. . . to use the full, given, legal name of a White House resident, since everyone says "Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Lyndon Baines Johnson, and Richard Milquetoast Nixon") failed to study BUDDY OF THE LEGION and its ominous prognostication for the ravages wrought against innocent Americans by Radical Muslim Terrorists on his watch. Naturally, Warner Bros.' crack team of Animated Shorts Seers (aka, the Looney Tuners) had a particular affinity to watch out for the well being of their fellow Southern Californians, even into the (Then) Far Future. BUDDY OF THE LEGION depicts the title character asleep at the switch, day-dreaming about a husband-wife terrorist team killing normal, God-fearing Westerners just because they can. This brief cartoon features a female-led assault against Buddy's crew in which 14 of them are killed (with any survivors being subjected to slavery at hard labor under Sharia Law). Many are also injured, as the Looney Tuners endeavor to provide the Obama Administration with a Crystal Clear prophecy against the pending havoc targeting San Bernardino on Dec. 2, 2015, at the paws of Tashfeen Malik and her paramour Syed Rizwan Farook. Everyone in America has been outraged by the photos of Obama Living Large this month, water kite jet-skiing or something in the tropics, at a time when a normal Ex-President is cataloging his taxpayer-staffed library while organizing his papers for Posterity. Since Obama expanded the number of federal employees on the taxpayers' dole by thousands if not millions, surely some of them could have been delegated to study ALL of the Looney Tune prophecies, and noticed BUDDY OF THE LEGION in time to nip Malik and Farook in the bud! You can bet that Leader Trump has delegated some of his best minds--folks such as Steve Bannon, Michael Flynn, Jeff Sessions, Kellyanne Conway, and Betsy DeVos--to pick through ALL the other Looney Tunes with fine-toothed combs in order to divert disaster before it's too late for we surviving Americans.
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Bookstore Buddy
TheLittleSongbird18 September 2017
Now a fairly obscure character, Buddy was the second Warner Brothers Looney Tunes character, after Bosko and followed by Beans the Cat. Buddy didn't last long, being retired in 1935 after 23 cartoons starting in 1933.
The Buddy cartoons are intriguing to see how very early Looney Tunes characters, before the iconic ones with far more interesting and funnier personalities were introduced, fared. His filmography is very much variable, most ranging between mediocre and decent though 'Buddy's Adventures' is one of the rare very good Buddy cartoons. 'Buddy of the Legion' is alongside 'Buddy's Show Boat' and 'Buddy's Bearcats' one of the weakest, quality-wise it's not terrible but mediocre.
'Buddy of the Legion' has good things. The animation is nicely drawn and detailed with the black and white looking crisp. Even better is the very energetic and cleverly orchestrated music score. Music played a big part in the Buddy cartoons and it was essential for it to work.
A couple of the latter moments are mildly amusing and the voice acting is good.
However, 'Buddy of the Legion' is very weak in terms of story (and it is a potentially fun premise not done enough with), one would be forgiven for not remembering there being much of one and what there is is so formulaic one is a couple of steps ahead of the cartoon the whole time, which takes away from the enjoyment. It also feels very rushed due to, even for a Buddy cartoon, being far too short.
In regards to the humour, 'Buddy of the Legion' is very much short-changed. There is nothing genuinely funny here, the best sporadic moments only being mildly amusing at best. The supporting characters don't register enough. Buddy is part of the problem too, like in all his lesser-just straining average cartoons he just isn't a particularly interesting or compelling in personality character, pretty bland actually, and his comic timing is barely there.
Overall, mediocre lesser Buddy effort. 4/10 Bethany Cox
The Buddy cartoons are intriguing to see how very early Looney Tunes characters, before the iconic ones with far more interesting and funnier personalities were introduced, fared. His filmography is very much variable, most ranging between mediocre and decent though 'Buddy's Adventures' is one of the rare very good Buddy cartoons. 'Buddy of the Legion' is alongside 'Buddy's Show Boat' and 'Buddy's Bearcats' one of the weakest, quality-wise it's not terrible but mediocre.
'Buddy of the Legion' has good things. The animation is nicely drawn and detailed with the black and white looking crisp. Even better is the very energetic and cleverly orchestrated music score. Music played a big part in the Buddy cartoons and it was essential for it to work.
A couple of the latter moments are mildly amusing and the voice acting is good.
However, 'Buddy of the Legion' is very weak in terms of story (and it is a potentially fun premise not done enough with), one would be forgiven for not remembering there being much of one and what there is is so formulaic one is a couple of steps ahead of the cartoon the whole time, which takes away from the enjoyment. It also feels very rushed due to, even for a Buddy cartoon, being far too short.
In regards to the humour, 'Buddy of the Legion' is very much short-changed. There is nothing genuinely funny here, the best sporadic moments only being mildly amusing at best. The supporting characters don't register enough. Buddy is part of the problem too, like in all his lesser-just straining average cartoons he just isn't a particularly interesting or compelling in personality character, pretty bland actually, and his comic timing is barely there.
Overall, mediocre lesser Buddy effort. 4/10 Bethany Cox
Buddy of the Legion is another bland effort of a cartoon starring Buddy
tavm28 February 2009
Here's another cartoon starring Warner's blandest character: Buddy. In this one, Buddy gets hired to take care of a bookstore while the heavyset female boss leaves temporarily. When he looks at a book about the Foreign Legion, Buddy dreams he's there...Despite some good animation provided by Bob Clampett and Chuck Jones, this animated short feels rushed because of the limited running time of six minutes that doesn't serve whatever story you half expect when Buddy dreams of adventure while sleeping. And the time spent having the boy dusting in the bookstore isn't all that amusing. So on that note, I'd only recommend Buddy of the Legion if you're a Warner Bros. cartoon completist.
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