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Jo: Happy Valentine's Day, early! Today's streaming demons, today's streaming demons. We've got none other than Looney Tunes, A Day the Earth Blew Up, coming to UK Cinema, 13th of February, so you gotta get there now.
Jo: I'm with myself, Joe, hello, and my co-host, Amelie, say hello.
Amelie: Hey, hello.
Jo: She's waving hi. Today is something that we're going a bit bit above and beyond what we normally do, and you I love it. I saw this pop up in my box. I'm like, we might not get this, but I'm gonna go for a screener. And God, I'm so glad we got this one.
Jo: Looney Tunes. I grew up with it. I mean, that's just the American experience, right? You have Looney Tunes and you have Disney, but usually Looney Tunes is better.
Jo: Just something saying. Like movie pound for pound, like Looney Tunes was it. Did you grow up with that in France? Like Bugs Bunny and, you know?
Amelie: Yes, actually yes, in France we had Channel 4, SACARTOON, that was the name of the show, and it was very, very popular. So every Sunday night at 8pm after dinner, we all French people, French kids and adults, watched SACARTOON with Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck,
Jo: Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck. And this one right now, when you so when you hear Looney Tunes the day the Earth blew up, I didn't know who was in it. it i could Again, Joe doesn't read the press releases. He probably should.
Jo: But I liked being surprised. So i'm like, oh, you know, it just says right here, it's up to Porky Pig and Daffy Duck to save the world for Doom. I didn't know what to expect. I didn't know what expect. All I saw was Looney Tunes, and it's all I knew. is Like, you know what? I have not watched a cartoon movie in such a long time.
Jo: And I just wanted to share that experience with you because I think you would have enjoyed it. Now, This is PG-13 movie, so there's no swearing, there's no sex, there's no you know none of that stuff.
Jo: It's family-friendly, and I'm a read it from the IMDb. Okay, here we go. The IMDb, as we get like little people peeking in. Porky and Daffy, the classic animated odd couple, turn into unlucky heroes when their antics at the local bubblegum factory uncover a secret alien mind-control plot.
Jo: I swear it reads like ad-libs, but it's not. Against all odds, the two are determined to save their town and the world. yeah That is, they don't drive each other crazy in their process.
Jo: And it is, again, PG-13. So you can actually take this and run with it. When we were watching this, what did you think of the animation?
Jo: Because it's a bit different than classic Looney Tunes.
Amelie: I love it.
Jo: Yeah?
Amelie: I love it. So I'm a big fan of Bugs Bunny and Looney Tunes cartoon. I actually watched it as an adult and a young adult. They're different news series. As you know, there is a series nowadays with Daffy Duck, his girlfriend, Bugs Bunny and his girlfriend, which is very American, very modernized.
Amelie: What us French people we really like about this cartoon the show ah we watched when we were children.
Jo: Right.
Amelie: It's the cartoon when present presented as historic fact. Like for example, you would watch Tom and Jerry and say, so you're going to see Adolf Hitler represented by Jerry because this cartoon was uh shown during the cinema so the first cinema maghreb and you would see tom and jerry and it's during the second world war etc or for example they would make a joke about the president from the 60s and because we're french and we don't know they had to explain to us the meaning of each
Amelie: katoon So you're going to see an allegory of the presidential during the 70s, or for example, this one is a reference of the Watergate, or you're going to see this with this cartoon with Bugs Bunny being in Guantanamo.
Amelie: Yeah.
Jo: Guantanamo.
Jo: One hell left-term or Albuquerque. good to Get the good, though.
Amelie: yeah And it's really funny because it's for example, oh it's an homage to Dutch & Such movie was top one in America. Or for example, you're going to see a show and it's a wink wink to a TV host from the fifty s ah Sometimes there were special episodes with different caricatures of actors and actresses.
Amelie: So some of them we knew them, or you really need to be a cine field to know. Like for example, there is one eight p episode of the cartoon, it was Greta Carbot.
Jo: Oh, right.
Amelie: And you really need to know who is Greta Carbot to understand. So it was like a sort of history and funny cartoon to watch. And me as a French, when i grew up in the 90s, we had the Babytoons.
Amelie: So it was like the new series for the 90s.
