1.) You know you've married the right woman when someone mentions "Tex Avery" in a documentary and your wife throws up her arms and shouts, "Woo hoo!"

2.) When you think of all the tremendous talents that had to come together to create the classic Warner Brothers cartoons, the mind boggles. You do not get a better voice actor than Mel Blanc. (It's not all in the funny voices. Most of it is in the timing.) History has yet to produce a viable replacement for the crazed tunes of Carl Stalling. Michael Maltese is the best cartoon gag writer, ever. And that's not even counting the incredible directing of Friz Freleng, Chuck Jones, Bob Clampett, and Tex Avery.

The Looney Tunes are the Beatles of the cartoon. Or, to put it in reverse, the Beatles are the Looney Tunes of the music industry.

3.) The Golden Collection has been criticized for having too many Chuck Jones-directed films. For me, this is like criticizing a sundae for possessing too much ice cream.

4.) Is there anyone who never tried the "Bugs Bunny" reverse where you suddenly switch the "You will!" "You won't!" process in the middle of an argument?

Has it ever worked? I mean, seriously? We can but hope.

5.) If, as a comedian, I ever have one-tenth the timing that the worst Looney Tunes director (*cough* Robert McKimson *cough*), I will be entirely happy. If I could possess a single atom of Chuck Jones' timing, I could be God.

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