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Looney Tunes Super Stars
''Looney Tunes Super Stars'' is a series of nine Looney Tunes DVDs consisting of two Bugs Bunny DVDs and other characters who got their own collections. It started on August 10, 2010 and ran until April 23, 2013. The series consists of: Although ''Super Stars'' is the semi-successor to the ''Looney Tunes Golden Collection'' series, the true successor of the Golden Collection is the ''Looney Tunes Platinum Collection''. However, unlike the ''Platinum Collection'', there are no special features in the ''Super Stars'' series. While other volumes were planned, no further releases were made after 2013. The ''Pepe Le Pew: Zee Best of Zee Best'' and the ''Sylvester and Hippety Hopper: Marsupial Mayhem'' DVDs are now the only home media releases from Warner Bros. to have a major Looney Tunes character's (and two minor Looney Tunes characters') entire filmography featured. ''Bugs Bunny: Hare Extraordinaire'' ''Daffy Duck: Frustrated Fowl'' ''Foghorn Leghorn & Friends: Barnyard B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Looney Tunes
''Looney Tunes'' is an American Animated cartoon, animated comedy short film series produced by Warner Bros. starting from 1930 to 1969, concurrently with its partner series ''Merrie Melodies'', during the golden age of American animation.Looney Tunes . ''www.bcdb.com'', April 12, 2012 Then some new cartoons were produced from the late 1980s to the mid 2010s as well as other made productions beginning in 1972. The two series introduced a large List of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies characters, cast of characters, including Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Porky Pig. The term ''Looney Tunes'' has since been expanded to also refer to the characters themselves. ''Looney Tunes'' and ''Merrie Melodies'' were initially produced by Leon Schlesinger and animators Harman and Ising, Hugh Harman and Rudolph Ising from 1930 to 1933. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warner Home Video
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Inc. (formerly known as Warner Home Video and WCI Home Video and sometimes credited as Warner Home Entertainment) is the home video distribution division of Warner Bros. It was founded in 1978 as WCI Home Video (for Warner Communications, Inc.). The company launched in the United States with twenty films on Betamax and VHS videocassettes in late 1979. The company later expanded its line to include additional titles throughout 1979 and 1980. History The company launched in the United States with twenty films on Betamax and VHS videocassettes in late 1979. The company later expanded its line to include additional titles throughout 1979 and 1980. Warner Bros. began to branch out into the videodisc market, licensing titles to MCA DiscoVision and RCA's SelectaVision videodisc formats, allowing both companies to market and distribute the films under their labels. By 1985, Warner was releasing material under their own label in both formats. Titl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Little Boy Boo
''Little Boy Boo'' is a 1954 Warner Bros. ''Looney Tunes'' animated short directed by Robert McKimson. The cartoon was released on June 5, 1954, and features Foghorn Leghorn, Miss Prissy and Egghead Jr. The cartoon was one of several in the Foghorn Leghorn series utilizing the theme of Foghorn attempting to woo the widowed Miss Prissy by babysitting her gifted son (Egghead, Jr.). Plot A newspaper story in the ''Barnyard News'' predicts a cold winter. To avoid freezing in his shack, Foghorn decides to woo Miss Prissy ("I need your love to keep me warm"), who lives in a warm, cozy cottage across the way. Miss Prissy is flattered by Foghorn's two-second courtship but tells him that, to prove his worthiness as her mate, he needs to show that he can be a worthy father to her bookish-looking son. The little boy – Egghead Jr., a chick similar in appearance to Tweety, dressed in a stocking cap and oversized glasses – would rather read about "Splitting the Fourth Dimension" than engag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weasel Stop
''Weasel Stop'' is a 1956 Warner Bros. ''Looney Tunes'' animated short film directed by Robert McKimson. The cartoon was released on February 11, 1956, and features Foghorn Leghorn. The cartoon is unusual in that a different dog (instead of the Barnyard Dawg) is used as Foghorn's nemesis. The title is a pun on the phrase "whistle stop". Plot A shaggy dog (played by Lloyd Perryman''The Animated Film Encyclopedia'', Graham Webb, McFarland Press, 2000) is the guard at a farm's chicken coop when a lip-smacking weasel comes along, intending to gain access to the chickens. And, never one to side with a canine, Foghorn Leghorn opts to help the weasel by trying to violently remove the guard dog. The rooster and weasel try various methods of getting rid of the dog, but wind up losing all their feathers and fur in a hay baling machine. The cartoon ends with Foghorn saying "Fortunately, I always keep my feathers numbered for just such an emergency," a line used in several Warner Bros. Cart ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weasel While You Work
''Weasel While You Work'' is a 1958 Warner Bros. ''Merrie Melodies'' animated short directed by Robert McKimson. The cartoon was released on September 6, 1958, and features Foghorn Leghorn and the Barnyard Dawg. The weasel seen in this short previously appeared in ''Plop Goes the Weasel'' (1953) and ''Weasel Stop'' (1956). Unlike many Foghorn shorts, this one takes place during the winter. The title is a pun on the phrase "whistle while you work". Plot At wintertime, Foghorn grabs Barnyard Dawg from his doghouse, coats him in snow, and puts snowman decorations on him. Dawg emerges from the snowman and says he'll "moidah da bum!". He sharpens one of Foghorn's ice skates, which causes Foghorn to fall through the ice when he skates a circle. In revenge, Foghorn rolls a snowball down the hill toward Dawg, who moves out of the way, doghouse and all, just before the now giant snowball hits a curve and flies back at Foghorn, burying him. Foghorn emerges, declaring "That dog's like taxes. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Egghead Jr
