“But we can do cartoony violence - TNT, the Acme stuff. “We’re not doing guns,” showrunner Peter Browngardt told The New York Times.īrowngardt said other forms of “Looney Tunes” violence is still baked into the show, whether that involve sticks of dynamite, intricate booby traps, falling anvils or bank safes. Neither will any other characters for that matter. In the 2020 reboot, producers decided that Elmer Fudd would no longer carry a gun in his endless pursuit of Bugs Bunny. HBO Max’s Looney Tunes Cartoons, produced by Warner Bros Animation and executive produced by Pete Browngardt and Sam Register, features 80 eleven-minute episodes.If you’re tuning into the new “Looney Tunes Cartoons” on HBO Max, you may notice a slight edit made to the classic show’s “wabbit” hunter. Not sure what's funnier: Warner Bros taking Elmer fudd's gun as some sort of weird empty gesture about gun violence or the people getting genuinely upset over it and saying that they're gonna unsubscribe /kqF2JLnhHJ It was never about the gun, it was about Elmer's flawed, challenged masculinity. And the best were already done by the old guys. THE ORIGINAL CREATORS WOULD NEVER MAKE A CARTOON WHERE HE DIDN'T USE A GUN AT ALL-ĭo you guys SERIOUSLY care whether or not Elmer Fudd has a gun in our shorts? You know how many gags we can do with guns? Fairly few. I CAN'T BELIEVE THE NEW LOONEY TUNES CARTOONS *cough* which are actually great, go check them out *cough* WON'T LET ELMER FUDD USE A GUN.ĮLMER'S ONLY CHARACTER TRAIT IS A GUN. Some social media users poked fun at people who appeared upset about the no-gun policy. īut others said the fact the cartoon characters won’t be carrying firearms made no difference to them. Taking a gun away from Elmer Fudd is like taking spinach away from Popeye.
Popeye is the classic sailor cartoon character created by Elzie Crisler Sega, who eats spinach to gain the super-strength he needs to rescue his love interest, Olive-Oyl, from his burly arch-rival, Bluto. One Twitter user suggested that “taking a gun away from Elmer Fudd is like taking spinach away from Popeye.”
The anti-gun forces find their new target. HBO Max announces Elmer Fudd will no longer use gun while hunting Bugs Bunny in Looney Tunes reboot and everything is stupid via ? The?FOO ? June 7, 2020 Many fans can’t imagine Looney Tunes without guns, while others display how ridiculous the complaints sound. It’s two characters in conflict, sometimes getting pretty violent.” Fans react on social mediaĪlthough Browngardt promised that the producers intended to preserve the original series’s feel, some fans took to social media to protest the new “no gun” policy. “We’re going through this wave of anti-bullying, ‘everyone needs to be friends,’ ‘everyone needs to get along.’ Looney Tunes is pretty much the antithesis of that.
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He also explained the new series would take into account the ongoing anti-bullying campaign. had never stopped making ‘Looney Tunes’ cartoons?’ As much as we possibly could, we treated the production in that way.” However, Browngardt said that, despite the absence of firearms, they strived to retain the original series’s feel and flavor. But we can do cartoony violence - TNT, the Acme stuff. Series executive producer and showrunner Peter Browngardt revealed in the interview that there will be a lot of goofy violence in the new episodes of the HBO Max cartoon series, but it won’t involve the use of firearms. Showrunner Peter Browngardt says ‘we are not doing guns’ Bugs Bunny easily outsmarts him, repeatedly hitting him with dynamite. The rabbit hunter chases Bugs Bunny with a scythe in the new animated short, Dynamite Dance. Ģ020 Looney Tunes: "Gun violence has inspired us to take away Elmer Fudd's signature hunting rifle."Ģ012 Looney Tunes: /qadEBaAd07Įlmer Fudd armed with scythe in Dynamite Dance The new series premiered on HBO Max on Wednesday, May 27.
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