The Complete History of Loonatics Unleashed
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- Опубликовано: 1 дек 2023
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Say what you will about this show, but you cant deny Coyote and Runner on the same team is super satisfying to watch.
Yes!
Exactly
Yes
This was what made me oddly amused to learn about and headcanon the relationship of those two lmao.
I feel like I’m one of the few percentage of people who actually likes loonatics unleashed.
You're not alone. I liked it when I was younger and rewatching when I was older, but both of those times were long ago. I'm not sure if I'd retain those same feelings if I rewatched it as the person I am now, but I'm not in a hurry to find out.
Im with you I loved it wish it was on Max I wanna re watch it
you're not the only one here pal.
This show was Awesome and I don't care what anyone says
I have fond memories of this show as well.
I think if brought back, Loonatics Unleashed would work well in being to Superhero shows what Megas XLR is to Mecha
Hopefully, someday they'll try again on making a superhero Looney Tunes show.
how would it be like as a possible reboot??
To me, loonatics unleashed isn’t the worst thing to come out in the franchise. It has some cool ideas and the animation is good and is fairly watchable. But in the end, it’s just a forgettable show.
I agree. At least it wasn't Baby Looney Tunes.
Blame Sander Schwartz.
I actually watched the show in back in September just to see how bad it really was, and I personally didn’t think it was that bad. I mean, I get why people don’t like the show, but I admire WB for having the balls to change things up with Looney Tunes.
I feel like the Loonatics would feel right at home as characters on Deviantart fanart. Not as a TV show. I was a baby when the show started broadcasting. I wonder how it would work if it was rebooted as a DC comic or manga.
reminds me of the numerous alternate universe sonic comic and concepts you'd see there. interesting ideas just not something that seems well thought out or something that the company would really allow to happen officially
Still better than Space Jam 2.
I enjoyed space jam 2
@@georgerobertson7010 So do I.
I never thought Space Jam 2: A New Legacy was a terrible Film.
Almost.
@@Launchpad05 I still had fun with it
Loonatics Unleashed wasn’t as bad as people make it out to be. I remembered I used to love this show when I was a pre-teen. Nowadays, I think this show was harmless. I don’t get why people hated this show that WB was too embarrassed about it since years later they got away with Teen Titans Go.
I have a soft spot for this show. It's not great, but it had some fun ideas. I wish they'd put more of a focus on the characters using Looney antics to foil supervillains. That could have worked.
You got The Mask: The animated series to cut up the slack.
That's pretty much the only way I could get onboard with the Looney Tunes as superheroes. Villain causing trouble? Drop an anvil on him! Bad guy chasing you? Oops, you both walked off a cliff and he looks down. Freakazoid showed that cartoon antics and superheroes can work together.
You know, I wouldn’t mind if this concept was given a other shot
Make an animated movie in the same animation as 'The Bad Guys' and make it SLIGHTLY funnier, and you have an instant hit with audiences of all ages on your hands, I guarantee it
Guys; its not that dark, edgy, or bad. At all. Its a fairly standard, Saturday-morning superhero cartoon.
Seriously; most of you haven't even attempted to watch the show, and are only jumping on the bandwagon because that's the popular thing to do
I haven't seen the show, but I've seen video retrospectives that says as much.
Hahaha, wow. No, seriously, I know time makes things age, but hindsight is 20/20. Loonatics Unleashed is not good. Loonatics Unleashed is the textbook definition of "cash in". It's Warner Brothers trying to ape anime thinking they "know" how it works..... But is the equivalent of work spewed out by one suffering from Dunning-Kruger.
It has nonsensical edgy world building, pretentious attempts to appeal to its "demographics", and no understanding of the material it's trying to match. Sorry to say it but you've been duped son.
Hell, a better and closer equivalent to what they wanted is Tiny Toon Adventures. Tiny Toons had the kind of energy you'd get out of an anime at the time than Loonatics Unleashed.
@@VitalityRichPlus None of what you just typed sounds like it actually came from an original thought, nor does it give ANY indication that you've actually WATCHED the show, as you list off no details that would indicate such.
And as for 'you've been duped'... how? Exactly?? Because I actually like the show? Because nothing about it actually registers as 'edgy' to me?
