Okay, I’ll kick it off. My top 39 or so. These are in order and just off the top. No real thought involved here, just real solid cartoons that came to mind when I free associate great WB animation.

1. What’s Opera, Doc?
2. Duck Amuck
3. The Great Piggy Bank Robbery
4. Birds Anonymous
5. Coal Black & De Sebben Dwarfs
6. Rabbit Fire
7. Kitty Kornered
8. Bully for Bugs
9. Porky Pig’s Feat
10. High Diving Hare
11. One Froggy Evening
12. Daffy Duck in Hollywood
13. Book Revue
14. Little Red Riding Rabbit
15. Porky’s Romance
16. Daffy Dilly
17. Three Little Bops
18. For Scent-imental Reasons
19. Buccaneer Bunny
20. Long Haired Hare
21. Thugs With Dirty Mugs
22. Pigs In A Polka
23. Little Red Walking Hood
24. Wabbit Twouble
25. Fast and Furry-ous
26. Baseball Bugs
27. The Big Snooze
28. Knighty Knight Bugs
29. A Wild Hare
30. Bowery Bugs
31. Baton Bunny
32. Yankee Doodle Daffy
33. Super Rabbit
34. The Old Grey Hare
35. The Hole Idea
36. Leghorn Swoggled
37. Norman Normal
38. People Are Bunny
39. Miss Glory

Just a nitpick: if “industrial” animation is not to be considered, should the three Sloan Foundation shorts be off the list? (By Word of Mouse/Heir Conditioned/Yankee Dood It)

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1. The Great Piggy Bank Robbery
2. Coal Black And De Sebben Dwarfs
3. Book Revue
4. Porky Pig’s Duck Hunt
5. Porky In Wackyland
6. A Tale of Two Kitties
7. The Hep Cat
8. Hollywood Steps Out
9. Herr Meets Hare
10. Elmer’s Candid Camera
11. The Hep Cat

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01 Duck! Rabbit, Duck!
02 Bully For Bugs
03 Drip-Along Daffy
04 Rabbit Of Seville
05 Robin Hood Daffy
06 Duck Dodgers In The 24-1/2th Century
07 Ali Baba Bunny
08 Golden Yeggs
09 One Froggy Evening
10 Birds Anonymous

I still know some the funny dialogue.

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Well…..

ONE FROGGY EVENING
WHAT’S OPERA,DOC?
BIRDS ANONYMOUS
THE DOVER BOYS
SHOWBIZ BUGS
THE GREAT PIGGY BANK ROBBERY
BABY BOTTLENECK
ALI BABA BUNNY
ROBIN HOOD DAFFY
WHAT’S UP, DOC?
THE ARISTO-CAT
DUCK DODGERS IN THE 24 AND A HALF CENTURY
BATON BUNNY
BEAR FEAT
THE BIG SNOOZE
BOOK REVUE
CAT FEUD
CORNY CONCERTO
DAFFY DUCK SLEPT HERE
DOG GONE SOUTH
DRIPALONG DAFFY
RABBIT SEASONING
DUCK! RABBIT! DUCK!
8 BALL BUNNY
EASTER YEGGS
FAST AND FURRY-OUS
FEED THE KITTY
SCHOOLBOY DAZE
THE GRAY HOUNDED HARE

I will send more cartoons along the next days, Jerry. It’s a pretty long list and I need to look at it in greater detail.

Good luck with your book.

Christopher Atkins

Madison, WI

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Outside of the obvious, What’s Opera Doc, Baby Bottleneck, etc…

I love Baseball Bugs, Early to Bet, Daffy Doodles.

And WIDELY over looked Nasty Quacks, which has one of the funniest, least utilized versions of Daffy: An obnoxious bachelor. I never understood how an entire series of these never got made.

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Rabbit Fire
Duck Amuck
Rabbit Seasoning
What’s Opera Doc
One Froggy Evening
Early to Bet
Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century
Feed the Kitty
Duck! Rabbit! Duck!
Claws for Alarm
A Tale of Two Kitties
The Honey-Mousers

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1. A Pest in the House
2. A Gruesome Twosome
3. Louvre come back to me!
4. Russian Rhapsody
5. Feed the Kitty
6. Porky Pig’s Feat
7. Buckaroo Bugs
8. The Aristo-cat
9. The Bashful Buzzard
10. Swallow the leader
11. Bear Feat
12. Dog Gone South
13. One Froggy Evening
14. Duck Amuck
15. Robin Hood Daffy

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Ok, I’m forgetting a lot of important ones and a few great characters (sorry, Wile E. Coyote, I love you but I find formulaic plots a little boring in cartoons). I also admit I didn’t pay so much attention to the order after the first 25 or so, but here it’s anyway. It was exciting to do it, though a more thoughtful list would have taken me all the day.

1-The Great Piggy Bank Robbery
2- The Big Snooze
3- Baby Bottleneck
4-Book Revue
5-Porky In Wackyland
6-A Tale of Two Kitties
7-A Gruesome Twosome
8-Hair-Raising Hare
9- Plane Daffy
10-The Scarlet Pumpernickel
11-Kitty Kornered
12-The Heckling Hare
13-A Wild Hare
14-A Corny Concerto
15-Coal Black and The Seven Dwarfs
16-Horton Hatched The Egg
17-Duck Amuck
18-Duck Dodgers in the 24 ½ Century
19-Falling Hare
20-What’s Opera Doc?
21-Eigth Ball Bunny
22-Slick Hare
23-One Froggy Evening
24-The Old Gray Hare
25-Porky’s Party
26-Nasty Quacks
27-A Hare Grows in Manhattan
28-Hare Trigger
29-Bird Anonymous
30-Claws For Alarms
31-Tortoise Wins By A Hare
34-Cats Aweigh
35-Bacall to Arms
36-Russian Rhapsody
37-Draftee Daffy
38-The Henpecked Duck
39-A Coy Decoy
40-I Love To Singa
41-Rabbit Of Seville
42-Naughty Neighbours
43-Bedeviled Bunny
44-Baseball Bugs
45-Bugs’ Bonnets
46-Three Little Bops
47-The Stupid Cupid
48-Crowing Pains
49-For Scent-imental Reasons
50-Beanstalk Bunny

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Let me just throw out one cartoon that I think gets overlooked because there are no “star” characters… Chuck Jones’ Go Fly a Kit (1957).

Michael Maltese’s story is quite creative and very charming. A flying cat? What a unique character! Plus, I like the sound his tail makes as he putters about the sky.

I think this short deserves a spot somewhere in the top 100, Jerry. It’s one of Chuck Jones’ unheralded greats.

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What’s Opera, Doc?
Rabbit of Serville
One Froggy Evening
Gee Whiz-z-z-z-z-z
Duck Dogers in the 24 1/2th Century
Hair-Raising Hare
The Great Piggy Bank Robbery
Operation: Rabbit
Feed the Kitty
The Dover Boys
Baby Bottleneck
Little Red Riding Rabbit
Wackiki Rabbit
Odor-Able Kitty
Haredevil Hare
Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid
You Ought to Be in Pictures
Pigs in a Polka
Book Revue
Scaredy Cat
Rabbit Hood
Bugs Bunny Rides Again
High Diving Hare
The Scarlet Pumpernickel
Rabbit Fire
Rabbit Seasoning
Duck! Rabbit! Duck!
Duck Amuck
The Daffy Doc
Russian Rhapsody
Much Ado About Nutting
Bully for Bugs
The Aristo-Cat
A Corny Concerto
Tortoise Wins by a Hare
A Tale of Two Kitties
Stage Door Cartoon
Tweety Pie
Baseball Bugs
Daffy Doodles
Rhapsody Rabbit
Broom Stick Bunny
Bugs Bunny & The Three Bears
Hare Tonic
Hare Conditioned
Long-Haired Hare
The Hypo-Chondri-Cat
Two’s A Crowd
Horton Hatches the Egg
I Love to Singa
Beep Beep
From A to Z-Z-Z
The Big Snooze
Wabbit Twouble
Porky in Wackyland
The Pest That Came to Dinner
Porky Pig’s Feat
A Wild Hare
Cinderella Meets Fella
Porky’s Duck Hunt
Bowery Bugs
Ali Baba Bunny
Daffy Duck in Hollywood
Bewitched Bunny
Drip-Along Daffy
Mutiny on the Bunny
The Henpecked Duck
Three Little Bops
8 Ball Bunny
Cheese Chasers
Stop! Look! Hasten!
Ready..Set..Zoom!
Walky Talky Hawky
The Foghorn Leghorn
Hurdy-Gurdy Hare
Kitty Kornered
Slick Hare
Robin Hood Daffy
Hare-Way to the Stars
Super-Rabbit
Mississippi Hare
Draftee Daffy
Porky & Daffy
For Scent-imental Reasons
Homeless Hare
The Ducksters
Baton Bunny
The Bashful Buzzard
Bad Ol’ Putty Tat
A Bear for Punishment
Fresh Hare
A Pest in the House
The Ducksters
Kiss Me Cat
Claws for Alarm
The Stupor Salesman
Porky’s Badtime Story
The Hasty Hare
The Unruly Hare
Beanstork Bunny

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I’m going to confine my listing to just 10. I will also offer an explanation of the reason for each of my choices.

1. The Rabbit of Seville (Chuck Jones, 1951): This for me is THE perfect Warner Bros. cartoon. Everything works well here: the animation, the gags and the razor-sharp timing of the action to Rossini’s score. Carl Stalling’s contributions to this cartoon cannot be overlooked and his interpolation of Mendelssohn’s “Wedding March” at the end of the cartoon is particularly apt.

2. What’s Opera Doc? (Chuck Jones, 1957): Why this was never even considered for an Oscar-nomination is beyond me… The visuals are stunning (I’m fortunate to have seen 35mm screenings on the big screen) and the singing by Mel Blanc and Arthur Q. Bryan remains in the memory long after the final iris-out.

3. Coal Black an’ de Sebben Dwarfs (Robert Clampett, 1943): Despite the controversey it has spawned over the decades, this cartoon is nothing short of miraculous. Warren Foster’s dialogue-in-verse is droll and idiomatic; Rod Scribner’s animation is a tour-de-force and that hot jazz trumpet solo as the Prince tries to awaken “So White” has got to be one of the finest performances to ever come from the Warner Bros. Studio Orchestra.

4. Porky Pig’s Feat (Frank Tashlin, 1943): This is my all-time favorite Frank Tashlin cartoon. I particularly like the cinematic conventions that are used throughout: The panning shot to Porky’s grimace as the Hotel Manager slaps the black right off of Daffy’s face; the reflection of said Manager in the irises of Porky and Daffy as he careens down a spiral staircase… I could go on! Porky and Daffy’s personalities and their chemistry as a team are well-defined here. The cameo appearance of Bugs Bunny in the closing gag is a deft touch.

5. Three Little Bops (Friz Freleng, 1957): Stan Freberg finally gets a chance to shine here, and he delivers Warren Foster’s verse with great gusto. Shorty Rogers does an outstanding job as well. With great animation and layouts to boot, this has to be one of the finest of Freleng’s music-based cartoons.

6. A Wild Hare (Fred “Tex” Avery, 1940): Aside from the fact that it codified the physical appearance and mannerisms of Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd, this is also a FUNNY cartoon. Bugs is a scream as he nonchalantly asks Elmer, “Whadd’ya mean, ‘Wabbit’?” The production values in this cartoon are also very high. The layout and backgrounds are superb, as is the attention to detail (the characters cast their own shadows on the ground, in the finest Disney manner).

7. Pigs in a Polka (Friz Freleng, 1943): This is another one of Freleng’s finest cartoons; he marries the action to Brahms’s “Hungarian Dances” flawlessly. The “Histerine” mouthwash gag is one of my all-time favorites!

8. Thugs with Dirty Mugs (Fred “Tex” Avery, 1939): This, I think, is one of Avery’s finest WB cartoons because he so deftly parodies the gangster-film conventions that were codified by Warner Bros. and First National during the early 1930’s. The most memorable scene, I think, is when “Killer” and his gang are robbing the wall safe and accidentally turn on a radio dial. The layout here is most impressive and exemplifies the amount of attention that Avery paid to the live-action films that he spoofs.

9. What’s Up Doc? (Robert McKimson, 1950): This is one of McKimson’s greatest cartoons, not least for the memorable song-and-dance numbers. Mckimson, I think, has been seriously underrated as a cartoon director. He made many fine cartoons for Warner Bros. (far too many to mention here). I would even go so far as to say I think that, had he been given the opportunity, he would also have made a fine live-action director (as Tashlin eventually became).

10. Dripalong Daffy (Chuck Jones, 1951): This might seem like an odd choice for a top-ten listing, but I stand by my choice. The gags and verbal repartee by Daffy and Porky are sublime and the scene of the final shootout actually generates real tension. This is a hilarious send-up of the entire Hollywood Western genre.

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>>And WIDELY over looked Nasty Quacks, which has one of the funniest, least utilized versions of Daffy: An obnoxious bachelor. I never understood how an entire series of these never got made.>>

I agree. I did include this one in my list before I even read your comment. ;)

I love Frank Tashlin’s cartoons, I need to watch more of them. But at least one of his cartoons should be in a list of this kind.

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Duck Amuck
Feed The Kitty
One Froggy Evening
Homeless Hare
Rabbit Seasoning
Long-Haired Hare
Early To Bet
Chow Hound
Hillbilly Hare
Bowery Bugs
Steal Wool
Fast and Furry-ous
A Bear For Punishment
Operation: Rabbit
8-Ball Bunny
Rabbit of Seville
Bully For Bugs
No Barking
Rabbit Hood
From A to Z-Z-Z-Z

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1- rabbit of seville
2-? – all the other WB toons in 50 GREATEST CARTOONS (out of print???)
then… in no particular order…
Draftee Daffy
Falling Hare
Tale of two kitties
For Scent-imental reasons
rhapsody rabbit
hair-raising hare
now hear this
porky’s duck hunt
daffy the commando
three little bops
the one where Wile E Coyote explains to kids why he chases the Roadrunner

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ok, it’s true that cartoons like the ones with Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner are not the best quoted here, since the reason is that the plot is-basically- always the same (the concept of chasing the pray). So I won’t be surprise to find none of them or at least one, despite we must admit that it’s one of the most beloved cartoon duo and the cartoon’s philosophy has become one of the trademarks of the Looney Tunes;

I don’t have a precise list, Jerry, but I’d like to suggest you to insert the 1952’s cartoon Operation: Rabbit for 4 simple reasons:

- it’s the very first time that Bugs Bunny and the Coyote feature togheter in a cartoon, so there’s a fresh, unique and spontaneous interchange between them; this sense of novelty in the 1952’s cartoon is decrease in the other (and few) cartoons in which Jones tried to put again togheter this couple for emulate the success of their first meeting withoust satisfising results

- The terrific work of Mel Blanc impersonating the charachter of Wile E. Coyote from the first and well-known cue “Allow me to introduce myself…” until the 07.19 minutes of the end he developed an excellent Climax from a calm and stable situation untill to distress the relaxing and dozy green-skied landscape of the desert with an obsession. Later this performance will consacrate the charachter of Wile E. Coyote

- it was one of the “old style” cartoons produced by the team of Jones/Maltese

- the magnificent layouts of Robert Gribboek

Hope my arguments will be enough for your final choice! Thank you very much for reading!

Silvia L.

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What’s Opera, Doc?
Rabbit of Seville
Duck Amuck
Duck Dodgers of the 24 1/2 Century
Drip Along Daffy
Book Revue
The Great Piggybank Robbery
The Scarlett Pumpernickel
Long Haired Hare
Tweetie Pie
I Love to Singa
The Old Grey Hare
Speedy Gonzales
Gee Whiz-z-z-z
From A to Z-z-z-z
For Scent-imental Reasons
The Foghorn Leghorn
Hillbilly Hare
Bully For Bugs
Porky in Wackyland

That barely scratches the surface for me. It would be easier for me to make a list of Looney Tunes I DON’T like. I guess I’ll stop there. Good luck with your book, Jerry.

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It was difficult to limit these to 50, but here are many of my favs. Jerry, you’ve got your hands full collating all these.

1 Duck Amuck
2 One Froggy Evening
3 Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2 Century
4 Coal Black and De Sebben Dwarfs
5 Rabbit of Seville
6 Great Piggy Bank Robbery
7 The Dover Boys
8 From A to Z-z-z-z
9 A Wild Hare
10 Russian Rhapsody
11 Kitty Kornered
12 Porky Pig’s Feat
13 Little Red Riding Rabbit
14 High Note
15 Porky’s Party
16 The Daffy Doc
17 Baby Bottleneck
18 Long-Haired Hare
19 Bear For Punishment
20 Three Little Bops
21 Porky In Wackyland
22 Hillbilly Hare
23 Bully for Bugs
24 A-Lad-In His Lamp
25 Wagon Heels
26 The Aristo-Cat
27 Corny Concerto
28 Wabbit Twouble
29 Pigs In a Polka
30 Draftee Daffy
31 A Gruesome Twosome
32 Tin Pan Alley Cats
33 Broom-Stick Bunny
34 Claws for Alarm
35 Falling Hare
36 What’s Opera Doc?
37 Book Revue
38 Hair-Raising Hare
39 High Diving Hare
40 Jumpin’ Jupiter
41 Mouse Wreckers
42 Tortoise Beats Hare
43 An Itch In Time
44 Inki And The Minah Bird
45 Rhapsody in Rivets
46 Scrap Happy Daffy
47 Porky’s Romance
48 The Old Grey Hare
49 Tweety Pie
50 Walky Talky Hawky

How about the best Disney shorts after this?

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Jerry, This isn’t the answer you’re looking for, but my vote is to re-print “The 50 Greatest Cartoons”. It’s a great book that is overwhelmingly WB -oriented already. I’m willing to bet that this new concept will retread most of the same ground. With the incredible Looney Tunes DVD’s and all the bonus material to go with them, there are few stones unturned in WB history. Your earlier book was great in that it featured a few exemplary LT cartoons and used those to expose fans to other great underrated shorts like The Big Snit and The Cat Came Back.

Here’s my top 5:

1. Reprint “The 50 Greatest Cartoons”

2. Update “The 50 Greatest Cartoons” so that Pixar shorts and Independent shorts not covered in the previous book can be eligible.

3. Do a book on the best moments or sequences in animation.

4. Do a book about John Hubley

5. Do a book that centers on certain cliches or re-used gags in Animation and give a history of each, e.g. discuss the cartoon “take” and show how it originated and was pushed by Clampett and Tex Avery. Maybe a chapter on inanimate things coming to life, or who was the first to drop an anvil, etc.

You have such remarkable skill, I’m sure you could take something really off-the-wall and make it work.

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1. Duck Amuck
2. One Froggy Evening
3. Rabbit Fire
4. Rabbit Seasoning
5. Duck! Rabbit! Duck!
6. The Great Piggy Bank Robbery
7. Hare Trigger
8. Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2th Century
9. Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid
10. Tortoise Wins By a Hare
11. Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs
12. A Tale of Two Kitties
13. Wabbit Twouble
14. Daffy Duck in Hollywood
15. The Old Grey Hare
16. Kitty Kornered
17. Falling Hare
18. Buckaroo Bugs
19. The Bashful Buzzard
20. Baby Bottleneck
21. What’s Opera, Doc?
22. Russian Rhapsody
23. Porky’s Duck Hunt
24. Back Alley Op-Roar
25. The Aristo-Cat
26. Haredevil Hare
27. Hair-Raising Hare
28. Feed the Kitty
29. Robin Hood Daffy
30. A Wild Hare
31. The Dover Boys
32. Draftee Daffy
33. Walky Talky Hawky
34. Birds Anonymous
35. The Three Little Bops
36. The Hypo-Chondri-Cat
37. Bully For Bugs
38. Porky in Wackyland

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What the hey, I’ll get in on this. Though I am sure a lot of my picks will be on other’s lists…I’m fairly certain I have a few that will raise eyebrows. I chose’em for various reasons regarding either art direction/design or character/story originality. (Or lack thereof.) :-)

1. What’s Opera, Doc?
2. Duck Amuck
3. The Great Piggy Bank Robbery
4. Coal Black & De Sebben Dwarfs
5. One Froggy Evening
6. Rabbit Fire
7. Kitty Kornered
8. Bully for Bugs
9. Rabbit of Seville
10. High Diving Hare
11. Paging Miss Glory
12. Daffy Duck in Hollywood
13. Book Revue
14. Little Red Riding Rabbit
15. Porky in Wackyland
16. Hair-Raising Hare
17. Three Little Bops
18. For Scent-imental Reasons
19. I Love To Singa
20. Long Haired Hare
21. Thugs With Dirty Mugs
22. Pigs In A Polka
23. Little Red Walking Hood
24. Wabbit Twouble
25. Fast and Furry-ous
26. Bowery Bugs
27. The Big Snooze
28. Knighty Knight Bugs
29. A Wild Hare
30. Southern Fried Rabbit
31. Baton Bunny
32. Yankee Doodle Daffy
33. Super Rabbit
34. The Old Grey Hare
35. The Hole Idea
36. Leghorn Swoggled
37. Quentin Quail
38. The Scarlet Pumpernickel
39. Shuffle Off To Buffalo
40. Wackiki Wabbit
41. Transylvania 6-5000
42. Tortoise Wins By A Hare
43. Tortoise Beats Hare
44. Toy Trouble
45. Toy Town Hall
46. A Witch’s Tangled Hare
47. Have You Got Any Castles
48. Detouring America
49. Billboard Frolics
50. Senorella And The Glass Huarache

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I’m not much for Looney Tune titles, so I’ll just have to post descriptions:

1. My absolute fave is the one that tells about Bug’s rise to stardom. It was a clever parody of all the star bios popular at the time, like the Jolson Story, the Eddie Cantor Story, etc. Brilliant.