Jo: oh right
Amelie: Then in the 2000, you add different series for the kids. And in 2010, you had more adult series with the girlfriend rabbit, with the girlfriend duck.
Amelie: And that's really cool because it's really well modernized, like people dress very modern. And what I really like is when you watch these cartoons, who were present in the 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, etc.
Amelie: When you watch how people dress in the cartoon, or what they do, it's a sort of bubble of history. And I really like how the new cartoonist, the new artist, just plays people now in shorts and baggy and listening to different kinds of music.
Jo: Right.
Amelie: Like during the episode, sorry, during the movie, I was singing the song... ah ah They were playing like, I really like it. It's very modern, but at the same time, very Looney Tunes.
Jo: Yeah, I think that you hit it on the head and they hit it on the head as well. Where some of the Looney Tunes franchise goes one way or the other, they always kept it fresh. They always kept it exciting. They always kept it contemporary.
Jo: And I went to a, gosh, I think it was like last year or guess now two years ago, if we're ever taking this now. Where it was like the Looney Tunes for Americans are the exposure you get to classical music as a kid.
Jo: And it continues on in in this one a little bit, but is also contemporary music. So it continues on in in a very nice way. And one other thing you kind of recognize early on is like, they kind of tell the origin story of Porky Pig and Daffy Duck and in a very cute way.
Jo: in a very disturbing way at some point, but a very cute way. And they are aware enough, without spoilers, there are there's parts that you were like, but Daffy Duck can't do that.
Jo: And then you go through an entire movie and Daffy kind of explains exactly what your point was.
Amelie: Yeah.
Jo: well It's hard to do without spoiling, but there's me once you see it, like you're going to see it.
Amelie: Yeah.
Jo: you know
Amelie: Yeah, yeah, definitely. I was like, it was really funny because I was like, oh my God, you can't do that. and you were like, oh, come on, it's animals who speak. Do you think a dog speak? Do you think a pig wears clothes?
Jo: Yeah, that was me saying, yeah.
Amelie: That's the thing, you know? I'm like, yeah, it's it's it doesn't make any sense, you know?
Jo: That was me explaining to you. Yeah.
Amelie: Like your little you were talking about classical music.
Jo: but
Amelie: Yes, yes. Even for us French people, it's really, really good. Like they wear music with, for example, Tom and Jerry or... Bugs Bunny, one set that is really well known when he has an orchestra and is just a cartoon, no dialogue, just Bugs Bunny who moves in different sense with his ears, body, etc.
Jo: Right.
Amelie: and all the orchestra. And they make it with a real orchestra in America, which is fantastic. And nowadays there is a lot of orchestra who plays the same music and the person who shows a ca end who move like vs verni just for the fun of it it's really good also famous daddadahhdadadahdada that da da did weers and musicique and the piano
Jo: It goes well and they continue that with this movie, The Day the Earth Blew Up. And it's okay, we will talk about the movie a little bit more.
Jo: But we have this on the screener and all I know is it's 90 minutes, it goes by really quick. And i would want to watch this in the theater.
Jo: I really would. It's one of those things, maybe even IMAX, maybe like all this round sounds like something like that. So maybe I will be in the UK and an Irish cinemas from February for that, February 13th.
Jo: Yeah.
Amelie: Definitely, yes. And i would like to say i was very em happy. Like, as a big fan of cartoons, especially the Looney Tunes, I'm super happy because the sense of humor is the same from the 40s, 90s and 30s, right?
Jo: Yeah.
Amelie: At the same time, the music, I loved the music. There is one song i was like singing around.
Jo: Yeah, no, that's good.
Amelie: that yes, it's modern, you can see it's from now, right? But it's still the same style. You know they use crayon to make it.
Jo: Well, oh, that's a translation to French pencil. For people that are like crayon, like, no, it's not. It's Amelie translating into, yeah. i will say...
Jo: This, the IMDB tags are alien invasion. Yes. Buddy comedy. Yeah, it's a buddy comedy. It really is a buddy comedy. It's a farce. It is a farce. It's hand-drawn animation.
