Mickey Mouse Works and HBO's Looney Tunes. Both kicked off their classic cartoon revivals with a rollercoaster themed entry. Which does Zig Forums like best?
Looney Tunes' Pest Control:
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Mickey Mouse Works' Rollercoaster Painters:
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In Mickey Mouse Works' fourth episode, you have Donald in the Yosemite Sam role preventing his nephews from entering an amusement park ride, so there's even more of a parallel here:
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I like looney tunes better
Mickey Mouse Works uses the corporate, sterile, marketing designs for Mickey, Donald and Goofy and has that overall safe, tacky, out of touch vibe Disney reeked of in the early 2000s. It loses by default.
Peach skin Mickey is best looking Mickey
Visually I agree with you entirely, but at least it gave me some chuckles, which is more than what I can say for Bugs' cartoon
The Looney Tunes one doesn't have as good animation as the Disney one, but the character designs, voices, and humor are far superior imo.
The chainsaw and long woman jokes both got a laugh from me, which is two more than I had from the bugs short.
But yeah, they're about on the same trash tier level.
the mickey short >>> the looney tunes short
at least the gags with goofy made made me chuckle. the looney tunes short was just fucking boring.
The more recent Mickey Mouse shorts trump both of those.
Obviously, but does it have a rollercoaster themed short yet?
Was Mickey ever funny?
Peach skin is fine on Mickey, but making where his pupils were into his eyes was a pretty bad design choice imo, he looks better with big eyes. Mickey looked his best in pic related
This is the first time I ever heard of Mickey Mouse Works. I thought OP's clip was from House of House.
House of Mouse*
Not really. But his old shorts are really charming.
The new shorts are the first time Mickey’s made me laugh.
>wuhabbuh
House of Mouse pretty much is Mouse Works. Just took those shorts, made a few more and put the crossover scenes between them
When it comes to golden age cartoons, I've always been an MGM, WB, Paramount, and Fleischer guy. Even the C-tier animation studios like Terrytoons and Van Beuren.
From what I've seen of Disney's output seems largely boring save for the great animation and variable camera angles, but I've always wondered, what even is Mickey's personality?
That whole short just felt like Disney gave the crew one free pass to whatever the fuck they wanted for an episode
There's various Mickey, Donald, Goofy and even the odd Pluto that are very much worth watching. I could make ye a list if ye want.
Mickey really doesn't have much of a personality in a lot of the color ones. He's a scamp and an adventurer in various black and white cartoons.
The newer shorts and Runaway Brain are funny, but other than those not really. The only really good classic Mickey shorts are the ones with Goofy and Donald involved. His personality in the classics are just too plain and little to really be funny, doesn't have the quick to anger of Donald nor the Dimwittedness of Goofy and Pluto
The late 30s-40s Donald shorts and Goofy's Everyman from the 50s are pretty good
Goofy shorts are some of the funniest animations out there.
IIRC it's been documented Walt interfered in most of the shorts, vetoing ideas for gags or entire cartoons on personal whims...BUT that, aside from asking the team to go the Everyman direction in the 50's, he pretty much let the Goofy staff do whatever the fuck they wanted.
Which is why you really have a sense of unleashed creativity in various Goofys that you don't get in much of Disney's other output. (In all fairness supposedly Disney was lessening on his hands-on control by the late 40's-early 50's)
Holy fuck the timing on the Rollercoaster Painters short is horrible.
Rollercoaster Paints wins this one. More visual jokes, less time spent on setup (and the setup itself is funnier), it actually takes advantage of the setting, the music is more in sync with the action, and ultimately, the characters and their dynamics are funnier.
Yeah the more stock visual design is unfortunate but as far as the actual meat of the short I think it does its job much better.
Don's short is alright too if more routine. Can't go wrong with his Little Stinker characterization.
what about the mickey one?
Supremely based and EveryoneIsGoofy-pilled
I love the one where Mickey cheats on Pete with Mortimer as his bully. It’s such a stupid concept yet perfect.
The new shorts approach Mickey in the perfect way. They maintain his main characteristic of being a good guy and beloved, but makes it funny by amping it up and making it almost a flaw.
I am one of the guys who loved unironically disney over everyone else in my childhood, then in adolescence and early adulthood started to appreciate Looney Tunes and even more Tom & Jerry, but i always find enjoyment out of Disney shorts regardless, specially if you manage to find them with their classic dubs ( which i have wink wink)
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