Looney Tunes (Boomerang) 12/29/03

[Jack]

My Bunny Lies Over The Sea (1948)
Hippety Hopper (1949)
Mutiny on the Bunny (1950)
Hairied and Hurried (1965)

I'm very fond of the Boomerang intro for Looney Tunes. That opening beats pretty much everything CN has ever had since they got the rights to the post 48 cartoons. My only complaint is that the bumper shown between the cartoons is always the same one. It seems that when they have to make do with old cartoon clips, the CN bumper people do fun original work like the Boomerang LT bumpers or the A-Z June Bugs bumpers. When they create something with new animation they produce boring cliched crap like the Bugs and Daffy Show or Looney Tunes Show bumpers.


Jack :bosko:

[Thad Komorowski]

There's also only one bumper for Boomerang's CASPER & FRIENDS (from "Mouse Trapeze", when Herman whips Katnip's nose and it inflates like a balloon)... I'm guessing the Boomerang people don't have enough funds to produce new animation bumpers?


-Thad

[DianaGohan]

I don't believe there budget covers it.... although I'm just sort of guessing on that. Seems to make sense though.

[Tom41]

During Christmas, Boomerang had special holiday versions of the breakbumpers made up for both Looney Tunes and Tom & Jerry. The Looney Tunes ones either showed Wile. E. Coyote getting covered with snow and holding up a Merry Christmas sign, or showed Bugs popping up through the snow and saying something like "Palm springs at last!"
The Tom & Jerry ones usually showed a clip from The Night Before Christmas or Snowbody Loves Me.

Now that Christmas is over, they've gone back to their regular breakbumpers. For Tom & Jerry, it's usually a camera spinning wildly around Tom & Jerry plastic model figures. For Looney Tunes, it's often a 'behind the scenes' set pic, showing for example someone taking a 'Beep Beep' sign out from the Sign Dept. or someone filling in a Coyote-shaped hole in the floor.
Most of Boomerang's breakbumpers still use the model figures with various camera angles though.

I remember the Looney Looney mornings (3 hours of LT from 9am) and the breakbumpers for those often used a short clip from a Looney Tunes cartoon. One was Bugs raising his eyebrows repeated back and forward over and over. Another one I remember was Foghorn Leghorn about to blow dynamite through a pipe and saying "This'll cause more confusion than a mouse in a burlesque show".

[Corrado]

"When they create something with new animation they produce boring cliched crap like the Bugs and Daffy Show or Looney Tunes Show bumpers."

Yeah, those are pretty lame.

But the worst bumpers were those ones with the old checkerboard in 1997.