The Looney Tunes Show reviewed: Bugs, Daffy, and friends return in a Seinfeld�-esque sitcom.
Looney Tunes, the Warner Bros. cartoon series, started its blessed life as a series of theatrical shorts and became an institution with its 1955 television debut. It should go without saying that its choicest bits?the opera bouffe of "The Rabbit of Seville," say, or any given snippet of Foghorn Leghorn's southern-fried bluster?collectively represent a high point of Western civilization and are destined for an immortality to rival that of Guernica, the "Ode to Joy," and the Ms. Pac-Man/Galaga cocktail table arcade game. But recent years have been unkind to the franchise, with Michael Jordan's Space Jam somehow out-unclassed by an infantile Baby Looney Tunes spinoff. Perhaps the crowning indignity has been the characters' adoption as mascots by the kind of guys who think it sweet to decorate a jet ski with the voracious face of the Tasmanian Devil.
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