Elmer Fudd will not have a gun in 'Looney Tunes' reboot

The Hill ^ | 06 06 2020 | Marina Pitofsky

[yesthatjallen]

In a new series based on the beloved “Looney Tunes” cartoons, the classic character Elmer Fudd will no longer carry a gun.

The new series “Looney Tunes Cartoons,” which premiered last week on the streaming service HBO Max, will feature the cartoon’s characteristic violence – using sticks of dynamite, booby traps and the iconic anvils and bank safes dropped onto characters, The New York Times reported last week.

However, Peter Browngardt, the series executive producer and showrunner, told the outlet, “We’re not doing guns.”

“But we can do cartoony violence — TNT, the Acme stuff. All that was kind of grandfathered in,” Browngardt told the outlet.

Elmer Fudd is regularly foiled trying to hunt Bugs Bunny on the show. In the new series, the character will carry a scythe.

However, comics artist Johnny Ryan, who worked on the show, noted to the Times that he believes “We’re going through this wave of anti-bullying, everybody needs to be friends, everybody needs to get along.”

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[Fedora]

When the producer is loonier than the tune.

[grey_whiskers]

Called third strike.

[CatOwner]

Give him a machete. The left seems fine with the Islamic nutbags of the world slicing up people.

[leaning conservative]

Le sigh.....

[EvilCapitalist]

Elmer without a shotgun makes the Rabbit season/Duck season cartoon impossible.

[Pikachu_Dad]

So what is he going to hunt rabbits with?

[Vision]

In the new series, the character will carry a scythe.

Nothing weird about that comrade.

[ClearCase_guy]

[John W]

They are giving him a scythe.

[dfwgator]

[Aaron0617]

lol, how will they reboot Pepé Le Pew, in the #MeToo era?

[clearcarbon]

"So what is he going to hunt rabbits with?"

Credit card.

[Rebelbase]

They’ll probably make him into a bull-dyke tranny as well.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

He’ll be a gay predator but this time dressed fabulous.

[Lysandru]

So, you can blow up a character with dynamite but not shoot him or her?

Who in the f**k hunts rabbits with a scythe? And is killing by using a scythe somehow morally superior to using a gun.

LIBTARDS! Is there anything that they won't ruin?

[xkaydet65]

What is he gonna hunt Bugs with ? A harmonica ?

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Who the heck carries a scythe these days? How is he going to hunt wabbits with a scythe?

[piasa]

A scythe?

Elmer Fudd’s going to be a redneck grim reaper?

[MotorCityBuck]

A lesbian in Flannel may work. 😉