What's your favorite Looney Toons cartoon?

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One of my favorite all-time Looney Tunes:

"Hare Conditioned" (1945), where Bugs is part of a department store window display of a pastoral woodland scene but one of the store's officials (who sounds like the great Gildersleeve) has him targeted for a transfer to the Taxadermy Department.
 

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GoneA said:
well aren't you a weirdo, everyone loves the number 24.
Oh really? Then tell me why everyone always wants more hours in a day.
 

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big dirigible said:
Bugger, forgot "Three Little Bops" entirely. I even remember most of the words, as sung by Shorty Rogers.
Hey 'Ridge,

I think you might find it was sung by the immortal radio comedian Stan Freberg--whom many of us remember for his radio re-telling of fairy tales in the style of Dragnet. Shorty Rogers arranged the music, though.

Ah, Looney Tunes! An oasis of subversive smarts in a sea of sixties kiddie dreck! LT makes Hanna-Barbera look, well, childish.

hb8
 

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I'm waiting for all the war Propaganda cartoons where
Bugs makes fun of Emperor Hirohito and Hitler to come out,
but somehow I don't think they will.

Actually these were all or almost all out on Laser Disc about 15 years ago. They're probably available today in some format.
 

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big dirigible said:
Very rare is "Coal Black an' de Sebbin Dwarfs" (Clampett), a wartime blackface special which nobody has the balls to show nowadays.

Last spring, there was an exhibit at the James A. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, PA that had dozens of cels, sketchbook pages, and storyboards from the Looney Toons collection, including a couple from "Coal Black."

While the exhibit mainly focused on the animation process behind these cartoons, there was lots of background info on the various characters and the history of the people involved.
 

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zaphod said:
I just rented some of the Looney Toones Golden Collection DVD's from Netflix. I really liked those early cartoons, especially the ones that used classical music and set the cartoons to it.

I can't decide my favorite among these three:
Rhapsody Rabit, where Bugs Bunny is a concert pianist, and has an encounter with a mouse in his piano.
Rabit of Seville, with Bugs and Elmer Fud, doing a parody of Barber of Seville.
What's Opera, Dock, another Bugs and Elmer one, that starts as a parody of part of Fantaisia.

I also love the Road Runner cartoons.

Anybody else have favorites?

I just really love Slowpoke Rodriguez. He's Speedy Gonzales' cousin from the country. He's very mellow, and always hungry.
 

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BronxBombshell said:
I just really love Slowpoke Rodriguez. He's Speedy Gonzales' cousin from the country. He's very mellow, and always hungry.

Slowpoke Rodriguez - he dun't haf to be fast.
Slowpoke Rodriguez - he packs a gone.