The expert interviewed, Dr. Chriscelyn Tussey, has fabulous hair, that is all I can say.

It’s like a darker version of Kidding. https://www.primewire.tf/tv/338051-kidding

This doctor is horrible! NO doctor would choose running as a first option, and they sure as heck wouldn’t cry, unless one of their companions was leaving or dead. Hopefully they either toughen him up or find a tougher one to replace him. Ruby, on the other hand, is awesome! I like her as a companion.

Friz Freleng liked all the mobster films done by Warner Brothers as a place to get ideas from to make toons, so he designed a sawed off smack talking dwarf with a monotone voice in big hat that took cues from Warner contract player James Cagney. He called the little gangster Rocky & appointed him head of Crime Inc. then made some toons putting him with moronic henchmen.

The 1st was Golden Yeggs with Daffy Duck, then 1953 Rocky was paired with stupid goon called Nicky featuring Sylvester going after Tweety. This toon however puts Rocky with his best known sidekick, the extra-stupid Mugsy. Warren Foster wrote this remake of 1946 Rackateer Rabbit where the two criminals are making a run for it after robbing a bank. Problem is that Bugs Bunny is in the taxi also & one of Bugs favorite hobbies is messing with self-appointed bad guys who drive Acme cars.

Music director Carl Stalling retired, so this is the very 1st toon that his protege Milt Franklyn takes over completely.

The animation team represents themselves as Local 839 in this toon. They are Charlie Brown director Manny Perez, Ken Champin, Virgil Ross & director Arthur Davis, who himself would do work with Warner all the way into the 1980’s. Pink Panther director Hawley Pratt did the really cool layouts. Irv Wyner did the backgrounds. Award winning Treg Brown did sound & editing.

Friz Freleng was fond of the Warner mobster films & thought it would make for some nice toons to use some gangsters, so he created the shifty tough talking no-nonsense dwarf with a big hat, Rocky & his organization Crime Inc. In this story written by Warren Foster, the little criminal is paired with one his idiot henchmen, Nick. The two steal a rare yellow bird named Tweety. In a Looney Tune, it’s never that simple however. Rocky & Nick have competition in the form of a big sloppy tuxedo cat named Sylvester who wants the bird just as much as they do.

30 years later this toon is used as part of 1981 Friz Freleng’s Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie.

Ralph James is the Narrator & Mel Blanc does all the other voices.

Music Director Carl Stalling uses his Warner punctuations as well as quotes from Warren’s At Your Service Madame, If Someone Had Told Me, America Speaks & none other than Sousa’s The Washington Post.

And everyone thought the dude with the nut in Ice Age was original. This predates it by half a century.

Like this show? Check out this movie..
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Duck Dodgers is number 4 of the 50 Greatest Cartoons Of All Time. Besides some other appearances, it was shown before the original Star Wars film & it was in Close Encounters Of The Third Kind. Finally in 2003 Daffy got his own tv show as Duck Dodgers that was so popular it ran for about 3 years in one of the best animated series.

If anyone’s ever seen the old Buck Rogers comics & serial cliff-hanger films, this is the toony equivalent. This was made a couple of years after a Buck Rogers tv show happened, and it was made by the legendary Chuck Jones team that included Michael Maltese as writer, Ben Washam & Maurice Nobel provided most of the look & feel with the character sets & backgrounds which have a really distinctive style that’s easy to spot. The great Carl Stalling provides all the musical cues, quoting memorably from lots of stuff including Powerhouse which is in lots of Warner Bros cartoons & is known as a toony tune.

We grew up with the Gil Gerard Buck Rogers that had Erin Gray & Pamela Hensley in the 80’s. It’s not wacky like this, but oddly, that one does have Mel Blanc in it. Yep.

