What Do The LOONEY TUNES Mean In 2023?

[Music] Looney Tunes Immortal cartoon icons are just another fading franchise after Decades of attempted reboots what do bugs dathy and the Gang actually mean in 2023 this video is brought to you by nebula where you can watch the Extended Cut of this and every other episode this season just click the link in the description and then Captain Brody Torrance lands the plane on a neighboring Island and everyone is rescued and that's the plot of the movie plane oh thank God we're here all right Patrick I think that once you see the new studio you're going to be really happy you moved the show here oh by the way uh the new title sequence probably about two weeks out on that oh as you can see we're still under construction pardon the dust but when you see what's behind this door I think you're gonna be pleased wait a second is that a live studio audience in there just a little something I cooked up for [Music] wait where's the sound coming from [Applause] we rigged the room with the latest in audio hype technology hypnology wait what about the desk I asked for well while you were away other Patrick took the production budget and made some strategic Investments into nfts oh wait so how much of the budget did you lose barely all of it the good news is we had enough left over we were able to get you a production assistant hey Emma oh God happy to be employed all right I'll leave you to it okay so apparently our fancy new title sequence is not ready yet so we need some other way to kick off the show I'm sure we can improvise something do you want me to turn the cheering back on I mean it does kind of pump me up hit it [Applause] [Music] should that be the name of the show featuring featuring these two these two written by written by these two these two things that's me that's me that's me I know him and Christmas you tell I didn't get to read that researcher research that's Raven [Music] hello I am Patrick Willems and welcome to what many will be calling a bold New Era for our show we've got a slightly new format a new title sequence that is not ready yet and as you can see here a new set with a desk and by desk I mean a table look it's a work in progress please tell your friends to watch this show so maybe at some point we can afford to make this look better anyway welcome to 2023. It's a Brand New Year we just finished a month of surprisingly solid January movies but I don't want to talk about those today instead I want to talk about something that is not remotely topical or relevant at all right now I want to talk about Looney Tunes look we're all familiar with the Looney Tunes Bugs Daffy Tweety and good old Taz they're some of the most iconic and beloved characters in all of Western animation they've been mascots for a major Hollywood studio they've endorsed fast food and sneakers starred in blockbuster movies and sold lots and lots of very cool merchandise but more importantly from the 1940s through the 1960s they were the stars of some of the greatest and most influential short form animation ever made whose impact on comedy can still be seen to this day these shorts have been replayed and repackaged for over 70 years and then the last three decades Warner Brothers has attempted countless strategies to revamp and reboot and reintroduce these characters to new generations and those attempts have had I'm gonna say mixed success hey Emma you're young right yeah I guess did any of those Looney Tunes reboots actually work did you watch any of them no but I didn't have a TV growing up wait hold up here's a question what do you know about Bugs Bunny is he the guy who eats the carrot and says what's up doc yep never heard of him and this is what I want to talk about today what do the Looney Tunes actually mean in 2023 did any of these revamps from Space Jam to back in Action to lunatics Unleashed actually work do what the Looney Tunes still matter to younger audiences or have they shifted into Mickey Mouse status more brand mascot than actual characters well talk about the current status of the Looney Tunes first we need some context we need to go back in time and cover a brief history of the Looney Tunes this all starts about a hundred years ago back in the late 1920s at the time good old Uncle Walt and the Disney Company were having huge success with their early animated shorts they had two series of cartoons the Mickey Mouse shorts featuring recurring characters like Mickey and Silly Symphonies which were based around music so in 1930 Warner Brothers decided to replicate their success and launched their own two series of short cartoons there was Looney Tunes which was focused on recurring characters and then Merry Melodies which was based around showcasing the Studio's library of songs by 1943 The Branding no longer mattered it was all just Looney Tunes but half of them would arbitrarily be labeled merry melodies for the first several years Warner Brothers was mostly just copying the formula established by Disney they were cheerful and optimistic featuring bright-eyed characters like Bosco and Buddy honestly these early characters were kind of boring but look it was the Great Depression and people were just happy to watch some smiling cartoon characters dance around it really took the sting out of losing all your money but over the course of the 30s new directors like Tex Avery frizz freeling and Bob Clampett