2. The Daffy Duck Robin Hood short.

3. Just about any Pepe Le Pew short. I love that guy.

4. The two shorts where Sylvester is Porky’s cat and keeps trying to warn him of the weird stuff that’s happening around them and Porky keeps scolding him and/or ignoring him. Those are both hilarious. And it’s cool to see Sylvester doing something besides chasing that bird around. Porky’s great in them too. A very underrated character IMO.

5. ANY ep with Martin the Martian. That voice KILLS me.

6. The one with Bugs trying to get the penguin back to the Arctic. I think that was the first short that established Bugs as more than just a smart-alec. He became kind of a nice guy, and that expanded his appeal (and differentiated him from lesser lights such as Woody Woodpecker).

7. And yes, What’s Opera Doc?

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I’m voting for the obvious.
Duck Amuck
What’s Opera Doc!

I also like the one with the big red monster and Bugs, tho I forget what its called. I’m sure someone’s listed it.

Oh and the one where the guys are trapped on a deserted Island. I liked that one.

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Thank you Larry Levine!! It took ten posts littered with titles before you mentioned “Wakiki Wabbit”.

If I had time to make a list that would be at the top. Its a perfect cartoon.

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1. Duck Amuck
2. Robin Hood Daffy
3. Duck Dodgers
4. One Froggy Evening
5. No Barking
6. Much Ado about Nutting
7. The Scarlett Pumpernickel
8. Assault and Peppered
9. Mexicali Schmoes
10. Bear for Punishment
11. Golden Yeggs
12. Rabbit of Seville
13. Birds Anonymous
14. Feed the Kitty
15. Knighty knight bugs
16. Dog Gone South
17. Transylvania 6-5000
18. Walky Talky Hawky
19. The Unmentionables
20. Tortilla Flaps
21. Herr Meets Hare
22. The Great Piggy Bank Robbery
23. The Eager Beaver
24. Drip-Along Daffy
25. Hair-Raising Hare
26. Apes Of Wrath
27. Nelly’s Folly
28. Three Little Bops
29. Satan’s Waitin’
30. Road To Andalay
31. Sahara Hare
32. Bonanza Bunny
33. From A To Z-z-z-z-z

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Real short list of one’s I could watch over and over.

1. Kitty Kornered,
2. Tortoise vs. Hare.
3. Piggy Bank Robbery.
4. A Tale of Two Kitties.
5. Book Revue.

Super-honorable Mention to Robin Hood Daffy.

Yoicks and away!

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1. Duck Amuck
2. One Froggy Evening
3. What’s Opera, Doc?
4. Draftee Daffy
5. Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2 Century!
6. The Great Piggy Bank Robbery
7. Robin Hood Daffy
8. Falling Hare
9. Beep, Beep
10. The Scarlet Pumpernickle

Honorable Mention: Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs

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Lots of good, solid choices so far. Here are my 2 cent’s worth:

1) What’s Opera, Doc?
2) Drip-Along-Daffy
3) The Scarlett Pumpernickel
4) Robin Hood Daffy
5) Bear For Punishment
6) Knighty Knight Bugs
7) Rabbit of Seville
8) Porky in Wackyland
9) One Froggy Evening
10) Feed the Kitty

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I would say that “Wackiki Wabbit” and “Duck! Rabbit, Duck!” are two of the best ever, and are representative of the whole cannon of films. As much as I like them, other shorts such as “Horton Hatches The Egg” and even “What’s Opera, Doc” should not be included. They are pretty much one off cartoons, that have little or nothing to do with the others, with Horton using Seuss characters and “What’s Opera, Doc” being all musical and strange settings.

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My top 10:

1. Duck Amuck
2. Rabbit Seasoning
3. What’s Opera, Doc?
4. Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2 Century
5. Falling Hare
6. One Froggy Evening
7. Little Boy Boo
8. Rabbit Fire
9. I Love to Singa
10. Haredevil Hare

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It’s fun to see the top tens, some are Clampett oriented, other are Jones oriented… I can’t do a top. I can’t decide which is my favorite…

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01. Falling Hare
02. Draftee Daffy
03. Super Rabbit
04. The Dover Boys
05. Coal Black and The Seven Dwarfs
06. Russian Rhapsody
05. The Great Piggy Bank Robbery
06. Porky In Wackyland
07. A Tale of Two Kitties
08. A Gruesome Twosome
09. Plane Daffy
10. A Corny Concerto
11. Book Revue
12. Tortoise Wins By A Hare

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1. Porky Pig’s Feat
2. The Hep Cat
3. Draftee Daffy
4. The Heckling Hare
5. The Great Piggy Bank Robbery
6. The Stupor Salesman
7. Strife with Father
8. A Pest in the House
9. Horton Hatches the Egg
10. The Foghorn Leghorn

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Here are my nominees:

1. The Great Piggy Bank Robbery
2. A Gruesome Twosome
3. Porky Pig’s Feat
4. Drip-Along Daffy
5. Cheese Chasers
6. The Scarlet Pumpernickel
7. Baby Bottleneck
8. Feed the Kitty
9. Mexican Joyride
10. Rebel Rabbit
11. Red Riding Rabbit
12. Plane Daffy
13. A Bear for Punishment
14. Buckaroo Bugs
15. Walky Talky Hawky
16. Dough Ray Me-Oww
17. Chow Hound
18. Porky and Daffy
19. Birds Anonymous
20. I Got Plenty of Mutton

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Well, to get started:

1 Duck Amuck
2 Book Revue
3 Hillbilly Hare
4 Bewitched Bunny
5 Baby Bottleneck
6 Rabbit of Seville
7 Hare-Raising Hare
8 What’s Opera Doc
9 Goldimouse and the Three Cats
10 A Gruesome Twosome

I will make a second post soon…

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Here’s my fifteen top:

1. One Froggy Evening
2. What’s Opera, Doc?
3. Rabbit of Seville
4. Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2th Century
5. Deduce, You Say?
6. Broom-Stick Bunny
7. Feed the Kitty
8. Robin Hood Daffy
9. Three Little Bops
10. Bully For Bugs
11. Duck Amuck
12. Long Haired Hare
13. Bear for Punishment
14. Fast and Furry-ous
15. Herr Meets Hare

Pretty hard to choose. :)

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Hmmmm….that’s like asking who’s the prettiest girl on the nudist beach? ‘

Imposs!! But I’ll bite!:

“Rebel Rabbit”
“Long-Haired Hare”
“One Froggy Evening”
“Shanty Where Santy Claus Lives”
“Smile, Darn Ya, Smile!”
“Rabbit of Seville”
“Hot-Cross Bunny”
“No Barking”
“Fast & Furry-ous”
“Bedtime for Sniffles”

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Duck Amuck is a personal favorite of mine.

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1. One Froggy Evening
2. Duck Amuck
3. Porky in Wackyland
4. Rabbit Seasoning
5. Birds Anonymous
6. A Wild Hare
7. Bosko The Talk-Ink Kid
8. The Abominable Snow Rabbit
9. Mississippi Hare
10. Barbary Coast Bunny

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Oh, how I love “best of” lists…

1. One Froggy Evening
2. What’s Opera, Doc
3. Duck Amuck
4. Deduce, You Say (am I really the only one who LOVES this one?)
5. Porky In Wackyland

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Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarves
What’s Opera Doc?
Tortoise Wins by a Hare
The Great Piggybank Robbery
Book Revue
Falling Hare
The Rabbit of Seville
Kitty Kornered
Duck Amok
Porky in Wackyland

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I can’t believe you’re making me choose…

1. What’s Opera Doc? FOR SURE

2. Baseball Bugs

3. Rabbit of Seville

4. Robin Hood Daffy

5. Duck Amuck

6. Duck Dodgers

7. Bully for Bugs

8. Feed the Kitty

9. Jumpin Jupiter

10. Rabbit Fire

11. Three Little Bops

12. Long Haired Hare

13. Scarlet Pumpernickel

14. Scrap Happy Daffy

15. Super Rabbit

I’m sitting here making this list and I suddenly realize I could be here all day, listing WAY more than 100 cartoons that I LOVE so much. All the ones I chose sound so obvious and they’re what everyone seems to choose, but it’s because they are the BEST

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No time to create a list right now, but I have to throw out a title I have not seen here, AT ALL?

Rocket Bye Baby – the human/martian baby mix up. One of my favs.

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I was just thinking of this Jerry, what a coincidence.

1.Kitty Kornered
2.Broom-Stick Bunny
3.Russian Rhapsody
4.Claws for Alarm
5.Transylvania 6500
6.Rabbits Kin
7.Bugsy and Mugsy
8.The Great Piggy Bank Robbery
9.Dough-Ray-Meow
10.Robin Hood Daffy
11.Dover Boys
12.Daffy Duck Slept Here
13.Mouse and Garden
14.Hyde and Hair
15.Ballot Box Bunny
16.Knighty-Knight Bugs
17.Hair Trimmed
18.14 Carrot Rabbit
19.Barbary Coast Bunny
20.Mississippi Hare
21.Southern Fried Rabbit

21! Hardy Har-Har, Hardy Har-Har

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Here’s an imperfect top 30
Duck Amuck
What’s opera doc
Great piggy Bank Robbery
One Froggy Evening
Duck Dodgers in the 24th1/2 century
Kitty Kornered
Baby Bottle-Neck
Hair-Raising Hare
Feed the Kitty
Falling Hare
A Hare Grows in Manhattan
You Ought to be in Pictures (why is this one only on one other list!?)
Porky Pig’s Feet
Bully for Bugs
Coal Black and the Sebben Dwarves
Porky in Wackyland
The Dover Boys
Claws for Alarm
Case of the Missing Hare
Rocket-Bye Baby
Little Red Rabbit Hood
Old Gray Hare
Book Revue
Pest in the House
The Heckling Hare
Gorilla my Dreams
Baseball Bugs
I love to Singa (I do not need to defend this selection)
Miss Glory
Fast and Furry-ous

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I know very chuck Jones Heavy, but you could do a best of book on just his works alone

1) Rabbit of seville
2) Duck amuck
3)What’s opera Doc
4)Drip along Daffy
5) 3 little Bops
6) Bully for Bugs
7)The Abominable Snow Rabbit
8) Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2th Century
9) One Froggy evening
10) The High note

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1 Duck! Rabbit!, Duck!
2 Rabbit of Seville
3 Feed the Kitty
4 Duck Amuck
5 Robin hood daffy
6 Bugs Bonnets
7 Pizzicato Pussycat
8 Porky’s Preview
9 Pigs in a Polka
10 Horton hatches the egg
11 Hollywood steps out
12 Chow Hound
13 Dog Gone south
14 Hillbilly Bunny
15 Odor of the day
16 Tabasco Road
17 Satan’s Waitin’
18 the Turn tale wolf
19 An itch in time
20 She was an acrobat’s Daugther

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This is like comparing apples and oranges.Since most of the top ones are by Bob Clampett or Chuck Jones…… why not just do books devoted to them?A book of the 50 “worst” cartoons might be a good idea too.

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Here’s my top 25:

1. Rabbit Of Seville
2. Dover Boys
3. Duck Dodgers
4. Rabbit Seasoning
5. A Bear for Punishment
6. Bully for Bugs
7. Case of the Stuttering Pig
8. Crowing Pains
9. Swooner Crooner
10. Russian Rhapsody
11. A Tale of Two Kitties
12. Tortoise Wins by a Hare
13. One Froggy Evening
14. Baby Bottleneck
15. Gruesome Twosome
16. Scarlet Pumpernickel
17. Bunny Hugged
18. Great Piggy Bank Robbery
19. My Bunny Lies Over the Sea
20. Kitty Kornered
21. Henpecked Duck
22. Duck! Rabbit! Duck!
23. What’s Opera Doc?
24. Catch as Cats Can
25. Long Haired Hare

BTW, great site, been visiting it since the beginning.

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Amazingly, I haven’t seen A TALE OF TWO MICE, INKI AT THE CIRCUS, or FELINE FRAME-UP show up here yet, three undiscovered gems that would definitely be on my ‘desert island picks’.

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One Froggy Evening

Duck Amuck

Robin Hood Daffy

Whats Opera Doc?

Hare-Raising Hare

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1.Duck Amuck
2.One Froggy Evening
3.What’s Opera, Doc?
4.Feed The Kitty
5.Rabbit Fire
6.Duck Dodgers In The 24 and a Half Century
7.Super Rabbit
8.Rabbit Seasoning
9.Easter Yeggs
10.Duck! Rabbit! Duck!

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Hard… From what haven’t been mentioned: “Punch Trunk” and “Gold Diggers of ‘35″

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I was lucky enough to stumble across a copy of 50 Greatest Cartoon at a car boot sale sometime last year and love the book to pieces. Can we hope for a cover as brilliant as the one that book had? As for my list of Looney Tunes shorts, I’ll get back to you on that, so very hard to put them in any kind of order. =P

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Hi Jerry–
I can’t wait for your new book!

Here’s my list:

1. Porky Pig’s Feat (1943/Tashlin)
2. Baby Bottleneck (1944/Clampett)
3. Bye Bye Bluebeard (1946/Davis)
4. Thugs with Dirty Mugs (1939/Avery)
5. Porky in Wackyland (1938/Clampett)
6. Feed the Kitty (1951/Jones)
7. Bully for Bugs (1951/Jones)
8. Bugs and Thugs (1954/Freleng)
9. Rabbit Fire (1951/Jones)
10. The Wearing of the Grin (1950/Jones)
11. Hare Trigger (1944/Freleng)
12. Bugs Bunny Catches the Boyd (1942/Clampett)
13. Coal black and de Sebben Dwarfs (1944/Clampett)
14. Dough Ray Meow! (1948/Davis)
15. Crowing Pains (1946/McKimson)
16. The Big Snooze (1946/Clampett)
17. Hare Ribbin’ (1944/Clampett)
18. Porky’s Preview (1941/Avery)
19. Eatin’ off the Cuff (1942/Clampett)
20. Scrap Happy Daffy (1943/Tashlin)
21. A Bone for a Bone (1951/Freleng)
22. 8 Ball Bunny (1950/Jones)
23. Little Boy Boo (1954/Mckimson)
24. Robinson Crusoe Jr. (1942/McCabe
25. We the Animals Squeak (1941/Clampett)
26. Water, Water Every Hare (1952/Jones)
27. Cracked Quack (1952/Freleng)
28. Tin Pan Alley Cats (1944/Clampett)
29. Barber of Seville (1950/Jones)
30. Norman Normal (1968/Lovy)

Whew, that concludes my top 30 Looney Tunes.
I want to thank you for this opportunity, Jerry.

-Michael Rosenberg

P.S. I would love to have my name acknowledged in the book. Thanks!

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Oh, I’ll be quick:

3) “A Wild Hare” – The first official Bugs cartoon and still the definitive one.
2) “What’s Opera Doc?” – The “Stairway to Heaven” of cartoons <:D
1) “Duck Amuck” – With “Opera”, easily Chuck Jones’ crowning moment of awesome.

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Oh, what the heck… I’ll add another 15 to my first listing; as I’ve had time to mull over some others I’d also like to see included. I’m sure most of these have already been mentioned. I’m also aware that this list is more “Jones-centric”; but, again, I stand by my choices:

11. Feed the Kitty (Jones, 1952): That ANY animated cartoon can elicit such contrasting emotions from an audience (anytime I’ve ever seen this run in movie houses, most people begin crying when Marc Anthony does) is a tribute in and of itself to its creator.

12. Operation: Rabbit (Jones, 1952): I chose this for the very same reasons previously stated above.

13. The Dover Boys (Jones, 1942): Never mind the fact that Jones and John McGrew were producing UPA-style cartoons before that studio was even created; this is one hilarious short. Mel Blanc’s over-the-top performance as “Dan Backslide” has yet to be equalled, IMHO. This is also, I think, one of Tedd Pierce’s best cartoons.

14. You Ought To Be In Pictures (Freleng, 1940): A very clever and funny cartoon; with a wonderful blend of animation and live-action. Michael Maltese is great as the Studio Cop, but Leon Schlesinger also turns in a fairly decent performance.

15. Cross-Country Detours (Avery, 1940): The funniest and most successful, IMHO, of the Avery “travelogue” parodies. My favorite gag? The “frog croaking”, of course!

16. The Henpecked Duck (Clampett, 1941): One of my favorite Daffy Duck vehicles (Daffy as the put-upon spouse wasn’t done nearly enough, I think); watching his attempts to hide his indiscretions from his wife never fails to crack me up! Great production values and flashback sequences.

17. Fast and Furryous (Jones, 1949): I’ll go ahead and throw a “Road-Runner” cartoon into the mix; since at this posting it doesn’t look like many have been mentioned. This was, of course, the first one in the series and I feel that Jones and Co. got it right from the very start.

18. Duck Dodgers in the 24-1/2 Century (Jones, 1953): Another hilarious send-up of a well-established film genre. Mike Maltese’s dialogue and visual gags are priceless and Maurice Noble’s layouts could give Salvadore Dali a run for his money.

19. Bully for Bugs (Jones, 1953) Bullfight cartoons aren’t funny?! Shame on you, Eddie Seltzer!

20. Riff Raffy Daffy (Art Davis, 1948): This is one of my favorite cartoons that team Daffy and Porky together and one of the best from the short-lived Davis unit; with great writing by Bill Scott and Lloyd Turner (it’s a shame that they eventually got split up). This cartoon reinforces my opinion that a lot of the Warner Bros. cartoons are comparable to the best of the live-action comedy shorts that were produced in Hollywood during the 1930’s and 40’s.

21. Bad Ol’ Putty Tat (Freleng, 1949): Freleng’s comedic style has been likened by one critic to that of Ernest Lubitsch; in that part of the humor derives more from what he DOESN’T show the audience. A case in point is the very opening of this cartoon; in which Sylvester can be seen lying prostrate on the ground at the bottom of Tweety’s barbed-wire-reinforced birdhouse. He is covered in scrapes and bruises and tapping his fingers in an annoyed fashion. This scene speaks volumes about what has just happened with the utmost economy of action.

22. Duck! Rabbit! Duck! (Jones, 1953): The best, I think, of the three Bugs-Daffy-Elmer hunting cartoons. Daffy’s histrionics are side-splitting!

23. High-Diving Hare (Freleng, 1949): I was torn at first between this one and “Bugs Bunny Rides Again”; but this one won out for me on the merit of its blackout gags and timing.

24. One Froggy Evening (Jones, 1955): So much has already been said about this great animated parable that anything I add would be redundant.

25. Bowery Bugs (Davis, 1949) This was Davis’s only Bugs Bunny cartoon (and it’s a pity he never got to do more). Bugs is simply great, in his various disguises, as he proceeds to put Brody through the wringer!

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Well, here’s my top 50 in random order…..