And not just me, either; there are people who've watched and reviewed the entire show who've more or less come to basically the same conclusion.
'Static Shock' and the 2000s TMNT register more as 'edgy' to me, and even by that metric, even those shows are fairly tame.
Furthermore; in my experience, it really doesn't register as 'aping anime' to me, anymore than literally any other cartoon of the age, especially considering the girth of cartoons that came afterward. Heck; MLP;FiM registers more as 'anime-inspired' to me than Loonatics does.
It honestly feels more like 'Power-Rangers-Inspired' more than 'anime-inspired', even more so than 'Swat Katz'.
And frankly? It really doesn't feel that different in quality from Swat Katz, and that show is definitively way edgier
@@TorridPrime217i always thought it was parody tbh and when u look at it it basically is everything that happens alr happened before but less srs
@Prime217 I agree. Loonatics Unleashed really isn't any more "edgy" than any standard action/adventure kids cartoon from the 90s and early 2000s. At best, it has an "edgy" aesthetic, with the animation style, and the designs of the main characters and some of the original villains, but beyond that, it's fairly tame, aimed at children, and often veers into comedy. And while I would hardly call it an underappreciated gem, it certainly is clunky and very derivative of other shows, it was certainly a much more interesting watch for me than some other more modern adaptations of the Looney Tunes, like the Looney Tunes Show, which I just found drab. Unfortunately, Loonatics is similar to Scrappy Doo, having reached "memetic infamy" and many people either feel pressured to exaggerate its faults or just parrot pop culture osmosis.
I would honestly be terrified to see how Chuck Jones would've reacted if he lived long enough to see this happen.
It's almost as if they conceived this after Jones' passing in 2002, which is kind of gross.
The show was released 3 years later in 2005 so I doubt they waited until Chuck Jones death to broadcast it
Plus, this isn't the 1st time we saw a different variation of the Looney Tunes.
There was Duck Dodgers and Baby Looney Tunes that somewhat came out before and after Chuck Jones' death.
To be fair Chuck isn't the creator of the Looney Tunes he is one of the many directors.
@@icecreamhero2375 Just someone else working on the later Projects
@@thefantasticretroreviewer3941 though Duck dodgers was based on an actual set of Looney Tunes shorts, and actually good. Baby looney tunes... I've always recalled it as that one show that was on whenever someone was at home sick on a school day. i don't know any words to describe it other than it was just there and it happened.
Gotta say, this video is a BIG improvement over your Dark Age of Looney Tunes video, where you made numerous errors (like claiming that the seven arts characters were made by Depathie Freeling, claiming that Gopher It Tom was part of the 1975 Tom and Jerry’s (it was part of the 1980 Tom and Jerry’s) and blaming Depathie Freeling for the idea of the Daffy/Speedy shorts when in reality, the execs at Warner Bros came up with that idea). You did a lot more reaserch in this one and got more stuff right, causing this to be a much better watch. Keep up the good work.
Such an underrated show
It’s crazy to think this existed at some point. Honestly i kind of liked this incarnation it’s basically so bad it’s good it’s so cringey and over the top it goes back to being funny.
This show is my current hyperfixation so thank you for another video about it!
I think that Loonatics Unleashed is underrated and was misunderstood.
I probably think that it totally deserves another chance........same with Space Jam 2: A New Legacy when I think about it, but I'm sure that's going to be a different kind of video he might talk about someday in the Future.
Maybe.
This show needs a Blu-ray release ASAP.
Agreed. Or at least rebooted into a comic or manga.
Honestly, I'm in the camp that didn't mind the first season. Season 2 was what killed it for me. I actually blame the saccharine, safely-played BABY Looney Tunes for the hiatus and current condition of the franchise today. We could have had something to rival the Muppet Babies in quality and nostalgic value, except, just a little more violent to a family-friendly degree, but, no. The furthest we got to absurdity on the show was that they were as articulate as their mainstream adult counterparts. Bottom line, I like Season 1 of Loonatics Unleashed.
The most confusing thing about this whole mess, for me, was Warner Bros did work on shows before and during Loonatics that were superhero shows. There's Batman TAS, Superman, Batman Beyond, Static Shock, Teen Titans, and Justice League/Justice League Unlimited. I can understand Loonatics failing if it was their first attempt at something like this, but how do you fail so bad when your company was making all the great ones I just named?
