Most Violent Looney Tunes Moments

[Taco Wiz]

Post your opinion on what you consider to be the most violent moment from Looney Tunes. Personally, unlike most people, I feel the most violent moments are the ones that are SO violent you don't completely see them on-screen. The implied acts are still very creepy, though. This always felt more violent than your typical cartoon violence. Here are my top two examples, both of are on disc four of the second golden collection, in case you want to see if they actually happened.

Rhapsody Rabbit: Bugs literally pulling out a gun and shooting the guy who kept coughing. Did Bugs Bunny just murder an innocent man? Apparantly so.

Show Biz Bugs: As justified in-context as it was, Daffy Duck still commited suicide.

Tortoise Wins by a Hare: One again, suicide.

[SNES Chalmers]

Rhapsody Rabbit: Bugs literally pulling out a gun and shooting the guy who kept coughing. Did Bugs Bunny just murder an innocent man? Apparantly so.

Show Biz Bugs: As justified in-context as it was, Daffy Duck still commited suicide.


A cartoon character (Egghead) shooting an audience member previously occurred in Daffy Duck And Egghead (1938). Also, that end gag in Show Biz Bugs was copied pretty much verbatim from Curtain Razor(1949).

[Taco Wiz]

A cartoon character (Egghead) shooting an audience member previously occurred in Daffy Duck And Egghead (1938). Also, that end gag in Show Biz Bugs was copied pretty much verbatim from Curtain Razor(1949).
You're right, Curtain Razor did the gag first. I just watched that cartoon. However, the contexts were somewhat different. The man in CR was probably insane, while Daffy was committing suicide for what I interpreted as two different reasons.

1. He didn't see any reason to live under Bugs's shadow.
2. People would love him...after he died.

[SNES Chalmers]

2. People would love him...after he died.

If it's any consolation, I would have loved Daffy after he died. Well, okay, maybe not loved, but I would have had sympathy for him.

[Fifi Fanatic]

I would have to say Bugs pretending to be bitten in half (!) in "Hare Ribbin'".... followed by the dog shooting himself (in the "Director's cut" version, it's Bugs himself who shoots the dog). Clampett's black humor at perhaps it's most gruesome. Other Clampett cartoons with gruesome gags would be "The Wise Quacking Duck" (Daffy pretends to be bloodily decapitated) and "Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid" (Bugs and Beaky Buzzard both thinking the skeletal remains are their own).

Mention should also be made of the cat and mouse getting their revenge on the dog at the conclusion of "Chow Hound" ("This time we didn't forget the gravy!").

[SNES Chalmers]

It took me a while to come up with a good response, but I think I have found a few.

I think they would be the three Tweety cartoons that Bob Clampett did, A Tale Of Two Kitties, Birdy And The Beast, and especially A Gruesome Twosome. I'd say these cartoons may constitute as some of the most violent LT&MM, mainly because of the way Tweety mercilessly tortures his adversaries. Who knew so much could come out of such a small little bird?

[Taco Wiz]

To me, Tweety is funniest as a sadist. I don't like the "cute" image he has.

[EJLD4Ever]

A cartoon character (Egghead) shooting an audience member previously occurred in Daffy Duck And Egghead (1938).

What doesn't make sense is, when CN aired DD&E, they cut out that scene, but the scene in Rhapsody Rabbit was left intact. Does this confuse anyone else?

[SNES Chalmers]

What doesn't make sense is, when CN aired DD&E, they cut out that scene, but the scene in Rhapsody Rabbit was left intact. Does this confuse anyone else?

What's even stranger is that The WB was the only channel to cut that joke out of Rhapsody Rabbit. I would've expected ABC to cut that out. Daffy Duck And Egghead was also edited on WB as well.

BTW, if anyone wants to see a list of scenes edited out of WB shorts on various TV channels, check out this page: http://looney.goldenagecartoons.com/ltcuts/ It's were I got my info from.

[Baltofan]

I remember an episode with Elmer and Bugs Bunny falling down for a long time.

[Silverstar]

I remember an episode with Elmer and Bugs Bunny falling down for a long time.

