New Look Cartoon Network Looney Tunes

One of the worlds largest cartoon publishers “Cartoon Network” are planning to breathe new life in to the classic Warner Brothers Looney Tunes shows. Just last month Cartoon Network during its upfront presentation, announced a number of new animated shows including an animated version of the Mad magazine.

The new Looney tunes shows which will included the ususal suspects of Daffy Duck , Bugs Bunny, Sylvester , Yosemite and more will see a new format. Rather than the original 7 minute cartoon the network is planning half hour slots for the animated series. Also Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny will be moved out of the woods and placed in a suburbian neighbourhood.

However the half hour episodes will be interspersed by cartoons within the cartoon. There will be two-minute ‘Merrie Melodies’ music videos — original songs sung by such characters as the Tasmanian Devil, Speedy Gonzalez, and Marvin the Martian – and two and a half minute Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote shorts, which will be computer-animated.

However Cartoon Network modern take on these originals does not go down well with some of the original fans of the format. For example Fatty Fat comments ..

I just plain don’t get the need to tinker with Looney Tunes at all. It’s just more reinventing the wheel. I’m nostalgic for the originals that were around in syndication all during my childhood, and if I can be nostaligic for cartoons that were made 50 years before I was born, so can/have/will others. It’s not like I was sitting through Bugs Bunny cartoons thinking, “I’d be interested in this if they’d just make this character edgier…maybe Rastafarianize him by, say 30%…now that’d be a totally outrageous paradigm!”

For me I welcome the reviving of these old cartoons for a whole new generation by Cartoon Network. Us old folks should just move on and hand over the good times to the next generation.