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In 1941, Maltese was hired by Leon Schlesinger Productions, which three years later became Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc. (Maltese had actually appeared on camera in the 1940 Porky Pig cartoon You Ought to Be in Pictures as a live-action guard at the Warner Bros. entrance gate, who winds up chasing the animated Porky around the Warners lot). The first cartoon he wrote for Warners was The Haunted Mouse (1941) by Tex Avery. He first worked for Freleng until 1948, but after that he worked mostly for Chuck Jones, contributing stories to other directors at times, including Robert McKimson. He and Jones collaborated on classic cartoons like the Academy Award-winning For Scent-imental Reasons and the animated public health documentary, So Much for So Little which won that same year for "Best Documentary Short Subject." Maltese was also the voice of the Lou Costello-esque character in Wackiki Wabbit. Some of his earlier works include The Wabbit Who Came to Supper and Fresh Hare, Hare Trigger (which introduced Yosemite Sam), Baseball Bugs for Freleng; Bear Feat, Rabbit of Seville, and Rabbit Fire for Jones. Some of his best-known cartoons are Feed the Kitty, Beep, Beep, Rabbit Seasoning, Don't Give Up the Sheep, Duck Amuck, Bully for Bugs, Bewitched Bunny, From A to Z-Z-Z-Z, and Beanstalk Bunny. These were all directed by Jones. He also worked on One Froggy Evening, the first appearance of future Warner Brothers mascot Michigan J. Frog. Some of his later cartoons included Ali Baba Bunny, Robin Hood Daffy, the seminal What's Opera, Doc? and Duck Dodgers in the 24th Century for Jones and Person to Bunny (the final time Arthur Q. Bryan voiced Elmer Fudd) and Here Today, Gone Tamale (the only Speedy Gonzales cartoon he ever wrote) for Freleng. Maltese also collaborated with Jones on the 1960s Tom and Jerry theatrical shorts for MGM. From 1958 until 1970, he worked at Hanna-Barbera Productions on television cartoons such as The Quick Draw McGraw Show, The Flintstones, The Jetsons, and Wacky Races. Maltese also did scripts for comic books published by Western Publishing, including for many of the same Warner Brothers and Hanna-Barbera characters whose animated exploits he scripted.
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19 April 1952
Bugs Bunny's rabbit hole floods, causing him to float to the laboratory of an evil scientist who wants to use his brain for a robot.
13 March 1955
A witch's broom breaks right outside of the broom factory where Woody just happens to be working. Unfortunately for her she doesn't have the 50 cents needed to purchase a new handle.
16 January 1955
After a dog destroys a couple of Woody's houses, Woody finds warmth from the rainstorm in the same house that the dog lives in.
26 March 1942
A collection of various gags in the form of a travelogue.
15 November 1978
How Bugs Bunny Won the West is a Looney Tunes special that was released in 1978. This special was narrated by Denver Pyle.
20 November 1980
A 1980 Looney Tunes Thanksgiving special, starring Daffy Duck. Cartoons featured "The Scarlet Pump"
20 December 1958
Bulldog Marc Anthony, guarding a construction site, finds a kitten, Pussyfoot, to whom he affectionately gives a wiener for lunch.
08 September 1952
A teen-aged boy mouse falls in love with the girl mouse who lives in the hole across the room. But Claude Cat literally comes between them, and also tries to stir up a feud between their two families.
24 February 1950
A construction worker destroys Bugs' home with a steam shovel and refuses to repair the damage.
31 December 1963
Raymond has a serious carrot addiction, and it's up to Loopy to cure him from it.
07 June 1941
Bugs Bunny is hunted by Hiawatha, a stereotyped Native American who fills roughly the same role as Elmer Fudd in other Bugs Bunny cartoons of this era.
07 January 1965
Overhearing his boss, Bronco say he's going to get rid of an old saddle, Twister mistakes this for Bronco trying to get rid of him, and so, Loopy helps Twister escape.
23 October 1943
"As everyone knows," the narrator begins, "goldfish must have water... and cats hate water." And so it goes.
29 September 1956
Daffy Duck is a detective who is hunting for the Shropshire Slasher.
13 January 1945
Bugs disguises himself as Hitler, Stalin and Brunhilde when he confronts Nazi Hermann Goering in the Black Forest.
09 October 1959
Wile E. Coyote tries to catch the Road Runner by enclosing himself inside an indestructible steel ball.
03 December 1960
The sheet music for Johann Strauss' The Blue Danube is constructed by moving musical symbols. A baton-toting conductor note tries to direct his fellow notes in performing this musical piece, but finds that one of the notes has become drunk.
10 May 1957
Foghorn's going fishing, but a fox has other plans for him. Posing as a racetrack tout, he suggests Foggy get a hunting dog and go hunting.
18 September 1953
Hypnosis doesn't help the Coyote catch the Road Runner, nor do a clutch of string-controlled rifles or dozens of mousetraps, but they all manage to backfire on him, naturally.
13 June 1963
Loopy runs a organization called S.S.A. (Sheep Stealers Anonymous) to help wolves who are addicted to sheep, Sam Wolf however, becomes trouble for Loopy.
10 December 1955
While cooking a tin can, the Coyote spots a better meal rushing by: the Road Runner.
05 July 1941
Bugs is being chased by hunting dog Willoughby, and outsmarts him at every turn, until the end, where they outsmart the audience together.
23 August 1952
The Coyote makes various attempts to get the Road Runner with an explosive-tipped arrow, by shooting himself out of a sling shot and by covering the road with quick drying cement.
