In American pop culture depictions of Heaven, particularly in vintage cartoons such as those by Looney Tunes in the mid-20th century, the souls of virtuous people ascend to Heaven and are converted into angels.

* Ajax ( Disney ), a fictional company ( the Disney equivalent of Looney Tunes ' Acme Corporation )

Though the coyote is the basis for the character of Wile E. Coyote in the Warner Brothers Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies animated cartoons, especially about the Road Runner, coyotes have not been known as yet to attack greater roadrunners for prey.

Charles Martin " Chuck " Jones ( September 21, 1912 – February 22, 2002 ) was an American animator, cartoon artist, screenwriter, producer, and director of animated films, most memorably of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts for the Warner Bros. Cartoons studio.

He later started his own studio, Chuck Jones Productions, which created several one-shot specials, and periodically worked on Looney Tunes related works.

Chuck Jones joined Leon Schlesinger Productions, the independent studio that produced Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies for Warner Bros., in 1933 as an assistant animator.

Jones ' final Looney Tunes cartoon was From Hare to Eternity in 1996, which starred Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam, with Greg Burson voicing Bugs.

Cartoon Network aired a 20-second segment with black dots tracing Jones ' portrait with the words " We'll miss you-Cartoon Network " fading in on the right-hand side, which aired during a four-hour installment of The Looney Tunes Show that featured nothing but Chuck Jones ' most memorable cartoon shorts.

After his death, the Looney Tunes cartoon Daffy Duck for President, based on the book that Jones had written and using Jones ' style for the characters, originally scheduled to be released in 2000, was released in 2004 as part of disc 3 of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 2 DVD set.

: Looney Tunes: Back in Action ( 2003 )

Teaming with director Frank Tashlin, whose background as a Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon director suited Lewis's brand of humor, he starred in five more films, and even appeared uncredited as Itchy McRabbitt in Li ' l Abner ( 1959 ).

* K-9 ( Looney Tunes ), Marvin the Martian's pet Martian dog in the Looney Tunes cartoon series from Warner Bros

* Marvin the Martian ( 1948 ) is one of Looney Tunes ' most prominent characters, a soft-spoken villain, whose mission throughout his appearances is to destroy Earth because it " Obstructs his view of Venus ".

* Napoleon Bunny-Part, a 1956 Looney Tunes animated short featuring Bugs Bunny

Walt Disney and Looney Tunes were among those that actively aided the U. S. war effort through their cartoons which provided training and instructions for viewers as well as a political commentary on the times.

Among these are Flåklypa Grand Prix, Looney Tunes, Tom and Jerry, Wallace and Gromit, Pee-wee's Big Adventure, The Way Things Go, Edward Scissorhands, Back to the Future, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, The Goonies, Gremlins, the Saw film series, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Cat from Outer Space, Malcolm, Family Guy, American Dad !, and Waiting ...

In 1992, the MGM library, which included Warner Brothers properties including the early Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies libraries and also the Fleischer Studios and Famous Studios Popeye cartoons, became the core of Cartoon Network.

It is seen as an important attractor of tourists to Tasmania and has come to worldwide attention through the Looney Tunes character of the same name.

It has been frequently used in animated short subjects, such as those in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoon series, to signify the end of a story.

Looney considered that Oxford's personality fitted that he deduced from the plays, and also identified characters in the plays as detailed portraits of Oxford's family and personal contacts.

Some of the characters and situations were reused in Milligan's novel, The Looney.

However, since the syndicated shorts ' target audience was children and because of concerns over children's television in the 1970s, the Looney Tunes shorts were edited, removing scenes of violence ( particularly suicidal gags and scenes of characters doing dangerous stunts that impressionable viewers could easily imitate ), racial and ethnic caricatures ( particularly stereotypical portrayals of blacks, Mexicans, Jews, Native Americans, Asians, and Germans as Nazis ) and questionable vices ( such as smoking cigarettes, ingesting pills, and drinking alcohol ).

In 1976, the Looney Tunes characters made their way into the amusement business when they became the mascots for the two Marriott's Great America theme parks ( Gurnee, Santa Clara ).

In 1988, several Looney Tunes characters appeared in cameo roles in Disney and Amblin's Oscar-winning epic, Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

It is the only time in which Looney Tunes characters have shared screen time with their rivals at Disney ( producers of the film )— particularly in the scenes where Bugs Bunny and Mickey Mouse are skydiving, and when Daffy Duck and Donald Duck are performing their " Dueling Pianos " sequence.

