Looney Tunes: 1943-1946
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1. Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs (1943)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
So White flees from the wicked Queenie, wins over the thugs from Murder Inc. and meets her overrated Prince Chawmin'.
Director: Robert Clampett | Stars: Ivie Anderson, Mel Blanc, Ruby Dandridge, Vivian Dandridge
Votes: 1,562
2. Confusions of a Nutzy Spy (1943)
7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Porky and his bloodhound that has sneezing problems trying to track down a Nazi spy caricature in the form of a lynx. Their goal is to stop him from blowing up a critical railroad bridge.
Director: Norm McCabe | Star: Mel Blanc
Votes: 364
3. Pigs in a Polka (1943)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
The story of the three little pigs and the big bad wolf, this time performed as pantomime to the Hungarian Dances by Johannes Brahms.
Director: Friz Freleng | Stars: Bea Benaderet, Sara Berner, Mel Blanc
Votes: 1,047
4. Tortoise Wins by a Hare (1943)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Bugs challenges Cecil Turtle to race, only this time he's wearing an aerodynamic suit like Cecil's. Unfortunately, the gambling ring has bet everything on the rabbit, and Bugs now looks like a tortoise.
Directors: Robert Clampett, Tex Avery | Stars: Mel Blanc, Kent Rogers, Michael Maltese, Tedd Pierce
Votes: 1,636
5. The Fifth-Column Mouse (1943)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
The mice of a house prepare for war when their appeasement policy fails to end the menace of a cat.
Director: Friz Freleng | Stars: Mel Blanc, Michael Maltese, The Sportsmen Quartet
Votes: 449
6. To Duck... or Not to Duck (1943)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
While Elmer Fudd is hunting fowl, he shoots Daffy Duck. However, Daffy is wearing a bullet-proof vest and only pretends to be wounded.
Director: Chuck Jones | Stars: Mel Blanc, Arthur Q. Bryan
Votes: 972
7. Flop Goes the Weasel (1943)
Approved | 7 min | Family, Animation, Short
While Mammy is gone to catch a worm for her about-to-hatch egg, a weasel steals the egg for his breakfast. When the egg hatches, the blabbermouth chick initially mistakes the weasel for his Mammy.
Director: Chuck Jones | Stars: Mel Blanc, Ruby Dandridge, Lillian Randolph
Votes: 161
8. Hop and Go (1943)
Approved | 7 min | Family, Animation, Short
Claude Hopper, a kangaroo, and "best darn hopper in the world," is full of himself (and dumb), so a couple of Scottish rabbits take him on. They set up a boxing ring; Claude gets tangled in... See full summary »
Director: Norm McCabe | Stars: Mel Blanc, Pinto Colvig
Votes: 201
9. Super-Rabbit (1943)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Action
Bugs Bunny becomes a superhero who does battle with a rabbit-hating cowboy and his horse.
Director: Chuck Jones | Stars: Mel Blanc, Tedd Pierce, Kent Rogers
Votes: 1,005
10. The Unbearable Bear (1943)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
Sniffles the mouse's non-stop talking foils both the burglar and a tipsy Officer Bear, who's trying to sneak past his rolling pin-toting, sleepwalking wife.
Director: Chuck Jones | Stars: Mel Blanc, June Foray, Marjorie Tarlton
Votes: 172
11. The Wise Quacking Duck (1943)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
An exceedingly mild-mannered man is sent out to kill a duck for dinner by his wife. Unfortunately for him, he picks Daffy Duck as his victim. The two face off and do battle for the remainder of the cartoon.
Director: Robert Clampett | Stars: Mel Blanc, Darrell Payne
Votes: 653
12. Tokio Jokio (1943)
7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A newsreel from Japan with updates on the war effort.
Director: Norm McCabe | Star: Mel Blanc
Votes: 437
13. Greetings Bait (1943)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Comedy, Short
A worm reminiscent of Jerry Colonna is lowered into the water and uses various guises to lure fish. He also tangles with a crab.
