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