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New Looney Tunes, formerly titled Wabbit. A Looney Tunes Prod. for the first season, is a Warner Bros. Animation produced series for Boomerang/Cartoon Network. The series was announced at Cartoon Network's upfront in 2014 to replace The Looney Tunes Show.

Season 1 focuses on Bugs Bunny and his friend Squeaks the Squirrel with new adventures in the form of shorts. In the later seasons, Daffy Duck and Porky Pig joined the main cast, and other original Looney Tunes characters make recurring appearances.[1] The show was called Bugs! in Europe for Season 1.

The series features two five-minute shorts in each fifteen-minute block and four five-minute shorts in each half-hour block. Originally the series was planned to air exclusively on Boomerang, but the series premiered on Cartoon Network on September 21, 2015, due to last-minute scheduling changes.[2]

New episodes have been announced to be aired in the United States after a year-long hiatus. The new episodes were released through Boomerang's SVOD service in addition to airing on television later on. [3] Season 1 ended in the United States on January 27, 2018. and Season 2 premiered that same day.[4]

Despite the low viewership ratings in the United States, the high viewership ratings in the United Kingdom, France, and Brazil have allowed New Looney Tunes to be picked up for a third season. The third season became the final season, due to a low viewership in the United States.[5] The third season premiered on August 29, 2019.[6]

On September 3, 2019, reruns of the show began airing on Cartoon Network along with The Tom and Jerry Show.

The show officially ended on January 30, 2020.

During 2023, the show had been rerunning on Cartoon Network after the Cartoonito block.

Description

New Looney Tunes was announced at Cartoon Network Upfront 2014 for a 2015 premiere. [7]

"The hilarious, heroic and mischievous Bugs Bunny you love is back! From Warner Bros. Animation, Bugs stars in an all-new series consisting of comedic shorts that find the iconic carrot-loving rabbit matching wits against (and getting the best of) classic characters like Yosemite Sam and Wile E. Coyote. Along the way, Bugs encounters brand-new foes…and he has help from new friends like Bigfoot and Squeaks the Squirrel."


Wabbit/New Looney Tunes is a continuation (sort-of) of the original Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies shorts from 1930-1969, with 312 new adventures for Bugs Bunny and all his friends. Each episode contains two fun-filled cartoon shorts.

In this TV series, some of the Looney Tunes characters are given new traits: Wile E. Coyote, for example, is Bugs' smart-aleck neighbor (akin to Wile E.'s previous outings with the rabbit), Yosemite Sam has a pudgy appearance and a larger mustache, and the Tasmanian Devil (renamed "Theodore Tasmanian") is employed as an accountant, though he represses his true self.

There are also new characters who join the slapstick fun, like (of course) Squeaks the Squirrel, a childlike version of Bigfoot, Cal, a Barbarian, a Leprechaun, hazmats, and even a rabbit version of the Grim Reaper named Carl the Grim Rabbit.

Characters

Note: If there is no reference or citation needed tag, the reference for the voice actor is from the credits.

Main Cast

Supporting Cast

Other Characters

Notes

  • The series was originally going to be a short film with a teen/adult demographic in mind and was going to be rated PG-13. The short would have been about Bugs Bunny being sent to Hell by the Grim Reaper. The short would have poked fun at the less savoury aspects of the character's history. Elements of it were reused for the episode "The Grim Rabbit".[8]
  • This is yet another installment in the Looney Tunes franchise to introduce new characters but focus on mainly one character, Bugs Bunny. However, this has been retooled in the second season, in where there are episodes that focus on other Looney Tunes characters as well as Bugs.
  • Originally, Squeaks the Squirrel had a different prototypical design (see Gallery).
  • The TV Guide Comic-Con Special Issue featured a redesigned version of Squeaks the Squirrel.
  • The show evokes the classics (like Warner Bros.' The Tom and Jerry Show), but tries to stay away from many of the cliches (e.g. rarely anvils or TNT). Sometimes, a cliche will be used if needed.
  • Since near the end of the first season, the rest of the other Looney Tunes characters would slowly debut in this show as the series progresses.
  • This was the first Looney Tunes television series not to feature any of the original voice actors from the classic shorts in any capacity; as the last surviving voice actors of the original Looney Tunes shorts, Stan Freberg and June Foray, have both passed away in 2015 and 2017 respectively.
    • Since June Foray has passed away in 2017, Candi Milo provided voice work for Granny starting in Season 2.
    • Since Stan Freberg passed away in 2015, John Kassir provided voice work for Pete Puma starting in Season 2, a role that he had already performed on The Looney Tunes Show.
  • Marc Anthony and Pussyfoot first appear in "Pussyfoot Soldier", though Marc Anthony previously appeared without Pussyfoot in the two-part Tweet Team.
  • This was Dee Bradley Baker's first time voicing Daffy in a television series and his second time overall since Space Jam in 1996.
  • All of the characters from the Looney Tunes universe appear in certain designs from certain classic cartoons in this show.
    • Bugs Bunny appears in his design from the mid-1940s cartoons.
    • Daffy Duck appears in his design from "Porky Pig's Feat"
    • Porky Pig appears in his original design from the mid-1930s cartoons.
    • Elmer Fudd appears in his design from 1950s and onward.
    • Yosemite Sam appears in his design from his debut cartoon "Hare Trigger", albeit appearing more portly in appearance.
    • Foghorn Leghorn appears in his design from the 1950s and onward, albeit with smaller eyes.
    • Tweety appears in his original design from the Bob Clampett-directed cartoons, albeit with yellow feathers added.
    • Sylvester appears in his design from the late-1940s Robert McKimson-directed cartoons.
    • Granny appears in her design from the late-1950s.
    • Marvin the Martian appears in his design from "The Hasty Hare" and onward.
    • Petunia Pig's design appears to be a hybrid of both her design from the 1937 Frank Tashlin-directed cartoons and the her design from the 1939 Bob Clampett-directed cartoons.
    • Both Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner appear in their designs from the early-1960s, albeit with Wile E. looking scruffier.
    • Claude Cat appears in his design from the early-1950s non-Hubie and Bertie cartoons.
    • Pepé Le Pew appears in his design from "Odor of the Day".
    • Speedy Gonzales appears in his design from his eponymous cartoon short and onward.
    • Marc Anthony and Pussyfoot appear in their designs from their debut cartoon, "Feed the Kitty".

Episodes

Main article: New Looney Tunes Episode Guide and List

Gallery

Clips

References

  1. ↑ https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=719384878222822&id=224005734427408&_rdr
  2. ↑ https://twitter.com/cartoonnetwork/status/644933942597013504
  3. ↑ http://variety.com/2017/digital/news/boomerang-cartoon-streaming-subscription-time-warner-turner-wb-1202003660/
  4. ↑ http://www.adultswim.com/adultswimdynsched/servlet/BoomerangServlet?action=selectBMDay&theDate=1/27/18&timeZone=EST
  5. ↑ http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/14559%7C0/Jeff-Bergman/filmography.html
  6. ↑ https://variety.com/2018/digital/news/boomerang-new-scooby-doo-flintstones-spinoffs-1202818966/
  7. ↑ http://blogs.indiewire.com/animationscoop/wabbit-a-looney-tunes-production-toplines-cartoon-network-upfront-presentation
  8. ↑ https://vimeo.com/125736213 Your Bunny or your Life.

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