I think that Warner Brother's most enduring aspect is it's own brand of humor. I mean they are "Looney Tunes", so they're suppose to be loony. It's not just the storytelling that's humorous or the dialogue but the way the cartoons are drawn. In The Great Piggy Bank Robbery (1946) Daffy Duck takes the role of Duck Tracy. All of the animation by Bob Clampett goes to extremes. He takes Daffy Duck's movements from A to C, giving him jerking movements. His form is constantly stretched, and as he talks his head changes size. There is also great humor in the part where the line of villains pile up near the doorway and the only way Daffy can get through is to break his body up in different pieces to fit through the crack (Image 1). There is also a great part where the eraser villain erases daffy from the scene (Image 2). …show more content…
This borrows from the Max Fleischer vs. Koko shorts or Felix the Cat, but improves on them immensely. The animator turns out to be Bugs Bunny (Image 5). One of my favorite Bugs Bunny moments is in the cartoon Rabbit Hood (1949). Bugs enters the King's royal garden and turns it around on the sheriff by acting as a realtor and selling the sheriff the land. The sheriff then begins to build a house on it, which must have taken him him 8 months to a year. It takes all this time to realize that he's been duped. (Video 1) Sometimes parodies work well for humor like in The Great Piggy Bank Robbery (Dick Tracy), Duck Dodgers in the 24th1/2 Century (Buck Rodgers), or I Love to Singa (which parodies The Jazz Singer). I think they based the cartoon completely on the baby owl being named Owl Jolson, like Al Jolson (Images 6-7). This is one of my favorite one-shots along with Three Little Bops (a jazz parody of the Three Little Pigs; Image 8), and One Froggy