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. . . that they've commissioned AND RECEIVED 187 Looney Tunes documentaries (12 features and 175 shorts) to commemorate their once-great Animation Division, but the promised "42 hours" of special features do not stand up to much scrutiny. A careful analysis of the complete documentary set reveals that there are only about four hours of UNIQUE material offered in total here, and 124 minutes of this consists of excerpts from the Classic Looney Tunes themselves. Worse yet, of the remaining 117 minutes, almost half--54 minutes--is cobbled together archival footage (mostly of Looney Tunes directors' interviews) sandwiched between the scant 63 minutes of original stuff the "Behind the Tunes" contractors came up with on their own initiative. So how can 241 minutes of film be stretched to more than 42 hours?! SING-A-SONG OF LOONEY TUNES certainly bears out the so-called Salad Shooter Theory, which has the contractor putting the four hours of bits into an Acme Company Film Blender, and than tossing darts at the Title Board to label whatever the machine spits up.

. . . may live on into the 21st Century primarily because some of it is featured in Warner Bros. animated shorts such as WHAT'S OPERA, DOC? The implication made during a "Behind-the-Tunes" documentary short titled SING-A-SONG OF LOONEY TUNES is that without Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd warbling all the highlights from Wagner's infamous "Ring Cycle" and other notable operas during the seven minutes of WHAT'S OPERA, DOC?, Dick W. would be buried in the proverbial "Dustbin of History," since he provided the soundtrack and inspiration for Adolph Hitler's "Final Solution" extermination of half the World's Jews and many millions more, as if they were all expendable opera extras. Mr. Beck implies that the only way to inoculate such trashy "High Brow" fare capable of inducing Apocalyptic Genocide is to permanently affix the voices and faces of Bugs and Elmer in lieu of the Satanic Grotesqueries which originally emanated from the cesspool of Dick's demented imagination. Therefore, NO concert or opera audience should be exposed to Wagner UNLESS they're protected by a screening of WHAT'S OPERA, DOC? first!!