good old it's time we chat about one of
my favorite cartoon characters and
favorite cartoons Bugs Bunny
well good old bugs is certainly among
the best American cartoons I don't often
hear people discuss the worst of bugs
his escapades with nearly a century of
adventures behind him bug has had his
share of not so good cartoons so as much
as I love and respect Looney Tunes let's
have some fun and look back at the top
six worst Bugs Bunny cartoons and if you
like these cartoons I totally understand
take this list with a pinch of salt
because Bugs Bunny is awesome also I've
tried to avoid using clip show so each
cartoon is poor quality on its own right
anyway onto the countdown Bugs Bunny
bust announced the 1980s was not a great
time for our pal bucks
Mel Blanc was 72 and understandably
struggling a bit with the energy after
doing bugs his voice for over half a
century this guy was a freakin legend
anyway I can't think of a better example
of every joke in a Bugs Bunny cartoon
falling so in offensively flat we start
with seeing an insipid flavorless
flashback - Bugs Bunny running out of
school as a kid and running into Elmer
Fudd with a pop gun when they proceed to
perform some of the most listless antics
I've ever seen from the great Chuck
Jones and Mel Blanc again it's
understandable
it was the 1980s and this legendary duo
had been doing this since the 1930s of
course the jokes aren't going to be as
fresh as they were 50 years ago gravity
oh that's all like we haven't studied
gravity yet as well as this Chuck and
Mel ran into some new stringent
family-friendly rules in the 80s that
meant Warner Brothers could no longer
let Elmer Fudd get shot in the face with
a rifle or impact the ground with a blam
generally the camera will have the
character shot or blown up off screen if
at all which unfortunately completely
destroys the comedic value in fact bugs
outright saves Elmer Fudd from the fully
set self which is very nice of it but it
doesn't make for a very funny joke Bugs
Bunny busting out is completely
inoffensive but in the process
completely takes the teeth out of bugs
his antics but this one's at the start
of the list because although the jokes
don't work I feel like I'm watching Mel
Blanc and Chuck Jones reflect on the
last half a century I'm glad yet I'm not
young anymore but you know but that
Elmer and I would the Yost people that
ever stopped chasing each other I mean
bucks speaks in this episode like he's a
wise older man
reflecting on olden days and how the
world has changed in general and from
that perspective it's actually quite
beautiful to watch trouble with this
world is that everybody's out to get
everybody else number 5
Elmas pet rabbits this Bugs Bunny
episode is notorious for bugs being
ridiculously out of character in every
way as well as him sounding completely
different he acts much more aggressive
arrogance and thuggish than the calm
cool Bugs Bunny we know in fact this
Bugs Bunny doesn't even beat carrots
let me clarify that Bugs Bunny states
that he does not eat carrots on top of
that the jokes are unusually unfunny for
a Looney Tunes cartoon by the end this
Bugs Bunny gangster look-alike gets so
strangely obnoxious that I was actually
rooting for Elmer Fudd to cook him and
why is bugs wearing yellow dishwashing
gloves anyway what happened to his white
gloves admittedly though this is the
second Bugs Bunny cartoon ever made and
clearly tell my terrorists and Mel Blanc
was still helping the rabbit find his
feet Looney Tunes show episode fish and
business
there are certainly episodes I like of
this modern take on Bugs Bunny and as
others have mentioned Lola's character
really helps bring the show alive wow
that was a good movie and now your
feature presentation but gee some of
these episodes they really do get wrong
the worst episodes of Looney Tunes show
tend to be full of awkward dialogue and
long unfunny pauses probably my least
favorite episode of the series is fish
and visitors there's this odd trope in
some cartoons where a friend or enemy
will stay over at the main characters
house intrude upon their privacy wreck
their house and make them miserable but
the main character is always too polite
to say anything so they can tolerate
this from days to months on end and I
personally think it's among the
stupidest tropes in all of cartoons we
all know exactly what's going to happen
Daffy and bugs are eventually going to
say they can't take it anymore
they'll snap at Yosemite Sam and kick
him out I've always found this shtick
weird and uncomfortable and I can't
figure out why it's so common in
cartoons I mean it almost physically
hurts to watch Daffy and bugs
reluctantly slump around resentfully as
Yosemite Sam trashes their house because
we can feel the character's resentment
and building up anger and it's just
awful
the visitors always ungrateful rude and
completely oblivious and it's just a
predictable aggravating cliche in my
opinion this one is the worst of the
Looney Tunes show episodes it's true doc
you can't stay what I sent him off okay
dig in well not really we dropped a ton
of them
and all this and rabbits too it's hard
for the jokes to fully work in this
cartoon because well they're heavily
racially insensitive even by 1940
standards but you know as racist as it
is I actually felt the jokes on a base
level were okay Mel Blanc into any wet
both understandably uncredited delivers
solid enthusiastic voices that suit the
context of their roles and there are so
many gags packed into this one small
quick gags like the plunger with a skunk
or the bear review were quick and
actually would be funny it's just a
