Why does classic looney tunes feel so timeless? I watch an old fleischer cartoon or an old Disney cartoon from that era, and I instantly recognize how old they are. I watch the looney tunes show, I instantly go “oh that’s definitely a 2010s cartoon.” Space jam is a classic 90s movie.
But classic looney tunes is timeless. I watch something like The Foghorn Leghorn or Baseball Bugs, I don’t ever think like “this is a 40s cartoon.” I don’t watch Rabbit Seasoning or Bugs And Thugs and go “wow this is so 50s.” Even stuff that should seem dated seems timeless, like The Ducksters is a parody of radio game shows, and those haven’t existed at all since the 80s, and it’s one of my favorites of all time
Unlike Fliescher toons, they never stopped airing even the old Looney Tunes shorts in some capacity, so you are used to it being something that is around.
Because dressing up like a girl in order to kiss your enemy is timeless!
Idk, I can tell this cartoon is old
Terrytoons?
I love that shot
>Ancient Roman depiction of Jesus being arrested by Roman soldiers, fresco, circa 400 AD.
Frick, now I wonder if there's a thing online that can convert photos to fresco paintings
>1950s: Haha the guy is wearing a dress to trick enemies isn't that funny
>2020s: Bugs is genderfluid and gay for his boyfriend Daffy
The same goes to Tom and Jerry
It's obvious what makes Loony Tunes timeless, bub!
Well crafted stories focused on animal life and americana
Because they are
Looney Tunes didn't show cars all that often, a lot of their locations were in the wild (Bugs' forest, Road Runner's desert) rather than then modern cities, and several shorts took place in the past (Sam showed up the most often in Wild West or pirate shorts).
That helps, while Fleischer's Superman for instance had to show a lot of architecture and technology that are outdated now.
I watched what HBOMax has for the series (it's not complete by any means) and was struck by the amount of episodes that take place on a farm, and even how it trends from rural to urban through the show's lifetime.
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The recent "Looney tunes cartoons" on HBO max also feels timeless. It's great!
It's a shame they aren't funny.
It's a shame you're wrong. It's really funny. There are lots of clever gags.
Like the one where Elmer tries to get bugs out of 1 end of a hole with a plunger, then the hole disappears. He looks into his plunger while bugs fires a cannon into the other end of the hole, shooting Elmer through his plunger.
Yeah where's the heckin social media moments? Where is the heckin ironic humor like Gravity Falls?
I just want them to be funny.
>Moving the goalpost this hard
its funny how quick people stopped talking about these when everyone realized how shit they are.
No, it isn't loreshit and no e-girl protagonists so Cinemaphile won't discuss it
also they're not that well animated or funny.
>Implying Cinemaphile cares about if anything is well animated or funny
Have you seen the shows that have generals right now
i mean the show doesn't surpass the classics by any measure so its ultimately irrelevant and a waste. its whole gimmick was "memba when this was good?" and they couldn't even do that right.
But anon, they have Bugs yellow gloves! Isn’t that what made classic looney tunes so good?
No it makes it look like he pissed on his hands. The animaniacs have piss colored fur now too.
The issue is they just aren’t very funny. It’s like watching someone who tries to copy specific aspects of old LT without knowing why it was funny.
>LTC
>timeless
>Literally LOONEY TUNES
>Timeless
I think a lot of it had to do with not showing anything that would actually date them. The settings were typically designed in a way that made them broad to any time period, or were made specific to the story like if it was in Greece or dealt with old times gangsters.
The centerpiece of LT was always the jokes. Not animation, not even music beyond the really early days, not about shocking audiences with a new big thing, it was almost always about being funny. Good comedy is timeless.