Friday, November 6, 2009

Merrie Melodies

It looks like Bugs Bunny will be returning to TV soon. I am waiting to get some more information to pass along here and on the GAC Forums, but Looney Tunes are now showing up on various TV listings as airing on Cartoon Network starting on November 15. Stay tuned!

In the meantime, here's the introduction to Merrie Melodies Starring Bugs Bunny and Friends a compilation show that aired on Fox in the early 1990s. This fast paced intro was done by Darrell Van Citters' crew and features a number of cameos by both major and minor favorites from the Looney Tunes universe. If it looks familiar to you, it was later reused (with different theme music) by Kids WB for their own show called That's Warner Bros.!.

4 comments:

esahC said...

Say Jon, did they use a computer as a reference point to trace all that 3Dequse background footage, like they did for "Blooper Bunny"? Certainly looks that way to me.

Jeff Cook said...

Wow, I've never seen this intro before. In fact I can't say I've seen a piece of Looney Tunes animation quite like this before.

Great timing and snappy animation.

Bart said...

Any chance you can find the syndicated 1990-1992 opening for "Merrie Melodies"? That was the better compilation, IMO - once it went over to FOX in 1992, the censors heavily edited the shorts.

Neal Sternecky said...

Too bad the end gag gets cut here, with Bugs holding that heroic pose for just so long and then collapsing in a heap, exhausted. (Though you can still see him start to droop right before the cut.) Always loved Van Citters's stuff. Great timing and animation indeed! His respect for the characters (as well as the work of Chuck Jones) is obvious, happily.

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