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LooneyTunes.com Gets a 'Toon Up; All New Looney Tunes Shorts Debut; New Content Loonier Than Ever!


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. Online has officially unveiled the new LooneyTunes.com web site with the first original Looney Tunes shorts (online or offline) in more than a year, it was announced today by Jim Noonan, SVP SVP S'il Vous Plaît (French: Please)
SVP Senior Vice President
SVP Schweizerische Volkspartei (Swiss People~s Party)
SVP Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
SVP Social Venture Partners
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 and General Manager of Warner Bros. Online. Visitors to www.looneytunes.com will also find more games, a new Showcase section where fans can get the latest Looney Tunes news, an updated Looney Shop and even more Looney Loot!

"Known for their irreverence and timeless humor, it is always a lot of fun to create new content featuring these beloved characters," said Noonan. "Looney Tunes fans are among the most passionate and we look forward to rolling out a wide variety of new activities featuring their favorite characters."

The Looney Tunes shorts are the first original productions of this kind to be seen in a year. The web shorts feature popular Looney Tunes characters This is the complete list of Looney Tunes characters organised after the year of their first appearance.
Note: The more famous or noteworthy Looney Tunes characters are listed in bold.
 like Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck Daffy Duck is an animated cartoon character in the Warner Brothers Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons. Daffy was the first of the new breed of "screwball" characters that emerged in the 1930s to supplant traditional everyman characters, such as  and Porky Pig Porky Pig is an Academy Award-nominated animated cartoon character in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons. He was the first character created by the studio to draw audiences based on his star power, and the animators (particularly  in a broad array of zany sketches, including, to name a few:

--Parallel Porked -- Daffy shows up to take his driver's license Noun 1. driver's license - a license authorizing the bearer to drive a motor vehicle
driver's licence, driving licence, driving license

license, permit, licence - a legal document giving official permission to do something

 test and hopes it will be a cakewalk -- but thanks to Porky Pig, the test is anything but easy.

--H2 Uh-Oh! -- Daffy hogs the neighborhood's water for his own amusement park pleasure -- but who will be all wet in the end?

--The Cat Stays In The Picture -- In a stylistic nod to the classic Looney Tunes, this short features Sylvester and Tweety at a Hollywood movie premiere!

Other new features on the site include:

--Games, games, games: "Inferior Lifeform!" or "Lucky Earthling!" are two of the things Marvin the Martian This page is about the cartoon character. See Marv The Marsh for the English rapper.

Marvin the Martian (or Marvin Martian) is a fictional character appearing in the Looney Tunes cartoons.
 may say mockingly while visitors play Marvin's Speed, one of several new games premiering on LooneyTunes.com. Other games include Daffy Duck's Dodgeball, Foghorn fog·horn  
n.
1. Nautical A horn for sounding warning signals in fog or darkness, used especially on ships, buoys, and coastal installations.

2. A booming, insistent voice.
 Leghorn's "Thanks But No Thanks" and Taz's Munch and Crunch.

--Looney Loot: "Eh, what's that on your screen, doc?" Bugs, Daffy, Tweety and other favorites are featured in a series of all new screensavers, wallpapers and buddy icons.

--The Looney Tunes Showcase features all the latest Looney Tunes news from television, DVD/Video, Books/Comics and Interactive.

--Looney Shop: From Tweety jewelry to Bob Clampett lithographs and Looney Tunes monopoly, this is the place to find the newest, coolest Looney Tunes products.

About Warner Bros. Online:

Warner Bros. Online (WBOL) (www.warnerbros.com) provides full-service interactive solutions for Warner Bros. Entertainment subsidiaries and external clients alike. WBOL offers its clients strategic digital planning and marketing support, while employing proprietary, next generation technologies in its suite of high quality, highly creative interactive solutions that include: web site creation and hosting, end-to-end design, animation, game creation, CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization.  and consumer privacy guidance, wireless development and original content. The company's international capabilities span more than 40 international markets throughout Europe, Asia and Latin America. WBOL also serves as the entry point into, and aggregator of all things Warner Bros. Entertainment, including such megabrands as The Matrix, Looney Tunes and Harry Potter.
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