The Acme Nerdette

Long time Looney Tuns fan! She/her. From UK. Last of the dodos. My aim is to share and spread the love for some of the greatest cartoons of all time and for one of the greatest animated franchises of all time. Ever since the 2000s, it's dwindled in popularity.

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Top 10 earworms heard in Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies

Cue that guitar slide, crank up the brass and guitars and orchestra and you'll either hear Merry Go Round Broke Down OR Merrily We Roll Along, we rolled along all right to some cartoon classics. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies have been very important pieces of media in our lives, it's too bad the popularity's died down a lot since the Mil-Looney-Um...*sighs* seriously, it's sad! These cartoons had everything, great voice acting, great animation, great comedic timing, great stories and most of all, great music (mainly thanks to Carl Stalling). Music played a very important part in the Warner Bros. cartoons, with every movement, every eye blink, every footstep, tiptoe gag, every angry stomp and of course the thunderous piano glissando going down, followed by a crash. But other than that, Looney Tunes gave us some memorable little ditties and earworms in song, I'm here to honor them, with my top ten Warner Bros. earworms. These include multiple cartoons, songs from films and original numbers, so sit back and make way for some memorable musical earworms. I WILL not be including anything from television shows, so apologies to the Roadrunner theme (which is amazing btw) or This is It from The Bugs Bunny Show (*sighs* I miss that show). 10. What's Up Doc? - Multiple cartoons Composed by Carl Stalling

While mostly heard in -what else- Bugs Bunny cartoons, this little cartoon ditty often played in the title cards for certain shorts starring that wascally wabbit. It was also heard in the cartoon titled -what else?- What's Up Doc? performed by Mel Blanc and Arthur Q Bryan, it's a fun little ditty that has become a staple in the classic Looney Tunes cartoons. The song has been heard in the title cards for cartoons, notably: Rabbit Fire, Stage Door Cartoon, The Unruly Hare, Herr Meets Hare, Rabbit Every Monday, Bunny Hugged and many more. It was even included in The Looney Tunes Show and the underrated movie Looney Tunes: Back in Action, as well as the brilliant 2020 Looney Tunes Cartoons. YOU know when a Bugs Bunny cartoon is on when you hear this ditty. 9. Powerhouse - various cartoons Composed by Raymond Scott

"Push the button and pull the crank...push the button and pull the crank...push the button and pull the crank, push the button and pull the crank..." By far the most prominent piece of music used in Warner Bros. this tune wasn't originally made for cartoons. Raymond Scott's famous tune has some very unusual and complicated usages, it has two parts. The first being a fast pace whirlwind like flourish feel to it, then it goes into a rather playful, but busy sounding with hints of workaholic 1, 2, 3, 4, rhythm. Personally, I'm not a huge fan of this piece, I feel it's a little overplayed and got overused and sometimes I wondered why it was used in certain cartoons that didn't involve conveyer belts.

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HHHNNNNNG!!!!!!

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Something I drew to support the Animation Guild negotiation rally.

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THE HYPE! If it doesn't come to UK! I'm excited for my friends and the rest of America who are flocking down to see it! If we can get this movie big, maybe Coyote vs Acme will have a fair chance of being uncancelled!

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If The Day The Earth Blew Up can do it, so can this movie! COME ON PEOPLE! Looney Tunes needs to win back that love it once had!

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The hype! The happiness! THE EXCITEMENT!

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Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies 1944 Episode 6: I Got Plenty of Mutton

Written by Melvin Millar

Directed by Frank Tashlin

Animated by Izzy Ellis

Backgrounds by Richard H. Thomas

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It’s early, but I’m notoriously bad at keeping surprises. All the more time to do yourself a favor and watch one of the greatest cartoons ever made–Frank Tashlin’s The Stupid Cupid!

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he means well. it’s his love language

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New trailer just launched for The Day The Earth Blew Up. EEEEEE!!!!!

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So, why a Tom and Jerry blog?

