Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies (1954-mid 1962)

Looney Tunes and (its spin-off Merrie Melodies) is an American animated short film theatrical series by Warner Brothers that ran from 1930 until 1969.

This era starts, after the studio reopened after a brief closure due to the rise of 3D animation is considered to be a era of rather formulaic outings for everyone but Chuck Jones, who released some of the greatest masterpieces of his career during this era. Robert McKimson's shorts, however, starts to see a notable downgrade in animation quality starting at "The Hole Idea".

While most of the Looney Tunes shorts from the classic era have been well received, the shorts of 1954-mid 1962 era, while not entirely powerful as late 1941-1953 era, received mostly positive reviews.

This article will be talking about the shorts from "Dog Pounded" up to "Mother Was A Rooster" with the exceptions of the re-released 2D version of "Lumber Jack-Rabbit" and the infamous "The Jet Cage".

To see the release dates of those shorts, go to "Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies filmography" from the Looney Tunes Wiki on Fandom.

1954

 * "Dog Pounded" (Freleng; with Tweety, Sylvester, Hector The Bulldog, and Pepé Le Pew; first Looney Tunes short in this era; first Looney Tunes short using new-styled "bullet" sequences)
 * "Captain Hareblower" (Freleng; with Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam; first Merrie Melodies short in this era; first Merrie Melodies short using new-styled "bullet" sequences)
 * "I Gopher You" (Freleng; with The Goofy Gophers)
 * "Feline Frame-Up" (Jones; with Marc Anthony and Pussyfoot, Claude Cat)
 * "Wild Wife" (McKimson; one-off)
 * "No Barking" (Jones; with Claude Cat and Frisky Puppy with both cameo appearances of Marc Anthony and Tweety)
 * "Bugs and Thugs" (Freleng; with Bugs Bunny, Rocky and his parther, Mugsy; also his first appearance)
 * "The Cats Bah" (Jones; with Pepé Le Pew and Penelope Pussycat)
 * "Design for Leaving" (McKimson; with Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd)
 * "Bell Hoppy" (McKimson; with Sylvester and Hippety Hopper)
 * "No Parking Hare" (McKimson; with Bugs Bunny)
 * "Dr. Jerkyl's Hide" (Freleng; with Sylvester, Spike and Chester; final appearance of Spike and Chester in the Golden Age of American Animation)
 * "Claws for Alarm" (Jones; with Porky Pig and Sylvester)
 * "Little Boy Boo" (McKimson; with Foghorn Leghorn, Miss Prissy and Egghead Jr.; also his first appearance)
 * "Devil May Hare" (McKimson; with Bugs Bunny, Tasmanian Devil and Tasmanian She-Devil; also their first appearances)
 * "Muzzle Tough" (Freleng; with Tweety, Sylvester, Granny, and Hector the Bulldog)
 * "The Oily American" (McKimson; one-off)
 * "Bewitched Bunny" (Jones; with Bugs Bunny, Witch Hazel; also her first appearance)
 * "Satan's Waitin'" (Freleng; with Sylvester, Tweety and Mugsy)
 * "Stop! Look! And Hasten!" (Jones; with Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote)
 * "Yankee Doodle Bugs" (Freleng; with Bugs Bunny)
 * "Gone Batty" (McKimson; with Boho the Elephant)
 * "Goo Goo Goliath" (Freleng; with The Drurk Stonk)
 * "By Word of Mouse" (Freleng; with Sylvester; first short to use the 1954-56 pink color rings)
 * "From A to Z-Z-Z-Z" (Jones; with Ralph Phillips; also his first appearance) Academy Award nominee.
 * "Quack Shot" (McKimson; with Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd)
 * "My Little Duckaroo" (Jones; with Daffy Duck, Porky Pig and Nasty Canasta)
 * "Sheep Ahoy" (Jones; with Ralph Sheepdog and Sam Wolf)
 * "Baby Buggy Bunny" (Jones; with Bugs Bunny)