Here Mel voices Daffy & Porky as a comedy team that might be sort of Laurel & Hardy like. It’s similar to the comedy the two characters did in the Errol Flynn Robin Hood spoof where Porky gets to poke fun at what a fool Daffy is. Mel also serves as the then unnamed Marvin The Martian in his 2nd toon appearance and a scientist.

and if they don’t sign the waiver after finding out about the cameras, who’s to know for sure the footage was erased? that’s a scary thought

Long before he was ever called Marvin, he was called The Commander of the X2 space vessel from Mars. He’s a pretty apocalyptic little alien that often brings his green Martian dawg K-9 with him, complete with high-top sneakers. Marvin’s mouth is never drawn, so the animation is very expressive whenever the little guy says anything. In this toon by Chuck Jones, Marvin makes his debut in a story written by Michael Maltese.

When he’s not wanting to utterly destroy the Earth, then he’s wanting to abduct Earthlings. From the time his space ship lands, he’s on a collision course with a wisecracking Earthling from Brooklyn named Bugs Bunny whose favorite hobby is to get the upper hand on those who feel the need to mess with him. The colors are perfect, the gags are great & Bugs is at his mischievous best. Zen to the max.

Besides the original uncut version of this toon, another version cuts out scenes of Frisby.

Music director Carl Stalling composed a very funny yet fitting music score that even quotes from Raymond Scott’s legendary Powerhouse (made famous by Stalling’s use of it in cartoons) and Boy Scout In Switzerland, Sammy Cahn’s Fiddle Dee Dee, Turkey In The Straw, and California Here I Come.

You mean you couldn’t stand the show yet watched every episode?

These three classics done by Chuck Jones & written by Michael Maltese are comedy gold since they’re heavy on scripting gags rather than visual & it’s the 1st time Bugs & Daffy are paired together as a comedy team:

1951 Rabbit Fire, 1952 Rabbit Seasoning & 1953 Duck! Rabbit Duck!
These are known as The Hunting Trilogy. There are two versions of this toon. The original, and then the censored one. This trilogy is also featured in 1989 Fifty Years of Bugs Bunny in 3 1/2 Minutes.

Mel Blanc as both Bugs & Daffy might seem to be on the same team against Elmer Fudd played by Arthur Quirk Bryan, but Daffy isn’t so daffy anymore & he’s more of a scheming conniving antagonist to Bugs, constantly trying to sell him out to save his own skin. It might be Goat Season, Dirty Skunk Season, Pigeon or even Mongoose Season, but everyone knows it’s really Baseball Season.

Music director Carl Stalling uses quite a bit of punctuation & whimsy in this musical score which includes some french songs.

Chuck Jones’ animation staff at Termite Terrace are Ken Harris, Rick Thompson, Lloyd Vaughan, Ben Washam & director Abe Levitow who did MGMs The Phantom Tollbooth, UPAs Mr. Magoo & Le Fair Mewsette (Gay Purr-ee) with Judy Garland which was written by Dorothy & Chuck Jones. Abe later did Raggedy Ann & Andy with Roger Rabbit creator Rick Williams and then Curiosity Shop with Chuck Jones. The very distinctive layouts are by the one & only Maurice Noble. The backgrounds are done by Philip DeGuard. Sound & editing are done by Treg Brown. This is the absolute peak of Warner Brothers animation under the leadership of studio boss Ed Selzer.

Daffy Duck’s Quackbusters is a Ghostbusters type of story centered around Daffy but using classic Looney Tunes from The Golden Age of animation. There are new sequences made that knit the entire story together, which runs about 80 minutes.

The story is an expansion on the 1948 short called Daffy Dilly, so that is but one short that is featured in this compilation since it’s the whole take-off point. In that toon Chuck Jones perfected an ill-tempered screwball greedy Daffy who hears that a rich guy named J.B. Cubish hasn’t laughed in ages, so he’s offered a million bux to anyone that can get him to laugh before he kicks the bucket. Daffy is greedy, so why not?

The entire premise of the story takes the toon fan on ride that weaves Daffy The Paranormalist on an adventure that is compiled of both newer sequences along with the Golden Age toons. There were a handful of these feature-length compilation movies done, and this is one of the better ones. Night Of The Living Duck kicks the whole thing off, which is notable since these two projects are the very last Looney Tunes that legendary voice artist Mel Blanc lent his considerable talents to before his death in 1989.