16 June 1951
A muscular dog exploits a cat and a mouse for food, but they keep forgetting to bring him gravy!
25 January 1957
Wile E. Coyote uses, among other things, a dehydrated boulder to try to catch the Road Runner.
08 July 1950
Bugs helps a penguin return home.
26 February 1954
A homeless cat (Claude Cat) searching for food is harassed by the playful antics and barking of an energetic pup (Frisky Puppy).
01 December 1956
Ralph Phillips is overjoyed when he runs out of Fort Itude, because he's a civilian again. Things, however, don't go well for him when he gets home, and two pixies named Pete and Re-Pete convince him to stay in civilian life or go back to the army.
14 September 1946
Hugo and Rocky (caricatures of Edward G. Robinson and Peter Lorre) make it home to their hideout only to find Bugs already settled down there for the night.
22 May 1954
Porky and Sylvester stay overnight in what Sylvester realizes is a terrifying hotel filled with endless imminent danger.
18 June 1943
Meadows the butler quits after being tormented by the spoiled family cat, who finds he is unable to survive on his own, especially after meeting the mice Hubie and Bertie.
29 April 1955
Among the strategies that fail in Wile E. Coyote's attempts to catch the Roadrunner: glue on the road, a giant rubber band, an outboard motor in a wash tub, and dressing in drag as a female Roadrunner.
01 August 1954
Paw comes home late after a night out and is determined to sneak inside without waking Maw. When he cannot manage it alone, he asks Milford the pig for advice.
02 February 1946
Bugs Bunny single handedly takes on the “Gas-House Gorillas,” a baseball team of hulking, cigar-chomping bullies.
15 March 1960
Sylvester, his wife, and son go for a walk while their porridge cools, when Goldimouse wanders by to eat the porridge and sleep in their beds.
11 April 1955
The old fishing boat captain tells the story of Chilly Willy, a singing polar bear and a bulldog who quickly falls asleep when he hears a lullaby.
30 December 1944
That wascawwy wabbit is chased into a theatre by Elmer Fudd, and ends up having to perform to save himself, as well as convince Elmer to act himself.
02 August 1947
A very tired businessman needs some sleep and checks into a hotel run by Elmer Fudd, where Daffy Duck is the bellhop.
15 February 1941
A starving cat wandering in the wilderness sees a sign that says "Ma's Place / Home Cooking / 3 Miles".
08 March 1947
Striving to be like all the high-class dogs in their fine coats, a little hairless pooch borrows a black and white fur coat of her owner, not realizing it makes her appear to be a skunk.
05 May 1956
Wile E. Coyote unsuccessfully chases the Road Runner using such contrivances as a rifle, a steel plate, a dynamite stick on an extending metal pulley, a painting of a collapsed bridge (which the Coyote falls into while Road Runner passes right through), and a jet motor.
29 October 1960
Tweety Bird goes on a world tour with his mistress, Granny. And a hungry Sylvester Cat follows them everywhere they go (France, Japan, Switzerland, and Italy).
05 April 1962
In France, Loopy meets the four musketeers and one of them goes to rescue a princess and Loopy goes with him to see him in action.
29 August 1955
During a square dance, held on a dog's back, celebrating the upcoming marriage between a boy and girl flea, a city-slicker flea shows up and kidnaps the girl to the big-city.
15 February 1947
Story of a pigeon who takes the place of a rare bird delivered to be eaten by a Peter Lorre character.
17 September 1964
Loopy, under the company name of Jealous Lovers Anonymous, helps Braxton again with his mad crazy jealous streak to win over his girlfriend, Emmy Lou.
01 December 1943
Snafu inadvertantly starts a panic on his base when he begins a mistaken rumour that the base is about to be bombed.
02 January 1942
Sammy Seagull and Cecil Crow have stowed away on the same ship. Cecil, from Iowa, wants to see a hula dancer; fortunately, they've just come within flying distance of a tropical island with a lovely dancer.
06 September 1958
Amid a snowy barnyard, Foghorn Leghorn deflects the carniverous attentions of a lip-smacking weasel.
09 June 1961
A take-off on Jack and the Beanstalk where Loopy participates in the well-known fairy tale by climbing a beanstalk by bringing back Jack to his mother and meets the giant.
11 June 1955
Bugs Bunny is playfully harassed by his animator.
20 December 1947
A slick movie director tricks a hayseed horse into becoming a stunt double.
21 July 1998
Collection of classic cartoons including "Haredevil Hare", "Mad as a Mars Hare", "Duck Dodgers and the Return of the 24 1/2th Century", "Spacedout Bunny", "Lumber Jack Rabbit", and "Hyde and Go Tweet".
25 February 1961
An inebriated mouse with a throbbing head takes a priceless diamond, thinking it's a soothing piece of ice.
28 June 1962
Loopy takes the role in babysitting Junior Bear after he accidentally scares the previous babysitter Goldilocks off.
26 April 1941
The Big Bad Wolf is on trial for crimes committed against Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother.
14 May 1949
It's breakfast time, and Pa finds the honeypot empty. Literally risking life and limb, he has Junyer help him raid a nearby beehive.
10 May 1947
This time Bugs' race with Cecil Turtle features a rocket-powered tortoise shell.
06 September 1947
Mice Hubie and Bertie wander into an automated house of tomorrow.
29 December 1950
Claude Cat is determined to get rid of the mistress's birthday present: a new puppy.