1955

 * "Pizzicato Pussycat" (Freleng; one-off)
 * "Feather Dusted" (McKimson; with Foghorn Leghorn, Miss Prissy and Egghead Jr.; final cartoon to use the original "bullet" sequence for the ending titles)
 * "Pests for Guests" (Freleng; with Elmer Fudd and The Goofy Gophers)
 * "Beanstalk Bunny" (Freleng; with Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd)
 * "All Fowled Up" (McKimson; with Foghorn Leghorn, Barnyard Dawg, and Henery Hawk; final cartoon to have Bob Clampett's famous vocalized "Bay-woop!" sound effect)
 * "Stork Naked" (Freleng; with Daffy Duck and The Drunk Stork)
 * "Lighthouse Mouse" (McKimson; with Sylvester and Hippety Hopper; last short Robert McKimson directed with his old unit)
 * "Sahara Hare" (Freleng; with Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam; first Looney Tunes short to use Milt Franklyn's version of "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down")
 * "Sandy Claws" (Freleng; with Sylvester, Tweety and Granny) Academy Award nominee.
 * "The Hole Idea" (McKimson; one-off; first short Robert McKimson directed with his new unit)
 * "Ready.. Set.. Zoom!" (Jones; with Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner)
 * "Hare Brush" (Freleng; with Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd)
 * "Past Perfumance" (Jones; with Pepé Le Pew and Penelope Pussycat)
 * "Tweety's Circus" (Freleng; with Sylvester and Tweety)
 * "Rabbit Rampage" (Jones; with Bugs Bunny, with cameo appearance of Elmer Fudd)
 * "Lumber Jerks" (Freleng; with The Goofy Gophers; last Looney Tunes cartoon to bear the "1946-55" ending theme)
 * "This Is a Life?" (Freleng; with Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Granny and Yosemite Sam; a clip-short)
 * "Double or Mutton" (Jones; with Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog)
 * "Jumpin' Jupiter" (Jones; with Sylvester and Porky Pig; final pairing of Sylvester & Porky)
 * "A Kiddies Kitty" (Freleng; with Sylvester and Hector the Bulldog)
 * "Hyde and Hare" (Freleng; with Bugs Bunny)
 * "Dime to Retire" (McKimson; with Porky Pig and Daffy Duck)
 * "Speedy Gonzales" (Freleng; with Sylvester and Speedy; also his first appearance of his redesign) Academy Award winner.
 * "Knight-Mare Hare" (Jones; with Bugs Bunny)
 * "Two Scent's Worth" (Jones; with Pepé Le Pew and Penelope Pussycat)
 * "Red Riding Hoodwinked" (Freleng; with Sylvester, Tweety, Granny, Little Red Riding Hood and Big Bad Wolf; final appearance of Little Red Riding Hood in the Golden Age of American Animation)
 * "Roman Legion-Hare" (Freleng; with Yosemite Sam and Bugs Bunny)
 * "Heir-Conditioned" (Freleng; with Sylvester and Elmer Fudd)
 * "Guided Muscle" (Jones; with Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner)
 * "Pappy's Puppy" (Freleng; with Sylvester, The Drunk Stork, and Hector the Bulldog)
 * "One Froggy Evening" (Jones; with Michigan J. Frog)

1956

 * "Bugs' Bonnets" (Jones; with Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd)
 * "Too Hop to Handle" (McKimson; with Sylvester, Sylvester Jr., Hippety Hopper, and Hector the Bulldog)
 * "Weasel Stop" (McKimson; with Foghorn Leghorn and The Weasel)
 * "The High and the Flighty" (McKimson; with Daffy Duck, Foghorn Leghorn, and Barnyard Dawg)
 * "Broom-Stick Bunny" (Jones; with Bugs Bunny and Witch Hazel)
 * "Rocket Squad" (Jones; with Porky Pig and Daffy Duck)
 * "Tweet and Sour" (Freleng; with Granny, Tweety, Sylvester, and Sam Cat)
 * "Heaven Scent" (Jones; with Pepé Le Pew and Penelope Pussycat)
 * "Mixed Master" (McKimson; one-off)
 * "Rabbitson Crusoe" (Freleng; with Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam)
 * "Gee Whiz-z-z-z-z-z-z" (Jones; with Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner)
 * "Tree Cornered Tweety" (Freleng; with Sylvester and Tweety)
 * "The Unexpected Pest" (McKimson; with Sylvester and John & Marsha)
 * "Napoleon Bunny-Part" (Freleng; with Bugs Bunny and Mugsy)
 * "Tugboat Granny" (Freleng; with Granny, Sylvester, and Tweety)
 * "Stupor Duck" (McKimson; with Daffy Duck)
 * "Barbary-Coast Bunny" (Jones; with Bugs Bunny and Nasty Canasta)
 * "Rocket-bye Baby" (Jones; one-off)
 * "Half-Fare Hare" (McKimson; with Bugs Bunny)
 * "Raw! Raw! Rooster!" (McKimson; with Foghorn Leghorn; final cartoon to have green color rings (1955-1956))
 * "The Slap-Hoppy Mouse" (McKimson; with Sylvester, Sylvester Jr., and Hippety Hopper; first short to feature the 1956-1957 orange Color Rings with green background at the beginning, even though it still uses the 1955-1956 green rings with a red background at the end)
 * "A Star Is Bored" (Freleng; with Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, and Yosemite Sam)
 * "Deduce, You Say" (Jones; with Porky Pig and Daffy Duck)
 * "Yankee Dood It" (Freleng; with Sylvester and Elmer Fudd)
 * "Wideo Wabbit" (McKimson; with Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd)
 * "There They Go-Go-Go!" (Jones; with Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner)
 * "Two Crows from Tacos" (Freleng; with Jose and Manuel; also their first appearances; first short to change the "Color by Technicolor" byline on the opening titles to simply "Technicolor")
 * "The Honey-Mousers" (McKimson; with Sam Cat, Ralph and Alice Crumden and Ned Morton; also their first appearances of Ralph, Alice, and Ned; first of the McKimson's version of The Honeymooners trilogy)
 * "To Hare Is Human" (Jones; with Wile E. Coyote and Bugs Bunny)

