"

worst:
"Tom Thumb in Trouble"
"I was a Teenage Thumb"
"Foney Fables'
"A Gander at Mother Goose"

DePatie/Freleng Road Runner
best:
"The Solid Tin Coyote"
"Highway Runnery"
"The Wild Chase"
"Boulder: Wham!"

worst:
"Tired and Feathered"
"Clippety Clobbered"
"Just Plane Beep"
"Out and Out Rout"

Daffy/Speedy:
best:
"Swing Ding Amigo'
"Feather Finger"
"Go Go Amigo"
"Chili Corn Corny"

worst:
"Sky Scraper Caper"
"Music Mice-Tro"
"See Ya Later Gladiator"
"Muchos Locos"

Daffy/Porky:
best:
"Porky and Daffy"
"Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2th Century"
"Boobs in the Woods"
"Porky's Last Stand"

worst:
"Corn on the Cop"
"Daffy Duck Slept Here"
"Rocket Squad"
"Yankee Doodle Daffy"

____________and then there's:
Foghorn Leghorn
best:
"Fractured Leghorn"
"Hen House Henery"
"Crowing Pains"
"The High and the Flighty"

worst:
"The Slick Chick"
"Strangled Eggs"
"Mother Was a Rooster"
"Feather Bluster"

Yosemite Sam
best:
"Wild and Woolly Hare"
"Bugs bunny Rides Again"
"Rabbitson Crusoe"
"Hare to Heir"

worst:
"Devils Feud Cake"
"Shishkabugs"
"Roman Legion Hare"
"Dumb Patrol"


-Matthew

[Tintin]

Friz Freleng is one of my worst director's with my worst cartoons director's list:

Jungle Jitters
Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips
Herr Meets Hare
Big House Bunny

[angilbas]

Originally posted by Jon Cooke
I am actually kind of fond of the following Gene Dietch Tom and Jerry cartoons: "Carman Get It!", "Mouse Into Space", and "The Tom and Jerry Cartoon Kit"...


-Jon

In addition to the above, I like "Sorry Safari," "Dickie Moe," "Tall in the Trap" and "Buddies Thicker Than Water."

-Tony