| Looney Tunes: Alive 'N' Kickin | |
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| Genre: | Animation Slapstick Comedy Surreal Comedy Adventure |
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| Created by: | Sam Register |
| Directed by: | Mauricio Pardo Spike Brandt and Tony Cervone |
| Starring: | Joe Alaskey Tom Kenny Jeff Bennett Kath Soucie Eric Bauza June Foray Paul Julian |
| No. of seasons: | 4 |
| No. of episodes: | ??? (List of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s): | Mike Fontanelli Rebecca Palatnik |
| Producer(s): | Rebecca Palatnik |
| Running time: | 7 minutes (per segments) 4 minutes (per sketches) 20-24 minutes (specials) |
| Production company(s): | Warner Bros. Animation |
| Distributor: | Warner Bros. Pictures |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel: | Cartoon Network |
| Picture format: | 1080i (HDTV) |
| Original run: | March 21, 2012 - December 23, 2015 |
| Chronology | |
Looney Tunes: Alive 'N' Kickin (or Looney Tunes: Alive 'N' Kickin!) is an 2012 American animated slapstick-surrealist comedy television series based on the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies. Created by Sam Register and released for Cartoon Network from March 21, 2012 to December 23, 2015. The series will be features some eponymous characters from the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies doing some silly shenanigans and some nonsenical adventures throughout the city of Acme Acres. The series mostly features Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, and the others. The series will mostly features some slapsticks, cartoon violences, satire humors, nonsensical humors, and adult innuendos. It's will also feature sketches when the episodes ended.
Looney Tunes: AnK receives some mostly positive reviews and some critical praises from critics and fans, even diehard Looney Tunes fans who called this show "the most insane, yet-amazing Looney Tunes show that we've ever seen". The series also resurfaced in Amazon Prime, Hulu, Max, and make some reruns on Boomerang
This is also the last time where Joe Alaskey will voices some of the Looney Tunes characters before he passed away in February 3, 2016. and this is also the first time Todd Haberkorn voices one of the Looney Tunes characters
Synopsis[]
The Looney Tunes gang goes on some even zanier adventures throughout the city of Acme Acres and also to the countries.
Sketches[]
- Wile E. Coyote and The Road Runner - the most prominent sketches when the starving coyote tries many gadgets from ACME to catch the roadrunner, but failed miserably
- Speedy's Deilvery Trip - Speedy travel into different countries to delivery someone's packages, while learning each countries histories and facts
- The Unbelievable Tales of Drip-Along Daffy - Daffy (as Drip-Along Daffy) with his faithful sidekick, Porky (The Comic Relief) as they protect the town of Gower Gulch from numerous outlaws
- TBA - TBD
- Taz's Food Hunts - Taz went to different locations to find something to eat, whether is it fruits or animals. Whenever he tries to eat, it can either be ranged to good or mediocre, to disastrous results
- Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog - the wolf and sheep duo who at each other throat's. But it's was all part of their job descriptions. Ralph tries various plan to steal the sheep. But failed miserably, mainly due to Sam.
- TBA - TBD
- Tweety's Cooking Tutorial - Tweety will teach the audience how to cook food, while also trying to get rid of that certain putty tat.
Meet the Looney Tunes![]
Main Cast[]
- Bugs Bunny - (voiced by Joe Alaskey) - an charismatic, clever, and mischievous rabbit who love to play tricks with his enemies by deceiving them and dressing up as other people. He can be sarcastic, but he mean well and can help a friend when needed
- Daffy Duck - (voiced by Joe Alaskey) - an insane, egotistical, and money-loving black duck who is a rival and best friend of Bugs. He can be an showoff and want to become a number one star. He always drag Porky into many insane situations.
- Porky Pig - (voiced by Tom Kenny) - an stuttering, yet mild-mannered pig who act as the straight man of the Tunes. He always been dragged by Daffy for his schemes.