shame the jokes had to be ruined by the
trivalent racism I mean I originally saw
this costume when I was about six and at
the time I didn't even notice the color
of the hunters skin I thought he was
just a silly hunter but now that I've
grown up it's certainly more
uncomfortable now and the second was
Bugs Bunny
three hysterical hash be very very quiet
me hunt saber-tooth rabbit many many
years ago in 1958 a major musician
strike took place forcing Warner
Brothers to outsource to Capitol Records
giving them some of the most awkward
oddly out of place music in all of the
Looney Tunes shorts and pre hysterical
hair was the culmination of these
problems and more combining poorly drawn
characters with a terribly voiced Elmer
Fudd and stock music to make one of the
lousy us bums Bunny cartoons ever to be
made for example here we have bugs
cozying up at home to watch an old movie
so what music is suitable for this
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oh yes this is exactly what I think of
when I think Bugs Bunny single notes
stock footage with all the forethought
of a Kmart gift card all the gags are
rehashed listless and hastily slapped
together giving us none of the freshness
we'd normally expect from Looney Tunes
classics pre hysterical hair is one of
the few real stinkers in the original
Looney Tunes cartoons and before that
gets number one let's go through some
quick honorable mentions space gin this
one's a guilty pleasure for me because
as a kid this was my favorite movie
actually my biggest complaint was that
Bugs Bunny's voice actor sounded so
different from Mel Blanc I'll be with
you in a second folks after I finished
with Nature Boy here Looney Tunes back
in action sadly this is the first movie
I ever walked out on birth night
burglars it's hard to not see back in
action as a missed opportunity that
doesn't manage any of the magic of Who
Framed Roger Rabbit the two main actors
deliver very indifferent performances
but just don't mesh well with bugs and
Daffy Bugs Bunny nips the nips somehow
this cartoon manages to be even more
racially insensitive to Japanese than it
was to african-americans very much a
propaganda cartoon this one is even more
uncomfortable than all this in rabbits
too because of its heavy world war two
things and even without the racism the
jokes in this one is slow and not even
that clever they just kind of feel mean
what a Looney Tunes cartoon overall I
like this new series is uniquely
stylized in its animation and although
the jokes didn't tend to work for me I
appreciate it try and take bugs in a
relatively new modernized direction
anyway your week
and the number one baby Looney Toons
want to see something so saccharine that
you want to vomit
something is labeled Looney Toons but
has voices so sickly sweet pandering and
aggravating that it causes continual
convulsions to the viewer then may I
present to you baby Looney Tunes baby
Looney Tunes as a whole is just terrible
but let's focus on what I consider their
worst episode never say fry the script
just has zero intelligence none let's
start building that kite the first
things you'll need every line is badly
voiced awkward and completely stock as
though the entire storyboard was passed
on to a foreign laundromat it's
basically about young Looney Tunes
helping out granny and playing around
because everything is so revoltingly
wonderful this cartoon is so sickly out
of character for the Looney Tunes that
I'm what said this stupid costume out of
my memory until the last minutes it's
hard to be more insulting to the
grandfather of comedic animation than by
creating a baby spin-off I want to
clarify that there's a difference
between good messages in cartoons and
the trend of soulless socially
responsible messages jammed down our
kids throats having all the flavor of a
dried-out slab of tofu in fact this
cartoon has just stripped all the guts
out of the original Looney Tunes cartoon
all the freedom the free welding and
sanity the wit and laughter and replaced
it with soulless age-appropriate junk
and you should play games to have fun
not just the win
so in the episodes never say try all the
Looney Tunes make cuts and were two
minutes in and they're still building
kites
seriously did kids actually find this
entertaining then they all fly their
kites but oh no Sylvester crashes his
kite and never wants to see a kite again
I'm never gonna try blowing a bubble
again so he decides he never wants to
try chewing gum again oh I wonder where
they going with this message and we're
only three minutes in it just keeps
going like this then we have to watch
granny doing ballet with the kids oh
that's it I'm sorry I'm done I cannot
stand this show baby Looney Tunes is
just overly safe pusillanimous path with
looney tunes slapped on the front to
attract kids attention it's just a slap
in the face to Looney Tunes Bugs Bunny
and everything the cartoons stood for I
personally consider baby Looney Tunes
the absolute worst Bugs Bunny cartoon
though as much they point out the
occasional negative cartoons the spirit
of Bugs Bunny remains almost
consistently in the majority of cartoons
no matter how often Warner Brothers
makes mistakes with
nearly a century bucks almost never
changes from a calm likable mischievous
rabbit so many of us enjoying it and
overall to me Looney Tunes remains
one-off if not the greatest American
cartoon of all the time do you think I
missed a particularly bad Bugs Bunny
cartoon if you think so feel free to
leave your thoughts in the comments and
as always thanks for watching
no see you next time
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