Looney Tunes In Pop Culture

Looney Tunes has been mixed in Pop Culture for decades with many references, spoofs, and parodies of the characters.

Futurama

 * Clips of various Looney Tunes cartoons are often featured in the opening sequence of several Futurama episodes.

The Fairly Odd Parents

 * Channel Chasers, part of the 4th season, featured numerous parodies of TV shows and movies, one of which is Looney Tunes.

Drawn Together

 * Marvin the Martian appears in two Drawn Together episodes:Charlotte's Web of Lies (where he is seen in Ling-Ling's Anger Management Group with The Hulk, Skeletor, and Yosemite Sam) and Toot Goes Bollywood.
 * Elmer Fudd (voiced by Chris Edgerly) in one episode appears at a party with his face pixelated.
 * In The Drawn Together Movie: The Movie!, The Road Runner gets run down and dies. After The Road Runner's death, Wile E. Coyote (voiced by Jess Harnell) says that his life has no meaning without The Road Runner and then commits suicide by shooting himself in the head with a prop gun.

Batman: The Animated Series

 * In the episode Trial, there is a scene in which the Joker says, "Th-th-th-that's all folks."
 * The Tiny Toons characters Buster and Babs Bunny make cameos in a magazine based on the series.

South Park

 * In the episode "Cartman Gets an Anal Probe", Cartman has a strange ability to play "I Love to Singa".

Barney and Friends

 * The character of Baloney in the Animaniacs episode, "Baloney and Kids" is an obvious parody to Barney.

Scooby Doo

 * Scooby Doo and Shaggy Rogers are seen in Looney Tunes:Back in Action in the WB Cafeteria, arguing with Matthew Lillard.
 * In Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, Scooby drinks a potion which turns him into the Tasmanian Devil
 * In the What's New Scooby Doo? episode New Mexico, Old Monster, the Road-Runner and Wile E. Coyote make cameo appearences while Scooby and the gang are driving through the desert.

Mickey Mouse Club

 * The Tiny Toons episode, The Buster Bunny Bunch, is a clear parody of the show.

Jules Verne

 * Around The World In 80 Days - Tweety's High-Flying Adventure
 * A Journey To The Center Of The Earth - Journey To The Center Of Acme Acres

​Charles Dickens

 * His book  A Christmas Carol  served as the inspiration for  Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas  as well as a  The Looney Tunes Show   episode.

Mark Twain
​ Dr. Seuss
 * Bugs Bunny In King Arthur's Court - an obvious spoof of A Connecticuter In King Arthur's Court


 * Tiny Toon Adventures - "It's a Wonderful Tiny Toons Christmas Special"  - A blue-colored Grinch, accompanied by his dog Max, looks down on "all the Shmagoos down in Shmagoo-ville", then dashes out of the way when he realizes he's in the path of  Buster  and  Babs ' sled.


 * Tiny Toon Adventures - Elephant Issues -  Plucky  makes a reference to  Green Eggs & Ham.


 * Animaniacs-The Warners and the Beanstalk" - The Warners try to convince the giant to eat gold eggs and meat in a manner similar to   Green Eggs and Ham . 


 * Animaniacs-  " The Kid in the Lid " - The plot is a parody of  The Cat in the Hat.


 * Freakazoid!   - "The Freakazoid"  - The song " You're a Meany, Nasty Lobe " is a parody of the song  "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch"  from  How the Grinch Stole Christmas!'


 * Histeria!  - "The Legion of Super Writers"  - Among the books that  Edgar Allen Poe  vandalizes are  The Cat in the Hat  and Green Eggs and Ham.


 * Histeria! - "Writers of the Purple Prose" - As part of one of the customer reviews for Chit's Notes, Loud Kiddington states that "Chit's Notes helped me get through the abridged version of Hop on Pop'"!"


 * Histeria! - "Presidential People" - The "Bush VS Broccoli" sketch is another parody of Green Eggs and Ham.

Real People
Barones Orczy
 * Her series,  The Scarlet Pimpernel,  served as the inspiration for  Chuck Jones ' cartoon  The Scarlet Pumpernickel.

