1942 was one of the golden years of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies.
Events
- Any Bonds Today?, a film commissioned by the U.S. Treasury to convince people to buy war bonds, was released.
Notes
- The Looney Tunes series starts 3-hue color production starting with The Hep Cat. The 1942-43 season uses thicker rings instead of the music note background from 1936-42. The black and white WARNER BROS. Present were different from the color ones. For this year and the next, most Looney Tunes shorts would still be black and white.
Shorts
Hop, Skip and a Chump (Freleng/Jan 3) 
Porky's Pastry Pirates (Freleng/Jan 17)
The Bird Came C.O.D. (Jones/Jan 17)- Aloha Hooey (Avery/Jan 30)
- Who's Who in the Zoo (McCabe/Feb 14)
- Porky's Cafe (Jones/Feb 21)
- Conrad the Sailor (Jones/Feb 28/4:4)
- Crazy Cruise (Avery and Clampett/Mar 14/5:3)
- The Wabbit Who Came to Supper (Freleng/Mar 28/3:1)
- Saps in Chaps (Freleng/Apr 11)
- Horton Hatches the Egg (Clampett/Apr 11/6:4)
- Dog Tired (Jones/Apr 25)
- Daffy's Southern Exposure (McCabe/May 2)
- The Wacky Wabbit (Clampett/May 2/5:3)
- The Draft Horse (Jones/May 9)
- Nutty News (Clampett/May 23)
- Lights Fantastic (Freleng/May 23)
- Hobby Horse-Laffs (McCabe/Jun 6)
- Hold the Lion, Please (Jones/Jun 13)
- Gopher Goofy (McCabe/Jun 27)
- Double Chaser (Freleng/Jun 27)
- Wacky Blackout (Clampett/Jul 11)
- Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid (Clampett/Jul 11/1:3)
- Foney Fables (Freleng/Aug 1/5:2)
- The Ducktators (McCabe/Aug 1)
- The Squawkin' Hawk (Jones/Aug 8)
- Eatin' on the Cuff or, The Moth Who Came to Dinner (Clampett/Aug 22/5:4)
- Fresh Hare (Freleng/Aug 22)
- The Impatient Patient (McCabe/Sep 5)
- Fox Pop (Jones/Sep 5)
- The Dover Boys at Pimento University or The Rivals of Roquefort Hall (Jones/Sep 10/2:2)
- The Hep Cat* (Clampett/Oct 3/2:4)
- The Sheepish Wolf (Freleng/Oct 17)
- The Daffy Duckaroo (McCabe/Oct 24)
- The Hare-Brained Hypnotist (Freleng/Oct 31/2:1)
- A Tale of Two Kitties (Clampett/Nov 21/5:3)
- My Favorite Duck* (Jones/Dec 5/4:2s**)
- Ding Dog Daddy (Freleng/Dec 5)
- Case of the Missing Hare (Jones/Dec 12/3:1)
* 1942-1943 onwards, Color Looney Tunes begins, and also begins using "bullet" opening and closing title sequences, usually with thicker rings, and has the same color titles as Merrie Melodies
* First appearance of Beaky Buzzard. **Appears in Special Features - Bugs Bunny: Superstar - Part 2.
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