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Elmyra is best left in Tiny Toons...in light doses.
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Alright, I'm gonna say it- Tiny Toons was good... When I was in seventh grade!! By the time eighth grade rolled around, I realized that it did in fact stink. In fact, I can't ever remember laughing to one of the "jokes" on the show, unlike Animaniacs or Pinky & the Brain (in fact, I often find myself saying "Wink Martindale Day" just 'cause it amuses me.) I also have a particular loathing for Babs Bunny. Feh!
Truly, I bemoan kids TV these days. I grew up in the 80's & 90's, and look what I had: GI Joe, Thundercats, The Real Ghostbusters, Ducktales, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Batman: The Animated Series, Disney's Gargoyles, Animaniacs, Freakazoid; good stuff. What do kids these days have? Not much. Sure, Spongebob's cool, and Cartoon Network has some good shows, but other than that, I can't think of anything decent for the young'uns.
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I shit on Tiny Toons. I hated that show.
Thank god I grew up when they would still air the original Loony Toons unedited. Same with Tom & Jerry before they were neutered.
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Alright, I'm gonna say it- Tiny Toons was good... When I was in seventh grade!! By the time eighth grade rolled around, I realized that it did in fact stink. In fact, I can't ever remember laughing to one of the "jokes" on the show, unlike Animaniacs or Pinky & the Brain (in fact, I often find myself saying "Wink Martindale Day" just 'cause it amuses me.) I also have a particular loathing for Babs Bunny. Feh!
Truly, I bemoan kids TV these days. I grew up in the 80's & 90's, and look what I had: GI Joe, Thundercats, The Real Ghostbusters, Ducktales, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Batman: The Animated Series, Disney's Gargoyles, Animaniacs, Freakazoid; good stuff. What do kids these days have? Not much. Sure, Spongebob's cool, and Cartoon Network has some good shows, but other than that, I can't think of anything decent for the young'uns.
Young'uns? A good series transends age.
Samurai Jack was wonderful while it lasted.
Also, dude have you seen Thundercats lately? It really didn't hold up well. They were all so melodramatic. Awful. Good as a joke though.
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I shit on Tiny Toons. I hated that show.
Thank god I grew up when they would still air the original Loony Toons unedited. Same with Tom & Jerry before they were neutered.
I liked Animaniacs though.
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Also, dude have you seen Thundercats lately? It really didn't hold up well. They were all so melodramatic. Awful. Good as a joke though.
Okay, true, but it was better than Transformers.
Shameful confession #1: I don't like Transformers.
Shameful confession #2: I did like Bravestar.
Oh, I just remembered C.O.P.S. That was cool too.
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I didn't see much Bravestar but I had, and still have some of the action figures.
I loved C.O.P.S I thought I was the only one who remembered.
I show I liked but was short lived was The Galaxy Rangers.
A show I haven't seen since its original run but I remember likeing was the Bionic Six.
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No man, C.O.P.S. was the bomb! Bulletproof was the man. I honestly can't think of any other cartoon from the 80's where the leader was a black guy.
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Plus he was Bad ass!
When B.P. had to leave his office it was a bad day to be a criminal.
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I still have a bunch of the C.O.P.S figures too. They were awesome.
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Damn straight! Plus, those action figures came with caps! How cool was that? No toy today is gonna come out with any kind of firework, even if it is something as relatively harmless as caps. You apply pressure to a strip of paper lined with nubs of gunpowder, and you get smoke and delightful "bang". God, I miss the 80's.
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Yea, everything is so cheaply made and pacified now.
Die cast metal is a thing of the past.
Then new line of G.I.Joes & Star Wars figures are a joke compared to what we had.
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How cool were those figures from Star Trek: The Motion Picture!
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I am old, stuck ion my ways and resistant to change, therefore this will suck!
Seriously, when I see the old cartoons I watched as a kid, most of them are crap.
Thundercats, He-man, Transformers, ALL CRAP!!!
