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[miss_porcupine]

* Upfronts were this week for TV. There are a few new shows with potential and a whole lotta drek. I had to walk around and through the crowd waiting for the Fox presentation at the Beacon earlier this week; I resisted the temptation to tell them that Fox's entire slate of new shows looks awful. [The presumptive fall schedule, with links, for those

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[angelofmercy]

Unfortunately a quick google search shows that once again rule 34 applies even to Looney Tunes.

[miss_porcupine]

Why were you googling Looney Tunes?

[angelofmercy]

Because your post made me curious to see if it had been done.

[ratcreature]

Better Bugs/Daffy than Bugs/Elmer Fudd enemy slash.

[miss_porcupine]

I... no. There is no least-bad option here. :)

[fyrdrakken]

I find myself reminded of how awesome I found it when London tube escalators turned out to have a sort of two-lane thing going, where people who want to just stand and be carried upwards are encouraged to keep to one side of the step so people in a hurry can climb past them.

Also, Goggledog.

[miss_porcupine]

It's not a unique concept, actually. It may be reversed based on which side of the road you drive on, but here in NYC, if you are just going to stand on the escalator, you stick to the right side and if you're going to use it like steps, you move on the left. (As you would passing a car on the highway.) Tourists and rude people can occasionally mung things up, but we're not shy about offering correction (gentler for the tourists, since they don't know better).

[fyrdrakken]

Not unique, no, but definitely falls into the category of the kinds of social habits that form in a city crammed with busy fast-moving foot traffic and that may not be intuitive for visitors from slower-paced areas. (I'm remembering a comment I saw a Canadian make once regarding a visit to NYC, in which she said that the people she ran across were in fact perfectly polite but at three times the speed she was used to.)

[uminohikari]

Ooh, is the side different for different countries?

[jim_smith]

Isn't this like the ninth time they've updated Looney Tunes for the 90s? Wouldn't it be simpler for Cartoon Network to just show a block of '50s shorts instead?

[miss_porcupine]

I thought Tiny Toons was a travesty, too, although not as much as the one after that.

The three-year-old in my life is perfectly okay watching Road Runner and Bugs as his parents knew them; I don't see why they have to mess with the classics.

[lurkerlynne]

I strongly suspect it is because the originals are considered 'dated'. Also, the censors have tiny purple kittens over the violent content. And the anthropomorphic lapin in drag.

Then there's the banned stuff. :/

[lurkerlynne]

I once wrote an AU wherein Ezra Standish and Buck Wilmington of The Magnificent Seven series were Bugs and Elmer. Does that count? Am I dead? Don't feel dead.... ::pokes self::

Bugs and Daffy wouldn't ever have sex; at least, not without Daffy spiking Bugs' coffee and having spiral waaayyy out of control first.