Talk:Merrie Melodies

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Should series titles be in bold italics? The animation books I'm using as sources either don't do anything to them at all, or they put them in quotation marks.


 * Also, why the deletion of the fact that "Merrie Melodies" is a play off of "Silly Symphonies"?

--Amcaja

Blue Ribbon Title Card
Does anyone know where a better quality version of the Blue Ribbon Title Card is? It should preferably come from a public domain short.

Nerd 101 10:03, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

It doesn't matter, pictures are free for use, not the video itself. Images are fine to use under commons license. SquishyZ1 (talk) 23:42, 26 October 2016 (UTC)

Censored 11?
Shouldn't this page be somewhere in there? I mean, it seems fitting, since 10 of those cartoons are Merrie Melodies. EAB 23:31, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

Looney Tunes is an umbrella term.
When most people use Looney Tunes they are including Merrie Melodies also right? 199.117.69.60 (talk) 20:09, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Article needs some refinement?
The entire section of the article titled "elements plastered over" is very difficult to read with many long sentences containing parentheses. It seems to bog down the overall article with a lot of tedious and perhaps unneeded detail about the different opening and closing titles. It might benefit from some revision. Maybe that information could be placed in a separate article?

--Qwiglee (talk) 20:36, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

MERRIE for MERRIE MELODIES!
I like old cartoons a lot. And so far, the funniest is Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies! See my other comment here! --Looney kid (talk) 13:16, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

Opening and closing
The chronology of the different versions of the opening and closing is a bit confusing the way it's scattered throughout the article. Some versions do not get mentioned until it is explained how they were used in reissues. I think this topic might merit its own section based on when each version was introduced, with descriptions of later uses (if any) incorporated into that chronology rather than the other way around. Richard K. Carson (talk) 04:46, 28 July 2011 (UTC)

Merge proposal
A PROD for Detouring America was declined due to an award nomination indicating notability. Since that information is already on this page, it doesn't seem worthwhile for the short to have its own page. Argento Surfer (talk) 12:31, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

While it currently lacks sources, have you searched for any available ones before nominating it? Dimadick (talk) 20:26, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
 * A brief search did not turn up many reliable sources, and I was unable to find enough information to justify a standalone article. Argento Surfer (talk) 20:38, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

IMDB and Looney Tunes Wikia have sources for this video. If you need a source, just get it from there. Also, the article does not need to be merged, because we can expand the article over time. No need to rush. SquishyZ1 (talk) 02:14, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

First of all, SquishyZ1, you forgot to point out that you are the creator of the article. So you do have a stake in this decision. Second, it is not only Argento Surfer's job to locate sources. Per Notability: "Information on Wikipedia must be verifiable; if no reliable third-party sources can be found on a topic, then it should not have a separate article." Users often disagree on what is a reliable source, but when there is no source at all, it is usually a bad sign for the state of the article.

Looney Tunes Wiki often takes its articles from Wikipedia, so it is not exactly an original resource. Its article on is rather short, if not a stub, and does not name its sources.

I personally use the Internet Movie Database to research various film-related topics, but the Database rarely mentions any specific source for its information. As far as I can see, its article on this film is rather detailed. But no actual source is mentioned.

A googlebooks search for "Detouring America" turns out only 188 results. Some of which are about other topics, while others mention the film in passing. A bit more interesting is a passage in Hollywood Cartoons: American Animation in Its Golden Age] (2003) by animation historian Michael Barrier: "...In 1940, Avery's Detouring America, one of his travelogue parodies, had been nominated for an Academy Award as best cartoon of 1939- the first Schlesinger cartoon to be nominated for an Oscar. The next year, A Wild Hare was nominated. Neither cartoon won, but the Oscar nominations were evidence not just of Avery's growing reputation but of the Schlesinger studio's new stature in the industry."

It is not much, but it may be notable in the context of Warner Bros. Cartoons's history. Dimadick (talk) 10:32, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

Also, what about texaveryatwb.BlogSpot or likelylooneymostlymerrie? SquishyZ1 (talk) 23:47, 11 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep as separate page, the film was nominated for an Academy Award which assures its notability. Randy Kryn 10:57, 15 October 2016 (UTC)

Can I remove this stupid discussion, its been a month since this was proposed? SquishyZ1 (talk) 23:07, 21 October 2016 (UTC)
 * If you think the discussion has been thoroughly discussed (I don't), you could close the discussion and remove the banners from the article pages, but this "stupid" discussion should not be deleted. If nothing else, it may prevent another editor from suggesting a future one (or performing it without a discussion). Argento Surfer (talk) 12:39, 24 October 2016 (UTC)

I'll ask someone to end this. SquishyZ1 (talk) 23:43, 26 October 2016 (UTC)

Hi
hello Abdella Edris (talk) 19:22, 13 June 2022 (UTC)