Favorite TV Looney Tunes incarnation?

[Brainatra]

1. The Bugs Bunny Show
2. The Porky Pig Show
3. The Road Runner Show
4. The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour
5. The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
6. The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show
7. Looney Tunes on Nickelodeon
8. The Bugs 'n Daffy Show (Kids WB/Cartoon Network)
9. Merrie Melodies Starring Bugs Bunny and Friends (early 90's syndication/Fox version)
10. Locally-aired syndicated versions of LT/MM shorts
11. Other ("The Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes Comedy Hour", "That's Warner Bros.!", non-U.S. LT/MM show compilations, etc.)

[Geezil]

#1, #7 and #10

[Cartoon King]

A very tough choice! I went with LT on Nick, though. I still watch my old tapes of this show from time to time. It was a great mix of LTs and featured Black & White and color toons together. Plus Speedy! And Bosko and Buddy!Right up there with it though would be the Bugs Bunny/Road Runner show. I grew up on this incarnation and for years never saw a pre-48 Looney Tune. I would love to see this format again. I even remember in 84 when they changed the theme song for that year only.

It's cartoon gold
For the young and old
It's the Bugs Bunny Road Runner Show...

The reason why I didn't choose this format was because the toons were heavily edited at times. Plus I haven't seen it in ages. Lots of great memories though.:)

[PositronShooter]

When the Bugs and Daffy Show got started, they would only show color cartoons from 1934 to 1948. But when they started showing the (computer) colorized cartoons, and everything else from 1948-1969, that's when it became seventh heaven.

[Brainatra]

My memories/thoughts on the various spinoffs (the list of shows I drew on for the poll is here: http://looney.goldenagecartoons.com/tv/):

1. Way before my time...never seen it. Though imagine my mother must've watched it as a child.

2. and 3.: See #1. Though the late 90's series' "Histeria!" parody of the Road Runner Show theme song was a hoot.

4. A few years before my earliest memories, though it did air within my lifetime (if infancy/early toddlerhood counts).

5. The answer I chose, out of childhood nostalgia, and for getting to see up to (at one point) two hours on saturday mornings of Bugs and the gang. (These days, it seems like two hours of *Pokemon* we get instead. Goody.) Plus, liked the theme song (the use of the original "This is It" theme, followed by Bugs watching the Road Runner on a film projector with his introducing his "fast feathered friend", leading directly into the "Road Runner Show" theme song, with clips of the Coyote from various shorts).

Recall that '84 theme song too, along with the revamp they gave the openings to the shorts (some neon blurred-line effect and "80's synthesized" music bit). Think I recall when they reused this opening version when it became the "Bugs Bunny Looney Tunes Comedy Hour" and moved to ABC.

6. Eh... had its ups and downs, but was no "Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show" (*Tweety* as top billing?! *Whatever*...).

7. Ah, good times, this show. Even with the cheesiness of Daffy chasing Speedy (a duck chasing a mouse?), it was a nice compilation. Plus liked the a capella theme song it originally had (though the stuff like the Coyote smashed by a "Nickelodeon" rock and Sylvester afraid of a "Nickelodeon" flying saucer might seem a bit much) to start off the show with.

High point of the series: the Super Bowl Looney Tunes marathon they ran one year... something like six hours of episodes of show (with the promos for it using images of the Coyote robot from "The Solid Tin Coyote" charging at something with football slang thrown about in the voiceover---"it's cartoon crunch time!").

8. Recall being pleased when Kids WB started up running "That's Warner Bros.!" (the name of "Bugs 'n Daffy" in its first season), to see classic cartoons weren't forgotten. The opening B'nD theme was amusing, though not quite "Bugs Bunny Show" opening theme. Don't know what the Cartoon Network version of this show was like, not having had cable; by the time I saw the LT/MM shorts on it, it was called "The Looney Tunes Show" (and running at a time that was too early for me/didnt' leave me room on my VCR tape after taping "Boomerang on CN" for my old weekly summaries on here...).

9. Used to watch this sometimes when I was in high school sometimes; an OK compilation.

10. Used to like the syndicated LT/MM shorts as a kid---"Bugs Bunny and Friends" IIRC is the title they aired under in Chicago when I watched it. For the show's opening, they'd use some clips of Bugs saying something to the camera, IIRC, with the announcer saying it's time for "Bugs Bunny and Friends on WPWR-TV, channel 50". For the closing of the show, it used the scene of Bugs wailing while trapped in that cattle's skeleton in that 40's buzzard cartoon [forget the title] and an announcer saying "don't cry, Bugs, we'll be back tomorrow with more Bugs Bunny and Friends on WPWR - Channel 50". The shorts consisted of pre-1948 color LT/MM cartoons featuring Bugs, Daffy and the gang.

11. Other (per the web site link above):
- Watched some of the "BB/LT Comedy Hour" when it was on ABC for one season (before becoming "BB&Tweety Show"), but probably switched between it and watching the Smurfs or something (with my sister and all).

- Not seen LT/MM shorts in any other languages, but the website I got the full list of shows on covers the French version of Canada's CBC (and Quebec-based TV networks) airing dubbed-in-French versions of the shorts in various series.

- In the early 80's, NBC aired "The Daffy Duck Show", which I very sporadically watched---usually when I forgot that "The Superfriends" was on, IIRC. The shorts here were mainly those Daffy-Speedy cartoons. Also would sometimes watch the Kids' WB version of "The Daffy Duck Show" that briefly aired in the mid-90's.

- Recall watching "The Sylvester & Tweety, Daffy & Speedy" show that aired after "The BB/RR Show" for a season or so---basically what the title said was its format. :-)

- The first LT/MMs were syndicated in 1955 as black-and-white shorts from the 30's mainly, according to the website. Obviously well before my time, though would assume my mother at some point must've seen them (would guess she also saw the latter LT/MM shorts at the movies, or at least the Daffy-Speedy-era ones).


- Recall Kids' WB folding Bugs 'n Daffy and other shows like TTA, Animaniacs, etc. into that hack-job mishmash called the "Cat and Bunny Warneroonie Super Looney Big Cartoonie Show" thingamajig (which I used to ridicule on here with made-up bogus names for that over-long show) in the late 90's, which was created as a means of covertly burning off episodes of the failed series "Pinky, Elmyra and the Brain"/to free up schedule space that the individual half-hour shows would've eaten up. Still, compared to what's on *these days* on KWB, I actually miss the flippin' thing...

[mammy2shoesfan]

I going to have to go with LT on Nick I remember those days happly. When it used to run a hour on nick at 7pm and then when MTV started playing Yo MTV Raps at that same time me and my bother used to get into some good fights for control of the remote. I would always win, but somtimes when I had friends over I would have to put on YO to be cool but still loved thoses Looney Toons.

[Daffy Dork]

My favorites,Toonheads and Clampett show are missing from the list...:sad:

[mjg0503]

I loved watching Looney Tunes on Nickelodeon.

[Brettfern]

It doesn't matter to me which "incarnation" is best. They are all great..