First off, why a stupid question? Or...aren't there enough Tom and Jerry blogs? Or maybe you're asking "Are you daffy?", no, he's a duck!

I love Tom and Jerry, I have been a fan since we rented a video tape of it in the 90s alongside Beauty and the Beast, out of the two tapes, we watched Tom and Jerry the most, but I did enjoy the Disney flick too. After we finished Beauty and the Beast, we put on Tom and Jerry and although I was familliar with the names and the characters (we used to have a Tom and Jerry Kids video given to us by my grandparents, what an introduction huh? LOL) I didn't know they were older than what at the time, in their fifties? So it was a real treat getting to watch some classis on video.

The first cartoon I ever saw was The Little School Mouse and already, my brothers and I were hooked, the scene that got us our jollies the most in that particular cartoon was the chalkboard lesson with the little doodles Jerry had done. Tapping his stick to teach baby Nibbles (or Tuffy) on how to deal with cats, it seemed all harmless and normal right? That's when Jerry taps the board again and my brothers read out "Cat chases mouse, mouse runs in hole, cats say bad words!", no really! We used to think that was extremely hysterical! Heck it was so funny even Nibbles laughs in the cartoon!

From then on, we watched the tape over and over until it was time to take it back. Other fond memories of this tape was the cartoon lined up after School Mouse and that was Cruise Cat, I can remember hearing Aloha Oe and immediately thought to myself in my head "Oh hey, that tune! I heard that in a Felix the Cat cartoon", I had a rare gift of picking up certain pieces of music haha. Cruise Cat was another fun cartoon, again this gave us another memorable highlight and that was my first taste of Tom talking. We all know the golden rule, Tom and Jerry DO NOT TALK! But we can kinda read their expressions and body language clearly, that's the fun and beauty of Tom and Jerry, uttering a word wouldn't be just as fun. BUT when they DO talk, it's just for a brief silly gag and doesn't usually last very long, something they totally ignored in Tom and Jerry: The Movie. This topic may come around later on.

So...umm...why another cartoon blog? What else is a cartoon crazy middle aged woman gonna blog about that's fun, nostalgic and full of excitement, slapstick, mischief and has been round since 1940 winning the hearts of so many movie goers? First off, it's Tom and fur-iggin Jerry! I've only ever met a few people in my life who actually don't like'em, it's shocking because according to them, it was always the same thing over again. Err...I'm pretty sure that's what William Hanna and Joseph Barbera were thinking. Who knew an academy award nominated cartoon -Puss Gets The Boot- would go on to become a hit and then another cartoon comes into the theatres. Tom and Jerry (originally named Jasper and Jinx) started off as a stay at home duo. Tom was a house pet, pampered and always getting beaten with a broom by his owner, Jerry...well, he's just a little mouse having to put up with Tom's antics while battling to get away from his clutches, after all, cats do play with mice, they toy with them and toss them around, it's no surprise that Tom hasn't yet killed this little mouse without leaving him flat on the porch (then again, I'm pretty sure MGM would be getting loads of angry letters and mousetraps). I know I'm late to the party, but Tom and Jerry are now 85 years old. Lucky! They were born Year of the Dragon (Alongside Mickey Mouse, Bugs Bunny AND two Disney films Pinnochio and my favorite Fantasia). It's a real bummer we aren't going to get a full on complete Tom and Jerry set (yet or at all) on blu ray fully uncut, but we can still cherish the memories, the fun, the laughter, even the tears of such an iconic, fantastic duo, we have the boys at MGM to thank. Bill and Joe, I really wish I could buy you a pint! When the boys have been giving chase, playing pranks, raiding the fridge (heck, that's four bottles of milk stolen and two blocks of cheese out of my fridge), have flattened each other with irons, cymbols, waffle irons, piano lids, have let our crazily entertaining painful screams, gasps, have made us laugh, cry and come back for more, there truly is only ONE Tom and Jerry. Fred Quimby's cartoons were a treat! They were fun, they were beautfully animated and dare I say it? They were sometimes even heartwarming! Without Tom, there wouldn't be Jerry and without Jerry, there wouldn't be Tom. So here's hoping this blog gives me many more rambles and memories and hope they bring back many memories for you all to share too. A little late, but here's to eighty four years of gags, pranks, screams, yelps, yowls, mischief, humor, jokes, cartoon violence and laughter, thank you Tom and Jerry for being there for me, for you, for everyone, but most of all, a heavenly thank you Bill and Joe. With that being said, Tom and Jerry can now let go of their paws shaking, while Jerry tips a wink, fingers crossed behind his back while a a lit bomb is on the ready. Tom can go back to chasing Jerry, strapping him to a rocket, using him as a paddleball, using him as fishing bait, trying to make a sandwich with him as a an appetizing hors d'oeuvre or a mouse sandwich with cocktail sticks pinning the slices together ready for cutting like a saw in half magic trick. He can continue playing with Jerry like a yoyo or...just luring him out with the cheese and failing with his paws caught in the mousetrap, poor Tom, always getting the last laugh...and laugh he indeed gets, thanks a lot Jerry. Whether you were rooting for poor Tom OR laughing at him, or rooting for Jerry and laughing back at him, it doesn't matter, whether they have both shared a happy ending of triumph or a failure and a bad ending, Tom and Jerry had something for everyone and every single watch, we always had a good time! Happy belated eighty fifth Tom and Jerry, you truly are one of a kind. Forever, the best of enemies, or frienimes? Or enimends? Whatever, without one, where would the other be? Other than in the ice box stealing the last of your cheese, milk and other yummy delights!?!? Eighty five years. Dooooon't yooouuu believe it!

