LOONEY FACTS ABOUT LOONEY TUNES

BUGS BUNNY IS A KNOWN TRAVELLER WHO

MOST OFTEN TAKES THE WRONG TURN;

THIS IS WHY YOU’VE SEEN HIM IN PLACES

LIKE THE HIMALAYAS AND ANTARCTICA.

HOWEVER, VERY FEW PEOPLE ARE AWARE

OF WHERE BUGS ORIGINALLY CAME FROM.

IN CASE YOU WONDERED, BUGS WAS

BORN IN BROOKLYN, NEW YORK

DID YOU KNOW THAT BEFORE GIVEN THE NAME

TWEETY THE FAMOUS BIRD WAS CALLED ORSON?

HE WAS ALSO ORIGINALLY PINK, NOT YELLOW

IN 2006 VOLKSWAGEN ROLLED OUT THREE NEW

GTI COMMERCIALS STARRING THE LOONEY

TUNES SUPERHERO MOUSE, SPEEDY GONZALEZ.

THE COMMERCIALS WERE PART OF AN

ONGOING EFFORT BY THE GERMAN AUTOMAKER

TO WIN THE GROWING HISPANIC MARKET IN

NORTH AMERICA

SYLVESTER’S NAME IS A PUN ON SILVESTRIS,

THE SCIENTIFIC NAME FOR THE WILDCAT AND

ALSO ANCESTOR OF DOMESTIC CATS

YOSEMITE SAM IS BETTER KNOWN IN FRANCE AS

SAM THE PIRATE. THAT’S BECAUSE THE

FRENCH HAVE BECOME ACCUSTOMED TO SEEING

HIS PIRATE PERSONA AS THE DEFAULT SAM

AND ALL THE OTHERS, INCLUDING THE

COWBOY, AS VARIATIONS

WITCH HAZEL IS THE ONLY CHARACTER TO DATE

TO APPEAR IN BOTH WARNER BROS. AND

DISNEY SHORTS

BOSKO WAS THE FIRST-EVER MAJOR LOONEY

TUNES CHARACTER. HIS FIRST FILM WAS CALLED

“BOSKO, THE TALK-INK KID,” FIRST SHOWN ON

APRIL 19, 1929

IN CASE YOU ALWAYS WONDERED WHAT THE

LETTER E STANDS FOR IN WILE E. COYOTE,

IT STANDS FOR ETHELBERT

THOUGH MANY PEOPLE ASSUME TWEETY IS

FEMALE, IN THE TWEETIE PIE SHORT WE

LEARN THAT TWEETY IS MALE