Legendary Voice Actor Mel Blanc Returns For New Loony Tunes Shorts

It's funny because the duck's just about to blow his head off.

At first, the prospect of the old variety show you used to get at the movies sounds almost romantic . Imagine getting an “A” feature, a “B” feature and a couple cartoons, newsreels and trailers interspersed throughout. All four corners of entertainment, right? It’s an experience Grindhouse recreated so gloriously.

Thing is, modern audiences are nothing if not fragmented, so the variety show’s maybe better to imagine than to experience. It’s rare enough for people to like two separate movies the same way, let alone a whole bunch of shorts of completely different nature. I thought that Matrix short playing in front of Dreamcatcher was rad because I happened to like both stories, but I’m sure a lot of people in the audience saw it as eight minute delay of what they paid to watch.

I offer that food for thought because EW’s got word that new Loony Tunes CG shorts soon will be playing in front of certain WB features like Happy Feet 2. I expect it’ll all be copacetic, though. Shorts have been working real well in front of Pixar movies, haven’t they?

What makes this especially interesting is that voiceacting legend is returning to the Tunes. But wait! Hasn’t he been dead for more than 20 years now? The WB’s will be using some unused recordings by the man, as well as some novelty songs he did as the characters in years past. Call it a mash-up of old material and new.

Here are the descriptions of the new shorts…

Daffy’s Rhapsody: In the first of the new shorts, a persistent Elmer Fudd chases Daffy Duck (Blanc) on stage during a musical performance. The short features Blanc performing the song “Daffy Duck’s Rhapsody.”

I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat: A classic game of cat and bird transpires in Granny’s apartment as Tweety Bird goes to great lengths to avoid the clutches of his arch-nemesis Sylvester the Cat. The short also features the hit song of the same name, which was performed by Blanc, and sold over three million copies worldwide.

Untitled Coyote & Road Runner: Wile E. Coyote’s epic quest to capture the Road Runner continues in this all-new short. Will the Coyote finally get his paws on his elusive prize?