I thought that this could be fun and I was sort of inspired by the "Bugs Bunny titles that could have been" thread! If Lola Bunny had existed during the time Termite Terrace was still making cartoons(in the 40's-60's done by directors such as Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng, Robert McKimson, etc.), what kind of cartoons should she have been in and what should they be called? I'm urging everyone to participate and have fun with this!
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Which version of Lola are we talking about here? The sporty, fiery, "Don't ever call me 'doll'!" Lola from "Space Jam", or the ditzy, bubbly, hyperactive Valley Girl-ish Lola from "The Looney Tunes Show"?
If we're talking about the former, I could see her squaring off against Bugs in a series of sports cartoons that would be Warner Bros. answer to Disney's "Goofy Sports" 'toons, which featured Goofy in a series of cartoons on performing in different sports, and the famous "How To..." Goofy cartoons.
If it's the latter, she would have been cast as a stereotypical teenage girl of the 1930s or 1940s, swooning over Frank Sinatra, Perry Como, or Bing Crosby. In the 1950s, she would have been typecasted as your typical American teenage girl, chatting on the phone with her friends, being on the arm of some guy (Bugs?) and Fruging to Petula Clark at the malt shop or at a sock hop being held in the high school gym.
The problem here is that regardless of which Lola you'd use, and how she would have been cast, she would have dragged Bugs down. The Boys of Termite Terrace would have probably cast her with both personalities combined, making her a dominating female rabbit, not allowing Bugs to have any say. The way I see it would have happened, Bugs would have been clumsy, or at the very least not as quick-witted as we know him today, Lola would have to come in and save his tail (sic), and each cartoon would close with her either bashing him with the stereotypical rolling pin, all the while yelling at him, and him cowering, saying, "yes, dear" in front of a huge litter of kids, or else dragging him away from the scene, scolding him as the camera irises out. Insert Clampett's "Beeww-wooop!" and play the closing theme with "That's All, Folks!" writing across. In a few, you'd hear the argument still going on behind the music.
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Given that the original Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies theatrical shorts were all made in the 1940s to early 1960s, pre-Women's Lib, it's doubtful that Tex Avery, Frank Tashlin, Bob Clampett, Friz Freleng, Chuck Jones, Robert McKimson, etc. would have starred Lola in her own series of shorts during that era. I imagine that Lola's role in the theatrical shorts would be a lot like Honey Bunny's in the LT comic books; alternately a love interest and a rival to Bugs Bunny, depending on the situation.
However, during the post 1960s Looney Tunes, there would likely be an attempt to make Lola a star in her own right, in which case I see her being portrayed in a manner similar to that of Babs Bunny from Tiny Toon Adventures or the fake history of Honey in TTA's "Fields of Honey".
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(This post was edited by SpaceDemon on Sep 9, 2012, 1:33 PM)
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Given that the original Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies theatrical shorts were all made in the 1940s to early 1960s, pre-Women's Lib, it's doubtful that Tex Avery, Frank Tashlin, Bob Clampett, Friz Freleng, Chuck Jones, Robert McKimson, etc. would have starred Lola in her own series of shorts during that era. I imagine that Lola's role in the theatrical shorts would be a lot like Honey Bunny's in the LT comic books; alternately a love interest and a rival to Bugs Bunny, depending on the situation.
I think any one of them would have starred Lola in a series of cartoons. She just wouldn't be any type of female role model. She'd embody one or more stereotypes for sure, but with her own distinctive spin (whatever spin the writers at the time would decide to come up with anyway).
