I can’t be the only person who misses Hugh
>>150166259I liked this and this orange obssed dad as a kid, it funny having a savage had a sophisticaded that.
>>150166259>kids won't get the Bing Crosby impressionI don't think it made a huge difference if you got the impression or not. It was just funny that he was nice and taz was a maniac
>>150166259The director hated this show and was forced to work on it.
>>150166393>Forced Like, at gun point? Literal enslavement? How awful.
blah blah blah yackity smackity
>>150166259Hugh was fun, but I'm more of a Bushwacker Bob kind of guy. Dude had some of the best written one-liners in all of WB-dom. I also honestly prefer Jim Cumming's Taz to Mel Blancs. Jim gave Taz way more personality than Mel ever did.
>>150166393Greg sounds like a fag who is buddies with a certain shitstain who groomed his teenage assistant.
>>150166383It's more funny if you know anything about tasmanian devils. They are savage little balls of fur and fury when it comes to food.
>>150166393>"I had to do my job and now I'm mad about it!!!"Lmao, animation in the west has always been fucked. Nowadays the industry is loaded with people who'd love to be given ANY show to direct and try to make the most of it, but back in the 90s, you had entitled cunts like this who whined about being given a project and a chance to create something just because it wasn't exactly what they wanted.>"But the concept is so bad. The Tasmanian Devil's father is a Bing Crosby-like character?"It's kind of sobering to realize that most of the people in charge of our childhood cartoons were entitled crybabies with zero sense of humor. Taz's dad being Bing Crosby is fucking hilarious. I'm surprised animation even survived the 80s/90s.
>>150166259I've only seen short clips of this show but doesn't it imply that Taz is some kind of retard since since he speaks in gibberish while everyone else talks normally?
>>150168010No. He's just in a phase and he'll grow out of it. The biggest example of this is when Hugh tries to get Taz to take up his hobbies with no success and gets so frustrated at not making progress that he "Tazzes out" and wrecks his rec room, which he admits to enjoying once he calms back down.
>>150166843Bushwacker Bob was essentially Basil Fawlty if he was Australian, and somehow it works.
>>150168010It implies whatever you want it to imply. Taz is completely feral and can barely speak, and that has basically been his entire character since his debut. So they gave him a contemporary, stereotypical home and family that completely contrasts that persona. That's the fucking joke.Christ, you fags can ruin anything, huh?
>>150166259This was pretty meh show from what I remember. Not bad, but not really memorable.
>>150168675There's Hugh lewds???
>>150168770yesthere's a few on e621
Is anybody else missing a Hugh Jass here?
>>150166393>>150167082>It's kind of sobering to realize that most of the people in charge of our childhood cartoons were entitled crybabies with zero sense of humorIt’s a bit of a stretch to call him the director or that he was in charge, by his own post he is saying that he only directed an episode. Is odd calling episodes series but I guess is a generational/ regional thing, I hired before
>>150166259Hugh was absolutely fun to listen to and Taz-Mania has been unfairly memory holed by Warner Bros. bla-bla-bla yakety smackety.
>>150166383>kids won't get the Bing Crosby impressionI think you greatly misrerember how much of childhood is watching cartoons where characters talk in silly exagerated voices you don't understand only to grow up, decide on a whim one day to watch an old movie that came up decades before you were born, hear an actor start talking and all of a sudden Leo DiCaprio pointing meme.Pictured: me, who grew up loving "Pinky and the Brain" but knowing nothing of the background of the performances, only to watch "The Third Man" one time decades later, hear Orson Welles start talking and then...
>>150166259I don't.
>>150166259You can’t be the only person who misses Hugh
>>150166259It was a nice contrast.>>150166383No one cared, they just liked the character being clueless about a lot of stuff yet very nice to Taz.The few episodes were we got father son bonding were not only really funny but memorable.>>150168010The joke is that all Tazmania devils can be like Taz but it's seen as a phase.You are reading too much into it.
>>150168010He's retarded
>>150166393This is accurate. Taz, for whatever reason, was King Shit in the 90's.
>>150168675Why is he looking at me like that...
>>150166259Giving Taz a family was neat and should've carried over. It's not like it takes away from him. He can still be feral, violent, and caged at times. But he also has a family that can pop in from time to time, maybe as a final joke where he's pulled away by ear when he finally catches Bugs or something.