1957

 * "Three Little Bops" (Freleng; with Three Little Pigs and The Big Bad Wolf; scored by Shorty Rogers; final appearance of Three Little Pigs in the Golden Age In American Animation)
 * "Tweet Zoo" (Freleng; with Sylvester and Tweety)
 * "Scrambled Aches" (Jones; with Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner)
 * "Ali Baba Bunny" (Jones; with Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck)
 * "Go Fly a Kit" (Jones; one-off)
 * "Bedevilled Rabbit" (McKimson; with Bugs Bunny, Tasmanian Devil and Tasmanian She-Devil)
 * "Boyhood Daze" (Jones; with Ralph Phillips)
 * "Cheese It, the Cat!" (McKimson; with Sam Cat, Ralph and Alice Crumden and Ned Morton; second of the McKimson's version of The Honeymooners trilogy)
 * "Fox-Terror" (McKimson; with Foghorn Leghorn and Barnyard Dawg)
 * "Tweety and the Beanstalk" (Freleng; with Sylvester, Tweety and Hector)
 * "Piker's Peak" (Freleng; with Yosemite Sam and Bugs Bunny)
 * "Steal Wool" (Jones; with Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog)
 * "Boston Quackie" (McKimson; with Porky Pig and Daffy Duck)
 * "What's Opera, Doc?" (Jones; with Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd; final appearance of Elmer Fudd in Chuck Jones shorts)
 * "Tabasco Road" (McKimson; with Speedy and Sylvester) Academy Award nominee.
 * "Birds Anonymous" (Freleng; with Sylvester and Tweety) Academy Award winner.
 * "Ducking the Devil" (McKimson; with Daffy Duck and Tasmanian Devil)
 * "Bugsy and Mugsy" (Freleng; with Bugs Bunny, Rocky and Mugsy)
 * "Zoom and Bored" (Jones; with Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner)
 * "Greedy for Tweety" (Freleng; with Sylvester, Tweety, Hector and Granny; final short used Red-Yellow Rings, Green Background)
 * "Touché and Go" (Jones; with Pepé Le Pew and Penelope Pussycat; first short used Blue Rings, Red Background)
 * "Show Biz Bugs" (Freleng; with Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck)
 * "Mouse-Taken Identity" (McKimson; with Sylvester, Sylvester Jr and Hippety Hopper)
 * "Gonzales' Tamales" (Freleng; with Speedy and Sylvester)
 * "Rabbit Romeo" (McKimson; with Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd)

