Friz Freleng
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- August 21, 1906
- Died
- May 26, 1995 (aged 88)
- Birthplace
- Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Biography
Isadore "Friz" Freleng (1906–1995), sometimes credited as I. Freleng, was an American animator, cartoonist, director, and producer best known for his work on the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons from Warner Bros. He introduced and/or developed several of the studio's biggest stars, including Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Tweety Bird, Sylvester the cat, Yosemite Sam (to whom he was said to bear more than a passing resemblance) and Speedy Gonzales. The senior director at Warners' Termite Terrace studio, Freleng directed more cartoons than any other director in the studio (a total of 266), and is also the most honored of the Warner directors, having won four Academy Awards. After Warners shut down the animation studio in 1963, Freleng and business partner David H. DePatie founded DePatie-Freleng Enterprises, which produced cartoons (notably The Pink Panther Show), feature film title sequences, and Saturday morning cartoons through the early 1980s. The nickname "Friz" came from his friend Hugh Harman, who initially nicknamed him "Congressman Frizby" after a fictional senator that was in articles in the Los Angeles Examiner. Over time this shortened to "Friz".
Known For
Gremlins
How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales
The All New Pink Panther Show
The Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie
Daffy Duck's Quackbusters
The Lorax
Daffy Duck's Movie: Fantastic Island
Speedy Gonzales
Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales
The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries
Spider-Woman
Filmography
Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection
Movie · Director
The DePatie/Frelang Collection: Crazylegs Crane
Movie · Director
Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume One
Movie · Director
Daffy Duck: Frustrated Fowl
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Looney Tunes Super Stars Tweety & Sylvester: Feline Fwenzy
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Looney Tunes Super Stars Daffy Duck: Frustrated Fowl
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Looney Tunes Super Stars Bugs Bunny: Hare Extraordinaire
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The Essential Bugs Bunny
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Looney Tunes: Spotlight Collection Vol. 5
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The Pink Panther: Classic Cartoon Collection Vol. 2
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The Pink Panther: Classic Cartoon Collection Vol. 3
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Looney Tunes Collection: Best Of Bugs Bunny Volume 1
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Looney Tunes Golden Collection, Vol. 1
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Looney Tunes All Stars
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Marvin The Martian: Space Tunes
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Marvin the Martian & K9: 50 Years on Earth
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Bugs Bunny's Lunar Tunes
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The Looney Tunes Hall of Fame
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Daffy Duck's Quackbusters
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Daffy Duck's Movie: Fantastic Island
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Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales
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Bugs Bunny's Mad World of Television
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The Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie
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Bugs Bunny: All American Hero
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Pink Panther in Olym-pinks
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The Chocolate Chase
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Daffy Duck's Easter Egg-Citement
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The Yolks on You
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Daffy Flies North
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The Bugs Bunny Mystery Special
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Daffy Duck's Thanks-for-Giving Special
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Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales
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Fright Before Christmas
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Bugs Bunny's Christmas Carol
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The Bugs Bunny Mother's Day Special
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Bugs Bunny's Thanksgiving Diet
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How Bugs Bunny Won the West
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Bugs Bunny's Easter Funnies
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Bugs Bunny in Space
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Bugs Bunny's Howl-oween Special
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The Dogfather
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Pink-In
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The Ant and the Aardvark
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The Wild Chase
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Pickled Pink
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We Give Pink Stamps
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It's Nice to Have a Mouse Around the House
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Cats and Bruises
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The Great De Gaulle Stone Operation
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Sink Pink
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The Pink Tail Fly
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Shocking Pink
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Pink Ice
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Dial 'P' for Pink
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Pinkfinger
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The Inspector
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The Inspector
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Nuts and Volts
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Road to Andalay
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Pancho's Hideaway
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The Pink Phink
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Pink Pajamas
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Chili Weather
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Mexican Cat Dance
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The Unmentionables
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Devil's Feud Cake
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Crows' Feat
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Mexican Boarders
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Honey's Money
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Shishkabugs
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The Jet Cage
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The Last Hungry Cat
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The Rebel Without Claws
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The Pied Piper of Guadalupe
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Prince Violent
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D' Fightin' Ones
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Bad-Time Story
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Hyde and Go Tweet
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Goldimouse and the Three Cats
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Trip for Tat
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From Hare to Heir
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Horse Hare
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Lighter Than Hare
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Person to Bunny
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Mouse and Garden
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Mexicali Shmoes
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Tweet Dreams
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Hare-abian Nights
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Apes of Wrath
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Wild and Woolly Hare
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Tweet and Lovely
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Trick or Tweet
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Here Today, Gone Tamale
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Knighty Knight Bugs
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Hare-Less Wolf
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A Bird in a Bonnet
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A Waggily Tale
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A Pizza Tweety-Pie
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Three Little Bops
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Show Biz Bugs
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Birds Anonymous
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Gonzales' Tamales
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Bugsy and Mugsy
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Tweet Zoo
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Tweety and the Beanstalk
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Piker's Peak
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Greedy for Tweety
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Tugboat Granny
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Yankee Dood It
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Two Crows from Tacos
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Tree Cornered Tweety
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Tweet and Sour
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Napoleon Bunny-Part
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Rabbitson Crusoe
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A Star Is Bored
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Speedy Gonzales
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Hyde and Hare
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Lumber Jerks
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Heir-Conditioned
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Hare Brush
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Pizzicato Pussycat
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A Kiddies Kitty
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Sandy Claws
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Sahara Hare
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Roman Legion-Hare
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Stork Naked
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Red Riding Hoodwinked
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Pests for Guests
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Tweety's Circus
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Pappy's Puppy
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This Is a Life?
