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| Laughing Gravy | Sep 14 2014, 09:27 AM Post #1 |
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![]() When UPA imploded in 1959, Columbia signed Hanna-Barbera (by then making exclusively cartoons for television) to create a series of theatrical cartoons for them; the result was a French-Canadian wolf who does good deeds because he's a NICE wolf and he wants to show to people that only know wolves from stories of a trio of pigs or a girl taking goodies to grandmas that wolves are actually nice guys. For his troubles, he's beaten to a pulp. I've watched, oh, 7 or 8 of the 48 cartoons on the new set from Warner Archives, and that's the plot of every single one of them. Which isn't to say they're awful cartoons (which isn't to say they're NOT, either); I thought one of them, Life with Loopy, was actually pretty funny. So if one out of every 7 cartoons is funny, we'll get, what, about 7 funny cartoons in the set. I could live with 7 funny cartoons. Million-dollar Dialog: "I weel have to tie you up, bay-bee! You are making too much of ze mischief!" I have some memory of seeing this guy at the drive-in when I was a kid. The quality of the cartoons is generally excellent, although one of the ones I've seen so far seemed to come from a poorer master than the others. Michael Maltese was one of the guys behind these, and Daws Butler voices Loopy. I'd buy a Loopy lunchbox or Soaky if I saw one. |
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| JazzGuyy | Sep 14 2014, 10:09 AM Post #2 |
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I've never seen any of these nor do I have a great desire too. I will observe that the name of character is a bilingual pun. |
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| Bert Greene | Sep 15 2014, 08:15 PM Post #3 |
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I usually tend to think of myself as a pretty knowledgeable guy when it comes to film history, always ready to jump into any conversation ranging from Max Linder to Lane Chandler to Andrew Stone. But when I read the other day about Warner Brothers releasing a multi-disc dvd set of "Loopy De Loop," I truly didn't have the slightest idea what the hell it was. It left me feeling quite uneasy and disconcerted. But thanks to this thread, I'm now starting to get over it. |
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