The 100 Greatest Looney Tunes Cartoons
(at least according to the book of the same name by Jerry Beck)
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- DirectorChuck JonesStarsMel BlancDick BealsBea BenaderetIn his first of two Warner Bros. cartoons, schoolboy Ralph Phillips daydreams in class, the lessons inspiring his fantasy heroics, such as being a pony-express rider, a deep-sea diver, a boxing champion and even General Douglas MacArthur.
- DirectorRobert McKimsonStarsMel BlancWhen the circus arrives they put the lion's cage right over Bugs' rabbit hole.
- DirectorChuck JonesStarsMel BlancBugs and Daffy tunnel to Baghdad where they find caves full of treasure and a guard named Hassan who wants only to "chop" them.
- DirectorChuck JonesStarsMel BlancMichael MalteseTedd PierceMeadows the butler, fed up with the family cat's practical jokes, walks off the job, leaving the formerly-pampered feline alone and totally helpless, unaware even of what a mouse looks like. Thus, he's terrified when the cheese-hunting mice Hubie and Bertie show up, making their first appearance in a Warner Bros. cartoon.
- DirectorRobert ClampettStarsMel BlancSara BernerIt's the start of the Baby-Boom, and the overworked delivery system is full of glitches: Mother Goose gets a baby skunk, a Scotty dog gets a little hippo, and Mr. and Mrs. Mouse wind up with a kitten. Porky and Daffy take over the Baby Factory and get things straightened out until an unidentified egg comes rolling down the assembly line.
- DirectorFriz FrelengStarsMel BlancArthur Q. BryanGloria CurranSylvester sings opera and popular tunes while standing on a back alley fence; Elmer, who wants to sleep, tries to thwart him.
- DirectorFriz FrelengStarsMel BlancBea BenaderetFrank GrahamBugs plays every defensive position against the Gashouse Gorillas.
- DirectorChuck JonesStarsBea BenaderetBilly BletcherStan FrebergIt's Father's Day, and Junyer and Ma have a bunch of big surprises in store for good ol' Pa, including a pipe filled with gunpowder. To top it off, there's a gala Father's Day pageant, and Pa sits cringing through Junyer's recitation and aghast at Ma's tap-dancing rendition of "I'm Just Wild About Father."
- DirectorRobert ClampettArthur DavisStarsMel BlancArthur Q. BryanElmer Fudd walks out of a typical Bugs cartoon, so Bugs gets back at him by disturbing Elmer's sleep using "nightmare paint."
- DirectorFriz FrelengStarsMel BlancWhen Sylvester learns of the possibly dire consequences of his passion for birds, he joins Birds Anonymous to quit. Unfortunately, the outside world taxes his resolve to the limit.
- DirectorRobert ClampettStarsMel BlancBea BenaderetSara BernerAs the literary characters come to life in a bookstore at night, Daffy Duck sings and dances before being chased by the Big Bad Wolf.
- DirectorFriz FrelengStarsMel BlancBugs infuriates pirate Yosemite Sam by stealing his treasure and Yosemite chases Bugs onto the pirate ship.
- DirectorFriz FrelengStarsMel BlancWhen Bugs calls a cab he doesn't know it's the getaway car for a couple of bankrobbers (he does know the capital of Nevada).
- DirectorRobert ClampettStarsMel BlancSara BernerKent RogersMama Buzzard wants her children to learn to bring back meat for dinner. One buzzardling is shy and has to be kicked out of the nest. He's told to at least bring back a rabbit.
- DirectorChuck JonesStarsMel BlancBugs Bunny takes a wrong turn at Albuquerque and winds up in a Mexican bullring fighting one heck of a big bullying bull.
- DirectorChuck JonesStarsMel BlancJohn T. SmithThis adventure takes Bugs into the world of professional wrestling.
- DirectorFriz FrelengStarsMel BlancMarian RichmanSylvester has only canned food available while his people are away. A pesky mouse torments him with the only can opener.
- DirectorChuck JonesStarsMel BlancBea BenaderetStan FrebergA perpetually-hungry dog has a great scheme going: planting a cat in different houses and bullying it out the food its "owners" give it. But he keeps getting hungrier and hungrier, and the cat keeps forgetting the gravy.
- DirectorTex AveryStarsElvia AllmanTex AveryMel BlancA partial updating of the Cinderella story. When the fairy godmother is late, Cinderella calls the police, who put out an APB and find her in a bar. Her first attempt at turning the pumpkin (canned) and mice into a coach produces Santa. Cinderella gets to the ball (in a stagecoach) and meets Prince Charming Egghead. They dance, and spend some quality time on the balcony. Midnight, dropped slipper, and all that; Egghead finds her house with the help of some neon signs, but all that's there is a note that she got tired of waiting and went to a Warner Bros. show. She pops up from the audience, and they head off to the tenth row together.
- DirectorRobert ClampettStarsIvie AndersonMel BlancRuby DandridgeSo White flees from the wicked Queenie, wins over the thugs from Murder Inc. and meets her overrated Prince Chawmin'.
- DirectorRobert ClampettStarsArthur Q. BryanRobert ClampettBea BenaderetElmer Fudd introduces two pieces of classical music: "Tales of the Vienna Woods" and "The Blue Danube", and acted out by Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Laramore the Hound Dog, a family of swans, and a juvenile Daffy Duck.
- DirectorChuck JonesStarsMel BlancJune ForayDaffy Duck is a detective who is hunting for the Shropshire Slasher.
- DirectorChuck JonesStarsMel BlancEver in search of a master, no matter how unwilling, Charlie winds up on a plantation down South and tries to force himself on the owner, a Confederate Colonel. Unfortunately, the Colonel already has a pet bulldog, "Belvedere."
- DirectorFriz FrelengStarsMel BlancSylvester Cat tries to catch Tweety Bird, who is up in a tree in the middle of the city dog pound.
- DirectorArthur DavisStarsMel BlancLouie the Parrot is second in line to inherit the family fortune behind the family cat Heathcliff. Louie plots the end of Heathcliff.
- 19429mApproved7.1 (1.8K)ShortDirectorChuck JonesStarsMel BlancBea BenaderetJohn McLeishThree fun-loving, morally upright brothers from Pimento University save their fiancée from their fiendish archenemy, Dan Backslide, in this spoof of the Rover Boys.
- DirectorRobert ClampettStarsMel BlancDaffy Duck is desperate to elude the draft board respresentative bearing his conscription order.
- DirectorChuck JonesStarsMel BlancJohn T. SmithDaffy Duck plays a western hero, but things don't go as he hoped in a one horse town.
- DirectorChuck JonesStarsMel BlancThe short-tempered Daffy Duck must improvise madly as the backgrounds, his costumes, the soundtrack, even his physical form, shifts and changes at the whim of the animator.
- DirectorChuck JonesStarsMel BlancDuck Dodgers and Marvin Martian wage war over Planet X.
- DirectorChuck JonesStarsMel BlancArthur Q. BryanThe final installment of the "Hunting Trilogy" once again has Elmer out hunting, while Bugs and Daffy try to con him into shooting the other.
- DirectorRobert McKimsonStarsMel BlancArthur Q. BryanBugs Bunny delivers eggs for the lazy Easter Bunny; he encounters a sadistic brat and a rabbit stew-hungry Elmer Fudd.
- DirectorRobert ClampettStarsMel BlancElvia AllmanSara BernerA live-action piano player relates the story of the Moth who, on his way to marry his Honey Bee, falls into the clutches of an amourous black widow spider, who at one point disguises herself as Veronica Lake in an attempt to snare her man, er, bug.
- DirectorChuck JonesStarsMel BlancDave BarryNorman NesbittBugs helps a penguin go home via New Orleans, Martinique, the Panama Canal and finally the South Pole. But the penguin's home is in New Jersey.
