Friz Freleng
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Isadore "Friz" Freleng (1906–1995), sometimes credited as I. Freleng, was an American animator, cartoonist, director, and producer best known for his work on the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons from Warner Bros. He introduced and/or developed several of the studio's biggest stars, including Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Tweety Bird, Sylvester the cat, Yosemite Sam (to whom he was said to bear more than a passing resemblance) and Speedy Gonzales. The senior director at Warners' Termite Terrace studio, Freleng directed more cartoons than any other director in the studio (a total of 266), and is also the most honored of the Warner directors, having won four Academy Awards. After Warners shut down the animation studio in 1963, Freleng and business partner David H. DePatie founded DePatie-Freleng Enterprises, which produced cartoons (notably The Pink Panther Show), feature film title sequences, and Saturday morning cartoons through the early 1980s. The nickname "Friz" came from his friend Hugh Harman, who initially nicknamed him "Congressman Frizby" after a fictional senator that was in articles in the Los Angeles Examiner. Over time this shortened to "Friz".
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The Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie (1981)
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Daffy Duck's Movie: Fantastic Island (1983)
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Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales (1982)
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Daffy Duck's Quackbusters (1988)
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Baseball Bugs (1946)
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Hollywood Daffy (1946)
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Pink Pajamas (1964)
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Dog Daze (1937)
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Looney Tunes Collection: Best Of Bugs Bunny Volume 1 (2004)
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Rumors (1943)
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Jungle Jitters (1938)
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Dog Pounded (1954)
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Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales (1979)
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Room and Bird (1951)
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Kit for Cat (1948)
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Gripes (1943)
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Golden Yeggs (1950)
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Pinkfinger (1965)
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Hare Trimmed (1953)
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Ant Pasted (1953)
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Country Mouse (1935)
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His Hare Raising Tale (1951)
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Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume One (2011)
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The Ant and the Aardvark (1969)
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Fresh Hare (1942)
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Hare Force (1944)
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Bad Ol' Putty Tat (1949)
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Meatless Flyday (1944)
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The Wild Chase (1965)
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Looney Tunes Super Stars Tweety & Sylvester: Feline Fwenzy (2010)
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A Mouse Divided (1953)
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Yankee Doodle Daffy (1943)
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Chili Weather (1963)
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Ballot Box Bunny (1951)
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Hare Do (1949)
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Greetings Bait (1943)
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Jack-Wabbit and the Beanstalk (1943)
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Pay Day (1944)
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The Last Hungry Cat (1961)
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Sahara Hare (1955)
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Three Brothers (1944)
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Target Snafu (1944)
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Lumber Jerks (1955)
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Buccaneer Bunny (1948)
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Knighty Knight Bugs (1958)
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Rhapsody Rabbit (1946)
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Duck Soup to Nuts (1944)
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Tweetie Pie (1947)
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I Wanna Play House (1936)
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Daffy - The Commando (1943)
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Speedy Gonzales (1955)
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Ain't She Tweet (1952)
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Stork Naked (1955)
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Ding Dog Daddy (1942)
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Looney Tunes Golden Collection, Vol. 1 (2003)
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Sport Chumpions (1941)
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Confederate Honey (1940)
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The Hare-Brained Hypnotist (1942)
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Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection (2020)
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Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips (1944)
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Sink Pink (1965)
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Canary Row (1950)
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Satan's Waitin' (1954)
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Snafuperman (1944)
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Napoleon Bunny-Part (1956)
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Lights Fantastic (1942)
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Little Red Riding Rabbit (1944)
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Looney Tunes Super Stars Bugs Bunny: Hare Extraordinaire (2010)
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Person to Bunny (1960)
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Wise Quackers (1949)
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Tugboat Granny (1956)
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Bugs Bunny's Easter Funnies (1977)
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The Pink Panther: Classic Cartoon Collection Vol. 3 (2005)
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Rabbitson Crusoe (1956)
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Fowl Weather (1953)
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Bugsy and Mugsy (1957)
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Tweet Dreams (1959)
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Southern Fried Rabbit (1953)
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Bugs and Thugs (1954)
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Apes of Wrath (1959)
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Slick Hare (1947)
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The Pied Piper of Guadalupe (1961)
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The Essential Bugs Bunny (2010)
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Stage Door Cartoon (1944)
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Tweety's Circus (1955)
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The Pink Phink (1964)
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All a Bir-r-r-d (1950)
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The Pink Panther: Classic Cartoon Collection Vol. 2 (2005)
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Operation Snafu (1945)
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Nuts and Volts (1964)
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His Bitter Half (1950)
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Hot Spot (1945)
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Rabbit Every Monday (1951)
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Bugs Bunny in Space (1977)
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Of Thee I Sting (1946)
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September in the Rain (1937)
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Little Blabbermouse (1940)
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We Give Pink Stamps (1965)
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The CooCoo Nut Grove (1936)
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Tweety and the Beanstalk (1957)
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Prince Violent (1961)
