Merrie Melodies

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Merrie Melodies
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Other titles	Looney Tunes (when aired on television alongside Looney Tunes shorts)
Country	United States
Language	English
Channels	Cartoon Network (United States) (formerly) Boomerang (United States) MeTV (as "Bugs Bunny and Friends") MeTV Toons (as "Bugs Bunny and Friends") Cartoon Network (UK and Ireland) (formerly) Boomerang (UK and Ireland) (formerly) Cartoon Network (Europe) (formerly) Boomerang (Europe) (formerly) Boomerang (Central and Eastern Europe) (formerly) Saudi 2 (formerly) Network 1 (formerly) Channel 5 (formerly) SBC 8 (formerly)
Services	Max
Release	August 2, 1931–June 13, 1997

Merrie Melodies is an American animated comedy theatrical short film series distributed by Warner Bros. It is the companion series to Looney Tunes, and featured many of the same characters as the former series. It originally ran from August 2, 1931 to September 20, 1969, during the golden age of American animation, though it had been revived in 1979, with new shorts sporadically released until June 13, 1997. Originally, Merrie Melodies placed emphasis on one-shot color films in comparison to the black and white Looney Tunes films. After Bugs Bunny became the breakout character of Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes transitioned to color production in the early 1940s, the two series gradually lost their distinctions and shorts were assigned to each series randomly.

Merrie Melodies was originally produced by Harman–Ising Pictures from 1931 to 1933 and Leon Schlesinger Productions from 1933 to 1944. Schlesinger sold his studio to Warner Bros. in 1944, and the newly renamed Warner Bros. Cartoons continued production until 1963. It was outsourced to DePatie–Freleng Enterprises and Format Productions from 1964 to 1967, and Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Animation resumed production for its final two years of the golden age era. When revived in 1979, DePatie–Freleng produced new shorts briefly, but replaced by Chuck Jones Productions the following year. During its final years, it was produced by Warner Bros. Animation.

Three of the Merrie Melodies films (Tweetie Pie, Speedy Gonzales and Birds Anonymous) won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film and another three (Duck Amuck, One Froggy Evening, and What's Opera, Doc?) have been inducted into the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress.

In 2013, TV Guide ranked the Warner Bros. Cartoons (ranked as Looney Tunes) the third Greatest Cartoon of All Time (out of 60), one of only six film series to make the list (the other five being the Pink Panther series, Popeye the Sailor, Mighty Mouse, Woody Woodpecker and Tom and Jerry).

International versions

• Dubs
• Voice-overs

	Language	Title	Channels
	Albanian (“Jess” Discographic)	Melodi të çmendura	Bang Bang (Klasikët e Kartonave; formerly) Çufo
	Albanian (Albania Production)	Lepuri i marrë ("Wackiki Wabbit Only")	direct-to-video Clover
	Bulgarian (Alexandra Video)	Звездите от Космически забивки	direct-to-video ("Stars of Space Jam")
	Bulgarian (Cartoon Network)	Весели мелодии	Cartoon Network (formerly) Max (formerly)
	Danish	Merrie Melodies	Cartoon Network (formerly) Boomerang (formerly) Max (formerly)
	Dutch	Merrie Melodies	Cartoon Network (Netherlands) (formerly) Cartoon Network HQ (formerly) Boomerang HQ (formerly) Boomerang (Central and Eastern Europe) (formerly) HBO Max (formerly)
	French	Merrie Melodies	Cartoon Network (formerly) Boomerang (formerly) France 3 (formerly) Canal+ (formerly) TPS Star (formerly) MBC 1 (formerly)
	Greek (Boomerang)	Merrie Melodies	Boomerang (formerly)
	Hungarian	Bolondos dallamok	Cartoon Network (formerly) Boomerang (formerly) Max (formerly)
	Italian	Merrie Melodies	Rai 2 (formerly) Rai 3 (formerly) Italia 1 (formerly) Cartoon Network (formerly) Boomerang (formerly)
	Japanese	メリー・メロディーズ	Cartoon Network (formerly)
	Norwegian	Merrie Melodies	Cartoon Network (formerly) Boomerang (formerly) Max (formerly)
	Polish	Zwariowane Melodie	Cartoon Network (Poland) (formerly) Boomerang HQ (formerly) Boomerang (Central and Eastern Europe) (formerly) Max (formerly)
	Portuguese (Brazil)	Merrie Melodies	Cartoon Network (formerly) Boomerang (formerly) Tooncast Max
	Portuguese (Portugal) (Gravisom)	Merrie Melodies	direct-to-video
	Portuguese (Portugal) (PSB)	Merrie Melodies	direct-to-video
	Romanian	Merrie Melodies	Cartoon Network (formerly) Boomerang (formerly) Max (formerly)
	Russian	Весёлые мелодии	Cartoon Network (Russia and Southeastern Europe) (formerly) Boomerang (Central and Eastern Europe) (formerly)
	Spanish (Latin America)	Fantasías animadas de ayer y hoy	Cartoon Network (formerly) Boomerang (formerly) Tooncast Max
	Spanish (Spain)	Fantasías animadas de ayer y hoy	Cartoon Network (formerly) Boomerang (formerly) Max (formerly)
	Swedish	Merrie Melodies	Cartoon Network (formerly) Boomerang (formerly) Max (formerly)