- DirectorRobert ClampettStarsMel BlancRobert ClampettBugs encounters wartime sabotage and takes to the air to do battle.
- DirectorChuck JonesStarsMel BlancPaul JulianWile E. Coyote makes 11 disastrous attempts to catch the Road Runner.
- DirectorChuck JonesStarsBea BenaderetMel BlancA bulldog, charmed by a kitten, tries to keep her hidden from his human guardian.
- DirectorRobert McKimsonStarsMel BlancMrs. Gorilla want to adopt Bugs; Mr. G. only wants to chase him.
- DirectorRobert ClampettStarsMel BlancAfter reading a Dick Tracy comic, Daffy Duck has a surreal dream in which he is a P.I. pursuing an army of grotesque villains who stole every piggy bank in town, including his own.
- DirectorRobert ClampettStarsMel BlancSara BernerTwo cats (one a caricature of Jimmy Durante) battle violently for the affections of a pretty girl cat, who'll dispense her favors on the one who brings her a little bird. Unfortunately for the lovestruck felines, the bird in question is a vicious little thing named Tweety.
- DirectorChuck JonesStarsPaul JulianWhile cooking a tin can, the Coyote spots a better meal rushing by- the Road Runner. But making himself into a giant arrow doesn't catch the bird, and the book, "How to Tar and Feather a Road Runner", isn't much help either.
- DirectorChuck JonesStarsMel BlancA sneaker-wearing, hairy monster chases Bugs through a castle belonging to an evil scientist.
- DirectorRobert McKimsonArthur DavisStarsMel BlancStan FrebergDave BarryA Shakespearian dog, tired of being a pie-in-the-face looney tune, quits Warner Brothers to study dramatic acting and goes to his country house to practice the bard. He finds that two polite twin gophers have taken over his abode and angrily throws them out. They retaliate by violently heckling him in comical accordance with his Shakespeare speeches.
- DirectorChuck JonesStarsMel BlancStan FrebergThe Sportsmen QuartetBugs is tricked into being the first rabbit shot into space. When he lands on the moon he finds Commander X-2 (later known as Marvin Martian) set to blow up planet Earth.
- DirectorFriz FrelengStarsMel BlancFrances BaruchMichael MalteseBugs Bunny relates his early life in the Manhattan tenements and spotlights his encounter with a gang of canine toughs.
- DirectorRobert ClampettStarsMel BlancBea BenaderetSara BernerA cat-about-town fancies himself such an irresistible "hunk" he momentarily resembles Victor Mature. His wooing of a cute kitten gets derailed by a prankster dog using a cat hand puppet to trap him.
- DirectorFriz FrelengStarsMel BlancYosemite Sam tries to force Bugs Bunny to do a high-diving act when the regular act cancels; but the bullying pipsqueak is no match for our redoubtable rabbit.
- DirectorChuck JonesStarsMel BlancThe sheet music for Johann Strauss' "The Blue Danube" is constructed by moving musical symbols. A baton-toting conductor note tries to direct his fellow notes in performing this musical piece, but finds that one of the notes has become drunk after being inside the sheet music for "Little Brown Jug". The drunken note staggers goofily on the staves for the music of "The Blue Danube" and is chased by the conductor.
- DirectorRobert McKimsonStarsMel BlancStan FrebergJohn T. SmithWhile vacationing in the Ozark Mountains, Bugs Bunny encounters Curt and Pumpkinhead Martin, two dimwitted hillbillies who are duped by Bugs into a violent square dance.
- DirectorTex AveryStarsDave BarrySara BernerMel BlancA tour of Ciro's Nightclub packed with caricatures of many top stars, including (in order) Cary Grant, Greta Garbo, Edward G. Robinson and Ann Sheridan, Johnny Weissmuller, James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart and George Raft, Harpo Marx, Clark Gable, Bing Crosby, Leopold Stokowski, James Stewart and Dorothy Lamour, Tyrone Power and Sonja Henie, The Frankenstein Monster, Larry Fine, Moe Howard, Curly Howard, Oliver Hardy, Cesar Romero, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland and Lewis Stone, Kay Kyser, Peter Lorre, Henry Fonda, J. Edgar Hoover, Ned Sparks, Jerry Colonna, and Groucho Marx; many more just get sight gags, such as Claudette Colbert, Norma Shearer, William Powell, Don Ameche, Wallace Beery, C. Aubrey Smith, Boris Karloff, Arthur Treacher, Buster Keaton and Mischa Auer.
