The Looney Tunes Show Season 2
Christel Malden
The Looney Tunes Show is an American animated sitcom produced by Warner Bros. Animation, and aired on Cartoon Network for two seasons from May 3, 2011, to November 2, 2013. The series differed from others featuring characters from the Looney Tunes, by focusing on stories conformed around a sitcom format involving the characters of Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, who live a surburban life together within a neighborhood of fellow cartoon neighbors, dealing with various issues in their own way. Both the characters from the Looney Tunes, as well as the Merrie Melodies theatrical cartoon shorts, were given a 21st century update,[1] with episodes also including a musical short; the first series also included computer-animated shorts involving new antics between Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner.
The series received mixed reviews from critics, who praised the visual style and voice acting, but criticized its departures from the classic cartoons, lack of ambition, and changes to the characters' designs and personalities.[2][3]
The Looney Tunes Show revolves around the lives of Bugs Bunny, who owns a surburban home after inventing carrot peelers that pay him royalties, and Daffy Duck, who is Bugs' roommate, as they deal with different issues and problems that they encounter, some of the time caused by Daffy's rather bad lifestyle. The pair reside within a neighbourhood inhabited by a number of notable Looney Tunes characters including Yosemite Sam, Granny, Gossamer, and Speedy Gonzales, with both Bugs and Daffy having girlfriends in the form of Lola Bunny and Tina Russo, and a regular friendship with Porky Pig. Other Looney Tunes characters, like Elmer Fudd, Foghorn Leghorn, and Sylvester and Tweety, have less prominent roles but still partake in stories in their own way.
Unlike other Looney Tunes productions, the series focused less on slapstick and fewer visual gags, in favor of more adult-oriented dialogue and significant sitcom elements including love triangles, employment and rooming.[4] Episodes often contained at least two stories featuring Bugs and Daffy, and sometimes led by others in the show.
The Looney Tunes Show was originally envisioned as Looney Tunes Laff Riot, a "true-to-the-classics" show emulating the original run of Looney Tunes shorts announced in July 2009 by Warner Bros. Animation.[6] However, it was scrapped because the executives were not impressed, and it was later retooled into the sitcom-inspired The Looney Tunes Show which premiered on May 3, 2011, on Cartoon Network.[7] The show features new character designs by Ottawa-based artist Jessica Borutski which were first created for Looney Tunes Laff Riot and also later retooled for the final series.[8][7] The Laff Riot pilot would surface on September 4, 2020.[9]
On July 29, 2014, it was announced that the series would not be renewed for a third season.[10] A direct-to-video spin-off film named Looney Tunes: Rabbits Run was released on August 4, 2015.[11][12]
The Looney Tunes Show has received home video releases for Season 1. The season 2 episode "Super Rabbit" was released as part of the Looney Tunes: Parodies Collection on February 4, 2020.[13]
The Looney Tunes Show received mixed reviews from critics, who praised the voice acting and animation, but criticized its departures from the original cartoons, lack of originality, and the characters' designs and personality changes.[2][16][3]
In a 2010 interview with CBC News, series animator Jessica Borutski said in response to fan criticism of the series' new character designs, that the original designs were intended for adults and that "[it is] time for a new generation to meet the characters."[3] Borutski said, "a fresh, new design is the only way to keep characters alive."[3] Cartoon historian Chris Robinson noted also that the mark the original characters have on fans is indelible and that fans are not receptive to change. "[Fans] just really become attached to these things," Robinson said. "It's just so strongly rooted in their childhood that they're unable to separate themselves."[3]
Common Sense Media gave the series 4 out of 5 stars, saying: "Fun remake of classic toon has a more grown-up feel."[17] Ian Lueck of Toon Zone panned the series as "bland and recycled", and said: "Parents, if you want to start your kids on something good, show them the original Looney Tunes theatrical shorts. They're better made, funnier, have more energy, and more of a personal touch than the assembly line The Looney Tunes Show."[18] Maxie Zeus of Toon Zone praised the visuals, but criticized the series for lacking the spirit and wit of its source material, saying: "Say what you will about Loonatics Unleashed, but at least it had the courage of its psychopathic convictions. The Looney Tunes Show is just bland" and "it's no worse than dull."[19]
This is a list of episodes from the animated series The Looney Tunes Show, which premiered on May 3, 2011.[1] The second and final season began October 2, 2012, and ended on August 27, 2013. A year after the series' original run ended, a previously unreleased episode aired on August 31, 2014, on Cartoon Network.[2]
After seeing a game show, Daffy decides the duo can make quick money by going on the game show Besties, where best friends must answer some questions about one another. However, Daffy's lack of knowledge of anything about Bugs puts a snag in their friendship. To make it up to Bugs, Daffy goes out of his way to purchase tickets himself for a cruise ship using Bugs' credit card and showers his friend with attention, sometimes with unorthodox methods. Finally, Bugs concedes that he likes their friendship the way it is.