1958

 * "Don't Axe Me" (McKimson; with Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd and his wife, Mrs. Elmer Fudd, and Barnyard Dawg; final appearance of famous "screwball" characterization of Daffy Duck in Golden Age in American Animation)
 * "Tortilla Flaps" (McKimson; with Speedy and Señor Vulturo; also his first appearance)
 * "Hare-Less Wolf" (Freleng; with Bugs Bunny)
 * "A Pizza Tweety-Pie" (Freleng; with Sylvester, Tweety, and Granny)
 * "Robin Hood Daffy" (Jones; with Porky Pig and Daffy Duck)
 * "Hare-Way to the Stars" (Jones; with Bugs Bunny and Marvin the Martian)
 * "Whoa, Be-Gone!" (Jones; with Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner)
 * "A Waggily Tale" (Freleng; one-off)
 * "Feather Bluster" (McKimson; with Foghorn Leghorn and Barnyard Dawg)
 * "Now, Hare This" (McKimson; with Bugs Bunny and The Big Bad Wolf)
 * "To Itch His Own" (Jones; with Mighty Angelo; final short that was scored by Carl W. Stalling)
 * "Dog Tales" (McKimson; with Charlie Dog; final appearance of Charlie Dog in Golden Age of American Animation)
 * "Knighty Knight Bugs" (Freleng; with Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam; final short that was scored by Milt Franklyn due to musicians' strike)
 * "Weasel While You Work" (McKimson; with Foghorn Leghorn, Barnyard Dawg and The Weasel; first short that was scored by John Seely)
 * "A Bird in a Bonnet" (Freleng; with Sylvester, Tweety, and Granny; scored by John Seely)
 * "Hook, Line and Stinker" (Jones; with Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote; scored by John Seely)
 * "Pre-Hysterical Hare" (McKimson; with Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd; scored by John Seely)
 * "Gopher Broke" (McKimson; with The Goofy Gophers and Barnyard Dawg; scored by John Seely)
 * "Hip Hip- Hurry!" (Jones; Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote; final short that was scored by John Seely)
 * "Cat Feud" (Jones; with Claude Cat, Hector the Bulldog and Pussyfoot; final appearance of Pussyfoot in Golden Age in American Animation)

1959

 * "Baton Bunny" (Jones/Levitow; with Bugs Bunny)
 * "Mouse-Placed Kitten" (McKimson; one-off)
 * "China Jones" (McKimson; with Daffy Duck and Porky Pig)
 * "Hare-abian Nights" (Harris; with Bugs Bunny, Yosemite Sam, and Gossamer; final appearance of Gossamer in the Golden Age In American Animation)
 * "Trick or Tweet" (Freleng; with Sylvester, Tweety and Sam Cat)
 * "The Mouse That Jack Built" (McKimson; one-off with live-action appearance of Jack Benny)
 * "Apes of Wrath" (Freleng; with Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, The Drunk Stork and Elvis Gorilla; final appearance of The Drunk Stork and Elvis Gorilla in the Golden Age In American Animation)
 * "Hot-Rod and Reel!" (Jones; with Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner)
 * "A Mutt in a Rut" (McKimson; with Elmer Fudd)
 * "Backwoods Bunny" (McKimson; with Bugs Bunny, Pappy and Elvis; also their first appearance)
 * "Really Scent" (Levitow; with Pepé Le Pew and Penelope Pussycat (named Fabrette))
 * "Mexicali Shmoes" (Freleng; with Speedy and Jose and Manual (as cats)) Academy Award nominee.
 * "Tweet and Lovely" (Freleng; with Tweety, Sylvester and Hector (named Spike))
 * "Wild and Woolly Hare" (Freleng; with Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam)
 * "Cat's Paw" (McKimson; Sylvester and Sylvester Jr.)
 * "Here Today, Gone Tamale" (Freleng; with Sylvester and Speedy; final cartoon to have Blue Rings and first cartoon to have Crimson Rings)
 * "Bonanza Bunny" (McKimson; with Bugs Bunny and Blacque Jacque Shellacque; also his first appearance)
 * "A Broken Leghorn" (McKimson; with Foghorn Leghorn and Miss Prissy)
 * "Wild About Hurry" (Jones; with Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner)
 * "A Witch's Tangled Hare" (Levitow; with Bugs Bunny and Witch Hazel)
 * "Unnatural History" (Levitow; one-off)
 * "Tweet Dreams" (Freleng; with Sylvester, Sylvester Jr., Granny and Tweety)
 * "People Are Bunny" (McKimson; with Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck)

