If HBO Max wants to truly make a difference with cartoons dedicated to showing characters fighting, it will avoid capitalizing on one of its protagonist’s difficulties with pronouncing certain letters and especially avoid having him discuss religion. This is unacceptable, and we haven’t even touched on the fact that Elmer is also fond of telling Bugs, “Say your pwayers, wabbit!” I’m hunting wabbits.” Depicting a character this way is obviously wrong, as it uses his speech impediment for laughs. In the early cartoons, when Elmer went hunting with a gun, he was known to turn to the camera and say, “Be vewy, vewy quiet. But also given the times, it’s worth noting that guns are not the only problematic thing about classic “Looney Tunes.” There are so many more, starting with another thing about Elmer. This is why the writers should go for Molotov cocktails instead of dynamite. Given that the whole premise of “Looney Tunes” is violent conflict, it’s an odd choice, if a wholly predictable one given the times. Will the scythe just bounce off? Bend? I should probably stop giving them ideas for how to make it plausible. Also, how does scythe failure work? When Elmer shoots Daffy and he gets coated in ash or his feathers fall off, that makes sense. It’s not like dynamite - the explosive, not Napoleon - has ever hurt anyone or that there was a movie titled for a giant blade that the protagonist used as a murder weapon.
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