Daffy manages to use a member's membership number to the ROGOOCC. Bugs meets Lola and the two go out on a date, but while Bugs finds Lola more annoying because of her endless talking, Lola becomes more infatuated with Bugs; Bugs even tells Daffy that he thinks Lola is insane. He attempts to break up with her, but she mistakes his attempt as a marriage proposal. Unable to talk sense into Lola, Bugs decides to use the vows to break up with her; however, Lola breaks up with him to be with the wedding planner, Pep Le Pew.
On an excursion to the Grand Canyon, Daffy is arrested and sent to court for littering on federal property and refuses to pay the fine. He tries to place the blame on Porky and then on Bugs. While on the witness stand, Bugs becomes annoyed by Daffy and the two begin to bicker, prompting the annoyed judge to throw both of them in jail on contempt of court charges. Once inside, Bugs becomes taken to his new environment which is in contrast to Daffy who is in a constant state of fear. In the end, after a brief escape from prison, both serve their year-long scene. However, when Daffy litters again, the whole situation begins again.
Yosemite Sam comes up with a plan to take his house off the grid by adding solar power panels to reduce his electricity bills. But when a rainstorm disrupts his plan, he starts depending on Bugs and Daffy heavily and eventually becomes too much of a burden for them to handle, prompting them to get rid of him.
After an attempt to scare him out results in massive damage, Bugs and Daffy snap and voice all their repressed anger; the storm ends, resulting in Sam going back home. However, the moment Bugs feels forgiving, another storm occurs (likely karma's way of teaching him and Daffy a lesson); Bugs and Daffy slam the door shut to prevent Sam from coming back.
Daffy tries to prepare Gossamer for a school talent show to help him make friends per request of his mother, Witch Lezah. Meanwhile, Bugs becomes an instant celebrity when he stars in Speedy's frozen pizza commercial, which starts to get annoying when people relentlessly keep badgering him to say his quote from the commercial - "I like it." This gets ridiculous as firemen putting out a fire started by Daffy at Bugs' house stop putting out it and imploring Bugs to say his quote.
Bugs and Daffy go to a resort where Daffy meets a famous actress. Despite Daffy's attempts to impress her, Daffy's mischief ends up causing him misery and abuse at the hands of her abrasive bodyguard. Bugs on the other hand earns the actress's affections with his cool calm and collected attitude.
Thanks to Pete Puma's bumbling, the vicious Tasmanian Devil escapes from the zoo and Bugs decides to adopt the creature after mistaking him for a dog. This causes constant terror for Daffy and Bugs' other neighbors, until Speedy helps Bugs tame the Tasmanian Devil as the latter decides to enter him into an upcoming dog show. When Daffy mistakenly tries to do the right thing by reporting the Tasmanian Devil to animal control, he ends up helping the two escape from it so Bugs can take him home to Tasmania. Despite this, Taz decides to stay with Bugs. By the end, he has abandoned his murderous instincts in favor of his familiar zany behavior.
Daffy ends up portraying Foghorn Leghorn in a film, but fails miserably ending up in a quarrel. Bugs and Yosemite Sam find a vase buried in the backyard, which Sam thinks does something (due to his stupidity) as Bugs says it could be interesting. It does turn up to be worth one million dollars, but Yosemite Sam takes credit for finding, which also ends in a quarrel. Both fights combine, ending with Foghorn and Daffy reconciling and discovering a gold plated turtle in the vase. Unfortunately, the film is a flop, but Foghorn is just happy to have had the opportunity to make one.
Note: This episode promptly takes place after a later episode, Working Duck, hinted when Foghorn's assistant Carol points out that Daffy destroyed Foghorn's business company Enormocorp, which happens in that episode.
While at the mall, Daffy ends up trying to get an ice cream store lady to use the tips to pay for the sundae which doesn't go well. Daffy later learns that Bugs earns his money from an invention he made called the Carrot Peeler. After learning this fact, Daffy decides that a good invention is the perfect get-rich scheme. He gets to work in the garage "inventing" items that have been around for ages. Since inventing is such hard work, Daffy goes for the quick and the dirty, stealing an idea from Bugs' notebook called the Automatic Carrot Peeler. Daffy ends up succeeding causing a reversal of luck on Bugs who ends up moving back to his rabbit hole in the forest. Daffy rakes in plenty of money at first, but when public complaints about the Automatic Carrot Peeler being flammable (since Daffy never fully completed the instructions to the Automatic Carrot Peeler, forgetting to add in the cooling system to prevent this) rise and threaten both their lives with the city planning to repossess their home, Bugs get them both out of a huge mess by using a time machine to go back in time to pay for Daffy's sundae and not mentioning about him inventing the Carrot Peeler; however this is a paradox since there's still Bugs' past self around. Some time later, Daffy Duck goes back in time to show some cavemen the toilet paper which he throws to them. The toilet paper lands on the head of one of the cavemen causing them to attack Daffy.
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