1) Often an Orphan
2) The Dover Boys
3) Wagon Heels
4) A Wild Hare
5) Scaredy Cat
6) Baseball Bugs
7) Bugs and Thugs
8) Duck Amuck
9) Wabbit Twouble
10) The Heckling Hare
11) Porky’s Duck Hunt
12) The Blow Out
13) Porky Pig’s Feat
14) Brother Brat
15) Plane Daffy
16) The Unruly Hare
17) Nasty Quacks
18) The Great Piggy Bank Robbery
19) Porky in Wackyland
20) Rabbit Punch
21) Rebel Rabbit
22) The Hasty Hare
23) His Bitter Half
24) Speedy Gonzales
25) Fast and Furry-ous
26) Zipping Along
27) What’s Brewin’, Bruin?
28) Dough Ray Me-ow
29) Mouse Menace
30) The Stupor Salesman
31) Rabbit Hood
32) Super Rabbit
33) The Scarlet Pumpernickel
34) Daffy Duck and Egghead
35) Horton Hatches the Egg
36) Canned Feud
37) Bugs Bunny Rides Again
38) One Froggy Evening
39) Bugs’ Bonnets
40) Now Hear This
41) Hopalong Casualty
42) Cheese Chasers
43) Thugs With Dirty Mugs
44) Porky’s Romance
45) Porky’s Preview
46) Pizzicato Pussycat
47) Ain’t She Tweet
48) Fair and Worm-er
49) The Eager Beaver
50) Norman Normal

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My top 5:
1- Baby Bottleneck
2- Crowing Pains
3- Falling Hare
4- Dover Boys
5- Rabbit of Seville

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I forgot my complete name is Roberto González. I would love to have my name acknowledged in the book, too. I have a couple of your books and they are very informative and entertaining.

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Gee, I’d never be able to pick so many favorites, most of them would be ones people already said, but amoung my favorites are of course:

1. What’s Opera Doc
2. One Froggy Evening
3. Duck Amuck
4. Porky in Wackyland
5. The Great Piggy Bank Robbery
6. Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs
7. Crowing Pains
8. Horton Hatches the Egg
9. Rabbit Seasoning
10. The Old Grey Hare
11. Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2th Century
12. Hair-Raising Hare
13. Fast and Furry-ous
14. Baby Bottleneck
15. Falling Hare

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1. The Great Piggy Bank Robbery
2. Draftee Daffy
3. What’s Opera, Doc?
4. The Dover Boys At Pimento University
5. Duck Amuck
6. The Foghorn Leghorn
7. Baby Bottleneck
8. Falling Hare
9. The Hep Cat
10. A Bear For Punishment

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Here’s five of my real favourites WB cartoons of all-time:

“A Wild Hare” – Not only it’s the real first Bugs Bunny cartoon ever released but it shows some of the best dialogue and gags moments in cartoon history. It’s a great Tex Avery during his best years at Warner Bros.

“Fast and Furry-ous” – Often considered like a real favourite of mine, i like mostly the speed animation of this cartoon. If it was not made into a cartoon series, it was probably the best one-shot ever released at WB.

“Duck! Rabbit! Duck!” – The most strong Duck season/Rabbit season cartoon ever released into a different season. This make also some of memorable quotes, but unfortunately forgotten by the fanboys/fangirls.

“The Foghorn Leghorn” – Surely one of the best Foghorn cartoons ever released. The animation is gorgeous and stunning and the autumn backgrounds is wonderful and amazingly detailed.

“Long-Haired Hare” – Well know Warner Bros. cartoon with Bugs playing at banjo, it was a saturday morning favourite during 40 years and a personal appreciated cartoon of mine. A instant classic.

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1. Duck Dodgers in the 24th 1/2 century
2. Falling Hare
3. Feather Dusted
4. What’s Opera, Doc?
5. My Green Fedora

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1. Wet Hare
2. From Hare to Heir
3. Stupor Duck
4. Daffy Duck Hunt
5. Shishka Bugs
6. Bonanza Bunny
7. Cat Tails for Two
8. Boston Quackie
9. China Jones
10. Design for Leaving

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1. Duck Amuck
2. What’s Opera, Doc
3. Birds Anonymous
4. Rabbit Fire
5. Daffy Duck & Egghead
6. Horton Hatches the Egg
7. One Froggy Evening
8. Coal Black and De Sebben Dwarves
9. A Tale of Two Kitties
10. Hare Ribbin
11. Dough for the Do-Do
12. Show Biz Bugs
13. Cinderella Meets Fella
14. The Impatient Patient
15. Fast and Furry-ous
16. Operation Rabbit
17. A Wild Hare
18. Rabbit of Seville
19. Puss N’ Booty
20. Scrap Happy Daffy

Real Name: Brandon Pierce

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in no order:

Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs
The Great Piggy Bank Robbery
Porky In Wackyland
Now Hear This!
What’s Opera Doc?
Porky Pig’s Feat
Duck Amuck
Little Red Riding Rabbit
Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2th Century
Hip! Hip! Hurry!
No Barking
Russian Rhapsody
The Old Grey Hare
Porky’s Duck Hunt
The Village Smithy
Porky’s Preview
The Big Snooze
Baby Bottleneck
Book Revue
One Froggy Evening
Duck! Rabbit! Duck!
The Scarlet Pumpernickel
Hare Tonic
Tortoise Wins by a Hare
Clean Pastures
High Diving Hare
You Ought To Be In Pictures
A Cartoonist’s Nightmare
Puss ‘n’ Booty

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1. Duck Amuck
2. Rabbit Seasoning
3. What’s Opera, Doc?
4. Duck Rabbit Duck
5. Rabbit of Seville
6. One Froggy Evening
7. Broom Stick Bunny
8. Rabbit Fire
9. I Love to Singa
10. Coal Black and de Sebben Darwves
11. A Corny Concerto
12. Rhapsody Rabbit
13. This is a Life?
14. Little Red riding Rabbit
15. Easter Yeggs
16. A Lad in his Lamp
17. Water, water every hare
18 Long Haired Hare
19. Rabbit fire
20 Punch Trunk
21. Hobo Bobo
22. Falling Hare

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Top 10:

1. Duck Amuck
2. What’s Opera, Doc?
3. Rabbit of Seville
4. Wabbit Twouble
5, 6, 7. The “rabbit season, duck season” trilogy, in no particular order
8. I Love To Singa
9. Feed the Kitty
10. You Ought To Be In Pictures (I met Friz not long before he died, and he still remembered loads of details about how they put this one together.)

I’d also like to lobby for a couple of cartoons that don’t get mentioned often. Don’t care where they end up; I’d just like to see them get their (over)due:

“Fair and Worm-er”: hands-down the best chase cartoon ever.
“Goopy Geer”: Great black-and-white era cartoon.

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1. Duck Amuck
2. Skyscraper Caper
3. A Wild Hare
4. Fast and Furry-Ous
5. Beep Prepared
6. The Wild Chase
7. Chasers on the Rocks
8. Compressed Hare
9. A Sheep in the Deep
10. Rabbit Stew and Rabbits Too
11. Doggone People
12. Bear Feat
13. Norman Normal
14. A Cartoonists Nightmare
15. Rabbit Fire
16. Sinkin’ in the Bathtub
17. Bosko’s Picture Show
18. Really Scent
19. Wise Quackers
20. Mexican Boarders
21. Gonzales Tamales
22. Bugged by a Bee
23. Strangled Eggs
24. Little Boy Boo
25. Tortose Wins by a Hare
26. Birds Anonymous
27. Design for Leaving
28. Hyde and Go Tweet
29. Trip for Tat
30. Duck Dogers and the 24th and a Half Century
31. You Ought to be in Pictures
32. Porky’s Pooch
33. Quacker Tracker
34. What’s Cookin’, Doc?
35. You Don’t Know What You’re Doin’
36. Egghead Rides Again
37. Eatin’ on the Cuff or The Moth Who Came to Dinner
38. Show Biz Bugs
39. The Million Hare
40. Early to Bet
41. Raw! Raw! Rooster
42. Pop ‘Im Pop
43. Scrap Happy Daffy
44. What’s Up, Doc?
45. A Hound for Punishment
46. Tortilia Flaps
47. Tweety and the Beanstalk
48. Norman Normal
49. Daffy Rents
50. Mother Was a Rooster

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1. The Isle of Pingo Pongo
2. Slightly Daffy
3. Fast Buck Duck
4. Circus Today
5. Wacky Wildlife
6. Picador Porky
7. Saps in Chaps
8. Bugs and Thugs
9. Wabbit Twouble
10. My Bunny lies over the sea
11. Sahara Hare
12. Bugs Bunny nips the nips
13. A Coy Decoy
14. Daffy Duck and Egghead
15. High Diving Hare
16. Horse Hare
17. Porky’s Hare Hunt
18. This is a life?
19. Jack Wabbit and the Beanstalk
20. Hip! Hip! Hurry
21. To Hare is Human
22. Hiawatha’s Rabbit Hunt
23. I Love to Singa
24. The Foxy Duckling
25. The Daffy Duckaroo
26. Rover’s Rivel
27. Dime to Retire
28. Farm Frolics
29. Wet Hare
30. Porky’s Duck Hunt
31. What’s Opera Doc?
32. Thugs with Dirty Mugs
33. Of Fox and Hounds
34. Prest-o Change-o
35. Bird in a Guilty Cage
36. Detouring America
37. Thumb Fun
38. Walky Talky Hawky
39. Book Revue
40. Wacky Blackout
41. Horton Hatches the Egg
42. The Bird came C.O.D
43. A Day at the Zoo
44. Porky the Fireman
45. A Gruesome Twosome
46. An Itch in Time
47. Dangerous Dan Mcfoo
48. The Unruly Hare
49. Porky and Gabby
50. Yankee Doodle Daffy

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Surprised nobody’s really promoting the nice old banned ones.
Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips. It’s got to be in there.
Russian Rhapsody, too.

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Hmm-this is difficult and next to impossible so I will mention 15-all deserving to be in this book but not neccessarilly in the order mentioned-and yet ones I love.

Feed the Kitty
The Rabbit of Seville
Bad Ol’ Putty Tat
Banty Raids
Operation Rabbit
What’s Opera Doc
Book Revue
Much Ado About Nutting
Scaredy Cat
Eating off the Cuff or the Moth who Came to Dinner
The Scarlet Pumpernickel
Early to Bet
It’s Hummertime
Buccaneer Bunny
Bugs Bunny Rides Again

Of course I have tons of favorites so it’s very hard to select cartoons like that.

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Here are 25 of my favorites, FWIW:

The Great Piggy Bank Robbery
Nasty Quacks
Russian Rhapsody
A Wild Hare
Porky Pig’s Feat
Pigs In A Polka
Chow Hound
Kitty Kornered
Book Revue
Puss ‘n’ Booty
The Heckling Hare
Porky’s Preview
Scaredy Cat
Roughly Squeaking
Thugs With Dirty Mugs
Cinderella Meets Fella
Porky In Egypt
Porky In Wackyland
Porky’s Romance
Baby Bottleneck
Dog Gone South
Mississippi Hare
Coal Black And De Sebben Dwarves
Water, Water Every Hare
No Barking

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OK. My list is pretty much made up of things already written.
I only pick a top 5 for the order, as I don’t thin anyone else has put Three Little Bops at the top

1. 3 LITTLE BOPS
2. DUCK AMUCK
3. DUCK! RABBIT! DUCK!
4. DUCK DODGERS IN THE 24half CENTURY
5. ONE FROGGY EVENING

Also I’m a big fan of the WB cartoons that feature no characters (you know what I mean) but are more like documentaries, but I’m not at that level of WB fan to know their names.

-G.

PS: I never realised what a fan I am of Daffy until I looked at this list

PPS: Can’t wait to buy this book.

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…The Top Ten, in order:

1) “What’s Opera, Doc?”

2) “Duck Dodgers in the 24th and a Half Century!”

3) “Coal Black and De Sebben Dwarves!”

4) “Paging Miss Glory”

5) “Horton Hatches The Egg!”

6) “One Froggy Evening”

7) “The Hypochondri-Cat”

8) “Wabbit Seasoning”

9) “Chow Hound”

10) “Porky in Wackyland”

…Honorable mention to the Jack Benny as a Mouse one, “I Love Ta Singa”, and “Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips!”, the latter I’d love to see Jerry have the balls to list anywhere in his top 100!

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My top 40

1. What’s Opera, Doc?
2. Duck Amuck
3. One Froggy Evening
4. The Great Piggy Bank Robbery
5. Porky in Wackyland
6. Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2 Century
7. A Wild Hare
8. Fast and Furry-ous
9. For Scent-Imental Reasons
10. Rabbit Fire
11. Coal Black and De Sebben Dwarfs
12. Tweetie Pie
13. Porky’s Duck Hunt
14. Walky Talky Hawky
15. Feed the Kitty
16. Scrap Happy Daffy
17. Ali Baba Bunny
18. The Big Snooze
19. Robin Hood Daffy
20. From A to Z-z-z-z
21. Three Little Bops
22. Rhapsody Rabbit
23. The Dover Boys
24. Speedy Gonzales
25. Bully for Bugs
26. Scaredy Cat
27. Porky Pig’s Feat
28. Birds Anonymous
29. High Diving Hare
30. Rabbit Seasoning
31. Kitty Kornered
32. Horton Hatches the Egg
33. Russian Rhapsody
34. The Big Snooze
35. A Corny Concerto
36. Plane Daffy
37. Knighty Knight Bugs
38. Falling Hare
39. Gee Whiz-z-z-z
40. Draftee Daffy

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One that never fails to amuse is THE HEP CAT, with a catchy song, great animation, a decidedly “adult” quality to it, and lotsa laughs!

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Here are my Top 20 …

1. What’s Opera, Doc?
2. Duck Amuck
3. Baby Bottleneck
4. Porky in Wackyland
5. Rabbit Fire
6. Rabbit Seasoning
7. Duck! Rabbit! Duck!
8. Buckaroo Bugs
9. Falling Hare
10. Rabbit of Seville
11. Draftee Daffy
12. Feed the Kitty
13. The Great Piggy Bank Robbery
14. Little Red Riding Rabbit
15. You Ought to be in Pictures
16. Rhapsody Rabbit
17. Porky in Egypt
18. Duck Dodgers in the 24 – ½ Century
19. Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur
20. Rhapsody in Rivets

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My list:

1. Duck Amuck
2. Skyscraper Caper
3. Fast and Furry-Ous
4. Beep Prepared
5. The Wild Chase
6. Chasers on the Rocks
7. A Sheep in the Deep
8. Rabbit Stew and rabbits, Too!
9. A Wild Hare
10. Mexican Borders
11. Rabbit Fire
12. Mucho Loco
13. Wise Quackers
14. Aqua Duck
15. Porky Pig’s Feat
16. Sinkin’ in the Bathtub
17. Bosko’s Picture Show
18. Really Scent
19. Little Boy Boo
20. Bugs and Thugs
21. Southern Fried Rabbit
22. Daffy Rents
23. Porky’s Badtime Story
24. Bugged by a Bee
25. Dumb Patrol (with Bugs and Sam)
26. Wild Wife
27. Bear Feat
28. What’s Cookin’, Doc?
29. Gonzales Tamales
30. Trip for Tat
31. Early to Bet
32. Bushy Hare
33. Russian Rhapsody
34. Design for Leaving
35. Feudy Cat
36. You Don’t Know What You’re Doin’
37. Mr. and Mrs. Is the Name
38. Birds Anonymous
39. Now Hear This
40. Strangled Eggs
41. The Dangerous Dan McFoo
42. Hyde and Go Tweet
43. The Hole idea
44. Buddy’s Beer garden
45. You Ought to be in Pictures
46. Eatin’ on te Cuff or The Moth Who Came to Dinner
47. Bacall to Arms
48. Porky’s Pooch
49. Duck Dogers and the 24th and a Half Century
50. The Ducksters

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ok, to save time, a top 5-
1. “Duck Amuck”- the perfect cartoon, daffy is one of the most entertaining characters (live or animated) ever introduced to the silver screen, and this short shows why.
2. “Whats Opera Doc?”- of course a universal list topper, and deservedly so. the best parody of an opera (and anythning for that matter) if i ever saw one.
3. “I like to singa”- i have a soft spot for the musical shorts, and this one is definitely my favorite, with an underlying theme for accepting those who are different.
4. “Goofy Groceries”- still funny after 50+ decades and some of the best animation I’ve ever seen, a definite example of the golden age of animation.
5. “Daffy Duck and Egghead”- the word “Looney Tooney” and a variation for the theme song jingle for looney tunes are both in this short, along with some of the most memorable gags in cartoon history.
6. “3 Little Bops”- a wonderful spin on the old “3 little pigs story’. its definitely a time piece for the early years of jazz, but still manages entertain, even today.
7. “Rabbit Fire”- the now famous love/hate (more hate than love actually) relationship between Daffy and Bugs in the first of the “hunting trilogy”.
ok, its a top 7, but i couldn’t help it, i love every loney tunes and merrie melodies shorts.

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There’s only one choice: 1. Feed the Kitty

This creation flows from being to end . . . not a hint of flatness or forcing the momentum. It simply is.

I suspect many children and perhaps a good number of adults, experienced emotional arousal and satisfaction from an animated creation for the first time with this work.

The order from 2 – 100 will be more difficult.

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#1 One Froggy Evening

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I know a couple of 1960’s cartoons to be on the list: “Now Hear This!” (1963) and “The Last Hungrey Cat” (1961).

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1. Duck Amuck
2. Duck! Rabbit! Duck!
3. Falling Hare
4. Three Little Bops
5. Duck Dogers in the 24 1/2 Century
6. What’s Opera Doc?
7. Ali Baba Bunny
8. Bully for Bugs
9. Feed The Kitty
10. Rabbit Fire
11. The Rabbit of Seville
12. Operation: Rabbit
13. I Love To Singa
14. Robin Hood Daffy
15. Porky in Wackyland

– Kathy Dolan

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My top 5 in order….

1. Three Little Bops
2. Bully For Bugs
3. Duck Dodgers in the 24th and A Half Century
4. Porky in Wackyland
5. What’s Opera Doc?

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Bunny Hugged

Hands down the funniest Bugs Bunny cartoon ever.

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15 top choices, more or less in order:

Russian Rhapsody
Swooner Crooner
Rocket-Bye Baby
Baseball Bugs
Brother Brat
Duck Dodgers in the 24-1/2th Century
Duck Amuck
Rabbit of Seville
High-Diving Hare
Water, Water Every Hare
Hillbilly Hare
The Great Piggy Bank Robbery
Little Red Riding Rabbit
Plane Daffy
Knighty Knight Bugs

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1. What’s Opera Doc?
2. Baseball Bugs
3. The one where Bugs says” I am Elmer Fudd, I own a mansion and a yacht…”

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My favourite of all the Road Runner shorts is Lickety Splat. I nearly killed myself laughing at it when I was 12 or so. I could say more, but just in case anyone reading this hasn’t seen it: get thee to youtube!

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A couple that I haven’t seen mentioned yet:

Daffy the Commando (my favorite WW II-related cartoon)

Jumpin’ Jupiter (Porky and Sylvester abducted by aliens)

Rabbit of Seville would top my list.

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Hair-Raising Hare.
What’s Opera, Doc?
Hare-Way to the stars
Bewitched Bunny
Duck Dodgers and the Return of the 24½th Century
The Adventures Of The Road Runner

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Well… The obvious: I’d put the “rabbit season” trilogy at the top, followed closely by What’s Opera, Seville, Duck Amuck, Froggy Evening, and Duck Dodgers.

But as for the second tier of greats, I nominate:
-Long-Haired Hare
-Hair-Raising Hare
-I Love To Singa
-The Dover Boys
-Back Alley Uproar (PERFECT comedic timing)
-High Diving Hare (the only time I think Freleng really mastered the frenetic lunacy bit)
-To Beep Or Not To Beep (the rapid-fire catapult gags at the end make it all worthwhile)
-A Corny Concerto

I know there’s no Tweety, Pepe, Foghorn, or Speedy toons on this list, but hey, can’t have it all.

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A few I didn’t see in the above lists:

Joe the Firefly
The Porky one with Uncle Sam
Singin’ in the Bathtub (for historical significance if nothing else)
Gremlins from the Kremlin

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I don’t know if this went through the first time, but here a few I haven’t seen mentioned:

Joe the Fire Fly
the Porky one with Uncle Sam
Singin’ in the Bathtub (for historical reasons if nothing else)
Gremlins from the Kremlin

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What’s Opera, Doc
Rabbit Seasoning
Bully for Bugs
Rabbit of Seville
Hillbilly Hare

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I myself wouldn’t even agree with my own list. There is just too many cartoons oh well, here I go:

1. Coal Black and The Seben Dwarfs
2. The Great Piggy Bank Robbery
3. What Makes A Daffy Duck (very underrated IMO)
4. Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2 Century
5. My Favorite Duck
6. The Dover Boys
7. Porky Pig’s Feat
8. The Stupor Sales Man
9. Duck Amuck
10. Birds Anonymous

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I’m glad to see much love given to “Feed the Kitty.”

