Best TV Episodes Never Made

[ThatOneGuyWithSunglasses]

Donkey Kong Country
S1 E23: Kong for a Day

Starts off relatively the same, minus the breakup with Candy Kong. K. Rool's plan would be quite different in this version; instead of using the Kremlings to frame DK, he takes a page from one of his old plans and creates a robot doppelganger. The DK robot insults Candy and Dixie, breaks Funky's surfboard and vandalises Cranky's Cabin. At some point, on his way home to scold the real DK, Diddy sees the robot with Krusha and Klump and realises what's going on.

When DK arrives at Cranky's Cabin, the other Kongs are there too and berate him for all the wrongs he seemingly caused (except Bluster, who's just there to see the look on his face). Cranky asks Diddy to be the new future ruler, but he refuses and tries to convince them that DK was framed with a robot. Nobody believes him and the two are banished to the snowy mountains.

After the two lament their losses with the iconic "Nobody's Hero", they're caught off-guard by heavy footsteps and a roar; it's Eddie the Mean Old Yeti! Eddie is about to attack them, but sees that DK is sad and asks what's wrong. It cuts to the three in Eddie's cave, as DK finishes telling him everything that happened up to this point. They have a deep-hearted conversation about friends and family. Eddie then reveals a secret: long ago, he used to live in the jungle with the other Kongs, but was banished after making a huge mistake.

Meanwhile, Krusha and Klump head to Cranky's Cabin with the DK robot, intent on seizing the Crystal Coconut. Cranky is shocked, but also angered at his "grandson's" return, and tells him to scram. When the robot tries to take the coconut by force, Cranky tosses a potion at it, causing it to short circuit and collapse. Upon hearing a loud "THUD", Klump and Krusha attempt to sneak inside, only for Cranky to launch them and the DK robot away with the trigger barrels. Realising that Diddy was telling the truth, Cranky contacts him and DK through the Coconut and tells them to come home. DK refuses, believing he'll be shunned by the other Kongs.

Later on, as DK, Diddy and Eddie continue talking, they are interrupted by the arrival of Funky's plane, followed by Bluster's barrelcopter. Cranky and the other Kongs apologise for jumping to conclusions and ask them to come back to the jungle; DK and Diddy forgive them. The Kremlings and a repaired DK robot then arrive (since their lair is connected to the mountains via cave) to claim the Crystal Coconut, which Cranky took with him. A big fight breaks out, but DK, Diddy and Eddie emerge victorious. Cranky offers to let Eddie come with them, but he declines, content with his current home.

EDIT: Moved this near the end of season 1, since Eddie is an antagonist in earlier episodes.

 

[ThatOneGuyWithSunglasses]

Donkey Kong Country
S2 E15-16: Your Wish Is Granted (Parts 1 and 2)

Unlike the Kong for a Day, I don't have a full plot in mind here; this is more of a rough draft if anything. I like the idea that the show is a prequel to the games, even if Nintendo had nothing to do with it, so I'd try to bridge the two with a series finale.

The Crystal Coconut finally declares Donkey Kong to be the ruler of Kongo Bongo and uses its powers to reshape the island into its look from DKC1 before shattering. The Coconut's destruction causes King K. Rool to snap, going from a bumbling ruler to an insane tyrant. Teaming up with Kaptain Skurvy, he and the Kremlings launch a final attack on the Kongs, but are ultimately defeated. They escape via Skurvy's ship, the Gangplank Galleon, but not before DK hits K. Rool in the eye with one last Banana Slamma (explaining why it's bloodshot in the games).

A short montage follows, as the Kongs enjoy their newfound prosperity. DK and Candy share a kiss, only to be interrupted by Bluster, who announces that he's leaving the island to pursue a new career, as their fight with the Kremlings had ruined his factory. Bias speaking here, I wouldn't be against including him in the games (he could replace Snide in DK64, for example), so this scene would be cut if he were to appear outside the show.

Eventually, DK and Diddy become bored of all of the peace, missing the excitement of their old adventures. Cranky comes to them and sarcastically suggests that they collect every banana on the island; DK takes this seriously and drags Diddy along with him. As the sun sets, Cranky chuckles to himself and remarks that they'll be "great video game heroes" someday.

