Elmer Fudd has many avenues for cartoony violence and chaos in HBOMax’s “Looney Tunes Cartoons”, the restart of classic Warner Bros. cartoons.

But the infamous rabbit hunter will not detonate his cartoon gun.

Like all of the characters in the flashback animated series that started last week on HBO Max, Fudd will be unarmed. The new episodes date back to the Looney Tunes, which peaked in the 1940s and 1950s, in all respects filled with caricatural dynamite explosions and complex ACME pitfalls.

“We weren’t making guns,” said Peter Browngardt, the show’s executive producer and showrunner. New york times“But we can make cartoony TNT violence, the Acme stuff. It was sort of an acquired right.”

As the Times explains, in a short “Dynamite Dance”, Elmer Fudd arrives at Bugs Bunny with a deadly scythe, an attack stopped while the sharing inserted a stick of lit dynamite in Elmer’s mouth.

During the short animated video, the explosives get bigger when the rabbit blocks dynamite in Elmers’ ears, on the top of his bald head and on his pants. The relentless assault passes from rowboat to unicycle to biplane.

Despite the lack of guns for Fudd and characters like Yosemite Sam’s pistol shooting, Browngardt promised to keep the original feel of the cartoons, considered to be among the greatest in cartoon history.

“I always thought, what if Warner Bros. never stopped making” Looney Tunes “cartoons? Said Browngardt.” As much as possible, we have treated production this way. “

However, there was an uproar on social media regarding the lack of firearms.

“I CAN’T BELIEVE IN THE NEW LOONEY TUNES * cough * CARTONS that are really great, go see them * cough * DON’T LET ELMER FUDD USE A GUN”, wrote oneTwitter user.

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