Looney Tunes on Nickelodeon
Genre	Animated
Created by	Chuck Jones
Starring	Bugs Bunny Daffy Duck Bosko (retired) Porky Pig Road Runner And the others
Country of origin	USA
No. of episodes	Several
Production
Running time	6 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	Nickelodeon
Original run	1988 – 1999
Links
Official Site	Nick.com
IMDb profile	IMDb
TV.com summary	TV.com summary

Nickelodeon began airing Looney Tunes on Nickelodeon on September 12, 1988. Initially, Nickelodeon's selection of Looney Tunes was made mostly of black-and-white pre- cartoons and cartoon shorts of the post-1960 time period, plus poorly colorized versions of the Porky Pig cartoons from the 1930s and early 1940s. Nick did have access to some cartoons released between 1948 and 1953, though, and thus aired them very often. Until 1993, each installment tended to feature three or four cartoons, of which the second, usually black-and-white, starred Bosko, Buddy, or Porky Pig.

During the first few years of Looney Tunes on Nickelodeon, the opening sequence with the Warner Bros. logo and the closing "That's all, Folks!" cards were not included on the cartoons, but the opening credits to the cartoon shorts were shown. The ending frame of each cartoon was often shrunk into a ball which bounced into a picture of a group of characters standing in front of the Looney Tunes on Nickelodeon logo. The one exception to this was "Guided Muscle", in which

Looney Tunes Nickelodeon 1993(00:21)
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, instead of the bouncing-ball ending, Wille E. Coyote dragged the Looney Tunes on Nickelodeon card across the screen at the end (whereas at the finish of the original cartoon, he dragged across the "That's All, Folks!" card). Each show would end a single closing card.

In addition to the version that aired during the day and early evening on Nick, the channel also packaged a version of the Looney Tunes program for its Nick at Nite block. The opening to this version showed clips from the cartoons of characters preparing for, or in, bed. These installments were also a half-hour long, and also usually included a black-and-white cartoon.

In 1992, some shuffling of cartoons between broadcasters allowed Nick access to an additional number of Looney Tunes shorts. A new theme song was made, and the cartoons now shown with their full openings and closings intact. The black-and-white cartoons were dropped from the shows (one promotional spot lampshaded this by stating that Nick now had "More Bugs, more Daffy, more Tweety, and no Bosko"), and they dropped the show from Nick-at-Nite, but on the plus side, the poorly redrawn, color Porky Pig cartoons were replaced with new, computer-colorized versions which were far superior (although Nick continued to air redrawn versions of "Porky's Midnight Matinee", "Rover's Rival", and "Slap-Happy Pappy"). For the whole 1994-95 season, Nick had the most variety of shorts in their Looney Tunes package; the following year, it dropped a small bit when The WB Network assumed possession of several of the cartoons for That's Warner Bros.! on Kids' WB!

Censoring of cartoons had been ongoing, and on all television showings, although Nickelodeon did not seem as concerned about violent gags. There were some gags that were considered too violent even for Nick. but their cuts are thankfully not as sloppy or as abrupt as those on ABC and The WB. However, while Nick had the TV rights to some cartoons like "Tokio Jokio", "Injun Trouble", "Confusions of a Nutsy Spy", and "The Ducktators", these in particular were not shown.

From 1995 to the end of 1997, Nickelodeon's batch of cartoons remained constant. "Wet Hare", "Mad as a Mars Hare", and "D' Fightin' Ones", having been ABC staples since 1985, transferred to Nick in 1994. However, with the start of 1998, Nickelodeon and ABC swapped several cartoons. "The Fair-Haired Hare" and "Hoppy Daze" were finally relinquished by ABC to air in uncut form on Nick, while ABC reacquired "Mad as a Mars Hare", "D' Fightin' Ones", "Rabbit Rampage", "Ali Baba Bunny", "Dr. Jerkyl's Hide", "What's Opera, Doc?", "Hare Brush", and more. A number of initially black-and-white Porky Pig cartoons commenced transmission on Nick in computer-colorized format in 1998.

In early 1999, it was announced that Nick's package of Warner Bros. would soon be relocating to Cartoon Network. The final installment of Looney Tunes on Nickelodeon ran on September 11, 1999, merely a day shy of the 12th anniversary of the shorts' first Nick broadcast. This notably makes Looney Tunes on Nickelodeon the longest-running animated program on Nick that wasn't a Nicktoon.

CharactersEdit

• Bugs Bunny
• Daffy Duck
• Sylvester
• Granny
• Tweety Bird
• Tasmanian Devil
• Road Runner
• Wile E: Coyote
• Marvin Martian
• Foghorn Leghorn
• Barnyard Dawg
• Gossamer
• Yosemite Sam
• Elmer Fudd
• Witch Hazel
• Speedy Gonzales
• Porky Pig
• Cool Cat
• Slowpoke Rodigruez
• Melissa Duck
• Claude Cat
• Marc Anthony
• Charlie Dog
• Ralph Wolf
• Miss Prissy
• Eggbert Jr.
• Hubie and Bertie
• Henery Hawk
• Quick Brown Fox and Rapid Rabbit
• Melvin the Mouse
• Banana Mouse
• Bunnie and Claude
• Colonel Rimfire
• Jose and Manuel
• PePe Le Pew
• Penelope Pussycat