HBO Max Removing Looney Tunes Is a Shameful Decision

Jan 4 2023 by The Daily Beast

 
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In the Looney Tunes short “Duck Amuck,” Daffy Duck does something rare for a cartoon character: He breaks the fourth wall.

What else is he to do, when the off-screen animators are clearly playing tricks on him? Within two minutes, Daffy is thrust from a Three Musketeers parody into a barnyard scene, then a winter wonderland, and finally a Hawaiian paradise—before the setting leaves entirely.

“Look, Mac,” he...

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