Now accepting recommendations for gay Looney Tunes
Added 2025-08-21 22:07:07 +0000 UTCIn celebration of Tubi now hosting Looney Tunes shorts, our next regular episode will be a discussion of them (plus Merrie Melodies shorts) that lend themselves to queer readings. Got one you'd like to recommend? Tell me in the comments!
(This one is 1932's Ride Him, Bosko. Ahem.)
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https://youtu.be/vjPI81EEW1c?si=WBvNmDtMUEbjMg-W&t=335
Jamie Aitchison @spacedaisie
2025-08-22 17:15:16 +0000 UTCThis might be a classic reach around, but "Bewitched Bunny" lives rent-free in my head. From Wikipedia: "a character resembling Prince Charming enters the house and kisses Bugs' hand. [!] Bugs wakes up and says: "You're looking for Snow White. This here's the story of HAHHN-sel and Gretel", and the Prince leaves, confused about how Hansel is pronounced." I've never understood why the prince repeats Hansel over and over. What's the gag?
Jamie Aitchison @spacedaisie
2025-08-22 16:58:37 +0000 UTCAlso worth noting that Elmer is often very attracted to Bugs in drag until his discovers he's a male. I'd call him the first TERF but there's no way he'd call himself a feminist.
Joshua Marchant
2025-08-22 03:46:17 +0000 UTCAlso, I'm sure you'll touch on this but there's some interesting gender fuckery with Tweety; He was based on director Bob Clampetts baby photos and named Orson on the first model sheet, he was and is considered a male character but is so cute and basically androgynous that he became WB's go-to character for merchandise targeted at girls.
Joshua Marchant
2025-08-22 03:43:58 +0000 UTCJust to give you an alternative to Bugs, there are a few Porky and Daffy ones which show them living in domestic bliss together, positing an enemies to lovers story. (Porky and Daffy, Daffy's Inn Trouble) Also Porky is 100% in love with Daffy during the original Duck Dodgers short.
Josh Sinason
2025-08-22 02:21:29 +0000 UTC^ This
Linoleum Knife
2025-08-22 02:03:20 +0000 UTCWhat's Opera Doc is the one that springs to mind, it's got Bugs seducing Elmer and has kind of a weirdly touching ending.
Josh Sinason
2025-08-22 01:42:28 +0000 UTCHair raising Hare Bugs giving Gossamer a manicure “My, I bet you monsters lead interesting lives.”
Lobo
2025-08-22 01:17:31 +0000 UTCRabbit of Seville ends in Bugs and Fudd getting married.
Lobo
2025-08-22 01:11:04 +0000 UTCThe first thing that immediately comes to mind is this quick gag from 1943's 'An Itch in Time' but I'll get back to you with more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2N2gPuT_MI
Joshua Marchant
2025-08-21 22:49:34 +0000 UTCYou beat me to it. :)
Darrin Granter
2025-08-21 22:10:55 +0000 UTCAnything with the Goofy Gophers
George
2025-08-21 22:09:16 +0000 UTC