 

[Tacomaster]

Looney Tunes: The Next Generation​

Airdate: Saturday, October 14, 2000, 6 PM-12 AM
Network: Cartoon Network

LARRY STORCH (V.O.)
“The year is 1967. Bugs Bunny has retired. The Road Runner has run away. Daffy and Speedy’s careers are in shambles. Now, a new team of toons will attempt to live up to their legacy! And they’re going to fail. Miserably! Cartoon Network presents, Looney Tunes: The Next Generation!”

Not quite an “episode”, but a cross between a special and a marathon. After acquiring the exclusive rights to all the Looney Tunes shorts in 1999, Cartoon Network decided to have a bit of goofy fun with their new toys. So, on October 14, 2000- the anniversary of the 1967 Looney Tunes short Cool Cat- CN aired a six-hour marathon of all the Warner Bros.-Seven Arts featuring the new characters created by them during their short run at the end of the series. These are surrounded by short, self-deprecating interstitials starring Larry Storch (the voice of many of these characters) , showcasing trivia and rejected characters. Essentially, it was like an extended episode of ToonHeads. The marathon is as follows:

EXTRA) William L. Hendricks, the formation of the new studio, and the mandate to create new characters.
1) Cool Cat
EXTRA) Cool Cat’s possible origins as Toing Tiger, a rejected Hanna-Barbera character
2) Merlin the Magic Mouse
EXTRA) Rejected Pitch - Innocents Abroad, starring Merlin the Magic Mouse, alongside Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Mentions are also given to other literature-based Rejected Pitches - The Arabian Knights, Go Go Gulliver, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, and Misadventures of Robin Hood
3) Hocus Pocus Powwow - starring Merlin the Magic Mouse, and guest starring Lo the Poor Indian
EXTRA) Rejected Pitches - Lo the Poor Indian, the guest star of the cartoon, and Choo Choo Jones
4) Norman Normal - a one-shot “Cartoon Special” produced by Warner Bros.-Seven Arts
EXTRA) Interview with Paul Stookey, Behind the Scenes of Norman Normal, and a Rejected Pitch - Puff the Magic Dragon.
5) Big Game Haunt - starring Cool Cat, and guest starring Spooky
EXTRA) Rejected Pitch - Spooky and Buddy. The similarity to Casper brings up more Rejected Pitches - The Absent-Minded Mr. Memo, a Mr. Magoo-type, The Villain Still Pursues Her, which resembles Dudley Do-Right, and Rock and Rowel, which resembles the Flintstones.
6) Hippydrome Tiger - starring Cool Cat
EXTRA) Larry Storch recalls his experience on the cartoons’ productions
7) Feud with a Dude - starring Merlin the Magic Mouse, and guest starring the Feudin’ Mountain Boys
EXTRA) Rejected Characters - The Feudin’ Mountain Boys
8) The Door - not produced by Warner Bros.-Seven Arts, but distributed by them
EXTRA) The Door producer Bill Cosby’s relationship with Warner Bros., specifically in their records division. It’s brought up that in another world, WB might have produced Fat Albert.
9) 3 Ring Wing-Ding - starring Cool Cat
EXTRA) Rejected Pitch - The Big Top
10) Flying Circus - one-shot, starring Ace and Fritz
EXTRA) The original pitch for Flying Circus
11) Chimp and Zee - one-shot
EXTRA) The original pitch for Chimp and Zee, as well as a similarly exotically set Rejected Pitch - Hawaii? I’m Okay, which leads into two other ocean-set Rejected Pitches - Steamboat Phil and Jolly Roger
12) Bunny and Claude (We Rob Carrot Patches)
EXTRA) The Next Generation in comics, including Bunny and Claude’s semi-crossover with Bugs Bunny
13) The Great Carrot-Train Robbery - starring Bunny and Claude
EXTRA) Rejected Pitches - Way Out West, for its western setting, and two film-based pitches- Keystone Kops, and a Rejected Character - Butch Catsidy, a potential new foe for Speedy Gonzales
14) Fistic Mystic - starring Merlin the Magic Mouse
EXTRA) Rejected Pitch - Hobo Bo, who bears an uncanny resemblance to the Outlaw in Fistic Mystic. This possible reuse transitions into another Rejected Pitch - Time Flies, which was repurposed into the Daffy and Speedy cartoon See Ya Later, Gladiator.
15) Rabbit Stew and Rabbits Too! - one-shot, starring Rapid Rabbit and the Quick Brown Fox
EXTRA) The original pitch for the intended series, where Rapid Rabbit was called “Jack Rabbit” and a Rejected Pitch - Road Runner Cavalcade, with the Bird Watcher.
16) Shamrock and Roll - starring Merlin the Magic Mouse
EXTRA) Rejected Pitch - Paddy O. the Leprechaun, who later evolved into O’Reilly
17) Bugged by a Bee - starring Cool Cat
EXTRA) Rejected Pitch - Jeanie the Genius, due to the scholarly-based setting of the prior cartoon, leading into two sci-fi Rejected Pitches - Space Train, and Lost Atlantis
18) Injun Trouble - starring Cool Cat, and the last ever Looney Tunes cartoon
EXTRA) Final Rejected Pitches - Lovey Doveys, Christmas Story, Toyland, Super Snooper, and a Li’l Abner TV series. Also of note is the studio’s other work (the opening titles for The Phynx, an anti-drug PSA for Lockheed, and Plymouth commercials), and the shutdown of the studio.