The other classic shorts used in this feature length toon are: 1951 The Prize Pest, 1952 Water, Water Every Hare, 1960 Hyde and Go Tweet, the hilarious classic from 1954 Claws for Alarm, 1963 Transylvania 6-5000, 1961 The Abominable Snow Rabbit, 1953 Punch Trunk, and 1955 Jumpin’ Jupiter. The Duxorcist from 1987 is also used. Since these classic toons are used to tell a newer story, they’re not just merely edited in, but the lines are redone to fit the narrative of this story. The writers are Michael Maltese, Tedd Pierce & John Dunn.

Besides Mel, the actors from the classic toons are Ben Frommer as The Count & Julie Bennett as the double-headed buzzard. Actress B.J. Ward is Melissa Duck. Roy Firestone is The Announcer, and Mark Kausler does Egghead.

Since no competent musical directors could be found to do something as complex as providing sound synced music score for a cartoon, they just took the classic work of Carl Stalling & Milt Franklyn to get the job done. Shame shame shame that art died with them.

Based on the way the press described his accident, I did not expect to see him in any productions for a longer period of time. Just the demands of standing and sitting on set all day sound grueling after those injuries. Good for him.

Who doesn’t like The Gossamer? Big guy created by Chuck Jones, Michael Maltese & Bob Givens, seemingly made of nothing but lots of orange hair with crazy serving as his only means of expression while he runs around in stylish yet practical high top sneakers? The only thing wrong with The Gossamer is that he was only used twice in Golden Age toons.

He’s always with a mad scientist. The 1st time around in 1946 Hare Raising Hare, he was with a Peter Lorre nutbar scientist. This time around he’s with a menacing Maurice Tarplin Strange Dr. Weird sounding green big brained scientist that calls him Rudolph or Monster & he’s tasked with capturing Bugs Bunny since the scientist wants a brain for his giant robot creation. Bugs is naturally not amused with this idea in the slightest.

After this The Gosssamer disappears for 30 years & doesn’t pop up again until 1980 Duck Dodgers And The Return Of The 24½th Century, then again 15 years later in 1995 Carrotblanca, which is a good toon. Again in Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries. Then about 16 years later in 2011 on The Looney Tunes Show, The Gossamer appears again, but Witch Lezah (Witch Hazel) is his mom & Daffy Duck is his… surrogate big brother mentor, haha. Not right. Currently, he is found on Looney Tunes Cartoons. However, this toon was used as part of 1959 Hare-Abian Nights & also the 1989 Quackbusters story.

John T. Smith is the Mad Scientist. Mel Blanc does all the other voices.

Looney Tunes music director Carl Stalling uses his own What’s Up Doc as well as classical quotations from Brahm’s Lullaby, Rossini’s William Tell Overture, Chopin’s Raindrop Prelude & hahaha… How Dry I Am… of course…

Great Horny Toads! This tale is directed by Friz Freleng and written by Warren Foster. Bugs Bunny makes a wrong turn in Albuquerque which sends him clear to The Sahara Desert rather than Miami Beach where he runs into Yosemite Riff-Raff Sam who wants to pursue Bugs for trespassing & getting footy prints all over his desert.

Gags found here are also found in 1949 Frigid Hare, 1959 Knighty Knight Bugs, 1959 Hare-Abian Nights, 1963 Devil’s Feud Cake & also the one where Bugs plays Red Hot Ryder.

Carl Stalling’s protege Milt Franklyn provided the musical score. This is the 1st toon to feature his version of The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down a.k.a. The Looney Tunes Theme Song, which was originally done by Stalling. Milt’s version would be used until 1964.

Freleng’s Termite Terrace animation team are Ted Bonnicksen, Gerry Chiniquy and director Arthur Davis. Layouts are by DePatie-Freleng Pink Panther artist Hawley Pratt. Backgrounds are by Irv Wyner who also did Woody Woodpecker for Walter Lance, then also Disney and Chuck Jones. With Chuck’s Sib Tower 7 production team he worked on Rikki Tikki Tavi, Horton Hears A Who, The Phantom Tollbooth, some of the best Tom & Jerry toons ever as well as other Dr. Seuss specials.