Sure, there are timeless shows, the original Looney Toons, the early Tom and Jerry's, Batmna TAS, but most cartoons are aimed at kids and written for them.
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I saw a wee little bit of it last night on Entertainment Tonight . . . and they had Buzz speak the "What's up doc?" line . . . holy hell, it's gonna be horrible. 
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Talk about extreme makeovers. Take a look at what's happening to Daffy and Bugs.
Hoping to breathe new life into its animated Looney Tunes franchise and prop up the WB television network's slumping Kids' WB line-up, Time Warner Inc.'s Warner Bros. is planning to launch a new cartoon series this fall based on "re-imagined" versions of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Tasmanian Devil, Lola Bunny, Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote.
Warner Bros. has created angular, slightly menacing-looking versions of the classic Looney Tunes characters for its new series, dubbed "Loonatics" and set in the year 2772.
Names for the new characters haven't been finalized, but they are likely to be derived from the originals: Buzz Bunny, for example.
Each new character retains personality quirks of the original. The new Bugs, for example, will be the natural leader of the Loonatics' spaceship; the new Daffy will remain confident that he is the one who should be in charge.
Warner Bros. isn't sending the venerable original Looney Tunes cast into retirement. But it is trying to update the characters' appeal among modern kids.
The classic characters were wisecrackers who rode their irreverent humor to stardom in the 1940s. The challenge now for Warner Bros. is to find a fresh way to tap the funny bone of an audience raised on Bart Simpson and SpongeBob SquarePants.
"The new series will have the same classic wit and wisdom, but we have to do it more in line with what kids are talking about today," says Sander Schwartz, president of Warner Bros. Animation.
The plots are action-oriented, filled with chases and fights. Each character possesses a special crime-fighting power.
Sounds familiar? The format echoes a successful show Warner Bros. launched in 2003 on its WB network and Cartoon Network called "Teen Titans," about five teenage superheroes.
The series, featuring dark, futuristic characters, based on such DC Comics personalities as Robin the Boy Wonder, quickly became a hit. It ranked No. 26 among kids programs for the fourth quarter last year.
With "Loonatics," Warner Bros. thinks it may have TV's next blockbuster cartoon on its hands. "The reaction by kids in test groups has been phenomenal," says Schwartz.
Given Warner's mixed track record over the past two decades with the Looney Tunes franchise, advertisers may be wary.
Steven Spielberg sparked things up in the early 1990s with "Tiny Toons," a series in which new characters interacted with the originals. But a 2002 effort, "Baby Looney Tunes," has been a dud for the Cartoon Network, where it ended the fourth quarter ranked No. 104 among kids programs.
Efforts to juice up Looney Tunes on the big screen haven't fared much better. "Space Jam," starring Michael Jordan, turned a profit back in 1996. But "Looney Tunes: Back in Action" bombed last year: The movie, which cost $80 million to make, grossed just $21 million in the U.S., according to box-office tracking firm Exhibitor Relations. (It grossed an additional $48 million outside the U.S., Warner Bros. says.)
It's a risky time to launch an expensive Saturday-morning cartoon. Kraft Foods Inc., which spent about $90 million on children's advertising in 2004, said in January it would stop advertising junk food to kids under 12. The company's decision, coming as the food industry generally is shifting kids advertising dollars to the Internet and video games, is expected to result in softer ad sales. The kids "upfront" market, when $700 million to $800 million in national kids-TV advertising is sold to deep-pocketed marketers, kicks off today.
"It doesn't take a genius to look at the trouble in the toy business and what's going on in the food business to see that the overall kids market is particularly weak," says Jon Mandel, co-chief executive of Grey Global Group Inc.'s MediaCom.
It's not as if the Kids' WB has much of a choice about whether to be so aggressive. At a time when the behemoths of kids TV - cable TV's Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network and the Disney Channel - are gaining or stable, ratings on broadcast TV's Kids' WB have plunged.
So far this season, the network's Saturday-morning viewership is down 26 percent compared with a year ago among children from two to 11 years old, says Nielsen Media Research.