would steer the cartoons in a New Direction they became sharper edged with more violent slapstick and topical satire there was an anarchic Glee to them with characters in life or death conflict constantly blowing each other up with dynamite and dropping anvils on each other's heads in other words they got a lot lunier they introduced new characters like Porky Pig who quickly became the main star of the Looney Tunes shorts Porky would soon be followed by Daffy Duck Elmer Fudd and then Bugs Bunny and during World War II new animators like Frank tashlin would continue to refine the look and personalities of the characters the period after World War II went up through the late 60s is considered their golden age led by director Chuck Jones and writer Michael Maltese who locked in the character designs and personalities that are still used to this day the shorts got even more ambitious and experimental and introduced hugely successful new characters like Wiley Coyote the roadrunner and Marvin the Martian back then Looney Tune shorts were mostly watched in movie theaters since theaters would always play cartoons before the main feature starting in 1960 Warner Brothers began packaging the shorts on TV in a weekly series called The Bugs Bunny show which would run for 40 years and make the characters more popular than ever so even though theatrical animated shorts mostly died out in the 70s the Looney Tunes survived on television in 1969 Warner Brothers shut down their animation Department ending the production of new Looney Tunes material new shorts would be produced sporadically over the following decades usually just to be paired with Warner Brothers Family movie releases but for about 20 years the Looney Tunes mostly just existed as TV reruns of the classic shorts and then in 1988 producer Steven Spielberg convinced Warners to let the Looney Tunes make brief appearances in Who Framed Roger Rabbit which would become one of the biggest movies of the decade and the biggest platform the characters had had in years that same year Warner Brothers opened a new animation Division and building on the momentum from the Roger Rabbit cameos they brought Spielberg on board to oversee a new cartoon initiative that would revive the Looney Tunes Spielberg was actually hesitant to Simply make new Looney Tunes cartoons and try to compete with the work of Chuck Jones and tax Avery instead they made tiny tune Adventures created by Tom Ruger which was essentially like a legacy sequel to Looney Tunes it follows a new generation of characters learning how to be cartoon comedy stars from the original crew like bugs and Daffy this was the biggest commitment to animation the studio had made in decades pouring millions of dollars into it to ensure that the animation quality blew everything else on TV out of the water and it was a huge hit leading to several more Spielberg produced cartoons from Warner Brothers that carried on the tradition of Looney Tunes such as Animaniacs but as successful as these shows were the original characters were just 2 valuable to Simply Fade Into the background because the 90s were here and there was money to be made this is now the part that I really want to focus on the past 30 years of Looney Tunes by the end of the 80s Warner Brothers had finally realized how valuable a brand Looney Tunes was remember the video about 80s movies and how that decade really leaned into the concept of synergy we are different components of Hollywood could work together to make way more money well that train kept on rolling into the 90s then never really stopped we were now more than a decade on from the original Star Wars which taught the film industry many lessons but the most important lesson was that there is a killing to be made from merchandise so now merch became a key component in the development and launch of any brand especially one aimed at kids in 1991 the Warner Brothers Studio store was launched basically their version of the very popular Disney Store and it was a place where you could buy official clothing based on all your favorite WB characters in particular Batman Superman and the Looney Tunes following year Warner Brothers consumer products a new division of the studio was created they had noticed the rise in bootleg Looney Tunes streetwear designs in the late 80s and decided to embrace it creating the infamous hip-hop Looney Tune shirts that were everywhere in the 90s remember those remember how those were cool weird but the biggest development the one that would alter the Looney Tunes Forever Came in 1992. Jim riswold creative director at the advertising agency widen and Kennedy was working on a Nike Super Bowl commercial that was to star Michael Jordan riswold was a huge Looney Tunes fan and since Roger Rabbit had recently been a huge success by blending live action and hand-drawn animation he had the idea of putting Bugs Bunny in the ad alongside Jordan and thus the commercial titled hair Jordan was born who'd you expect Elmer Fred nice short immediately this was the most pop culture Buzz the Looney Tunes had had in decades yeah Tiny Toons was a hit but that was on Saturday mornings and bugs only made occasional cameos the this was the most watched TV event of the year and bugs was co-star and with the most famous athlete alive and so this kicked off a strange new life for the Looney Tunes as advertising spokesman while their merchandise