Of Course You Realize THIS Means Podcast - A Looney Tunes Discussion
Episodes
Sunday Jul 10, 2022
Sunday Jul 10, 2022
If you haven't checked out my podcast with 'King Tweety' Director, Careen Ingle, I highly recommend doing so now!
WELCOME to the LOONIVERSE!
Podcast Producers, Writer and Wife, Sabina Graves, joins me on this episode where we break down all of the latest Looney Tunes announcements over the past month and offer up our review of King Tweety! Available here: https://www.amazon.com/King-Tweety-Eric-Bauza
We give King Tweety high praise for being a film that is entertaining from beginning to end with full on twists and turns that you may not see coming; I sure didn't.
You'll find yourself quoting the lines days and days after as the writing is wickedly fast paced and unique to these characters, while being true to what has come before.
The brotherly-love aspect is a great way to maintain a fresh storyline around Sylvester and Tweety that we haven't seen played out before and the way Granny is used here will make you want to rent the nearest scooter you can find. The animation is solid and the voice work is unmatched!
Eric Bauza as Tweety and Sylvester never leave you with a false note. The songs are catchy and you'll want to re-watch it almost immediately!
4/5 Carrots!
LOONEY TUNES NEWS:
WB has announced that there will a full Looney Tunes panel at San Diego Comic-Con this year and with it announcements, and news regarding our favorite characters!
First up; Bugs Bunny Builders:
An upcoming interactive television program for preschool children for Cartoon Network and HBO Max. The series will air on July 25, 2022 on Cartoon Network and July 26 on HBO Max.
WATCH THE TRAILER HERE: BUGS BUNNY BUILDERS!
Next Up: MORE HBO MAX CARTOONS
Not much is known about the next batch are cartoons for Looney Tunes on HBOMAX, but what is known is that it's sure to be wild and wacky! Can't wait to see what torturous devices Bugs Bunny puts his adversaries through next!
MULTIVERSUS:
BYE BYE BUNNY:
A BRAND NEW MOVIE MUSICAL: Written by Ariel Dumas and Directed by Brandon Jeffords
SYNOPSIS:
After starring in a long-running Looney Tunes Broadway smash production, an exhausted Bugs Bunny decides it’s time to trade in sold-out shows for life as a regular rabbit. Ever the spotlight opportunist, Daffy Duck attempts to step into the lead role, but his star ambitions are quickly sidetracked when he is kidnapped by an obsessive fan who has more sinister plans for her favorite stage duck. With his ticket to Broadway retirement in danger, Bugs sets off on a rescue mission to find Daffy and, with the help of his Looney Tunes co-stars, hopefully, his joy of performing again.
AND... While we don't know much about Tiny Toons: Looniversity, I can expect some big announcements in the coming weeks!
Keep an eye on this page for all the latest news and updated on Looney Tunes at large!
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Thursday Jun 30, 2022
Thursday Jun 30, 2022
"This Podcast, is for me?!" - Tweety
That's right Tweety, this podcast IS all about you and your NEW movie, KING TWEETY!
Hey Folks!
Welcome to the best Looney Tunes Podcast out there!
On this episode of the podcast, I was fortunate enough to have the director of KING TWEETY (2022), Careen Ingle (Jellystone, Unikitty) who discusses the project and what she went through to bring this story to life.
The NEW Looney Tunes film is available to own on Home Video and across all VOD platforms RIGHT NOW!
Topics Discussed:
Tweety History - From Friz to Modern Day, what keeps Tweety so cool and cute?!
The Story - What did WB want out of this project and why Careen was the best fit!
The Cast - Eric Bauza (Sylverster/Tweety), Candi Milo (Granny), Jon Daly (Diego), Flula Borg, Carlease Burke, Regi Davis, Dana DeLorenzo, Riki Lindhome, Maya Lynne Robinson, Niccole Thurman, and Mark Whitten! Whoo! What a Cast!
The Music and the Songs - Working with Composer Nick Keller and writing the songs in the film, because you can't have a Tweety and Sylvester film without songs!
The Laughs - The gag work and all the references! Keep an eye out for some fun video game references you would NOT expect!
REFERENCED MEDIA:
Tale of Two Kitties (1942) - Friz Freleng
Tweety's High Flying Adventure (2000) - Karl Toerge
Baby Looney Tunes: Eggs-traordinary Adventure (2003) - Gloria Jenkins
Barbarella (1968) - Roger Vadim
If you've seen the film, let me know what you think?! Funniest moments? What you liked about the story? Anything!
BUY KING TWEETY HERE!
RENT KING TWEETY HERE!
