If you wrote and directed your own Looney Tune, what would it be like?

[Matthew Hunter]

I got an idea the other day that would make a great Road Runner cartoon...and since I'm off work today because of bad weather I thought I'd share it, and ask if anyone else has similar ideas.

Almost every major classic cartoon character has had a 'skyscraper building' cartoon, or funny gag. Bosko, Porky, Bugs, Popeye, Daffy, Speedy Gonzales, Marc Anthony, and many more.

BUT...as much as it would have fit, they never made a Roadrunner cartoon with the concept. The old Roadrunner Super Nintendo video game had a building construction level...and it had some clever visuals. So, I think it would make a cool short.

Think about it. Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner take a detour from the road ala "Freeze Frame". They end up in a construction site and chasing up the steel girders of a building frame. They get stuck up there, and Wile E. decides to make the best of it by using what's around to catch the Roadrunner. Wile E. uses magnets, steel beams, cranes, Rube Goldberg contraptions made of junk, elevators, wrecking balls, rockets, nail and rivet guns, sledgehammers, etc. It would all be found at a cartoon construction site! All the Road Runner would have to do is run along the beams, oblivious, like Olive Oyl in "Dream Walking". Just think of Wile E. falling from the heights of the building too, maybe hitting something on the way down or having a battle of physics with another falling object, like an anvil or a beam or something. Oh yes...and the building would be constructed by a division of ACME. :D

-Matthew

[Matthew Hunter]

Oh yes...and the title would be something like "Sky Scrapes" or "Tower Outage". I thunk those up myself!

-Matthew

[Emmanuel Cruz]

I had an idea of a cartoon. I came up with it a while ago. Here is the script to it. I didn't finish it though. Tell me how it's coming along.


Hare Restorer
A Looney Tunes Fanfiction by Emmanuel J. Cruz

Starring: Bugs Bunny, Yosemite Sam, Porky Pig and Petunia Pig


(Story opens in an old Western town. The setting is an old saloon bar. Porky Pig is a piano player at the bar, and he is currently playing a soft tune.)

Announcer at Bar: Ladies and gentleman, fer yer entertainment, I like to present to ya the always lovely, PETUNIA PIG!

(Curtain on stage rises. Petunia is dancing something similar to the "Can Can." Porky provides accompanient on the piano to Petunia's dancing. Porky has a lovesick look as he looks at Petunia.)

Porky : Gosh, ain't she j-just a sweet gi-gi-gi-gi-gi-sow?

(Scene cuts to two men in the bar playing Gin Rummy.)

Man #1- Okay, bub. I'm betting me life's savings just so I can win. (To audience) Confidentally, this game is in the ag-bay.

Man #2 (Slams cards on table.) Gin.

(Man #1 gives Man #2 a bag with a dollar sign on it, with a miserable look on his face. He stands up and pulls out a gun. He walks offscreen. A gunshot is heard, then a loud thud. Man #2 stands up from his chair solemnly, and with a sad face. He pulls out a trumpet and proceeds to play "Taps.")

(Scene cuts to the bar. A huge Indian walks to the bar.)

Indian: Me want-um nice cold drink-um.

(Bartender gives Indian a beer. Man next to Indian yells.)

Man (To Bartender): INDIAN GIVER!

(Scene Cuts to Drunk Man Singing "How Dry I Am."

Drunk Man (Singing): Nobody knows, (Hiccup) How dry I am, (Hiccup) Nobody knows, (Hiccup) How Dry I am. How. Dry. I. Aaaaaam!

(The man falls off his stool.)

(Scene cuts to shadow walking in the town. The shadow approaches the salon. The salon door is opened and the scene cuts to a large shadow casted on the wall of the salon. People in the salon are trembling in fear. The screen slowly moves to the left of the shadow to reveal the caster of the shadow. It's Yosemite Sam.)

Yosemite Sam- I'm Yosemite Sam! The roughest, toughest hombre that ever packed a six-shooter! Two, mind ya!

(Sam shots his guns repeatedly in the air. He then walks up to the bar.)

Yosemite Sam (To Bartender)- Hey, ya idjit galoot! Give me a cold drink or I'll blow yer head clean off yer carcass!!

