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" . . . and we really enjoyed it," says Chuck Jones, Looney Tunes animated shorts director (the main originator of Looney villains Pepe Le Pew and the Roadrunner). Joined by fellow directors Bob Clampett (in one of the worst toupees ever) and Friz Freleng, as well as legendary Looney voice artist Mel Blanc, Jones and company have their comments borne out by many illustrative Looney snippets during this low-key retrospective, THE BOYS FROM TERMITE TERRACE: PART ONE. "(Disney's) Mickey Mouse was a little Boy Scout," Mr. Freleng states disparagingly, implying that Mick's folks are for kids. "We never had children in mind (in churning out the Looney Tunes), Freleng continues. "We made them for ourselves." As Walt Disney chained his corporate cartoon creators to Rigid Realism, those animators with any brains in their heads fled elsewhere during the 1930s--mostly to Warner Bros. This Disney Diaspora is largely responsible for America being split into Blue and Red States today. Blue State Kids gravitated to Looney Tunes' thinking-outside-the-box-type humor, while Red State Youth clung desperately to Disney's Good Scout Gravitas as if they were Linus and the House of Mouse was their Binkie Blanket. While those tykes under the sway of Warner Bros. grew up to be the sort of fun-loving folks you'd love to have for friends and neighbors, the Mickey Mouse Clubbers became the gang of adults who bludgeon baby seals, yap on AM radio hate shows, and prattle on Fox "News."