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Friday May 20, 2022
Friday May 20, 2022
This week's podcast is truly a special one as we cover the roughest, rip roarnist, varmint in all creation, Yosemite Sam! I'm joined by Chuck Jones Gallery Fine Artist Ben Olson to discuss this and so much more!
The first set pics from Coyote Vs Acme have made their way online!
Complete with Will Forte and a truly 'Looney' name for the attorney's office his character works for within this film!
Shorts Discussed:
Hare Trigger - (1945) Dir. Friz Freleng
Bugs Bunny Rides Again (1948) - Dir. Friz Freleng
High Diving Hare - (1949) - Dir. Friz Freleng
Sahara Hare (1955) - Dir. Friz Freleng
Hook, Line & Stinker (2022) - Dir. David Gemmill
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Friday May 13, 2022
Friday May 13, 2022
The long running Looney Tunes Franchise ran into some problematic shorts during war time and we're here to break it all down in this podcast with pop culture writer Mike Manolo and producer Stephanie Sandmeier!
The Looney Tunes created shorts from 1941-1944 that focused on selling a specific image to the US public in movie theaters, that would persuade men and women to support the war for the Allies. America was pushed into the war with the bombing of Pearl Harbor and that's when the Japanese soldier became an image subjugated to awful steroetypes that not only effected kids' perceptions of asians abroad, but here in the States as well. This was a terrible time of insensitive depictions of asians and pacific islanders.
Films Discussed:
Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood - Directed by Clara and Julia Kuperberg. The film is now available on HboMax.
Shorts Discussed:
Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur - (1939) Chuck Jones
Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips - (1944) Friz Freleng
Tokio Jokio - (1943) Norman McCabe
Looney Tunes News:
Casper Caveman and Fido from Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur have entered the World of Mayhem in all their time traveling glory!
These shorts are all in the public domain and it's important that we don't forget what was created before so that we may learn from this mistakes.
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Thursday May 05, 2022
Thursday May 05, 2022
The World Celebrated Bugs In Drag the Day Before 'Bugs Bunny Day' So you know what that Means!
"MARSHA!"
Hello and Welcome to the best Looney Tunes Podcast on the web! This week on the pod, I sit down with Jenny Lorenzo (Jellystone, Victor and Valentina) to discuss the Gender Politics in Classic Cartoons namely, Bugs in Drag!
"In the 1992 movie Wayne's World, Garth Algar asks the question, "Did you ever find Bugs Bunny attractive when he put on a dress and played a girl bunny? His buddy Wayne didn't, but Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam, and the Tasmanian Devil are just a few of the many males who have been bewitched, bothered and bewildered by Bugs' seemingly endless wardrobe of women's clothing." - A passage from the Ultimate Looney Tunes Guide.
Looney Tunes In the NEWS:
Porky's Hare Hunt (April 30th, 1938) - First Appearance of The Happy Rabbit (prototype for Bugs Bunny)
Apparently He’s Never Watched Bugs Bunny!
This conversation ties into why Bugs was trending the literal day before 'Bugs Bunny Day' (April 30th), due to the out of touch words of Ron DeSantis who claimed that old cartoons didn't challenge gender norms.
Cartoon Shorts Discussed:
Hare Trimmed - Dir. Friz Freleng (1953) Story by Warren Foster - "Always a bridesmaid, never a bride."
Bedevilled Rabbit - Dir. Bob McKimsom (1957) Story by Tedd Pierce - "She's a nice lady."
Rabbit Seasoning - Dir. Chuck Jones (1952) Story by Michael Maltese - "I would just love a duck dinner. "
Snippet from the Jerry Beck penned, Ultimate Looney Tunes Visual Guide!
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Thursday Apr 07, 2022
Thursday Apr 07, 2022
Welcome to the best Looney Tunes podcast on the web! I'd like to invite you
On this episode of the podcast, I'm joined by Elijah and Vanessa from Kicking and Screaming Podcast, (not the Jenna Elfman one!) to discuss RetroGaming with Looney Tunes &Tiny Toons!
Our experiences range drastically with Tiny Toons/Looney Tunes video games so we go deep into the wabbit hole!!
THE KING TWEETY TRAILER DROPPED!!
Much is to be said about this new entry into the film lexicon of Looney art!