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Love Tom and Jerry? Come and follow my new blog dedicated JUST for them!

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I love this! Lovely to see it getting positive reaction! Looney Tunes needs more love! For over 70 years, they are still masterpieces, but now this is getting my hyped for this movie. I mean, a full on animated Looney Tunes flick that looks promising and funny? GET DOWN!

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GOLDEN AGE OF LOONEY TUNES REFERENCE GUIDE

Golden AGE Of Looney Tunes  Volume 1 Disc #1 Side 1:    •    Smile, Darn Ya, Smile! (1931)      •    Shuffle Off to Buffalo (1933)      •    Page Miss Glory (1936)      •    I Love to Singa (1936)      •    Have You Got Any Castles? (1938)      •    Speaking of the Weather (1937)      •    Katnip Kollege (1938)   Disc #1 Side 2:    •    The Wild Hare (1940)      •    Daffy Duck and Egghead (1938)      •    Odor-Able Kitty (1945)      •    A Tale of Two Kitties (1942)      •    I Haven’t Got a Hat (1935)      •    Life with Feathers (1945)      •    Walky Talky Hawky (1946)   Disc #2 Side 1:    •    Cinderella Meets Fella (1938)      •    Hamateur Night (1939)      •    Thugs With Dirty Mugs (1939)      •    Cross Country Detours (1940)      •    Dangerous Dan McFoo (1939)      •    The Bear’s Tale (1940)      •    The Crackpot Quail (1941)   Disc #2 Side 2:    •    Wabbit Twouble (1941)      •    Horton Hatches the Egg (1942)      •    The Hep Cat (1942)      •    A Corny Concerto (1943)      •    Kitty Kornered (1946)      •    The Great Piggy Bank Robbery (1946)      •    The Big Snooze (1946)   Disc #3 Side 1:    •    The Night Watchman (1938)      •    Old Glory (1939)      •    Sniffles Takes a Trip (1940)      •    The Dover Boys (At Pimento University) (1942)      •    My Favorite Duck (1942)      •    The Aristo-Cat (1943)      •    Inki at the Circus (1947)   Disc #3 Side 2:    •    Rhapsody in Rivets (1941)      •    Pigs in a Polka (1942)      •    Little Red Riding Rabbit (1944)      •    Duck Soup to Nuts (1944)      •    Hare Trigger (1945)      •    Back Alley Oproar (1948)      •    Tweetie Pie (1947)   Disc #4 Side 1:    •    The Heckling Hare (1941)      •    Hare Tonic (1945)      •    Hare Ribbin? (1944)      •    Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips (1944)      •    A Hare Grows in Manhattan (1947)      •    The Unruly Hare (1945)      •    Gorilla My Dreams (1948)   Disc #4 Side 2:    •    Nasty Quacks (1945)      •    Hair-Raising Hare (1946)      •    The Bashful Buzzard (1945)      •    Daffy Doodles (1946)      •    Little Orphan Airedale (1947)      •    Baby Bottleneck (1946)      •    Book Revue (1946)   Disc #5 Side 1:    •    The Coo Coo Nut Grove (1936)      •    Daffy Duck in Hollywood (1938)      •    Hollywood Steps Out (1941)      •    What’s Cookin’ Doc? (1944)      •    Hollywood Daffy (1946)      •    Swooner Crooner (1944)      •    Slick Hare (1947)   Disc #5 Side 2:    •    Tortoise Beats Hare (1941)      •    Tortoise Wins by a Hare (1943)      •    Rabbit Transit (1947)      •    Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid (1942)      •    The Old Grey Hare (1944)      •    Bugs Bunny Rides Again (1948)      •    Haredevil Hare (1948)  