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Bugs and Thugs
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By Word of Mouse
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Goo Goo Goliath
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Dog Pounded
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Captain Hareblower
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Muzzle Tough
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Yankee Doodle Bugs
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Dr. Jerkyl's Hide
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Satan's Waitin'
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I Gopher You
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Snow Business
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Southern Fried Rabbit
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Robot Rabbit
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Ant Pasted
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Catty Cornered
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Fowl Weather
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Hare Trimmed
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A Mouse Divided
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A Street Cat Named Sylvester
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Tom Tom Tomcat
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Looney Tunes: Best of Speedy Gonzales Volume 1
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A Bird in a Guilty Cage
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Orange Blossoms for Violet
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Gift Wrapped
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Ain't She Tweet
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Hare Lift
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Little Red Rodent Hood
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14 Carrot Rabbit
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Cracked Quack
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Tree for Two
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Foxy by Proxy
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Ballot Box Bunny
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Putty Tat Trouble
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Tweety's S.O.S.
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Canned Feud
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Room and Bird
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Tweet Tweet Tweety
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The Fair Haired Hare
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Rabbit Every Monday
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A Bone for a Bone
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His Hare Raising Tale
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Big House Bunny
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Golden Yeggs
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Bunker Hill Bunny
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Canary Row
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All a Bir-r-r-d
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Mutiny on the Bunny
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Home, Tweet Home
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The Lion's Busy
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His Bitter Half
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Stooge for a Mouse
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Dough for the Do-Do
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Hare Do
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Bad Ol' Putty Tat
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Each Dawn I Crow
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Curtain Razor
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Wise Quackers
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Mouse Mazurka
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Knights Must Fall
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Which Is Witch
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High Diving Hare
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Buccaneer Bunny
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Kit for Cat
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Back Alley Oproar
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Bugs Bunny Rides Again
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I Taw a Putty Tat
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Hare Splitter
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A Hare Grows in Manhattan
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Slick Hare
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Rabbit Transit
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Tweetie Pie
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Along Came Daffy
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The Gay Anties
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Baseball Bugs
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Rhapsody Rabbit
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Racketeer Rabbit
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Of Thee I Sting
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Holiday for Shoestrings
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Hollywood Daffy
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Hot Spot
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Operation Snafu
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Herr Meets Hare
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Life with Feathers
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Hare Trigger
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Peck Up Your Troubles
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Ain't That Ducky
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Hare Force
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Stage Door Cartoon
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Little Red Riding Rabbit
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Three Brothers
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Pay Day
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Snafuperman
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Target Snafu
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Goldilocks and the Jivin' Bears
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Duck Soup to Nuts
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Slightly Daffy
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Meatless Flyday
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Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips
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Daffy - The Commando
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Pigs in a Polka
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Yankee Doodle Daffy
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Rumors
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Fifth Column Mouse
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Hiss and Make Up
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Greetings Bait
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Jack-Wabbit and the Beanstalk
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Gripes
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The Hare-Brained Hypnotist
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The Wabbit Who Came to Supper
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Porky's Pastry Pirates
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Ding Dog Daddy
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Saps in Chaps
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Hop, Skip and a Chump
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Double Chaser
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Foney Fables
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Fresh Hare
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Lights Fantastic
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The Sheepish Wolf
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The Fighting 69½th
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Rhapsody in Rivets
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Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt
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Sport Chumpions
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The Trial of Mr. Wolf
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The Wacky Worm
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The Cat's Tale
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Rookie Revue
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Notes to You
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Porky's Bear Facts
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You Ought to Be in Pictures
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Porky's Baseball Broadcast
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Little Blabbermouse
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Porky's Hired Hand
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The Hardship of Miles Standish
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Calling Dr. Porky
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Confederate Honey
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Malibu Beach Party
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Shop Look & Listen
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The Bookworm Turns
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The Mad Maestro
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The Bookworm
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Petunia Natural Park
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Seal Skinners
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Mama's New Hat
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The Captain's Christmas
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Jungle Jitters
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The Pygmy Hunt
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A Day at the Beach
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Poultry Pirates
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A Star Is Hatched
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My Little Buckeroo
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The Honduras Hurricane
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Pigs Is Pigs
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She Was an Acrobat's Daughter
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Clean Pastures
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Streamlined Greta Green
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September in the Rain
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Plenty of Money and You
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He Was Her Man
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The Fella with a Fiddle
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The Lyin' Mouse
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Sweet Sioux
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Dog Daze
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The CooCoo Nut Grove
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I'm a Big Shot Now
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The Cat Came Back
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Sunday Go to Meetin' Time
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When I Yoo Hoo
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I Wanna Play House
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Toy Town Hall
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At Your Service Madame
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Let It Be Me
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Bingo Crosbyana
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Boulevardier from the Bronx
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I Haven't Got a Hat
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Into Your Dance
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Country Boy
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Country Mouse
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Mr. and Mrs. Is the Name
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The Merry Old Soul
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Along Flirtation Walk
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The Lady in Red
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Flowers for Madame
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Billboard Frolics
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Little Dutch Plate
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My Green Fedora
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Those Beautiful Dames
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Pop Goes Your Heart
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Why Do I Dream Those Dreams
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Beauty and the Beast
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Buddy and Towser
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Buddy the Gob
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The Girl at the Ironing Board
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Buddy's Trolley Troubles
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How Do I Know It's Sunday
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Goin' to Heaven on a Mule
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The Miller's Daughter
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Shake Your Powder Puff
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Bosko's Picture Show
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Beau Bosko
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Bosko in Dutch
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Bosko in Person
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Buddy's Beer Garden
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Weary Willies
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Homeless Homer
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Hen Fruit
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Stripes and Stars
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The Wicked West
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Fiery Firemen
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