#Bugs Bunny Lunar Tunes

[sptoastaddict]

Low Quality Screenshots of Spock in the Bugs Bunny Lunar Tunes Special

[cartoonnetwork]

May your new year be filled with love, joy, laughter, and cartoon-filled adventures!🐰🧧🎋🧨🌸🏮 Let's make 2023 one for the hare-story books!

[galactic-dragoness]

It's their year!!!

(I scheduled this post in advance)

[pastelpandora]

[wabbitmon]

Happy Year of the Rabbit

Designs are from the Looney Tunes World of Mayhem game

[theartoftony]

[karlohabagatstudios]

[MMD] My Birthday and Lunar New Year Celebration

To everyone who were born with this sign, and those who loved bunnies, Happy Year of The Rabbit, everybody!

[artistsonthelam]

新年快樂! Happy New Year! 🧧 Throwback in honor of the Year of the Rabbit: Me and my bff Bugs Bunny at Six Flags on a sweltering summer day, August 1995. 🐰

I love that we woke up to fresh snow here in Chicago this morning! A Chinese New Year gift. ❤️ Health, happiness, and good fortune to you and your loved ones!

// (c) Jenny Lam

[thenerdsofcolor]

Watch the 'Bugs Bunny Builders' Ring in the Lunar New Year

This weekend, we welcome the Year of the Rabbit as half the globe celebrates Lunar New Year. Fittingly, Bugs Bunny and friends are ready for the spotlight with a stacked slate featuring a Lunar New Year celebration short on Cartoonito, new episodes of Bugs Bunny Builders and HBO Max’s Looney Tunes Cartoons, plus the launch of Tiny Toons Looniversity later this year. Continue reading Untitled

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Sci-Fi Saturday: Haredevil Hare and Rocketship X-M

Week 25:

Film(s): Haredevil Hare (Dir. Charles M. Jones, 1948, USA) and Rocketship X-M (Dir. Kurt Neumann, 1950, USA)

Date Watched: 2022-01-14

Viewing Format: Blu Ray for Haredevil Hare, DVD for X-M

Rationale for Inclusion:

I don't recall at what point I remembered that select Looney Tunes shorts needed to be included in this survey. Either the Fleischer Superman shorts by virtue of being animated, or Buck Rogers because of it reminding me of the parody short Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century, made me realize that we needed to include the shorts featuring Warner Brothers' iconic alien Marvin the Martian.

Marvin appeared in five shorts during the classical period of Looney Tune animation, beginning with Haredevil Hare (Dir. Charles M. Jones, 1948, USA) and concluding with Mad as a Mars Hair (Dir. Charles M. Jones and Maurice Noble, 1963, USA). Of these shorts we only will be including two in the survey, and what better to start with than Haredevil Hare?

But wait, that short is from 1948 and we are squarely in the 1950s now. Why wasn't it watched earlier? Honestly, because it did not pair as well with any of the films of the 1940s in the survey as it did with this week's feature film Rocketship X-M [AKA: Expedition Moon and Rocketship Expedition Moon] (Dir. Kurt Neumann, 1950, USA), as they're both about experimental rocketships that end up on Mars. They're also closer together in creation than Haredevil Hare is to Invisible Agent.

As to why Rocketship X-M made it onto our survey, it was the first post-World War II space adventure film released, beating George Pal's Destination Moon (Dir. Irving Pichel, 1950, USA)--which will be next week's film--to release by a month in 1950. Much like The Flying Saucer (Dir. Mikel Conrad, USA), despite achieving a first for the genre, it has largely been overshadowed by later films. Rocketship X-M also has the indignity of being the first film of the survey to have later been mocked on the television series Mystery Science Theater 3000 (Dir. Jim Mallon, et. al., 1988-1999, USA).

Reactions:

Like basically every Warner Brothers short that Charles M. "Chuck" Jones directed, Haredevil Hare is a quality short, in terms of its animation, pacing and humor. Bugs Bunny plays the role of reluctant astro-rabbit before lapsing into his usual trickster self when the Earth is threatened with annihilation by Marvin the Martian. The majority of the short's action takes place on the moon, which has standard gravity and oxygen for narrative convenience. Frankly, it would be more surprising if this cartoon attempted to depict realistic space flight and lunar conditions than it is that Jones and his team couldn't be bothered to engage with known reality more than necessary.

As for Marvin, he looks as audiences have come to expect him to: in his Roman inspired attire since his home planet is named after their god of war. Mel Blanc's characterization for Marvin is more nasal than what his voice would be in the later shorts. I also was amused to see his trusty dog K-9 appear in this originating short. I thought he did not appear in a later short. 