>>150166393>>150170332Taz was for whatever reason, incredibly popular around 1990-91. So it was no surprise WB wanted to capitalize on that and make a show. The confusing part was why make the show a sitcom with an 80s family.
>>150171154I feel like they just didn't know what to do with him.
>>150171154That and it was a variety show. Meaning there's skits and chances for various kinds of cartoon shorts with different characters. Meaning they didn't think Taz could carry a show by himself, even if he shared it with a rotating cast of antagonists. A variety show with a family is definitely something that someone that grew up in the 50s to 70s would come up with to alleviate that concern. And WB made plenty of variety cartoons shows in the 90s.
>>150166383>>150169080That's just how Warner worked back then. Decades old references that absolutely no kid would get ever. Half of Animaniacs were Jerry Lewis and Don Knotts references. Slappy's whole gag was consistently referencing 60s era celebrities and cartoon characters. Nothing she said made sense to any kid. She even had an episode that just made fun of about a dozen 60s musicians that no kid had ever heard of before. The entire Goodfeathers run were nothing but 70s and 80s R rated movie references. Tiny Toons dedicated a whole episode to making music videos of early 60s songs. Pinky and the Brain always had spots for various world leaders in history.
>>150171154>why make the show a sitcomThe Simpsons
>>150171154How the fuck else do you make a show that only appeared in 3 Looney Tunes shorts and had the smallest most nonexistent personality of all the classic LT characters?
>>150171270If someone making it actually gave a shit they could have made something like Animaniacs, inventing new characters for a Looney Tunes style variety show. But no one in the project cared and it was half-assed from start to finish. So we end up with Gonez Addams and Pinky big game hunger gators.Aristocratic English noble ginger bushbabyRats also as bushbabiesRob Paulson dingo, that's it. Just standard Rob Paulson...as a dingo.Jim Cummings doing a Faulty Towers impressionAnd the pig Hollywood agent that even the crew hated.Just nothing anyone cared about.
>>150166259I tried revisiting Taz-mania a few years ago... it REALLY does not hold up. Honestly I remember not being real big on it even when I was a kid.
>>150171380Everything that took place at the hotel was great. Bushwacker Bob, Mrs. Thickley.... it was the best stuff.
>>150171627It doesn't even had good quality rips online. I had to dig through internet archive to find something.
>>150168010That's the joke, Taz is still his usual feral self while the rest of the family is more or less normal.
>>150173470That leads me to believe the MTO DVDs are probably using those same awful quality rips.
Did anyone else hate those "list intros" that 90s WB cartoons had? Where they just list a bunch of characters and their traits. Very lazy.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4d0Ld53Fp0Y
>>150166259Taz was riding high with his 90s fame
>>150171070The unwritten rule of Looney Tunes spin-offs is that new characters can't appear in other shows properly. Lola is the one exception.
>>150171070Having decided to watch an episode due to this thread...I don't think it'd work. Taz in the series isn't an adult (which feels weird typing). This is adolescent Taz, before everyone in Tasmania started fearing him. It's like he's Dizzy Devil or Crash Bandicoot, too soft and not as villain he normally is.At best, you could have Taz keep a photo of his family in his cave but something tells me that ain't happening. Warner Bros hasn't even bothered to remaster the series in HD after all.
This show was not popular at all, this 1994 WB building has all their recent cartoon winning accolades, but not Taz-Mania.
>>150173470>>150173495Looks like it has Amblin syndrome where everything was mastered on Tape instead of film so quality in general is gonna be fucked.https://archive.org/details/taz-mania-complete-seriesI imagine Warner might have the original Film prints but I don't expect them to go out of their way for this tv show. Especially one made on such a bad premise.
>>150173498I kinda like them. And I'm found of this one.
>>150166259Yeahhhh you just might be...
>>150168010He’s not too far gone. Once in a blue moon, he’ll act normal for a joke.
>>150173725;-;
>>150173725>Lola is the one exception.Why is that do you think? To solve the problem of not having enough women?
>>150174017How old was that Bugs and Tweety show logo? That show was pieced together in the early 70s.
>>150174017It's more depressing looking back to the era when Warner put effort into their work.
>>150177505Pretty much, there were really no girl looney tunes so they had to find something.