Director: Friz Freleng | Star: Mel Blanc
Votes: 321
14. Jack-Wabbit and the Beanstalk (1943)
7 min | Family, Animation, Short
Bugs fights the legendary giant. In the historical context of World War II much fun is made of the giant's claimed superiority over the more clever and fun-loving rabbit.
Director: Friz Freleng | Star: Mel Blanc
Votes: 434
15. The Aristo-Cat (1943)
Approved | 7 min | Family, Animation, Short
Meadows the butler, fed up with the family cat's practical jokes, walks off the job, leaving the formerly-pampered feline alone and totally helpless, unaware even of what a mouse looks like... See full summary »
Director: Chuck Jones | Stars: Mel Blanc, Michael Maltese, Tedd Pierce
Votes: 502
16. Wackiki Wabbit (1943)
TV-PG | 7 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
On a tropical island a pair of castaways look to Bugs as a source of food.
Director: Chuck Jones | Stars: Mel Blanc, Augie Goupil, Michael Maltese, Tedd Pierce
Votes: 1,310
17. Yankee Doodle Daffy (1943)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Family, Short
Daffy is an agent representing Sleepy Lagoon trying to sell him to talent scout Porky. Daffy spends a great deal of time and energy explaining and demonstrating what the kid can do, while the kid sits on a couch licking a giant sucker.
Director: Friz Freleng | Stars: Mel Blanc, Ken Bennett
Votes: 1,358
18. Porky Pig's Feat (1943)
Approved | 9 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
Porky Pig and Daffy Duck owe an outrageous sum to the Broken Arms Hotel. The manager thwarts their efforts to escape without paying their bill.
Director: Frank Tashlin | Star: Mel Blanc
Votes: 1,001
19. Tin Pan Alley Cats (1943)
7 min | Animation, Family, Short
A jazz cartoon involving a "Fats Waller"-like cat who leaves the "Uncle Tomcat Mission" for the local jazz club.
Director: Robert Clampett | Stars: Mel Blanc, The Four Dreamers, Four Spirits of Rhythm, Zoot Watson
Votes: 337
20. Scrap Happy Daffy (1943)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Daffy takes on a goat sent by Hitler to eat up his scrap pile.
Director: Frank Tashlin | Stars: Mel Blanc, Dorothy Lloyd, Tedd Pierce
Votes: 623
21. Hiss and Make Up (1943)
8 min | Family, Animation, Short
A cat, a dog and bird living in one house can't stop fighting each other.
Director: Friz Freleng | Stars: Mel Blanc, Bea Benaderet
Votes: 153
22. A Corny Concerto (1943)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
Elmer Fudd introduces two pieces of classical music: "Tales of the Vienna Woods" and "The Blue Danube", and acted out by Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Laramore the Hound Dog, a family of swans, and a juvenile Daffy Duck.
Director: Robert Clampett | Stars: Arthur Q. Bryan, Robert Clampett, Bea Benaderet
Votes: 2,100
23. Fin'n Catty (1943)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
"As everyone knows," the narrator begins, "goldfish must have water... and cats hate water." And so it goes.
Director: Chuck Jones | Star: Robert C. Bruce
Votes: 274
24. Falling Hare (1943)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
Bugs encounters wartime sabotage and takes to the air to do battle.
Director: Robert Clampett | Stars: Mel Blanc, Robert Clampett
Votes: 1,478
25. Inki and the Minah Bird (1943)
7 min | Family, Animation, Short
In an African jungle strange enough to have a roaring butterfly, Inki the boy hunter, a lion with false teeth and a magical minah bird match wits.
Director: Chuck Jones | Star: Mel Blanc
Votes: 308
26. Daffy - The Commando (1943)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Commando Daffy Duck goes behind enemy lines and causes havoc for a Nazi German officer and his troops.
Director: Friz Freleng | Star: Mel Blanc
Votes: 1,013
27. An Itch in Time (1943)
Approved | 8 min | Family, Animation, Short
Elmer threatens to give his dog a bath if he doesn't stop scratching, but the poor pooch is the victim of a hungry flea whose tools of the trade include pickaxes and dynamite.
