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Cartoon Logic Episode 30: The Bugs Bunny Birthday Blu-Ray Blow-Out (Part 1) (Patreon)

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2021-02-20 17:01:02
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2021-02

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November's Blu-ray release of Bugs Bunny cartoons is so jam-packed with Technicolor animated perfection we have to do two episodes about it! In part one, we discuss what made the character take off immediately, and all the highlights of the set's first disc of 1940s cartoons, in which very different filmmakers managed to have individual takes on Bugs, yet maintain a singular vision that made him Warner Animation's eternal foundation.

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Anonymous

Made myself do a drinking game every time you two gave out a "hint, hint" to your exclusive Patreon content and now I've succumbed to alcohol poisoning (I kid, I kid...)

Anonymous

Just in time for me boithday! 🎂🎉🎊👍😁

Anonymous

Great podcast, I am dreading the next episode simply because of the decline in the cartoons quality. You guys made the comparison to “Singin in the Rain” with “What’s Up, Doc”, but you forgot to mention that Singin actually lifts the gag sequence from What’s Up where Bugs advances up the Hollywood ladder, yet stays doing the same act. You guys also helped me realize that Ted Pierce was really not as good as a writer as I thought. To be fair, he’s going solo here for the first time in years, but I don’t think I ever warmed up to his stuff the way that I warmed up to a Maltese or Foster story. By the way, is it any coincidence that the only documentation that I am aware of that survives confirming the dates that cartoons were written that WB all are from the mid 1940s? You mentioned BB and the Three Bears, and I’ve also heard the dates that all of Tashlin’s 40s films were written (from a reliable source).

Anonymous

I was surprised to hear that Fred Ladd’s hand-painted recolorizing was chosen over computerized recoloring on the grounds it was cheaper, as I didn’t realize the two approaches coexisted. But the computer stuff started earlier than I realized. When I was a kid, circa 1979, I went to a collectibles shop in NYC that had scads of color cels of characters I recognized at low prices. The proprietor helpfully explained that they were from an old Dinah Shore TV show that had featured an animated sequence. That story felt somewhat unlikely and the cels were pretty crude, and ... well, you’ve figured out the punchline: I figured out pretty quickly that they were Fred Ladd cels.

Anonymous

I always heard the red monster's name in Water Water Every Hare as 'Rudolf', and didn't accept the later name Gossamer as canon, just as I won't accept 'Michigan J. Frog' as canon. I think the monster also had a different name in one of the Looney Tunes video games, but I forget what. I can see why you guys decided to do discs 2 and 3 as one podcast. The 1960s cartoons on disc 3 are mostly dismal, though there's a handful of above-average entries, like the very funny From Hare to Heir and The Unmentionables (which feels almost like a proto-DePatie Freleng Inspector short). The selection of shorts from the 1950s is better, but they're not exactly the best Bugs cartoons from that decade, though at least most of them are newly remastered.

Anonymous

Thanks again for another great podcast. In regards to Bugs Bunny’s voice, has anyone investigated the origin of that voice? Mel always told that story about them showing him a picture of Bugs and then combining a Brooklyn and Bronx accent, but like a lot of things with Mel, I never bought that. I figure it was a voice that was already part of his repertoire and it stuck to Bugs. Off the top of my head, there is a Bugs-like voice for the gorilla in Africa Squeaks, which was released several months before A Wild Hare. How far back did that voice go? Did he use it in radio? I know that kind of investigation would be a tall task, and I don’t expect you or Bob to have the answer, but maybe someone else knows? Thanks.

Anonymous

Another home run episode, gents! Well done. With regards to that 1943 model sheet, boy, oh boy. Bugs is a pain in the (your explictive here) to draw. He is, no doubt, one of the most perfect designs in animation history, and perhaps too perfect. I feel that he's mocking me when I try to draw him. Perhaps Daffy, Elmer and Sam's disdain for Bugs ran much deeper.