Looney Tunes was called Looney Tunes because they we cartoons that had nothing to do with the music but WB had to use the music in some way to keep the rights. So Looney Tunes are music videos. Change my mind.
Fruit of the Loom with the Cornucopia: Fake
Curious George with a tail: Fake (I know because I had the fucking Curious George huffing ether shirt in college.)
Chic-Fil-A: Fake (Link to Chick-Fil-A’s founder S. Truet Cathy’s book “Eat Mor Chikin” published in 2002)
Looney Toons: Fake
Fruit Loops: Fake
Oscar Meyer: Fake (I often confused the two spellings as a kid because we often bought Oscar Mayer hot dogs from Fred Meyer.)
Berenstein Bears: Not fake, more of a matter of different publications running with different spellings.
Jiffy: Fake
Febreeze: Fake (link to archived post from 1996 in an ad magazine announcing P&G releasing Febreze)
Okay Maybe I’ll come back and finish digging up the evidence for all of these, but literally the Pikachu one is the only one I’m unsure about. I’m positive everything else on the left hand side has been completely debunked or is a situation like the Berenstain Bears where different publishers used different spellings, especially in the home videos.
Pikachu with a dark tail tip is definitely fake. The main variation that was added later on was a heart-shaped tail for female Pikachu, and like another user mentioned, marking that one black for the unique Cosplay Pikachu.
Well sure it’s been debunked but the myth is that a timeline jump means historical records are going to be different from your memory.
So the proof that Looney Tunes is a myth isn’t in historical documents but from my memory where I know it was Tunes because of Merry Melodies. My memory agrees with historical proof.
If you’re gonna post shit like this, at least make a list for those of us who are dyslexic or neurodivergent or too damn lazy…
Left hand is what people “remember” right hand is actual reality.
Anyone who remembered it as “Looney Toons” and not “Looney Tunes” apparently missed the “Merrie Melodies” as well.
I dunno, so many of these I remember them as they actually exist.
Looney Tunes was called Looney Tunes because they we cartoons that had nothing to do with the music but WB had to use the music in some way to keep the rights. So Looney Tunes are music videos. Change my mind.
I’m pretty sure the earliest ones didn’t have dialogue and thus were effectively music videos.
Some of them are real, some of them are not. The Febreze one for example is fake.
Fruit of the Loom with the Cornucopia: Fake
Curious George with a tail: Fake (I know because I had the fucking Curious George huffing ether shirt in college.)
Chic-Fil-A: Fake (Link to Chick-Fil-A’s founder S. Truet Cathy’s book “Eat Mor Chikin” published in 2002)
Looney Toons: Fake
Fruit Loops: Fake
Oscar Meyer: Fake (I often confused the two spellings as a kid because we often bought Oscar Mayer hot dogs from Fred Meyer.)
Berenstein Bears: Not fake, more of a matter of different publications running with different spellings.
Jiffy: Fake
Febreeze: Fake (link to archived post from 1996 in an ad magazine announcing P&G releasing Febreze)
Okay Maybe I’ll come back and finish digging up the evidence for all of these, but literally the Pikachu one is the only one I’m unsure about. I’m positive everything else on the left hand side has been completely debunked or is a situation like the Berenstain Bears where different publishers used different spellings, especially in the home videos.
Pikachu with a dark tail tip is definitely fake. The main variation that was added later on was a heart-shaped tail for female Pikachu, and like another user mentioned, marking that one black for the unique Cosplay Pikachu.
I think the Pikachu one comes from associating it with Pichu
https://pokemondb.net/pokedex/pichu
I worked in a library twenty something years ago and once held copies of the same Berenstain/Berenstein Bears story, but with the different spellings.
You’re right that they just changed it in subsequent printings. Over time, the older copies wore out and got replaced by the new editions.
Ferris Bueller you’re my hero
Well sure it’s been debunked but the myth is that a timeline jump means historical records are going to be different from your memory.
So the proof that Looney Tunes is a myth isn’t in historical documents but from my memory where I know it was Tunes because of Merry Melodies. My memory agrees with historical proof.
The Pikachu might be based on Cosplay Pikachu from Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire.