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Warner Brothers Cartoon Companion (1998)
- poki89 2y agowhat is this ?
- 0xEF 2y agoIt's the Warner Brothers Cartoon Companion.
- Sardtok 2y agoThank you for clarifying. It's now as clear as a crystal glass filled with tar. /s
- hagbard_c 2y agoWould that be a glass of coal tar, pine tar or bitumen?
- GTP 2y agoThis would help clarifying it.
- Stratoscope 2y agoClarified tar is a beautiful thing. Just don't turn it into dip!
- firesteelrain 2y agoI know this has /s but I am with you on this one. I don’t know why people feel free to not post productive comments.
- rogerclark 2y agoIs "what is this ?" even a productive comment in itself? That's the point the parent is trying to make. If you click on this link, and you can't tell what it is, you probably don't care what it is. And after that, if you don't care enough to search "Daffy Duck" on Google or whatever, you really don't care what it is. Why would we possibly need a Hacker News comment explaining what Warner Brothers cartoons are?
- firesteelrain 2y agoAgain another non productive comment. Commenter didn't know what the companion meant. That's all he/she was asking. Why is that hard?
- mapt 2y agoWarner Brothers & Hanna Barbera cartoons introduced us to a great deal of culture by repetitive memes. This cinematic universe has hundreds of hours of short-form content, which back in the dark ages of television was fed to us intravenously age 2 to age ~12. Reruns played for decades after the original airdate in the hours after getting off from school or on weekend mornings. I didn't have any idea who Orson Welles was until I recognized him in school as the person that The Brain ('Pinky and the Brain' on Animaniacs) was a parody of. To this day I've never seen Peter Lorre, but there was a quite distinctive caricature that repeatedly played on Looney Tunes, and it took half a day of Googling to figure out what that memory referred to. There are lots of other reference jokes - repeated tropes, voices, facial poses, and musical themes assumed by these shorts that clearly carried some cultural meaning that we intuited by repetition, even if we never understood the source material. It's nice to have a "TVTropes For WB Cartoons" if only because we don't know the name of many of these things to be able to look them up. Unfortunately the maintainer seems to be largely focused on the 1940's and early 1950's, with most of the references.
- sumtechguy 2y agoIs it just me or is the format of that page distinctly odd. Narrow column down the middle with a decently small font.
- maxwell 2y agoLooks perfectly normal on a 640x480 VGA.
- firesteelrain 2y agoReminds me of many ham radio pages. Amateur hobby not meant for mobile screens.
- Spastche 2y agoI feel like radio dudes they make their sites and software look terrible on purpose
- boomboomsubban 2y agoLinking to the introduction would make more sense http://www.warnercompanion.com/index.html#intro http://www.warnercompanion.com/index.html#intro
- whateveracct 2y agoor just the person you're replying to..clicking it? it is very prominent
- boomboomsubban 2y agoSure, but why link to the "D" page?
- mrweasel 2y agoBriefly I thought it was cartoon characters man pages. Would be kinda fun to do "man 9 Daffy Duck"
- flobosg 2y ago(1998) or (2014) > This page was originally maintained by Stephen Worth. Thanks to John K. for funding its production. Preserved by Kip Williams and restored in 2014 by Harry McCracken. > The Warner Brothers Cartoon Companion is Copyright © 1996-1998 E. O. Costello. All rights reserved.
- dang 2y agoAdded above. Thanks!
- lupusreal 2y agoSeems to be missing entries for the Censored Eleven.
- shermantanktop 2y agoGood riddance. It’s antiquated trash. Others may cherish this stuff as a tribute to free thinking or whatever, but I’m happy to see the lack of distribution as a sign we’ve learned some things. This isn’t Chesterton’s Fence or the Mona Lisa, this is just racist humor aimed at boomer kids.
- krustyburger 2y agoSo they were aimed at boomer kids despite all 11 cartoons having been released before 1945? How odd.
- shermantanktop 2y agoTechnically you are correct, which is the best kind of correct. Should have said “pre-boomer”. But many were made or reissued in 1944, and as I understand it, cartoon shorts were replayed for years.
- Dalewyn 2y ago[flagged]
- dangus 2y agoLiterally none of the censored eleven cartoons involve Speedy Gonzales. Maybe you should learn your history before you accuse others of whitewashing it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censored_Eleven https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censored_Eleven
- Dalewyn 2y agoDon't care; there is a huge push to whitewash history including most if not all of Looney Tunes for "racism". I find that nothing short of stupid and disturbing, 1984 isn't supposed to be a manual of our future and present.
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- trbleclef 2y agoJust remember, you can't watch a Warner Bros. movie without a Warner Bros. ball cap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSMj5M9w2qA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSMj5M9w2qA
- dylan604 2y ago<shudder> 1-900 numbers. So they give you a number to order something from their catalog, but not only will they get money from you for the items, it's also $1.50 per minute for the call. "I'm sorry sir, but our systems are running a little slow today" to the point your 1-900 fees are more than the items your ordering.
- function_seven 2y agoNo, no. It's ok. The 900 number is just to order the catalog itself. Once you get that, then you place your orders the regular way. (Or, that's what the scumbags told themselves, I'm sure) I think the only thing that outdoes this is the Santa Claus commercial that would play the DTMF tones for the kids who didn't know how to dial a phone. I can't find an example now, but I've seen it before, and Wikipedia has a reference to it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premium-rate_telephone_number#Illicit_use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premium-rate_telephone_number#...
- vadansky 2y agoHaha, closest modern equivalent would be blasting "Hey Alexa, order the latest Peppa Pig Bluray!"
- biofox 2y agoLove Web 1.0 sites. Submitted to https://wiby.me https://wiby.me
- leephillips 2y agoThis is an amazing resource (for those of us who love these cartoons). Thank you for sharing it.
- forgingahead 2y agoNice find. My favourite was always "I shoulda turned left at Albuquerque". Good explanation from Quora[0]: The old Route 66 (often referred to as “The Mother Road”)—which opened in 1926 to drive from Chicago to Los Angeles—was the main method of heading west until the 1950s and the building of modern superhighways. (The trek of numerous Okies and other rural families made destitute by the Dust Bowl in the 1930s has been memorialized in Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath.”) Route 66 travels through Albuquerque—and actually intersects itself in the middle of downtown (ie., you can stand on the corner of Route 66 and Route 66)—so lots of people likely got confuddled and turned around while driving through Albuquerque…like Bugs! [0]: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-origin-of-the-statement-in-the-Bugs-Bunny-cartoons-I-knew-I-should-have-made-that-left-turn-at-Albuquerque https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-origin-of-the-statement-in... (Sean Griffin's answer)
- staticman2 2y agoI'm guessing younger people don't understand what a big deal the Looney Tunes used to be. With less channels and less cartoons in the old days, they were something kids would watch repeatedly in reruns. You didn't have a choice of several "cartoon only" channels if you wanted to watch a cartoon.