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Post by CMWaters on Jun 7, 2020 7:52:48 GMT -5
And Daffy Duck gives off a sigh of relief.
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Post by chrom on Jun 7, 2020 16:59:48 GMT -5
...Name me anyone who has ever gone hunting with a scythe
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Post by CMWaters on Jun 7, 2020 17:16:56 GMT -5
...Name one anyone who has ever gone hunting with a scythe ![](https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-v7UanHoeYH4/WxhY2oeSuMI/AAAAAAAAXh8/7FckO3j_CCU5Qjv0gn91AvhGCNvRSwpEACLcBGAs/s1600/William%2BSadler%2BBill%2Band%2BTed%2527s%2BBogus%2BJourney.PNG)
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Post by H-Virus on Jun 7, 2020 18:05:29 GMT -5
...Name me anyone who has ever gone hunting with a scythe The main character from RWBY. Except it's also a gun, sooo....
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2020 6:54:17 GMT -5
Elmer Fudd will now be using stuff like a scythe or an axe instead of a rifle. So many people on social media calling him a game hunter this weekend, unironically. I honestly don't care, but when they start editing the gun out in old cartoons and replacing it with a scythe or walkie talkies, THEN it's a problem.
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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on Jun 8, 2020 7:17:37 GMT -5
Honestly I watched the whole thing last week and didn't notice. Neither did anyone else til this article a week later
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Post by Feargus McReddit on Jun 8, 2020 8:13:33 GMT -5
I mean, as pointed out by others around the same time, Elmer didn’t always have a gun and wasn’t even always a hunter so I don’t really see what the issue is.
He didn’t have one for What’s Opera, Doc for one...
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Post by Sephiroth on Jun 8, 2020 9:02:54 GMT -5
Not allowing Elmer and Sam to use guns is a pointless but if censorship. But it’s also pointless to try to make new Looney Tunes. You simply can’t recreate that once in history combination of writers, animators, and voice actors. It’s been tried more than once and never works out. Same for the Muppets.
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Post by Mr PONYMANIA Mr Jenzie on Jun 8, 2020 10:12:46 GMT -5
elmer becomes a farmer now, has a couple of acres for bugs .....
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Jun 8, 2020 10:40:32 GMT -5
IIRC in the Gold Key/Whitman Bugs Bunny comics Elmer was a farmer most of the time.
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Post by dav on Jun 8, 2020 10:40:54 GMT -5
...Name me anyone who has ever gone hunting with a scythe ![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Ym0dCnVX1ak/hqdefault.jpg) "Don't knock it until you've tried it, Keeper."
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Post by chrom on Jun 8, 2020 11:32:25 GMT -5
Did they seriously think how impractical not to mention dangerous it would be to try hunting with a Scythe?
By all means, why couldn't they just give him a Bow and Arrow instead?
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Post by WoodStoner1 on Jun 8, 2020 11:41:36 GMT -5
Elmer should just use traps, preferrably Wile E. could share his Acme membership card with him.
Or would that be treading on Fred Jones' feet? ;-)
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2020 11:51:59 GMT -5
IIRC in the Gold Key/Whitman Bugs Bunny comics Elmer was a farmer most of the time. Oh, originally Elmer Fudd was absolutely not a hunter in any way - even the design was completely different, he looked like a WC Fields sort of goof - but that changed in the '50s to what we know him as today. In a way, this is sorta like an attempt to reset the character........just thoroughly incomplete and more problematic as a result. You drop the hunter gimmick entirely, the people complaining have less ground to stand on. Instead, it's an awkward and insincere social comment, since grounds exist to safely change him entirely and they don't. (Fun "I know too much about silly things" sidenote: he was never voiced by Mel Blanc until the '70s. Arthur Q. Bryan was his voice until the late '50s when he died, then Hal Smith (aka Otis the town drunk on The Andy Griffith Show, and a guy who was ALL OVER cartoons from the '60s to '80s) took over until the Looney Tunes shorts era ended.
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Post by wildojinx on Jun 8, 2020 12:04:37 GMT -5
Did they seriously think how impractical not to mention dangerous it would be to try hunting with a Scythe? By all means, why couldn't they just give him a Bow and Arrow instead? That's more for stealthy hunting, which Elmer knows nothing about. I'm just wondering if Sam Sheepdog and Ralph Wolf will be in this new series.
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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on Jun 8, 2020 13:51:52 GMT -5
Did they seriously think how impractical not to mention dangerous it would be to try hunting with a Scythe? By all means, why couldn't they just give him a Bow and Arrow instead? That's more for stealthy hunting, which Elmer knows nothing about. I'm just wondering if Sam Sheepdog and Ralph Wolf will be in this new series. In the first 10 episodes they have a short in there.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Jun 9, 2020 0:02:56 GMT -5
Not allowing Elmer and Sam to use guns is a pointless but if censorship. But it’s also pointless to try to make new Looney Tunes. You simply can’t recreate that once in history combination of writers, animators, and voice actors. It’s been tried more than once and never works out. Same for the Muppets. That once in history combination lasted 40 years and none of the people involved were ever all there at the exact same time. It wasn't some magical year of productivity or the like. IIRC in the Gold Key/Whitman Bugs Bunny comics Elmer was a farmer most of the time. Oh, originally Elmer Fudd was absolutely not a hunter in any way - even the design was completely different, he looked like a WC Fields sort of goof - but that changed in the '50s to what we know him as today. Elmer originally started off as a character called Egghead, who looked this at first (1937): ![](https://i.pinimg.com/236x/80/ff/5a/80ff5a8c28ba482e02de27a5bca74baf.jpg) He was redesigned a little and used as a hunter in Daffy's first appearance, still as Egghead (1938): ![](https://s3.amazonaws.com/intanibase/iad_characters/299.jpg) He was first called Elmer Fudd in "A Feud There Was" while still using the original Egghead design (also 1938): ![](https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ri9Ni1z5lso/UJV_QweU9EI/AAAAAAAAJFA/o7hooYqv1z4/s1600/Screen+Shot+2012-11-03+at+20.07.43.png) He became the Elmer Fudd we know (but as a nature photographer, not a hunter) in "Elmer's Candid Camera" while still wearing Egghead's clothes (1940): ![](https://46.media.tumblr.com/d3e44ca861d60ffd73315e8fbd7dc1f2/tumblr_mxlp47kKeO1s4rha3o8_250.gif) Three or four cartoons starring him later, he finally became a hunter, in "A Wild Hare" (1940): ![](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/eb/41/84/eb4184360799703c9b44ca614bbb075e.jpg) For a very brief time a couple of years later (1941-42), five cartoons were made that used Arthur Q Bryan's physical shape for Elmer. This look was quickly abandoned and he was returned back to "normal": ![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/O3HcTXeOxv4/hqdefault.jpg)
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on Jun 9, 2020 1:40:08 GMT -5
I feel weird for thinking this, but I never liked the "Wild Hare" design of Bugs. Though he's wackier to be sure, I prefer Chuck Jones's model, or the stylized one from the Looney Tunes Show. Those were way cuter IMO.
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Post by WoodStoner1 on Jun 10, 2020 10:21:17 GMT -5
And remember, this is hardly new. Three words: FOX SPIDER-MAN.
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Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on Jun 11, 2020 3:14:10 GMT -5
A bit on the guns from my favourite classic cartoon Youtuber:
Don't think he's done an evolution of Elmer video, might be a good time for one.
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