• MagnyusG@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    Looney “Toons” is the stupidest one.

    It was always a pun on toons by spelling it “Tunes” and because music is extremely prominent for it.

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      12 hours ago

      Disney had cartoon shorts were called “Silly Symphonies.” Not sure which came first, but one is a play on the other.

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      12 hours ago

      Especially in the early ones; they were basically ads to sell music from the Warner music catalog.

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      9 hours ago

      I never got it as a kid, partly because it was a difficult pun for that age. I didn’t know the word tune nor would I later pronounce it like that. The first forms of that word, I ran into, were radio tuner and car tuning, nothing I’d associate with music