Director: Robert Clampett | Stars: Sara Berner, Mel Blanc, Arthur Q. Bryan
Votes: 664
28. Puss n' Booty (1943)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Family, Short
Woman wonders why her little pet birds keep disappearing. Rudolph the cat knows, but other than burping feathers, he's not saying. But it looks like he's met his match when the woman orders... See full summary »
Director: Frank Tashlin | Stars: Bea Benaderet, Mel Blanc
Votes: 498
29. Little Red Riding Rabbit (1944)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
Bugs, the Wolf and bobby-soxer Red chase each other around while Grandma is off working at Lockheed aircraft.
Director: Friz Freleng | Stars: Mel Blanc, Bea Benaderet, Billy Bletcher
Votes: 2,068
30. What's Cookin' Doc? (1944)
TV-Y7 | 9 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
When James Cagney wins the Oscar, Bugs shows a clip from "Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt" (1941) and demands a recount of the voting.
Directors: Robert Clampett, Friz Freleng | Stars: Mel Blanc, Robert C. Bruce
Votes: 601
31. Meatless Flyday (1944)
Approved | 6 min | Family, Animation, Short
A hungry spider is trying to catch a fly for dinner. Both pull pranks on each other until the fly is finally caught. The spider is about to eat him when the fly points out that it is Meatless Tuesday so he can't be eaten today.
Director: Friz Freleng | Stars: Mel Blanc, Cy Kendall
Votes: 195
32. Tom Turk and Daffy (1944)
7 min | Animation, Family, Short
Daffy agrees to hide Tom Turk from Porky, until he learns that Porky is planning to serve the turkey for dinner, then turns stool pigeon.
Director: Chuck Jones | Stars: Mel Blanc, Billy Bletcher
Votes: 354
33. Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears (1944)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
The three bears set a trap to catch Goldilocks but their carrot soup attracts Bugs Bunny early on and he grows wise to their plans.
Director: Chuck Jones | Stars: Mel Blanc, Bea Benaderet, Kent Rogers
Votes: 1,596
34. I Got Plenty of Mutton (1944)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
One snowy night a starving wolf is reading a newspaper. As the wolf gets more and more hungry, he dresses up like a sexy ewe to try and lure the ram from his post so he can get to the sheep for a meal.
Director: Frank Tashlin | Star: Mel Blanc
Votes: 420
35. The Weakly Reporter (1944)
7 min | Animation, Family, Short
A newsreel spoof with WWII homefront gags, including rationing, air raid drills and women filling in men's jobs.
Director: Chuck Jones | Stars: Mel Blanc, Bea Benaderet, Frank Graham
Votes: 290
36. Tick Tock Tuckered (1944)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Family, Short
Porky and Daffy are roommates who have a problem getting to work on time. When their boss gives them an ultimatum, they decide to go to bed early and be on time for work. But things never seem to work as planned.
Director: Robert Clampett | Star: Mel Blanc
Votes: 437
37. Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips (1944)
8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Bugs fights stereotyped Japanese during World War II.
Director: Friz Freleng | Stars: Mel Blanc, Bea Benaderet
Votes: 588
38. Swooner Crooner (1944)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
Porky Pig's egg farm faces production problems when a crooning rooster distracts the hens from their jobs.
Director: Frank Tashlin | Stars: Mel Blanc, Bea Benaderet, Sara Berner, Richard Bickenbach
Votes: 819
39. Russian Rhapsody (1944)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Family, Short
As Adolf Hitler personally flies a bomber on a mission to the Soviet Union, the gremlins from the Kremlin set about to stop him.
Director: Robert Clampett | Stars: Mel Blanc, Bea Benaderet, Robert C. Bruce
Votes: 652
40. Duck Soup to Nuts (1944)
Approved | 7 min | Family, Animation, Short
Porky is hunting ducks. Daffy is in his sights, but manages to escape repeatedly, mostly with his powers of persuasion.
Director: Friz Freleng | Star: Mel Blanc
Votes: 697
41. Angel Puss (1944)
Approved | 7 min | Family, Animation, Short
A little black boy is hired to kill a cat, but the feline escapes and proceeds to play tricks on the kid, pretending he's a ghost come back to haunt his "killer."
Director: Chuck Jones | Star: Mel Blanc
Votes: 280
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