Chuck Jones interview with Charlie Rose

Here's a fun interview with Chuck Jones from around 1995 with Charlie Rose. The segment is preceded by an interview with Harold Bloom.

Polish Boomerang Promo

Here's a fun little promo from Poland's version of Boomerang featuring the LT characters among other familiar faces. It sure beats those tiresome bumpers of Hanna-Barbera toys marching around we've seen on the United States Boomerang since it launched in 2000.

Misce-Looney-Ous Blog Commentaries: "Naughty But Mice"

Here's a little discussion of the debut of Chuck Jones' first star: Sniffles

Naughty But Mice Commentary
Uploaded by MatthewHunter

Let's Do Lunch

I have no idea when this was made, but it must be fairly recent. On a trip to a Big Lots closeout store today I saw a bunch of these "Limited Edition" metal Looney Tunes lunchboxes from Thermos for $5.00 each. It was apparently designed to look like a vintage 1950s lunchbox. Anyway, check out the amazing artwork on this thing (both sides):





Anyone know more about it (or possibly who did the artwork)?

Jeep "Sunshine" ad...Road Runner cameo

There's a recent ad for Jeep that has been played to death on TV. In it, a jeep drives through various culturally significant scenes...World War II, Woodstock, Jane Goodall and chimps, a Devo video, etc. Believe it or not, they even have the jeep racing the Road Runner and Coyote. Yes, folks, it's ANOTHER commercial featuring Wile E. and Roadrunner. After some research, I found that the song is called "Sunshine" by Jonathan Edwards.

The Wabbit of Oz

Available now at Hallmark stores is this set of four Halloween-themed Looney Tunes ornaments. Called "Trick or Treating in Oz" the set has Bugs as Dorothy, Taz as the Cowardly Lion, Tweety as the Tinman, and Sylvester as the Scarecrow.

"Joe Glow the Firefly" (1941)

I'm not gonna talk over this one. Chuck Jones' wonderful direction and Carl Stalling's music are a much better commentary! This is a rare one-shot that, to me, is as good a use of the art of black and white as you can get! I found this great-looking copy of it on a dollar-bin Public Domain DVD. It's part of the Digiview "Cartoon Craze" series, on a collection called "Porky's Cafe", for those interested in locating it. It's an interesting, artisticly stunning little film.