I tend to wander in and out of the room during these shows, because rarely will an entire hour be made up of cartoons I really dig. During the Warner Brothers hour, for instance, I'll rarely sit in on newer Tweety cartoons or Larriva-era Road Runner, and Pepe Le Pew is just one joke done over and over.
Yesterday, though, was a treat, as it was a solid hour of some of Chuck Jones's greatest hits.
They played the entire Bugs & Daffy hunting trilogy: Rabbit Fire, Rabbit Seasoning, and Duck! Rabbit, Duck!. They played Zip N'Snort, which is peak Chuck Jones Road Runner. They played the one where the little squirrel battles the coconut, Much Ado About Nutting, and the surreal Ready, Woolen, and Able, which might be the funniest of the Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog series.
And then they capped it off with what might be the best Warner Bros short, One Froggy Evening...
The embedded video above is an excerpt; you can see it in its entirety here.
When I was little, this was the stuff I loved on Saturday mornings, and it was already all mostly twenty to thirty years old. We were already on the greasy slope that slid down from Scooby Doo down through He-Man and She-Ra and wound up at Captain friggin' Planet.
Thankfully it's still out there in reruns to brighten my weekend mornings again.
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