The marathon was rated TV-PG due to the offensive Native American stereotypes in Hocus Pocus Powwow, The Door, and Injun Trouble, and the generally more adult tones of Norman Normal and The Door.​

 

[JCC the Alt Historian]

You know, this is a pretty interesting thread. Watched!

 

[Otakuninja2006]

Looney Tunes: The Next Generation​

Airdate: Saturday, October 14, 2000, 6 PM-12 AM
Network: Cartoon Network

LARRY STORCH (V.O.)
“The year is 1967. Bugs Bunny has retired. The Road Runner has run away. Daffy and Speedy’s careers are in shambles. Now, a new team of toons will attempt to live up to their legacy! And they’re going to fail. Miserably! Cartoon Network presents, Looney Tunes: The Next Generation!”

Not quite an “episode”, but a cross between a special and a marathon. After acquiring the exclusive rights to all the Looney Tunes shorts in 1999, Cartoon Network decided to have a bit of goofy fun with their new toys. So, on October 14, 2000- the anniversary of the 1967 Looney Tunes short Cool Cat- CN aired a six-hour marathon of all the Warner Bros.-Seven Arts featuring the new characters created by them during their short run at the end of the series. These are surrounded by short, self-deprecating interstitials starring Larry Storch (the voice of many of these characters) , showcasing trivia and rejected characters. Essentially, it was like an extended episode of ToonHeads. The marathon is as follows:

