Big League Beast
Big League Beast is the 4th short of the animated web series Looney Tunes Cartoons and the 72nd short produced for the series.
| "Big League Beast" | |
|---|---|
| Looney Tunes Cartoons episode | |
 Title card for the short | |
| Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 4 |
| Directed by | Kenny Pittenger |
| Written by | Kenny Pittenger Andrew Dickman Johnny Ryan Jacob Fleisher |
| Story by | Andrew Dickman |
| Produced by | Pete Browngardt (executive) Alex Kirwan (supervising) |
| Featured music | Joshua Moshier |
| Production code | 072 |
| Original air date | June 2019 (Annecy)[1] May 27th, 2020 (HBO Max) |
| Running time | 6 minutes |
Plot
On a stormy night, and deep in his burrow, Bugs Bunny is watching a Springleyfield baseball game between the Gravelbottoms and another team. All of a sudden, just when he is about to spectate the first swing, the power supply blows a fuse due to the TV antennae, preventing him from watching the game. Bugs spots the satellite dish of the evil castle belonging to Doctor Frankenbeans, who is busy in his secret laboratory about to create an evil concoction. The concoction is ruined, however, as Bugs unknowingly disrupts his schemes so he can watch the big game on his one of his many screens, giving Frankenbeans no choice but to summon Gossamer Monster creation to dispose of Bugs.
As Bugs prepares to watch the game, Gossamer disguises himself as an armchair before helping Bugs open a bottle of beer. Unfortunately, the rabbit sees through the ruse, dropping his beer in fear and saying that he may miss the seventh thinning stretch. Gossamer grabs Bugs, but Bugs escapes by crawling through Gossamer's hair. He then hands Gossamer an electric razor so he can catch him more easily, but he just ends shaving off his entire body from head to toe, allowing Bugs to sweep away his remains, as well as his tennis shoes, and flush him down the drain before going back to watch the game. Gossamer reassembles and emerges from the toilet to catch Bugs unawares and tossing the screen away from his sight. To prevent Gossamer from capturing him, Bugs eventually decides to incorporate the big game into his escape plan by making Gossamer the batter and himself as the catcher, and umpire both at the same time. Frankenbeans enters to inspect his creation, but Bugs includes him into the game as the pitcher. The game culminates with both adversaries accidentally slipping on axle grease and crashing into a control panel, brutally injuring and turning themselves into respective television and rabbit ears, after which Bugs breaks the fourth wall by declaring that "he may have missed the game, but that was one monster of a final play".
Production
The short was animated in Toon Boom Harmony and the character design for the short was done by Dan Haskett, with the sheets being revised on January 14, 2019. [2][3] The storyboards were done by Andrew Dickman and the animation was outsourced to Tonic DNA. [4][5] Gossamer was designed by Jim Soper and the backgrounds were done by Aaron Spurgeon.[6]
Release
The short was screened at Annecy on June of 2019[1] and was released on HBO Max on May 27, 2020.[2]
References
External links
- Big League Beast at Internet Animation Database