GOLDEN AGE OF LOONEY TUNES VOLUME 2

Disc #1 Side 1 - Musical Madness:

   You Don’t Know What You’re Doin’! (1931) *    Goopy Geer (1932) *    Three’s a Crowd (1932) *    We’re in the Money (1933)    Honeymoon Hotel (1934)    The Lady in Red (1935)    The Penguin Parade (1938)

Disc #1 Side 2 - Early Wabbits:

   Prest-O Change-O (1939)    Hare-um Scare-um (1939)    Elmer’s Candid Camera (1940)    Elmer’s Pet Rabbit (1941)    Hiawatha’s Rabbit Hunt (1941)    Hold the Lion, Please (1942)    Fresh Hare (1942)

Disc #2 Side 1 - Frank Tashlin:

   The Major Lied ‘Til Dawn (1938)    Cracked Ice (1938)    Brother Brat (1944)    Plane Daffy (1944)    A Tale of Two Mice (1945)    Behind the Meat-Ball (1945)    Hare Remover (1946)

Disc #2 Side 2 - Chuck Jones:

   The Little Lion Hunter (1939)    The Draft Horse (1942)    Flop Goes the Weasel (1943)    Lost and Foundling (1944)    Fair and Worm-er (1946)    What’s Brewin’, Bruin? (1948)    Rabbit Punch (1948)

Disc #3 Side 1 - Bob Clampett:

   Goofy Groceries (1941)    The Wacky Wabbit (1942) *    Buckaroo Bugs (1944) *    An Itch in Time (1943) *    The Gruesome Twosome (1967) *    Draftee Daffy (1945) *    Bacall to Arms (1946) *

Disc #3 Side 2 - McKimson & Davis:

   Acrobatty Bunny (1946) *    Hollywood Canine Canteen (1946) *    The Mouse-Merized Cat (1946) *    One Meat Brawl (1947) *    Mexican Joyride (1947) *    Mouse Menace (1946) *    Catch as Cats Can (1947) *

Disc #4 Side 1 - Fables & Fairy Tales:

   Beauty and the Beast (1934) *    Little Red Walking Hood (1937) *    A-Lad-In Bagdad (1938) *    Robin Hood Makes Good (1939) *    Tom Thumb in Trouble (1940) *    A Gander at Mother Goose (1940) *    Jack-Wabbit and the Beanstalk (1943) *

Disc #4 Side 2 - The Art of Daffy:

   Yankee Doodle Daffy (1943) *    The Wise Quacking Duck (1943) *    Daffy - The Commando (1943) *    The Stupid Cupid (1944) *    Birth of a Notion (1947) *    To Duck….or not To Duck (1943) *    What Makes Daffy Duck (1948) *