In the U.S. English slang, egghead is an epithet used to refer to intellectuals or people considered out-of-touch with ordinary people and lacking in realism, common sense, sexual interests, etc. on account of their intellectual interests. It was part of a widespread anti-informed, social propaganda effort that insisted that credentialed intellectuals were not the only smart people, but that serious human intelligence could be found widespread among ordinary people regardless of deprivation of information. A similar, though not necessarily pejorative, British term is ''boffin''. The term ''egghead'' reached its peak currency during the 1950s, when vice-presidential candidate Richard Nixon used it against Democratic Presidential nominee Adlai Stevenson. It was used by Bill Clinton advisor Paul Begala in the 2008 presidential campaign to describe Senator Barack Obama's supporters when he said, "Obama can't win with just the eggheads and African-Americans." Origins In his Puli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miss Prissy
Miss Prissy is a fictional character in Warner Bros. cartoons. She is typically described as an old spinster hen, thinner than the other hens in the chicken coop, wearing a blue bonnet and wire-rimmed glasses. She is often mocked by the other hens, who describe her as "old square britches". History Miss Prissy's first appearance was in the 1950 short ''An Egg Scramble'', the only cartoon featuring her and Porky Pig together, in which the other hens are making fun of the fact that she cannot lay an egg, because she thinks it's embarrassing. Her next appearances are centered on Foghorn Leghorn. In ''Lovelorn Leghorn'' (1951), she is set on finding a husband, and in ''Of Rice and Hen'' (1953), she is looking to have children. However, in ''Little Boy Boo'' (1954) she is depicted as a widow with a child, Egghead Jr., and with a much more extensive vocabulary in long sounding words other than her trademark "yeeesss." ''A Broken Leghorn'' (1959) and ''Strangled Eggs'' (1961) feature H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Broken Leghorn
''A Broken Leghorn'' is a 1959 Warner Bros. ''Looney Tunes'' cartoon short directed by Robert McKimson. The cartoon was released on September 26, 1959, and features Foghorn Leghorn and Miss Prissy. The voices are performed by Mel Blanc. Plot Foghorn Leghorn takes pity on Miss Prissy, whom the other hens are ridiculing because of her inability to lay an egg. To give her confidence, Foghorn slips one of the other hen's eggs under Miss Prissy as she is sitting on her nest. This garners surprise and some admiration as the other hens realize the egg has hatched a rooster chick. Foghorn overhears this fact and is immediately not pleased; there is, he believes, no need for the presence of another rooster "around here". Initially storming into the hen house to make his views known he is taken aback to see the hens standing - arms folded - as a united front. Foghorn decides to "play it cagey" instead and feigns interest in "the cute little tyke". The chick already has designs on Foghorn's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fox-Terror
''Fox-Terror'' is a 1957 Warner Bros. ''Merrie Melodies'' animated short directed by Robert McKimson. The cartoon was released on May 11, 1957, and features Foghorn Leghorn and the Barnyard Dawg. The title is a play on the dog breed name "Fox Terrier." By the time of this cartoon's release, the Stephen Foster song "Camptown Races" has been established as Foghorn Leghorn's theme; in other cartoons Foghorn normally hums the verse, but in this cartoon he sings specially-written lyrics about fishing. The cartoon also briefly paid homage to the then-wildly popular genre of television quiz shows, particularly ''The $64,000 Question'' which, like many other quiz shows of the day, would soon become embroiled in scandal and be taken off the air a year later. Plot A fox scampers away from the henhouse when a young rooster rings the alarm bell. Barnyard Dawg arrives, but sees no fox, so he thinks the rooster just rang the bell because he wanted a drink of water. When he sees Foghorn Legho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barnyard Dawg
Barnyard Dawg is a '' Looney Tunes'' character. A feisty anthropomorphic basset hound, he is the archenemy of Foghorn Leghorn. He was created by Robert McKimson, who also created Foghorn, and was voiced by Mel Blanc. Dawg also feuds with other enemies as well like Henery Hawk, Daffy Duck and Sylvester. He appeared in 23 Golden Age–era Warner Bros. shorts. Biography Dawg's first appearance was in ''Walky Talky Hawky'' (1946), the same Henery Hawk cartoon in which Foghorn himself first appeared. Although, in that cartoon, Dawg initiates hostilities with Foghorn by dropping a watermelon on his head (prompting Foghorn to grumble "Every day, it's the same thing!"), Dawg is usually seen sleeping in his kennel at a cartoon's beginning, with Foghorn provoking him by slapping his hindquarters with a wooden fencepost, setting the stage for Dawg to seek vengeance, often by manipulating Henery Hawk. Dawg, called "Mandrake," was cast as pet to Porky Pig in 1947's '' One Meat Brawl'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henery Hawk
Henery Hawk is an American cartoon character who appears in twelve comedy film shorts produced in the ''Looney Tunes'' and ''Merrie Melodies'' series. His first appearance is in the 1942 theatrical release ''The Squawkin' Hawk'', which was directed by Chuck Jones and produced by Leon Schlesinger. Henery's second screen appearance, one directed by Robert McKimson, is in ''Walky Talky Hawky'' (1946), which also features the characters Foghorn Leghorn and Barnyard Dawg in their first cartoon roles. The last Warner Brothers theatrical short to showcase the little chickenhawk is the 1961 release '' Strangled Eggs'' in which he co-stars again with Foghorn Leghorn as well as with another popular character of that period, Miss Prissy. Following that production, Henery continued to be seen periodically in other animated presentations such as ''The Looney Tunes Show'' and ''Looney Tunes Cartoons''. Character biography Henery is a small, brown chickenhawk with a forelock of feathers. The you ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