Jo: Oddly enough, yes. When I say oddly enough, most people don't do that anymore. They just don't. It's quirky, slap suck, and it's an adventure. It's all these things you can take your entire family to and everyone's going enjoy it. I laughed more than a few times.
Jo: a little bit. I was like, I saw you starting out, you're looking smiles when you're watching it. You know, so it's one of those things you can take the entire family to and not cringe and not go like, oh my gosh, there's nothing to explain later on. There's nothing that you don't cover the kid's eyes.
Jo: There's none of that. And if you grew up, if you're Gen X, you will know these names for the the voice cast. Like,
Jo: Eric Bozza's Daffy Duck, Candy Melo. Spoiler alert. Petunia Pig's in this one were with Candy Melo. And Peter McNichol for the the alien.
Jo: And then I heard, i heard i didn't see it beginning, but i heard the voice. And I knew Carlos Alasraqui. Alasraqui. I'm going to say your name 12,000 times, Carlos, until you appear. Alasraqui. Alasraqui. Okay.
Jo: as As New Anchor, I'm like oh my God, is like that Carlos doing his voice? And look at Lorraine Newman as Miss Gretsch. You know, Wayne Knight's in there. Like Rachel Budra. All these people are in there. Fred Tatascori.
Jo: I loved it. I love that you just know these voices. Like if you don't know Carlos's voice, I did an interview with Carlos, God, four or five years ago with Jill Michelle Melian.
Jo: which I'm gonna kill everyone's name today. That's my lot in life. ah For Witness Infection. And i will say of all the people I've ever interviewed, including Stan Lee, including Stan Lee, including Joe, everyone else, they were charmers.
Jo: They were just fantastic charmers. I was like, because it was a such a fun interview and Witness Infection is such a great movie. If didn't check it out, it's a horror comedy. to Check that one out.
Jo: And to have this come out again, like five years later, to see everyone still you know working and doing this stuff, it was a nice little surprise for me when I was you know watching The Day the Earth Blew Up, a Looney Tunes movie, new franchise. you know So I got to see it from that angle of it.
Jo: Now, were there any major surprises in this movie for you? Without spoilers.
Amelie: Yes, the sense of humor, the joke.
Jo: Without spoilers. but Okay. it's that's we whats certainly yeah Good. We can talk about that. how what was a spoil What was the non-spoiler version? What sense of humor? What about that?
Amelie: It's very adult. It's not like Disney where it's ah sugar cutting is just for children. You watch it and there is no between the line jokes.
Jo: Yeah.
Amelie: But there two scenes I was like, whoa, it's for children? I can show that to my children? And there is one scene cannot describe because it would be a spoiler.
Jo: right
Amelie: I will just say it. Oh my God. It's French kissing.
Jo: oh yeah no i know exactly what you're talking about okay for those who are wondering it's yes but they do it in a in a comedic way right so the the adult will know and the kid just thinks this you know a kid would just think that there's playing around but adult
Amelie: Yeah, yeah.
Amelie: Yes, yes, but it's very text-savory. yeah
Amelie: Yeah, yeah.
Amelie: Yeah, yeah, yeah. And there is one scene at the beginning of the movie where I'm like, yeah, this is Tex Savory, I'm very happy. I laugh because it was so funny.
Jo: Yeah. Yeah.
Amelie: It was like really limit. I'm like, oh, in some country it would be censored. You know what I mean? And I'm like, this is a cartoon I like to watch. Because when you watch, for example, Bugs Bunny and he killed people or stuff like that, there's really jokes. Nowadays, when I rewatch this cartoon, now I speak English, I'm like, oh, what did he just say?
Amelie: Like he wouldn't be passing, they would be canceled. And by the way, they do joke about being canceled also. And I love it.
Jo: Yeah, and they even did some exposition jokes, like later on, again, I'll i'll mention this one joke, it's not going to spoil anything, where instead of giving exposition, Dak is like, here's the script, catch up.
Jo: And he shoves the script at at the person, like, oh, that's such a good way of doing it.
Amelie: Yeah.
Amelie: Yeah.
Jo: Because I don't see movies just like blah, blah, blah, you know.
Amelie: It's like, um yeah. And that's really cool because when you watch the cartoon, sorry for you Americans, when you watch Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Texavri, this kind of thing, um it's completely crazy.
