@SogekingFirebirdStar Yeah, but maybe as a one-off character instead of a main one. And maybe even get Larry Storch to reprise the role of the voice, instead of John Kassir or some SNL actor.
@brianbuck70 Well, that show is a LOT better than "What's New Scooby-Doo." It's also rather dark, violent and edgy for a Scooby-Doo show, almost in tune with the first two live-action movies
I was a kid in the 80's and this was shown along side the classic Looney Tunes. I was always disappointed when this would air. Even as a child I could see that this production had a much lower quality than the Tunes of the 40's and 50's.
Yes, but this is the first time they ever used the W7 logo, so they probably released the blue/yellow cartoons in 1968 but they were produced in 1967. Also, the Vitagraph logo was used on 1960s prints to parallel the Vitaphone logo on Merrie Melodies. However, neither of these logos (in the 60s) reflected the Vitaphone process, because it had already been abandoned in favor of optical sound. They were referring to the corporation that made the cartoons earlier which had the same name.
The only thing I can venture is that the reason Larry Storch provided voices for this and several other 1967-69 W-7 'toons was his still being under contract after the cancellation of "F-Troop."
haha this guy was in the sylvester and tweety mysteries... i believe every episode, he appeared just once. i'm only watching this now just because i was so damn curious as to who he was. i even thought he was some kind of pink panther gag. well here he is folks, in all his glory. cool cat!
@shadejford There are also elements of Hanna-Barbera's Snagglepuss in the character as well (imagine him with Bert Lahr/Cowardly Lion-style dialogue instead of beatnik talk and with Major Minor chasing him instead of Colonel Rimfire and you'll see what I mean).
@MatthewtheY Yes, he does share a few of Snagglepuss' traits. A bigger Hanna-Barbera influence, however, is this cartoon's use of the famous H-B sound effects. HB was such a dominant cartoon studio by the late '60s, its style clearly influenced the other cartoon studios' styles. Studios ranging from Paramount/Famous Studios to Filmation showed a HB influence in their cartoons released during the '60s.
I forgot this existed! I haven't seen Cool Cat since the early '90s. It's funny how they didn't even try to hide the fact that they used heavily recycled animation.
the 30s-50s cartoons were good after the 60s they kinda went a little undone in the animation as in not too much effect into each cartoon (Shadows Detail etc)
This was the beginning of the end at least in my opinion. I absolutely hated what the Tunes had become by the 60's. The animation style had actually degraded and most of the characters were gone with the exception of about 5.
I remember this guy! well,actually I've never seen any of his episodes (in fact,I didn't knew he had his own episodes until now) but I remember his several cameos on that 90's show of Sylvester Tweety and Granny.
@Yaenipponcover And confidentially, he was the one who was rooting for Tweety in "Tweety's High-Flying Adventure," as he was in disguise, right under Rimfire's nose the whole time!
I wonder what it would've been like if they stuck with the older version of the "abstract" LT logos with the white background during the LT/MM text and closing sequence throughout into the W-7 era? I think it would've looked pretty neat!
Exasperated, Rimfire finally gives up and tells Cool Cat that he's going to leave the jungle, only to discover that Ella has run out of petrol, and begins the 2000-mile journey to the nearest gas station. Cool Cat then opens Ella's rear hatch and checks the engine, and then remarks that "they just don't make elephants like they used to."
Rimfire then decides to hide in an abandoned bongo that he finds in the jungle and blast Cool Cat when he comes near, but Cool Cat plays Ella a tune on the bongo when he finds it, which leaves Rimfire dazed. He repeats his plan with a large bush, but Cool Cat decides to demonstrate some "Jungle Judo" on the bush, battering Rimfire in the process, then pushes Ella into the bush so that she can try the same thing, only for her to pass clean through the bush, then smash Rimfire off the cliff
Instead of yanking the grenade's pin out with his teeth however, Rimfire unknowingly pulls his dentures out of his mouth with the pin, and then tosses the unarmed grenade at Cool Cat. The tiger does mistake it for a pineapple and offers it to Ella, but after the mechanical elephant fails to react to it he tosses the grenade away, causing it to end up back with Rimfire. In turn, Rimfire mistakes the chattering dentures for a tarantula and whips out his shotgun to blast it
After yanking at the elephant's skin (angering it in the process) looking for an entry hatch, Rimfire finally realises that he is in fact dealing with a real elephant, who he then apologizes to, though this does not save him from being battered into the ground by the angry elephant's trunk. After recovering from his beating, Rimfire notices Cool Cat looking for food, and decides to throw him "an exploding pineapple" in the form of a hand grenade.
