New Looney Tunes (formerly wabbit-A Looney Tunes production) now airs weekdays on Boomerang at 6:30 am (ET). Time to sample some of the latest craziness.
It's been reported that the protracted season 3 will be the last for the series as they're focusing on a new set of shorts, which we sampled a while back. None of the shorts in the current series are available in full, just excerpts.
One such excerpt is "Daffy on The Bayou". Daffy Duck is in Bayou country, but so is Elmer Fudd, who loses the fish he had collected as protein for his gumbo, so guess who's on the menu?
Elmer's even skinnier than ever. In contrast, some pictures I've seen have Porky Pig back to his original plus-size form. The upshot is that Daffy is back to being his original, out of control self, which fans have preferred to the selfish "craven coward" of the 50's & 60's.
Rating: B.
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New Looney Tunes can also be seen on Boomerang's online streaming service. Why the show isn't aring on Cartoon Network proper, I have no idea. Also, I don't know what's going to happen to Boomerang Online once HBO Max launches in May 2020.
And yeah, it's really good to see Daffy back to being his original nutty screwball incarnation, as I feel that jealous jerk Daffy is very much over done and has been growing stale as of yet. Daffy is funniest when he's nuttier than a bowl of cashews.
They're running a full hour about three times a day, as the episode excerpted replays tonight at 10.
Boomerang Online will likely continue, linked to HBO Max & DC Universe in some small way.
Coincidentally enough, I watched this same episode tonight before finding this post.
Yeah, if this show has done anything right, it's returning Daffy to his original crazy, goofy, mischievous self. Not that I don't like the 1950s Daffy seen in shorts like "Rabbit Seasoning" and "Duck Amuck", but more often than not in modern Looney Tunes productions Daffy was reduced to little more than "greedy, short-tempered jerk who exists to make Bugs look cool".
By the way, that's Jeff Bergman and Dee Bradley Baker doing Elmer and Daffy respectively. I gotta say, Dee's Daffy is much better here than it was in "Space Jam".
Since I never saw the original Space Jam, this was the first time I'd heard Dee's interpretation of Daffy. Well, he's had 23 years to refine the role.
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