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