EXTRA) William L. Hendricks, the formation of the new studio, and the mandate to create new characters.
1) Cool Cat
EXTRA) Cool Cat’s possible origins as Toing Tiger, a rejected Hanna-Barbera character
2) Merlin the Magic Mouse
EXTRA) Rejected Pitch - Innocents Abroad, starring Merlin the Magic Mouse, alongside Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Mentions are also given to other literature-based Rejected Pitches - The Arabian Knights, Go Go Gulliver, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, and Misadventures of Robin Hood
3) Hocus Pocus Powwow - starring Merlin the Magic Mouse, and guest starring Lo the Poor Indian
EXTRA) Rejected Pitches - Lo the Poor Indian, the guest star of the cartoon, and Choo Choo Jones
4) Norman Normal - a one-shot “Cartoon Special” produced by Warner Bros.-Seven Arts
EXTRA) Interview with Paul Stookey, Behind the Scenes of Norman Normal, and a Rejected Pitch - Puff the Magic Dragon.
5) Big Game Haunt - starring Cool Cat, and guest starring Spooky
EXTRA) Rejected Pitch - Spooky and Buddy. The similarity to Casper brings up more Rejected Pitches - The Absent-Minded Mr. Memo, a Mr. Magoo-type, The Villain Still Pursues Her, which resembles Dudley Do-Right, and Rock and Rowel, which resembles the Flintstones.
6) Hippydrome Tiger - starring Cool Cat
EXTRA) Larry Storch recalls his experience on the cartoons’ productions
7) Feud with a Dude - starring Merlin the Magic Mouse, and guest starring the Feudin’ Mountain Boys
EXTRA) Rejected Characters - The Feudin’ Mountain Boys
8) The Door - not produced by Warner Bros.-Seven Arts, but distributed by them
EXTRA) The Door producer Bill Cosby’s relationship with Warner Bros., specifically in their records division. It’s brought up that in another world, WB might have produced Fat Albert.
9) 3 Ring Wing-Ding - starring Cool Cat
EXTRA) Rejected Pitch - The Big Top
10) Flying Circus - one-shot, starring Ace and Fritz
EXTRA) The original pitch for Flying Circus
11) Chimp and Zee - one-shot
EXTRA) The original pitch for Chimp and Zee, as well as a similarly exotically set Rejected Pitch - Hawaii? I’m Okay, which leads into two other ocean-set Rejected Pitches - Steamboat Phil and Jolly Roger
12) Bunny and Claude (We Rob Carrot Patches)
EXTRA) The Next Generation in comics, including Bunny and Claude’s semi-crossover with Bugs Bunny
13) The Great Carrot-Train Robbery - starring Bunny and Claude
EXTRA) Rejected Pitches - Way Out West, for its western setting, and two film-based pitches- Keystone Kops, and a Rejected Character - Butch Catsidy, a potential new foe for Speedy Gonzales
14) Fistic Mystic - starring Merlin the Magic Mouse
EXTRA) Rejected Pitch - Hobo Bo, who bears an uncanny resemblance to the Outlaw in Fistic Mystic. This possible reuse transitions into another Rejected Pitch - Time Flies, which was repurposed into the Daffy and Speedy cartoon See Ya Later, Gladiator.
15) Rabbit Stew and Rabbits Too! - one-shot, starring Rapid Rabbit and the Quick Brown Fox
EXTRA) The original pitch for the intended series, where Rapid Rabbit was called “Jack Rabbit” and a Rejected Pitch - Road Runner Cavalcade, with the Bird Watcher.
16) Shamrock and Roll - starring Merlin the Magic Mouse
EXTRA) Rejected Pitch - Paddy O. the Leprechaun, who later evolved into O’Reilly
17) Bugged by a Bee - starring Cool Cat
EXTRA) Rejected Pitch - Jeanie the Genius, due to the scholarly-based setting of the prior cartoon, leading into two sci-fi Rejected Pitches - Space Train, and Lost Atlantis
18) Injun Trouble - starring Cool Cat, and the last ever Looney Tunes cartoon
EXTRA) Final Rejected Pitches - Lovey Doveys, Christmas Story, and a Li’l Abner TV series. Also of note is the studio’s other work (the opening titles for The Phynx, an anti-drug PSA for Lockheed, and Plymouth commercials), and the shutdown of the studio.

The marathon was rated TV-PG due to the offensive Native American stereotypes in Hocus Pocus Powwow, The Door, and Injun Trouble, and the generally more adult tones of Norman Normal and The Door.​

Cool! How well did this special/marathon hybrid do?

 

[Tacomaster]

Did relatively okay in the ratings, but it still lost in the ratings battle against Nickelodeon’s SNICK block. Shocker.

 

[Tacomaster]

Claire DeLoon in "Claire-Voyant"​

Release Date	August 23, 1969
Voice Characterizations	Janet Waldo, Lary Storch
Music	William Lava
Story	Cal Howard
Layouts	Bob Givens, Jaime Diaz
Backgrounds	Bob Abrams
Film Editors	Hal Geer, Don Douglas
Animators	Ted Bonnicksen, LaVerne Harding, Jim Davis, Ed Solomon, Norm McCabe
Direction	Bob McKimson
Production	Bill L. Hendricks

Plot​

One quiet day, a loon walks into town, a briefcase in her hand. She sets her briefcase on the ground and opens it. A large tent pops out, with a sign: "THE ALL-SEEING, ALL-KNOWING, ALL-BLABBING CLAIRE DELOON - FORTUNES 25¢". She enters the tent, just as a swarm of people (and anthropomorphic animals) surround the tent, waiting for their fortunes to be told.

MAN: I heard she's psychic!

WOMAN: I heard she can tell the future!

DUCK (not Daffy): I heard she's nothing but a quack!

A lovesick man is the first to enter. He asks Claire if he'll ever find true love. Claire uses her crystal ball to predict that the man and his lover will become inseperable! After the man leaves, she catches the eye of a rather unattractive lady, who she quickly falls in love with, much to his dismay. She gives chase to the man, eventually drawing them near a curb with wet cement. As a result, a passing cyclist splashes the cement onto them just as the lady embraces the man, rendering them inseperable- just as Claire DeLoon foretold!

Next up, Claire meets with a turtle, who is upset because he is so slow.

CLAIRE: Well, you may not be able to GO fast, but can you THINK fast?

