“I'm not here to put words in other people's mouths or anything, but as someone who worked for 2 years with these characters, I personally did not care or miss Elmer's rifle. NOBODY wanted to touch guns working in media. Right on the heels of a record number of mass shootings, particularly the horrific one in Las Vegas. “Also, think about context about what's going on in the world, and how long ago our show started production. cartoon pantheon (second only to Bugs himself).
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Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies series and the archenemy of Bugs Bunny.He has one of the more disputed origins in the Warner Bros. It was never about the gun, it was about Elmer's flawed, challenged masculinity. Fudd is an animated cartoon character in the Warner Bros.
And the best were already done by the old guys. Taking to Twitter, Michael Ruocco, who's worked on shows like Bojack Horseman, let fly: “Do you guys SERIOUSLY care whether or not Elmer Fudd has a gun in our shorts? You know how many gags we can do with guns? Fairly few. Because of the cartoons racial stereotypes of African-Americans, United Artists decided to withhold it from television syndication in the United States beginning in 1968. The cartoon was released on September 13, 1941, and features Bugs Bunny. Read more: Daniel Radcliffe apologises for JK Rowling trans comments All This and Rabbit Stew is a 1941 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Tex Avery. The newly-rebooted Looney Tunes cartoons, showing on HBO Max in the US, have seen the firearms removed from both Fudd and incensed prospector Yosemite Sam.Īnd while some have leapt to the defence of the animated character's second amendment rights, at least one writer on the show is having absolutely none of it. Elmer Fudd is no longer hunting “wabbits” while tooled up with a double-barrelled shotgun.