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When HBO Max debuted their new series of Looney Tunes Cartoons featuring revamped versions of the classic Warner Bros. Pictures characters, there was one key element missing from two of Bugs Bunny’s most famous enemies. Elmer Fudd and Yosemite Sam weren’t seen using guns despite always blasting away at the wascally wabbit/lily-livered, bow-legged varmint in the classic cartoons. However, Looney Tunes Cartoons season 2 has pulled back on that a bit by giving Elmer Fudd his trusty rifle back.
The lack of guns in the first season of Looney Tunes Cartoons was confirmed by executive producer Peter Browngardt not long after the first wave of animated shorts was released by HBO Max. Though he didn’t cite any specific motivation about the exclusion of guns for Elmer Fudd and Yosemite Sam, it was assumed that the social climate surrounding gun violence was likely an influence. As Browngardt said, “We’re not doing guns. But we can do cartoony violence — TNT, the Acme stuff. All that was kind of grandfathered in.”
It appears that Browngardt had a change of heart, because Comic Book Resources points out that the sixth episode of the second season, entitled “Rotund Rabbit,” features Bugs Bunny squaring off with Elmer Fudd again, but this time he’s carrying his trusty hunting rifle. In the cartoon, Elmer Fudd tries to blast Bugs Bunny, but the rabbit is so fast that the cartoon bullet stops in the middle of its trajectory, sprouts a mouth and arms, and exasperatedly announces that he’s quitting the chase. The bullet then tosses on a hat and grabs a suitcase and leaves.
Browngardt pointed out the change when a user on Twitter noticed the backtracking on keeping guns out of Looney Tunes, including the aforementioned clip in question:
New Looney Tunes Cartoons out today! Now with guns! https://t.co/YG2dJU1AaT
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— Pete Browngardt (@peebgardt) July 8, 2021
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Though there was a lot of backlash from certain Looney Tunes fans after it was pointed out that guns wouldn’t appear in the first season of Looney Tunes Cartoons, the inclusion of Elmer Fudd’s gun again may not be a reaction intended to appease that side of the crowd. Cartoons take a long time to make, and one of the segments included in the recently released second season, entitled “Mummy Dummy,” actually debuted at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in 2019. So perhaps bringing Looney Tunes Cartoons guns back was always something that would happen eventually.
Furthermore, it’s not as if those behind the Looney Tunes had actively abandoned the use of cartoon guns in the hands of Elmer Fudd and Yosemite Sam altogether. Space Jam: A New Legacy marketing materials have clearly shown both of the characters wielding guns again, so there’s not an overarching mandate to keep them out of these shorts. As prominent of a problem gun violence might be, keeping them out of cartoons that have had them for decades isn’t going to fix the problem. That’s up to the incompetent fools in our government who are all a bunch of Elmer Fudds and Yosemite Sams.
The first and second seasons of Looney Tunes Cartoons are available now on HBO Max.
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HBO Max released the trailer of Looney Tunes Cartoons season two and the comeback has left fans excited. The new season of the well-loved cartoon series will premiere on 8 July on HBO Max and includes the renowned Looney Tunes cast, including Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Tweety Bird. Season two of the hit Warner Bros. Animation series will have 10 all-new episodes.
Launched along with the new HBO Max streaming platform last May, Looney Tunes Cartoons is a series of one to six-minute shorts featuring classic Looney Tunes characters like Bugs and Elmer, Daffy and Porky, Tweety and Sylvester, Marvin the Martian, Yosemite Sam, and others. Packaged into more than 80 11-minute episodes, 1,000 minutes in total, the cartoons echo the high production value and process employed on the original Looney Tunes theatrical shorts, with a cartoonist-driven approach to simple, gag-driven, and visually compelling storytelling.
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The new trailer reveals some amusing new animation. “The new season is larger, wilder, loonier than ever,” the teaser proclaims, mixed with the traditional slapstick comic beats, such as the Tasmanian Devil being assaulted by a swarm of bees. Bugs Bunny wins a basketball game in the clip, which could be a reference to the upcoming Space Jam: A New Legacy.
Looney Tunes is executive produced by Emmy Award nominee Peter Browngardt (Steven Universe, Uncle Grandpa) and Sam Register, president of Warner Bros. Animation and Cartoon Network Studios, and produced by Alex Kirwan (My Life as a Teenage Robot). The voice cast includes Eric Bauza (Bugs Bunny/Daffy Duck/Tweety/Marvin the Martian), Bob Bergen (Porky Pig), Jeff Bergman (Elmer Fudd/Sylvester), Fred Tatasciore (Yosemite Sam), Candi Milo (Granny), and Michael Ruocco (Beaky Buzzard).
In the first batch of cartoons, Bugs hops to the basketball court for an ultimate game of streetball; Porky spends a relaxing afternoon with his nephew Cicero filled with soothing music, chainsaws, fire and broken windows; and Daffy lends his wing to Porky as an emotional support duck. The first batch also includes two new shorts starring canines Charlie Dog and Russian Dog, and more zany misadventures with Tweety, Sylvester, Elmer, Wile E. Coyote, Road Runner, Marvin the Martian, among others.
There will be plenty of shorts within the first 10 new episodes of Looney Tunes Cartoons season two on the way in July. Since the first season of shorts was released in chunks of 10 episodes between May 2020 and April 2021, a similar thing is expected to happen with the second season as well. Audiences can now view a short before watching a full-length picture, as was the original intention of the shorts that were shown before movies in theatres.
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The Looney Tunes characters appear in a modern, humorous, and visually vivid version of the classic series. So, are you ready for the incessant laughs, all-around fun, and heartfelt groans?