Still thinking that Ella is a real elephant, Cool Cat leads her away by her trunk to demonstrate some survival skills, while Rimfire climbs out of the chasm for a second time. As Cool Cat leads Ella through the jungle, an amorous male elephant gives chase to Ella, but is then caught by Rimfire who makes the opposite mistake to Cool Cat and assumes that the male elephant is in fact Ella.
Rimfire misinterprets this as Cool Cat warning him that someone else is attacking both of them, and tries to pilot Ella to safety, only to drive over the edge of a cliff and fall into a chasm. Rimfire irately pushes Ella up the edge of the chasm back up to the jungle above, and Cool Cat helps Ella up to the top, not noticing Rimfire's presence, and accidentally knocks the hunter back into the chasm.
He eventually blasts Cool Cat with a shotgun hidden in Ella's trunk, but Cool Cat bends over to sniff some flowers right as the shotgun fires, and Rimfire only succeeds in destroying his parasol. Cool Cat mistakes Ella for an actual elephant and warns "her" that someone's shooting at them and that they should flee, which Cool Cat proceeds to do.
A big game hunter named Colonel Rimfire is visiting an African jungle in his robotic elephant, Ella, but bemoans the fact that he hasn't seen anything worth shooting since he arrived. Shortly afterwards he comes across the title character, Cool Cat, who is walking through the jungle with a parasol. Seeing Cool Cat, Rimfire remarks "I tawt I taw a puddy tat! A tiger-type puddy tat!" and pursues him while hidden inside Ella.
It was also the first cartoon made after Warner Bros. were taken over by Seven Arts Productions, and as such featured a redesigned studio logo and new introductory music.
Cool Cat is a 1967 animated cartoon, that introduced its title character, Cool Cat. It marked a major change of direction for the then recently reformed Warner Bros. cartoon studio, as the first cartoon in a long time to introduce a major new character (virtually every Looney Tunes cartoon made in the previous three years had been ones featuring Daffy Duck versus Speedy Gonzales, or Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, the latter were gone in 1966)
i thought it was cool of Cal Howard to dredge up a line of a character who hasen't been seen in another cartoon in 3 years, and at least he said a tiger type puddy tat.
Cool cat looks like a copy of top cat :P
lemurdog 3 months ago
I wanna see Cool Cat on the Looney Tunes show.
SogekingFirebirdStar 5 months ago 3
@SogekingFirebirdStar Yeah, but maybe as a one-off character instead of a main one. And maybe even get Larry Storch to reprise the role of the voice, instead of John Kassir or some SNL actor.
wileyk209zback 5 months ago
Hey
They recycled Chuck Jones' Roadrunner background at 1:59
tamenga88 5 months ago
@tamenga88 Yep, they also did it in "Fiesta Fiasco"
wileyk209zback 3 months ago
@tamenga88 This is from "Lickety-Splat!"
fayremead 2 weeks ago
Was Mel Blanc under contract dispute when they made this?
ThisIsTheSkinny 6 months ago
@ThisIsTheSkinny Look at the credits Mr. Blanc isnt in it as voices.
GoodTheAngel 5 months ago
Wow it's really sad to see such a remarkable drop in quality like this. Cool Cat is just...lame.
brianbuck70 9 months ago
@brianbuck70 You think this is bad; watch Warner Bros. Animation's work on "What's New Scooby-Doo." It's WAY worse!
wileyk209zback 7 months ago
@wileyk209zback Have you seen Scooby Doo Mystery Incorporated on Cartoon Network? It's outstanding.
brianbuck70 7 months ago
@brianbuck70 Well, that show is a LOT better than "What's New Scooby-Doo." It's also rather dark, violent and edgy for a Scooby-Doo show, almost in tune with the first two live-action movies
wileyk209zback 7 months ago
Did they really recycle the bird's eye view of the cliff from the Wile E. cartoons? Really? REALLY?!
mikevltg3 9 months ago
This is a much better variation on the "Bugs Bunny / Elmer Fudd" riff. Extremely beatnick-hipster lingo.
mshuptar 11 months ago
Rimfire just mocked Tweety.
TeamRocket2010 11 months ago
this sure beats fucking adventure time by a long shot
motherbrain86 1 year ago 3
I was a kid in the 80's and this was shown along side the classic Looney Tunes. I was always disappointed when this would air. Even as a child I could see that this production had a much lower quality than the Tunes of the 40's and 50's.
Chris82bc 1 year ago 4
Colonel Rimfire has to be one of the most underrated cartoon characters ever. Much better than Cool Cat. Robotic elephant=WIN!
installLSC 1 year ago
I'm confused! Aren't they supposed to change to the blue/yellow W7 by 1967?!