- DirectorFriz FrelengStarsMel BlancJune ForayBilly BoothYosemite Sam marries a widow for her money, and once the honeymoon is over, the woman reveals her real bossy, loud mouthed manner and introduces Sam to her son - a huge, oafish kid. Sam can't tolerate the big kid's sappy clumsiness and tries to do away with him.
- DirectorChuck JonesStarsMel BlancStan FrebergThose crazy mice Hubie & Bertie are at it again with Claude. This time the mice see that Claude is seriously ill, so they give him an operation.
- DirectorTex AveryStarsTex AveryBilly BletcherTommy BondA spoof of Al Jolson's "The Jazz Singer", a strict piano teaching owl is cursed with a son who "loves to singa", but only jazz.
- DirectorRobert ClampettStarsSara BernerMel BlancArthur Q. BryanElmer threatens to give his dog a bath if he doesn't stop scratching, but the poor pooch is the victim of a hungry flea whose tools of the trade include pickaxes and dynamite.
- DirectorRobert ClampettStarsMel BlancRobert ClampettPorky puts his cats out in the snow, but then they put him out and have a party. Expelling them again, Porky goes to bed, only to be terrorized by the felines' mock Martian invasion.
- DirectorFriz FrelengStarsMel BlancBea BenaderetBilly BletcherBugs, the Wolf and bobby-soxer Red chase each other around while Grandma is off working at Lockheed aircraft.
- DirectorChuck JonesStarsMel BlancNicolai ShutorevBugs Bunny retaliates against the pompous opera star who does him violence.
- DirectorFriz FrelengStarsMel BlancTom HollandA pair of not-too-bright Mexican cats, one shorter-tempered than the other, decide to chase Speedy Gonzales, the fastest mouse in all Mexico. And when their schemes - involving use of guitars, a fishing rod, dynamite, and land mines - all backfire, they decide to try catching Slowpoke Rodriguez, Mexico's slowest mouse. But the short-tempered cat learns too late that Slowpoke packs a gun.
- DirectorChuck JonesStarsMel BlancA squirrel in a downtown park lugs a giant coconut back home, but nothing he does can seem to crack it open.
- DirectorFrank TashlinStarsMel BlancSara BernerRobert C. BruceA pet duckling grows up to be Daffy. His antics soon grate on the family, culminating in a fencing match at the breakfast table fought with butter knives. But the daughter defends Daffy.
- DirectorChuck JonesStarsMel BlancTedd PierceJohn DeeringPorky balks at learning the Pledge of Allegiance until Uncle Sam appears to him in a dream and gives him a lesson in American history.
- DirectorRobert ClampettStarsMel BlancArthur Q. BryanElmer Fudd asks God when he will finally be able to catch Bugs. God tells him to look far into the future so he imagines a little Elmer still trying to catch a baby Bugs years later.
- DirectorChuck JonesStarsWilliam RobertsA man futilely struggles to make his fortune with a frog that sings and dances, but only when it is alone with the owner.
- DirectorChuck JonesStarsMel BlancWile E. Coyote set up an elaborate scientific contraption to trap Bugs.
- DirectorTex AveryStarsTex AveryBernice HansenJackie MorrowA bellhop in the No 1. hotel of a smalltown awaiting the arrival of Miss Glory dreams he has to page Miss Glory at a first class hotel in New York, and this turns out to be a nightmare. Finally he is awakened by the manager, because Miss Glory's car has arrived, but instead of a beautiful lady, a child star a la Shirley Temple steps out ...