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Looney Tunes: Spotlight Collection Vol. 5 (2007)
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Little Red Rodent Hood (1952)
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14 Carrot Rabbit (1952)
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Putty Tat Trouble (1951)
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A Hare Grows in Manhattan (1947)
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Pink Ice (1965)
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The Trial of Mr. Wolf (1941)
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Buddy's Trolley Troubles (1934)
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Red Riding Hoodwinked (1955)
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Pigs Is Pigs (1937)
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Pickled Pink (1965)
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Hyde and Hare (1955)
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Sandy Claws (1955)
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The Wabbit Who Came to Supper (1942)
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Cracked Quack (1952)
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Pigs in a Polka (1943)
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A Bird in a Guilty Cage (1952)
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Show Biz Bugs (1957)
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High Diving Hare (1949)
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How Bugs Bunny Won the West (1978)
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The Inspector (1965)
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Bugs Bunny Rides Again (1948)
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Looney Tunes Super Stars Daffy Duck: Frustrated Fowl (2010)
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The Unmentionables (1963)
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This Is a Life? (1955)
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Daffy Duck's Easter Egg-Citement (1980)
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You Ought to Be in Pictures (1940)
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Horse Hare (1960)
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Hare Splitter (1948)
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A Bone for a Bone (1951)
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Snow Business (1953)
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Streamlined Greta Green (1937)
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Home, Tweet Home (1950)
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Ain't That Ducky (1945)
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Mouse and Garden (1960)
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Pink Panther in Olym-pinks (1980)
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The Bookworm (1939)
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Bugs Bunny's Mad World of Television (1982)
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Big House Bunny (1950)
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Dial 'P' for Pink (1965)
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Sweet Sioux (1937)
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Roman Legion-Hare (1955)
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Shake Your Powder Puff (1934)
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Pancho's Hideaway (1964)
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Honey's Money (1962)
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Shishkabugs (1962)
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Pink-In (1971)
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Mutiny on the Bunny (1950)
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A Bird in a Bonnet (1958)
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The Fighting 69½th (1941)
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Notes to You (1941)
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The Rebel Without Claws (1961)
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Captain Hareblower (1954)
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The Fella with a Fiddle (1937)
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Robot Rabbit (1953)
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Gift Wrapped (1952)
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Those Beautiful Dames (1934)
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Bugs Bunny's Lunar Tunes (1991)
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A Star Is Bored (1956)
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My Green Fedora (1935)
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Piker's Peak (1957)
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Bunker Hill Bunny (1950)
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Porky's Pastry Pirates (1942)
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Goldimouse and the Three Cats (1960)
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Curtain Razor (1949)
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Road to Andalay (1964)
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Tom Tom Tomcat (1953)
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Hare Lift (1952)
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Canned Feud (1951)
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The Great De Gaulle Stone Operation (1965)
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Pests for Guests (1955)
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He Was Her Man (1937)
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Tree for Two (1952)
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Pizzicato Pussycat (1955)
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Back Alley Oproar (1948)
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Shocking Pink (1965)
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Foney Fables (1942)
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Rookie Revue (1941)
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Yankee Doodle Bugs (1954)
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Tweety's S.O.S. (1951)
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Poultry Pirates (1938)
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Tweet Zoo (1957)
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Racketeer Rabbit (1946)
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Goo Goo Goliath (1954)
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The Looney Tunes Hall of Fame (1991)
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D' Fightin' Ones (1961)
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Buddy and Towser (1934)
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Slightly Daffy (1944)
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Greedy for Tweety (1957)
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Fiery Firemen (1928)
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Stooge for a Mouse (1950)
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Mexicali Shmoes (1959)
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Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt (1941)
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Gonzales' Tamales (1957)
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Plenty of Money and You (1937)
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Pappy's Puppy (1955)
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A Waggily Tale (1958)
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Tweet and Lovely (1959)
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Birds Anonymous (1957)
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A Pizza Tweety-Pie (1958)
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Trip for Tat (1960)
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Each Dawn I Crow (1949)
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Marvin the Martian & K9: 50 Years on Earth (1998)
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Three Little Bops (1957)
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Wild and Woolly Hare (1959)
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I Haven't Got a Hat (1935)
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Tweet Tweet Tweety (1951)
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Peck Up Your Troubles (1945)
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Mexican Cat Dance (1963)
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Heir-Conditioned (1955)
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Porky's Bear Facts (1941)
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Double Chaser (1942)
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The Cat Came Back (1936)
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Buddy the Gob (1934)
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A Kiddies Kitty (1955)
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Dough for the Do-Do (1949)
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The Merry Old Soul (1935)
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I Gopher You (1954)
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Fright Before Christmas (1979)