Claire pulls a card trick on the turtle using tarot cards, which she then uses for her fortune. She predicts the turtle will become so fast, he'll be unstoppable! The turtle slowly walks out of the tent. Then he walks at normal speed. Then he jogs, then he runs. He is overjoyed at his newfound speed!

TURTLE: What do you know? The bird was right! I'm unstoppable! Yeah! I cannot be stopped! Woo-hoo! I... wait a minute. I can't stop! I CAN'T STOP! HELP! HEEEEELLLP!

The turtle, indeed, can't stop running, and ends up running off a cliff.

Then, a snobby and pretentious swan, who isn't here to have her fortune told...

SWAN: I don't BELIEVE in fortune telling.

CLAIRE: Well, good thing you came to a fortune teller's tent, you smug little...

The swan then rudely attempts to drink Claire's fortune-telling tea (a play on the tea-leaves method of fortune telling), before Claire swipes it back, warning the swan that "pride comes before a fall". The swan haughtily walks off, beak in the air, eyes closed... not mentioning her about to fall off the same cliff the turtle fell off.

CLAIRE: Say... do you think that smug swan will remember that she can fly?

(SPLASH)

CLAIRE: Or swim?

SWAN: HEEEEELLLP!!!

CLAIRE: I guess not.

Fourth, a mouse that's afraid of everything. Claire does a palm reading- literally, reading his palms like a book!

CLAIRE: Let's see... mhm... oh, oh dear... that sounds bad!

MOUSE: What? What is it?

CLAIRE: It says here... you'll come face to face with you're worst fear!

MOUSE: N-no! No I won't!

CLAIRE: You dare question the wisdom of Claire DeLoon?

The mouse reasons that if he can't SEE his worst fear, he won't be afraid of it. He blindfolds himself... then realizes that his worst fear is the dark! He runs off panicking, off of the same cliff that the turtle and swan fell off of.

CLAIRE: It's just as I feared...

Fifth, what appears to be an adorable little girl dressed as a princess, who wants to know if she'll ever become famous.

CLAIRE: Well, that depends- when's your birthday?

"LITTLE GIRL": Today. I'm five years old!

CLAIRE: Well, congratulations! And of course that puts you under the sign of Aries, which...

Claire pulls out her astrology book and gives a very long-winded, fast-spoken horoscope...

CLAIRE: ...which means, the way I see it, soon everybody will know your face!

The "little girl" is overjoyed and leaves... though not before taking back her quarter, attached to a string, showing her true colors.

“LITTLE GIRL”: Sucker…

This chick is much older and much more devious than she looks. I mean, look at her list of crimes on her wanted poster!

Wait, wanted poster? Yep, now everybody knows her face... including the police, who are right there looking at the poster!

CLAIRE: Say, I knew I recognized her from somewhere!

Sixth is a fisherman who hasn't gotten a bite lately. Claire drops a pebble in a glass of water and interprets the waves. She predicts the biggest catch with the biggest catch imaginable!

FISHERMAN: Oh boy! When will that be?

CLAIRE: Why don't you get out there and find out?

The excited fisherman runs out- only to be jumped by three human-sized fish!

FISH 1: Oh, so you like catching fish, eh?

FISH 2: We don't take kindly to your kind around these parts!

The fish beat the crap out of the fisherman- off-screen, of course.

CLAIRE: Of course, I never said who would be catching who...

A nervous cat is the unlucky seventh, unloading all of his troubles and worries onto Claire. Claire cracks open a fortune cookie (that looks more like a regular cookie) and offers half to the cat. According to the cookie, the cat will forget all his worries! The cat leaves, skeptical, when he's hit by a falling anvil! When he comes to...

CAT: Well, what do you know! I can't remember anything to be worried about! Oh dear, except one... I can't remember my name, either!

Eighth is a dog woman looking to lose some weight. Claire invites the woman to weigh herself on her talking scale (with her voice).

TALKING SCALE: You weigh 150 pounds. But don't worry... you're gonna lose a lot of it, and quickly!

When she leaves, the dog woman is bitten by a snake, looking to suck her blood. Good news, all of her fat is sucked up instead! Well, good news for the dog woman. Bad news for the snake...

Ninth, a poor man who asks if he'll ever be able to make some money.

CLAIRE: Hmm... don't mean to sound greedy, but do you have another coin I could borrow?

POOR MAN: I spent my last quarter on the fortune...

CLAIRE: Well, then... I'll have to improvise.