And it's not even a "oh we wanted a darker tone" issue. A few of those either had a darker tone, or had episodes that were darker than the norm like Static Shock. So how did this fail, considering they already knew what worked by this point?
Wow, I remember watching Loonatics Unleashed on Kids’ WB back around 2006-2007, and I found out that’s it’s a darker Looney Tunes animated series flipping out the wacky cartoon humor, unlike the earlier Looney Tunes animated series and classic cartoons.
I personally don't hate loonatics unleashed, but I do admit it's different. I command the showrunners for trying something with the Beloved Looney Tunes❤ however, its execution was very difficult to say the least.
I actually liked the Loonatics. People are always saying they want change but that's not true most people don't like it if you disrupt the status quo.
Same! Ik it wasn’t good or anything(it was actually pretty mediocre) but it made me laugh and the characters were rlly fun(I hope it gets a reboot or at least another season some day)!
A superhero Looney Tunes show can work, but it has to be like comedy slapstick like the original Looney Tunes and not over the top edge or be super serious. Me and Brother are the minority who enjoy the show as kids, it's one of those things that are a guilty pleasure.
I remember watching this as a Saturday morning cartoon and my dad who grew up with old Looney Tunes walked in and stared at the TV in disbelief and said to me "Is that Bugs Bunny?! What have they done?!" and he was genuinely shocked and sad.
I'm glad you finally got to this show. At least someone won't just complain about why Lexi is a sex symbol when it comes to talking about her character. Because yes while she was very popular at the time. There's no need to get that attracted to the pink bunny. You know who you are. I actually enjoyed Lexi's character because she could be girly and kickbutt at the same time without being annoying.
I didn’t even know people got “attached” to her in that way. Wow!
That's probably _why_ she was popular in _that_ way, the Furries wanted a normal cool and pretty badass girl just like the rest of us.
I’ve never watched it, but I mean it looks…. Alright. Not THAT bad but certainly not the best thing in the world. Either way, Homestar Runner hit the satire square on the head, so whenever I think about Loonatics I can only think of Xeriouxly Forxe.
I watched the entire series to prepare for the review, and I’m surprised how similar it was to other shows at the time. Especially Teen Titans, Samurai Jack, and even Sonic X.
This series is definitely NOT better than the sum of its parts. But I really liked the Road Runner character. He’s voiced by Rob Paulsen, and he’s pretty much Yakko Warner if he started advertising for Micro Machines.
To think they didn' make a comeback In Loony Tunes World Of Mayhem outside of bein' roasted both the Animainacs reboot and even Teen Titans Go! Still even if they *ever* make a comeback they be like TTGO by now or at least that Battletoads reboot. Season 3 could've gotten not just The Warner Siblings but also the Tiny Toons as well.
To be Honest, I kinda like how they portrayed Pepe Le Pew in the Loonatics-Verse. Turning him into a Skunk to a Fully-Fledged Human using Smelly Perfume.
Right!
@@Visk23 Fun Fact: the writers of this show worked on SWAT Kats from Hanna-Barbera. I don't think Loonatics is nearly as good??
I still think the show wasn't that bad.
I think it was misunderstood
Me neither
@@charmianernest1449 I remember seeing various clips of this show on RUclips, as well as seeing them be referenced in the new Animaniacs Revival, and I never thought it wass THAT bad.
They were on to something, but they were on alot of shows form that era...
I don’t think I’ve ever heard of the shell before until now. By the way, sort of speaking of Warner Bros., remember when you said that there was a fake _Wonka_ prequel coming out? Well, it’s actually happening.
Say what you will, but I think this show is a very underrated gem, and love it!
this new show dialogue remender me of the joke of batmite in "batman the brave and the bold" that he used this same type of speech.
Here are my two takes on this show:
1. If it came out today people would absolutely love it. My reasoning for this is that there aren’t many action cartoons anymore and people want more. At the time Loonatics Unleashed was just one of many action cartoons airing.
2. This show is basically Teen Titans Go except in reverse. TTG took an action franchise and turned it into a straight comedy. People hated it and complained about it, but instead of listening to those people the show stayed its course and even made fun of those people. Teen Titans Go is now one of Cartoon Networks/Warner Bros most successful cartoons.