Like Bugs Bunny, the crew of Rocketship X-M is bound for the moon and has an aggressive encounter with a Martian. Unlike Bugs, their Martian encounter actually occurs on Mars, after a meteor storm forces them to recalculate their fuel ratios and they end up off course.

Despite it being a long passé technique, the scenes on Mars are tinted red in the otherwise black and white movie. The fact that Martian civilization went from an "Atomic age to a stone age" and is now a post-apocalyptic tribal society seems to be influenced by H.G. Wells' 1895 novel The Time Machine, and marks the first time an atomic powered apocalypse was referenced in a major motion picture. The presence of atomic destruction is attributed to the blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, who acted as an uncredited script doctor on that sequence.

While the Mars sequence is definitely in the realm of soft sci-fi, some realistic elements are featured in the film. Rocketship X-M features a spaceship composed of multi-stage rockets, as would later be used in the real life American and Soviet space programs. The filmmakers apparently copied its design from illustrations featured in a January 17, 1949 issue of Life magazine, which is likely why that aspect of the film is more true to life than other parts. Less accurate is the haphazard depiction of microgravity, as some items are affected by weightlessness, but not everything that should be. The attempts at hard sci-fi seem to be dependent on if the filmmakers thought it was interesting, or within the special effects budget.

Nevertheless, Rocketship X-M set other precedents for atomic age sci-fi films. 

The film's score by Ferde Grofé features the unique electronic tones of a theremin in places. While the instrument had been featured in film scores as early as 1931 in the Soviet Union, it was Miklós Rózsa's scores for Hollywood films in the 1940s that brought it to the attention of his colleagues in the American film industry. Despite being the first sci-fi film to make use of the theremin, two films that followed Rocketship X-M, The Thing From Another World (Dir. Christian Nyby, 1951, USA) and The Day the Earth Stood Still (Dir. Robert Wise, 1951, USA), would be the examples that cemented the instrument's connection to the genre in general and atomic sci-fi specifically.

Rocketship X-M also re-introduces the lady scientist love interest to the genre. Prior to Dr. Mary Robinson (Janice Logan) in Dr. Cyclops (Dir. Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1940, USA), the women love interests working with the male scientist main characters were merely assistants. A fully independent lady scientist, like Dr. Helen Jackson in Son of Ingagi (Dir. Richard C. Kahn, 1940, USA) was, and to a large extent remains, unthinkable in a mainstream Hollywood production. So for all her accomplishments, like being the developer of the mon-atomic hydrogen fuels that power the R-XM, Dr. Lisa Van Horn (Osa Massen) is in Rocketship X-M to mostly be a hetero-disclaimer for the ship's pilot Col. Floyd Graham (Lloyd Bridges). 

When it comes time to implement a new fuel ratio after the meteor storm, Col. Graham opts to go with the figure suggested by Dr. Karl Eckstrom (John Emery) over the one put forth by Dr. Van Horn. Eckstrom did design the RX-M and is a physicist, so a rationale other than sexism is an influence in Graham's decision. However, Dr. Van Horn is both a chemist and the person who developed the fuel system, so in theory she ought to know the best practices for fuel rations, but apparently her lady brain's math is not to be trusted. Interestingly, Col. Graham going with Dr. Eckstrom's calculations is what causes the ship to end up off course and on Mars. Would Dr. Van Horn's calculations have gotten them to the moon and back home safely? Uncertain, but half the crew definitely wouldn't have died due to Martian attack.

At any rate, Rocketship X-M establishes what became the template for how female scientists and/or assistants in 1950s sci-fi films will be treated: they are there to be hetero-disclaimers primarily with their career as a narrative means of justifying their presence. In the best cases the relationships seem to form organically and without sexual harrassment.

However, unlike many of the films to follow, Rocketship X-M does not end with the happy formation of a hetero-couple. Yes, the last time Col. Graham and Dr. Van Horn are seen on camera they are embracing, but they also are about to crash land and die. None of the crew of the RX-M make it back to Earth alive, yet enough of their data did that the space program can carry on.

The film closes on an optimistic yet bittersweet note.Ultimately both Haredevil Hare and Rocketship X-M are good examples of the potential for their characters and stories of space travel, but the best had yet to come.

[fairytale-poll]

Red Riding Poll Tournament Bracket!

Round 1:

Bugs Bunny (Windblown Hare) (Looney Tunes) vs. Aku (Samurai Jack)

Little Red Riding Hood (Monty Python) vs. Red Puckett (Hoodwinked!)

