List of unreleased Warner Bros. animated shorts

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Following is the list of the Looney Tunes animated short subjects proposed by either Warner Bros. Cartoon studio in the 1930s-1960s or Warner Bros. Animation in the 2000s. In 1945, Bob Clampett planned to direct a Looney Tunes cartoon that would fictionalize the life of Franklin D. Roosevelt but when Roosevelt died, the project was abandoned. [1] In the 1950s, Friz Freleng pondered the idea of a one-shot cartoon that would combine Marilyn Monroe's life with the fairy tale of Snow White, but this project was also shelved when it was deemed too similar to Monroe's own personal life. [2] Not all abandoned Looney Tunes shorts were one-shots, as Looney Tunes comprises several sub-series such as Bugs Bunny, Pepé Le Pew and Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, to name a few. It is no surprise that not all planned sub-series did not get off the ground, and many of them ended up either not being produced at all or being reworked into one-shots. Some of these sub-series were the Keystone Kops, Rapid Rabbit and the Quick Brown Fox, Corn Plastered, the Eager Beaver, the Canyon Kiddies, etc. None of these went so far as to have individual titles mapped out. [3] [2]

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In 2003, Warner Bros. Animation had plans to resume making Looney Tunes shorts, but after the box office failure of Looney Tunes Back in Action , Warner Bros. cancelled several short projects while still in development, as executives thought that interest in slapstick humor and traditional animation was vanishing. Most of these cartoons were in production under the supervision of Larry Doyle. [4]

Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies - 19 titles

TitleSeriesCharactersNotes
A Jolly Good FalaMMCancelled in 1945
Marilyn Monroe/Snow White projectLT or MMCancelled during the mid-1950s
Executive TweetLTSylvester, Tweety, ghostsScrapped in 2004
The Pig Stays in the PictureLTPorky, Porky's familyScrapped in 2004
A Very Daffy ChristmasLTDaffy, elvesScrapped in 2004
What's Hip, Doc?LTBugs, Elmer, supermodelScrapped in 2004
Jenna Elfman would have voiced the supermodel.
Full Metal JackassLTWile E. Coyote, the Road RunnerScrapped in 2004
Bada BugsLTBugs, Daffy, two mobstersScrapped in 2004
It was speculated that the two mobsters would actually have been Rocky and Mugsy.
Slacker QuackerLTPorky, DaffyScrapped in 2004
Scheme ParkLTPorky, Porky's familyScrapped in 2004
Beach BunnyLTBugs, Beach BullyScrapped in 2004
Brendan Fraser would have voiced the Beach Bully.
Meat Me in ChicagoMMCowScrapped in 2004
Deep Sea BugsLTBugs, SamScrapped in 2004
Baseball TazLTTaz, Minor League Team, Rival Team's MonkeyScrapped in 2004
Dancing PepeLTPepé, Chipmunk, Chipmunk's friendScrapped in 2004
Daffy ContractorLTDaffy, PorkyScrapped in 2004
Reaper MadnessLTGranny, the Grim ReaperScrapped in 2004
Duck SupedLTDaffyScrapped in 2004
Guess Who's Coming to Meet the ParentsLTBugs, Squirrel, Bugs' parentsScrapped in 2004

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References

  1. ↑ A Jolly Good Fala at The Big Cartoon DataBase bcdb. May 9, 2011
  2. 1 2 "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-12-20. Retrieved 2011-03-01.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ↑ Cooke, Jon (16 October 2010). "Misce-Looney-ous: The Canyon Kiddies". toolooney.blogspot.com. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
  4. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-05-17. Retrieved 2009-06-02.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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