Disc #5 Side 1 - Best Supporting Players:

   The Hardship of Miles Standish (1940) *    Hop, Look, and Listen (1948) *    Roughly Squeaking (1946) *    The Goofy Gophers (1947) *    Scent-imental Over You (1947) *    Crowing Pains (1947) *    Of Fox and Hounds (1940) *

Disc #5 Side 2 - Variations on a Theme:

   Tick Tock Tuckered (1944) *    Good Night Elmer (1940) *    Bedtime for Sniffles (1940) *    A Pest in the House (1947) *    Trap Happy Porky (1945) *    The Unbearable Bear (1943) *    Daffy Duck Slept Here (1948) *

GOLDEN AGE OF LOONEY TUNES VOLUME 3

Disc #1 Side 1 - Harman-Ising:

   One More Time    Red-Headed Baby    Pagen Moon    A Great Big Bunch of You    The Shanty Where Santy Claus Lives    One Step Ahead of My Shadow    The Dish Ran Away With the Spoon

Disc #1 Side 2 - Bugs Bunny:

   Wackiki Wabbit    Hare Force    Super-Rabbit    Herr Meets Hare    Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears    Stage Door Cartoon    Easter Yeggs

Disc #2 Side 1 - Chuck Jones:

   The Squawkin’ Hawk    Inki and the Mynah Bird    From Hand to Mouse    Fin N’ Catty    Fresh Airedale    The Eager Beaver    House-Hunting Mice

Disc #2 Side 2 - Fritz Freleng:

   Pigs is Pigs    The Cat’s Tale    Lights Fantastic    Ding Dog Daddy    The Wacky Worm    Peck Up Your Troubles    Racketeer Rabbit

Disc #3 Side 1 - Early Avery:

   I Wanna Be a Sailor    Circus Today    Aviation Vacation    Aloha Hooey    Holiday Highlights    Crazy Cruise    The Cagey Canary

Disc #3 Side 2 - Tashlin/Clampett:

   Little Pancho Vanilla    Booby Hatched    I Got Plenty of Mutton    Farm Frolics    Falling Hare    Birdy and the Beast    Russian Rhapsody

Disc #4 Side 1 - Sports:

   Freddy the Freshman    Boulevardier From the Bronx    Along Flirtation Walk    Sport Chumpions    Greetings Bait    Screwball Football    Baseball Bugs

Disc #4 Side 2 - The Evolution of Egghead:

   Egghead Rides Again    Count Me Out    Johnny Smith and Poker Hontas    A Day at the Zoo    Believe It, or Else    A Feud There Was    Confederate Honey

Disc #5 Side 1 - Porky and Daffy:

   Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur    Slightly Daffy    Ain’t That Ducky    Wagon Heels    Along Came Daffy    Nothing But the Tooth    The Up-Standing Sitter

Disc #5 Side 2 - Politically Incorrect:

   Wake Up the Gypsy in Me    He Was Her Man    Sioux Me    The Mighty Hunters    A Feather in His Hare    The Early Worm Gets the Bird    Inki and the Lion

GOLDEN AGE OF LOONEY TUNES VOLUME 4

Disc #1 Side 1 - Bugs Bunny:

   The Wabbit Who Came to Supper    The Hare-Brained Hypnotist    The Case of the Missing Hare    Hare Conditioned    Buccaneer Bunny    Rhapsody Rabbit    Any Bonds Today?    A Wild Hare - original version

Disc #1 Side 2 - Early Chuck Jones:

   The Good Egg    Ghost Wanted    Snow Time For Comedy    The Bird Came C.O.D.    Dog Tired    Fox Pop    The Weakly Reporter

Disc #2 Side 1 - Friz Freleng:

   The Trial of Mr. Wolf    Double Chaser    The Sheepish Wolf    Hiss and Make Up    Holiday for Shoestrings    The Gay Anties    Of Thee I Sting