Lisa Quan, an analyst for ad-buying firm Magna Global, a unit of Interpublic Group of Cos., says the network's average audience has shrunk about 40 percent compared with its peak two years ago, when cartoons such as "Pokemon" and "Yu-Gi-Oh" were white hot. "The WB has had a long, hard tumble from grace," Quan says.
David Janollari, president of entertainment for the WB, says he has no illusions about how much work the kids division has ahead of it. "We simply need a new crop of big hits," he says. "This audience is finicky and quickly gets itchy for something new." At the same time, however, the WB notes that it remains a strong No. 1 on Saturday morning among Saturday morning broadcasters - Walt Disney Co.'s ABC is in second place - and that ratings have improved recently.
Warner Bros. has been criticized for standing still during the late '80s and early '90s at a time when Disney was reaping huge profits from its cast of animated characters. But Warner has shown in recent years that it can launch new cartoons that rain profits: Warner released three "Pokemon" movies following the WB's successful 1999 launch of the cartoon series, along with an avalanche of toys and other licensed products.
"Loonatics" is part of a wider effort by Warner Bros. to boost classic franchises: A new Batman movie and a remake of "Superman" also are in the works. The potential revenue is massive: If "Loonatics" is a hit on Saturday morning, for example, it is likely to ripple through the company's merchandising, home-video and movie divisions.
"That's the ultimate goal of all kids programming," says Janollari. "If we score, it's a gold mine."
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Thank god I grew up when they would still air the original Loony Toons unedited. Same with Tom & Jerry before they were neutered. I liked Animaniacs though.
I concur.
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Those are...awful. Just...awful.
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What the fuck is wrong with these people?
They don't like, need money. They just want it like spoiled little children.
They also don't seem to care who they have to mutilate or rape to get it.
Why not make it a new series? Why are they Loony Toon charecters?
Simple. Because it wasn't good enough to stand on it's own.
Or some douche in a suit couldn't see somebody's vision so they made them change it.
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DIE!
At some point the people responsible for this must have all been in one room together.
We had our eye off the ball and they got away. For fucks sake people, we bought that big case of guns for a reason.
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I for one look forward to the Road Runner and Coyote fighting crime together.
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At some point the people responsible for this must have all been in one room together.
We had our eye off the ball and they got away. For fucks sake people, we bought that big case of guns for a reason.
I even put a bomb in a briefcase for just such an occasion!
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Mark my words, 13 episodes TOPS!
Seriously, bring back the classics. Baby Looney Tunes looks better than this bastardized step child of WB.
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I look at those characters and I have no desire to watch the show. I can't see how they'd be funny or even remotely interesting. Just one note played over and over again. There so much wrong with "Loonatics" (from the design to the character choices and so on) that it's not even worth going into a ton of detail. Duck Dodgers is the classic Warner Bro. characters done right. Baby Looney Toons is more faithful. This...this is just crap. What's next, 'roid-rage Marvin the Martian?
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That would so rock!!
Now that I know those aren't remixes of the original characters directly but their descendants from the far-flung future, I'm willing to give the show its chance.
One chance.
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I said that until I saw the pictures. I might still watch it just to see how horrible it is.
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There's something very Tim-Burtonish about the whole thing...
"You're either lying or stupid."
"I'm stupid! I'm stupid!"
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Is the one on the left supposed to be Wile E. Coyote?
Isn't he supposed to be a bad guy?
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They look really pointy.
Don't let any balloons near them.
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Don't let any balloons near them.
That will be hard since the only kids that will watch this show will be the balloon holders.
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Is the one on the left supposed to be Wile E. Coyote?
Isn't he supposed to be a bad guy?
I don't think Wile E was ever actually a "bad guy," simply for doing what carniviores do.
In fact, I think most people identified with him, not the Road Runner.
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Is the one on the left supposed to be Wile E. Coyote?
Isn't he supposed to be a bad guy?
He's the edgy morally questionable one. The only one wile-ing to get his hands dirty.
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