March 27, 2009
Looney-Tunes Is Back!
Posted by Butler Shaffer at March 27, 2009 01:16 PM
When I was a youngster, one of the features I most looked forward to when going to movies was the cartoon. Warner Brothers, Disney, and UPA provided the best. With television, alas, theater cartoons are largely a thing of the past. Until this morning, that is, when the news media informed us that the Fed is going to begin featuring ads in movie theaters! What an opportunity to restore a long-missing part of the culture. The voice of Mel Blanc is gone, but the prospect of seeing Elmer Fudd or Wiley Coyote - in the form of Ben Bernanke - futilely pursuing the Wascally Wabbit or the Road Runner - who seek only to be left to their own pursuits - might provide a bit of nostalgia. Perhaps, in the Fed version, Fudd and Coyote will prevail over the innocents, as a preview of the fate that awaits the rest of us.
In the words of Porky, "th-th-th-that's not all, folks!"