Difference between revisions of "Looney Tunes"

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Looney Tunes is a series of theatrical cartoon shorts, produced by Warner Brothers, that has been referenced to in The Simpsons many times.

References to Looney Tunes in The Simpsons

{{Table| ! style="background-color: #e9d677; border: 1px solid #b0a266"|Picture ! style="background-color: #e9d677; border: 1px solid #b0a266"|Season ! style="background-color: #e9d677; border: 1px solid #b0a266"|Episode number ! style="background-color: #e9d677; border: 1px solid #b0a266"|Episode name ! style="background-color: #e9d677; border: 1px solid #b0a266"|Reference |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|2 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|27 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Principal Charming | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Marge tells her sister Patty that she has to wax the mustache on her upper lip because, "...you don't want to go out on your first date looking like Yosemite Sam". Yosemite Sam is a villainous cowboy in the Looney Tunes universe, known for his large moustache. |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|3 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|50 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"Homer Alone" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|The Brat'us Don'thaveacow'us & Homo Neanderthel'us scene makes a reference to the Road Runner cartoons. |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|4 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|69 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"Lisa's First Word" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|When toddler Bart hears Lisa say her first, he exclaims "Sufferin' sucatache!", Sylvester's catchphrase. |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|5 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|88 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"Bart's Inner Child" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|The scene where Homer dumps the trampoline of a cliff is a parody of the Road Runner cartoons. |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266;" rowspan="2;"|8 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|163 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"The Springfield Files" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Marvin the Martian appears in a line-up of aliens. |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|167 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|June Bellamy, the voice of Itchy and Scratchy, claims she did the voice of the Road Runner, but the studio had her record only one "meep". To avoid having to pay her more (to record two "meep"s), the studio then doubled the "meep" in playback to produce the Road Runner's characteristic "meep-meep". |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|9 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|181 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"Lisa's Sax" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Michigan J. Frog appears as the mascot of The Warner Brothers Network. |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|11 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|228 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"Brother's Little Helper" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Chief Wiggum says to Bart "That's the end of your Looney Tune, Drugs Bunny!" |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266;" rowspan="2;"|13 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|282 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"The Old Man and the Key" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|One of Los Souvenir Chaquitos wears a Tasmanian Devil jacket. |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|283 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"Tales from the Public Domain" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|In the "D'oh, Brother Where Art Thou?" segment Captain Horatio McCallister plays the Greek sea god Poseidon and torments Homer's ship by creating a wave. McCallister then grins: "Ain't I a stinker?" This is a direct reference to the classic Warner Brothers cartoon "Duck Amuck" (1953), in which Daffy Duck is tormented by an invisible animator, who turns out to be Bugs Bunny in the end, grinning: "Ain't I a stinker?" |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|16 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|345 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"There's Something About Marrying" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|After Bart and Milhouse's attempt to get a seedless watermelon dropped on Barney Gumble by using a can of Duff Beer as bait backfires, Barney says to the boys "Now, as the Road Runner said to the coyote..." then jumps up ala the Road Runner saying "Meep-meep!" and zips off with a ricochet sound effect. |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|17 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|363 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"The Last of the Red Hat Mamas" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|The rabbit at the Easter celebration is called Hugs Bunny, a reference to Bugs Bunny. Later, Homer mentions the Road Runner, surprised to learn there is an actual bird by that name. |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|18 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|383 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"G.I. (Annoyed Grunt)" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|The scene where Homer is getting chased by the helicopter drone is a parody of Looney Tunes. Homer fools the drone by reading a newspaper, dressing like a female drone, using soap suds to disguise himself as an old man in the bath (which prompts the drone to hold up a sign saying "Sorry, sir") and then sneaking around, hiding behind objects and luring the drone into a dark cupboard full of TNT and when the drone lights a match to see, it explodes. The monitor that the Army colonel is watching this on then says "That's All Folks!" |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266;" rowspan="2;"|19 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|415 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"Smoke on the Daughter" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|The couch gag shows Wile E. Coyote paint the couch on the wall. The family run into and gets hurt as Maggie zooms in and exclaims the Road Runner's one words "Meep Meep". |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|417 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"Apocalypse Cow" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|One of the chickens is named "Leghorn", a reference to Foghorn Leghorn. Template:TBI457 {{TBIThe Greatest Story Ever Do'hed}} {{TBI[[Homer Simpson asked if Template:WIPorky Pig was one of the most famous person to ever live}} {{TBI21}} |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266;" rowspan="2;"|22 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|476 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"Homer the Father" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|The Itchy & Scratchy cartoon is titled "Ain't I a Stinger?", punning one of Bugs Bunny's catchphrases. |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|479 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"The Scorpion's Tale" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|A Coyote and Road Runner appear in the desert in a parody of the Road Runner cartoons. |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|23 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|489 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"Treehouse of Horror XXII" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Ned Flanders killing Patty and Selma with a rock is a parody of the Road Runner cartoons. He then runs off with a "meep meep". |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266;" rowspan="2;"|24 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|513 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"Penny-Wiseguys" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Bart mentions Bugs Bunny recognizing theme song. |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|520 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"Love Is a Many-Splintered Thing" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Marvin the Martian appears in the fighting video game Mixed Martian Arts. |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266;" rowspan="2;"|25 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|547 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"Luca$" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|A parody of Road Runner. |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|552 | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|"The Yellow Badge of Cowardge" | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Edwin Moses falls off a cliff in a parody of the Road Runner cartoons. |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266;" colspan="3;"|The Simpsons Game | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|The chasm death cliché in the level Bargain Bin is a reference to Wile E. Coyote. |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266;" colspan="3;"|Itchy & Scratchy in Mousery | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|The Elmer award features a statue Elmer Fudd and is named after him. |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266;" colspan="3;"|Milhouse's Guide to Keeping it Cool | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|Milhouse hops around Bart and acts like the character Chester, from a couple of Looney Tunes shorts. |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266;" colspan="3;"|Bart Simpson's Guide to Life | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|The Tasmanian Devil is mentioned as having come from the state of Tasmania, Australia. |- | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "| | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266;" colspan="3;"|'Simpsons Comics #72' | style="text-align: center; background-color: #f0e3a2; border: 1px solid #b0a266; "|In the segment "Homer's Run", when Barts pager starts beeping Homer says "Hey there's a Road Runner on the island. We eat tonight! Lisa go get me a giant slingshot, anvil and some dynamite." }}

External links

• Looney Tunes at Wikipedia