flooded stores almost all the Looney Tunes media produced that decade were commercials the tunes appeared in ads for Kraft macaroni and cheese Pepsi Welch's jelly crushed soda Walkers crisps Pontiac Toyota and the biggest ones McDonald's and Nike which continued to link the Looney Tunes with basketball by the mid-90s bugs Daffy and crew were at their highest cultural significance in 30 years and it was almost entirely thanks to commercials and Licensing not any actual new cartoons and then Michael Jordan's agent approached Warner Brothers with a pitch what if they took the hair Jordan commercial and made it into a movie in 1996 Warner Brothers Pictures released Space Jam a very normal movie about an alien who runs an Intergalactic theme park and decides that for the new attractions at his theme park he's going to capture and enslave the Looney Tunes but the Looney Tunes make a deal where if they beat the aliens at a game of basketball then they don't have to be enslaved but the aliens steal the talent from a bunch of professional NBA players so they get really good so then the Looney Tunes kidnap Michael Jordan who has retired from basketball and get him to play on their team so Michael Jordan helps the Looney Tunes win and then decides to return to playing professional basketball like I said a very normal movie [Applause] Emma sorry Space Jam was an enormous hit grossing over 230 million dollars but more importantly making over one billion dollars in merchandise sales alone after all it paired the Looney Tunes beloved cartoon characters at the peak of their cultural Resurgence with Michael Jordan at the peak of his Fame and outside of cameos and commercials this was the biggest new Looney Tunes material since the 60s Space Jam was a spectacular truly brilliant feat of brand management for Michael Jordan it portrayed him as a wholesome family-friendly guy with a sense of humor who was relatable he 'd been a nice house in the suburbs and it created this fun new narrative for his retirement and eventual return to basketball and yet and I apologize if this offends many of my fellow millennials Space Jam is a bad movie uh yeah it's it's really not good and it is a particularly bad Looney Tunes movie see the Looney Tunes are characters built for seven minute gag based short films each short is based around a simple usually life or death conflict featuring two to three characters a lot of the time they're trying to kill each other there is no continuity no mythology and absolutely no character arcs and so to support a feature-length narrative director Joe pitka producer Ivan Reitman the four accredited screenwriters and the many many Studio Executives who definitely had some notes on the story they took the Looney Tunes and essentially turned them into the Muppets no disrespect to The Muppets who I love here they all live together in a place called Looney Tune land which is apparently in the center of the earth bugs is now their leader essentially filling the Kermit role they have Town meetings they play together on a basketball team instead of trying to murder each other they're friends now and taking away the conflict that drives these cartoons takes away the main source of all their comedy Elmer Fudd stops trying to shoot bugs and joins him on the team and now suddenly Elmer Fudd is not funny anymore in every one of his own cartoons bugs wins due to his like anarchic cleverness he'll outsmart his enemies or seduce them and then blow them up with dynamites he's always one step ahead that's why we like him and in Space Jam when the mon Stars show up bugs folds immediately and runs to ask Michael Jordan for help he spends the whole movie in awe of Jordan counting on him to save the day look when I was eight years old I loved Space Jam every kid did but even then it bugged me that bugs doesn't even score a single Basket in the game like what the hell man but space Jam's single biggest contribution to the Looney Tunes franchise was the introduction of a new character named Lola Bunny the sexy slam dunking female rabbit that all the male characters are horny for the Looney Tunes have always had a glaring lack of female characters like when it came to merchandise Tweety Bird was always the default character for female targeted products despite the fact that Tweety is canonically male they were so desperate for anything to Market at girls that they just had to pick the smallest cutest male character so now with the Looney Tunes biggest event in decades they decided to remedy this and finally balance things out a little bit and so they introduced Lola someone who could be an equal to bugs she was cool and attractive and confident and by far the best basketball player out of all all the Looney Tunes which was helpful since this was a movie about basketball I realized that too many members of my generation Lola Bunny is an icon so I apologize if this Ruffles a few feathers but I have to say Lola is an awful character if you have this vague General nostalgic fondness for her because you saw Space Jam as a kid that's fine I get it but she's not good because the thing about Lola is that she is a deeply cynical creation she is designed solely to increase merchandise sales by targeting merchandise at female demographics she is a peak 90s concept of what male writers think a strong female character is which is one who is awesome at everything and also