“Fresh Airedale” is woefully underappreciated.

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Water, Water Every Hare (1952)!!!!

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What’s Opera, Doc?
The Rabbit of Seville

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-WHATS OPERA DOC?
-BEEP! BEEP!
-BEEP PREPARED
-STOP LOOK AND HASTEN
-THEY’RE THEY GO-GO-GO
-ALI BABA BUNNY
-RUSSIAN RHAPSODY
-PIGS IN A POLKA
-THREE LITTLE BOPS
-YANKEE DOODLE DAFFY
-COMMANDO DUCK
-HASTY HARE
-DUCK DODGERS IN THE 24TH 1/2 CENTURY
-HARE WAY TO THE STARS
-PAGE MISS GLORY
-BABY BOTTLEECK
-DUCK TRACY
-SCAREDY CAT
-JUMPIN JUPITER
-CLAWS FOR ALARM
-MOUSE WRECKERS
-KIDDIN THE KITTEN
-A PECK O’ TROUBLE
-RHAPSODY IN RIVETS
-HAIR RAISING HARE
-WATER WATER EVERY HARE-FALLING HARE
-DAFFY DUCK AND THE DINOSAUR
-SCARLET PUMPERNICKEL

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Wow. I don’t even know where to start…wait, yes I do.

1. Rabbit of Seville. I’m going to echo the earlier poster and claim that this, in fact, is the perfect toon. It is the combination of masterful use of source material, music and animation timing, and the most important (for me) component of a cartoon – the *contest*. Because the best Looney Toons, for me, always involved a contest, from which sprung the traps, gags, chases, escapes, and every other setup.

2. What’s Opera, Doc? Same as above, but carrying a bit *too* much baggage to make the top spot. Still, every time I watch it, I see Warner animators sitting glassy-eyed at the opera their wives dragged them to, thinking furiously, hands itching for pencils.

3. Rabbit Seasoning. The best use of both the deadpan replay (just in front of Robin Hood Daffy) and of Daffy Physics.

4. Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2 Century. Marvin. Nuff said.

5. Robin Hood Daffy.

6. Bully for Bugs. Proof that even incidental characters can be made of win, and one of the ur-Contest toons.

7. Rabbit Transit. Nothing *but* a chase. Plus, Cecil.

8. The Great Piggy Bank Robbery. Daffy par excellence.

9. Hair-raising Hare – Peter Lorre, Gossamer, *and* Bugs doing his thing, fourth-wall violation and all.

10. Long-haired Hare. Again, incidental character contest for the win.

And of course, those are just the ones that I keep on my phone at all times just in case.

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Drip-Along Daffy without a doubt…the scene where Nasty Canasta drinks his frothing drink to the sound of “gurkel, gurkel, gurkel” and then his hat does a little flip. Pure comedic genius. A close second is the classic “One Froggy Evening” but then that will be in most folk’s top 10.

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1. Duck Amuck
2. Robin Hood Daffy
3. Rocket Squad
4. Rabbit Seasoning
5. Rabbit Fire
6. Duck Rabbit Duck
7. Bully For Bugs
8. Drip Along Daffy
9. Steal Wool
10. One Froggy Evening
11. The Dover Boys
12. Coal Black
13. Bugs Bunny Nips The Nips

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1. Boyhood Daze
2. Bully for Bugs
3. Duck Dodgers in the 24th1/2 century
4. Duck Amuck
5. Great Piggy Bank Robbery
6. One Froggy Evening
7. What’s Opera Doc?
8. Coal Black and De Sebben Dwarves
9. From A to Z-Z-Z-Z
10. A Wild Hare

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The top 10 were easy enough to come up with… the rest of them are in a reasonable order – hard to quantify whether I like #23 or #24 better, you know…

01) What’s Opera Doc?
02) Duck! Rabbit! Duck!
03) Duck Amuck
04) Duck Dogers in the 24 1/2 Century
05) Robin Hood Daffy
06) The Long-Haired Hare
07) From Hare to Heir
08) One Froggy Evening
09) Ali Baba Bunny
10) Drip-Along Daffy
11) The Abominable Snow Rabbit
12) Hare-Way to the Stars
13) The Big Snooze
14) Knighty Knight Bugs
15) Little Red Riding Rabbit
16) Rabbit of Seville
17) Fast and Furry-ous
18) The Dover Boys
19) Rabbit’s Kin
20) Jack Wabbit and the Beanstalk
21) Falling Hare
22) Hare Remover
23) Don’t Give Up the Sheep
24) Hyde and Go Tweet
25) Tortoise Beats Hare
26) Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears
27) The Hare-Brained Hypnotist
28) Transylvania 6-5000
29) The Three Little Bops
30) Porky in Wackyland

And the last name is “Kochosky”, for purposes of acknowledgment. Thank you for the opportunity to help you out in this project.

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My favorites – in no particular order:

Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears (1944)
Claws for Alarm (1954)
Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs (1943)
A Corny Concerto (1943)
Daffy – The Commando (1943)
Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century (1953)
Duck! Rabbit, Duck! (1953)
Hair-Raising Hare (1946)
Hillbilly Hare (1950)
Hollywood Steps Out (1941)
The Honey-Mousers (1956)
Little Red Riding Rabbit (1944)
Long-Haired Hare (1949)
One Froggy Evening (1955)
Porky in Wackyland (1938)
Rabbit of Seville (1950)
Robin Hood Daffy (1958)
Rocket Squad (1956)
Slick Hare (1947)
What’s Opera, Doc? (1957)
What’s Up Doc? (1950)
The Windblown Hare (1949)

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Hm, tough call. I can’t remember the titles of a large number of the multitude of WB shorts I watched as a wee ‘un.
Research time!

… Okay, here, in a not very coherent order, are the most memorable for me:

1. What’s Opera, Doc?
2. The Three Little Bops
3. Duck! Rabbit! Duck!
4. One Froggy Evening
5. Bully For Bugs
6. Ali Baba Bunny
7. Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2th Century
8. Feed the Kitty
9. The Rabbit of Seville
10. Dough For The Do-Do
11. Hare-Way to the Stars
12. Duck Amuck
13. Robin Hood Daffy
14. Scaredy Cat

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Top Three:

#1 – Rabbit Seasoning – “Pronoun Problems”. ’nuff said.

#2 – Hillbilly Hare – The square dance is genius.

#3 – Rabbit of Seville and What’s Opera, Doc? tied for third.

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1. Duck Dodgers In The 24-1/2th Century
2. Bug’s recount of how he became famous
3. I’m a sucker for the one with the singing frog
4. Jekell and Hyde Tweety one
5. The one in which Tweety wears the little cap and slyvester is designing all these gadgets.

Sorry I couldn’t give you most of the names. It has been awhile

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Only one for me: Duck, Rabbit Duck. I put that up with the best bits of all times, right up there with Who’s On First, the Parrot Sketch, and WKRP’s Turkey Drop. I pretty much agree with everything else mentioned here…

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- Falling Hare

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1. Bully For Bugs
2. Duck! Rabbit! Duck!
3. One Froggy Evening
4. Book Revue
5. Ali Baba Bunny
6. Duck Amuck
8. Hare Trigger
9. Tortoise Wins By A Hare
10. Rabbit Fire
11. High Diving Hare
12. Rabbit Of Seville
13. Three Little Bops
14. Drip Along Daffy
15. A Corny Concerto
16. Operation: Rabbit
17. A Tale Of Two Kitties
18. Transylvania 6500
19. Easter Yeggs
20. Fast And Furry-ous

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I’m terribly afraid the list might be the same ole same ole we have seen multitudes of times in every best of collection WB has ever released. Great as they might be, the ones that often end up being the best to me are the ones I have never seen before.

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Bugs & Thugs

Not necc the best, but I’ve always enjoyed it, and a lot of people are overlooking it.

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Please include “Deduce, you say”. One off my all-time favorites, and I didn’t see it on anyone’s list. I think it’s a perfect cartoon!

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1. Rabbit Of Seville
2. Hillbilly Hare
3. One Froggy Evening
4. What’s Opera, Doc?
5. High Diving Hare
6. Long Haired Hare
7. Duck Dodgers In The 24-1/2th Century
8. Bully For Bugs
9. Hare We Go
10. Duck Amuck
11. Bonanza Bunny
12. Hare Brush
13. Hare Do
14. Knighty-Knight Bugs
15. The Foghorn Leghorn
16. The Great Piggy Bank Robbery
17. What’s Up, Doc?
18. Hare-Way to the Stars
19. The Abominable Snow-Rabbit
20. Ali Baba Bunny
21. Bugs And Thugs
22. Super Rabbit
23. Operation: Rabbit
24. Bunny Hugged
25. Rabbit Seasoning
26. The Old Grey Hare
27. Russian Rhapsody
28. Baseball Bugs
29. Coal Black And De Sebben Dwarfs
30. Bugs Bunny Nips The Nips

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1. Duck Amok
2. A Tale of Two Kitties
3. Dover Boys
4. Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs
5. One Froggy Evening
6. What’s Opera Doc?
7. Baby Bottleneck
8 Rabbit of Seville
9. Porky in Wackyland
10. Duck Dogers and the 24th and a Half Century
11. Great Piggy Bank Robbery
12. Dripalong Daffy

Man so many good cartoons, that I’m leaving out. I can’t say I have anything too obscure or controversial on here. Dover Boys is ranked pretty high just because I like it.

I guess Coal Black is obscure if you’re not into cartoons all that obsessively. I really hope it makes the book.

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OK. I made a second list with 20, because 10 was driving me crazy. Its difficult, but I consolidated what I felt was necessary in just 20.

1 Duck Amuck ~ Naturally.

2 What’s Opera Doc ~ Chuck Jones’s masterpiece, no less.

3 Hillbilly Hare ~ One of Mel Blanc’s best performances in my opinion.

4 Book Revue ~ So many funny screams, its hard to ignore this one. Not to mention one of the best takes (eyeball!),

5 Rabbit Rampage ~ I know its Duck Amuck with Bugs Bunny, but this one cracks me up severly.

6 Duck Dodgers In the 24th 1/2 Century ~ Heaven is Maurice Noble.

7 Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips ~ You need at least one war cartoon, no matter how offensive.

8 Bewitched Bunny ~ Please don’t leave the incompetent witch out.

9 The Abominable Snow Rabbit ~ A funny cartoon with great Noble style and a suprisingly tragic ending.

10 Baby Bottleneck ~ One of Clampett’s masterpieces in my opinion. And one of Mel Blanc’s finest hours.

11 Little Red Riding Rabbit ~ I have three Red Riding Hood cartoons here. Each one is just so hard to ignore.

12 A Tale of Two Kitties ~ Babbit and Catstello. And nasty little Tweety.

13 Rabbit of Seville ~ A prime example of Jones’s thematic sensibility.

14 Hair-Raising Hare ~ The Red Monster’s debut cannot be ignore. The Mirror take is still funny.

15 Foney Fables ~ No stars in this one. Just severe abrasions.

16 Red Riding Hoodwinked ~ Its hard to decide what makes Sylvester and Tweety shorts so special. This one, because of fisty cuffed granny.

17 Hare Trigger ~ I will not ignore Yosemite Sam.

18 The Hep Cat ~ Bob Clampett’s mood piece with a touch of subdued eroticism.

19 Easter Yeggs ~ I’m not a big fan of Bob McKimson’s cartoons. Some of them had an animation style that was disturbing. If I had to choose one I liked, this would be it. My #3 is McKimson, but with better looking animation.

20 Little Beau Pepe ~ Never forget Pepe Le Peu. One of the few cartoons, where the tables get turned.

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After much thought here is my list…I tried to make it a combination of what I feel is historically significant as well as cartoons that capture the “looney” spirit of Warner Bros: the no-holds-barred, we-don’t have-to-be-like-Disney wacky kind of freedom.

Here goes:
1. Rabbit Of Seville
2. Duck Dodgers In The 24-1/2th Century
3. What’s Opera, Doc?
4. The Great Piggy Bank Robbery
5. Book Revue
6. Rabbit Seasoning
7. A Wild Hare
8. Tortoise Beats Hare
9. Tweetie Pie
10. I Love to Sing-a
11. A Corny Concerto
12. Duck Amuck
13. Hollywood Steps Out
14. I Haven’t Got A Hat
15. Buccaneer Bunny
16. Daffy Duck and Egghead
17. You Ought to be in Pictures
18. Gold Diggers of ‘49
19. High Note
20. Wabbit Twouble

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Under represented here are the Road Runner cartoons. The main reason give is that the all have the same chase the prey plot. But that’s not a good reason. It’s a great basic motivator to set the plot in motion and calls for endless inventiveness.

They were universally funny — not dependent on language or cultural references — and used the most beautiful landscapes in cartoons (outside of Disney), the American southwest. These were borrowed (as homage?) from George Herrmann’s Krazy Kat and forced the animators to produce exquisite pans.

They also led to the best use of sound in cartoons period. Some of the great ones were :

Ready, Set, Zoom!,
Guided Muscle,
Going! Going! Gosh!,
Fast and Furry-ous.

But I think the single best Warner Brothers cartoon of all time is one that doesn’t appear on your list of eligible ones even though it’s a Warner Brothers cartoon. They produced as a feature but treated like another disposible product of Termite Terrace:

Iron Giant.

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There is only one best Looney Tunes cartoon

Rabbit Of Seville

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1) What’s Opera,Doc?
2)Lourve come back to me!
3) Feed the Kitty
4) Rabbit of Seville
5) Bewitched Bunny
6) Honey’s Money
7)Bedeviled Rabbit
8) My Little Duckaroo
9) Long Haired Hare
10) Bunny Hugged
11) Rabbit Fire
12) Robin Hood Daffy
13) Rackateer Rabbit
14) Bugsy and Mugsy
15) The Old Grey Hare
16) Drip-Along Daffy
17) Mexicali Shmoes
18) Mutiny on the Bunny
19) Mad as a Mars Hare
20)Hare Trimmed
21) Really Scent!
22) Cat Feud
23) Past Perfumance
24) Hare Trimmed
25) Go Fly A Kit
26) Ali Baba Bunny
27) Knighty Knight Bugs
28) Forward March Hare

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No big surprises here, I think…

1. Feed the Kitty
2. One Froggy Evening
3. Rabbit Of Seville
4. What’s Opera, Doc?
5. I Love To Singa
6. Wabbit Twouble
7. Duck Dodgers In The 24-1/2th Century
8. Hair-Raising Hare
9. Ali Baba Bunny
10. Robin Hood Daffy
11. Tortoise Wins By A Hare
12. Bugs Bunny And The Three Bears
13. Bugs Bunny Gets The Boid
14. Deduce, You Say
15. High Diving Hare
16. Baseball Bugs
17. The Foghorn Leghorn
18. For Scent-imental Reasons

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Okay, this is tecnically not a truly great cartoon as far as style and execution goes, but if a cartoon is judged simply by its ability to get a good laugh, Robert McKimson’s Rabbit’s Kin certainly belongs on the list. And most of that thanks to the voice of Stan Freberg as the moronic Pete Puma. I give this one 3 or 4 lumps out of five. BANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANG!!!!

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Sounds like a great project.

If I can note one thing I appreciate most about the WB teams’ work, it’s their consistent and compelling portrayal of the characters’ reactions: Claude the Cat’s horror that he’s going insane in “Mouse Wreckers”; the dog’s look of helpless dread in the closing scene of “Chow Hound” (“This time we didn’t forget the gravy”); the Barnyard Dawg’s outrage when he’s awakened out of a peaceful doze by a random arse-whupping from Foghorn Leghorn (“Walky Talky Hawky”); Sylvester’s imploring look of dread as he sinks into the dog pound; Yosemite Sam’s classic slow burns; Daffy berating the “schlock artist” in “Duck Amuck”; and of course, Sylvester’s D.T. symptoms in “Birds Anonymous.” Dark, sophisticated, and hilarious stuff.

Here’s a top 25:

Duck Amuck
What’s Opera, Doc?
Rabbit of Seville
Mouse Wreckers
Chow Hound
Knighty Knight Bugs
Birds Anonymous
Dog Pounded
Stupor Duck
All a Bir-r-r-rd
Transylvania 6-5000
Walky Talky Hawky
To Beep or Not to Beep
One Froggy Evening
Three Little Bops
Hare Brush
All a Bir-r-r-rd
Long-Haired Hare
Roman Legion-Hare
Apes of Wrath
Hare-Less Wolf
Bonanza Bunny
Gee Whiz-z-z-z-z-z-z
Haredevil Hare
Duck! Rabbit, Duck!

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what’s opera, doc?
rabbit of seville
duck dodgers in the 24 1/2th century
yankee doodle daffy
one froggy evening

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1. “Duck Amuck”
-If we’re going for “greatest and most significant” here, this gets my vote. It incorporates everything that makes Warner Bros. cartoons, and cartoons in general, great. Personality, gags, originality, and a nice nod to the concept of cartoon imagination and lack of a real “4th wall’ pioneered by the likes of Winsor McCay, the Fleischers and Walt Disney. For my personal favorite in terms of flat-out laughs, see #4.

2. “A Wild Hare””
-The Bugs Bunny blueprint that revolutionized Warner cartoons. It may have been Tex Avery’s most significant contribution to the studio ever.

3. “Gee Whizzz”
-Perhaps the definitive Road Runner cartoon. There isn’t a bad gag in this one, and it has some of the most attractive animation for Wile E. and the Road Runner ever drawn.

4. “Feline Frame-Up”
Why not more love for this neglected classic? Chuck Jones at his peak with excellent animation, perfect timing, memorable characters and funny gags. What’s not to love? Just one of those days, I guess!

5. “Porky in Wackyland”
-Bob Clampett at his most imaginative and insane. Truly inspired cartoon, with influences ranging from Salvador Dali to Lewis Carroll to Milt Gross.

6. “Draftee Daffy”
7. “A Tale Of Two Kitties”
8. “Crowing Pains”
9. “Operation Rabbit”
10. “Porky Pig’s Feat”
11. “Rabbit Fire”
12. “Louvre Come Back To Me”
13. “Pied Piper of Guadelupe”
14. “Tweetie Pie”
15. “Birds Anonymous”
16. “Fresh Airedale”
17. “Bugs Bunny Rides Again”
18. “Show Biz Bugs”
19. “One Froggy Evening”
20. “You Don’t Know What You’re Doin’”

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I want to know Jerry’s favorites! Hopefully he prints his list in the book, worth the price of the book alone.

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Here is my selection for some of the greatest 100 cartoons:

1. Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarves
2. Hillbilly Hare
3. Tin Pan Alley Cats
4. Old Glory
5. Tom thumb in Trouble
6. The Great Piggy Bank Robbery
7. Mississippi Hare
8. My Bunny lies over the Sea
9. Ballot Box Bunny
10. His Bitter Half
11. Porky in Wackyland
12. Eatin’ on the Cuff
13. A Bear for Punishment
14. Little Red Riding Rabbit
15. Porky’s Romance
16. Wholly Smoke
17. Wabbit Twouble
18. Crowing Pains
19. The Hole Idea
20. A Wild Hare
21. A Gander at Mother Goose
22. Lady Play your Mandolin
23. Wake up the Gypsy in Me
24. Book Revue
25. The Big Snooze
26. Rhapsody Rabbit
27. Tweetie Pie
28. Robin Hood Daffy
29. Dough Ray Meow
30. Back Alley Oproar
31. The Honey Mousers
32. Swooner Crooner
33. Duck Rabbit Duck
34. Birds Anonymous
35. The Wacky Wabbit
36. Herr Meets Hare
37. Porky Pig’s Feat
38. Puss N Booty
39. A Gruesome Twosome
40. Little Red Walking Hood

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Ali Baba Bunny
Barbary Coast Bunny
Bowery Bugs
The Lion’s Busy
Hiawatha’s Rabbit Hunt
Buccaneer Bunny
Buckaroo Bugs
Goldilocks And The Jivin’ Bears
The Scarlet Pumpernickel
Scent-imental Over You
The Wabbit Who Came To Supper
Sniffles And The Bookworm
Sniffles Bells The Cat
The Goofy Gophers
Goofy Groceries
Gopher Broke
Gopher Goofy

I kept it to these, although the entire list are my faves! I also want to add the house of the future with that little robotic sweeper who comes out every time something hits the floor. Riot!

