Comments by "Neil Forbes" (@neilforbes416) on "The Origins of Goofy" video.

  1. Disney's cartoons were excessively "cutesy-pie" (ugh!) while Warner's Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies proved cartoons could be popular with all ages and genuinely funny WITHOUT resorting to playing the cute angle. That's why Warner's product was VASTLY superior to that of the Disney studios.
    5
  2. I don't think I'll bother. The Warner cartoons were FAR superior to Disney's scribblings.
    1
  3. There was nothing preventing Disney except his own utter lack of talent to create ANY really FUNNY cartoons. The earlier Warner cartoons, outside the main, and familiar character features with Bugs, Porky, Elmer, Daffy and such, the Merrie Melodies shorts produced by Leon Schlessinger, a lot of them were utterly stupid. It's not until Chuck Jones, Ted Clampett, Friz and Isadore Freleng and co. came on board at Warners did the really GREAT Warner Merrie Melodies and Looney Toons(or Tunes) classic shorts start to be produced. So while Warner's product improved RAPIDLY, there was ABSOLUTELY NO IMPROVEMENT AT ALL in the Disney camp, Disney kept churning out those saccharine-sweet overly-cute crap shorts they always did, except they started producing feature-length drivel, which made things 10 times worse. Warners, by contrast, kept their features short, never more than 8 minutes, and quick-paced, and that's what made Warner's cartoons, other than those produced by Leon Schlessinger, far superior to Disney's drivel.
    1