What Do You Think the Next Looney Tunes Iteration Should Be? (2024)

Out of all Looney Tunes TV spin-offs and iterations made since 1989, some of the best has to go to Tiny Toon Adventures, The Looney Tunes Show, Looney Tunes Cartoons and even Wabbit / New Looney Tunes.

Years from now, I am hoping that Warner Bros. has a new iteration of Looney Tunes in development and in production.
I wonder what it is going to be as it can be the first iteration greenlit under the current Warner Bros. Discovery regime.

I could see it going to Cartoon Network primarily as a way to boost viewership and Michael Ouweleen can show full support of the creative team.

What do you think the next iteration should be? What kind of hook should it have? I think it should follow what made story driven formats like The Looney Tunes Show and premise driven formats like NLT and LTC work.

I also think it should improve and take feedback from Tiny Toons Looniversity as most of the plots in my opinion feel too kid-oriented and basic. Whatever gets into the pipeline, it should be both cartoonist driven and script driven. Anything they can do from testing the waters on obscure characters to trying out different pairings and seeing how different dynamics can work.

I would like to see the Looney Tunes characters in a fast-paced sketch comedy series similar to Laff Riot, the show was remade into The Looney Tunes Show. These characters were designed for shorts, and that's where they work best in. Warner Bros. could have the LT characters all living in a single setting a la Jellystone, but I would definitely want the show's focus to be zany comedy rather than 20-minute sitcom style episodes. And I would definitely want a Lola Bunny with a clear-cut personality and one who's actually funny.

Tiny Toons Looniversity can just finish it's run and then be gone. TTL is just "mid" as the kids like to say. There are some things that I like about TTL, but overall, I didn't and still don't think that we need a new Tiny Toons. Let TT and Animaniacs end, already.

I'd like to see something akin to Laff Riot or those Flash animated shorts from 2001 to 2006: quick, fast paced, gag-filled shorts, skits, songs, parodies and filler segments, just with better, more fluid animation and like Looney Tunes Cartoons, they'd be more reminiscent of the 1940's style rather than the tamer 1950's sensibilities. Some of the shorts could have a fixed setting a la Jellystone or Mickey Mouse Works while others could take place in other settings. There could also be a mix of animation styles (ex: Daffy in Wackyland).

I know some people liked The Looney Tunes Show and would like more story oriented stuff like that or Tiny Toons Looniversity, and good on them, but I'm not one of those people. These characters were created for shorts and that's where they do best in my opinion.

I would present these cartoons the way that WB had originally planned to do Looney Tunes Cartoons: rather than dumping them all on Max, I'd have a half-hour TV series set up for some of them, some would premiere on Max and others would air in theaters in front of movies. Also I wouldn't be afraid to mix things up; show pairings we haven't seen before, like Bugs and Porky or Daffy and Sam or Foghorn and Taz. Play around with it, have fun.

Who knows? Maybe they could even go through with that Mixed Nuts idea that Tom Ruegger pitched years ago, which would have seen the Tunes appearing alongside Hanna-Barbera characters.

I don’t love Looney Tunes Cartoons, but that’s the direction I’d like to see with the characters from here, letting them do their own thing for the most part instead of being a “Bugs and Friends” series ala The Looney Tunes Show, Wabbit and Bugs Bunny Builders.

I wouldn’t even mind another series that sidelines Bugs and does something new with other characters like Duck Dodgers, Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries or Taz-Mania, but those were made when the characters had more cultural cachet. The franchise is in a better place now than it was in the latter half of the aughts, but I’m not sure if the Looney Tunes will ever go back to their previous cultural ubiquity with younger generations.

Silverstar said:

I would present these cartoons the way that WB had originally planned to do Looney Tunes Cartoons: rather than dumping them all on Max, I'd have a half-hour TV series set up for some of them, some would premiere on Max and others would air in theaters in front of movies.

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I really feel like it was unfortunate that the plan to release some of the LTC in theaters never fell through. Now, some definitely would have worked FAR better than other’s (some like Tub-O-War actually don’t look too far off from those 2000s online Webtoons) but it would have been neat to see them do it again (The only ones that I know of that were going to be released in front of movies nationwide are Curse of the Monkeybird in front of Scoob!, Basket Bugs in front of Space Jam: A New Legacy (ironic as the point of Basket Bugs was to make fun of Space Jam), and Sick as a Hare in front of DC League of Super-Pets incidentally)

Overall, I really feel like it was a shame that Looney Tunes Cartoons didn’t take off like it should have (mainly due to HBO MAX’s awful release schedule). Despite some of it’s problems, it’s finest outings are truly fantastic.