A Looney Tunes Christmas featuring a wide array of characters working in a mega-store under the Scrooge-esque Daffy Duck.

Since the days of the Nintendo Entertainment System, the Looney Tunes characters have been featured in numerous video games, such as a same-titled one that came out on Game Boy in 1992.

Although the cartoons are seldom seen on mainstream TV, thanks to revival theatrical screenings, and the Golden Collection DVD box sets, the Looney Tunes and its characters have remained a part of Western animation heritage.

The show will have 2-minute music videos titled respectfully " Merrie Melodies ", as a tribute to the Looney Tunes sister shorts, which will feature the characters singing original songs.

When the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies began in 1930, although Warner Bros. retained the rights to the cartoons, Harman and Ising owned the rights to the Bosko characters.

The series shows many of the Looney Tunes characters as babies living with Granny.

It featured futuristic descendents of the Looney Tunes characters as super-heroes.

It is a sitcom-style series featuring the characters from Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies.

* List of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies characters

The short features Daffy and Elmer in the first CG or 3-D depiction of these specific Looney Tunes characters.

In 1994, corporate cousin DC Comics became the publisher for comics featuring all the classic Warner Bros. cartoon characters, and while not getting his own title, Daffy has appeared in many issues of Looney Tunes.

Category: Looney Tunes characters

Category: Looney Tunes characters

Coicidentally, the Acme brand was used in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, a Disney film that included cameos from Looney Tunes characters ).

Looney rejected the play altogether, arguing that its style and the " dreary negativism " it promoted were inconsistent with Shakespeare's " essentially positivist " soul, and so could not have been written by Oxford.

Beginning with Looney, most Oxfordians ( exceptions are Percy Allen and Louis Bénézet ) have asserted that the " Fair Youth " referred to in the early sonnets refers to Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, Oxford's peer and prospective son-in-law.

New Looney Tunes shorts have been produced and released sporadically for theaters since then, usually as promotional tie-ins with various family movies produced by Warner Bros.

While their products leave much to be desired, Acme delivery service is second to none ; Wile E. can merely drop an order into a mailbox ( or enter an order on a website, as in the Looney Tunes: Back in Action movie ), and have the product in his hands within seconds.

( The other two directorial fathers Bugs claims to have had are Avery, who directed A Wild Hare, his first official short, and McKimson, who is the least known of the three best-known Looney Tunes / Merrie Melodies directors, but drew the definitive Bugs Bunny model sheet.

Reissues of color Looney Tunes originally released in September 1948 or later would have the 1946 ending version of " The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down " playing over the closing rings, and 1945 opening music playing over the opening ( again those of the given reissue season ), revealing the fact that the cartoon was originally a Looney Tunes short.

Although some original titles couldn't be found, some Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies have the Blue Ribbon Reissue title cards, but the original ending titles have been restored for some of the shorts.

The ban has been upheld by UA and the successive owners of the pre-August 1948 Looney Tunes / Merrie Melodies catalog to this day, and these shorts have not been officially broadcast on television since 1968, and have only been exhibited once by Warner Bros., since then, theatrically in one theater in spring 2010 ( see below for more details ).

The Goofy Gophers ( Mac and Tosh Gophers ) have been revived in The Looney Tunes Show voiced by Rob Paulsen and Jess Harnell.

Pussyfoot has appeared in some recent Warner Bros. merchandising, however, and the pair have been featured in various Warner Bros. productions, such as the third segment of the 1982 Twilight Zone movie, and a 1999 Looney Tunes comic book story called " Bringing Up Baby ".

Rocky and Mugsy have also appeared in various Looney Tunes-related merchandise.

Petunia Pig is an animated cartoon character in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons from Warner Bros. She looks much like her significant other, Porky Pig, except that she wears a dress and now has braided black hair, although the character did not originally have hair.

In 1954, the Looney Tunes cartoon The Cats Bah specifically spoofed Algiers, with the skunk enthusiastically declaring, " You do not have to come with me to ze Casbah .... We are already ' ere!

A range of generic animals has been produced, including a turtle, pig, puppy, kitten, frog, and hippopotamus, but cartoon characters including: Garfield, Scooby-Doo, Looney Tunes, Shrek, The Simpsons, and SpongeBob have also been licensed.

The Spee-lunker's Cave, a flume-based darkride often said to have inspired Disney to create It's A Small World, was restructured to feature Looney Tunes characters in place of the Spee's who had inhabited the ride since the early days of the park — the park was managed by Time Warner Entertainment.