really hot now look I am all for more hot cool characters but the thing about Looney Tunes is that they're funny they have funny voices they have funny conflicts they do funny physical comedy Lola has none of those things Lola is just good at basketball and all the guys think she's sexy look the closest thing Lola has to a joke is when people call her doll she gets mad and then dunks the basketball wanna play a little one-on-one doll foreign that's not a joke this might sound harsh but I have to speak my truth Lola Bunny is the poochie of Looney Tunes talking about this guy and her presence makes the other characters worse one of the great things about Bugs Bunny has always been his somewhat gender fluid nature frequently appearing in drag to seduce and distract his enemies but now Lola provides a traditional heterosexual female love interest no more dresses for bugs he's now just an ordinary male protagonist trying to impress the girl I don't want to give the WB Executives too much credit and make it out like they had some evil master plan but here they were essentially sanding off the Looney Tunes edges to make them safer more homogeneous and essentially their own Mickey Mouse earlier that decade they had already put bugs in the studio logo for their family movies making him their cartoon mascot in the 90s Time Warner became the majority owner of Six Flags amusement parks and made the Looney Tunes the mascots of the parks the same way Mickey Minnie Goofy and Donald were the mascots of Disneyland even Michigan J frog the occasionally singing dancing frog from one of Chuck Jones's greatest shorts One Froggy Evening became the mascot for Kids WB and in the process lost his entire comedic conceit in which he switches between the personas of sullen croaking frog and tap dancing showmen depending on who's watching a couple years ago in an interview with complex Jim riswold the guy who developed the hair Jordan ad spoke about making that original commercial and said that Warner executives directed them to make bugs less violent and less anarchic that they were trying to sanitize the characters Space Jam made the Looney Tunes bigger than ever there was just one problem the movie was a terrible showcase for what made them special here they were shells of themselves only there to prop up Jordan and make him look good okay but I will say one positive thing about Space Jam its production led to Warner Brothers starting a new feature animation division which gave us the Iron Giant so out of this whole debacle we did get one Masterpiece so much of what Warner Brothers did with the Looney Tunes in the 90s from the licensing and commercials to the presentation in Space Jam seems designed to remove their edgier elements and make them into Warner's equivalence of Mickey Mouse but let's talk about Mickey Mouse for a second he first truly iconic cartoon character he showed up in 1928 fully formed in Steamboat Willie one of the earliest cartoons with synchronized sound he had an eye-catching design and a fun personality and he became the star of Disney Animation appearing in over 100 short films in the next few decades he he was an upbeat likable Underdog with a group of friends and a nice girlfriend even when cartoons with Donald Duck and Goofy became more popular Mickey remained the most recognizable see Disney more than any other Studio developed a brand that meant something to people it was a whole lifestyle that extended from its cartoon shorts to its feature films to its theme parks Disney meant childlike innocence warmth safety stability and happiness and Mickey became the face of that his design and personality resembled a small child he was always a welcoming smiling face today it doesn't matter if you can actually name a single Mickey Mouse cartoon you see those ears you think Mickey you think Disney you think happy he is more simple than actual character and this is why Disney is so cautious about producing new Mickey media because they run the risk of muddying the meaning of that symbol and so here was the problem Warner Brothers seems to want bugs to be their Mickey but they don't have a brand the way Disney does Warner Brothers does not immediately conjure any specific feelings the Looney Tunes are all over Six Flags theme parks but Six Flags is not the happiest place on earth like Disney World is it's just the place with a bunch of cool roller coasters there's no feeling or idea to represent if Bugs Bunny became their symbol then he wouldn't really mean anything bugs has always been as writer Lloyd Rose described him a gentleman Anarchist but it seemed that Warner Brothers would rather he just be a gentleman and so this was the contradiction of what the studio tried to do with the Looney Tunes in the 90s did they want them to be respectable mascots symbols of the Studio's Legacy or did they want them to be zany and Arctic stars of violent cartoons because you can't have it both ways anyway let's get back to the 90s since Space Jam was a massive commercial hit Warner Brothers obviously wanted a sequel but Michael Jordan was too busy winning NBA championships to waste his time making another movie so they looked elsewhere they wanted to repeat the formula by teaming the Looney Tunes up with another big live-action celebrity Max Howard a Warner executive at the time pitched team-ups with Tiger Woods and I kid you not Clint Eastwood some other