Claire turns the quarter and a piece of string into a makeshift pendelum. Using its movements, Claire predicts the man will find riches beyond belief! The poor man runs out, excited, only to find a crowd of annoying nerdy guys, all named Rich.

RICH: Hi! I'm Rich. What's your name?

POOR MAN: Pid. First name Stu.

RICH: Huh. I thought it'd be Rich.

The tenth and final customer is a scrawny teenage girl being picked on by a huge bully, wanting to know if he'll ever stop. Claire gives the girl a magic 8-ball, but it turns out to be super heavy- way too heavy for the girl. So she decides to use it herself, holding it with little effort.

TEENAGE GIRL: How are you doing that? That ball's super heavy!

CLAIRE: What can I say? I'm stronger than I look. (flexes bicep, which swells to comical size, then shrinks back)

With a shake of the magic 8-ball, Claire predicts the girl will soon have quite the growth spurt! The girl leaves and is immediately cornered by the bully. She's backed into a canister of radioactive waste, which drenches her. Suddenly, she begins to grow, and grow, and grow, towering over her former tormentor- and everything else! She picks up the bully and throws him away, before walking off happily. She comes across the boy she has a crush on but never knew she existed (until now), who nervously decides to court her- out of fear for his own safety. She picks him up and walks through the park. But all is not well, as she's spotted by two fighter jets...

PILOT 1: Good heavens! It's a giant monster!

PILOT 2: Uh, I don't mean to burst your bubble, but it looks more like a scrawny teenage girl. I'd say yet to hit her growth spurt, but...

PILOT 1: Then that means she's only gonna get bigger! After her!

The jets fire on her. While mildly irritated by the missiles shooting on her at first, her annoyance quickly turns to fear when she realizes who's attacking her. (Despite her size, she's still a bit finicky.) She runs away and the jets give chase, resulting in the girl cowering and clinging on top of a skyscraper, boyfriend in hand, King Kong-style. We zoom out to see the results of everything, and then we see Claire viewing the damage from her tent.

CLAIRE: Quite a shame... but I did try to warn them. At the very least, all of my predictions came true!

She takes out her crystal ball again.

CLAIRE: And as for me? Well, I foresee a rather bright future for myself!

Suddenly, the lights go out in her tent, leaving Claire and the audience in the dark (save for the whites of Claire's eyes).

CLAIRE: Well, almost all of them came true...

Background​

With Alex Lovy’s previous attempts at new Looney Tunes characters having mixed success at best (Cool Cat, Merlin the Magic Mouse) and no success at worst (Chimp and Zee, Flying Circus), it was now Robert McKimson’s turn to make a character for Warner Bros. Seven-Arts. After having inherited Bunny and Claude and Rapid Rabbit from Lovy (who was set to direct the characters’ debuts, but left before he could), this character was an attempt to ride the waves of the feminist movement. While Warner had several prominent female characters before, such as Petunia Pig, Granny, and most recently Bunny of Bunny and Claude, this was to be Warner Bros. Seven-Arts' first solo female cartoon star. Several ideas were passed around, including reviving rejected Lovy-era pitch Jeanie the Genius, but eventually McKimson and writer Cal Howard decided on a fortune-telling waterfowl, a parody of the up-and-coming New Age movement. The staff immediately took a shining to the character, pitching in tons of ideas for shorts and gags, though it was decided early on that this first short would be a simple fortune-telling toon. Much as McKimson was planning to reintroduce Speedy Gonzales with Butch Catsidy as his new nemesis, and Lovy pitched a return to the Road Runner series in a half-hour special with “the Bird Watcher”, McKimson planned to eventually bring back Daffy Duck in Claire's series, with Claire as his new girlfriend. This, of course, never ended up happening- Claire's cartoon was the second-to-last of the classic Warner cartoon shorts.​

