Was Taz-Mania any good?

him and Marvin the Martian left an impact on people. They both had almost no episodes so it's weird

I get Marvin but Taz was just another dumb animal trying to eat Bugs

It just shows that this show was basically cashing in on his popularity, even though he wasn’t the most interesting character on his show.

I feel you, I think that giant furball wearing sneakers appeared in more cartoons than Taz and Marvin combined

wasn't Taz Bug's pet in the looney tunes show?
that was weird.

Pretty enjoyable for what it was, probably doesn't hold up today, kids probably wouldn't get the whole thing with his dad being a sort of Bob Hope parody

I remember this show was hard to watch, they rarely aired it when I was a kid and I have no idea why

Didgery Dingo's dialogue made me laugh, like he was humoring Taz's typically barbaric commentary but not really interested

>>The catchy as hell theme song
>>"Blah Blah Blah Yackity Smackity"
That's pretty much what I remember about it. Also, that it was on Fox Kids.

Bing Crosby infa 100%

good program but, it couldn't decide whether it was set in australia or usa. the voice acting was all over the place.

Why is Taz the only member of his family that's a nudist?

IIRC the dad goes naked when he tries to spend quality time with Taz and it drives him bananas.

So Taz has potential to be a suave chill guy.

His dad was Bing Crosby, his uncle was the one who was the Bob Hope parody.

I also remember that episode, though I think every member of Taz's family went full crazy at some point.

The theme song was pretty great, probably the most memorable thing of the show for me.

Referring to Gossamer. He only appeared in two, while Taz and Marvin appeared in five.

I seem to recall his sister going apeshit over a couple of things and all, but when did Taz's mom ever hit her own berserk button? Apart from the time the entire family beat the shit out of the crocodiles for ruining their little kid's hand puppet.

He was ridiculously popular as far back as the 80s.

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Maybe is because I was so little when I watched the show or maybe it wasn't that memorable but I don't remember much of any specific episode outside of the really memorable parts and the recurring jokes and catchphrases.

I do remember how stupidly fast the Kiwi was. Dragging everything around him as he ran. They even say in the episode how easily can outrun the a Roadrunner.

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I remember their mom going ape shit when they were stuck at a mall and a pair of buzzards kept messing with them to the point she went full taz on them.

> kids probably wouldn't get the whole thing with his dad being a sort of Bob Hope parody

I saw the show growing up in the 90's and didn't get the Bing Crosby was Taz's dad (or knew who Bing Crosby was) until some user explained it to me a few years ago.

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Actually that was Taz. He eventually beat the almighty hell out of them and made feather coats for his mom and sister so they could keep warm over night as they were stuck in the lot with no car.

This show is offensive to Tasmanians, it doesn't represent us well at all. To accurately portray a Tasmanian family Taz should've been fucking his sister and the entire family should have had two heads.

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The mom doesn't. The kids inherited their violent outbursts from their father.

for a second there I thought this was Shadman...

youtube.com/watch?v=CBlPn3krdwM

This game almost made me want to be a trucker and have comfy road adventures.

I think he was in at least five theatricals, but according to Toon Heads the one who was in charge of the animation department at the time of the first short hated the character and told McKimson to not reuse him. Then a bunch of years later one of the actual Warner Brothers was all, 'hey what happened to that guy, he was great,' so more got made. Supposedly this is also why the second short is so similar to the first, because they were reintroducking him.

I'm sure he's responsible... somehow...

>one of the actual Warner Brothers was all, 'hey what happened to that guy, he was great,' so more got made
based.
get fucked, art department cuck.

Taz was literally the Elmyra of the old Looney Tunes. He was a real threat to Bugs because of his animal insticts and superhuman strength,

That was kinky

Except Taz was popular and Elmyra wasn't

This image looks weird to me, like the artist was told they had to draw Taz to fit his standard character seen in Looney Tunes merch, but the rest of the family can still be drawn in the show's art style.

He was super popular in the late 80s and early 90s. Warner used to make tons of merch for him around that time

Huh? Really I always remembered that as the mom doing the deed then again I haven't seen that show let alone particular episode since I was like 8 or 9.

Now remembering all the wiggers wearing Looney Tunes clothing where Bugs, Daffy or Taz is dressed in urban style wear. I can't believe I actually miss this fad.

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It reached critical mass in the 90s.

Ah yes, the Hip Hop Looney Tunes fad. Bugs even had a track on the Space Jam soundtrack.

youtu.be/T4kgRw3ZamY

Hey he actually turned the tables on Bugs here and there.

Americans had an obsession in the 80’s-early 90’s for Australian culture. So it’s not surprising it went forgotten as quick as the Australomania ended.

That one bit where bugs pulled a trick on Taz and kept mocking him only for Taz to be standing behind him gets me every time.

>This image looks weird to me, like the artist was told they had to draw Taz to fit his standard character seen in Looney Tunes merch, but the rest of the family can still be drawn in the show's art style.
If I had to guess, I'd say the original pitch had Taz looking like and some exec shit their pants and cried "Revise!!".