Amelie: And what they do is, oh, we know we're just cartoon and this is ah an imaginary world and this is just a movie. So, here's a script or hey don't ask me ask the writer you know what i mean or sometimes you have box bunny who came out of this picture and like hey what what why why you dressing me like that please just dress me better you know and you see the big eraser and the big pencil he's like no better do you want me to erase you no no no no no don't erase me you see what i mean so it's really funny like uh it's it's could be it's completely crazy but it respect
Jo: It's getting erased with Bappy. Erased, yeah.
Jo: Yeah. Okay.
Amelie: what they used to do before the 50s. You see what I mean? But modern, with internet, with what's going on around the world. And when you watch it as an adult, it can be just seconds of cartoon and you're like,
Amelie: Yeah, I get it. I get you. Like, for example, there's a scene where Duffy is running down the street. it's like, oh my God, oh my God, this is crazy. This is crazy. This is so crazy. And he turned and he looked people around.
Amelie: And there is one picture where like, aha, nothing is said, but you can guess. Just by one picture.
Jo: Yep.
Amelie: And I'm like, this is really smart.
Jo: They really do well.
Amelie: It's really good writing. Yeah.
Jo: It's brilliant writing and the writers are Derek Bachman, Peter Braungart, and Kevin Costello and also directed by Peter Braungart. I'm so sorry guys. Today is the day I'm just gonna murder everyone's names. I can't say my own name half the time. Peter Braungart.
Jo: Holy crow. They're even not not even hard names. They're just me today. So the writing is solid. The production value is great. I i was looking at this and I know sometimes the cartoons will go for like the the anime style. And i fucking hate the anime style, by the way.
Jo: we We used to have a a no longer, one of the first logos was like, I'm like, fuck, I can't stand this logo. Just can't fucking stand it. It's not my style. like It's like nails on a chalkboard. So when they went actual,
Jo: I would say updated of the classic style. Is that fair? You can tell who they are by looking at them. They're not like, you're not viewing askew, but they're an update, a like cleaner copy of the original style, I think. It's a fair assessment, yeah?
Jo: Okay.
Amelie: um Yeah, for example, if you watch Scooby-Doo, there is a Scooby-Doo from the 60s, the 70s, the ninety s the 90s, the 2000s.
Jo: Right.
Amelie: Watch the series from the 2000s, Scooby-Doo. It's really well done. They work with historians. They're top of the top.
Jo: Yeah.
Amelie: And my favorite episode is the one with Louisiana.
Jo: I didn't
Amelie: End of parenthèse. But the last Scooby-Doo...
Jo: i didn't watch it.
Amelie: I don't recognize them physically.
Jo: Right.
Amelie: It's terrible. Like, no, no, no, I don't like it. Disney with Mickey Mouse, they did an amazing job through the years to modernize Mickey Mouse, to make it more 70s, 2000, etc.
Jo: right
Amelie: The last version of Mickey Mouse is hilarious, very modern. Very surprising for a Disney. And it really it's so it's a little wink of the original Mickey Mouse, the one who was made in black and white.
Jo: Right.
Amelie: So, yeah.
Jo: So this kind of continues like the day the earth blew up a Looney Tunes movie. of It kind of continues that, the update for Looney Tunes version. And i I was thrilled to see it. I was really ru thrilled to see it.
Jo: And if you are in the UK or Irish theaters, And you too can go see it in the theater, which I think, I'm going to be the person, you must see this in the theater. But if you've got kids, or this is a good date night movie.
Jo: If you want like a date night movie that's not going to be offensive, and you're kind to still going laugh, it comes to u k cinemas from the 13th of February. Go see it. Great Valentine's Day movie, you know?
Jo: If people don't laugh, you're with the wrong person. It's time to end the relationship early. If your kids don't laugh, leave them there. Get new kids.
Jo: I hear from making them fun.
Amelie: Oh, be careful. There is a scene who can really scare them. There is a scene where they're in the laboratory and you see the big monster.
Amelie: And it's really dark. But the way it draws, the way they move the camera from scene to scene, etc. I was thinking to myself, okay, that scene would scare my children for sure.
Jo: Really? I grew up with faces of death.
