Here's the thing: if you're a manager who tries to force me to smile for peanuts/chicken feed, I'd tell you to go fuck yourself.

365 Days of Tunes - 312/365: In Bob Clampett’s final B&W Looney Tune, EATIN’ ON THE CUFF (’42), a live-action pianist (Leo White, with vocals by Mel Blanc) relates the story of a moth who, on his way to marry his honeybee fiancée, comes across a black widow spider, hungry with lust.

365 Days of Tunes - 311/365: In Chuck Jones’s ELMER’S PET RABBIT (’40), his first cartoon with the newly redesigned rabbit (by Bob Givens), Elmer sees Bugs at a pet shop window and takes him home, but gets heckled by him all evening.

365 Days of Tunes - 310/365: Chuck Jones’s early directorial work more resembled Disney’s films than Schlesinger cartoons. TOM THUMB IN TROUBLE (’40) might be Chuck’s most Disney-esque, with some of Bob McKimson’s finest work as a draftsman/animator in his handling of Tom Thumb’s father.

Finale of TRAP HAPPY PORKY (’45), largely animated by Ken Harris. Note how Ken had to animate 6-7 characters bunched together—a very complex assignment that WB's post-war budgets would’ve prohibited later on.

365 Days of Tunes - 309/365: In Chuck Jones' first cartoon as a solo director, THE NIGHT WATCHMAN ('38), Tommy Cat is in charge of guarding the kitchen from hoodlum rats under the trust of his ailing father.

Sloppy drunk alley cats animated by Bobe Cannon. (TRAP HAPPY PORKY, 1945.)

365 Days of Tunes - 308/365: In Friz Freleng’s “car-toon” STREAMLINED GRETA GREEN (’37), Junior skips school to seek adventure in the city, heeding his mother’s warning to avoid traffic and railroad crossings.

365 Days of Tunes - 307/365: In Tex Avery’s second Looney Tunes PLANE DIPPY (’35), Porky—in his first solo cartoon— joins the US Army Air Corps, where he experiences a wild ride inside a voice-activated robot airplane.

365 Days of Tunes—306/365: 90 years ago, GOLD DIGGERS OF ’49 (’35), Tex Avery’s first cartoon for WB, was released nationwide to theaters. Tex recast (and redesigned) the schoolchildren from I HAVEN'T GOT A HAT into adult roles for his Western parody, with Porky Pig as a fully grown hog.

365 Days of Tunes - 305/365: In Friz Freleng’s first color cartoon for Warners, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (’34), a little girl is put to sleep by the Sandman, then rises to “Fairytale Land,” where she and a toy soldier contend with the Beast from “Beauty and the Beast.”

Just scored some Felix color Sunday pages from the 1930s. Here’s an appropriate one for Halloween! 💀

365 Days of Tunes - 304/365: Happy Halloween, folks! In Greg Ford and Terry Lennon’s horror parody INVASION OF THE BUNNY SNATCHERS (’92), all of Bugs Bunny’s foes have been captured and replaced by soulless versions of themselves, so the rabbit must escape before he’s next.

My gf & I both are huge fans of BACK TO THE FUTURE. Just caught its 40th anniversary screening at Movie Tavern. It definitely hits harder on a big screen.

365 Days of Tunes - 303/365: Greg Ford and Terry Lennon followed up THE DUXORCIST with THE NIGHT OF THE LIVING DUCK (’88). In this nod to Clampett’s THE GREAT PIGGY BANK ROBBERY, comic-book nut Daffy dreams he’s a nightclub singer for famous movie monsters.

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365 Days of Tunes - 302/365: 70 years ago, Friz Freleng’s fractured fairy tale RED RIDING HOODWINKED (’55) was released nationwide to theaters. In it, a scatterbrained Wolf’s pursuit of Red crosses over with Sylvester’s usual hunt for Tweety.

Happy to have done some QC on this new set of silent Aesop’s Fables by animation pioneer Paul Terry from ClassicFlix and Cartoon Logic! FYI: Bill Tytla fans will find some of his earliest animation here in several silent Fables.

365 Days of Tunes - 301/365: Here’s a post-classic Looney Tune, THE DUXORCIST (’87), written and directed by Greg Ford and Terry Lennon. Daffy plays a paranormal investigator who comes to help a lady duck (B. J. Ward) possessed by evil spirits that turn her into an ugly beast at random.

365 Days of Tunes - 300/365: vimeo.com/1130776885 We made it to 300, folks! In the late-era A-HAUNTING WE WILL GO (’66), Daffy’s nephew sees Witch Hazel while trick-or-treating and runs to tell his uncle, who decides to investigate.

A longer Ken Harris sequence from HEY THERE IT'S YOGI BEAR ('64).

When Ken Harris was brought on to work on HEY THERE IT'S YOGI BEAR ('64), he and Bill Hanna worked out a special arrangement: Bill worked on the X-sheets at night, and Ken would arrive the next morning with his work set out for him...aboard Bill Hanna's yacht!

365 Days of Tunes - 299/365: In TRANSYLVANIA 6-5000 (’63), directed by Chuck Jones and Maurice Noble, Bugs finds himself at the castle of Count Bloodcount (voiced by Ben Frommer), where he is offered a room for the night.

Phil Monroe.

Virgil Ross!