"Short", not 'episode'. The Looney Tunes cartoons were originally made for theaters, not for TV. 'Episode' is a term for radio and TV installments. Just sayin'.

Anyways, that sounds like the climax of The Heckling Hare (1941, d. Tex Avery), however, the characters in question were Bugs and Willoughby the dog; Elmer wasn't in that cartoon.

The Heckling Hare's climax depicts Bugs and Willoughby falling from a cliff screaming for a long time, until they hit the now-famous Avery "air brakes" and screech to a landing on the ground. Bugs says to the audience, "Ha! Fooled ya, didn't we?". It's at this point that the short seems to come to an end; however, there is an edit from the orignal closing. What really happens next is that Bugs and Willoughby proceed to walk 4 paces to the left, only to fall off yet another cliff, resuming their screaming and falling. Bugs freezes for a moment to say, "Here we go again!", then he resumes his falling as we iris out.

The ending was changed because then studio head Leon Schlesinger didn't like the idea of the cartoon ending with its' characters falling apparently to their deaths. Avery was so incensed over the censoring of his short that it was one of the factors which led to his leaving Warner Bros for MGM.

[CrazyChase]

The Heckling Hare's climax depicts Bugs and Willoughby falling from a cliff screaming for a long time, until they hit the now-famous Avery "air brakes" and screech to a landing on the ground. Bugs says to the audience, "Ha! Fooled ya, didn't we?". It's at this point that the short seems to come to an end; however, there is an edit from the orignal closing. What really happens next is that Bugs and Willoughby proceed to walk 4 paces to the left, only to fall off yet another cliff, resuming their screaming and falling. Bugs freezes for a moment to say, "Here we go again!", then he resumes his falling as we iris out.

The ending was changed because then studio head Leon Schlesinger didn't like the idea of the cartoon ending with its' characters falling apparently to their deaths. Avery was so incensed over the censoring of his short that it was one of the factors which led to his leaving Warner Bros for MGM.

Actually Silverstar, according to Greg Ford (Tex himself told him this BTW), Bugs and the dog were going to fall TWO more times, and when they fall in the third one, Bugs was actually going to say, "Hang on to your hats folks, here we go again".

Now, the gag was cut becuase, and correct me if I'm wrong guys, there was a sexual undertone on the gag during the time, and becuase of that, the gag was cut. Tex became furious, left the studio, and joined MGM a few months later.

So, in a nutshell, your were halfway right. ;)

Anywho, as for this thread, well, there's Daffy shooting all of the bad guys in "The Great Piggy Bank Robbery"...

[Taco Wiz]

Yeah, but at least the guys in TGPBR were criminals and not innocent music fans with a coughing problem.

[nakak]

I'm going to say the ending of "Chow Hound".

"This time we didn't forget the gravy"

[EJLD4Ever]

What's even stranger is that The WB was the only channel to cut that joke out of Rhapsody Rabbit. I would've expected ABC to cut that out. Daffy Duck And Egghead was also edited on WB as well.

ABC only aired post-48 shorts. Rhapsody Rabbit is a pre-48 short, and, until the mid-to-late 90's, was owned by Turner.

[Steve Carras]

The Three Bears Cartoons. Any of 'em. Still excellent ones, and Chow Hound as well.

[Eric B]

The Heckling Hare[/B] (1941, d. Tex Avery), however, the characters in question were Bugs and Willoughby the dog; Elmer wasn't in that cartoon. I think what he was referring to was The Big Snooze, where Bugs and Elmer do fall for a long time (with Elmer still dressed up as a female, and then Bugs stops his descent with some kind of tonic).

Actually Silverstar, according to Greg Ford (Tex himself told him this BTW), Bugs and the dog were going to fall TWO more times, and when they fall in the third one, Bugs was actually going to say, "Hang on to your hats folks, here we go again".

Now, the gag was cut becuase, and correct me if I'm wrong guys, there was a sexual undertone on the gag during the time, and becuase of that, the gag was cut. Never heard of that one. (And how much time was cut off if they were going to fall two more times).