Amelie: But I really like it. Yeah, but...
Jo: I grew up horror movies, man.
Amelie: Really well done. Like I'm telling you really well done. If it was a movie with flesh and bone, I would say really well done. Like you really have the suspense and the...
Amelie: You know what I mean? And it's just cartoon.
Jo: Yeah, they do the camera work well.
Amelie: It's really well done.
Jo: Yeah, they they they do the camera work really well, and the the voice acting is phenomenal.
Amelie: Yes.
Jo: i already named the character, know, I named them all. more or less. The writing smart. I am really jealous. might really have to go out to the UK for this. Because this brings me back to being a kid and yet I was able to enjoy it with my adult brain.
Jo: My adult brain, who can't say any of the names, but my adult brain. And the voices sound like daffy duck. It sounds like porky pig. sounds like padini pig.
Jo: There is one thing I will say. It's not a Okay. I will try not to spoil this. I'm trying to, like, phrase it correctly. the beginning, there's a man named Farmer Jim.
Jo: He looks just like Mac McAnally from Jimmy Buffett's band, The Cora Reefers. And if you blink, you will miss something that's absolutely crucial to all this.
Jo: But it's lovely. that Even the way they did Farmer Jim is not in the same style as they did Daffy and Porky. And I think it's because of that is even a callback to the earlier, earlier work.
Jo: of warner brothers who does i'm not sure if warner brothers still does looney tunes but they used to do it used to be the producer looney tunes back in the day and it goes back into the older ones that you watch this like you know a four-year-old five-year-old like oh my gosh that's right because sometimes you have that fluid animation sometimes like the character background that the adults with the character backgrounds And it's really great to see it. It's heartwarming. There's nice lessons to be learned here. 90 minutes flies by.
Jo: it does not drag at all. The humor, I think, is, well, it's a PG movie. So the humor is appropriate for kids, according to the people did it, right? Would you take your kids to see this in the theater?
Amelie: Yes.
Jo: Yeah.
Amelie: Yes, definitely. And that's something you can enjoy as an adult because there is so many cartoons you can watch for your kids but get bored of it. But this one, you're going to laugh.
Jo: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Amelie: Like, they don't swear, butr you would say, oh, they're about to swear, but they don't swear. and you're like, oh, that's really smart what they said. Or, for example, you have Double Jock where it was like, for example, at the beginning of the cartoon, watching it and and be like, this is me.
Amelie: This is my brother.
Jo: yeah
Amelie: This is my friend Caroline. You see some of situation and stuff and I'm like, yeah.
Jo: yeah
Amelie: Yeah.
Jo: You see yourself in the movie. I think that's the biggest compliment you can give a cartoon. You can see yourself in the movie or aspects of yourself in the movie.
Amelie: Yeah.
Jo: And that's the human experience with this. So again, i would definitely see it with, don't got kids, but I would see it by myself. I'll go by myself in the theaters on the 13th of February in the UK and Ireland.
Jo: And I'm just going to chill. um as i'll do I'll just chill there. So we both give it two great thumbs up. I can't, I don't know where thumbs are right now. and they do leave it open for a sequel.
Jo: And they're very cheeky about it too.
Amelie: Oooh!
Jo: They're very cheeky about it too. Because you know what? I'll give i'll give you one spoiler.
Jo: It's a cartoon. i take It's a cartoon. It's cartoon. And it's it's a smart one. Very smart one. Oh my gosh, that's it for us. So if you have nothing to with Valentine's Day, you're a loser, but you can be a loser other people in the theaters if you're in the UK. If you're not in UK or Ireland and you're not having anything to do with Valentine's find something to But if you are in the UK and Ireland, February 13th, check out Looney Tunes, The Day the Earth Blew Up.
Jo: And if we're wrong, may an old man burn your beard in the cooking pot. That's it for streaming demons. Welcome to 2026. Look at all us.
Jo: um We're definitely not recording this in December. I had to zip up my shirt. I'm wearing a Christmas shirt. We will see you next time with spooky stuff or not or dramas or or documentary. We don't know. Oh my gosh.
Jo: By half of myself, Joe and Ami, we bid you good day. Bye y'all.