365 Days of Tunes - 298/365: In Friz Freleng’s HYDE AND GO TWEET (’60), yet another send-up of the Jekyll and Hyde story, Tweety is chased into Dr. Jekyll’s laboratory and inadvertently drinks the potion that turns him into a hideous monster.

Looney Tunes remained popular for decades precisely because it was airing in widespread syndication on TV all the time. Old cartoons should be FREE to find new audiences, ESPECIALLY when their rights holders don't even care enough to platform them anymore.

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365 Days of Tunes - 297/365: Abe Levitow’s A WITCH’S TANGLED HARE (’59), Bugs’ third and final encounter with Witch Hazel (June Foray), supplies material for William Shakespeare, who happens to be passing by Macbeth’s castle.

365 Days of Tunes - 296/365: vimeo.com/1129751849 Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog punch the clock, then go their separate ways on a nice autumn workday in Chuck Jones’s STEAL WOOL (’57). This short boasts gorgeous fall color schemes by Maurice Noble and Phil DeGuard.

365 Days of Tunes - 295/365: In Chuck Jones’s alien invasion picture ROCKET-BYE BABY (’56), a cosmic force in outer space is disturbed, causing a green Martian baby to be delivered to an average Earth couple and vice versa. (Daws Butler and June Foray provide all the voices for this film.)

365 Days of Tunes - 294/365: vimeo.com/1122660562 In Chuck Jones’s BROOM-STICK BUNNY (’56), Witch Hazel, proud of her claim as “the ugliest one of all,” is surpassed by an uglier Halloween witch at her door who turns out to be Bugs trick-or-treating.

365 Days of Tunes - 293/365: vimeo.com/1122661446 80 years ago on this date, PECK UP YOUR TROUBLES (’45), Sylvester the Cat’s second appearance, was released to theaters nationwide. In it, Sylvester’s pursuit of a smart little woodpecker established his appetite for birds.

365 Days of Tunes - 292/365: Nobody made Hell into comedy fodder as much as Friz Freleng. In SATAN’S WAITIN’ (’54), Sylvester literally dies while chasing Tweety, and his ghostly spirit arrives in Hades to await his other eight lives.

365 Days of Tunes - 291/365: Spike and Chester from 1952’s TREE FOR TWO reappear in Friz Freleng’s DR. JERKYL’S HIDE (’54). In it, the two chase Sylvester into Dr. Jerkyl’s laboratory, where he drinks a potion that turns him into a tall, raging wildcat.

365 Days of Tunes - 290/365: CLAWS FOR ALARM (’54), the second of Chuck Jones’s horror comedies with Porky and Sylvester, takes place at an abandoned hotel infested with homicidal mice.

365 Days of Tunes - 289/365: In Chuck Jones’s BEWITCHED BUNNY (’54), Bugs rescues Hansel and Gretel from the clutches of Witch Hazel (Bea Benaderet) and places himself in jeopardy.

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365 Days of Tunes - 288/365: vimeo.com/1127511038 In 1952’s THE SUPER SNOOPER, Bob McKimson and writer Tedd Pierce put Daffy in the role of Duck Drake, Private Eye. In it, Daffy investigates a murder involving a “se-duck-tress” (voiced by Grace Lenard) in a plush mansion.

365 Days of Tunes - 287/365: In Chuck Jones’s WATER, WATER EVERY HARE (’52), Bugs is washed away by a flood and finds himself in the castle of an evil scientist (voiced by John T. Smith), who wants to transplant his brain into a giant mechanical robot.

365 Days of Tunes - 286/365: In Bob McKimson's THE PRIZE PEST ('51), Porky wins Daffy Duck as a grand prize on a radio program. When Daffy’s antics eject him from the house, the duck claims to have a Jekyll/Hyde split personality, where he turns into a vicious monster when mistreated.

365 Days of Tunes - 285/365: vimeo.com/1122659570 In Chuck Jones’s THE HYPO-CHONDRI CAT (’50), Hubie and Bertie use their psychological head games to convince the neurotic and hypochondriac Claude Cat that he has a serious illness to eject him from their newfound home.

Around August of 1947, the newsletter of Screen Cartoonists Guild Local 1461, Top Cel, went around identifying scabs who worked at Terrytoons during their infamous strike. It didn’t go unnoticed as, according to Devon Baxter, (who digitized these) it got the union in deep water!

365 Days of Tunes - 284/365: In Friz Freleng’s THE LION’S BUSY (’50), Beaky Buzzard informs birthday boy Leo the Lion that his kind rarely live beyond ten, and the buzzard waits for the lion to expire. Freleng (and writer Tedd Pierce) make Beaky more calculating with deadpan determination.

Bill Tytla! (CLOWNING, 1931.)

365 Days of Tunes - 283/365: In BYE, BYE BLUEBEARD (’49), the last cartoon from the Art Davis unit, a radio bulletin about the escaped homicidal maniac Bluebeard terrifies Porky, and a food-obsessed mouse uses it to his advantage.

365 Days of Tunes - 282/365: SCAREDY CAT (’48), the first of Chuck’s horror-comedy trilogy with Porky and Sylvester, has the pair spending the night in an old, eerie house, inhabited by a murderous lot of mice. Only Sylvester knows the danger, while his master refuses to believe anything sinister.