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Sunday 10 June 2018

Comparing Wabbit To The Looney Tunes Show


The Looney Tunes have been around since the thirties and there characters have become house hold names but there are two TV shows out there which have given fans differing opinions and now i'm going to compare the two and to make things clear i'm comparing things like the animation , the characters , pacing and most importantly the jokes so here we go.

Animation


The animation in The Looney Tunes Show for me at least is truly stunning you can tell that there's alot of care and attention put into each and every frame but I will say that the blocky presentation of the first season could be off putting to some people.


The animation in Wabbit I think is slightly better then what's in The Looney Tunes Show but not by much but tho the characters look a little to child like for my liking whereas in The Looney Tunes they have more of a mature look to them.
Winner: Wabbit

Characters


Now the first season of Wabbit rarely had the other Looney Tunes characters instead pairing Bugs up with a new character called Squeaks the Squirrel to me Squeaks isn't looney which is important when your in a Looney Tunes show. 

Another problem with the characters for me comes with the fact that Bugs gets dumbed down alot in the first season and acts very out of character and the fact that Daffy acts like his Daffy self when he's in situations where his more cynical nature would be funnier to me just isn't right but apart from those gripes the characters act mostly in character.


I have to say that this show did the impossible they changed Lola from someone who was just so Bugs could have a love interest and made her into someone who's actually looney in The Looney Tunes Show she's a ditsy rich girl who may or may not be insane and for that show it works heck it worked so much that they might have kept that version of her in Wabbit where she does a parody of Daenerys Targaryen from HBO's Game Of Thrones.

Apart from the upheaval and makeover done to Lola i'd say that the makers of The Looney Tunes Show matured the characters and they made them more human and to me that makes the characters seem more relatable and that's also helped by the fact that Bugs doesn't always win all infact most times he looses.

Winner: The Looney Tunes Show

Jokes


The classic Looney Tunes shorts got most of there humor not from slapstick like Tom And Jerry but from there word play and this is something that The Looney Tunes Show got right because the jokes in this series don't or very rarely come from characters either getting hit or hitting each other it comes from whatever there saying but alot of the jokes in season two just weren't funny.


Now i'll admit that this show can at times be rather funny ok not laugh out loud funny at some of the jokes did put a smile on my face but here's the thing this show is meant to be the Looney Tunes going back to there roots so you'd think that would mean they would bring back the world play they do not instead the humor mostly comes from slapstick which was rarely present in the classic cartoons and when it was featured it was after a tone of word play which set it all up.

Winner: The Looney Tunes Show

Pacing


The classic Looney Tunes cartoons where around seven minuets in length and that worked for those shorts but with The Looney Tunes Show the time frame is stretched to twenty two minuets an episode and I think that honestly works since it allows the story and the jokes to flow at a more natural pace.


The time frame for Wabbit is really odd because some episodes are twenty two minuets while some or around the now standerd ten minuets but each of those ten minuet episodes contain two five minuet cartoons so having effectively five minuets to tell a story and pack in as many jokes as possible is impossible it worked back in the thirties because of the fact that even if they had a bad short they still had stellar animation but the pacing for Wabbit is far to fast.

Winner: The Looney Tunes Show

Ovcrall winner: The Looney Tunes Show



Guys don't hate on people who like Wabbit and if you do like Wabbit then hey great good for you but tho for me The Looney Tunes Show is far better and don't hate on people who like The Looney Tunes Show since the main purpose of this post isn't to spread hate but rather just to have some fun.