Shorts Discussed:
Virtual Mortality - David Gemmill (2021)
Portal Kombat - David Gemmill (2021)
MULTIVERSUS (A SUPER SMASH BROS STYLE FIGHTING GAME)
has a TRAILER!
https://www.multiversus.com/en
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C24Z-eStaBI
GAMES DISCUSSED:
Tiny Toons Games:
Buster Breaks Loose: Full Game Play SNES - Super Mario Bros. Overlay
Tiny Toons buster's hidden treasure sega genesis - Sonic the Hedgehog Overlay - Game Play
Tiny Toon Adventures: Wacky Sports Challenge - SNES - GAME PLAY
LOONEY TUNES GAMES
The Bugs Bunny Birthday Blowout - NES - Game Play
Bugs Bunny Rabbit Rampage - SNES (Sunsoft)- Game Play
Daffy Duck: The Marvin Missions - SNES (Sunsoft) - Game Play
Bugs BunnyL B-Ball - SNES Gameplay
Road Runner's Death Valley Rally: Full Game Play
Space Jam - Windows/PlayStation/Saturn - OOO THE CHILDHOOD FEELS!
Looney Tunes: Space Race - Dreamcast - The Nightmares!
Looney Tunes World of Mayhem - Mobile Gaming
Looney Tunes: Sheep Raiders - PS1
Buster's Bad Dream - Gameboy Advance
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Monday Mar 21, 2022
Monday Mar 21, 2022
Welcome to the Tune World, Doc!
In this week's episode, Animation Supervisor and Director Joey Capps stops by to discuss working on some of the biggest properties in animation and film, along with bringing the Looney Tunes back to the limelight in Looney Tunes Cartoons (2020-Present).
Looney Tunes Cartoons and Space Jam: A New Legacy have been nominated for Best Animated Series and Best Kid's Movie, respectively. Head on over to Nickelodeon's main page to put in your vote and have your voice heard!
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CASTING NEWS:
Wile E. Coyote has found his attorney in Will Forte & Lana Condor has been cast in a mystery role for Coyote V. Acme (2023) along with John Cena for Dave Green!
WarnerMedia has launched the #Tweety80 Campaign including 4 murals that artists from around the globe have contributed on with 3 being in Austin, Tx and 1 being on the WB Studio Tour in Burbank, CA!
Shows Discussed: Teen Titans Go!, Venture Bros., Steven Universe, Looney Tunes Cartoons.
Movies Discussed: Teen Titans Go! to the Movies!( 2017), Birds of Prey (2020).
Shorts Discussed: A Tale of Two Kitties (1942) , Mummy Dummy (2021), Basketball Bugs (2021), and Practical Jerk (2022).
The Murals:
Head on over to Looneytunes.com for more about the artists!
A Tale of Two Kitties (1942) was released in November of that year and introduced the world to tweety bird; then featherless as they were a baby bird and one not to be underestimated. The two cats attempting to capture and eat Tweety were caracatures of Abbot and Castello, aptly named Babet and Catstello. This short one the Oscar that year for Best Animated Short.
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Twitter: @JoeCartoonGuy / Instagram @JoeyCapps
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Thursday Feb 24, 2022
Thursday Feb 24, 2022
This week's podcast spotlights when animation directors decided to "kill" for a laugh! John Duarte steps in to discuss the many deaths of Bugs Bunny with me on the podcast this week! We also had a return of Roger Rabbit that I couldn't pass up along with a new toy line by Super 7!
Shorts Discussed:
What's Opera Doc (1957) Chuck Jones
A Wild Hare (1941) Tex Avery
Hare Force (1944) Friz Freleng
Unruly Hare (1945) Frank Tashlin
Hare Triggered (1945) Friz Freleng
Hare Conditioned (1945) Chuck Jones
The Grey Hounded Hare (1949) Robert McKimson
MOVIES:
Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021)
New Shorts:
Mummy Dummy
Rotund Rabbit
Honorary Mentions:
Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid
Rabbit Punch
OTHER MEDIA:
Family Guy: Stewie B. Goode
Looney Tunes in the News:
CASTING NEWS: John Cena has been cast as the head of ACME (will there be a reference to Steve Martin who played a similar role in Back in Action?
The Synopsis for ACME V COYOTE: Wile E. Coyote, who after ACME products fail him one too many times in his dogged pursuit of the Roadrunner, decides to hire a billboard lawyer to sue the ACME Corporation. The case pits Wile E. and his lawyer against the latter’s intimidating former boss (Cena), but a growing friendship between man and cartoon stokes their determination to win.
We also touch on the passing of Space Jam Executive Producer and Ghostbusters director, Ivan Reitman. RIP.
NEW ETIHAD AIRWAYS COMMERCIAL!
https://www.etihad.com/en-us/fly-etihad/flying-with-children/littlevip
New Trailer: Rescue Rangers
While not WB or LT it does feature a small cameo from Roger Rabbit who hasn't been seen since 1988!
SUPER 7!
Super 7 has released a new line of action figures based on Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)!
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