The Affect Of Looney Tunes On Reside-Motion Filmmakers

Regardless of present administration’s mistreatment of the Looney Tunes, individuals love these characters. Take, for instance, the latest Foghorn Leghorn meme that’s spreading like wildfire over the X social media platform. The unique Looney Tunes shorts by greats like Bob Clampett, Chuck Jones, Bob McKimson, Friz Freleng, and Tex Avery are comedy masterpieces, and so they’ve had an infinite impression not simply on animators, however on live-action filmmakers as properly.

On this piece, we dive into this wealthy historical past of tributes or references to the Warner Bros. cartoons in live-action motion pictures and television reveals. (Be aware: I’m omitting official appearances by the Looney Tunes characters, like Two Guys from Texas, My Dream is Yours, and Who Framed Roger Rabbit).

To begin issues off, right here’s a well-known line from the Mike Myers-Dana Carvey comedy Wayne’s World (1992).