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In this week’s episode of Deep Thoughts About Stupid Shit, Tracie revisits some of her favorite classic hand-drawn animation from Looney Tunes, including the cartoon shorts “Duck Amuck,” “What’s Opera, Doc,” “Hair-Raising Hare,” “Transylvania 6-500,” and “One Froggy Evening.”
While the technical skill behind everything from the animation to the musical score to the comedy still holds up 80 years after Chuck Jones started creating these beloved toons, some of the cultural commentary has aged pretty poorly–including the fact that there are very few women in most of the classic episodes and the assumption that men cannot control their lust.
But both sisters appreciate how these cartoon shorts, which were considered disposable entertainment to run before a feature film, have become their own pop culture phenomenon, in part because Chuck Jones took the animation, the writing, and the music seriously–but not himself.
You shoulda taken a left turn at Albuquerque. Which means you have time to listen to this episode while you’re getting back on track.
Mentioned in this episode:
The Fold by Peter Clines
Adam Conover: Coyote vs. Acme proves the CEOs don’t know sh*t
Every Frame A Painting
Hair-Raising Hare (1946)
Duck Amuck (1953)
One Froggy Evening (1955)
What’s Opera Doc (1957)
Transylvania 6-5000 (1963)
Bonus:
High Note (1960) the cartoon where the musical notes are little characters.
Tags
Deep thoughts about stupid shit, pop culture, animation, comedy, women, film, cultural commentary, feminism, storytelling, analyzing film tropes, gen x childhood, gen x nostalgia, film analysis, Chuck Jones, Bugs Bunny, Looney Tunes, Mel Blanc, nostalgia
This episode was edited by Joan Peconcillo at Voice Work
Our theme music is "Professor Umlaut" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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We are the sister podcasters Tracie Guy-Decker and Emily Guy Birken, known to our extended family as the Guy Girls.
We're hella smart and completely unashamed of our overthinking prowess. We love 80s and 90s movies and tv, science fiction, comedy, and murder mysteries, good storytelling with lots of dramatic irony, analyzing film tropes with a side of feminism, and examining the pop culture of our Gen X childhood for gender dynamics, psychology, sociology, religious allegory, and whatever else we find.
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