Daffy Duck & Porky Pig Meet the Groovie Goolies
If anyone thought the new "The Looney Tunes Show" was the worst thing ever then they probably have not seen or heard of this one before. Its easily one of the worst Looney Tunes films and one of the worst Halloween specials ever made. So BAD this film is it is actually good because it demands repeated viewings over its pure awfulness.
So how did this production come about to begin with? After Warner Brothers shut down their cartoon studio in the late 1960’s the suits decided to outsource their animation to Filmation, which primarily did Saturday morning cartoons. Filmation has certainly done much better work for television than this piece of crap, which surely ranks as one of the shittiest productions the studio has ever made. The studio was in no position in any way to take up the mantle of the classic Warner Brothers cartoons based on a variety of reasons. The animation, art direction, music, and voice acting are a far cry from the works featured in the Golden Age of Warner Brothers Animation. In addition to this Filmation cared much more about the quantity they put out in a year over the actual quality of the animation itself. This narrow minded philosophy is clearly reflected throughout the entire sorry state of the cartoon.
The special primarily served as nothing more than a lousy promotion for the Looney Tunes characters to crossover with Filmation's Saturday morning cartoon series “Groovie Goolies”, a lame-ass hip updated version of the classic Universal horror monsters. It made no sense whatsoever to have the two vastly different sets of characters interact with each other as they clearly do not gel well together. The tacked on laugh track is a huge distraction for all of us and the out dated humor just falls flat every time they shoehorn it in. And the cartoon's storyline is just dreadful.
The victims in this heinous crime are of course the Looney Tunes characters themselves, who come out of this special as shadows of their former selves. The only one who manages to get out of this clean is Bugs Bunny, who is not even in this film at all...which is probably the best thing to come out of the film. At the very least Warner Brothers (having already whored out the group’s souls for money) spared the characters any further whippings by not letting Filmation work with the gang after this lone despicable outing.
