Watch a Looney Tunes cartoon with Bugs and Daffy as drug addicts (1975)

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Kudos for using Curtis Mayfield.

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“I’m yo mamma, I’m yo daddy, I’m that pusher in the alley…”

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I wonder if Chuck Jones didn’t like it simply because it sucks.

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I’m as far from being conservative as one could get… and I agree with Chuck Jones.

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Peck led an interesting life.

I noticed Peter Riegert and Caren Kaye in the credits. She kickstarted my puberty.

Evidently Chuck Jones also hated Space Jam, so he was in good company.

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The animation is pretty damn awful.

As an artist, I’d have been embarrassed a/f to show that to someone as iconic as Jones.

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Perhaps he showed it to Avery first then – emboldened by his approval – went to Jones. Avery’s style of animation included wild, amped-up visuals and situations

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which may have made him more sympathetic to Peck’s cartoon.

But Jones’… well…
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Methinks you are far too kind in your speculations.

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The core of classic cartoons. :wink:

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Seems pretty in keeping with Heavy Traffic:

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I was felling that Ralph Bakshi vibe too.

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