Concepts in development were spy Jam featuring Jackie Chan race Jam featuring Jeff Gordon and skate Jam featuring Tony Hawk somehow it took seven years to finally get another Looney Tunes movie made and in the end it wasn't any of these ideas it didn't even have Jam in the title it involved some recycled elements from Spy Jam Plus a can Cameo from Jeff Gordon and while it was not a canonical sequel to Space Jam it once again involved the Looney Tunes starring alongside live-action actors the movie was Looney Tunes back in Action back in Action is a fascinating contradiction of a movie it was green lit by a studio deliberately trying to make another Space Jam yet it was directed by Joe Dante who hated Space Jam and was trying to correct what he saw as the mistakes of that movie see Dante was a massive Looney Tunes fan who wasn't only friends with Chuck Jones he actually got Chuck Jones to direct segments featuring Bugs and Daffy for Gremlins too which is maybe the closest a live-action film has ever come to capturing the absurdist cartoon comedy of golden age Looney Tunes Dante's Mission with back in Action was to present the characters as they were meant to be as he would later say in an interview I did it for Chuck who had just passed away and hated Space Jam you can see Dante's course correction in in the first few minutes of the movie Lola is nowhere to be seen and when a Warner executive pitches bugs on having a hot female co-star bugs immediately dresses in Drag and replies usually I play the female love interest but the movie that got made was not the movie Dante signed on for he described the experience as quote a nightmarish year and a half of my life that I'll never get back and the finished product as quote a noisy annoying movie Back In Action is definitely a better movie than Space Jam like unquestionably and it's a far better showcase for the Looney Tunes as in this time they actually get to be funny the problem with the movie is that they're still playing supporting roles to the live-action humans despite the fact that they are literally the title characters of the movie back in action often feels like a mediocre live action comedy that occasionally Cuts away to a far more interesting Looney Tune short that we would rather be watching Dante may have won a handful of battles for how the characters would be portrayed but to Warner Brothers none of that actually mattered because when back in Action opened in theaters in 2003 it was a huge flop maybe the Looney Tunes hype of the 90s had worn off maybe no one really cared unless Michael Jordan was there either way audiences clearly were not interested the movie lost money and liked the collapse of the Bronze Age The Looney Tunes entered a dark period what's important to mention here is that during all this time the classic Looney Tune shorts were still airing on TV multiple times per week The Bugs Bunny show the weekly hour-long compilation of old cartoons that began in 1960 ran continuously for 40 years in the 90s it was part of ABC's Saturday morning cartoon block and at the time the classic shorts would also air on Nickelodeon then at the end of the 90s the Looney Tunes Library moves to Cartoon Network and would air as the Looney Tunes show as well as a separate compilation show called The Chuck Jones Show they also aired regularly on Cartoon Network's spin-off Channel Boomerang which was dedicated to Vintage cartoons and then in 2004 after the commercial failure of back in Action Cartoon Network pulled Looney Tunes from their rotate in 2007 their run on Boomerang ended and so for the first time since the 1950s the classic Looney Tune shorts stopped airing regularly on TV and would not return until the following decade during the 2000s Warner Brothers would launch several attempts to Rebrand the Looney Tunes each one would try some different spin on the characters placing them into a different genre or format and in the process lose what made them special and usually the shows would only last a couple of seasons in 2002 there was Baby Looney Tunes basically a knockoff of Muppet Babies where all the characters play together at Granny's house in 2003 there was Duck Dodgers a Sci-Fi Adventure comedy based on one of Chuck Jones's more famous shorts in which Daffy Duck and Porky Pig are Space Rangers in the future usually battling against Marvin the Martian two years later the strangest of all of these reboots arrived lunatics Unleashed a vaguely anime-esque Sci-Fi Action cartoon with a team of futuristic superheroes dressed in black who were supposed to be like the descendants of the Looney Tunes no one liked that show and then in 2011 a new show called The Looney Tune show premiered on Cartoon Network it took all the classic characters including Lola Bunny now a dramatically reworked to have actual jokes and voiced by Kristen Wiig and placed them all in a traditional sitcom format now with Looney Tunes all live in the suburbs and have regular jobs bugs and Daffy are roommates instead of trying to kill each other by dropping anvils on their heads the characters have stories about hooking up the cable TV or hosting dinner parties for the Neighbors look it's not that the show is even bad it's just a bizarre use of these characters since even more so than Space Jam it removed the main things about them that were fun Looney Tunes are these strange hyperbolic characters stuck in Mythic