Personally while I do get why a lot of people dislike the show and do agree it has flaws, I also feel like it's one of the most overhated shows in my opinion. Its fine to dislike and criticize it but calling it the worse thing to happen to The Looney Tunes is a bit much when A New Legacy exists, I'd rather watch Loonatics then one of the most soulless film I've seen thats just one big advert
I actually remember really liking this show and didn't really notice the change between seasons but i did like season 2 more dude to having more Loony Tunes characters as villains.
I really don't get the hate for it or Shaggy and Scooby-Doo get a Clue that's a fun show too
I remembered a Newgrounds animated short called “A New Bunny” that featured the prototype design of Ace Bunny. He was coked up and everything.
All I can say about this show is that it was made on the Planet Nudnik.
I had to take a second to realise this wasn't some randomly generated dream from sleep
I actually liked the new take of lunatics. It was unique and a fresh idea. I am glad they went back in and polished their mistakes. (Yikes) but i did have a good time. Even if some episodes were sluggish there was unique takes. From the powers and weapons, to how a looney tune cast could be used in a superhero show. I’ll take this over the looney tunes show finally, bugs as Superman. Plus I’m glad this show got both seasons on dvd. More than I could say for other other WB lineups.
It was ok.
It was diferent enough to not bother me, We put soo much weight in the Looney Tunes brand that making something from his time, I'm not going to hold them againts them.
The idea isn't bad, I think the excecution is what trully give it the infamous reputation
As a GokaiOrange fan, I'm waiting for the day he does a Curious Case video on this. Also from what you said, season 2 sounds like Kung Fu Dino Posse.
Parents at the time probably grew up with Looney Tunes chopped down for Saturday morning TV in the 70s, hence perceiving it as more kid-friendly than it actually was.
New Looney Tunes bashed it in "One Carroter in search of an artist"
This is my favourite Looney Tunes Show.
I just found out about your channel, your content is so good!
Nice video as always
They set this up to fail, and then get shocked when it fails. Such is the assery of Warner Brothers.
I find it ironic given how Back In Action nearly was supposed to start with a Batman parody mocking the idea of an edgy Looney Tunes. Which, in itself was a disastrous project in terms of behind-the-scenes. Just something fascinating how a film that went through hell and back was trying to call out Warner Brothers executives and yet it didn’t work.
As a 90s kid, i thought all these kinds of show were totally cool.
Mighty ducks, loonatics unleashed, uhhh others... All totally radical, tubular and X-cellent
Street Sharks and SWAT Kats! 😼
So whats funny me is all the ingredients were there to be one of my favorite cartoons i actually like the art style BUT then they used loony tunes characters... its like making a big bowl of cereal then instead of milk they use your favorite steak suace it just ruins everything
I'm glad you made a video on this
one of my favorite youtubers Huggbees made a video on it as well and he basically described everything wrong with it in the first episode
I love Huggbees but his Loonatics video was…not my favorite 💀
@@timey_103 Its because of the Lola Bunny jokes isn't it
@@whoasked9500 Not at all actually. I just find the entire video to be obnoxious; it's going through the first episode and making unfunny quips about it a-la Nostalgia Critic/CinemaSins whilst not judging the show on its own merits, plus putting down the people who actually like the show
said this once or twice but
a Looney Tunes superhero cartoon sounds godly in concept
but then the execution...
You know, an action cartoon starring the Looney Tunes CAN work. Look at the previous show starring them, Duck Dodgers.
I'd honestly like it to come back, not as a full show, but as something like a series of shorts for the WB Kids RUclips Channel or something. But it shouldn't take itself seriously at all. Make it a parody of today's Superhero nonsense.
I imagine the catalyst for the plot is that Daffy sees how profitable modern Superhero movies and shows are, and ropes everyone in to reboot the Loonatics, with the only reason the heads at WB even doing so is to get him to shut up because he's been pestering them for like 4 years straight about it.
The show is ultimately fine, but it could have been so much better. Make the Loonatics a bunch of crazed screw ups fighting against some dumbass villains. Give it a Powerpuff Girls or Danny Phantom vibe, it could be great.