- Lola Bunny - (voiced by Kath Soucie) - an bubbly, quirky, and tomboyish bunny who always love to play sports. She can be an total airheaded sometimes, but she can be really tough when she need to defend herself. She hate being called a "doll", so don't push her.
- Sylvester the Cat - (voiced by Joe Alaskey) - an normal black cat who is always hungry for birds, and that's include Tweety (his main meal). His relationship with Tweety is mixed. He sometimes act as his little brother, but sometimes, he'll eat him.
- Tweety Bird - (voiced by Bob Bergen) - an cute, small canary bird who try to be avoid being eaten by Sylvester. He also has an mixed relationship with Sylvester. He can be friend with him, even acting like his little brother
- Wile E. Coyote - (voiced by Corey Burton) - an intelligent, yet starving coyote who has an unfortunate bad luck, who always tried to catch the Road Runner and occasionally Bugs.
- The Road Runner - (voiced by Paul Julian [archival recording]) - an cheerful, yet oblivious roadrunner who always made some beeping sounds resemblance of a car beep. he can also laugh with car noises. But he can't speak, so he hold up sign as a way to communicate.
- Foghorn Leghorn - (voiced by Jeff Bennett) - an obnoxious, loud-mouthed rooster who some people find him annoying when he's around
- Granny - (voiced by June Foray) - an elderly old woman who owned Sylvester, Tweety, and Hector. Despite her age, she can defend herself very well.
- Tasmanian Devil - (voiced by Jim Cummings) - an hungry, destructive marsupial who love to make chaos and destruction whenever he's goes. He can spin around like a tornado to travel. He always hungry and searching some food and will eats about anything he gets his hands on.
- Speedy Gonzalez - (voiced by Fred Armisen) - an Mexican, speed-running mouse who love to lend an helping hand when needed. He can also become Queso Bandito (aka the Mexican mice version of Robin Hood)
- Elmer Fudd - (voiced by Jeff Bergman) - an dimwitted hunter who always hunting Bugs and Daffy for sports, but failed several times.
- Yosemite Sam - (voiced by Maurice LaMarche) - an anger-prone outlaw who always doing evil schemes for his own amusements. Just like Daffy, love money and riches
- Marvin the Martian - (voiced by Joe Alaskey) - an mouthless Martian who want to invaded earth, but failed numerous times
- Pepe Le Péw - (voiced by Maurice LaMarche) - an romantic French-accented skunk who always pursuing for love. He can still kick some butts without fighting, but with stinks
- Gossamer - (voiced by Dee Bradley Baker) - an orange hairy monster who only cause harm, but always love to make some chaotic mess
Supporting Cast[]
- Mac and Tosh Gophers - (voiced by Todd Haberkorn and Rob Paulsen respectively) - the two chatterbox, goofy gophers who best friends and like to make some mild messes
- Tina Russo Duck - (voiced by Jessica DiCicco) - an no-nonsense duck who is reluctantly Daffy's boyfriend, she's an busy worker who TBA
- Petunia Pig - (voiced by Candi Milo) - an friendly pig who's Porky's girlfriend
- Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog - (both voiced by Jeff Bergman) an wolf and a sheepdog who conflicted each other, but it's was all part of their jobs, according to the work whistle.
- Penelope Pussycat - (voiced by Tress MacNellie) - an cat who always try to run away from Pepe, during to her being resemble to a odor-smelling skunk
- Beaky Buzzard - (voiced by Jim Cummings) - an chill, but dimwitted vulture who looking something to eat.
