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Hello, my name's Justin the Clue.

And I'm Will Sloan.

And you're listening to The Important Cinema Club. And that's all, folks. Nah, I'm just kidding. We're just starting. And we're going to be talking about the Looney Tunes or the Merry Melodies. Both, really. So, cartoons, are they important in your life, Will? Were they important when you were a kid? Did you toss them away and go, these are for children? Of course they are important in my life. Aren't they important in everyone's

life? Well, some people at a certain age decide like, oh, these are infantile, make dumb jokes,

like they have no value to me anymore. No, I remember when I was maybe nine or ten, I rented a video

from Blockbuster called Cartartoons for Big Kids,

which was not a porn.

You beat me to it.

It was actually a documentary hosted by a friend of the show Leonard Moulton, in which he sort

of showed in their entirety a lot of somewhat racy cartoons, Red Hot Riding Hood.

He's like, make sure your mom is out of the room for this one, kid.

Moulton after dark.

Yeah, he was a very Al Goldstein-like presence.

Just sweaty under light of the big gold chain?

I give this one, 95 on the Peter meter.

But he showed the big snooze, the great piggy bank robbery, and despite the somewhat lascivious sounding title, it was very much about how cartoons were made for, you know,

an audience of, you know, a general theater audience.

Like adults, pretty much.

Like when you hear the animators who worked on the golden years of Mary Melodies and Looney Tunes,

they always say that they never tried to target it for children because it was adults that

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