And what's with the vitagraph!?
Addiskrilla 1 year ago
Yes, but this is the first time they ever used the W7 logo, so they probably released the blue/yellow cartoons in 1968 but they were produced in 1967. Also, the Vitagraph logo was used on 1960s prints to parallel the Vitaphone logo on Merrie Melodies. However, neither of these logos (in the 60s) reflected the Vitaphone process, because it had already been abandoned in favor of optical sound. They were referring to the corporation that made the cartoons earlier which had the same name.
tkwtube01 11 months ago
I lost the game at 1:04
mad4mater 1 year ago
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annavoig19 1 year ago
he gave him a pinch and what a pinch.
Gundamknight100 1 year ago
1:57 I laughed so hard I peed my pants!
JazzyJonas 1 year ago
@JazzyJonas Yeah, the background is even re-used from Chuck Jones' Road Runner cartoon, "Zip 'N' Snort".
MatthewtheY 1 year ago
The only thing I can venture is that the reason Larry Storch provided voices for this and several other 1967-69 W-7 'toons was his still being under contract after the cancellation of "F-Troop."
wmbrown6 1 year ago
Cool Cat!
He's just a cool cat!
He's no one's fool that
Long hair, foot bare, don't care, cat!
He's just a cool cat!
music by Bill Lava
lyrics by Bob Kurtz (?)
vocal by The Clingers
wahoo76 1 year ago
haha this guy was in the sylvester and tweety mysteries... i believe every episode, he appeared just once. i'm only watching this now just because i was so damn curious as to who he was. i even thought he was some kind of pink panther gag. well here he is folks, in all his glory. cool cat!
izlude2 1 year ago
This is Looney Tunes in name only.
SomeFluffer64 1 year ago
Bugs Bunny plus Pink Panther equals Cool Cat.
shadejford 1 year ago
@shadejford There are also elements of Hanna-Barbera's Snagglepuss in the character as well (imagine him with Bert Lahr/Cowardly Lion-style dialogue instead of beatnik talk and with Major Minor chasing him instead of Colonel Rimfire and you'll see what I mean).
MatthewtheY 1 year ago
@MatthewtheY Yes, he does share a few of Snagglepuss' traits. A bigger Hanna-Barbera influence, however, is this cartoon's use of the famous H-B sound effects. HB was such a dominant cartoon studio by the late '60s, its style clearly influenced the other cartoon studios' styles. Studios ranging from Paramount/Famous Studios to Filmation showed a HB influence in their cartoons released during the '60s.
shadejford 1 year ago
I forgot this existed! I haven't seen Cool Cat since the early '90s. It's funny how they didn't even try to hide the fact that they used heavily recycled animation.
'60s animation was quite crude and weird...
ThrilloVanHouten 1 year ago
the 30s-50s cartoons were good after the 60s they kinda went a little undone in the animation as in not too much effect into each cartoon (Shadows Detail etc)
Joemamma69000 1 year ago
I wonder what it would've been like if Mel Blanc voiced Cool Cat and Colonel Rimfire instead of Larry Storch?
wileyk209zback 2 years ago 6
@wileyk209zback: Imagine Mel Blanc doing a beatnik's voice. That's be hysterically funny!
luisrox94 2 years ago 5
@luisrox94 They should've gotten Leo DeLyon (the voice of, uh, like, Spook on Top Cat, eh, T.C.) to do Cool Cat's voice.
MatthewtheY 1 year ago
This was the beginning of the end at least in my opinion. I absolutely hated what the Tunes had become by the 60's. The animation style had actually degraded and most of the characters were gone with the exception of about 5.
doddsino 2 years ago 21
I remember this guy! well,actually I've never seen any of his episodes (in fact,I didn't knew he had his own episodes until now) but I remember his several cameos on that 90's show of Sylvester Tweety and Granny.
Yaenipponcover 2 years ago 6
@Yaenipponcover And confidentially, he was the one who was rooting for Tweety in "Tweety's High-Flying Adventure," as he was in disguise, right under Rimfire's nose the whole time!
YoshiAngemon 1 year ago
I wonder what it would've been like if they stuck with the older version of the "abstract" LT logos with the white background during the LT/MM text and closing sequence throughout into the W-7 era? I think it would've looked pretty neat!
wileyk209zback 2 years ago
So did Kurtz do this on a freelance basis?
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Exasperated, Rimfire finally gives up and tells Cool Cat that he's going to leave the jungle, only to discover that Ella has run out of petrol, and begins the 2000-mile journey to the nearest gas station. Cool Cat then opens Ella's rear hatch and checks the engine, and then remarks that "they just don't make elephants like they used to."