- DirectorChuck JonesStarsMel BlancArthur Q. BryanA sleepy man demands total quiet from hotel manager Elmer Fudd, but bellhop Daffy's noisy antics keep prompting the exasperated guest to sock Elmer in the face.
- DirectorFriz FrelengStarsBea BenaderetSara BernerMel BlancThe story of the three little pigs and the big bad wolf, this time performed as pantomime to the Hungarian Dances by Johannes Brahms.
- DirectorFriz FrelengStarsBilly BletcherBernice HansenShirley ReedA hungry little pig eats a couple of pies off the windowsill. When it's time for dinner, he ties together the spaghetti of all the other little pigs and eats it all. That night, he has a nightmare where he is force-fed by a mad scientist.
- DirectorFrank TashlinStarsMel BlancSara BernerRobert C. BruceDaffy Duck is a message courier bird delivering a military secret that a femme fatale Nazi spy is determined to get.
- DirectorRobert ClampettStarsMel BlancBilly BletcherRobert ClampettPorky Pig goes on a hunt to catch the surreally elusive last Do-Do bird.
- DirectorFrank TashlinStarsMel BlancPorky Pig and Daffy Duck owe an outrageous sum to the Broken Arms Hotel. The manager thwarts their efforts to escape without paying their bill.
- DirectorChuck JonesStarsMel BlancArthur Q. BryanDaffy Duck and Bugs argue back and forth whether it is duck season or rabbit season. The object of their arguments is hunter Elmer Fudd.
- DirectorChuck JonesStarsMel BlancArthur Q. BryanBugs Bunny gives Elmer Fudd a close shave as they sing and act out Rossini's opera.
- DirectorChuck JonesStarsMel BlancArthur Q. BryanDaffy Duck tricks Elmer Fudd into believing it's rabbit season; but Bugs Bunny uses a female disguise and faulty pronouns to fight back.
- DirectorFriz FrelengBuilders construct a building to the tune of Franz Liszt's "Second Hungarian Rhapsody".
- DirectorChuck JonesStarsMel BlancDaffy attempts to convince Porky, as Friar Tuck, that he really is Robin Hood.
- DirectorChuck JonesStarsDaws ButlerJune ForayA cosmic mix-up results in a Martian baby being delivered to Earth, while an Earth baby is sent to Mars. Joseph Wilbur and his wife try to raise the green-skinned, ingenious Martian tyke as if he were an Earthling. But the kid builds his own spaceship and flies away, and Wilbur must find him and bring him back, or he'll never be able to make an exchange with the Martian parents for his own boy.
- DirectorRobert ClampettStarsMel BlancBea BenaderetRobert C. BruceAs Adolf Hitler personally flies a bomber on a mission to the Soviet Union, the gremlins from the Kremlin set about to stop him.
- DirectorFriz FrelengStarsMel BlancChasing Tweety all over the rooftops, Sylvester falls off a building and dies. While waiting for his other eight lives, a satanic bulldog goads Sylvester into losing all eight by continuing to chase Tweety into risky situations.
- DirectorChuck JonesStarsMel BlancPorky and Sylvester spend the night in an old dark house where a cult of killer mice try to eliminate them both. Sylvester tries warning Porky, but he is convinced that Sylvester is a coward.
- DirectorChuck JonesStarsMel BlancMarian RichmanDaffy Duck pitches to J.L. Warner a starring role with himself in a ridiculously over the top swashbuckler film.
- DirectorFrank TashlinStarsMel BlancDorothy LloydTedd PierceDaffy takes on a goat sent by Hitler to eat up his scrap pile.
- DirectorFriz FrelengStarsMel BlancBugs and Daffy are vaudevillians competing for praise from the audience. They love Bugs no matter what; just the opposite for Daffy.
- DirectorFriz FrelengStarsMel BlancArthur Q. BryanDave BarryHumphrey Bogart visits the Mocrumbo Restaurant. He orders fried rabbit and Elmer Fudd has twenty minutes to serve it.