Disc #2 Side 2 - Cartoon All-Stars:

   Tom Turk and Daffy    I Taw a Putty Tat    Two Gophers From Texas    Conrad the Sailor    Doggone Cats    A Horsefly Fleas    Hobo Bobo

Disc #3 Side 2 - Radio Daze:

   Crosby, Columbo, and Vallee    The Woods are Full of Cuckoos    Let It Be Me    Little Blabbermouse    Malibu Beach Party    Quentin Quail    Hush My Mouse

Disc #3 Side 2 - Frantic Forties:

   Hop, Skip, and a Chump    A Hick, a Slick, and a Chick    Meatless Flyday    The Foxy Duckling    Bone Sweet Bone    The Rattled Rooster    The Shell-Shocked Egg

Disc #4 Side 1 - Wacky Blackouts:

   Land of the Midnight Fun    Wacky Wildlife    Ceiling Hero    Fresh Fish    Saddle Silly    Foney Fables    Bug Parade

Disc #4 Side 2 - Ben Hardaway & Cal Dalton (and Private Snafu):

   Love and Curses    Gold Rush Daze    Bars and Stripes Forever    Hobo Gadget Band    Fagin’s Freshman    Busy Bakers    Snafuperman    Spies

Disc #5 Side 1 - Sniffles:

   Naughty But Mice    Little Brother Rat    Sniffles and the Bookworm    The Egg Collector    Sniffles Bells the Cat    Toy Trouble    Brave Little Bat

Disc #5 Side 2 - Merrie Melodies:

   The Queen Was in the Parlor    I Love a Parade    The Organ Grinder    Billboard Frolics    Flowers For Madame    September in the Rain    You’re an Education

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Disc #1 Side 1 - Black & White Classics:

   It’s Got Me Again! (1932)    Moonlight for Two (1932)    A Great Big Bunch of You (1932)    You’re Too Careless with Your Kisses (1932)    I Wish I Had Wings (1932)    Young and Healthy (1933)    I Like Mountain Music (1933)

Disc #1 Side 2 - Early Avery:

   don’t look now    i only have eyes for you    ain’t we got fun    a sunbonnet blue    the sneezing weasel    the mice will play    detouring america

Disc #2 Side 1 - Freleng Follies:

   she was an acrobat’s daughter    sweet sioux    the lyin’ mouse    my little buckeroo    the fighting 69 1/2th    rookie revue    fifth column mouse

Disc #2 Side 2 - Musical Madness:

   the merry old soul    mr. and mrs. is the name    into your dance    country mouse    bingo crosbyana    the fella with a fiddle    now that summer is gone

Disc #3 Side 2 - Pesky Pets:

   the cat came back    country boy    dog daze    dog gone modern    the curious puppy    stage fright    snowman’s land

Disc #3 Side 2 - Objects d'art:

   those beautiful dames    little dutch plate    i’d love to take orders from you    toy town hall    my green fedora    streamlined greta green    shop, look & listen

Disc #4 Side 1 - Animal Antics:

   pop goes your heart    i wanna play house    i’m a big shot now    when i yoo hoo    at your service madame    a star is hatched    plenty of money and you

Disc #4 Side 2 - Supplemental material (CAV):

   hare ribbin’ (director’s cut)    the return of mr. hook (U.S. Navy)    the good egg ( U.S. Navy)    tokyo woes (U.S. Navy)    my dream is yours (excerpt from film)    two guys from texas (excerpt from film)

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For Valentine's Day I decided to watch The Stupid Cupid and Love Among the Toons.

https://www.wco.tv/looney-tunes-golden-collection-season-4-episode-30-the-stupid-cupid

https://www.wco.tv/tiny-toon-adventures-season-1-episode-32-spring-in-acme-acres

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here it is. the entire scene in high quality for your viewing pleasure (and of course a HOOHOO for ambience). enjoy :)

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Layout drawing for The Wise Quacking Duck (1943).