sisyphean cycles of comic violence and rage generation and now they had them all sitting calmly in a living room anyway that show lasted for two seasons and then in the summer of 2021 Warner Brothers released Space Jam a new Legacy not really a sequel to the original but just another Space Jam This Time starring LeBron James I'll be honest guys I don't really want to spend too much time on this because this [ __ ] is bleak I'll just say that this mostly seems to use the Looney Tunes out of obligation and did nothing to create any kind of cultural Resurgence like they had in the 90s and so here we are in 2023 trying to answer the question what do we do with the Looney Tunes those original shorts especially from the mid 40s to the mid 60s are still as great and Timeless as ever I watched a ton of them when writing this video and I gotta tell you they made me laugh a lot the animation still looks astounding and the voice acting the visual comedy and the sheer inventiveness of them still outdoes the majority of TV animated comedy from the past 60 years and it's weird to realize that my generation might be the last generation to grow up watching Looney Tunes for more than 40 years they would be on TV all the time we all just saw them and then they were pulled from TV for a decade and by the time they came back TV had changed in the streaming era kids have a million options they have YouTube and countless streaming services with every show ever made they're no longer just turning on the T TV and watching whatever is on Saturday morning cartoons aren't a thing anymore so unless their parents are old school animation fans and deliberately introducing their kids to old cartoons kids might just never see them and look I'm not trying to approach this like a WB exec who needs to keep the brand making money for me it's just that these are amazing Timeless characters who I think are worth keeping alive for future Generations so how do you do that one of the problems is the format the Looney Tunes are best known for their theatrical shorts but that Medium doesn't really exist anymore there's no place where people regularly watch short films I mean they made a handful of CG animated Roadrunner shorts about a decade ago one of them played in front of Zack Snyder's owl movie but they didn't make a huge impression the studio has constantly been trying to put the characters in Roger rabbit-esque feature films for the past 30 years there's even another one called coyote versus Acme opening later this year but as we've talked about these are not characters built for feature-length narratives they don't have emotional arcs Space Jam 2's attempt to give bugs a dramatic sacrifice at the climax like he literally dies is genuinely one of the most insulting things I've seen in a movie in years and and if you try to put them in a more traditional half hour format with a consistent status quo like Tiny Toon Adventures where all the characters live in Acme acres and attend Acme University it kinda robs the cartoons of their spontaneity where like in one short Daffy Duck can be a frustrated actor on the Warner lot then in another he's a Space Ranger in the future and then in another he's Robin Hood the truth is the Looney Tunes will always work best in the format they originated in a format that doesn't really exist anymore or does it okay now here comes what to some of you is going to be a huge plot twist you ready Emma you ready I'm ready in 2018 Warner Brothers commissioned animators to create new Looney Tunes shorts in the spirit and style of the ones from the Golden Age you have been released on HBO Max under the title Looney Tunes cartoons and there are currently 63 episodes available each 11 minutes long they have essentially been buried like most people scrolling through HBO Max would just assume that these are the classic shorts from the 50s and move on past is just anecdotal but most people I've asked aren't even aware they exist and those that are haven't actually watched them and I'll be honest I hadn't watched any either until working on this video folks they're really good I realize this isn't saying much but these are by far the best Looney Tunes material made since Chuck Jones in the 60s they're genuinely really funny the animation is great and while they are similar in structure and tone to The Originals they're not a Pastiche they're as different from Chuck Jones as Chuck Jones was from Tex Avery they are weird and gorgeous and despite no longer featuring guns they're often more violent than the original shorts [Music] foreign [Music] place where they finally managed to make good Looney Tunes again and the studio clearly has no idea what to do with them instead of reaching a new audience they are hidden in a place that only existing fans will know to look for them these new cartoons were already out when Space Jam 2 was released but the studio didn't bother to do any kind of cross-promotional push they could have attempted to Kickstart a new Looney Tunes Resurgence like in the 90s especially since they had hours of brand new cartoons on the streaming service they were so eager to get people to sign up for but they just didn't bother by this point Looney Tunes once a crown jewel in the Warner Brothers collection was less of a priority than like Scooby-Doo look as much as I clearly love criticizing the decisions of Warner Executives I think the real