Harman Ising Puns

The Animaniacs designseems to be heavily influenced from this Tiny Toons episode from 1990 called 'Fields of Honey'

https://tinytoons.fandom.com/wiki/Fields_of_Honey

You can see how the characters of Bosco and Honey look almost identical to the Animaniacs. It's no secret that they were supposed to look like ole Warner Bros animation, but here the similarity is uncanny.

However, Bosko and Honey were real WB characters:

https://tinytoons.fandom.com/wiki/Bosko_and_Honey

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosko

Bosko was a huge hit back in the 30s, but you can't really find his cartoons anywhere anymore. It's no surprise they changed him a bit for the Tiny Toons episode, because he was originally registered as a 'negro boy' character and per the wiki article Leonard Maltin describes him as: "a cartoonized version of a young black boy... he spoke in a Southern Negro dialect... in subsequent films this characterization was eschewed, or perhaps forgotten. This could be called sloppiness on the part of Harman and Ising, but it also indicates the uncertain nature of the character itself."

FRI OCT 01

(12:15am) From Here to Eternity (1953/1h 58m/Drama/Fred Zinnemann)

(2:30am) Quo Vadis (1951/2h 51m/Epic/Mervyn Leroy)

(5:30am) MGM Parade Show #19 (1955/25m/Documentary)

(6:00am) King Kong (1933/1h 40m/Horror/Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack)

(8:00am) The Most Dangerous Game (1932/1h 3m/Horror/ Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack)

(9:15am) The Vampire Bat (1933/1h 3m/Horror/Frank Strayer)

(10:30am) The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933/2h 0min/Crime/Fritz Lang)

(12:45pm) White Zombie (1932/1h 13m/Horror/Victor Halperin)

(2:00pm) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932/1h 30m/Horror/Rouben Mamoulian)

(3:45pm) Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933/1h 12m/Horror/Michael Curtiz)

(5:15pm) Doctor X (1932/1h 16m/Horror/Michael Curtiz)

(6:45pm) Freaks (1932/1h 30m/Horror/Tod Browning)

(8:00pm) The Bad News Bears (1976/1h 42m/Comedy/Michael Ritchie)

(10:00pm) Harold and Maude (1971/1h 30m/Comedy/Hal Ashby)

(11:45pm) Black Sunday (1977/2h 23m/Drama/John Frankenheimer)

SAT OCT 02

(2:15am) Dolemite (1975/1h 28m/Crime/D'urville Martin)

(4:00am) Truck Turner (1974/1h 31m/Action/Jonathan Kaplan)

(5:45am) The Distant Drummer: A Movable Scene (1970/22m/Short/William Templeton)

(6:15am) Haunted Honeymoon (1940/1h 23m/Comedy/Arthur B. Woods)

(8:00am) A Rainy Day (1940/7m/Animation/Hugh Harman)

(8:09am) Aladdin's Lantern (1938/10m/Comedy/Gordon Douglas)

(8:20am) Copenhagen: "City of Towers" (1953/8m/Short/?)

(8:29am) Ladies Must Live (1940/58m/Drama/Noel Smith)

(9:30am) BATMAN: The Doom of the Rising Sun (1943/20m/Serial/Lambert Hillyer)

(10:00am) POPEYE: Pre-Hysterical Man (1948/6m/Animation/Seymour Kneitel)

(10:08am) The Case of the Velvet Claws (1936/1h 3m/Suspense/Mystery/William Clemens)

(11:30am) Dark Magic (1939/10m/Comedy/Roy Rowland)

(11:45am) The Champ (1979/2h 2m/Drama/Franco Zeffirelli)

(2:00pm) Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962/1h 27m/Drama/Ralph Nelson)

(3:45pm) Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956/1h 53m/Drama/Robert Wise)

(6:00pm) The Greatest (1977/1h 41m/Drama/Tom Gries)

(10:00pm) Gulliver's Travels (1939/1h 14m/Adventure/Dave Fleischer)

SUN OCT 03

(12:00am) The Glass Wall (1953/1h 20m/Drama/Maxwell Shane)

(1:45am)

Sunset Productions is all B&W Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies (except for the Harman-Ising Merrie Melodies, although it does contain Lady, Play Your Mandolin!)

