The Looney Tunes Show/Trivia

• Development Hell: This show tried to get off the ground for a few years, and when we finally had a premier date, it ended up getting pushed back about 3 times. The show's concept was overhauled at least once.
• Hey, It's That Voice!: Jeff Bergman provides the voice of Bugs and Daffy (he was originally Mel Blanc's initial successor for both roles).
  • Many Looney Tunes regulars return to reprise their characters, including Stan Freberg and June Foray.
  • Current Saturday Night Live cast members (as of 2011) Kristen Wiig and Fred Armisen voice Lola and Speedy, respectively.
  • Witch Lezah is voiced by Bubbie the whale.
  • Rob Paulsen and Grey DeLisle have voiced a couple of background characters.
  • Mac and Tosh are voiced by Yakko and Wakko, respectively.
  • King Neptune is Lola's Dad!
  • Odo (Rene Auberjonois) is Pepe Le Pew!
    • You'd better be careful around Mr. House...
  • Gossamer is Darwin.
  • Cree Summer voices the backup singers in "Blew my Stack".
  • Jim Cummings returns for his role of Taz.
  • Granny's younger version is both Joy Peters and Flo.
  • Marvin is now voiced by Ninja Dave.
  • Bob Bergen returns as Porky and Billy West as Elmer.
  • John Kassir voices Pete Puma.
  • The Japanese dub keeps the actual voice cast from the most recent dubbed shorts^[1] with a noticiable change: Kouji Ishii (Garterbelt, Gato, Ryuji Yamazaki and Kotaro Taiga) replaces the late Daisuke Gouri as Yosemite Sam.
  • Sylvester's Mom is Shelby Turtle's Mom and |Mrs. Potato Head
• Name's the Same: Cartoon Network had an installment show that was named The Looney Tunes Show that ran from 2000 to 2004. Unlike this show, the first Looney Tunes Show was just a collection of classic Looney Tunes shorts from Cartoon Network's library (in a similar vein to CBS's "The Bugs Bunny Road Runner Show," ABC's "The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show," The WB's "That's Warner Bros" [later renamed "The Bugs and Daffy Show"], FOX's "The Merrie Melodies Show," and Nickelodeon's "Looney Tunes on Nick").
• Talking to Himself: Several instances. Most notably, Jeff Bergman is both Bugs and Daffy.
• What Could Have Been: Paul Dini was originally on-board years ago, but most of the writers were fired in development from the execs wanting fresher, younger ones, and he left to produce the live-action series Tower Prep.
  • Tower Prep used to air on Tuesday nights at 8 PM, only for the ratings to drop and subsequent cancellation. The Looney Tunes Show premiered in the same timeslot on the same night and got spectacular ratings. Go figure..?
  • Originally, The Looney Tunes Show was supposed to be called Laff Riot and it was supposed to be a Three Shorts type of show in the style of Animaniacs and Tiny Toon Adventures, which were in turn closer to the style of the original shorts themselves.
    • Casa De Calma was actually a completed pilot for Laff Riot, which explains that episode's noticably different comedy style from that of the other The Looney Tunes Show episodes.
    • A screening of Casa de Calma did not impress the higher ups who viewed it, as they disliked the UPA-esque style the episode had. As a result, most of the original artists were laid off and the show was retooled into the sitcom format it is now.

1. ↑ Kappei Yamaguchi as Bugs, Wataru Takagi as Daffy, Yuji Mitsuya as Speedy Gonzales, Naoki Tatsuta as Porky, Yuichi Nagashima (aka Cho) as Elmer, Yumi Fukamizu as Lola, Tessho Genda as Foghorn Leghorn, Hisako Kyoda as Granny, Mugihito as Taz and Hidetoshi Nakamura as Pepe LePew