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Elmer Fudd won't have gun in new 'Looney Tunes Cartoons'

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June 08, 2020, 11:32 PM

Elmer Fudd will find new ways of hunting down Bugs Bunny in the new series "Looney Tunes Cartoons."

Series executive producer and showrunner Peter Browngardt told The New York Times that while there will be violence in the new HBO Max show, guns will not be featured.

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However, other weapons typically found in "Looney Tunes," including dynamite and anvils, will be.

"We're not doing guns," Browngardt said. "But we can do cartoony violence -- TNT, the Acme stuff. All that was kind of grandfathered in."

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"Looney Tunes Cartoons," which premiered late last month, is meant to hearken back to the original "Looney Toons" cartoons of the 1940s. As a result, some of the themes aren't necessarily in keeping with messages kids often receive today.

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"'Looney Tunes' is pretty much the antithesis of that," he added. "It's two characters in conflict, sometimes getting pretty violent."

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