Associated Artists (or a.a.p.) is all colour Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies from 1934's Honeymoon Hotel to 1948's Haredevil Hare. It also contains all of the Harman-Ising Merrie Melodies besides Lady, Play Your Mandolin!

Post-1948 (or the Warner Bros. package) is all shorts from 1948's You Were Never Duckier to 1969's Injun Trouble.

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Do your worst!

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

Hi everyone

I have been doing a lot of reading on the history of animation, especially the stuff that came out in Hollywood in the 30's,40's and 50's and because I have been trying to write some more, I decided that animation would be an interesting field to write on. I actually wrote this for my blog originally, but because no one reads blogs any more, I decided to post it on Reddit. I have still posted a link to the blog at the very end of the piece, because I actually created some Gifs from the cartoons I have talked about, which people may be interested in seeing.

Enjoy, Ryan.

I have been a fan of animation as long as I can remember, ever since I watched Saturday morning cartoons on the A-Channel growing up in Canada. I never studied animation in any meaningful sense, but over the years I have picked up a few things about how cartoons are created and how they work. Having more free time due to the current Covid related unpleasantness, I have begun to read more and more books and articles on the history of animation and I have watched more and more of the classic theatrical shorts from the so called “Golden Age of Animation”.

I have also been trying to do some more writing and so I decided to combine my two present interests by writing about animation. When I write I like to have some sort of structure to build around, so I have decided to talk about the winners and nominees of the Academy Awards for best animated short films for each year starting from the beginning very. Examining the Oscar lists year by year, allows you to really see how the field of animation changed and evolved. Moreover since the Academy Awards are supposed to represent the best of what the film industry has to offer we can get a better sense of what contemporary Hollywood figures thought was the best in animation and so can better understand what they thought animation should be and how their ideals changed over time. I should be clear that I am not even remotely an expert on the subject of animation history by even the most generous standards so take that in mind when reading this.

At the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles on November 18th, 1932, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences handed out the 5th Academy Awards. In addition to the usual awards like best picture (won by “Grand Hotel”), these were the first awards which featured a category for animation under the title of “Short Subjects, Cartoons”, the name which the award would go by until the 1970’s.

Pilot on me!!

They’re on standbi

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

I won't be doing that today!

You take away their little brooms

This morning, my 4 year old daughter.

Daughter: I'm hungry

Me: nerves building, smile widening

Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.

She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.

Thank you all for listening.

There hasn't been a post all year!

It’s pronounced “Noel.”

After all his first name is No-vac

What, then, is Chinese rap?

Edit:

Notable mentions from the comments:

• Spanish/Swedish/Swiss/Serbian hits

• French/Finnish art

• Country/Canadian rap

• Chinese/Country/Canadian rock

• Turkish/Tunisian/Taiwanese rap

There hasn't been a single post this year!

(Happy 2022 from New Zealand)

Bob

Robert Emerson Clampett Sr. (May 8, 1913 – May 2, 1984) was an American animator, producer, director, and puppeteer best known for his work on the Looney Tunes animated series from Warner Bros. as well as the television shows Time for Beany and Beany and Cecil. Clampett was born and raised not far from Hollywood and, early in his life, expressed an interest in animation and puppetry. After leaving high school a few months shy of graduating in 1931, Clampett joined the team at Harman-Ising Productions and began working on the studio's newest short subjects, titled Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies.

Clampett was promoted to a directorial position in 1937 and during his fifteen years at the studio, directed 84 cartoons later deemed classic and designed some of the studio's most famous characters, including Porky Pig, Daffy Duck, and Tweety. Among Clampett's most acclaimed films are Porky in Wackyland (1938) and The Great Piggy Bank Robbery (1946).

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0163332/

Robert Clampett (1913–1984)

So that I could frequently say, "I am going to walk 5 miles now."

Edit: My most popular post on Reddit! 😀 Thank you for the awards.

Just to clarify, 12345678

Me grabbing a soda from my (what I thought was) half full 12pk...

Notices there's only 2;

Me: "Awe man... This is a damn bird box!" Her: "What the hell does that mean?!" Me: (Pulls both cans out & shows them to her) "It's only got Toucans."

I'm not ashamed to admit the look on her face was glorious.

I was just sitting there doing nothing.

“BOOM”?!

"That's what they're fighting about."

Because his Visa didn’t work.

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