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Rimfire then decides to hide in an abandoned bongo that he finds in the jungle and blast Cool Cat when he comes near, but Cool Cat plays Ella a tune on the bongo when he finds it, which leaves Rimfire dazed. He repeats his plan with a large bush, but Cool Cat decides to demonstrate some "Jungle Judo" on the bush, battering Rimfire in the process, then pushes Ella into the bush so that she can try the same thing, only for her to pass clean through the bush, then smash Rimfire off the cliff
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Instead of yanking the grenade's pin out with his teeth however, Rimfire unknowingly pulls his dentures out of his mouth with the pin, and then tosses the unarmed grenade at Cool Cat. The tiger does mistake it for a pineapple and offers it to Ella, but after the mechanical elephant fails to react to it he tosses the grenade away, causing it to end up back with Rimfire. In turn, Rimfire mistakes the chattering dentures for a tarantula and whips out his shotgun to blast it
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After yanking at the elephant's skin (angering it in the process) looking for an entry hatch, Rimfire finally realises that he is in fact dealing with a real elephant, who he then apologizes to, though this does not save him from being battered into the ground by the angry elephant's trunk. After recovering from his beating, Rimfire notices Cool Cat looking for food, and decides to throw him "an exploding pineapple" in the form of a hand grenade.
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Still thinking that Ella is a real elephant, Cool Cat leads her away by her trunk to demonstrate some survival skills, while Rimfire climbs out of the chasm for a second time. As Cool Cat leads Ella through the jungle, an amorous male elephant gives chase to Ella, but is then caught by Rimfire who makes the opposite mistake to Cool Cat and assumes that the male elephant is in fact Ella.
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Rimfire misinterprets this as Cool Cat warning him that someone else is attacking both of them, and tries to pilot Ella to safety, only to drive over the edge of a cliff and fall into a chasm. Rimfire irately pushes Ella up the edge of the chasm back up to the jungle above, and Cool Cat helps Ella up to the top, not noticing Rimfire's presence, and accidentally knocks the hunter back into the chasm.
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He eventually blasts Cool Cat with a shotgun hidden in Ella's trunk, but Cool Cat bends over to sniff some flowers right as the shotgun fires, and Rimfire only succeeds in destroying his parasol. Cool Cat mistakes Ella for an actual elephant and warns "her" that someone's shooting at them and that they should flee, which Cool Cat proceeds to do.
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A big game hunter named Colonel Rimfire is visiting an African jungle in his robotic elephant, Ella, but bemoans the fact that he hasn't seen anything worth shooting since he arrived. Shortly afterwards he comes across the title character, Cool Cat, who is walking through the jungle with a parasol. Seeing Cool Cat, Rimfire remarks "I tawt I taw a puddy tat! A tiger-type puddy tat!" and pursues him while hidden inside Ella.
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It was also the first cartoon made after Warner Bros. were taken over by Seven Arts Productions, and as such featured a redesigned studio logo and new introductory music.
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Cool Cat is a 1967 animated cartoon, that introduced its title character, Cool Cat. It marked a major change of direction for the then recently reformed Warner Bros. cartoon studio, as the first cartoon in a long time to introduce a major new character (virtually every Looney Tunes cartoon made in the previous three years had been ones featuring Daffy Duck versus Speedy Gonzales, or Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, the latter were gone in 1966)
ELMERFUDDBUDD 2 years ago
@ 1:19, Rimfire stole Tweety's famous line.
jamal23227 2 years ago 5
i thought it was cool of Cal Howard to dredge up a line of a character who hasen't been seen in another cartoon in 3 years, and at least he said a tiger type puddy tat.
springofpiesucks 2 years ago
at 3:32 the elephant growls like Bowser!
springofpiesucks 2 years ago
Possibly my favorite late 60's WB cartoon (if any) along with "Norman Normal".
MatthewtheY 2 years ago
Cool Cat was probably the best thing that happened to the late 1960s Looney Tunes.
This was also the first WB cartoon to use the Warner/7-Arts intro sequence
wilek209 2 years ago 15
don't forget Merlin The Magic Mouse and Second Banana.
springofpiesucks 2 years ago 3
That's right. If they stuck with Speedy and Daffy... *shudders* I don't want to think of what would happen
wilek209 2 years ago 3
Theatricals were sure on their last gasp, weren't they? Cal Howard seems to have taken his shopworn storyboard ideas between WB and Lantz.
jgbennie 2 years ago
@wilek209 I would say norman normal is the best 7 arts character.
gkchvh 1 year ago
thank you thank you than you! i finally saw Cool Cat!!!!!!
springofpiesucks 2 years ago 3