WHAT THE VIEWERS THINK : ‘LOONEY’ THOUGHTS

“Happy Birthday, Bugs: 50 Looney Years” was a prime example of how the corporate mentality can take a group of magnificent creative works and turn it into a pile of garbage in just a few minutes.

They obviously worked on the theory that everyone in the world has seen all the cartoons and they needed to jazz them up. The new generation could not possibly tell from this program what made these Warner Bros. animated masterpieces so great.

Just showing one 8-minute cartoon would have displayed more talent and ability than the entire staff of writers, guest stars, editors, special-effects people and musicians have or ever will have.

Art Merrill, San Diego