1960

 * "Fastest with the Mostest" (Jones; with Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner)
 * "West of the Pesos" (McKimson; with Speedy and Sylvester)
 * "Horse Hare" (Freleng; with Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam)
 * "Wild Wild World" (McKimson; one-off)
 * "Goldimouse and the Three Cats" (Freleng; with Sylvester, Mrs. Cat and Sylvester Jr.; final appearances of Mrs. Cat in the Golden Age of American Animation)
 * "Person to Bunny" (Freleng; with Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd)
 * "Who Scent You?" (Jones; with Pepé Le Pew and Penelope Pussycat)
 * "Hyde and Go Tweet" (Freleng; with Sylvester and Tweety)
 * "Rabbit's Feat" (Jones; with Wile E. Coyote and Bugs Bunny)
 * "Crockett-Doodle-Do" (McKimson; with Foghorn Leghorn and Egghead Jr.; final appearance of Egghead Jr. in the Golden Age of American Animation)
 * "Mouse and Garden" (Freleng; with Sylvester and Sam Cat) Academy Award nominee.
 * "Ready, Woolen and Able" (Jones; with Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog)
 * "Mice Follies" (McKimson; with Ralph Crumden, Alice Crumden and Ned Morton; final appearances of Ralph, Alice and Ned of the Golden Age In American Animation; final of the McKimson's version of The Honeymooners trilogy)
 * "From Hare to Heir" (Freleng; with Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck)
 * "The Dixie Fryer" (McKimson; with Foghorn Leghorn, Pappy and Elvis; final appearances of Pappy and Elvis in the Golden Age of American Animation)
 * "Hopalong Casualty" (Jones; with Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner)
 * "Trip for Tat" (Freleng; with Sylvester, Tweety and Granny)
 * "Dog Gone People" (McKimson; with Elmer Fudd)
 * "High Note" (Jones; one-off) Academy Award nominee.
 * "Lighter Than Hare" (Freleng; with Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam)

1961

 * "Cannery Woe" (McKimson; with Speedy, Sylvester, Jose and Manuel (as mice))
 * "Zip 'n Snort" (Jones; with Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner)
 * "Hoppy Daze" (McKimson; with Sylvester and Hippety Hopper)
 * "The Mouse on 57th Street" (Jones; one-off)
 * "Strangled Eggs" (McKimson; with Foghorn Leghorn, Miss Prissy, Henery Hawk; final appearances of Miss Prissy and Henery Hawk in the Golden Age of American Animation)
 * "Birds of a Father" (McKimson; with Sylvester and Sylvester Jr.)
 * "D' Fightin' Ones" (Freleng; with Sylvester and Hector)
 * "The Abominable Snow Rabbit" (Jones/Noble; with Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck)
 * "Lickety-Splat" (Jones/Levitow; with Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner)
 * "A Scent of the Matterhorn" (Jones; with Pepé Le Pew and Penelope Pussycat)
 * "The Rebel Without Claws" (Freleng; with Sylvester and Tweety)
 * "Compressed Hare" (Jones/Noble; with Wile E. Coyote and Bugs Bunny)
 * "The Pied Piper of Guadalupe" (Freleng/Pratt; with Speedy, Sylvester and Hector; first Looney Tunes short to be written by John W. Dunn) Academy Award nominee.
 * "Prince Violent" (Freleng/Pratt; with Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam)
 * "Daffy's Inn Trouble" (McKimson; with Porky Pig and Daffy Duck; final pairing in this era)
 * "What's My Lion?" (McKimson; with Elmer Fudd)
 * "Beep Prepared" (Jones/Noble; with Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner; first Merrie Melodies short to be written by John W. Dunn) Academy Award nominee.
 * "The Last Hungry Cat" (Freleng/Pratt; with Sylvester and Tweety)
 * "Nelly's Folly" (Jones/Noble/Levitow; one-off) Academy Award nominee.

1962

 * "Wet Hare" (McKimson; with Bugs Bunny and Blacque Jacque Shellacque; final appearance of Blacque Jacque Shellacque in the Golden Age of American Animation)
 * "A Sheep in the Deep" (Jones/Noble; with Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog)
 * "Fish and Slips" (McKimson; with Sylvester and Sylvester Jr.)
 * "Quackodie Tears" (Davis; with Daffy Duck; final Daffy Duck short of this era; final short that was directed by Art Davis)
 * "Crows' Feat" (Freleng/Pratt; with Jose and Manuel and Elmer Fudd; final appearance of Elmer Fudd in the Golden Age of American Animation)
 * "Mexican Boarders" (Freleng/Pratt; with Speedy, Slowpoke and Sylvester)
 * "Adventures of the Road-Runner" (Jones/Noble/Ray; with Wile E. Coyote, Road Runner and Ralph Phillips; TV special)
 * "Bill of Hare" (McKimson; with Bugs Bunny and Tasmanian Devil)
 * "Zoom at the Top" (Jones/Noble; with Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner)
 * "The Slick Chick" (McKimson; with Foghorn Leghorn; first and only Foghorn Leghorn solo short)
 * "Louvre Come Back To Me!" (Jones/Noble; with Pepé Le Pew, Penelope Pussycat (named Felice) and Claude Cat (named Pierre); final appearances of all three in the Golden Age of American Animation; last Looney Tunes short in this era)
 * "Honey Money" (Freleng; with Yosemite Sam)
 * "Mother Was A Rooster" (McKimson; with Foghorn Leghorn and Barnyard Dawg; final Merrie Melodies short in this era; final short that was fully scored by Milt Franklyn before he was replaced by William "Bill" Lava)

