Looney Tunes

On the data. Two things need saying before anything else. The first is the number. This page says about a thousand theatrical shorts and refuses to be more precise, because the sources contradict each other three ways: 1,014 in one place, 1,041 in another, and a breakdown that sums to 1,017 in a third. The disagreement is about whether to count cut-down reissues, Blue Ribbon reissues and shorts released under neither the Looney Tunes nor the Merrie Melodies banner. Anyone quoting an exact figure is quoting one of three. The second is that Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies were two parallel series from the same studio that merged in practice by the 1940s. Everything is marketed as Looney Tunes now and the counts here combine both. The eras, roughly. Harman and Ising made Bosko musicals from 1930 to 1933, with none of the famous characters. Leon Schlesinger's studio brought in Porky in 1935, Daffy in 1937 and Bugs in recognisable form in 1940. Warner Bros. bought the studio in 1944, and the twenty years that followed, under Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng and Robert McKimson at what everyone called Termite Terrace, are what the franchise is actually famous for. Warner shut the animation studio in 1963. DePatie-Freleng made forty-seven cheaper ones to 1967, Warner-Seven Arts made twenty-four more to 1969, and then nothing theatrical at all for a decade. Thirty-eight one-off shorts trickled out between 1970 and 2014. New production only really restarted with Looney Tunes Cartoons in 2020. The five original films are Space Jam, Back in Action, A New Legacy, The Day the Earth Blew Up and Coyote vs. Acme. The five compilation films are shorts you have already seen with new linking animation, and they are listed separately here for that reason. Coyote vs. Acme is worth a line of its own. It was finished in 2023 and then shelved by Warner Bros. Discovery for a tax write-off, which caused enough public anger that the film was eventually sold to another distributor and released in August 2026, three years late. The Bugs Bunny Show is not one series and is not listed as an item here because no honest episode count exists for it. It began as an ABC prime time show in October 1960 with fifty-two episodes of classic shorts and new Bugs links, then became a Saturday morning fixture that ran under a rotating series of names until September 2000. Forty years of reshuffled packages of the same shorts. A total is not recoverable. On the spin-offs: Tiny Toon Adventures has new characters who are students of the old ones. Loonatics Unleashed is their descendants in 2772. Baby Looney Tunes and Bugs Bunny Builders are preschool. Tiny Toons Looniversity, from 2023, is a reboot of Tiny Toon Adventures rather than a continuation, with twenty regular episodes across two seasons and three specials. Space Jam and Space Jam: A New Legacy share a premise and not a story. Nothing carries over. One piece of live context: Warner Bros. Discovery agreed in February 2026 to be bought by Paramount Skydance, and as of now the deal has not closed and is in litigation. The characters are still Warner's.

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