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February 17, 2005
That's Despicable
As if the Disneyfication of Pooh and other classics weren't bad enough, now there's this, starting this fall.
Set in the year 2772, Loonatics will be an "over-the-top, high-octane action-comedy" featuring revised versions of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, the Road Runner, Lola Bunny, Tasmanian Devil and Wile E. Coyote. Using special abilities and an irreverent sense of humor, the six will battle the evils of Acmetropolis. The series will air on Saturdays at 9:00am (ET/PT).
I may cry. Just look at what they're doing to Bugs et al. That's more than wrong, that's just evil.
Say it ain't so, Tex. Say it ain't so.
Posted by Rita at February 17, 2005 12:59 PM
Comments
Does the word "comedy" have a new meaning or has comedy evolved into something that I just can't connect with (similar to garbage as art)? None of those creatures look particularly fun or funny to me. When he says the response was phenonemal should we assume that somewhere there was a room full of children, almost helpless with laughter as they viewed the promo? I think that "evil" nails it.
Posted by: Kenneth at February 17, 2005 05:08 PM
Most kids' cartoons these days have very little to do with funny. Many of them are pushing a touchy-feely environmentalist agenda; some are directed towards non-violent solutions to problems. Villians are usually either evil corporations or meglomaniacal types who want to take over the world so they can control oil supplies. Or some crap like that.
"Tom and Jerry" they ain't.
Posted by: rita at February 18, 2005 07:10 AM