[HN Gopher] Warner Brothers Cartoon Companion (1998)
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Warner Brothers Cartoon Companion (1998)
Author : joebig
Score : 105 points
Date : 2024-09-08 11:07 UTC (2 days ago)
(HTM) web link (www.warnercompanion.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.warnercompanion.com)
| poki89 wrote:
| what is this ?
| 0xEF wrote:
| It's the Warner Brothers Cartoon Companion.
| Sardtok wrote:
| Thank you for clarifying. It's now as clear as a crystal
| glass filled with tar. /s
| hagbard_c wrote:
| Would that be a glass of coal tar, pine tar or bitumen?
| GTP wrote:
| This would help clarifying it.
| Stratoscope wrote:
| Clarified tar is a beautiful thing.
|
| Just don't turn it into dip!
| firesteelrain wrote:
| I know this has /s but I am with you on this one. I don't
| know why people feel free to not post productive comments.
| rogerclark wrote:
| Is "what is this ?" even a productive comment in itself?
| That's the point the parent is trying to make. If you
| click on this link, and you can't tell what it is, you
| probably don't care what it is. And after that, if you
| don't care enough to search "Daffy Duck" on Google or
| whatever, you really don't care what it is. Why would we
| possibly need a Hacker News comment explaining what
| Warner Brothers cartoons are?
| firesteelrain wrote:
| Again another non productive comment. Commenter didn't
| know what the companion meant. That's all he/she was
| asking. Why is that hard?
| mapt wrote:
| Warner Brothers & Hanna Barbera cartoons introduced us to a
| great deal of culture by repetitive memes. This cinematic
| universe has hundreds of hours of short-form content, which
| back in the dark ages of television was fed to us
| intravenously age 2 to age ~12. Reruns played for decades
| after the original airdate in the hours after getting off
| from school or on weekend mornings.
|
| I didn't have any idea who Orson Welles was until I
| recognized him in school as the person that The Brain
| ('Pinky and the Brain' on Animaniacs) was a parody of.
|
| To this day I've never seen Peter Lorre, but there was a
| quite distinctive caricature that repeatedly played on
| Looney Tunes, and it took half a day of Googling to figure
| out what that memory referred to.
|
| There are lots of other reference jokes - repeated tropes,
| voices, facial poses, and musical themes assumed by these
| shorts that clearly carried some cultural meaning that we
| intuited by repetition, even if we never understood the
| source material. It's nice to have a "TVTropes For WB
| Cartoons" if only because we don't know the name of many of
| these things to be able to look them up.
|
| Unfortunately the maintainer seems to be largely focused on
| the 1940's and early 1950's, with most of the references.
| sumtechguy wrote:
| Is it just me or is the format of that page distinctly
| odd. Narrow column down the middle with a decently small
| font.
| maxwell wrote:
| Looks perfectly normal on a 640x480 VGA.
| firesteelrain wrote:
| Reminds me of many ham radio pages. Amateur hobby not
| meant for mobile screens.
| wil421 wrote:
| How young are you? Looks like what the internet used to
| look like. It appears the website is from the 90s and had
| some form of resurrection in 2014. You can still email
| the original guy on his aol email.
| sumtechguy wrote:
| > How young are you?
|
| Does it matter?
| wil421 wrote:
| I guess it does to you.
| sumtechguy wrote:
| you asked...
| boomboomsubban wrote:
| Linking to the introduction would make more sense
| http://www.warnercompanion.com/index.html#intro
| whateveracct wrote:
| or just the person you're replying to..clicking it? it is
| very prominent
| mrweasel wrote:
| Briefly I thought it was cartoon characters man pages.
|
| Would be kinda fun to do "man 9 Daffy Duck"
| flobosg wrote:
| (1998) or (2014)
|
| > This page was originally maintained by Stephen Worth. Thanks to
| John K. for funding its production. Preserved by Kip Williams and
| restored in 2014 by Harry McCracken.
|
| > The Warner Brothers Cartoon Companion is Copyright (c)
| 1996-1998 E. O. Costello. All rights reserved.
| dang wrote:
| Added above. Thanks!
| lupusreal wrote:
| Seems to be missing entries for the Censored Eleven.
| shermantanktop wrote:
| Good riddance. It's antiquated trash.
