For Lavender: June Bugs or Toon Disney?

[Weird Harold]

For those of you who don't know, the Cartoon Channel is beginning a Bugs Bunny Marathon called "June Bugs" featuring almost every bugs bunny cartoon ever made. (there is an old thread here discussing why some of the more racist cartoons were ommitted.)

On the other hand, the Toon Disney channel offers some of the best cartoon series ever made on a regular basis and features classic Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck cartoons regularly.

So, who made the best cartoons of all time? Warner Brothers? Disney? MGM? Hanna-Barbera? Max Fleischer? (sp?)

Choose your Champion and defend your choice.

 

[Starfish]

Whom ever made Tom & Jerry.

 

[Mischka]

Scooby Doo. I used to love figuring out who dunnit before those meddling kids. And the Headless Horseman episode scared me to no end.

 

[Weird Harold]

"But WHY?" he whines.

Whom ever made Tom & Jerry.

The MGM theater Tom & Jerry, or the Hanna Barbera TV version?

You don't say WHY they're best. I laways felt that they were mostly interchangable cartoons, with very little plot variation. Although the Osacr winning _Cat Concerto_ is one of the best cartoons ever made.

 

[Purple Haze]

http://members.nbci.com/_XMCM/fawltync/popeye/popeyeintro2.jpg

I'm still a big fan of the pre-war Max Fleischer Popeye cartoons. I don't know that you can actually see these anywhere, anymore. Our more politically correct society could have a problem with some of the violent content in these and other cartoons of the past (if my memory serves, I think the Roadrunner cartoons use to have more zing to them) I admire the animation techniques used on these and other cartoons of that era. I wish I could get a copy of the episode where Popeye goes looking for his Pappy on Goon Island. Priceless stuff.

http://www2.wi.net/~rkurer/advpopeye.ram

 

[Starfish]

Oh, Sorry. I am slow today. I have been fighting back the barf!

TV! I am way too young to have seen them in the theater.

My reasoning is not intellectual.
I found that yes, the plot variation was minamal, but the details of each cartoon varied enough to keep me laughing.

I did like one particular episode more than others, and it was one made before 'My time'.
It was the 60's era tv episode of the Guy trying to barbeque and T&J where going at the usual thing.
That episode was classic. It had the cool xylephone music when tom fell in the pool and was walking under water, and the guy was, in the end, just so irrate.

So, overall, my reasons are as varied as the details that make me love the show so much.


Keep your eye out for the Bugs episode with the big, dopey, buzzard that leaves the cave, going out to go hunting, singing......
"MY muder told me to get her a wabbit for deeeee-nerrrrr!"
..........

That is a funny one, because the buzzard is such a push over....


Which one was the "One lump or two?"...."Two!"

 

[Weird Harold]

wish I could get a copy of the episode where Popeye goes looking for his Pappy on Goon Island. Priceless stuff.

Check the Cartoon Channel's website. They may have it available in Video. I know they showed that one, and many of the old popeye cartoons (uncut) as part of _The Acme Hour_

 

[Weird Harold]

Originally posted by G.R.
TV! I am way too young to have seen them in the theater.

Most of the theatrical releases are shown as part of the Tom & Jerry Show on TCC. I'm old enough tohave seen them in theaters, but whether trimmed to fit television or big screen, the MGM version of T&J is much better than the later made for TV version. For one thing, the TV version broke the cardinal rule of the MGM versions. Tom never talks in the MGM cartoons, and Jerry very seldom does. (I think only that he speaks in only the last two or three MGM made)

It was the 60's era tv episode of the Guy trying to barbeque and T&J where going at the usual thing.
That episode was classic. It had the cool xylephone music when tom fell in the pool and was walking under water, and the guy was, in the end, just so irrate.

I think that one dates towards the beginning of the 70's, when all of the major cartoon makers were just getting over their fascination with modern art mixed with jazz.

That is a funny one, because the buzzard is such a push over....

Which of Bugs' foes isn't a pushover?

Which one was the "One lump or two?"...."Two!"

That gag features prominantly in both cartoons featuring "Pete Puma". -- "oooh no you dooon't! I'll get my ooown lumps!" is featured at the very end of one of them.

Like PH, I remember the Road Runner cartoons as being much more graphic, and so were many of the classics -- including early Tom & Jerry.

Most of them were "bowdlerized" in the mid-seventies because kids weren't considered capable of distinguishing between cartoon violence and real violence. -- sound familiar?

 

[SimplySouthern]

My vote goes to...

Perhaps we were suppposed to pick our favorite retro cartoon...but I can't let this opportunity pass without saying that I LOVE the new cartoon on Cartoon network "Dexter's Laboratory". Even as a child, I never watched cartoons. I quite honestly wasn't interested..always being a little "mature" for my age (before anyone rants at me, I'm not implying that cartoons are for the immature)

The first time I saw Dexter, I laughed my ass off. I have made myself late for work morning after morning staying to watch the ending of this show. His voice (I'm not even sure how to describe it) makes me giggle and his cute little stubby body makes me grin. For some reason, and I'm almost embarrassed to admit this, his sister Dee-Dee reminds me of myself.

Ahhhh...now if this were a choice when I were growing up, I may be able to give a more "retro" cartoon fave today.

 

[Mischka]

Hey, Weird Harold! I watched a few episodes of the June Bigs this morning. Those really are classics. I forgot that Wil E. Coyote actually spoke in the episodes with Bugs.

 

[Weird Harold]

Hey, Weird Harold! I watched a few episodes of the June Bigs this morning. Those really are classics. I forgot that Wil E. Coyote actually spoke in the episodes with Bugs.

He speaks in a few of the later Road Runner Cartoons too.

 

[doctor_insanus]

As much as I like Donald Duck, there can be only one...

And his name is Bugs.

 

[lavender]

Sorry for not answering before WH...

 

[Weird Harold]

Re: Sorry for not answering before WH...

I LOVE the new cartoon on Cartoon network "Dexter's Laboratory".

God I love that cartoon. I don't watch it very often at all. I also like Cow & Chicken. Those two cartoons make me laugh my ass off continually.

And as for the remainder, I'm not a huge cartoon fan. Sorry no real response.

Well, you asked me to pick a topic, and this was as good as my brain was working yesterday.

Dexer's Laboratory is a valid choice. Hell, I'll even admit some people like Anime.

I didn't specificaally mention Disney movies, or movies like Heavy Metal, Fritz the Cat, and the 80's animation of The Hobbit. Partly because I couldn't remember the producer's name. They all qualify as possible favorite cartoons too.

I like Dexter's Lab, but I think Cow and Chicken is just tacky. CatDog on Nicklodeon is another tacky cartoon without the multiple levels of humor that characterizes good cartoons for me.

For me, the "ideal" cartoon would be one you could gather a three-year-old, a ten-year-old, a teenager, a young adult, and grandparent around, aand all of them will enjoy something about the cartoon directed at their level of maturity.