Reception​

While most of the Seven Arts-era cartoon shorts are near-universally reviled, this short by contrast is universally well-liked (though not really anybody's favorite), both for its unique lead and being actually pretty funny. This reappraisal mirrors that of fellow failed pilot Rabbit Stew and Rabbits, Too! (starring Rapid Rabbit and the Quick Brown Fox), though Claire DeLoon far eclipsed them in popularity, leading to the creation of recurring Tiny Toon Adventures character Shirley McLoon (in a similar fashion to fellow one-shot the Dodo from Porky in Wackyland birthing Gogo Dodo) and multiple cameos in The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries, alongside fellow Seven Arts character Cool Cat. ITTL she also replaces Melissa in The Duxorcist (in this version of the short, getting possessed after a seance gone wrong) and Baby Looney Tunes and Tina in The Looney Tunes Show, as well as appearances in New Looney Tunes (in both Daffy's and two of her own shorts), Looney Tunes Cartoons (in Happy Birthday, Bugs Bunny and three shorts, two solo and one featuring Daffy, all of which featuring the revitalized version of the Abstract WB title featured IOTL in Crumb and Get It), and Bugs Bunny Builders, with an appearance rumored for Tiny Toons Looniversity (with Shirley McLoon reappearing and Cool Cat and Merlin having appeared, it seems inevitable).​

Unused Short Ideas​

In Your Dreams - About Claire going into the dreams of others.
Ghost Wanted / Most Haunted - About Claire conducting a seance. This would be the second appearance of Spooky, from “Big Game Haunt”.
Astro Projection - Claire astral-projects herself onto another planet to fight an alien menace.
What In-Carnation? - About Claire meeting her past lives.
Yoga To Be Kidding - About Claire teaching a yoga class.
A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Read - About Claire reading peoples’ thoughts.
No Mind? No Matter - About Claire messing around with telekinesis, trying- and usually failing- to help.
Weather or Not - Claire gets a job as a weather forecaster, and her forecasts come true in the craziest of ways.
Corny Carnival - Claire goes to a carnival, where a conniving carny tries to scam her with one of the games. But Claire is always one step ahead!
Mechanical Mis-Fortunes - When Claire is threatened to be replaced by a mechanical fortune teller, she and the machine go head to head, competing to see who can predict fortunes quickly and more accurately!
Shock to the Chakras - This one was just a title, though it can assumed that this short would feature chakras in an important role.
Mind Over Muscle - When a big muscle bound bully threatens to spoil her beach day, Claire takes the opportunity to teach him about the power of mind over matter.
Crystal Clear - When Claire gets sick, she relies on her special healing crystals to nurse her back to health. But when a crook steals the precious crystals, it’s up to Claire to get them back- and her boyfriend Daffy to get her around!
Just Relax - A more “experimental”, mostly dialogue-less short that takes a different approach to Claire’s personality. A stressed-out Claire tries her darndest to cool off and relax, but that proves to be a challenge.
Karma Crash - After Claire and some one-off scoundrel accidentally run to one another, their karmas get reversed. Now, the scoundrel’s villainous acts are met with good luck, while Claire’s good deeds are met with bad luck!
And/Aura - Claire uses her aura powers to be in two places at once. Then three, then four, then five… soon, there are hundreds of auras- their mere presence taking energy away from the real Claire!
Spell Bound - Claire’s psychic abilities consistently draw attention away from Merlin the Magic Mouse, who quickly gets jealous.
Loon Light - Another “experimental” no-dialogue short, this time without a plot, instead centering around moon-themed classical music.
Here and There - A Droopy-esque cartoon with a teleporting Claire in the Droopy role.
Now You See Me - About Claire turning invisible.
Stuff and Non-Sense - About Claire losing her sixth sense.
Ele-Mental - About Claire playing with her pyrokinesis (control over fire), hydrokinesis (control over water), electrokinesis (control over electricity), and various other elemental control abilities.
Winging It - Daffy is teased by his fellow ducks for his inability to fly. Claire tries to teach him how to fly, through levitation. Key word, tries.
Speak Your Mind - Another “experimental” short, this time with dialogue. Claire and a fellow psychic have a telepathic conversation while going about their day.​

Finally made a design for Claire! The body was that of Bunny of Bunny and Claude fame, and the face was that of Ducky Lamour from “Rodent to Stardom”, both with modifications. The rest of the head was of my own design. For maximum authenticity, colors were taken straight from various W7 cartoons, except for the “skin” color, which was a 50/50 mix of her hair and beak colors.

 

[kaijudirector]

The Simpsons Season 11, Episode 14 - "Wives of Evergreen Terrace"
In which Marge takes care of Maude Flanders after she's gets into an accident . The two begin to bond, much to Homer's chagrin.

The Simpsons Season 12, Episode 5 - "Homer's Musical"
In order to save money on Smithers' upcoming Malibu Stacy musical, Mr. Burns has Homer pull double duty at the plant and for the musical as a songwriter. Lisa quietly helps, but this quickly leads to a conflict of interest.