A revival of sorts for the Looney Tunes style of comedy, using fun-sized , teenage Toons highly reminiscent of several classic characters. But rather than pure rip-offs, they were actually being taught in school by the originals on being funny and the finer parts of Cartoon Physics and being a Toon. This continues the proud tradition of Warner Bros. It was executive produced by Steven Spielberg , who, along with fellow executive Tom Ruegger, thought the Looney Tunes style was due for a makeover on television after the success of Who Framed Roger Rabbit. It was also one of the first shows not made by Disney to contribute to the '90s animation boom , following The Simpsons by less than a year.
She looks much like her significant other, Porky Pig , except that she wears a dress and now has braided black hair, although the character did not originally have hair. Petunia was introduced by animator Frank Tashlin in the short Porky's Romance. The film is a parody of a Walt Disney cartoon called Mickey's Nightmare. Whereas Mickey Mouse marries his longtime girlfriend Minnie in that film, Porky's overtures toward Petunia bring him only the scornful laughter of his porcine paramour. Tashlin adopted Petunia as a regular member of Porky's entourage and featured her in two more cartoons: The Case of the Stuttering Pig and Porky's Double Trouble , both in
Throughout the s and 60s, the Warner Bros Entertainment Company produced one animated nugget of comedy gold after the other, introducing us to a cast full of icons. Coyote, Road Runner, and, the biggest badass of the bunch, Tweety Bird? If you do a cursory look online, you might only see the newer stuff. So where can you find the older stuff? Here are some shorts to check out here.