Monday, March 04, 2002

CHUCK JONES BULLSHIT WATCH: Read the neocon crap here. Via Kloognome. The article blathers the usual blather about Jones creating Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, blah blah blah blah blah. The guy then tries to tie it all together into some ideological anti-political correctness point that only reveals his ignorance on matters animated; furthermore he adds:

The one other thing I would have liked to ask Chuck Jones is what he thought of "The Simpsons." It may be no accident that where once Bugs Bunny rollicked madly through the human condition, today Bart Simpson batters and satirizes the endless pretenses which now encumber that condition. With Bart, we laugh to keep the bile down. With Bugs, we just laughed.

That's true and all if you're talking about the Clampett Bugs or the Tex Avery Bugs but the Jones Bugs didn't rollic madly through anything --he more made fun of Daffy when he tried to rollic madly through the human condition. And this man has obviously never seen an episode of SpongeBob, the closest we have these days to the super-energetic cartoons of the Warners war years.

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