I am such a Bugs Bunny fan. Best of luck with this work…it’s like asking a parent “Who’s your best child?”

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For shear simplicity, think responses should be limited to 10 or 15 cartoons. Here are my favorites in order -
1 A Lad In Bagdad
2 Porky’s Hare Hunt
3 You Ought To Be In Pictures
4 Little Red Walking Hood
5 Polar Pals
6 Pigs Is Pigs
7 A Wild Hare
8 The Great Piggy Bank Robbery
9 A Cartoonist’s Nightmare
10 Book Review
11 Porky In The North Woods
12 Tortoise Beats Hare
13 Porky’s Double Trouble
14 I Love To Singa
15 Cinderella Meets Fella

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I see this cartoon has made a lot of the lists posted in the comments here but I just wanted to stress that Little Red Riding Rabbit is a great WB cartoon. It was made right around the time where Bugs looks the best and his character is pretty fleshed out. Finally, the ending is my favorite of any cartoon short.

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Duck Amuck
Lumber Jerks
Cat Feud
What’s Opera Doc?
For Scent-imental Reasons
Rabbit Seasoning
Fast and Furry-ous
One Froggy Evening
Rabbit of Seville
My Bunny lies over the Sea

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Hollywood Steps Out (HILARIOUS parodies of Hollywood’s golden era celebrities)
Falling Hare
The Big Snooze
Baby Bottleneck
Coal Black and the Sebben Dwarfs
(can you tell i love Clampett??)

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#1 What’s Opera, Doc?

There can be only one.

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A couple off the beaten path here:

It’s Hummer Time

and

Chow Hound

2 of my all-time faves.

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Well the top nine need to be

1. Feed the Kitty – the moment when the woman gives Marc Anthony the kitty shaped cookie is a moment of sublime comedy genius and always elicits a belly laugh from me
2. Bully For Bugs – a near perfect battle of wills between two strong adversaries – the moment when the bull realizes he can fire bullets out of his horns and that smile crosses his face makes him Bug’s greatest foil and equal. Come on it took a Rube Goldberg device to bring Bully down.
3.Bugsy and Mugsy – “I don’t know how yahs done it but I know yahs done it!!” nuff said
4.Hillbilly Hare – when you can sing the song at a college reunion and everyone smiles you know you have a classic on your hands
5. Bunny Hugged – “Well Crusher…its GOOD to see you.”
6. What’s Opera Doc? – everything we know about opera we learned from this one cartoon…Wagner is not rolling in his grave from shame but from laughter
7. Duck! Rabbit! Duck! -the strongest of the hunting trilogy and there is lots of room on the top 100 list for the genius that is Daffy
8. Dripalong Daffy – proff that Porky was never a headliner but the best straight man in the business
9. Operation Rabbit – “Wille E Coyote SUUUUPER Genius…I like that way that rolls out” – Proff that no matter who he is in conflict with the Coyote is all show and no go and deserves all the grief he gets. Makes me wish he talked in every cartoon.

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1. What’s Opera, Doc?
2. Rabbit Seasoning
3. The Rabbit of Seville
4. One Froggy Evening
5. A Corny Concerto

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30 titles From the top of my head eh,
“A Gruesome Twosome”
“Book Revue”
“Tabasco Road”
“Crowing Pains”
“Feed the Kitty”
“Gee Whiz-z-z-z”
“The Bee-Deviled Bruin”
“Bugs Bunny Rides Again”
“The Birth of a Notion”
“Russian Rhapsody”
“Kitty Kornered”
“The Lion’s Busy”
“Rhapsody in Rivets”
“Rhapsody Rabbit”
“Rabbit of Seville”
“Pigs in a Polka”
“Hare-Breadth Hurry”
“The Hep Cat”
“An Itch in Time”
“Wagon Heels”
“Rabbit Transit”
“Duck! Rabbit! Duck!”
“Show Biz Bugs”
“Hare-less Wolf”
“Tortilla Flaps”
“Fastest with the Mostest”
“Bonanza Bunny”
“Stooge for a Mouse”
“Wild Wife”
“Sahara Hare”
All of those listed so far has given me plenty of laughs. There are lots more that I could list, but my fingers would fall off.

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I love them all but I’ll take:

It’s Hummer Time (Robert McKimson, 1950)

as my favorite.

“No! Not The Thinker! Not The Thinker!”

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1. Katnip Kollege
2. Rabbit Seasoning
3. Little Red Riding Rabbit
4. The Three Little Bops
5. I Love to Singa
6. High Diving Hare
7. What’s Opera Doc?
8. Back Alley Uproar
9. Long-haired Hare
10. Duck Amuck
11. Duck Dodgers in the 24th 1/2 Century
12. Great Piggy Bank Robbery
13. From A to Z-z-z-z
14. Alibaba Bunny
15. Baseball Bugs

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FEED THE KITTY
FEED THE KITTY
FEED THE KITTY
must be on the list!

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Favourite line of all time: “Never send a monster to do the work of an evil scientist.”

1. Water, Water, Every Hare
2. Rabbit of Seville
3. What’s Opera, Doc?
4. Hillbilly Hare
5. Transylvania 6-5000
6. Mississippi Hare
7. One Froggy Evening
8. Hare-Way to the Stars
9. Pizzicato Pussycat
10. Long-Haired Hare
11. Roman Legion-Hare

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Everybody will be voting for the classics, but here are 5 I want to make sure get on the list:

The Dover Boys
Duck Amuck
Duck! Rabbit! Duck!
Draftee Daffy
Horton Hatches The Egg

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1. What’s Opera, Doc?
2. Coal Black and De Sebben Dwarfs
3. Rabbit of Seville
4. Drip-Along Daffy
5. Slick Hare
6. Hot Cross Bunny
7. Birds Anonymous
8. Feed the Kitty
9. French Rarebit
10. Odor-able Kitty

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My top 20 list:

1-Rabbit of Seville
2- Duck Amuck
3- Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs
4- Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2th Century
5- Robin Hood Daffy
6- One Froggy Evening
7- I Love to Singa
8- Porky in Wackyland
9- What´s Opera, Doc?
10- Now Hear This
11- Fast and Furry-Ous
12- For Scenti-imental Reasons
13- Hillbilly Hare
14- Birds Anonymous
15- Chow Hound
16- From A to Z-Z-Z-Z
17- Three Little Bops
18- Bear Feat
19- A Hound for Trouble
20- A Ham in a Role

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1. One Froggy Evening
2. What’s Opera, Doc?
3. Knighty-Knight Bugs
4. Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2th Century
5. Duck Amuck

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Another day maybe a different list.
1. Feed the Kitty
2. One Froggy Evening
3. Porky in Wackyland
4. High Diving Hare
5. What’s Opera Doc
6. Dover Boys
7. Draftee Daffy
8. A Bear for Punishment
9. Wackiki Rabbit
10. Rabbit Seasoning
11. NO Barking
12. Tortilla Flaps
13. Knighty Knight Bugs
14. Ali Baba Bunny
15. Bewitched Bunny
16. Boyhood Daze
17. Go Fly a Kit
18. Baton Bunny
19. Back Alley Oproar
20. I love to Singa

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Since everyone has already voted for ‘Whats Opera Doc ‘ and ‘Duck Amuck’ , I’d vote for ‘Baseball Bugs’, ‘Hillbilly Hare’ and ‘Hare on the Moon’ .

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I just have one that I think should be on the list, my all time favorite cartoon

Hyde and Go Tweet

I just love the bit when the giant Tweety eats Sylvester

look forward to the book

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1. One Froggy Evening
2. Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2 Century
3. Porky Pig’s Feat
4. What’s Opera, Doc?
5. The Great Piggy Bank Robbery
6. Book Revue
7. Duck Amuck
8. Rabbit of Seville
9. Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs
10. Fast and Furry-Ous
11. Porky in Wackyland
12. Russian Rhapsody
13. The Aristo-Cat
14. A Wild Hare
15. Long-Haired Hare
16. Kitty Kornered
17. A Tale of Two Kitties
18. For Scent-imental Reasons
19. A Corny Concerto
20. The Goofy Gophers
21. Herr Meets Hare
22. The Dover Boys
23. Tortoise Beats Hare
24. You Ought to be in Pictures
25. The Scarlet Pumpernickel
26. Swooner Crooner
27. Mouse Wreckers
28. Bully for Bugs
29. Feed the Kitty
30. Porky’s Romance31. The Little Lion Hunter
32. The Brave Little Bat
33. I Haven’t Got a Hat
34. Smile, Darn Ya, Smile
35. Speedy Gonzales

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1. What’s Opera, Doc?
2. Duck Amuck
3. Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2 century
4. Feed the Kitty
5. One Froggy Evening

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1) Dock Dodgers in the 24th1/2 Century
2) Porky in Wackyland
3) Little Red Riding Rabbit
4) Rebel Rabbit
5) The Case of the Stuttering Pig
6) Golddiggers of ‘49
7) You Don’t Know What You’re Doin’!
8) Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs
9) Three Little Bops
10) Book Revue
11) Rabbit of Seville
12) Falling Hare
13) Birth of a Notion
14) My Favorite Duck
15) Feed the Kitty
16) Rabbit Fire
17) Stop, Look, and Hasten!
18) Walky Talky Hawky
19) Birds Anonymous
20) You Ought To Be In Pictures

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1. The Great Piggy Bank Robbery
2. Three Little Bops
3. Duck Amuck
4. Rabbit of Seville
5. Rebel Rabbit
6. Porky in Wacky Land
7. Broom Stick Bunny
8. Rabbit Fire
9. Knighty Knight Bugs
10. The Ducksters
11. Boobs in the Woods
12. Drip Along Daffy
13. What’s Opera Doc?
14. Deduce, You Say?
15. Robin Hood Daffy
16. What’s Up Doc?
17. Rabbit Hood
18. Bugs and Thugs
19. Duck Dogers in the 24th and a Half Century
20. Bugs Hugged
21. Lumber Jack-Rabbit
22. Water, Water, Every Hare
23. Rabbit’s Kin
24. Hillbilly Hare
25. High Diving Hare
26. Wabbit Twouble
27. Long-Haired Hare
28. Bully for Bugs
25.One Froggy Evening
26.The Foghorn Leghorn
27. My Bunny Lies Over the Sea
28. Porky Pig’s Feat
29. Yankee Doodle Daffy
30. Bugs Bunny Rides Again
31. Mutiny on the Bunny
32. The Million Hare
33. Operation Rabbit
34. Book Revue
35. Birds Anonymous
36. Buccaneer Bunny
37. Duck! Rabbit! Duck!
38. Hare Tonic
39. The Old Grey Hare
40. Baseball Bugs
41. Stuper Duck
42. Fast And Furry-ous
43. Fresh Hare
44. French Rarebit
45. Ali Baba Bunny
46. Falling Hare
47. Devil May Hare
48. Barbary Coast Bunny
49. Haredevil Hare
50. Speedy Gonzales
51. Baby Bottleneck
52. The Honey-Mousers
53. Feed the Kitty

I’m probably forgetting some well I know I am haha. After the first 25 the exact ordering could be a little but in the end it’s so hard to nail down what was the best. So many memorable cartoons were produced from that studio it’s even hard just to name them all.

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An almost all-Jones Top 10. Good luck with the book, Jerry.

1. One Froggy Evening
2. Duck Amuck
3. Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2 Century
4. Feed the Kitty
5. Bully for Bugs
6.What’s Opera Doc
7. Rabbit Fire
8. Porky Pig’s Feat
9. The Dover Boys
10. Bunny Hugged

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The Top 10 Warner Brothers Cartoons:

1. What’s Opera Doc(it was #1 on the 50 Greatest Cartoons, and #1 for me as well)
2. Back Alley Oproar(“You’ll never know where you go until you get there”)
3. Dog Gone South(“OHH BELVIDERE”)
4. Little Red Riding Rabbit (Bea Benederet at her finest)
5. A Hare Grows in Manhattan(Shows Bugs Bunny as a pansy as well as a smartass)
6. Daffy Duck Slept Here(Pure hillarity, at every minute)
7. Old Grey Hare(“What’s up prune face”)
8. Windblown Hare(best satire on fairy tales ever)
9. Hollywood Steps Out(caricatures of finest actors of Golden Age)
10. Duck Amuck (come on, it’s Daffy being harassed by Bugs Bunny)

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My Top 12
1. Bug Bunny Gets The Boid
2. The Case of The Stuttering Pig
3. The Great Piggy Bank Robbery
4. Bye Bye Bluebeard
5. Porky’s Preview
6. Scrap Happy Daffy
7. Duck Amuck
8. Hillbilly Hare
9. Stupor Duck
10. Get Rich Quick Porky
11. Have You Got Any Castles?
12. Farm Frolics
Warners was an excellent animation studio.

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Where to start!

1. Duck Amuck
2. Rabbit Seasoning
3. What’s Opera Doc!
4. Duck Dodgers in the 24th and a halfth Century
5. Devil May Hare
6. Porky in Wackyland
7. One Froggy Evening
8.Beep Beep
9. The Great piggy Bank Robbery
10. Draftee Daffy
11. The Rabbit of Seville
12. The Honey-Mousers
13. Duck! Rabbit Duck!
14. Robi Hood Daffy
15. Porky’s Romance
16. KnightyKnight Bugs

If I think of any more I’ll let you know.

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The usual disclaimers – impossible to choose, they’re all great, tomorrow my top ten might be different, etc. But right now, here’s a top ten for your purposes, Jerry.

1. Feed the Kitty
2. Three Little Bops
3. Rocket Bye Baby
4. Duck, Rabbit, Duck
5. Duck Amuck
6. What’s Opera, Doc
7. Walky Talky Hawky
8. Bugs and Thugs
9. Rabbit Hood
10. One Froggy Evening

Jim Kubisch

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Rabbit of Seville
What’s Opera Doc?
One Froggy Evening
Hillbilly Hare
Old Gray Hare
Rabbit Seasoning
Rabbit Fire
Three Little Bops
Fast and Furryous
Baseball Bugs
I Love to Singa
Corny Concerto
What’s Up Doc?
Hair-raising Hare
Big Snooze
Wabbit Twouble
Rabbit’s Kin
Little Red Riding Rabbit
Rabbit Hood
High Diving Hare
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These are just off the top of my head. A little heavy on Bugs, I know. Wish I could remember some more Porky-Daffy cartoons….

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The Abominable Snow Rabbit has to be at the top of the list. The allusion to Of Mice and Men is wonderful. “I will love him and pat him…and I will call him George.” Pure art.

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Man, Nobody is picking Wholly Smoke. You cant go wrong. Smoking pigs…. Seriously it is my absolute favorite cartoon. It will never see airing on television in this day and age.

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My all-time favorite is probably “Bunny Hugged”.

In alpha order:

Ali Baba Bunny
Baby Buggy Bunny
Baseball Bugs
Big House Bunny
Big Top Bunny
Bowery Bugs
Bunker Hill Bunny
Bunny Hugged
Captain Hareblower
Case Of The Missing Hare
Compressed Hare
Daffy Duck Slept Here
Devil May Hare
8 Ball Bunny
Falling Hare
Feed The Kitty
The Foghorn Leghorn
14 Carrot Rabbit
Forward March Hare
French Rarebit
Gorilla My Dreams
The Grey-Hounded Hare
Hair-Raising Hare
Hare Remover
Hare Tonic
Haredevil Hare
His Hare Raising Tale
Homeless Hare
Hyde and Hare
Knight-Mare Hare
Knighty Knight Bugs
Long Haired Hare
Million Hare
Mutiny on the Bunny
No Parking Hare
One Froggy Evening
Rabbit of Seville
Rabbit Seasoning
Rhapsody Rabbit
The Scarlet Pumpernickel
Show Biz Bugs
Slick Hare
Southern Fried Rabbit
Upswept Hare
Wabbit Twouble
Wackiki Wabbit
Water, Water Every Hare
What’s Opera, Doc?

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Only one other person has mentioned my favorite neglected one-off, “High Note.” To me, it’s the embodiment of the genius of Chuck Jones.

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Feed the Kitty
Rabbit of Seville
Water water every Hare
Duck Dodgers in 24 1/2 cent

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Duck Dodgers In The 24-1/2th Century
Duck Amuck
The Solid Tin Coyote
Rabbit Fire
Fast And Furry-ous
Hare Tonic
The Rabbit of Seville

Man, there’s so many. Some I don’t know the name of. I always loved the ones where they explain a subject. Like transportation, which had a recurring bit about a guy getting stuck in a cloverleaf and asking a hot dog stand for directions. Another with a kid that can’t stop imagining, he had red hair and wanted to fly. Another with a grown man who grew wings.

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Just an observation. All these posts are from GUYS. Aren’t there any women out there who love Warner Bros. cartoons (the ultimate male fantasy)

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Rabbit of Seville
Big Snooze
Bully For Bugs
Duck Amuck
Old Grey Hare

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1. Dime to retire

A great work of art, a great work of American art. The philosophical implications alone are staggering as Daffy sends one animal on the evolutionary chain after another up to Porky’s room. This cartoon is the perfect representation of the banality of all human endeavor.

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Here is a short list of my favorites:

1. I Love to Singa
2. One Froggy Evening
3. Duck Amuck
4. Porky in Wackyland
5. Boyhood Daze

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Here is my Top 20, where to begin?!?:
1. Bully for Bugs
2. The Great Piggy Bank Robbery
3. Fresh Hare
4. Duck Amuck
5. Duck Dodgers and the 23rd and a Half Century
6. Porky Pig’s Feat
7. Rabbit Fire
8. Rabbit Seasoning
9. Duck, Rabbit, Duck!
10. Bugs Bunny Rides Again
11. A Corny Concerto
12. Back Alley Oproar
13. Rabbit’s Kin
14. A Tale of Two Kitties
15. Wacky Wabbit
16. Book Review
17. Buckaroo Bugs (bring me all the jeers you want!)
18. The Wild Hare
19. Fast And Furry-Ous
20. Puss n’ Booty

NOTE: For 16 and 18, I put down the BR titles as a gag.

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I am a huge fan, but not scholar, of Looney Tunes. I know a handful of titles, all of which have already been mentioned many times—usual suspects like Robin Hood Daffy, One Froggy Evening, The Rabbit of Seville, What’s Opera Doc… all of which I’m sure are safely ensconced near the top of any list. But what I remember from Looney Tunes are scenes and lines. Here are a bunch of favorites, which may inspire people who actually do know the titles:

The one where Yosemite Sam had to be nice to rabbits to get an inheritance.

The one with the opera singer… you know, “Leopold!” “Leopold!” “Leopold!”

All Marvin the Martian cartoons. Each and every one of them belongs high on the list.

The Ant Hill Harry, alias Baby Face Finster story. “How many times have I told you not to play with the dirty money?!?”

At least one “Morning, Ralph” “Morning, Sam” sheepdog vs. coyote show.

The one where Bugs and Daffy, having missed that left turn at Albuquerque, end up in a cave full of treasure featuring Daffy’s lines, “Go go go! Down down down! Mine mine mine!” and “I’m rich! I’m wealthy! I’m socially secure!” and “I’m rich! I’m a happy miser!”

At least one, “You’re a chicken, I’m a chickenhawk” episode.

The Tasmanian Devil “wild turkey surprise” episode.

At least one (maybe more) Pepe Le Pew episode—preferably an earlier one where he’s not interacting with the other usual suspects.

The Pete Puma story! “How many lumps?” “Oh, three or four.” WHAM WHAM WHAM WHAM. “I don’t like tea. It gives me a headache.”

The wrestling episode featuring Ravishing Ronald vs. the Crusher.

The Bugs vs. Yosemite Sam for Mayor episode. (“New mare?” “Dark horse?”)

The episode featuring the proto-Yosemite-Sam-esque Scotsman and Bugs (“Oh no! That lady’s being attacked by a horrible monster!” (re Sam playing bagpipes).)

The episode where Sam is the chef and is ordered to make “hossenfeffer?”

The one with the two squirrels or chipmunks or whatever they were that go after their tree when it’s chopped down and end up with the pile of furniture.

The Road Runner episodes featuring the following:
Dehydrated boulders
Acme Bat-Man Suit
Earthquake pills
Acme rocket skates
The two kids watching the show. “I’m gonna be a p-sychiatrist. Or a p-sychoanalyst.” “I’m gonna be a road runner. Beep beep!”

