October 15, 201113 yr comment_5485893 I have to admit, I did like early Tweety vs. the Abbott and Costello cats. But I think there were only 3 or 4 of those. But I would argue that Tweety was just a plot device more than a driving force to the matches.
October 15, 201113 yr comment_5485901 I didn't see enough Speedy back in the day to judge. But Tweety was 2002 HHH bad as far as a babyface goes.
October 15, 201113 yr comment_5485907 can hogan even physically lay down now? I think he might be a Ding Dong/hunchback now.
October 15, 201113 yr comment_5485913 Speedy is still around... they had him on that new Looney Tunes show. And still the same stereotype. Oh, and one thing Warner Bros. had that WWF never had was a character like the Abominable Snowman... a vastly better version to play off Bugs and Daffy than WWF had with George "The Animal" Steele playing off Hogan and Savage. EDIT: Oh, and I agree that Wile E. was the draw in the feud with Road Runner. There is a reason why Wile E. got to work with Bugs and they never even tried to pair Road Runner with Daffy.
October 15, 201113 yr comment_5485914 They didn't show Speedy cartoons for like a decade. I think they started again when it moved to Boomerang.
November 11, 201113 yr comment_5488022 I am a few weeks late reading, but I have to say I am not sure I have ever laughed so hard reading a thread. I was sad when it came to an end.
November 11, 201113 yr comment_5488051 Give it time... we'll come up with something else. Like how Lennon & McCartney were the Hogan & Savage of the Beatles, keeping Harrison down, treating Ringo like a session musician, and never giving master booker George Martin proper credit for being the 5th Beatle. Or was it the Glimmer Twins fucking over Mick Taylor... John
August 4, 201213 yr comment_5511862 After seeing Hogan/Andre for the first time, I'm surprised nobody mentioned Hogan pulling back the protective padding and trying to piledrive Andre onto the exposed concrete. That seemed a bit excessive.
October 9, 201212 yr comment_5516599 I have no idea why we haven't been talking about this: Hulk Hogan Sex Tape Leaks Online Hulk Hogan Sex Tape: Female Co-Star Revealed To Be Heather Clem, Second Tape May Leak Yes, I Banged Bubba's Wife Hulk Hogan ‘devastated’ by leak of sex tape filmed six years ago with friend’s wife Heather Clem, says new wife Jennifer McDaniel is ‘rattled’: The mustachioed muscle man star told Howard Stern Tuesday that the racy recording was made without his knowledge six years ago while his marriage to ex-wife Linda Hogan was crumbling Poor Bubba and Hulk. John
October 9, 201212 yr comment_5516601 The clip is pretty funny. I love how he claims it was no big deal since they were swingers. Well, the guy wasn't exactly in the room with them on that tape.... Anyway, now we know the *real* power of Hulkamania.
October 9, 201212 yr comment_5516630 Poor Ric Flair. He's trying to get "heat" back with another round of divorce and eventually a new wife. And here comes Hogan dropping the leg with a Sex Tape. You can't top that. John
October 9, 201212 yr comment_5516643 http://www.tmz.com/2012/10/09/hulk-hogan-s...er-clem-retire/ http://www.tmz.com/2012/10/09/hulk-hogan-t...he-love-sponge/ Looks like Hogan's going to get all of Bubba's money now.
October 9, 201212 yr comment_5516650 Bubba also has some Law Enforcement issues as well: http://www.tmz.com/2012/10/09/hulk-hogan-s...ice-report-leak We've learned Hulk's attorney David R. Houston filed the police report with the Clearwater PD this AM, claiming whoever made the tape committed a felony by unlawfully recording Hulk without his consent -- and whoever leaked it broke the law by unlawfully running that footage. That splits two ways per his attorney: (1) whoever made the tape committed a felony by unlawfully recording Hulk without his consent (2) whoever leaked it broke the law by unlawfully running that footage Clearly Bubba filmed it. Whether he leaked it is another question. John
October 10, 201212 yr comment_5516871 Yeah, Flair dating Fifi seems so nice and romantic now. It gets better and better. Too bad Russo isn't booking TNA anymore. Just picture the great angles he could get from this real situations;) (that Bubba guy seems to be a complete dipshit)
October 10, 201212 yr comment_5516886 Poor Ric Flair. He's trying to get "heat" back with another round of divorce and eventually a new wife. And here comes Hogan dropping the leg with a Sex Tape. You can't top that. John The Flair Formula has been exposed?
January 10, 201312 yr comment_5527262 This is smart piece on difficulties of writing for Bugs Bunny: http://zvbxrpl.blogspot.com/2011/05/why-it...bugs-bunny.html
January 10, 201312 yr comment_5527274 A good addition in the comments section: J Lee said... As noted in several books on Bugs' history, even his creators had a hard time believing at first they could do a continuing series with a supremely confident character who won all the time, which is why the first year or so of rabbit pictures has a pretty high percentage of cartoons where Bugs gets his comeuppance at the end. One of the other things Warners' directors and writers did do to solve that dilemma was to basically create a mid-cartoon "reboot", so that Bugs would play with his adversary, but then annoy the cartoon gods by offering up either some braggadocio or some disparaging comments about his aversary, which if done in mid-picture was the cue for his opponent to suddenly gain the upper hand, if ever so briefly (Bugs calling his opponent a maroon near the end of the picture was often forgiven by the gods, since it was usually part of a ploy to lure his opponent into one final disaster). So there is a time-tested template into doing Bugs correctly, and even if the original staffers didn't use it 100 percent ofbthe time, it was always available to fall back on. Many of the newer cartoons either abandon the template, or shy away from it because current standards on cartoon violence make it tougher to come up with a suitable payoff. Bugs was successful despite breaking the rules on face-heel and face-in-peril structure because he was such a great worker. He worked with a ton of stooge heels who WB Creative didn't bother to even try to make look good or strong, but Bugs was so good in "making" the scenes that the heels just needed to stooge and bump their asses off for Bugs. Tweety comes across as the nasty little bastard, while Bugs comes across as the guys out smarting the heels who often are given chances to just move along. I also think Bugs eats the fall more often than the writer implies. He lost all three matches with Cecil Turtle in a six year feud. It's one thing for Bugs to put him over in Tortoise Beats Hare, which was only Bugs' third main event (or second if you consider the Jones booked Elmer's Pet Rabbit to be the same worker rabbit as in Elmer's Candid Camera)and WB Creative wasn't yet sure just how HUGE Bugs would get. It's another thing entirely for Bugs to be willing to lay down yet again for Cecil in 1947 after returning from WWII as a patriotic war hero and super over babyface draw. Yet Bugs did it, even working a reverse Dusty finish where it looked like he won the world title from Cecil only to be dq'd for admitting to heeling it up and getting dragged off by "security". John
January 13, 201312 yr comment_5527723 BTW... could you imagine WCW booking Bugs? It would be worse than Goldberg's dropping the title. John
January 13, 201312 yr comment_5527724 If we are to assume that Bugs is the franchise of the WB umbrella, I would imagine WCW bringing in Fred Flintstone, Barney Rubble and George Jetson form an outside faction called HBWO, and their peak is burying Bugs in the desert somewhere.
January 13, 201312 yr comment_5527738 If we are to assume that Bugs is the franchise of the WB umbrella, I would imagine WCW bringing in Fred Flintstone, Barney Rubble and George Jetson form an outside faction called HBWO, and their peak is burying Bugs in the desert somewhere.Eventually the HBWO would get too big and have too many splinter groups, though.
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