The worst part is i feel like the lunatics unleashed show could have actually been good if it had better writing, bit of good world building, & if it was made as something separate from the Loony Toons Brand.
This should be pretty.
Something worth noting - apparently, part of the reason why this exists is because "Looney Tunes Back In Action" flopped at the box office (mainly because it was poorly advertised and released up against stuff like "Elf" and "The Cat in the Hat") and Warner Bros. came to the conclusion that it flopped because people didn't like the Looney Tunes anymore.
They thought this was the solution.
Loonatics Unleashed deserves more love than Ed Edd and Eddy
That's a very specific comment
@@mrpiccionedivino5598 Fun Fact: the writers of this show worked on SWAT Kats from Hanna-Barbera. I don't think Loonatics is nearly as good??
I have a... complicated relationship with this show. I remember seeing episodes of this on TV when I was a kid and ended up liking it enough, though nowhere near as much as other action cartoons that were airing then like Teen Titans or Ben 10.
Then I ended up watching it again years later as a teenager and just absolutely hating it. At that point, I was a bit more well-versed with Looney Tunes stuff, and found out more what the general consensus of this show was at the time, so this just stuck out like a sore thumb in comparison to both what had already come AND what was currently airing then.
Nowadays tho, I kinda love it... ironically, that is. It's just such a weird idea for a Looney Tunes spinoff, and part of me likes that they tried something different with it, even if it wasn't executed very well. Like, it's far from my favorite Looney Tunes series (that would be either The Looney Tunes Show or the 2000s Duck Dodgers cartoon) but it's still kinda enjoyable in that "so bad, it's good" kind of way, kinda like the original Space Jam.
I live in an non english-speaking country. Here Looney tunes characters are very popular, but the name"Looney tunes" itself is unknown. We just call these cartoons "Bugs bunny cartoons", "Tweety and Sylvester", etc.
When Loonatics first aired on TV here, it took me time to understand that those characters where supposed to be looney tunes characters. The series kept the name "Loonatics" but as you might expect in my language this name does not refer to anything known. I've been unable to recognize the bugs bunny, daffy duck and taz loonatics. It's only when I saw vile E coyote that I went "wtf is going is this the actual Coyote from Roadrunner ? Why is he dressed as a super hero ?". I was a kid back then and I didn't saw the first episode of Loonatics, so i've been unable to understand that those characters where supposed to be the super hero descendants of Bugs Bunny and co.
Whatever what people thinks of the show, I do vibe hard with the main cast desing. Even if I only watched commercials and the first half of an episode of season 2 as a kid.
Same thing for Scooby Doo Get a Clue (specifically the Scooby mech... I was a mech fan since I'm a kid)
I like the loonatics unleashed
Best watched with Huggbees video on it
I’m shocked this show even exists
The Huggbees video sucks imo; it's mainly just him making unfunny jokes thru the first episode
@@timey_103 I found them funny tbh
@@mlgodzilla4206Good on you that you liked them 👍
I just found them obnoxious
I always thought it could've been better. This had the Tremblay brothers behind the scenes who created Swat Kats, an all-star voice cast and guest stars (Rob Paulsen as Rev, Kevin Michael Richardson as Tech & Slam, Mark Hamill and Vivica A. Fox guest starred once, and more!), and aired on KidsWB during Saturday mornings. When "gritty", I rarely saw a lot of scenes that would've been considered mature. When "comedic", most jokes and dialogue weren't entertaining. The plot tends to resolve and work itself out really fast without a lot of build-up (I always thought Pinkster's betrayal was out of the blue to give a surprising twist and gave up the chance to develop Danger Duck's character by already forgetting it in the next episode). Although some villains reappeared, none really made an impact with the protagonists in the long run. Bottom line, it wasn't the "worst" series ever but could've been better.
This is one of those examples of media where the main issue is basing it off of an established franchise known for comedy. If they used new characters, it would've had a chance.
I've seen and I was in love with it I give it a 10/10.
Loonatics Unleashed was so bizarre. Giving the Looney Tunes the anime/Batman Beyond treatment was weird.
That was way better than Dragon Ball Evolution.
4:14 and order to pull all that stunt, you *definitely* have to be good
loonatics unleashed rocks
The more things change with WB and Looney Tunes, the more things stay the same, huh?