The one where Bugs visits the witch. “Who undoes your hair?” “Do you like it?” “Like it? Why, it’s absolutely HIDEOUS!”

A whole bunch of Foghorn Leghorn episodes. Definitely including:
“I’m not a chicken, I’m a dog. THERE’s a chicken.”
The one where the kid proved by calculus that Foghorn was somewhere else even though he hid in the bin.

The one with the Bing Crosby-esque crooning chicken, “I’ve got a bunch of beautiful babies, and each and every one of them is a boy…”

“You and me’s pals, ain’t we, Spike?”

The Bugs vs. Dracula episode: “Abraca-pocus! Hocus-cadabra!”

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Well – for me it’s a toss-up between Ali-Baba Bunny and Feed the Kitty.

Ali-Baba Bunny is not only well written and funny, but it nails both characters of the Bunny and the Duck perfectly.

Feed the Kitty tears at your heartstrings. I still get a little tear in the corner of my eye everytime I see it…and I’m old…REAL OLD!

Best of Luck with the book – I know I’ll be buying a copy as soon as it comes out!

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Well, no real surprises in my Top 10 (Hey, they’re obvious for a reason):

1. Porky In Wackyland
2. Rabbit Fire
3. One Froggy Evening
4. The Great Piggybank Robbery
5. Book Revue
6. What’s Opera Doc
7. Feed the Kitty
8. The Foghorn Leghorn
9. Duck Amuck
10. For Scent-imental Reasons

But I also want to put in a vote for Goofy Gophers and Lumber Jerks — I love those guys.

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One Froggy Evening
Walky Talky Hawky
Don’t Give Up the Sheep
Hareway to the Stars
What’s Opera Doc
Shishkabugs
Bugs and Thugs

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1. Hair Raising Hare
2. Duck Amuck
3. What’s Opera, Doc?
4. The Foghorn Leghorn
5. Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2 Century
6. Falling Hare
7. Operation: Rabbit
8. Rabbit Fires
9. Little Red Riding Rabbit
10. Rabbit Hood

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Early to Bet
What’s Opera Doc!
One Froggy Evening

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01 What’s Opera, Doc?
02 Bully For Bugs
03 Rabbit Of Seville
04 Duck! Rabbit, Duck!
05 Duck Amuck
06 Mouse Wreckers
07 Duck Dodgers In The 24-1/2th Century
08 Hare-Way to the Stars
09 Ali Baba Bunny
10 One Froggy Evening

honorable mention – Devil May Hare; Bedeviled Rabbit (Mmmmm…wild turkey surprise”

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Its difficult to whittle it down but here are a list of my favorites at the moment.

1. I love to Singa
2. What’s Opera, Doc?
3. Duck Amuck
4. High Diving Hare
5. One Froggy Evening
6. Porky in Wackyland
7. The Three Little Bops
8. Daffy Duck in Hollywood
9. Walky Talky Hawky
10. Tweetie Pie
11. For Scent-imental Reasons
12. Speedy Gonzales
13. Pigs in a Polka
14. Swooner Crooner
15. Knighty Knight Bugs
16. Birds Anonymous

Duck Dodgers In The 24-1/2th Century
ROBIN HOOD DAFFY

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1. The Rabbit of Seville
2. Rabbit Seasoning
3. Porky in Wackyland
4. Duck Dodgers in the 24th 1/2 Century
5. Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs
6. The Big Snooze
7. Rebel Rabbit
8. Duck Amuck
9. Feed the Kitty
10. What’s Opera Doc?

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My top ten:

1. Bully for Bugs
2. Long-Haired Hare
3. Duck Amuck
4. What’s Opera Doc
5. Baseball Bugs
6. The Rabbit of Seville
7. Easter Yeggs
8. Little Red Riding Rabbit
9. I Love to Singa
10. Duck! Rabbit! Duck!

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Duck Amuck,
Rabbit Seasoning, and
Feed the Kitty.

These are the three I can watch over and over and over again. The dialogue in “Duck” and Rabbit Seasoning” is brilliant, and the silent gags of “Feed the Kitty” (as well as the hilarious character arc of hapless bulldog Marc Antony as he protects his adorable adopted kitty) are sure-fire. Good luck with the book!

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Favorites, in no order:

Rabbit Transit
Tortoise Wins By A Hare
What’s Opera, Doc?
The Scarlet Pumpernickel
Rabbit of Seville
Robin Hood Daffy
Wackiki Wabbit
Super Rabbit
The Unruly Hare
Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid
Often An Orphan
Operation: Rabbit
Rabbit Seasoning
Bunnt Bugged
You Ought to Be in Pictures
Falling Hare
Kitty Kornered – “I like cheese!” :)

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1.Great Piggybank Robbery
2.Back Alley Oproar
3.Duck Amuck
4.What’s Opera, Doc?
5. Porky in Wackyland
6. Falling Hare
7. The Draft Horse
8. You Oughta Be in Pictures
9. Hare Trigger
10. Duck Dodgers in the 24th 1/2 Century
11. Robin Hood Daffy
12. Easter Yeggs
13. Odorable Kitty
14. From A to ZZZZ
15. One Froggy Evening

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Beyond the obvious, What’s Opera Doc, Rabbit of Seville, Ali Baba Bunny, One Froggy Evening… there are two that I dearly love that
haven’t even appeared on the Loony Tunes Golden Collections yet,
but for me are absolute classics.

The first is HARE BRUSH, in which Bugs and Elmer switch roles through pretense(ELMER) and hypnosis(BUGS). It also has, what
I consider, the GREATEST closing line of all time: “I may be a sqwewy wabbit, but I’m not goin’ to Alkatwaz”! Brilliant

The second is CHOW HOUND, about a bulldog who pulls of a
series of scams with the unwilling help of a cat and a mouse.
Two classic lines come from this one: “WHAT?! NO GRAVY??!”
and the hilarious, yet chilling, : “This time we didn’t forget the gravy”

Great stuff. When I have time, I’ll chime in with more underrated gems.

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As much as I love my Clampett, McKimson, and Freleng, I’m a Chuck Jones guy too. It’s not just the strong posing that gets me, but also the perfect synergy with every aspect of production – the writing, the backgrounds, the music. I have a clear (and probably interchangeable) top four.

1. One Froggy Evening
2. Duck Amuck
3. Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2th Century
3. What’s Opera, Doc?
5. A Gruesome Twosome
6. From A to Z-Z-Z-Z
7. Gee Whiz-z-z-z-z-z
8. The Great Piggy Bank Robbery
9. Rabbit Seasoning
10. Birds Anonymous

I don’t pretend I’ve seen every Looney Tunes short there is, of course – far from it. And I give a lengthier explanation of my picks here, if anyone is interested.

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I only want to mention 2 cartoons that may get overlooked. The first is about a squirrel trying to open a coconut. I believe the title is “Nuts to you”. The other is about a dog forcing a cat to bring him food until he OD’s on gravy. I believe that’s “Chow Hound”. These never seem to make any top cartoon lists. Of course I wouldn’t put them above Rabbit of Seville, One Froggy Evening and all the other usual suspects.

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here is a list by me, tony mccarson, one the the greatest cartoon fans and enthusiasts. this is just a list, not the top list (you know,top 10 or top 20).

1.what’s opera doc
2.carrotblanca (if it’s possible to put in this book)
3.devil may hare
4.rabbit fire
5.horton hatches the egg
6.rhapsody in rivets
7.a wild hare
8.you ought to be in pictures
9.thugs with dirty mugs
10.elmer’s candid camera
11.ghost wanted
12.the ducktators
13.fifth column mouse
14.porky pig’s feat
15.cool cat
16.I got plenty of mutton
17.what’s cookin’ doc?
18.show biz bugs
19.the great piggy bank robbery
20.fair and worm-er
21.kitty kornered
22.often an orphan
23.haredevil hare
24.mouse wreckers
25.chow hound (the villain deserves it in the end!)
26.the wearing of the grin
27.tree for two
28.zipping along
29.the last hungry cat
30.tweet and lovely
31.knighty knight bugs
32.curtain razor
33.much ado about nutting
34.fox pop
35.high note
36.now hear this
37.bartholomew versus the wheel
38.mouse-taken identity
39.birds of a father
40.the mouse on 57th street
41.honey’s money
42.banty raids (“crazy man!”)
43.the honey-mousers
44.feed the kitty
45.kiss me cat
46.lumber jerks
47.grey hounded hare
48.eatin’ on a cuff
49.trap happy porky
50.dog tales
51.the three little bops
52.rabbit’s kin
53.a tale of two mice
54.the hole idea
55.person to bunny
56.the adominable snow rabbit
57.bugs bonnets
58.hollywood canine canteen
59.from hand to mouse
60.lights fantastic
61.cat tails for two
62.ding dong daddy
63.porky’s preview
64.the bear’s tale
65.robin hood makes good
66.toy trouble
67.the mouse-merized cat
68.there auto be a law
69.foxy by proxy
70.duck amuck

I have more of my favorite cartoons but there is just too many!

please pick most of these cartoons!

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Rabbit’s Kin
Hush My Mouse
Back Alley Oproar
The Hep Cat
The Great Piggy Bank Robbery
Brother Brat
Hare Meets Herr
Tortoise Wins By A Hare
Dough For the Do-Do
Porky Pig’s Feat
We The Animals Squeak (me and two friends of mine remember the lead mouse’s ramblings over the plan to a T)

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The one where Sylvester builds a pair of stilts to he can walk across the yard without getting bit by all the dogs. And then you only hear the sound of all the dogs chewing the bottom off the stilts, while Sylvester slowly sinks out of sight beneath the picket fence. Priceless!

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I want to lean toward animation, but with Looney Tunes, it’s always more about storytelling and character with a good dash of atmosphere. Ergo:

Rabbit of Seville
Ali Baba Bunny
Rabbit Seasoning
What’s Opera Doc
Bugs and Thugs
Baseball Bugs
Little Red Riding Rabbit
Bowery Bugs
Gorilla My Dreams
Homeless Hare
A Hare Grows in Brooklyn

I have always been a fan of Road Runner, it’s easy formula honed Chuck Jones’s genius to razor sharpness. In terms of raw character and scripting though, it is tough to leave out Ol’ Foghorn.

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This wasn’t easy but…(starting with number 50)
Ducking The Devil
Birds Anonymous
Ali Baba Bunny
Coal Black And De Sebben Dwarfs
Mississippi Hare
Scaredy Cat
Duck! Rabbit, Duck!
The Honey Mousers
I Love to Singa
Pigs in a Polka
Sittin’ on a Backyard Fence
Porky in Wackyland
Much Ado About Nutting
Rhapsody Rabbit
Rabbit of Seville
Rabbit Seasoning
Duck Amuck
Little Red Riding Rabbit
Baby Bottleneck
Bugs Bunny Rides Again
A Gruesome Twosome
Porky’s Duck Hunt
Dog Gone South
Easter Yeggs
Bear Feat
Two Gophers from Texas
The Hep Cat
I Taw a Putty Tat
The Draft Horse
Draftee Daffy
Doggone Cats
Hillbilly Hare
The Ducktator
French Rarebit
The Ducksters
Daffy the Commando
Wideo Wabbit
The Stupor Salesman
Herr Mets Hare
Cheese Chasers
A Bone for A Bone
A Hare Grows in Manhattan
My Bunny Lies Over the Sea
From Hare to Heir
Ballot Box Bunny
Porky Pig’s Feat
Dough Ray Me-Ow
Rabbit Hood
Now Hear This
and MY favorite LT/MM cartoon is…

Back Alley Oproar!

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1. Porky In Wackyland
2. Book Revue
3. Duck Amuck
4. One Froggy Evening
5. The Great Piggy Bank Robbery
6. Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs
7. Plane Daffy
8. Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2 Century
9. You Ought To Be In Pictures
10. Stupid Cupid
11. The Heckling Hare
12. Rabbit Of Seville
13. Baseball Bugs
14. Rabbit Punch
15. What’s Opera, Doc
16. Russian Rhapsody
17. Tin Pan Alley Cats
18. Swooner Crooner
19. Kitty Kornered
20. Nasty Quacks

The “most historically significant” list would be different, and loaded with Tex Avery cartoons – A Wild Hare, Porky’s Duck Hunt, Porky The Wrestler, etc.

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bugs bunny singing
carmen miranda’s
mama eu cuero…

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1) Bugs Bunny Rides Again
2) Operation: Rabbit
3) Duck Amuck
4) Robin Hood Daffy
5) Rabbit of Seville
6) Bully for Bugs
7) What’s Opera, Doc?
8) Long-Hared Hare
9) Duck Soup to Nuts
10) Fast and Furry-ous
11) Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2 Century
12) Duck! Rabbit! Duck!
13) The Foghorn Leghorn
14) Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid
15) Hare Trigger
16) Roughly Squeaking
17) The Hardship of Miles Standish
18) Swooner Crooner
19) I Love to Singa
20) What’s Up, Doc?
21) Racketeer Rabbit
22) Baseball Bugs
23) Tick Tock Tuckered
24) Rabbit Fire
25) Claws for Alarm
26) Rabbit Seasoning
27) The Great Piggy Bank Robbery
28) Kitty Kornered
29) Ali Baba Bunny
30) Back Alley Uproar
31) Miss Glory
32) The Henpecked Duck
33) The Big Snooze
34) A Wild Hare
35) The Case of the Stuttering Pig
36) Gorilla My Dreams
37) My Little Duckaroo
38) Porky Pig’s Feat
39) The Heckling Hare
40 Let it Be Me
41) Buccaneer Bunny
42) A Tale of Two Kitties
43) Don’t Give Up the Sheep
44) From A to Z-Z-Z-Z
46) Egghead Rides Again
47) Walky Talky Hawky
48) For Scent-imental Reasons
49) Bunny Hugged
50) You Ought to Be in Pictures

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1. Duck Amuck
2. One Froggy Evening
3. Hillbilly Hare
4. The Rabbit of Seville
5. What’s Opera Doc
6. Beanstock Bunny
7. Draftee Daffy
8. Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2 Century
9. Cheese Chasers
10. Gee Whiz-z-z-z
11. Scaredy Cat
12. The Mouse that Jack Built
13. Slick Hare
I’ll stop at a baker’s dozen…this is too hard.

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1. Feed The Kitty
2. One Froggy Evening

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1. Bully For Bugs
2. Rabbit Of Seville
3. Long Haired Hare
4. Transylvania 6-5000
5. Feed The Kitty
6. Drip-Along Daffy
7. What’s Opera Doc
8. One Froggy Evening

The expressions and the music do it for me. The look on the bull’s face when it realizes it has firepower. Bugs’ look of boredom as he massages tonic into Elmer’s head. Marc Antony’s look of terror, so well mimicked by Sully so many years later.

And then there’s parry-thrust-spin and “yikes and away”. Sometimes, sheer daffiness wins out. And, of course, all the things one can do with abracapocus.

After that, almost any “Ralph and Sam”, a few Pepe’s, Black Jack Shellac, Nasty Canasta,

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1. What’s Opera, Doc?
2. Porky In Wackyland
3. Bully For Bugs
4. Operation Rabbit
5. The Dover Boys
6. Duck Amuck
7. Birds Anonymous
8. 8 Ball Bunny
9. Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century
10. Long Haired Hare

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1. Feed the Kitty
2. Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2 Century
3. Duck Amuck
4. What’s Opera Doc
5. Hillbilly Hare
6. Bad Ol’ Puddytat
7. A Tale of Two Kitties
8. The Mouse That Jack Built
9. Robin Hood Daffy
10. For Scent-imental Reasons

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ok. I think Duck Amuck and What’s Opera Doc are way overrrated. As a matter of fact, Chuck Jones, talented as he was, is overrrated at this point. I’d like to suggest Charles McKimson who in my opinion is way underrated. You could pick almost any 40s short but I submit “The Foghorn Leghorn”. Compared to McKimson’s frenetic work ( every freakin frame is different!) Jone’s stuff is dead and cloying.

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1. REBEL RABBIT because I believe it’s the first use of live action in an animated WB short, and it’s so anarchically funny.
2. DUCK DODGERS
3. ONE FROGGY EVENING
4. DUCK AMUCK
5. ONE WILD HARE
6. RABBIT OF SEVILLE
7. KNIGHTY KNIGHT BUGS
8. THE BIG SNOOZE
9. THREE LITTLE BOPS
10. A HARE GROWS IN MANHATTAN

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Three little bops.

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Any WB cartoon from the late ’30’s to the late ’40’s from Merry Melodies
and Looney Toons. Bugs, Daffy, Roadrunner, Sam, Foghorn, Porky,
Tweety & Sylvester; all priceless, all masterpieces. After the ’40’s it was
all down hill.

Compare anything today to What’s Opera, Doc? or The Rabbit of Seville.

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1 Rabbit of Seville
2 Robin Hood Daffy (Ho! Haha! Guard! Turn! Parry! Dodge!)
3 Rabbit Fire
4 Duck Dodgers In The 24-1/2th Century
5 Hare-Way to the stars

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Wow, this is going to be hard, because I’ll have to leave out a LOT of classics that belong on the list as well. I’ll go the full 50 since Jerry says that is the limit, but I could easily put many more. Here goes:

1. Coal Black and De Sebben Dwarfs (enough of that “politically incorrect” nonsense and release this on a future LT DVD collection, along with all the other classics from the Censored Eleven and more)
2. Rabbit Hood
3. Nasty Quacks
4. Hare Trigger
5. Buccaneer Bunny
6. Robin Hood Daffy
7. What’s Opera Doc?
8. Dog Gone People
9. A Wild Hare (the most important Looney Tune or Merrie Melodie and one of the greatest! ESPECIALLY the magnificently restored version on the WB Home Entertainment Academy Awards Animation Collection – 15 Winners, 26 Nominees. This is the most overlooked DVD release of 2008 and should be purchased by everyone. “A Wild Hare” ALONE is worth getting it for, not to mention a beautifully restored “Hiawatha’s Rabbit Hunt.” Both films are fully restored with original opening & closing titles.)
10. Rabbit Seasoning
11. Chow Hound
12. Bugs Bunny Rides Again
13. Gift Wrapped
14. Ducking the Devil
15. Drip-Along Daffy
16. Little Red Riding Rabbit
17. A Mouse Divided
18. Zipping Along
19. Racketeer Rabbit
20. Russian Rhapsody
21. Tin Pan Alley Cats
22. Which is Witch?
23. Hare Brush
24. Wise Quackers
25. The Cat’s Tale
26. Trap Happy Porky
27. Lickety Splat
28. Sunday Go to Meetin’ Time
29. Hare Force
30. Design For Leaving
31. Have You Got Any Castles (especially now that we have seen it uncut on LTGC, Volume 2)
32. Bewitched Bunny
33. Goldilocks and the Jivin’ Bears
34. Each Dawn I Crow
35. Fresh Hare
36. China Jones
37. Duck Amuck
38. Pigs in a Polka
39. Hillbilly Hare
40. Speaking of the Weather
41. All This and Rabbit Stew
42. Tom Thumb in Trouble
43. Southern Fried Rabbit
44. Bugs Bunny Nips The Nips
45. Muscle Tussle
46. Punch Trunk
47. Wabbit Twouble
48. The Trial of Mr. Wolf
49. Jungle Jitters
50. Show Biz Bugs

That went fast because I hate to leave these off the list: Bunker Hill Bunny; Horse Hare; Scrap Happy Daffy; The Wabbit Who Came to Supper; His Bitter Half; Robot Rabbit; Little Red Walking Hood; My Little Duckaroo; Clean Pastures; Little Boy Boo; Foxy By Proxy; The Old Grey Hare; Mississippi Hare; September in the Rain; Herr Meets Hare; Scrambled Aches; Roman Legion Hare; Rabbit of Seville; Hiawatha’s Rabbit Hunt; Quack Shot. Wow, that’s over 20 more. I better stop!

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These are the ones that stick with me from childhood, that seem to encapsulate the qualities I find most memorable and hilarious about each character.

1. What’s Opera, Doc?
2. The Rabbit of Seville
3. Rabbit Seasoning
4. Duck Dodgers In The 24-1/2th Century
5. Hare-Way to the Stars
6. One Froggy Evening
7. Robin Hood Daffy
8. For Scent-imental Reasons
9. Beep Beep
10. The Abominable Snow-Rabbit

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I’m going to avoid most of the obvious choices because they’ll get plenty of votes no matter what. Many of my favorites became favorites back in the early days of VCRs when many an hour was spent taping WB cartoons from WGN, WTBS and WOR, the only really out-of-town stations our cable company provided. So some of these are a little obscure, but really, really funny. Many of the others became favorites from watching the Saturday morning Bugs Bunny Show year after year. And then there are a couple that are sure to be in everyone’s Top Ten.