- DirectorChuck JonesStarsMel BlancRalph Wolf tries to forcibly remove Sam Sheepdog in order to gain access to a flock of sheep. Without success, he uses a lasso, cannon, a string of firecrackers, and a giant rubber band.
- DirectorFrank TashlinStarsMel BlancDave BarryFrank GrahamElmer Fudd plays a cupid at a farm. He encounters Daffy Duck and eventually lands an arrow causing him to fall for a chicken.
- DirectorArthur DavisStarsMel BlancWhen notorious bank robber Slug McSlug escapes the police dragnet by hiding out in an abandoned country house, he is visited by salesman Daffy Duck, who is absolutely determined to sell him something.
- DirectorFrank TashlinStarsMel BlancBea BenaderetSara BernerPorky Pig's egg farm faces production problems when a crooning rooster distracts the hens from their jobs.
- DirectorRobert ClampettStarsMel BlancTedd PierceBabbit and Catstello, take-offs on Bud Abbott and Lou Costello try to catch the little Tweety bird, using everything from stilts to dynamite. Trouble is, the tiny bird has a vicious streak in him.
- DirectorFriz FrelengStarsStan FrebergThree pigs' career as a jazz band is complicated by a wolf they rejected for membership who keeps blowing down their gigs.
- DirectorTex AveryStarsDanny WebbTex AveryMel BlancKiller and his gang are robbing every bank in town in numerical order, except they skip the 13th National Bank. The police are unable to catch them, despite their predictability (and their endless sight gags). Finally, they get help from an unlikely source: the guy in the front of the theatre who sat through the picture before. They capture Killer, and he gets a long sentence, which he has to write on the blackboard 1,000 times.
- DirectorRobert ClampettStarsMel BlancThe Four DreamersFour Spirits of RhythmA jazz cartoon involving a "Fats Waller"-like cat who leaves the "Uncle Tomcat Mission" for the local jazz club.
- DirectorRobert ClampettTex AveryStarsMel BlancKent RogersMichael MalteseBugs challenges Cecil Turtle to race, only this time he's wearing an aerodynamic suit like Cecil's. Unfortunately, the gambling ring has bet everything on the rabbit, and Bugs now looks like a tortoise.
- DirectorFriz FrelengStarsMel BlancStan FrebergA rough and tough bulldog and his admirer friend set out to rough up Sylvester the Cat, unaware of the escaped black panther roaming around.
- DirectorRobert ClampettStarsMel BlancArthur Q. BryanElmer Fudd expects to find "west and wewaxation" during his visit to Jellostone National Park, but he sets up camp in Bugs' backyard, and the rabbit (and a neighboring bear) definitely don't have leisure in mind.
- DirectorRobert McKimsonStarsMel BlancYoung Henery Hawk's father regretfully admits their family's shame: they hunt and eat chickens. Henery set off to find one, and comes across Foghorn Leghorn, where the loudmouth rooster is engaged in his favorite pastime, playing tricks on a grumpy dog.
- DirectorChuck JonesStarsMel BlancArthur Q. BryanElmer Fudd is again hunting rabbits - only this time it's an opera. Wagner's Siegfried with Elmer as the titular hero and Bugs as Brunnhilde. They sing, they dance, they eat the scenery.
- DirectorFrank TashlinStarsMel BlancThe Sing BandPaul Taylor GroupA neighborhood bully convinces Porky to take a puff from his cigar, causing Porky to hallucinate a smoke-man named Nick O. Teen, along with a musical number done by cigars, cigarettes and pipes in the likeness of the 3 Stooges, etc.
- DirectorTex AveryStarsMel BlancArthur Q. BryanWhile hunting rabbits, Elmer Fudd comes across Bugs Bunny, who tricks and harasses the hunter.
- DirectorFriz FrelengStarsMel BlancLeon SchlesingerHenry BinderDaffy Duck tries to usurp Porky Pig's job through devious means in this wild blend of live action and animation.