Red (Revolting Rhymes) vs. Little Red Riding Hood (Smile Precure)

Amy Lee (Evanescence) (Call Me When You're Sober MV) vs. Red Hood (Once Upon a Time in Space)

Akazukin (TAISHO x Alice) vs. Red Riding Hood (SINoALICE)

Queen Red Riding Hood (The Land of Stories) vs. Red Riding Hood (The Sisters Grimm)

Cerise Hood (Ever After High) vs. Little Dead Riding Hood (Clawdeen Wolf) (Monster High: Scarily Ever After)

Scarlet Benoit (The Lunar Chronicles) vs. Valerie (Red Riding Hood)

Little Red Ridinghood (Into the Woods) vs. Jenny (In the Forest, She Grew Fangs)

Little Red Riding Hood/Little Red Cap (Original Fairytale) vs. The Path sisters (i.e. Scarlet, Carmen, Ruby, Ginger, Rose, Robin) (The Path)

Ylfa Snorgelsson (Dimension 20: Neverafter) vs. Little Red Riding Hooded Mercenary (F-01-57) (Lobotomy Corporation)

Ruby Rose (RWBY) vs. Ruby Lucas (Once Upon a Time)

Yuyuko Tanaka (Shojo Kageki Revue Starlight) vs. Velouria (Fire Emblem Fates)

Akazukin (Otogi-Jushi Akazukin) vs. Elvira & Arabelle (Guardian Tales)

Chacha (Akazukin Chacha) vs. Grimm (The Hunters Guild: Red Hood)

Lisette (Ludwig Revolution) vs. Scarlet (The Red Hood)

Round 2:

Bugs Bunny (Windblown Hare) (Looney Tunes) vs. Red Puckett (Hoodwinked!)

Little Red Riding Hood (Smile Precure) vs. Red Hood (Once Upon a Time in Space)

Red Riding Hood (SINoALICE) vs. Queen Red Riding Hood (The Land of Stories)

Cerise Hood (Ever After High) vs. Scarlet Benoit (The Lunar Chronicles)

Little Red Ridinghood (Into the Woods) vs. Little Red Riding Hood/Little Red Cap (Original Fairytale)

Ylfa Snorgelsson (Dimension 20: Neverafter) vs. Ruby Rose (RWBY)

Yuyuko Tanaka (Shojo Kageki Revue Starlight) vs. Akazukin (Otogi-Jushi Akazukin)

Chacha (Akazukin Chacha) vs. Scarlet (The Red Hood)

Round 3:

Bugs Bunny (Looney Tunes) (Wndblown Hare) vs. Red Hood (Once Upon a Time in Space)

Queen Red Riding Hood (The Land of Stories) vs. Cerise Hood (Ever After High)

Little Red Riding Hood/Little Red Cap (Original Fairytale) vs. Ylfa Snorgelsson (Dimension 20: Neverafter)

Yuyuko Tanaka (Shojo Kageki Revue Starlight) vs. Chacha (Akazukin Chacha)

Semi-Finals:

Red Hood (Once Upon a Time in Space) vs. Cerise Hood (Ever After High)

Ylfa Snorgelsson (Dimension 20: Neverafter) vs. Yuyuko Tanaka (Shojo Kageki Revue Starlight)

Finals:

Red Hood (Once Upon a Time in Space) vs. Ylfa Snorgelsson (Dimension 20: Neverafter)

Loser's Bracket:

(There is an error in the Loser's Bracket Image: Where it says Valerie (Red Riding Hood), it should say Velouria (Fire Emblem Fates) instead. I got mixed up with who made it in the Loser's Bracket when making the image. Too lazy to fix it.)

Little Red Riding Hooded Mercenary (F-01-57) (Lobotomy Corporation) vs. Red Puckett (Hoodwinked!)

Ruby Rose (RWBY) vs. Amy Lee (Evanescence) (Call Me When You're Sober MV)

Little Red Ridinghood (Into the Woods) vs. Bugs Bunny (Windblown Hare) (Looney Tunes)

Little Red Riding Hood/Little Red Cap (Original Fairytale) vs. Sasha as Little Red Riding Hood (Bratz: Kids Fairytales)

Lil' Red (Shrek 2) vs. Aku (Samurai Jack)

Little Dead Riding Hood (Clawdeen Wolf) (Monster High: Scarily Ever After) vs. Velouria (Fire Emblem Fates)

Queen Red Riding Hood (The Land of Stories) vs. The Path sisters (Scarlet, Carmen, Ruby, Ginger, Rose, and Robin)

Chacha (Akazukin Chacha) vs. Little Red Riding Hood (Monty Python)

Mod's Choice Bracket:

Sasha as Little Red Riding Hood (Bratz: Kids Fairy Tales) vs. Shang, Tao, and Paotze (Lon Po Po) vs. Lamb (Little Lamb) vs. Aku (Samurai Jack) vs. Amy Lee (Evanescence MV for "Call Me When You're Sober") vs. The Path sisters (Scarlet, Carmen, Ruby, Ginger, Rose, and Robin) vs. Lisette (Ludwig Revolution)vs. Red Puckett (Hoodwinked!) vs. Chacha (Akazukin Chacha)

[writer59january13]

Grant this civil yankee to doodle till Lee gets blue in the face

blowing 99 red balloons April 9th, 2023

will signal 158 years since Appomattox plus what would have been ninety sixth birth

of the late Boyce Brandon Harris,

whereby yours truly the biological byproduct

when secular parents of mine

simply following the dictum constituting be fruitful and multiply.

(Alternately titled always look

on the bright side of life sang

courtesy Eric Idle in Life of Brian)

Armageddon would be morbidly amazing, concluding (reign of Homo Sapiens) fascinating albeit simultaneously

fantastic, catastrophic boon

dog gull to accompany (this incognito sans,

spacesuit attired as bugs bunny

foolish faux rabbit, yup you reddit right

with netzero outlook)

amidst others eyed hop along

(like Cassidy) to find

amidst rubble strewn cocoon,

or perchance an arrid extra dry

armed hammer hotmail spelling

unrelenting radioactive

blown humungous earthlinked dune daffy duck dynasty Don

trumpeting a brave (though

extremely foolish soul) weathering

fierce-some dust bowl

appearing like a ghoulish goon

vis a vis via global sand man

disallowing any inhabitant to be immune

whereat winter days

would mimic (nee far exceed)

those analogous to tropical June

day where nary species

of flora nor fauna,

which latter muffled cry

viz Clair De Lune barely heard above blindingly pitched (scoring major lunar home run)

when earth's moon

appeared to be batted,

snatched, and whacked - piñata like casting

darkness at high noon

this out of other worldly debacle (viz: a scene of apocalyptic,

cosmic and epic rune from twilight zone re:

outer limits offsetting sole millennial Gaia satellite

believed rigged forever) which end of planetary

status quo came barreling along sooner than expected, accompanied

by Gustav Holst The Planets

auspicious, eponymous, illustrious... tune once Luna rung seismically,

titanic ally uprooted, violently wrenched prior to crash landing at ground zero

rocked and rolled out of orbitz before careering, and screaming

thru the atmosphere

analogous a full term baby in utero yanked out of womb.

Though the above dynamic

gigantic jack-knifed nihilistic quantum

spectacular universal wreckage

sans the inner sphere of solar system

(known to mankind,

whose tenancy upon oblate spheroid

viz planet Earth did upstage

when said creature, an outlier),

whence even amidst the early bipedal hominids didst throve a sage

no event (whether natural

or caused by human error), would compare neither captcha,

when quaking, roiling, swarming,

teeming masses rage

against the machine

emasculated, jiggered, orchestrated

and wrought one after another

bloody war strewn page

onto once verdant terrestrial firmament

no way to measure nor gauge

the depth, length, scope of total

value eradicating any trace

of simian equipage

reducing arrogant, conceited,

egomaniacal, dotage

boot far-fetched

science fiction phenomena would witness civilization captive

in their own technological cage

more to the point yours truly

self imprisoned barred bard,

(whose fleshy epidermis camouflaged beige)

tricked out with latest futuristic

technological “smart” sophistication

showcasing latest skin tight accouterment

a win for progressive

penal reform champions,

who feel a cannibal (accountable)

to stamp out anthropophage.

[actionfigures118]

Looney Tunes Celebrates Lunar New Year and Year Of The Rabbit with Merchandise, Events and Content Featuring Bugs Bunny and Friends #YearoftheRabbit #LunarNewYear #BugsBunny #LooneyTunes

[arun-pratap-singh]

Bugs Bunny Builders Celebrates the Lunar New Year in New Clip

Screenshot: WB Animation The year 2023 is going to be big for Bugs Bunny, the original wascally rabbit. The WB mascot is going to provide some of that rabbit fortune for the studio’s 100th anniversary celebration and for the Lunar New Year. Things kick off with a Year of the Rabbit celebration on Cartoonito’s Bugs Bunny Builders before more episodes drop of Looney Tunes Cartoons and the premiere…

[aworldofpattern]

Reebok x Looney Tunes

Lunar New Year capsule, 2022

[angelicdevil]

Posting this one cause it features Marvin, but MAN does this era of Looney Tunes have weird pacing. There’s no room to breathe and it’s especially jarring when compared to the clips of older toons you see in this episode