(Sam points gun to bartender's head. Bartender gives Sam a beer. Sam thens sees Petunia on the stage, trembling in fear. He walks up to her.)

Yosemite Sam (In a Classy Tone)- Hiya, there, little missy. How 'bout you and me get hitched?

Petunia (Fearful, But Brave)- Never! You are nothing but a filthy cad!

Sam- Well, ya comin' with me, whether you likes it er not!

(Sam grabs Petunia under his arm. He runs to the front of the saloon, while Petunia is kicking and screaming.)

Petunia (Screaming)- PORKY, SAVE ME!!

Porky- Hands off h-h-her, you do-do-do-do-dingbat!

Sam- EHH, SHUT UP, YA FAT HOG!

(Sam shoots his gun right at Porky's hat. The hat comes clean off. Sam runs out of bar with Petunia, and does an evil laugh.)

(Everyone brings to leave the bar. Porky remains, walking back and forward, thinking.)

Porky- Yes! Now I know who to call! The G-g-g-Ghostbusters!

Offscreen Voice (In a whisper)- Hey stupid, read the script!

(Porky pulls a script out of his shirt. He reads it. He chuckles.)

Porky- Sorry, folks. Wrong s-s-story. (In a dramatic voice) I know who to c-c-c-call! THE MASKED STINKER!!!

(Porky runs to an old-fashioned phone.)

Porky- Operator, Oper-r-r-rator! Get me (In a dramatic voice) the M-m-m-Masked Stinker!

Operator- One moment, puh-leaze.

(Scene cuts to a shadowy figure laying his feet on a desk. His phone rings. He answers it.)

Porky (on the phone)- HHHHHHHHHEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLP!

[Patrick McCart]

I would have liked to make some Looney Tunes in CinemaScope. It's a pity that WB never used the format for their cartoons.

Not a Looney Tune, but I would have liked to see a 4th "___ of Tomorrow" cartoon from Tex Avery. Perhaps "Movies of Tomorrow." One gag would be a cell phone silencer. Someone gets a call on a cell phone and a robotic hand comes out from behind the screen and shoots the person using it. :D

It also would allow some funny sight gags on the movie processes of the time like CinemaScope and 3-D.

[oldgreypole]

I notice that no cartoon has ever been made in which the main characters are linemen. I could picture either Porky Pig (with the low key character that was in a couple of the Tashlin cartoons) or The Pink Panther starring in such a cartoon. Such a Porky Pig cartoon could be titled "Porky the Lineman," while such a Pink Panther cartoon could be titled "The Electric Pink."

[Pietro]

My cartoon would be animated in the best "rubber hose" Bob Clampett tradition and would probably feature the crazy Daffy and maybe someone like Porky or Fudd. It would have the kinda story style my fanfics have.

This (http://wbc.toonzone.net/fun/fanfics/looney_sleephappy.html) would probably be how one of my shorts would turn out. Although I'd probably fix it up a lot.

-Pietro:D

[Jack]

If I were talented enough to make a Looney Tune, I have no clue what it would be about. All I know is that I wouldn't use any of the super bland current character designs. Daffy would actually look attractive, and Bugs Bunny would be more of a stinker, but not mean. Maybe I'd make a cartoon using the soundtracks to some of the old Capitol kiddie records. "Bugs Bunny and the Tortoise" works perfectly as a cartoon, and Robert McKimson's illustrations would make a nice guide for how it should look. "Daffy Duck Flies South," with it's whole Wackyland-like theme also has possibilities.

Another oddball idea I had that would probably turn out awful, but sounds kind of neat in type, would be to make a featurette/TV special from the Golden Birthday records. The whole thing would be abstract and surreal in a "Three Caballeros" sort of way, like a 20 minute long dream sequence. I think it could be pulled off providing it's smartly designed and expressively animated. What the characters do on screen could conflict with the more lovey-dovey lines in the songs (like Tweety shoving some dynamite into Sylvester's mouth as he sings "you're kind and you're gentle when born in the Tweety Bird sign").

Oh, and I would make a Merrie Melodie or two.