problem here is the land landscape of streaming television there is so much material produced and released every week that it becomes nearly impossible to stand out and get attention excellent new Looney Tunes cartoons are produced and instead of getting promoted and airing during prime time they just get thrown on the pile along with everything else it seems like Warner Brothers has given up trying to make bugs their Mickey and now Looney Tunes is just another brand they own do we need to accept that the time for Looney Tunes is over should they just become cynical brand images we stick on merchandise husks of what they once were the truly substantial and unique cartoons lost in the obliterating white noise of streaming content is my generation the final Bastion of remembrance carrying the torch of Looney Tunes in our hearts until we too shake off our mortal coils and Looney Tunes is finally irretrievably plunged into the void hey Patrick maybe we don't need to get so depressing at the end of a Looney Tunes video you're kind of bumming everyone out foreign yeah yeah you're probably right there's that line about the difference between a happy ending and a sad ending being where you decide the story ends so let's decide it ends here where after more than three decades of trying and mostly failing Warner Brothers finally managed to make new Looney Tunes that are actually good and sure they might be hidden away where most people don't know about them but now you do it's like Buried Treasure and you can go find it and hey if enough people watch it maybe they'll make more so stop hate watching Velma and go watch some quality Looney Tunes instead now look I know the big question a lot of you have here why didn't I spend more time on Space Jam 2 well I'll admit I find that movie really depressing and would rather just forget it exists but I did make an entire extra section about it and you can see it in the Extended Cut of this video on nebula nebula is of course the Creator owned streaming platform that I helps develop where independent creators like me can experiment with more ambitious higher budget projects than we're able to make on YouTube and this season of the show The nebula versions of every episode will be an extended cut with a bonus section plus it's where you can watch my feature length film night of the coconut which will help 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pantsless pig once said the the the the the the the the That's all folks and that is our show thank you so much good night and we're clear that's a wrap ah first show in the books not bad and Emma it is great having someone here to help out by the way I I'm not sure you can still wear those shirts after the whole like trial attempting genocide thing don't worry I'm gen Z we wear it post ironically wait you're gen Z that's perfect you can help keep the show in step with what's trendy okay so like right now what are people your age into well I've been getting really into Val Kilmer movies my favorites are real genius and Oliver Stones The Doors okay I've seen those and you got like heat Batman Forever Tombstone one of my Tombstone memes got three likes the other day so is that it you just watch Val Kilmer films Kilns what Val Kilmer films are Kilns you're not gonna help me tap into the Zeitgeist are you nope lights out in five Patrick foreign hello and welcome to the end of the video as you can see we're in an exciting New Era for the channel the season has resumed the format is now a bit more like the talk show from 2020 because we had so much fun doing that Emma has joined the cast we're shooting at the nebula offices I'm having a lot of fun with it but anyway right now as the patreon credits are scrolling up a couple things I wanted to mention about the patreon because the site doesn't make it really easy to see this but we added a whole bunch of goals as in like things that will happen things will do videos will make when we hit certain Milestones like numbers of patrons and so the next one up is when we hit 1700 patrons which is about 150 away from where we are now I will commission someone to build a Muppet version of me for the video on Muppet Cinema that's happening later this year because a lot of people were demanding that there'd be a month at Patrick in it and I think that sounds really fun but also it costs money to make so that's how you can make that happen and there's a bunch more goals after that that we'll worry about when we get there also the Charles shirt that Emma is wearing post Ironically in the video those are still available if you want your own even though Charlie turned out to be a bad guy but uh they're still nice shirts and the other thing is that in case you weren't aware we have a second Channel where all season I've been doing a series called Patrick replies where I respond to questions and comments about each of the regular videos uh we've been having a lot of fun with it people seem to be enjoying it you can submit questions for it in the ask Patrick channel in our Discord server which is exclusively for members of the patreon um anyway I think that's everything I think that's all the stuff that I had to mention um I have another video that I have to finish in less than a week so I'm gonna go edit that right now thank you so much for watching and goodbye [Music] [Music] oh

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