	Language	Title	Channels
	Bulgarian (BNT 2)	Весели мелодии	BNT 2 (formerly)
	Bulgarian (Beta Video)	Весели мелодии	direct-to-video
	Bulgarian (Proxima Films)	Весели мелодии	direct-to-video
	Bulgarian (Retel Audio-Video)	Весели мелодии	direct-to-video
	Bulgarian (Bugs Bunny cartoons only)	Весели мелодии	Super7 (formerly)

References

v - e - d (franchise) Series Looney Tunes (1930) • Merrie Melodies (1931) • The Bugs Bunny Show (1960) • The Porky Pig Show (1964) • The Road Runner Show (1966) • The Merrie Melodies Show (1972) • Tiny Toon Adventures (1990) • Taz-Mania (1991) • The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries (1995) • The Daffy Duck Show (1996) • Baby Looney Tunes (2002) • Duck Dodgers (2003) • The Looney Tunes Show (2011) • New Looney Tunes (2015) • Looney Tunes Cartoons (2020) • Bugs Bunny Builders (2022) • Tiny Toons Looniversity (2023) • Sports Made Simple (2024) Spin-offs The Plucky Duck Show (1992) • Loonatics Unleashed (2005) Shorts Porky in Wackyland (1938) • Room and Bird (1951) • Duck Amuck (1953) • What's Opera, Doc? (1957) • Box-Office Bunny (1991) • Chariots of Fur (1994) • Carrotblanca (1995) • Superior Duck (1996) • Pullet Surprise (1997) • Coyote Falls (2010) • Fur of Flying (2010) • Rabid Riber (2010) • I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat (2011) • Daffy's Rhapsody (2012) • Flash in the Pain (2014) Specials Bugs Bunny's Easter Special (1977) • Bugs Bunny's Howl-oween Special (1977) • A Connecticut Rabbit in King Arthur's Court (1978) • Bugs Bunny's Valentine (1979) • The Bugs Bunny Mother's Day Special (1979) • Bugs Bunny's Thanksgiving Diet (1979) • Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales (1979) • Daffy Duck's Easter Show (1980) • Bugs Bunny's Bustin' Out All Over (1980) • The Bugs Bunny Mystery Special (1980) • Daffy Duck's Thanks-for-Giving Special (1980) • Bugs Bunny's Mad World of Television (1982) • Bugs vs. Daffy: Battle of the Music Video Stars (1988) • Happy Birthday, Bugs: 50 Looney Years (1990) • Bugs Bunny's Overture to Disaster (1991) • Bugs Bunny's Lunar Tunes (1993) Compilation films Bugs Bunny: Superstar (1975) • The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie (1979) • The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie (1981) • Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales (1982) • Daffy Duck's Fantastic Island (1983) • Daffy Duck's Quackbusters (1988) Movies Two Guys from Texas (1948) • My Dream Is Yours (1949) • Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) • Space Jam (1996) • Back in Action (2003) • Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021) • The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie (2024) Direct-to-video films Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation (1992) • Tweety's High Flying Adventure (2000) • Baby Looney Tunes' Eggs-traordinary Adventure (2003) • Baby Looney Tunes: Backyard Adventures (2003) • Bah, Humduck!: A Looney Tunes Christmas (2006) • Looney Tunes: Rabbits Run (2015) • Teen Titans Go! See Space Jam (2021) • King Tweety (2022) • Taz: Quest for Burger (2023) Video Games Buster and the Beanstalk (1996) • Bugs Bunny: Lost in Time (1999) • Space Race (2000) • Bugs Bunny & Taz: Time Busters (2000) • Looney Tunes Racing (2000) • Sheep Raider (2001) • Loons: The Fight for Fame (2002) • Taz Wanted (2002) • Back in Action (2003) • Acme Arsenal (2007) • Duck Amuck (2007) • Cartoon Conductor (2008) • MultiVersus (2022/2024)