Why This Is The Looney Tunes We Still All Know And Love

 * 1) The stories in the cartoons directed by Chuck Jones improved greatly in this era.
 * 2) This era is most notable for introducing June Foray as the new voice of Witch Hazel, Granny, and other female characters (replacing Bea Benadaret).
 * 3) Speedy Gonzales and Sam Cat was redesigned to their more familiar looks in this era.
 * 4) * Also, Taz returns in this era two years later (thanks to Jack Warner convincing Eddie Selzer to bring the character back in response to fanmail).
 * 5) Mel Blanc and Bea Benadaret (who was replaced after 1954) still did a good job providing the voices, as usual.
 * 6) It gave us what is often considered the greatest cartoon ever (in this era), "What's Opera, Doc?".
 * 7) New characters were introduced such as:
 * 8) * Witch Hazel
 * 9) * Ralph Phillips
 * 10) * Egghead Jr.
 * 11) * Speedy Gonzales
 * 12) * Tazmanian Devil (Taz)
 * 13) * Michigan J. Frog
 * 14) * Jose and Manuel
 * 15) * Ralph Crumden
 * 16) * Alice Crumden
 * 17) * Ned Morton
 * 18) * Mighty Angelo
 * 19) Milt Franklyn was a good successor to Carl Stalling as the music composer. Unfortunately, he died during the production of "The Jet Cage" and William Lava took his place.
 * 20) * Heck, even his 1955 compositions of the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies opening and the closing theme music was top-notch as well!
 * 21) Many of the characters still remain in this era, such as:
 * 22) * Bugs Bunny
 * 23) * Daffy Duck
 * 24) * Porky Pig
 * 25) * Sylvester
 * 26) * Tweety
 * 27) * Hector the Bulldog
 * 28) * Wile E. Coyote
 * 29) * Road Runner
 * 30) * Elmer Fudd
 * 31) * Foghorn Leghorn
 * 32) * Barnyard Dawg
 * 33) * Sylvester Jr.
 * 34) * Hippety Hopper
 * 35) * Granny
 * 36) * The Goofy Gophers
 * 37) * Sam Cat (who returned in 1956 after a long absence from 1951-55)
 * 38) * Yosemite Sam, etc.
 * 39) Story writers, such as Warren Foster and Michael Maltese, continued to write for Looney Tunes until their departure for Hanna-Barbera in 1960 to work on The Flintstones.
 * 40) Some memorable gems (especially from Chuck Jones), such as:
 * 41) * "Captain Hareblower"
 * 42) * "Broom-Stick Bunny"
 * 43) * "Devil May Hare"
 * 44) * "Wild Wife"
 * 45) * "Baton Bunny"
 * 46) * "Speedy Gonzales"
 * 47) * "Bugs and Thugs"
 * 48) * "No Parking Hare"
 * 49) * "Wideo Wabbit"
 * 50) * "The Hole Idea"
 * 51) * "Jumpin' Jupiter"
 * 52) * "Rabbit Rampage"
 * 53) * "Cat Feud"
 * 54) * "From A to Z-Z-Z-Z"
 * 55) * "Raw! Raw! Rooster"
 * 56) * "Little Boy Boo"
 * 57) * "Pizzicato Pussycat"
 * 58) * "Birds Anonymous"
 * 59) * "Show Biz Bugs"
 * 60) * "A Star is Bored"
 * 61) * "The Abominable Snow Rabbit"
 * 62) * "A Witch's Tangled Hare"
 * 63) * "The Mouse That Jack Built"
 * 64) * "Ali Baba Bunny"
 * 65) * "Apes of Wrath"
 * 66) * "A Mutt in a Rut"
 * 67) * "The High and the Flighty"
 * 68) * "Beep Prepared"
 * 69) * "Really Scent"
 * 70) * "Horse Hare" (despite having Native American stereotypes)
 * 71) * "Wild and Woolly Hare"
 * 72) * "Goldimouse and the Three Cats"
 * 73) * "High Note"
 * 74) * "Nelly's Folly"
 * 75) * "Three Little Bops"
 * 76) * "One Froggy Evening"
 * 77) * McKimson's version of The Honeymooners trilogy
 * 78) * “Tweet and Sour”
 * 79) At the beginning of the era, the backgrounds are still minimalist and abstract (at least in shorts directed by Jones).