Meatless Flyday
A Tale of Two Mice
Hush My Mouse
I Taw a Putty Tat
Hot Cross Bunny
A-Lad-in a Lamp
My Bunny Lies Over the Sea
The Awful Orphan
Mouse Wreckers
High Diving Hare
The Rabbit of Seville
Long-Haired Hare
The Windblown Hare
A Ham in a Role
The Scarlet Pumpernickel
It’s Hummer Time
Hillbilly Hare
A Fox in a Fix
Early to Bet
Cheese Chasers
A Bear for Punishment
Much Ado About Nutting
Hare Trimmed
I Gopher You
Claws for Alarm
Little Boy Boo
One Froggy Evening
Wideo Wabbit
The Honey-Mousers
Show Biz Bugs

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1. What’s Opera, Doc?
2. Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century
3. Duck Amuck
4. Rabbit of Seville
5. Robin Hood Daffy
6. Rabbit Seasoning
7. Claws for Alarm
8. High Note
9. Duck! Rabbit, Duck!
10. One Froggy Evening
11. Rabbit Fire
12. Feed the Kitty
13. Bully for Bugs
14. The Great Piggy Bank Robbery
15. Hair-Raising Hare
16. The Old Grey Hare
17. From A to Z-Z-Z-Z
18. Kiss Me Cat
19. Long-Haired Hare
20. Water, Water Every Hare
21. Three Little Bops
22. Racketeer Rabbit
23. Ali Baba Bunny
24. Fast and Furry-ous
25. Hare-Way to the Stars
26. Operation: Rabbit
27. Book Revue
28. Show Biz Bugs
29. Birds Anonymous
30. Back Alley Oproar
31. A-Lad-in His Lamp
32. Rabbit’s Feat
33. Double or Mutton
34. Haredevil Hare
35. Rhapsody Rabbit
36. Bugs and Thugs
37. Mouse Wreckers
38. Sahara Hare
39. The Mouse That Jack Built
40. Along Came Daffy
41. The Fair Haired Hare
42. No Parking Hare
43. Punch Trunk
44. Tree for Two
45. Hillbilly Hare
46. Little Red Riding Rabbit
47. Bugs Bunny Rides Again
48. Don’t Give Up the Sheep
49. Knighty Knight Bugs
50. Rocket Squad

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The Bugs-Daffy-Elmer trilogy
Bully for Bugs
Duck Amuck
Cheese Chasers
The Big Snooze
A Wild Hare
Robin Hood Daffy
Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2 Century
From Hare to Heir
The Abominable Snow Rabbit
Falling Hare
A Bird in Guilty Cage
Book Revue
Rabbit of Seville
Daffy Doodles
The Ducksters
The Great Piggy Bank Robbery
Kitty Kornered
Patient Porky
Brother Brat
Yankee Doodle Daffy

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“The “most historically significant” list would be different, and loaded with Tex Avery cartoons – A Wild Hare, Porky’s Duck Hunt, Porky The Wrestler, etc.”

Pretty much. Tex invented the very foundation of cartoons.

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woodyNYC:

I think Chuck Jones most underrated characters are the following: The Three Bears, Claude Cat, Hubie, Bertie, and Marc Anthony. They are all the most brilliantly created characters outside Bugs and Daffy. Unfortunately, Chuck stuck with Pe Pe Le Pew and The Road Runner and Coyote shorts. I am sorry but there is a single cartoon I like with any of them, they are just so stuck to a formula that nothing new could be done with them after one cartoon.

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Hurray, two votes for “Hush My Mouse”! I’ll make it a third. A funny Sniffles cartoon may seem like a contradiction in terms, but in his final outing, Sniffles is finally given smarts, wit and guile to offset his cutesy persona, makng him over into an ersatz Tweety. And the dialogue is sharp and funny, especially the endless stream of malapropisms from “Artie da manager.” (“If it ain’t Eddie G. Robincat, in da flesh and fantasty!” “Better late than forever, t’phrase a coin.” “Filligan, here I am with me life in piccady, and you have da VERVE to tell me we ain’t got no mouse knuckles!”) I laugh at this one every time.

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Water, Water Every Hare
Broom-Stick Bunny
Bully for Bugs
Knighty Knight Bugs
Transylvania 6-5000
Bunny Hugged
Rhapsody Rabbit
Rabbit of Seville
Hillbilly Hare
Devil May Hare

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My Top 10:

1. Duck Amuck. I don’t think I need to explain *why* I love it, even if people disagree. They will never write a better cartoon, and Chuck’s drawings and Maurice’s layouts give it titanium legs.
2. Kitty Kornered. They will never animate a better cartoon. I apologize to the Clampett elitists for not making it #1, but remember, there is nothing elitist about a Clampett cartoon, even if the art is divine.
3. Duck Dodgers in the 24th-1/2 Century. This one is quintessential to an understanding of Daffy’s character with slightly less pronounced theatrics.
4. A Tale of Two Kitties. Tweety was in top form here.
5. Porky Pig’s Feat. When the manager falls down a bajillion flights of stairs, backed by brilliantly redundant bouncing animation and Mel Blanc’s anguished yowls, my sides split. Daffy attempting an abstractly ethnic accent is almost as funny.
6. The Heckling Hare. It’s never been so hilarious to watch a smart-alecky trickster trample all over of an adorable simpleton.
7. The Scarlet Pumpernickel. Jones combined his faux-heroic Daffy with Clampett’s self-consciously goofy Daffy, and the results were terrific.
8. Rabbit Seasoning. This cartoon features the quintessential argument inversion, “pronoun trouble” or none.
9. To Beep or Not to Beep. My personal favorite Road Runner cartoon. It shouldn’t matter if the structure is the same in a series if the gags are always new and funny, but Chuck managed a bit of structure here as well, with the increasingly ridiculous variations on Wile E.’s malfunctioning rock-catapult thingamajig.
10. What’s Opera, Doc? Elmer’s rabid pursuit of Bugs escalates to literally operatic heights.

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1. Duck Amuck
2. Porky in Wackyland/Dough for the Do-Do
3. What’s Opera Doc?
4. The Great Piggy Bank Robbery
5. Rabbit of Seville
6. The Big Snooze
7. One Froggy Evening
8. Rabbit Seasoning
9. A Tale of Two Kitties
10. Feed the Kitty
11. The Old Grey Hare
12. Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarves
13. Bully for Bugs
14. Book Revue
15. Robin Hood Daffy
16. Baby Bottleneck
17. Rhapsody Rabbit
18. Scrambled Aches
19. Duck! Rabbit! Duck!
20. Russian Rhapsody
21. Now Hear This
22. Back Alley Oproar
23. Operation: Rabbit
24. Porky’s Preview
25. Rabbit Fire
26. It’s Hummer Time
27. A Bear for Punishment
28. Drip-Along Daffy
29. The Daffy Doc
30. The Ducksters
31. Bunny Hugged
32. Scrap Happy Daffy
33. Falling Hare
34. Buccaneer Bunny
35. Baseball Bugs
36. Show Biz Bugs
37. Daffy Duck Slept Here
38. Long Haired Hare
39. Thugs with Dirty Mugs
40. Duck Dodgers in the 24th ½ Century
41. The Grey-Hounded Hare
42. Ali Baba Bunny
43. Hare Brush
44. The Scarlet Pumpernickel
45. Rabbit Hood
46. Stop! Look! and Hasten!
47. Little Red Riding Rabbit
48. Norman Normal
49. A Ham in a Role
50. What’s Cookin’ Doc?

Hard one – left off another 30 or so I would have been SURE had to be on there . . .

I also posted the list over at my blog with links to the Wikipedia/IMDb entries and YouTube videos (available for all but 3 of the above).

Thanks for including the fans, Jerry,

Ian W. Hill
Brooklyn, NY

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Feed The Kitty
The Rabbit of Seville
I Love To Singa
Dog Collared
Nasty Quacks
Rebel Rabbit
An Itch In Time
A Fractured Leghorn
The Three Little Bops
Porky Pig’s Feat
Gorilla My Dreams
Bugs Bunny Nips The Nips
Rhapsody In Rivets
Fresh Airedale
Bully For Bugs
A Gruesome Twosome
You Ought To Be In Pictures
The Shanty Where Santy Claus Lives
One Froggy Evening
Racketeer Rabbit
Hittin’ The Trail For Hallelujah Land

Have fun writing your book, Jerry. I hope we haven’t given you too many suggestions.

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OK, I added my originally list hastily while I was at work, but let me expound on my choices (and I really tried hard not to look at everyone else’s choices):

Rabbit’s Kin – Stan Freberg’s Pete Puma is just hands down one of the funniest characters I’ve ever seen in a cartoon! I always use his “I know you-u” line when I run into someone I haven’t seen in a while.

Hush My Mouse – Art, Filigan, Edward G. Robincat (love that name) and Sniffles with the higher pitched, faster voice with the flute playing in the background – I love this one and I’m glad I have it on my Looney Tunes laserdisc still.

Back Alley Oproar – I know this is a remake of an earlier cartoon with Porky and a nondescript cat, but Sylvester’s songs, Elmer’s reactions to everything (when he’s blown up and becomes an angel, he just shrugs his shoulders and says “Oh well, at least now I can get some west”), and the stand-in cat just has me on the floor!

The Hep Cat – the cat’s mannerisms and facial expressions in this are hysterical, especially when he first meets the puppet, rubs her back, feels the dog’s nose and says “Well, something new has been added!”

The Great Piggy Bank Robbery – Daffy at his daffiest; I love the rundown of the criminals, especially Rubberhead and Neon Noodle!

Brother Brat – All the character’s in this are hilarious, especially Bea Benederette (Betty Rubble) as the Blockheed-working mom!

Hare Meets Herr – The best “line” in this is when Gehring tells the falcon to find a “rabbit-za”, looks at the audience with a straight deadpan expression and pulls out a sign that says “Evidently this guy is a foreigner”! Classic!

Tortoise Wins By A Hare – OK, just because of the role reversal this one would be a winner, but all of the dimwitted rabbits in this one crack me up, especially when they’re beating up Bugs because they think he’s the “toitle”! “Take that ya doity toitle, take that!” “Toitle-schmoitle, I’m da rabbit!”

Dough For the Do-Do – Again, another remake, but it’s the dodo beating up Porky while he’s dancing that just makes me laugh!

Porky Pig’s Feat – Classic! Everything from Daffy losing the money, to the bill items (hot and dirty running water, sunshine, good will, Louis XIV bed (without Louis)), to the staircase fall – everything about this one is funny!

We The Animals Squeak – Kansas City Kitty’s radio appearance, but it’s the lead mouse’s ramblings over the plan that make this one a hit for me (“Not forgetting to apasititan with the forty year precitory, in addition to the rigatory…”)! Two old friends of mine can recite the whole monologue with me to this day!

Scaredy Cat – Without dialog, Sylvester steals the show, especially when he’s lowered in his basket to who knows where, and hours later he’s returned stark white and frightened out of his wits! Don’t get me started on the Chopin’s Death March scenes with the other cat and then Porky!

A Pest In The House – The poor sap in this one had to stay at Elmer’s hotel with Daffy as the bellhop! I love the fact that the guy just kept taking his aggravation out on Elmer, even at the end! “Noisy little chap, isn’t he?!?”

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As long as one of the Ralph Phillip shorts make it on there I’ll be happy.

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Not sure this went through the first time, so let me try again:

01. Duck! Rabbit! Duck!
02. Rabbit Seasoning
03. Rabbit Fire
04. What’s Opera, Doc?
05. Duck Amuck
06. The Great Piggy Bank Robbery
07. Show Biz Bugs
08. One Froggy Evening
09. Little Red Riding Rabbit
10. Coal Black and De Sebben Dwarfs
11. Rabbit of Seville
12. Book Revue
13. Duck Dodgers in the 24th 1/2 Century
14. Porky Pig’s Feat
15. Birds Anonymous
16. Fast and Furry-ous
17. High Diving Hare
18. The Foghorn Leghorn
19. For Scent-imental Reasons
20. Rabbit Hood
21. The Scarlet Pumpernickel
22. The Old Grey Hare
23. Nasty Quacks
24. Long-Haired Hare
25. Slick Hare
26. Water, Water Every Hare
27. Feed the Kitty
28. Porky in Wackyland
29. Beanstalk Bunny
30. The Dover Boys

Can’t wait for the book. Good luck.

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Here are the 50 I probably like the most, in the order I thought of them:

1. Scaredy Cat
2. Daffy Duck Slept Here
3. Pest in the House
4. Haredevil Hare
5. Great Piggy Bank Robbery
6. Tortise Wins By a Hare
7. Hare Trigger
8. To Duck or Not To Duck
9. Porky Pig’s Feat
10. Rabbit Punch
11. Rebel Rabbit
12. No Barking
13. Baton Bunny
14. One Froggy Evening
15. The Hypo-Chondri Cat
16. My Favorite Duck
17. Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarves
18. Eight-Ball Bunny
19. Rabbit Fire
20. Rabbit Seasoning
21. Duck Rabbit Duck!
22. The Abominable Snow Rabbit
23. What Makes Daffy Duck
24. Book Revue
25. A Tale of Two Kitties
26. Tin Pan Alley Cats
27. I Taw a Putty Tat
28. Rhapsody Rabbit
29. Racketeer Rabbit
30. Baby Bottleneck
31. The Bee-Deviled Bruin
32. Inki and the Lion
33. Inki at the Circus
34. Chow Hound
35. Claws For Alarm
36. Daffy Dilly
37. The Dover Boys
38. The Ducksters
39. Golden Yeggs
40. Who’s Kitten Who?
41. I Love To Singa
42. Yankee Doodle Daffy
43: You Ought To Be In Pictures
44. Baseball Bugs
45. Draftee Daffy
46. Drip-Along Daffy
47. Wagon Heels
48. Hyde And Go Tweet
49. Porky In Wackyland
50. Boobs In The Woods

Some of these might not be picked by anyone else, but what da hey.

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The Warner cartoons! They twisted my young unformed brain and created an animation fan(atic). Some favourites that can still make me laugh out loud include:

Duck Amuck – “Ain’t I a stinker?”
The Rabbit of Seville – “Next!”
One Froggy Evening – “Hello my baby!”
Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century – “Illudium Phosdex, the shaving cream atom!”
What’s Opera, Doc? – “Kill da wabbit! Kill da wabbit!”
Bully for Bugs – “What a gulli-bull… what a nin-cow-poop!”
Baseball Bugs – “Yerrr OUT!”
Hareway to the Stars – “Where’s the kaboom? There was supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom!”
Bewitched Bunny – Love those hairpins…
I Gopher You – Raymond Scott’s tune “Powerhouse”…
Bunny Hugged – “Aw, you look tired, Crusher. Why don’t you rest up on this nice, soft floor for a few minutes…”
Three Little Bops – “Didn’t go to Heaven, was the other place!”
Porky In Wackyland – This weirdness still makes me laugh!
Ain’t She Tweet – Stilts!
Fast and Furry-Ous – Cartoon-physics painted tunnels!
The Hole Idea – As a kid I always wanted to invent a Portable Hole.
Robin Hood Daffy – “Ho! Haha! Guard! Turn! Parry! Dodge! Spin!”

Tons more would bubble to the surface if I thought hard enough, but these are the ones that come to mind right away.

Best of luck with the book. Look forward to buying one soon!

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The Shell-Shocked Egg.

Nobody ever seems to talk about it, but it’s absolutely perfect. One of the funniest and most delightful films (animated or live) that I’ve ever seen.

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1. What’s Opera Doc?
2. Rabbit Seasoning
3. Duck Amuck
4. The Great Piggy Bank Robbery
5. Russian Rhapsody
6. Little Boy Boo
7. Feed The Kitty
8. I Love To Singa
9. One Froggy Evening
10. Duck Dodgers in the 24th ½ Century

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It probably wouldn’t make anyone’s top 50 but if you measured it by how hard I laughed Art Davis’s “Stupor Salesman” would be the best.

Artistically nothing comes close to Jones and Clampett, though.

Top five in no order:

Feed The Kitty
Russian Rhapsody
Tortoise Wins By A Hare
The Dover Boys
Kitty Kornered

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1:Rabbit Of Seville

no contest here,

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My top fourteen…

1. Porky’s Pooch
2. To Duck… or not to Duck
3. The Hep Cat
4. A Tale of Two Kitties
5. Porky in Wackyland
6. Hair-Raising Hare
7. Jeepers Creepers
8. One Froggy Evening
9. I Love to Singa
10. The Abominable Snow Rabbit
11. Swooner Crooner
12. What’s Opera, Doc?
13. Scaredy Cat
14. The Great Piggy Bank Robbery

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I’m sorry but I am sickened by how many people on this blog think that “What’s Opera Doc?” is the greatest Looney Tune ever made. My opinion is it has nice Layouts! That’s it!. Story is a redo of “Heir Meets Hare”, the animation is not really top notch at this point for Warners, and above all things the characters have lost a lot of their personality by the late 50’s. Bugs and Fudd seem like they are performers in an opera, not cartoon characters making fun of opera.
Friz knew how to direct the characters and the music together to make the whole thing a really fun cartoon.
Clampett’s “Corney Concerto” is a Great Looney Tune! Funny animation, good in character acting (ie Fudd as the host), and funny sound effects that plus the cartoonie musical score. A great kick at Disney’s Fantaisa.

Chuck’s “Rabbit Of Seville” is a much better cartoon.

None of the mentioned cartoons should be number 1 on the list. I’m just ranting about how shocking it is to see so many cartoon lovers, pick “what’s opera doc?” as number 1. I always thought the kind of people who love “What’s Opera Doc?” were those who only watched Looney Tunes on the Bugs and Tweety show and had never really seen the pre 1948 Warner’s cartoons.

My number one is either “A Wild Hare” or “Porky’s Ducky Hunt”.

I’ll have to re-watch them both and get back to you.

I look forward to your new book Jerry. Thank You for involving Cartoon Brew.

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There is such a great legacy of animation from Warner Brothers and this list hopefully will be the defintive collection of the top 100.

The only comment I would like to add to this list is to recognize what a horribly overrated cartoon “What’s Opera, Doc?” is and for people to reevaluate its quality and importance in the collection.

Here’s my list of reasons:

1. This cartoon’s design is derivative of original style (by ripping off UPA stylized trend) and very sadly marks the definitive end to Warners truly wonderfully designed and animated characters from the 40s-50s.

2. The characters are really poorly animated and at this point so dreadfully stylized off character, most notably with the emphasis of Chuck Jones’ “oversiized dewy eyed” Bugs and Elmer.

3. Its storyline is mundane and dialog is stilted, even for a late period Warners cartoon.

4. It is seriously self important and pretentious piece of “art”.
What is more dreadful for a classic cartoon series which specialized in witty dialog and chaotic mayhem than to be turned into a 50s college “intoduction to Opera 101″ course. Poor Chuck must have been desparate for personal validation that he is a serious artist.

5. Painfully bad ending, “What did you expect a Happy Ending?..”. no, something very funny and clever!!!

6. Rabbit of Seville, just watch this and you’ll realize that this was the perfect marriage of classic opera and animation. Brilliantly fast and addictive storyline…. wonderful animation… most importanly it is hilarious to watch over and over again…. this short is an amazing classic.

“eh…Next!?”

6. Finally, and again most important. This short is seriously unfunny and is sadly plays like a train accident for all of the talented careers of the Warner Brothers Animation Studio.