Walt Disney

 * Acme Cable TV - Dizzy Devil appears as a parody of Walt.

Abbott and Costello

 * A Tale of Two Kitties - Babbit and Catstello, the anti-heroes of the cartoon, are obvious spoofs of Abbot and Costello
 * The Big Snooze - Bugs: "We're like Rabbit and Costello!"
 * Animaniacs - the Rita & Runt theme song mentions Abbot and Costello

Groucho Marx

 * Hollywood Steps Out
 * Hair-Raising Hare
 * 14 Carrot Rabbit

Errol Flynn

 * You Ought to Be in Pictures - while resigning from Warner Bros.,Porky remarks to his producer Leon, "W-w-what has Errol Flynn got that I don't?"
 * The Scarlet Pumpernickel - Daffy parodies Errol and even makes 2 direct references to him in the cartoon

John Kricfalusi

 * Tiny Toons Spring Break Special - given that John reportedly hated Tiny Toon Adventures (despite the fact that he designed Sappy Stanley for the episode Who Bopped Bugs Bunny?) Rank and Stumpy, parodies of Ren & Stimpy, were created for this episode as a joke to get back at John's criticism of TTA
 * In his book Hollywood Cartoons: Animation In Its Golden Age,historian Michael Barrier stated that John's works "testify to his intense admiration for Bob Clampett's Warner Bros. cartoons."

Michael Jordan

 * He was parodied in the  Animaniacs  episode, "Hooray For North Hollywood Part II."

Batman

 * The Looney Tunes Show - Reunion  -  Daffy claims he is Batman
 * The Looney Tunes Show - Another Bat Idea - Wile E. Coyote uses an ACME Batman Costume to try to catch The Road-Runner
 * Tiny Toons - The Just-Us League Of SuperToons, The Return Of Batduck   - Plucky poses as Batduck, an obvious parody of The Caped Crusader
 * Tiny Toons - Bat's All, Folks - the main antagonist, Question Mark (voiced by Charlie Adler), is an obvious spoof of Batman villain The Riddler
 * Looney Tunes - Gee Whizzzz - Wile E. Coyote uses an ACME Batman Costume to try to catch The Road-Runner.

Casablanca

 * Carrotblanca - The short is a parody of the film.

Monsters Inc.

 * The film referenced Marc Antony, from Looney Tunes.

The Shining

 * There is a scene in which the character Dick Hallorann says "Eh, what's up, Doc?" in an impersonation of Bugs Bunny.

Lucasfilm

 * Looney Tunes: Back In Action -In the film's final scene, Bugs fights the bubble gun-yielding Marvin with a carrot-shaped lightsaber whilst reading a book called "The Force For Dummies"
 * Attack Of The Drones - the title of the cartoon explains itself
 * A Quack in the Quarks - a typical Star Wars parody, complete with a villain named "Duck Vader" (voiced byJeff Bergman)

Walt Disney Pictures

 * Looney Tunes - 'Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs  - a parody of Disney's 1st animated feature,  Snow White & The 7 Dwarfs


 * Looney Tunes -  Sniffles  - the character was heavily based off of Disney's Oscar-winning animated short,  The Country Mouse
 * Animaniacs - Cutie & The Beast  - an obvious parody of  Beauty & The Beast,  a then-recent Disney film based on the fairy tale of the same name
 * Tiny Toon Adventures -  The show has parodied many Disney films and cartoons including  Who Framed Roger Rabbit? ,  The Little Mermaid  and  Mickey Mouse Club.

Pac-Man

 * The game on KidsWB.com called "Taz-Man is meant to be a parody of the game.
 * In the Tiny Toon Adventures episode Gang Busters Buster and Plucky play Pac-Man using their eyeballs. Plucky was Pac-Man and Buster was the ghosts.
 * In the Tiny Toons episode Buster & Babs Go Hawwian Montana Max plays a parody of the game called Plane-Man.
 * In the game Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster Busts Loose there is a maze game that is similar to Pac-Man but has a different gameplay.
 * The mini-game "Temple Run" from Loons: The Fight for Fame is a parody of Pac-Man.