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Hare-Less Wolf (1958)
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Crows' Feat (1962)
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Foxy by Proxy (1952)
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Here Today, Gone Tamale (1959)
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Orange Blossoms for Violet (1952)
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Tweet and Sour (1956)
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Bugs Bunny: All American Hero (1981)
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Rabbit Transit (1947)
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Dr. Jerkyl's Hide (1954)
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By Word of Mouse (1954)
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A Street Cat Named Sylvester (1953)
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Beauty and the Beast (1934)
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Hare Brush (1955)
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Boulevardier from the Bronx (1936)
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The Pink Tail Fly (1965)
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From Hare to Heir (1960)
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A Star Is Hatched (1938)
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The Lyin' Mouse (1937)
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Bugs Bunny's Christmas Carol (1979)
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Life with Feathers (1945)
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Herr Meets Hare (1945)
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It's Nice to Have a Mouse Around the House (1965)
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Goldilocks and the Jivin' Bears (1944)
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Country Boy (1935)
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The Mad Maestro (1939)
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Hare Trigger (1945)
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Catty Cornered (1953)
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Muzzle Tough (1954)
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Cats and Bruises (1965)
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Trick or Tweet (1959)
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Mama's New Hat (1939)
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The Captain's Christmas (1938)
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Mr. and Mrs. Is the Name (1935)
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Fifth Column Mouse (1943)
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Hop, Skip and a Chump (1942)
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I Taw a Putty Tat (1948)
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Calling Dr. Porky (1940)
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Knights Must Fall (1949)
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Hyde and Go Tweet (1960)
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Porky's Baseball Broadcast (1940)
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Yankee Dood It (1956)
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Bingo Crosbyana (1936)
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She Was an Acrobat's Daughter (1937)
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Let It Be Me (1936)
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Mouse Mazurka (1949)
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Devil's Feud Cake (1963)
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Bugs Bunny's Thanksgiving Diet (1979)
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Tree Cornered Tweety (1956)
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Shop Look & Listen (1940)
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Rhapsody in Rivets (1941)
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Along Came Daffy (1947)
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The Fair Haired Hare (1951)
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The Lion's Busy (1950)
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The Bookworm Turns (1940)
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Billboard Frolics (1935)
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Looney Tunes All Stars (1999)
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The Bugs Bunny Mystery Special (1980)
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Daffy Duck: Frustrated Fowl (2010)
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The Bugs Bunny Mother's Day Special (1979)
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The Jet Cage (1962)
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How Do I Know It's Sunday (1934)
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Malibu Beach Party (1940)
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Saps in Chaps (1942)
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When I Yoo Hoo (1936)
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Seal Skinners (1939)
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At Your Service Madame (1936)
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Hare-abian Nights (1959)
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The Wacky Worm (1941)
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Bugs Bunny's Howl-oween Special (1977)
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Daffy Duck's Thanks-for-Giving Special (1980)
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Pop Goes Your Heart (1934)
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Mexican Boarders (1962)
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Hiss and Make Up (1943)
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The Chocolate Chase (1980)
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I'm a Big Shot Now (1936)
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Little Dutch Plate (1935)
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Petunia Natural Park (1939)
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Toy Town Hall (1936)
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Porky's Hired Hand (1940)
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Clean Pastures (1937)
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Lighter Than Hare (1960)
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Which Is Witch (1949)
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Bosko's Picture Show (1933)
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Holiday for Shoestrings (1946)
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The Cat's Tale (1941)
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Weary Willies (1929)
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The Gay Anties (1947)
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Bosko in Person (1933)
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Daffy Flies North (1980)
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The Pygmy Hunt (1938)
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A Day at the Beach (1938)
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The Hardship of Miles Standish (1940)
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Bosko in Dutch (1933)
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The Lady in Red (1935)
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Sunday Go to Meetin' Time (1936)
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The Yolks on You (1980)
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My Little Buckeroo (1938)
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Homeless Homer (1929)
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Marvin The Martian: Space Tunes (1998)
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Buddy's Beer Garden (1933)
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The DePatie/Frelang Collection: Crazylegs Crane (2016)
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Flowers for Madame (1935)
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Along Flirtation Walk (1935)
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Goin' to Heaven on a Mule (1934)
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Into Your Dance (1935)
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The Sheepish Wolf (1942)
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Why Do I Dream Those Dreams (1934)
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The Girl at the Ironing Board (1934)
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Two Crows from Tacos (1956)
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Beau Bosko (1933)
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The Miller's Daughter (1934)
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Hen Fruit (1929)
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Bad-Time Story (1961)
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The Honduras Hurricane (1938)
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Looney Tunes: Best of Speedy Gonzales Volume 1 (1953)
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The Wicked West (1929)
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Stripes and Stars (1929)
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