Misce-Looney-Ous Commentary: "Wise Quacks" (1939)

Here's something we haven't posted in a while: a commentary!

I tried a new way of doing these (different software) and it looks like the old way, though kind of a hassle, yielded better quality. But you'll at least get the idea. Enjoy!


Wise Quacks 1939 Commentary by MatthewHunter

Yosemite Skaggs

Here are two commercials for Skaggs Drug Centers featuring Yosemite Sam. The first from 1976 and the second from 1977.

On the Road Again

Hey, we're back! You know what that means! We must have found another Road Runner commercial. This one is a 1987 car commercial from Australian for the Holden Barina.

1945 WB Animated US Navy Training Film

A website called Critical Past has posted an animated 1945 United States Navy training film from the WB cartoon studio which can be viewed here. It is called "Flight Safety: Dive Bombing Crashes" featuring an old curmudgeon named Grampaw Pettibone. While not big on gags like the US Army Private Snafu shorts were, it is always interesting when a piece of previously unknown classic Warner animation turns up.

UPDATE: Jerry Beck has more information on Cartoon Brew.




(Thanks to Termite Terrace poster, WoodpeckerWoody, for posting a link on the GAC Forums).

New Looney Tunes Beanie Babies

If you are like me, you probably haven't even thought about Beanie Babies since about 1996. They are still around and the folks at the Ty company have now got around to the Looney Tunes. This set of four, featuring Bugs, Daffy, Taz and Tweety, is now available exclusively at Walgreens drugstores.

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(Thanks to reader HeadIntoSound for letting us know)

RIP Marvin Acme

Here's an interesting item that caught my eye on eBay recently (and you can Buy It Now for only $1,799.00). A script page from 1988's Who Framed Roger Rabbit, signed and written on by Mel Blanc, of a scene that wasn't in the final film. This scene is of the funeral of murdered Toon Town founder Marvin Acme, featuring Felix the Cat, Elmer Fudd and Yosemite Sam as pallbearers and Foghorn Leghorn delivering the eulogy. There are also appearances by Bugs Bunny, Humphrey Bogart, Clark Gable, and a certain mouse.





If you look closely, you can see Foghorn in this concept drawing of the scene (buried among the extras on the DVD).

A Return to CN and a Return to Death Valley

Above is a Cartoon Network commercial from 2000 when they got the television rights to the entire Looney Tunes cartoon library. Now we flash forward a decade (and a lengthy hiatus) to remind everyone that the classic Looney Tunes are once again airing daily on CN. Set your DVR for a half-hour every morning at 6:00am and an hour every weekday at 12 noon-1pm EST (the shorts from the 6am half-hour usually repeat the following day on the noon show). Enjoy it while it lasts, since the last time the cartoons were running on CN it only lasted about a month. Word is they are on the schedule through April. Some dedicated fans on the GAC Forums are keeping tabs on what is showing up.

On a totally different subject, I couldn't help but share this great poster for the Road Runner's Death Valley Rally video game which was shared with us by a reader named Sterling. It was actually included in that very issue of Nintendo Power (October, 1992) that we used to illustrate that Roadrunner post from a few days ago with.