What a train-wreck. I’ll just re-watch the 80s episodes.

Best season ever. Got past the wokey woke crap and onto Star Trek. just sad it was too late. BEST SEASON EVER!!

Given that it has a 7/10 on IMDb, 84% on RT, 86% on Google and 7.3/10 on TVMaze coupled with, as I already stated, top 10 ranking for the last 3 weeks among streaming shows, the only thing illogical is that it has a lower rating here. I’m sure that has a lot to do with the demographics of users here, as evidenced by how many cry about how woke a Star Trek show is even though it has always been the case. Was it the most successful or best Star Trek show, no, but I didn’t make that claim.

BTW, episode count is irrelevant as no shows on streaming sites get 20+ episodes a season like shows used to.

Its no award winning Season unless its in the rainbow category.

This is my second time commenting on this, Dude has been thru war there and back and he is something i would strive my children to be like. Got to love it.

All they do is argue and run shit missions. Lame.

Some of the best toons don’t have much dialogue at all. That doesn’t provide much work for a master of voices like Mel Blanc, but it really shows just how great writer Michael Maltese and Chuck Jones’ Termite Terrace animation unit really are, coupled with great selective musical synchronicity by Milt Franklyn. The timing of everything was worked out on musical bar graph sheets down to the precise mathematical moment. The scripting, animation, musical punctuation, sound effects & editing had to come come together perfectly, or the toons just wouldn’t have anything to deliver.

The premise of the Ralph Wolf & Sam Sheepdog toons is simple enough. These two are blue collar buddies that punch a clock in the morning to be adversaries throughout the day as Sam guards sheep & Ralph tries to steal them. Sam’s job is pretty easy going, but Ralph expends a lot of effort & failed ingenuity just to find out that Sam really can see through that face full of hair covering his eyes. When Sam gets Ralph, the outcome isn’t pretty, but it’s all in a days work.

Music orchestrator Milt Franklyn takes cues from his mentor Carl Stalling & uses the Big Band Swing tune The Five O’Clock Whistle as well as the classical Spring Song by Mendelsohn. Since Ralph & Sam arrive to work in their own cars in this one, he also uses In My Merry Oldsmobile, haha.

Studio boss Ed Selzer retired, so the producer for a short time at Termite Terrace was John Burton. Chucks’s animation unit is Ken Harris, Rick Thompson & Ben Washam. Maurice Noble did the layouts in his own easily recognizable style & Philip DeGuard did the backgrounds in his own equally distinctive style. Treg Brown always did sound & editing in his own award winning style regardless of the different animation units at Termite Terrace.

Chuck Jones created Ralph Wolf & Sam Sheepdog as a great vehicle for delivering sight gags as well as a good delivery system for Milt Franklyn’s musical gags to accompany & punctuate all the highly well-timed animated comedy that Jones & writer Michael Maltese put into the stories.

There were just 7 Ralph & Sam toons, but they’re really great & highly underrated. Ralph & Sam aren’t at odds with each other in flat-out starvation survival the way Wile E. Coyote & The Roadrunner are. Nope, this comedic pair as work buddies.

They work a shift in a pasture with other wolf-dog co-workers whom they relieve & who also relieve them. Frequently this would be Fred & George. The sheepdog’s job in the pasture is to guard the sheep. He’s pretty lazy & sleeps a lot. The wolf’s job is to get the sheep. This guy works hard all day scheming, plotting & planning. Much of his effort is thwarted by the dog. All that time, effort & energy usually gets Ralph a punch in the face from Sam. But at least they’re buddies, have lovely lunch breaks together & always go home as friends - even if the damn dog can see through his face covering fur, the laws of cartoon physics have a mind of their own & Ralph seems to be a contemporary Sisyphus.

This is the 7th and final Ralph Wolf & Sam Sheepdog toon ever done. Chuck Jones created the comedic pair of working class blue collar time-clock punching buddies who dutifully get up every day to do their respective jobs being a sheep guarding sheepdog & a sheep stealing wolf. The day is long, so of course they put everything on hold & have breaks with friendly chit-chat over snacks. Of course, there’s work to be done, so they must get back to pastoral scene where Ralph employs every sneaky trick he can to abscond with a sheep without getting punched in the face. However, Warner got mad at Chuck yet again, so they fired him & he didn’t get to do the story that he wrote, so his animators Phil Monroe & Rick Thompson have the job of fulfilling Chuck’s clever visual comedy as Ralph’s scheming tries to outwit Sam’s fist & fur covered face.