Bad Qualities

 * 1) With the exception of Chuck Jones and Friz Freleng, the animation in the McKimson shorts suffered a downgrade in quality (due to departure of animators Rod Scribner and Manny Gould) as he's trying to bring his job back.
 * 2) * It wouldn't help as he discovered every member of his previous team, apart from Tedd Pierce and background painter Dick Thomas, refused to work with him again, including his own brother Charles McKimson.
 * 3) ** While it's nice to see that he assembled new team of artists, including layout man/background painter Robert Gribbroek and animators (such as Warren Batchelder, Ted Bonnicksen, George Grandpré, Tom Ray (through he moved to Jones' unit in late 1960), Russ Dyson, and Keith Darling), it wasn't as powerful compared to his old unit.
 * 4) Towards the end of the era, the studio resorted to stock music tracks (much like what Hanna-Barbera would do in their start of early television animation.)
 * 5) There's still some bad and mediocre shorts, such as:
 * 6) * "Pre-Hysterical Hare"
 * 7) * "My Little Duckaroo"
 * 8) * "Yankee Dood It"
 * 9) * "Mixed Master"
 * 10) * "Knight-Mare Hare"
 * 11) * "Gonzales' Tamales" (which cause Cartoon Network America to keep Speedy Gonzales cartoons out of rotation in the United States starting in 1999)
 * 12) * "Tweet Dreams"
 * 13) * "Trip for Tat"
 * 14) * "China Jones"
 * 15) * "Dog Gone People"
 * 16) Out of all color rings cartoons in this era, the 1959-mid-1962 crimson Color Rings cartoons (while not terrible), are considered the weakest.
 * 17) The series would sadly go downhill again in late 1962 upon William Lava joining the crew following Milt Franklyn's tragic death from a heart attack while composing the score for "The Jet Cage".
 * 18) Some shorts, while not as offensive as the previous era, still have some mildly racist stereotypes such as Chinese people (with China Jones as the worst offender)

Trivia

 * In 1955, the TV distribution rights to all of the black-and-white Looney Tunes shorts and all of the black-and-white Merrie Melodies not produced by Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising are sold to Guild Films. The copyrights to the cartoons in the package are assigned to Sunset Productions, a division of Warner Bros.
 * Likewise, in 1956, Warner Bros. would later sell the TV distribution rights for the pre-1948 color Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies (including the latter series' Harman-Ising cartoons) to Associated Artists Productions (a.a.p). The package consisted of the cartoons from "Smile Darn Ya Smile!" (1931) up to "Haredevil Hare" (1948).
 * Starting from "Bonanza Bunny" up to the studio's closure, all cartoons feature infamous crimson Color Rings, with the exceptions of "Now Hear This", "Bartholomew Versus the Wheel", and "Señorella and the Glass Huarache".
 * In 1960, Mel Blanc's exclusive contract with Warner Bros. expires, and Blanc becomes even busier with voice work, as not only does he work on Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts, but he and Bea Benaderet also meet Alan Reed and Jean Vander Pyl to work on an animated sitcom created by William Hanna, and Joseph Barbera, called The Flintstones, where Blanc voices Barney Rubble, and Benederet voices Bernry's wife Betty.
 * The Bugs Bunny Show debuts in primetime on ABC on October 11, 1960.
 * Friz Freleng's fellow business partner, David H. DePatie starts his long-time executive producer career in 1961.
 * Most of the cartoons in this era have been restored for DVD releases, even before the launch of the HBO Max streaming service.
 * As of currently, "Horse Hare", "The Oily American" are the only shorts from this era that has yet to be restored.

Episodes With Their Own Pages

 * One Froggy Evening
 * Three Little Bops
 * Ali Baba Bunny
 * Whats Opera, Doc?
 * Birds Anonymous

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