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1. The Great Piggy Bank Robbery
2. Falling Hare
3. Baby Bottleneck
4. Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid
5. A Corny Concerto
6. Yankee Doodle Daffy
7. What’s Cookin’ Doc?
8. Kitty Kornered
9. The Big Snooze
10. Book Revue
11. Wackiki Wabbit
12. Nasty Quacks
13. Draftee Daffy
14. Little Red Riding Rabbit
15. Case of the Missing Hare
16. Daffy Duck Slept Here
17. Hare Tonic
18. Buckaroo Bugs
19. Odor of the Day
20. Ding Dog Daddy
21. Tick Tock Tuckered
22. Porky’s Preview
23. Hamateur Night
24. Porky in Wackyland
25. Dover Boys
26. Tortoise Beats Hare
27. Super Rabbit
28. A Gruesome Twosome
29. Daffy Doodles
30. Easter Yeggs
31. Porky Pig’s Feat
32. Fresh Fish
33. What’s Opera Doc?
34. Wagon Wheels
35. Greetings Bait
36. The Wacky Worm
37. Ghost Wanted
38. A Tale of Two Kitties
39. Hare Splitter
40. Bowery Bugs
41. Homeless Hare
42. Wild, Wild World
43. Feed The Kitty
44. Believe it or Else
45. Fresh Airedale
46. Into Your Dance
47. The Hole Idea
48. Three Little Bops
49. I Love to Singa
50. Hold the Lion, Please!

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I have narrowed my favorites list down to 5:

1. The Great Piggy Bank Robbery
2. Baby Bottleneck
3. A Gruesome Twosome
4. Duck! Rabbit, Duck!
5. One Froggy Evening

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Off the top of my head:

Tom Turk and Daffy (Jones)
Porky Pig’s Feat (Tashlin)
Fool Coverage (McKimson)
Feed the Kitty (Jones)
Buckaroo Bugs (Clampett)
The Ducksters (Jones)
Wabbit Twouble (‘Cwampett’)
The Rabbit of Seville (Jones)
A Tale of Two Kitties (Clampett)
Duck! Rabbit! Duck! (Jones)
Dripalong Daffy (Jones)
Robin Hood Daffy (Jones)
Draftee Daffy (Clampett)
Bugs and Thugs (Freleng)
Easter Yeggs (McKimson)
The Great Piggy Bank Robbery (Clampett)
Duck Amuck (Jones)
Lickety Splat (Jones)
Stupor Duck (McKimson)
A Bear for Punishment (Jones)

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1. Tin Pan Alley Cats
2. Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs
3. Hollywood Steps Out
4. Falling Hare
5. What’s Opera, Doc
6. The Great Piggy Bank Robbery
7. Hair-Raising Hare
8. Slick Hare
9. A Corny Concerto
10. The Adventures Of The Road Runner
11. An Awful Orphan
12 Canned Feud
13 A Gruesome Twosome
14 Kitty Kornered
15. Broom-Stick Bunny

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I agree with most of the above, but I would also add A Rhapsody in Rivets — a pure piece of Freeling magic!

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Tough assignment. I had to go through the entire filmography you compiled with Will Friedman, Jerry. I picked out the ones I found the most memorable, weeded out the fifty that I simply could not eliminate and then tried to rank them. *whew*. So here’s my top fifty. I decided to go ahead and list my runners-up afterward, but only the first fifty are intened for your consideration. (As to the Roadrunner debate: I love them far too much to eliminate them. Formulaic or not.)

The Top Fift:
1 Rabbit Seasoning
2 Duck Amuck
3 What’s Opera, Doc?
4 One Froggy Evening
5 High Note
6 Jumpin’ Jupiter
7 Feed the Kitty
8 Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century
9 Gee Whiz-z-z
10 Robin Hood Daffy
11 The Rabbit of Seville
12 Bewitched Bunny
13 Wild and Wooly Hare
14 Hare-Way to the Stars
15 Duck! Rabbit! Duck!
16 Claws For Alarm
17 Long-Haired Hare
18 Two’s a Crowd
19 Boobs in the Woods
20 Zoom and Bored
21 Hillbilly Hare
22 What’s Up Doc?
23 Bully for Bugs
24 Knighty-Knight Bugs
25 Dr. Jerkyl’s Hide
26 Dog Gone South
27 High Diving Hare
28 Beanstalk Bunny
29 The Ducksters
30 Rabbit’s Kin
31 The Scarlet Pumpernickel
32 Stop, Look and Hasten
33 Scaredy Cat
34 Sahara Hare
35 Pappy’s Puppy
36 Jeepers Creepers
37 Deduce, You Say
38 Operation: Rabbit
39 The Hasty Hare
40 Going! Going! Gosh!
41 Double or Mutton
42 My Bunny Lies Over the Sea
43 The Abominable Snow Rabbit
44 Porky in Wackyland
45 Roman Legion Hare
46 Little Red Riding Rabbit
47 Mutiny on the Bunny
48 From A to Z-Z-Z-Z
49 To Itch His Own
50 Three Little Bops

The Runners-Up (alphabetically):
A-Lad-In His Lamp
Apes of Wrath
Awful Orphan
Baby Buggy Bunny
Back Alley Oproar
Bad Ol’ Puttty Tat
A Bear For Punishment
Bedevilled Bunny
The Big Snooze
Birds Anonymous
Broom-Stick Bunny
Bugs and Thugs
Cheese Chasers
Daffy Duck Slept Here
Devil May Hare
The Foghorn Leghorn
For Scent-imental Reasons
Golden Yeggs
Greedy For Tweety
Hare Brush
Hare Trimmed
Haredevil Hare
I Gopher Your
Lovelorn Leghorn
Often an Orphan
Past Perfumance
Porky Pig’s Feat
Rabbit Romeo
Red Riding Hoodwinked
Riff Raffy Daffy
A Streetcat Named Sylvester
Tick Tock Tuckered
Tweety’s S.O.S.
Walky Talky Hawky
Water, Water Every Hare
A Wild Hare

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I’m only going to pick one cartoon. The Henpecked Duck, 1941, Dr. Robert Clampett. The main reason is how the character of Daffy is handled. We’re given a very unfunny situation; a missing baby. It’s made hilarious just by the way in which Daffy reacts to the emergency. What must be going through his head. “The wife’s gonna kill me, I’m going to jail, I lost my son!!!” Not only that, but the cartoon also highlights Daffy’s soft side. There’s real drama here! Look at the way his wife cries as she screams “I wanna divorce!” for the last time. It’s ever so slightly tear jerking and also hilarious!

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One Froggy Evening
Rabbit Of Seville
Duck Rabbit Duck
A-Lad And His Lamp
Duck Dodgers In The 24 1/2 Century
Canned Feud
Drip Along Daffy
Feed The Kitty
The Wearing Of The Grin
Duck Amuck

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I know the lines, that anyone who is a fan will be able to relate it to the cartoons.

It’s funny, I can recite most of them line by line, but barely know any of the actual names of the cartoons, I’ll post the lines sticking in my head right now, so here goes:

Hassan Chop!

I never forget a face, but in your case, I’ll make an exception.

You know, sometimes I’m so smart it frightens me.

Consequences Shmonsequences, as long as I’m rich.

Don’t you believe I’m a fish? Well then I don’t believe you’re a pig!

Acoustically sound no doubt.

Stop breathing in my cup!

Stop steaming up my glasses!

Hare! Die! Hair Dye! That’s a joke son. You missed it!

I’ll perplex him with my slow ball.

First base Bugs Bunny. Second base Bugs Bunny. Third base Bugs Bunny. etc.

Hello my Baby, Hello my Darling…

Good morning Ralph. Good Morning Sam.

Beep Beep

Wiley E Coyote. Super Genius. I like the way that rolls out.

Delays. Nothing but Delays.

Having re-re-disposed of the monster, exit our hero…

Dogpile on the rabbit! Dogpile on the rabbit!

Well now I wouldn’t say that.

Tell me Sylvester, is there a history of insanity in your family?

Duck Season. Rabbit Season.

Ah Ha! Pronoun trouble.

Funny, I didn’t think molasses would run in January.

Kill the rabbit! Kill the rabbit! (opera)

It must be The Human Fly!

I will jump 1000 feet into a damp sponge.

I need air. My lungs Crave air!

When it disintegrates, brother it disintegrates. What do you know? It disintegrated.

Ho, Haha, Guard, Turn, Parry, Dodge, Spin, Ha, Thrust!

Don’t worry sweetheart! I’ll save you!

Stop steaming up my tail. What do you want to do? Wrinkle it?

You’re a big boy now. Take your finger out of your mouth.

Leopold. Leopold. Leopold.

Modern Design

Nothing beats a hot dog cooked out of doors.

I told you rabbits weren’t very bright.

Now what did you go and do that for?

What that first step. It’s a lulu!

Hoboken!?!

Shutup Shutting up.

Were not stuck rabbit. you’re stuck.

You heard the boss Mugsy. Let me have it.

How many lumps would you like?

I’ll love him and squeeze him and call him George

You don’t say? You don’t say? Who was it? He didn’t say!

My name is Elmer J Fudd. Millionaire. I own a mansion and a yacht, again.

My what a huge carrot.

It specifically states in my contract that I am to be drawn as a duck.

I’m allergic to pain.

I’m financially secure. I’m socially well off.

What a way for a duck to travel. Underground.

The Crusher!

Gremlins Ha ha. Little men.

Ok – my fingers are cramping up, but that was fun going through them again in my head.

Bounus Question for a true Daffy fan. What is his middle name? Only one cartoon shows it, but it is never even mentioned.

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Picking the best Looney Tunes seems an exercise in futility but gosh it’s fun to try. I’m only going to list three:

The Rabbit of Seville –wonderfully absurdist humor set to music.

Drip-Along Daffy –It was either this or Deduce, You Say. I think Daffy and Porky are at their best here.

A Bear for Punishment –Oh those three bears. Precursor to “All in the Family” and “The Simpsons” if ever there was one. Of the three bears films this is the best.

Nothing necessarily groundbreaking about any of them but easily the snappiest, funniest Looney Tunes ever. If these picks label me as a Chuck Jones fanboy well so be it. (I’m also a McKimson fanboy but these edged his out by that much).

All these picks are killer. Looking forward to seeing which picks make the final cut!

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What’s Opera Doc, Rabbit of Seville, Duck Dodgers In The 24-1/2th Century, One Froggy Evening, Duck Amuck, Louvre come back to me!, Double or Mutton, Bewitched Bunny, Feed The Kitty, Hair Raising Hair

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hmmm, not the easiest thing in the world to declare, but I would have to say at least the following:

8 Ball Bunny
One Froggy Evening
Dough Rey Me
24 Carrot Bunny
Hare Raising Hare
The Foghorn Leghorn
Baby Bottleneck
Pest in the House
The Big Snooze
The Hep Cat
Three Little Bops
Little Red Riding Rabbit
Scaredy Cat
Water, Water Every Hare
Easter Yeggs
Duck, Rabbit, Duck
Bugs and Thugs

Can’t wait to see the outcome.

Henry

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Wakiki Rabbit ftw!

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Ahh, one of my all-time favourite topics – Bugs Bunny cartoons. The very first TV show I ever watched (I

was 8 at the time) was the Bugs Bunny show which in 1961 was running on the local station at 7pm week

nights.

My favourite individual ones in approximate order are:

Duck Fire (I say it’s duck season and I say fire!)
Duck Rabbit Duck
The Ali Baba one in the cave – Hassan chop! (icketty-ackity-ook) (consequences, schmonsequences, as long

as I’m rich)
Duck Dodgers (yessir, your heroship sir)
The one where Porky Pig is the game show host and Daffy is the contestant (ohhh, I’m sorry, you must pay

the penalty! 1000 gallons of genuine Niagara Falls)
Drip-a-long Daffy
Robin Hood Daffy (yoiks and away)
The Foreign Legion (whoa camel..I wonder if he’s silly enough to open all those doors..)
Red Riding Hood with the drippy wolf and Sylvester
High divin’ act (I paid mah 4 bits to see the high-divin act..)
The bull fight (of course you know this means war..)
The Marriage of Figaro one with PP and BB
The one where BB is tormenting DD with the animation (gee ain’t I a stinker)
Cut! Bring on zee double with DD & BB (I dare you…I DARE you..i dare YOU)
The Golden Egg with DD and the gangsters (ehh, make wit the atmosphere)
Foghorn Leghorn and the Dog (tie down the pumpkins)
DD and the the talent agent (he blows himself up)
Marvin Martian (there’s supposed to be an earth-shattering ka-boom)
This time we didn’t forget the gwavy
Sylvester and PP in the haunted house

Immortal.

Best of list would have to include:

The Great Piggy Bank Robbery
Porky in Wackyland
What’s Opera Doc
Rabbit Seasoning

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1 – Duck Amuck
2 – What’s Opera, Doc?
3 – Robin Hood Daffy
4 – To Beep or Not to Beep
5 – Haredevil Hare
6 – Three Little Bops

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Many folks are weighing in on the “overrated-ness” (perhaps correctly) of What’s Opera Doc. Even though it is in my top 5, it is for reasons I stated–lots of atmosphere, plus it is very self referential and satirical. It plays on the Bugs v. Elmer shtick in a way that broke, by then, a very tired formula. That, and the horse’s ass makes me laugh out loud every time…

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Ok, here’s my list. Like any other list of this nature, I can hear yall saying: “How could he leave out…” and “How can he put so and so ahead of such and such.
1-FALLING HARE
2-KITTY KORNERD
3-COAL BLACK
4-GREAT PIGGY BANK ROBBERY
5-HORTON HATCHES THE EGG
6-HARE CONDITIONED
7-GHOST WANTED
8-AN ITCH IN TIME
9-SUPER RABBIT
10-CORNY CONCERTO
11-THE DOVER BOYS
12-LITTLE RED RIDING RABBIT
13-BACK ALLEY UPROAR
14-RABBIT SEASONING
15-DUCK, RABBIT, DUCK
16-BOOK REVUE
17-ONE FROGGY EVENING
18-THE BIG SNOOZE
19-HOLLYWOOD STEPS OUT
20-GOOFY GOPHERS
21-BUGS BUNNY GETS THE BOID
22-TOM TURK AND DAFFY
23-HAVE YOU GOT ANY CASTLES
24-8 BALL BUNNY
25-RABBIT FIRE
26-NASTY QUACKS
27-ALI BABA BUNNY
28-TORTOISE VS HARE
29-FAIR AND WORM-ER
30-BUGS BUNNY RIDES AGAIN
31-DUCK DODGERS IN THE 24TH…
32-BASHFUL BUZZARD
33-BEDTIME FOR SNIFFLES
34-A PEST IN THE HOUSE
35-BUNNY HUGGED
36-DUCK AMUCK
37-GREETINGS BAIT
38-RABBIT HOOD
39-BOOBS IN THE WOODS
40-SNIFFLES AND THE BOOKWORM
41-RABBIT OF SEVILLE
42-DRAFTEE DAFFY
43-HUSH MY MOUSE
44-PORKY’S PARTY
45-THE OLD GREY HARE
46-CLAWS FOR ALARMS
47-WACKIKI RABBIT
48-BUGS BUNNY & THE THREE BEARS
49-WATER, WATER, EVERY HARE
50-HARE TONIC

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Anthony Russo…

The answer is “Dumas”, from the Scarlet Pumpernickel!

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Scaredy Cat
Feed The Kitty
Cheese Chasers
Design For Leaving
Greedy For Tweety
Chow Hound
Dog Gone South
The Wild Chase
Bear Feat
Goldimouse and the Three Cats
Fresh Airedale

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@ Brian. Very impressed. Few people I know of that ever know Dumas is Daffy Duck’s middle name.

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1. Rabbit of Seville
2. One Froggy Evening
3. The Great Piggy Bank Robbery
4. Duck Amuck
5. Tortoise Wins By A Hare
6. Fast and Furry-ous
7. Baby Bottleneck
8. The Wise Quacking Duck
9. Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears
10. Coal Black and De Sebben Dwarfs
11. I Taw a Putty Tat
12. The Foghorn Leghorn
13. For Scent-imental Reasons
14. The Trial of Mr. Wolf
15. What’s Opera Doc
16. Hillbilly Hare
17. High Diving Hare
18. Trap Happy Porky
19. Porky’s Tire Trouble
20. Back Alley Oproar
21. The Cat’s Bah
22. Little Orphan Airedale
23. Rebel Rabbit
24. Duck Dodgers
25. Long Haired Hare
26. Three Little Bops
27. Each Dawn I Crow
28. A Ham in a Role
29. Early to Bet
30. The Scarlet Pumpernickel
31. Kitty Kornered
32. Rabbit Seasoning
33. Chow Hound
34. The Hypo-condri-cat
35. Feed the Kitty
36. Corny Concerto
37. Bugs Bunny Rides Again
38. Little Lion Hunter
39. You ought to be in Pictures
40. A Wild Hare
41. Little Red Walking Hood
42. Of Fox and Hounds
43. The Old Gray Hare
44. Fractured Leghorn
45. The Dover Boys
46. To Duck or Not to Duck
47. Daffy Doodles
48. Lovelorn Leghorn
49. Shop Look and Listen
50. Corn Plastered

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“Few people I know of that ever know Dumas is Daffy Duck’s middle name.”

I think that was just a gag for the film, not really his full name. Dumas sounds like….you know.

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List has to include “Bugs Nips the Nips,” everyone’s favorite xenophobic rabbit fighting the Japs!

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Tough to choose! This is my best-guess list, in as near an order of preference as I can manage:

Rabbit Seasoning
Bully for Bugs
Duck! Rabbit! Duck!
Hare-Way to the Stars
Duck Dodgers In The 24-1/2th Century
What’s Opera, Doc?
Porky In Wackyland
Rabbit Rampage
Rabbit Of Seville
Rabbit Hood
Hair-Raising Hare
Operation: Rabbit
To Hare Is Human
Compressed Hare
A-Lad-In His Lamp
Robin Hood Daffy
Knights Must Fall
Knight-mare Hare
Bunny Hugged
Bowery Bugs
Homeless Hare
Roman Legion-Hare
Long-Haired Hare
8 Ball Bunny
Forward March Hare
No Parking Hare
Knighty Knight Bugs
Devil May Hare
Broom-Stick Bunny
Little Red Riding Rabbit
Transylvania 6-5000
Mad as a Mars Hare
Baton Bunny
Water, Water Every Hare
The Hasty Hare
Bonanza Bunny
Wet Hare
Ali Baba Bunny
Bedeviled Rabbit
Dr. Devil and Mr. Hare
Oily Hare
Mutiny on the Bunny
Buccaneer Bunny
Hare We Go
14 Carrot Rabbit
Hare Lift

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1. What’s Opera, Doc? (obviously)
2. Duck Amuck

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Here you go Jerry. My top twenty
1. Duck Dodgers and the 24 1/2 Century
2. Rabbit Seasoning
3. What’s Opera Doc?
4. Duck Amuck
5. Birds Anonymous
6. One Froggy Evening
7. The Great Piggy Bank Robbery
8. The Rabbit of Seville
9. Bully For Bugs
10. The one with the opera singer
11. The Wild Race
12. Hareway to the Stars
13. Knighty Night Bugs
14. The Wild Hare
15. Walky Talky Hawky
16. Drip Along Daffy
17. Baby Bottleneck
18. A Tale of Two Kitties
19. Porky’s Duck Hunt
20. Devil Make Hare

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1. Porky Pig’s Feat
2. A Sheep in the Deep
3. Three Little Bops
4. Boyhood Daze
5. Eight-Ball Bunny
6. Rabbit Fire
7. It’s Hummer Time
8. Lickety-Splat
9. Ballot Box Bunny
10. The Unruly Hare

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One Froggy Evening – my all time favorite!

And, in alphabetical order:

Ali Baba Bunny
Duck Dodgers In The 24th And ½ Century
Easter Yeggs
Inki And The Minah Bird
Rabbit Of Seville
The Scarlet Pumpernickel
What’s Opera, Doc?

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I post on most animation threads as “FleischerFan” but obviously I am a huge fan of Looney Tunes (who isn’t?). I was going to post my “Top 25″ but just couldn’t decide what film to bump, so here are my top 26 (and thanks, Jerry, for giving those of us in the hoi-paloi some input into this book – can’t wait to see it):

1. What’s Opera, Doc?
2. Duck Amuck
3. A Wild Hare
4. Deduce, You Say
5. Birds Anonymous
6. Sahara Hare
7. One Froggy Evening
8. Coal Black and De Sebben Dwarfs
9. Book Revue
10. The Great Piggy Bank Robbery
11. Porky’s Duck Hunt
12. You Oughta Be in Pictures
13. (Page) Miss Glory
14. Duck Dodgers in the 24½ Century
15. Robin Hood Daffy
16. Corny Concerto
17. Ali Baba Bunny
18. Fast and Furry-ous
19. Broomstick Bunny
20. The Big Snooze
21. The Scarlet Pumpernickel
22. Dough for the Do-do
23. Scaredy Cat
24. The Dover Boys at Pimento U.
25. Speaking of the Weather
26. Duck! Rabbit! Duck!