‘We’re not doing guns’: Elmer Fudd loses his rifle

Elmer Fudd has many means for cartoony violence and mayhem in HBO Max’s “Looney Tunes Cartoons,” the reboot of the classic Warner Bros. cartoons.

But the infamous rabbit hunter will not be blasting his cartoon rifle.

Like all characters on the throwback animated series that started last week on HBO Max, Fudd will be gun-free. The new episodes harken back to the Looney Tunes, which had their peak in the 1940s and 1950s heyday, in every other way – filled with cartoonish dynamite explosions and intricate ACME-brand booby traps.

“We’re not doing guns,” Peter Browngardt, the series executive producer and showrunner, told the New York Times. “But we can do cartoony violence — TNT, the Acme stuff. All that was kind of grandfathered in.”

Nonetheless there was an outcry on social media about the lack of guns.

“I CAN’T BELIEVE THE NEW LOONEY TUNES CARTOONS *cough* which are actually great, go check them out *cough* WON’T LET ELMER FUDD USE A GUN,” wrote one Twitter user.

I CAN’T BELIEVE THE NEW LOONEY TUNES CARTOONS *cough* which are actually great, go check them out *cough* WON’T LET ELMER FUDD USE A GUN.

ELMER’S ONLY CHARACTER TRAIT IS A GUN. THAT’S IT. THE ORIGINAL CREATORS WOULD NEVER MAKE A CARTOON WHERE HE DIDN’T USE A GUN AT ALL-

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— Weird-O (@Wierd_o78033920) June 7, 2020