- Pete Puma - (voiced by Stan Freberg, then John Kassir) - an idiotic puma who occasionally tries to eat and do things but didn't work out for him
- Hugo the Abominable Snowman - (voiced by Bill Fagerbakke) - an friendly, yet dimwitted yeti who wants to make some new friends
- Owl Jolson - (voiced by Debi Derryberry) - an music-loving owl who love to sing
- Barnyard Dawg - (voiced by Tom Kenny) - an farm dog who's also Foghorn's arch-rival who constantly tries to outsmart him in every turn
- Miss Prissy - (voiced by Candi Milo) - an elderly female hen who always been ignored by Foghorn
- Marc Anthony and Pussyfoot - (vocal effects by Dee Bradley Baker) - an overprotective bulldog who want to keep his friend, Pussyfoot safe from any harms
- Hubie and Bertie - (both voiced by Joe Alaskey and Eric Bauza respectively) - an duo of comical mice who always love to steal cheese
- Claude Cat - (voice and vocal effects by Eric Bauza) - an yellow silent cat who tries to get rid of Hubie and Bertie, but failed miserably
- Hippety Hopper - (non-speaking) - an mute little kangaroo who often mistaken for a large mouse (in Sylvester's case). He's always wear red boxing gloves to defend himself.
- Hector - (vocal effect by Dee Bradley Baker) - an pet bulldog whose Granny owned. He's alway tries to pound Sylvester whenever he tries to eat Tweety
- Sniffles - (voiced by Kath Soucie) - an talkative little mice who wants to make new friends. But most of them find him annoying
- Michigan J. Frog - (voiced by Darren Norris) - an frog who will only sing when no one noticed. It's singing was so good that it even became popular.
Antagonist[]
- ACME Chairman - (voiced by Corey Burton) - An evil head of ACME Corporation who plans to turn everyone into monkeys, using a Blue Monkey Diamond. He is also a main antagonist.
- Rocky and Mugsy - (both voice by Jeff Bennett and Bill Fagerbakke respectively) - an duo of mastermind professional criminals who often failed during to their incompetent
- Cecil Turtle - (voiced by Jim Rash) - an slowly but smart turtle who always outsmarts Bugs everytimes they both encounter
- Toro the Bull - (vocal effect by Dee Bradley Baker) - an menacing red-eyed bull who always tries to pursue everything he's see red
- Witch Hazel - (voiced by Candi Milo) - an witch who want to be the most hideous witch of all
- Blacque Jacque Shellacque - (voiced by Jim Cummings) - an french-accented small man who want to get his hand on anything he want
Productions[]
Development[]
Under Constructions
Voices[]
When working on Looney Tunes: Alive 'N' Kickin, Joe Alaskey was originally gonna voice Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Sylvester, Elmer, Foghorn Leghorn, Tweety, Pepe Le Pew, and Marvin the Martian. But the executive say they weren't interested about him voicing most of the LT Characters. So they ask him to voice Bugs, Daffy, Sylvester, and Marvin instead, while Jeff Bennett will voice Foghorn and Maurice LaMarche reprising Pepe Le Pew.
Writing[]
The writing team featured Doug Langdale, Mark Banker, Doug Lawrence, Larry Dorf, and Paul Rugg. They want the series to be closer to the original shorts. Some of the writing crew (Doug Langdale, Mark Banker, and Larry Dorf) is also responsible for writing one of The Looney Tunes Show episode titled Casa De Calma. Which explain why the episode was closer to the original shorts and have physical slapsticks. The writing team also added Paul Rugg and Doug Lawrence (aka the voice actor of Plankton) to add some extra humor for LT:AnK to be extremely nonsensical, but still being the trademark sense the humor of the original Looney Tunes.
Episodes[]
See List of Looney Tunes: Alive 'N' Kickin episodes
Trivia[]
- Lola Bunny's design was an combination of the Space Jam (1996) and The Looney Tune Show (2011), they also tries to retain her original personalities
- Tweety and Sylvester's relationship is predicted in the 2022 Direct-to-video film, King Tweety
- The show is based on the unproduced pilot called Looney Tunes: Laff Riot with some few changes
- The characters are now older, like the original shorts
- The characters are now retaining their original color scheme
- the background looks a lot better, and vibrant colors
- The music is chaotic and upbeat
- The episodes is now 7-minutes per segments, and 4 minutes sketch, making it 11-minutes per both episode and sketch
- Just like the pilot, it focuses more on the slapstick comedy, rather than the sitcom based show