I understand the hate for Loonatics Unleashed, It's trying to be a dark and edgy show with an anime influence and I completely understand how a fan Looney Tunes would hate it, but in my opinion I really like the show and It's really overhated.
Well I guess that you know that Joe Dante’s Termite Terrence which was his original plans before it ended up being Back in Action and seeing the original design of the Loonatics remind you of the Grapist?
So I have to ask if this show got rebooted what could be changed to make it work.
I didn't think it was THAT awful
I saw it when I was little and forgot about it. Never even saw the second season. The thing is, this show probably couldn’t worked of it wasn’t tied to Loony Tunes.
I think I'm one of the only few people that actually think it's pretty good. It's definitely not as good as something like the Looney Tunes Show or the classic Looney Tunes but it's definitely not as bad as a lot of people make it out to be even if some of the hate is deserved.
11:34 there I am Gary. There I am.
Yep loonatics sure was something and people thought a sitcom was bad even though the looney tunes are flexible.
The creators of Loonatics Unleashed previously created Swat Kats, and I’d always wondered if Loonatics was their way of continuing Swat Kats spiritually. That doesn’t mean it was successful or even a good idea.
I think if it had done that, it would have turned out a lot better and maybe even more successfully.
I did like this show. my favorite is danger duck his quatum quack, power orbs and aqua dense are great powers. daffy duck being my favorite looney tune probably helps.
I remember kind of liking this show.
i didn't get a chance to see the whole series as it aired, but i recall kind of liking what i did see. I'd prefer Classic Looney Toons over this without a doubt.
i think i just liked the art style and design that was a little different from what I knew them for. But i guess an issue for me was, I didn't really remember much of the show after watching it in the Kids WB line up. and i guess i just liked it becasue it was part of the KidsWB line up so I guess i liked some of it by proxy or something. I recall when i tried watching the show a few years after i discovered RUclips around that time and it had gone off the air, I don't think i had the same enjoyment. And it was kind of just eh, or there for me as something that i remember that happend.
i haven't had a chance to go back and see the full series start to finish yet.
but i'm sure there's a few parts in there that are decent that I might enjoy and can find enjoyment from or something.
I think this show is underrated
When a eleven year old, your target audience, says it’s crap
You know your in deep
7:27 Saying that alone makes you smarter than LadyJess
Let’s jet!
I knew that 'Loonatics Unleashed' was A bad idea, and wouldn't work for reinvigorating the 'Looney Tunes' brand. Heck, A better idea would've been A 'Looney tunes' short that parodied the idea of when beloved properties trying to be 'hip, and trendy' to bring in 'modern audiences' all 'Duck Amuck'. (Which was done in 'New Looney Tunes', funny enough.) That idea would've been more on brand than this. Making the point that you don't mess with the classics. Also, The Trembly Brothers' other creation, 'Swat Kats', may have been something that capitalized on whatever was cool, and edgy at the time, but it was A fun, action series that they created entirely by themselves, and wasn't trying to reinvent an established property. And 'Swat Kats' still has A cult following to this day.
It never aired on Cartoon Network & Boomerang in the US, nor in Japan.
The worst think about this show that all of the villains where just minor one-shot villains. The show completly lucked with at least one major villain.
Loonatics Unleashed was corny but it was not horrible like Baby Looney Tunes I actually thought it was kinda cool lol.
The show was ahead of its time that’s all.
It feels like loony tunes meets invader Zim😂 I remember watching a few episodes and I was like HEY THOSE PEOPLE LOOK FAMILIAR, NAW THAT CAN'T BE THEM WELL I BETTER GO DO SOMETHING ELSE 😂😂😂
3:39 I'm guessing they never heard of Slice of Life anime.
I actually enjoyed this show. It may be inferior to the classic cartoons, but it's a fun show with great action.
i think loonatics unleashed is pretty cool.wish they could re-do it. oh don't forget to review The looney Tunes Show.
At least they learned their lessons with Velma
This is a weirdly specific comment, but WHAT is he song used at 4:02? I used to hear it in YTPs all the time a decade and a half ago and I have been looking for it for fucking _ages._
009 Sound System - Dreamscape
I was one of those fans who like enough the first season of Loonatic and then hated it when they shove more looney toones shenanigans.