Music orchestrator Milt Franklyn unexpectedly died, so his job was passed on to a nitwit that eventually got fired for his incompetence.

This is the end of The Golden Age Of Cartoons. In less than a year, Warner will gut the studio & that will be that. The remnants of Chuck’s animation team who finished this toon are Rick Thompson, Bob Bransford, Tom Ray & Ken Harris. Layouts are done by Maurice Noble & Alex Ignatiev. Backgrounds are done by Philip DeGuard. Sound & editing from 1936 until the bitter end was done by the man that hired Mel Blanc & gave him his big break, Treg Brown.

Out of seven Ralph Wolf & Sam Sheepdog toons, this is the 6th & last one done by Chuck Jones. Most Looney Tunes are named after something else & this one is named after the song Asleep In The Deep. By this time, Chuck had been laid-off, fired & rehired enough by Warner that he was pretty much tired of their policies, so he had one foot out the door already & had formed his own animation company called Sib Tower 7 that did lots of other things such as feature films, Dr. Seuss stuff & just on the horizon Tom & Jerry toons for MGM.

For this reason, Chuck’s layout artist Maurice Noble had been groomed for directing & he co-directed this with Chuck, who also wrote the story. Chuck’s ace writer Michael Maltese had also soured on Warner Brothers & already left for Hanna Barbera. Chuck however is a very good writer & the sight gags in this toon are classic. Ralph’s rube-goldberg way of getting around in the morning itself is highly creative & classic Chuck Jones visual humor all the way with a strong emphasis on motion & timing all the way from the morning routine right up through the daily shift as it ends with typical Jonesian surprise disguises.

There are 2 versions of this toon. The original and the censored one.

Milt Franklyn is the music orchestrator & supplies plenty of toony musical flare to underline all the motion & punctuate every punchline using such classics as Raymond Scott’s Powerhouse for when Ralph’s get up & go gizmo is working, Rossini’s William Tell Overture, Brahms Lullaby, A Cup Of Coffe A Sandwich And You, Where Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone, and (of course) You’re A Horse’s Ass. Yep. Milt went there.

In this period, Warner Brothers was a very unstable place. Studio boss John Burton was on his way out & the final Termite Terrace producer David DePatie was coming in to oversee what would be the end of The Golden Age Of Cartoons before Warner would commit the crime of dismantling the animation department & shutting down the studio forever.

1994 film adaptation of the 1899 novella of the same name, written by Joseph Conrad. A fairly decent “compressed” version of the telling of the story that would eventually be rewritten by, and become the basis for director Francis Ford Copplala’s epic film, “Apocalypse Now”. Another of literatures great mind’s, Conrad is so eloquent in his writing, that you may think that you’re actually with him, as you both watch the descent of the raindrops through the jungle canopy he’d just spent half a page describing.
IMO, read the novella first, follow up by watching this film, then, move on to “Apocalypse Now”.

Chuck Jones really was a master of animated motion as well as the unscripted visual sight gags. He did this to great effect with Wile E. Coyote & The Roadrunner, but he also had the fun pairing of Ralph Wolf & Sam Sheepdog.

The Coyote & Wolf each look mostly alike with scraggly fur, super long ears & knobby joints, but Ralph has a big red nose & white eyes instead of a black nose & yellow eyes. He’s also not an uppity self-important narcissist like Wile E. is. He’s really not even driven by anger or one-upsmanship the way Wile E. is. He’s hunger driven, but Sam Sheepdog isn’t his enemy. They’re co-workers. Each has to punch a clock at 8am and work a shift until 5 or 6pm when the new shift arrives - usually Fred & George. Nope, Ralph & Sam are just doing their jobs. Like Wile E. Coyote, Ralph Wolf leans heavily on Acme’s poorly applied products. However, unlike Wile E. Coyote, Ralph Wolf sometimes might have to dress up as Little Bo Peep in this 3rd toon of the working class pair written by Michael Maltese.

