List of unreleased Warner Bros. animated shorts

Following is the list of the Looney Tunes animated short subjects proposed by either Warner Bros. Cartoon studio in the 1930s-1960s or Warner Bros. Animation in the 2000s. In 1945, Bob Clampett planned to direct a Looney Tunes cartoon that would fictionalize the life of Franklin D. Roosevelt as a dog, but when Roosevelt died, the project was abandoned.[1] In the 1950s, Friz Freleng pondered the idea of a one-shot cartoon that would combine Marilyn Monroe's life with the fairy tale of Snow White, but this project was also shelved when it was deemed too similar to Monroe's own personal life.[2] Not all abandoned Looney Tunes shorts were one-shots, as Looney Tunes comprises several sub-series such as Bugs Bunny, Pepé Le Pew and Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, to name a few. It is no surprise that not all planned sub-series did not get off the ground, and many of them ended up either not being produced at all or being reworked into one-shots. Some of these sub-series were the Keystone Kops, Rapid Rabbit and the Quick Brown Fox, Corn Plastered, the Eager Beaver, the Canyon Kiddies, etc. None of these went so far as to have individual titles mapped out.[3][2]

In 2003, Warner Bros. Animation had plans to resume making Looney Tunes shorts, but after the box office failure of Looney Tunes Back in Action, Warner Bros. canceled several short projects while still in development, as executives thought that interest in slapstick humor and traditional animation was vanishing. Most of these cartoons were in production under the supervision of Larry Doyle.[4]

Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies - 19 titles
  • LT = Looney Tunes
  • MM = Merrie Melodies
Title Series Characters Notes
A Jolly Good Fala MM Canceled in 1945
Marilyn Monroe/Snow White project LT or MM Canceled during the mid-1950s
Executive Tweet LT Sylvester, Tweety, ghosts Scrapped in 2004
The Pig Stays in the Picture LT Porky, Porky's family Scrapped in 2004
A Very Daffy Christmas LT Daffy, elves Scrapped in 2004
What's Hip, Doc? LT Bugs, Elmer, supermodel Scrapped in 2004
Jenna Elfman would have voiced the supermodel.
Full Metal Jackass LT Wile E. Coyote, the Road Runner Scrapped in 2004
Bada Bugs LT Bugs, Daffy, two mobsters Scrapped in 2004
It was speculated that the two mobsters would actually have been Rocky and Mugsy.
Slacker Quacker LT Porky, Daffy Scrapped in 2004
Scheme Park LT Porky, Porky's family Scrapped in 2004
Beach Bunny LT Bugs, Beach Bully Scrapped in 2004
Brendan Fraser would have voiced the Beach Bully.
Meat Me in Chicago MM Cow Scrapped in 2004
Deep Sea Bugs LT Bugs, Sam Scrapped in 2004
Baseball Taz LT Taz, Minor League Team, Rival Team's Monkey Scrapped in 2004
Dancing Pepe LT Pepé, Chipmunk, Chipmunk's friend Scrapped in 2004
Daffy Contractor LT Daffy, Porky Scrapped in 2004
Reaper Madness LT Granny, the Grim Reaper Scrapped in 2004
Duck Suped LT Daffy Scrapped in 2004
Guess Who's Coming to Meet the Parents LT Bugs, Squirrel, Bugs' parents Scrapped in 2004

See also

References
  1. A Jolly Good Fala at The Big Cartoon DataBase bcdb.com May 9, 2011
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-12-20. Retrieved 2011-03-01.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. Cooke, Jon (16 October 2010). "Misce-Looney-ous: The Canyon Kiddies". toolooney.blogspot.com. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
  4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-05-17. Retrieved 2009-06-02.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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