|
| Others may cherish this stuff as a tribute to free thinking or
| whatever, but I'm happy to see the lack of distribution as a
| sign we've learned some things. This isn't Chesterton's Fence
| or the Mona Lisa, this is just racist humor aimed at boomer
| kids.
| krustyburger wrote:
| So they were aimed at boomer kids despite all 11 cartoons
| having been released before 1945? How odd.
| shermantanktop wrote:
| Technically you are correct, which is the best kind of
| correct. Should have said "pre-boomer". But many were made
| or reissued in 1944, and as I understand it, cartoon shorts
| were replayed for years.
| pessimizer wrote:
| Not including this stuff where it belongs is gaslighting.
| Black people should know what their boss laughed at when he
| was a kid.
|
| It's also literal whitewashing to take all of the black
| people out of the past, even if white people depicted us as
| clowns and monsters. I should be able to say "your
| grandfather depicted me as a clown and a monster." Better
| than being a problem swept out of frame.
| shermantanktop wrote:
| There's still tons of it around! The Marx Brothers movies
| are a great example of high-quality content with
| questionable segments that perfectly capture those old
| stereotypes. And as a classic movie fan, there are tons of
| movies with incidental black characters like that. I don't
| think those should all go in the bin, they are a product of
| their time.
|
| The WB content is aimed at kids, and I think that makes a
| difference.
| lupusreal wrote:
| I don't think anybody is arguing for those Censored
| Eleven to be shown on TV. They're still out there for any
| adult who cares enough to find, I think that's enough.
|
| For that matter, I wasn't even criticizing the OP
| document for missing those eleven. Given the time it was
| written it's quite possible the author didn't even have
| access to them. In any case, the omission of those few
| from what seems to be an otherwise comprehensive document
| is, I thought, notable.
| trbleclef wrote:
| Just remember, you can't watch a Warner Bros. movie without a
| Warner Bros. ball cap:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSMj5M9w2qA
| dylan604 wrote:
| <shudder> 1-900 numbers. So they give you a number to order
| something from their catalog, but not only will they get money
| from you for the items, it's also $1.50 per minute for the
| call. "I'm sorry sir, but our systems are running a little slow
| today" to the point your 1-900 fees are more than the items
| your ordering.
| function_seven wrote:
| No, no. It's ok. The 900 number is just to order the catalog
| itself. Once you get that, then you place your orders the
| regular way.
|
| (Or, that's what the scumbags told themselves, I'm sure)
|
| I think the only thing that outdoes this is the Santa Claus
| commercial that would play the DTMF tones for the kids who
| didn't know how to dial a phone. I can't find an example now,
| but I've seen it before, and Wikipedia has a reference to it.
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premium-
| rate_telephone_number#...
| vadansky wrote:
| Haha, closest modern equivalent would be blasting "Hey
| Alexa, order the latest Peppa Pig Bluray!"
| biofox wrote:
| Love Web 1.0 sites. Submitted to https://wiby.me
| leephillips wrote:
| This is an amazing resource (for those of us who love these
| cartoons). Thank you for sharing it.
| forgingahead wrote:
| Nice find. My favourite was always "I shoulda turned left at
| Albuquerque".
|
| Good explanation from Quora[0]:
|
| _The old Route 66 (often referred to as "The Mother
| Road")--which opened in 1926 to drive from Chicago to Los Angeles
| --was the main method of heading west until the 1950s and the
| building of modern superhighways. (The trek of numerous Okies and
| other rural families made destitute by the Dust Bowl in the 1930s
| has been memorialized in Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath.")
| Route 66 travels through Albuquerque--and actually intersects
| itself in the middle of downtown (ie., you can stand on the
| corner of Route 66 and Route 66)--so lots of people likely got
| confuddled and turned around while driving through
| Albuquerque...like Bugs!_
|
| [0]: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-origin-of-the-statement-
| in... (Sean Griffin's answer)
| staticman2 wrote:
| I'm guessing younger people don't understand what a big deal the
| Looney Tunes used to be. With less channels and less cartoons in
| the old days, they were something kids would watch repeatedly in
| reruns. You didn't have a choice of several "cartoon only"
| channels if you wanted to watch a cartoon.
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