Music orchestrator Milt Franklyn uses all the fun musical punctuations he learned from his mentor Carl Stalling. He even includes quotes from Mary Had A Little Lamb & Little Bo Peep.

Ralph Wolf & Sam Sheepdog were created in 1953 by Chuck Jones. There’s a total of 7 classic Golden Age cartoons with them as an adversarial comedic pair & sometimes their names get switched around. Their day begins at 8am & ends at 5 to 6pm. They’re co-workers. Sam guards sheep & Ralph steals sheep. That’s the bit.

The job is a 24 hour one, so there are other wolves & sheepdog pairs before & after Ralph & Sam’s shift. While on the clock, Sam sleeps much of the day in a pastoral setting guarding a flock of sheep. While he sleeps or otherwise lays about, Ralph is hard at work trying to steal the sheep, frequently with Acme products. However, for all of Ralph’s efforts, the Acme products often fail him & his own ineptitude gets him in trouble with Sam, who is always very brutal to Ralph once caught, providing a lot of great visual gags that Chuck Jones & writer Michael Maltese are known for. The toons are low on the scripted gags, but the “Mornin’ Ralph” - “Mornin’ Sam” lines have been widely copied over half a century in other cartoons & tv shows from My Little Pony to News Radio & even Veronica Mars.

There are two versions of this toon. The original & a censored one. This toon is followed by 1954 Sheep Ahoy, 1955 Double Or Mutton, 1957 Steal Wool, 1960 Ready Woolen And Able, 1962 A Sheep In The Deep, and then 1963 Woolen Under Where. There’s even a cool 2001 PlayStation game called Sheep Raider that’s spot on. Get an emulator. It’s a fun game. Play it with Bugs Bunny Lost In Time. Big fun. If you’re lucky, you can also find them on 2003 Behind The Tunes- Blanc Expressions.

Music maestro Carl Stalling uses less Big Band Swing and more classical quotations in these toons, including Rossini’s William Tell Overture & Mendelsohn’s Spring Song. He also uses nursery rhymes like Baa Baa Black Sheep, of course. The notable Big Band Swing tune is (naturally) The Five O’Clock Whistle.

Bob McKimson’s own take on the Einstein-Rosen bridge pre-dates Dark Matter by about 7 decades.

The Ralph & Sam toons are 1953 Don’t Give Up the Sheep, 1954 Sheep Ahoy, 1955 Double Or Mutton, 1957 Steal Wool, 1960 Ready Woolen And Able, 1962 A Sheep In The Deep, and 1963 Woolen Under Where. In 2001 the PlayStation video game called Sheep Raider was released It’s fun to play & accurately recreates scenes from the Ralph & Sam toons. There’s also a rare 2003 documentary called Behind The Tunes- Blanc Expressions that features Ralph & Sam.

So sad. She said he’d get away with it & he did.

This episode was typical of this writer’s fluffy story-line with very little substance. One whole season of build-up resolved in a few minutes. Same as last season. Spend some time on Moll and the Progenitor tech ffs.

As a whole series it really suffered in the writing department. They replaced the show-runners a bunch of times but with every new turn new bizarre choices came along. So many.

At least we got Strange New Worlds out of this.

My new favorite Laurence Fishburne performance. A really fun watch.

Trolling ozempic, I know a lot of people that should watch this

I think this is the series repackaged in a movie. I just remember I saw that….

If anyone digs the Stargate family of actors, this was done by David Hewlett of SGA, featuring his sister Kate, as well as Chris Judge from SG-1 and Rachel Lutrell from SGA. It’s left of center & comedy fits them well.

Gatchaman again. Sequel to Battle Of The Planets.

Gatcha. Man.

Not bad at all. 7/10

Alternate universe evil Dr. Nami.

I put in a request at TVMaze to have the series added, I’m much too lazy to do all that work, so if it does happen I’ll add links here.

Aboot 200 episodes of the series.

That was so groovy.