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Directors: David Gemmill & Michael Ruocco
Airing date: May 27, 2020
Stars: Bugs Bunny, Beaky Buzzard
Rating: ★★★
Review:
‘Buzzard School’ sees the return of Beaky Buzzard and his mother from ‘Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid’ (1942).
As in the original short, Beaky’s mother sends her son away to catch a rabbit for dinner, and Bugs “helps” the dumb bird by teaching him how to catch rabbits. Highlight of this short may be scene in which Beaky fights himself.
The design and animation of Beaky Buzzard are practically indistinguishable from the original ones in Clampett’s 1940s cartoons, making ‘Buzzard School’ an excellent example of the nostalgic homage quality of this 2020-2024 television series.
‘Buzzard School’ is available on the Blu-Ray-set ‘Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection’
Director: David Gemmill
Airing date: May 27, 2020
Stars: Bugs Bunny, Yosemite Sam
Rating: ★★★½
Review:
‘Looney Tunes Cartoons’ was a television series that ran from 2020 to 2024 and which was a surprising revival of the classic Warner Bros. Cartoons of the 1940s and 1950s, featuring the same stars and the same frantic classic animation of the originals, but with slightly more modern designs and animation influences from the Renaissance period, most obviously from ‘Ren and Stimpy’.
The third disc of the ‘Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Edition’ Blu-Ray set contains nine Bugs Bunny shorts from the first season of this series and these show the high quality of this revival series. At their worst the cartoons are mere homages, but at their best they reshuffle the classic characters into new situations with new gags.
‘Harm Wrestling’, for example, the third cartoon from the very first episode, takes Yosemite Sam back to his Western roots, where he claims to be the arm wrestling champion of ‘Tough City’. Then, of course, Bugs Bunny comes along. This short reuses some classic gags from the 1940s, but add new ones and some particularly Ren & Stimpy-like takes on Yosemite Sam. Bugs Bunny, meanwhile, looks most like his 1940s self, harking mostly back to the Robert McKimson design for the Bob Clampett unit.
Watch ‘Harm Wrestling’ yourself and tell me what you think:
‘Harm Wrestling’ is available on the Blu-Ray-set ‘Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection’
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