>Australomania ended.

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The game wasn't

youtube.com/watch?v=PAUGAd4C204

This movie had me entertained and mad at the same time.

I had the Master System Taz-Mania game and loved it. Same as Mega Drive's Taz: Escape From Mars or whatever it was called.

youtube.com/watch?v=itkntvoSZjw

What happens in Alice Springs?

>think this is initially just random edginess
>remember devil facial tumor disease is still going with the species possibly dying out very soon

Shit, man...

Pete Puma's enduring usage is the one I truly don't get. He was literally only in ONE short. EVER. Yet since the 90s he's made an appearance in nearly every Looney Tunes project that's gotten made (and yes, he eventually got a second short in the 90s in that Foghorn Leghorn thing that ran before Cats Don't Dance).

Did they only keep using him because Stan Freberg was still alive and they wanted to give a Golden Age VA roles to play? Well, he's dead now. You can retire this unfunny character, WB.

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Post Taz's sister.

Taz's brother is cuter.

I remember that episode with the Bushman using those potions ...................

Abo gang wars, probably. Fucked if I know. All I know about Alice Springs is how I've seen people react to having gone there. You can go in without a racist bone in your body and come out wishing for Abo genocide.

Taz is to Looney Tunes what Wolverine is to the X-Men.

Overused and overrated?

Horny for redheads?

i tried to get some porn of her in Yea Forums drawthreads, just gave up, that was before /trash/ existed, would try again there but those drawthreads are very dead

I meant that I'm pretty sure OP's image is a more recent one done for a DVD or digital release, and some mandate from WB forced the artist they hired to draw Taz in a different art style than the rest of the image. At least that's how it looks to me.

special.. blend

I think the closest Jean ever got to going full-Taz was when she had to fill for him at the hotel he worked at and make Bob think she was him.

It was set in Tazmania

This thread reminded me of how I used to have a small Taz chair as a toddler that lasted for a few years, and how my dad had a Taz shirt

Damn, I’m really starting to miss when Looney Tunes was a bigger merchandising juggernaut than Mickey

>family should have had two heads.
Down Under Dan reference or coincidence?

they were theatrical shorts not television episodes you uncultured swine

Marvin didn't even have an official name back in the original shorts (Chuck Jones referred to him as "Antwerp"). He wasn't given the name "Marvin the Martian" until the late 70s/early 80s where they started putting him on merchandise with all the other Looney Tunes.

The toys were great

I can't even remember it. His dad was calm and super nice though. That's it.

One of the shorts called him "Commander X-2".

That was his stage-name for that short, just like Daffy's being "Dodgers" and Porky's being "Cadet."

No, X-2 was from a Bugs Bunny short.

Well then, there you go. That inconsistency kinda shows that the writers didn't know what to call him. I got "Antwerp" from Bob Bergen, who said not only was it Chuck Jones's name for the character, but also the name Mel Blanc used when playing the character for a handful of LT projects in the 70s (a Looney Tunes ice show was the example he used).

Didn't Bob have a break down in that short and she broke character to offer him advice and all he could do was sob uncontrollably as she went into full Mom mode?

Maybe. I mostly recall Bob angrily kicking her out at the end of the day shouting to get in on time tomorrow or "he" is fired. To my memory, he never figures out she's not really Taz.

> It's a Bushlad/Wendal Wolf/Bushrat episode

> It's a Dingo/Bull & Axl/Willy Wombat episode

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Have the other Taz guys ever reappeared?

Nope, just like how the Tiny Toons didn't, the Duck Dodgers supporting characters didn't, and no character original to the 2011 LT show will.

A bit unfortunate. It would be cool if they turned up again in Space Jam 2 as part of the audience or something. Like a sort of freeze frame bonus.

Huh, you're basically right. He was in 5 golden age shorts and then stuff like Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales and Daffy Duck's Movie: Fantastic Island. It feels like he was in a bunch of shorts, so I guess he's a bit like Marvin in that regard.

Axl had a brief cameo in a Duck Dodgers episode.

>If you see da police [warn a brother]

The only two episodes I remember was the kiwi episode and the orange tree war episode.

Which one?

I really wonder who draws this stuff. Who spends their days coming up with street/gangsta versions of the Looney Tunes?

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I think it's great and legit funny, with a lot of good cartooning. It was great seeing a '90s cartoon in this style that actually created new, original slapstick gags, instead of doing the Tiny Toons thing of just rehashing ancient jokes from the '40s. This show had a lot of solid dialogue-based humor too, so it really delivered on all fronts.

It's a seriously underrated cartoon and well-worth checking out. I guess it's widely forgotten just because the network aired it at really awkward times.

Kids definitely didn't get it back then either. He was just a fun character.

MMORPD, I think.

I can actually see myself wearing this one

>instead of doing the Tiny Toons thing of just rehashing ancient jokes from the '40s.
As someone who liked Tiny Toons, yeah, that was a big problem the show had.

Someone who can draw and sees money in putting it on graphic t-shirts which were also all the rage for a while.