Jack :bosko:

[Steve Carras]

Mine would have Porky and Daffy
The cast would be
Porky - Howard Morris (Mr.Peebles in MAGILLA GORILLA)
Daffy-Stan Freberg or Joe Bevilaqua (qhich would be his first |)
Red Devil-Gary Owens

Porky chases Daffy, Daffy gets away>Porky skateboards down, Daffy hums Avril Lavigne's Sk8r Boi - see http://www.avril-lavigne.com distracting Porky who SLAMS into a wall and wakes up in hell. Daffy and the Devil test Porky's sk8bording, and after going through, uh, hell Porky wakes up. He realzies it is just a dream and runs under a shadow and as the camera pulls back we see the Devil!!


I would use the Hanna Barbera SFX-and for a reason--the same reason along with Alex Lovy using them from his HB pedigree---to brreak the monoty-hey, you ehar those in the old ones - I thought I;'d put some balance.

The reason I would use the "geriatric" actors is because they grew up with the original shorts even though Stan's the only one to have actuallY VOICED the cartoons--Morris and Owens never did to my knowledge.

Storyboarding, a low key but funny approach with no self reference humor, and it would be TIMED to the SCORWE--whcih I would write.I would not use the classic LT music escept in isolated cases and again for the same reason as the HB SFX I would use--becuase you see the calssic cartoons or remember them as it is.And Daffy comes out on top, has many expressions, is not TINY TOON like or anywise modern, and it would be a MM.The Technciolor TM crdit would go-heck the production info on the rings would go

MERRIE
MELODIES
or
LOONEY TUNES

A WARNER BROS CARTOON
COLOR AND PRINTS BY TECHNICOLOR
since that's the way it's oft-listed.

PS except the Avril joke other contemproary stuff won't be used, but you won't have racial stuff here.This is the 2000s.after all.

[Bugsmer]

Were I to create a cartoon similar to those of Warner Brothers, I'd throw in plenty of slapstick, plenty of different expressions on the faces of the characters, some ads and references to famous people, living or dead, lines with swearing, and several scenes and lines so offensive to small groups that they would never make it to television, inclucing racial, suicidal, Nazi-like scenes, which I'd edit out before I released the cartoon. I'd also edit-out some humorous lines, whether offensive or not (like that Ghandi line in "Bugs Bunny Rides Again"), still keeping the cartoon funny. Then I'd release it in theatres and tape it each time it came on TV, seeing how much the networks edited it, laughing secretly in the knowledge that the cartoon showing is only about half as long than my original copy, and I got to it before they did (it's my turkey, so why shouldn't I carve it up?). Now and again, I'd offer private showings of the original to friends, and they'd say things like, "Man, you should've released the original." I'd then make many different versions of the cartoon, and slowly release each version to video, adding in a little more of the cartoon at a time, never releasing the original, which I'd entomb in a vault whose combination I'd burned and ensure that no one goes near it for a hundred years after my death. The film would eventually be discovered by a team of archeologists hundreds, even thousands, of years later and they'd put it in a museum for all to stare at, after making many copies of it to study, so it would eventually come on TV on the History Channel or something similar, uncut once, before fading into obscurity for ever.

[hippety hopper]

I'd love to see a role reverse of Coal Black. By this I mean take a very Black thing (Shaft for example) and completly White it up. There's so many funny white stereotypes that could be done.

[Boy Wonder]

Bugs and Road Runner vs. Wile E and Daffy
Big Game XXXI

It starts in the first half with some Bugs and Daffy toons (Like Rabbit Fire and (?)) with

Daffy 60
Bugs 37


Road Runner and Wile E in the second half with Wile E gaining 3 points and Road Runner 25 (penalized 5 for the uncontrollable meeps) and final score:

Daffy and Wile E: 63
Bugs and Road Runner: 62

Add commentary from John Madden and Pat Summeral and this would be perfect.

[frogboxer]

I wouldn't. That's just my problem with modern Looney Tunes - they shouldn't be made either.

As far as I'm concerned, the Looney Tunes canon - as it were - is closed!

[Pietro]

I have another idea for a new series of LTs. They could have no dialog whatsoever and just simply be set to original Carl Stalling scores.

-Pietro:D

[Paul Penna]

Whatever it was, my hope would be that the "Censored 11" would thereafter be known as "The Censored 12."