1949

The Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote debut in Fast and Furry-ous

Chuck Jones wins his only Oscar with Pepé Le Pew's For Scent-imental Reasons

Bugs Bunny with Doris Day and Jack Carson in My Dream Is Yours

Bugs Bunny makes a cameo in It's a Great Feeling

Leon Schlesinger dies of viral infection.

1949 is yet another year in the golden age of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies.

Notes

• Bugs Bunny makes a cameo in the two films My Dream Is Yours and It's a Great Feeling. The former features a cameo by Tweety.

Shorts

1. "Wise Quackers" (Freleng/January 1/SS: DD)
2. "Hare Do" (Freleng/January 15/GC: V3)
3. "Holiday for Drumsticks" (Davis/January 22)
4. "Awful Orphan" (Jones/January 29/GC: V1)
5. "Porky Chops" (Davis/February 12/GC: V1/PC: V1)
6. "Mississippi Hare" (Jones/February 26/GC: V4)
7. "Paying the Piper" (McKimson/March 12/GC: V5)
8. "Daffy Duck Hunt" (McKimson/March 26/GC: V1)
9. "Rebel Rabbit" (McKimson/April 9/GC: V3)
10. "Mouse Wreckers" (Jones/April 23/GC: V2/WBAAAC/MC)
11. "High Diving Hare" (Freleng/April 30/GC: V1/PC: V3)
12. "The Bee-Deviled Bruin" (Jones/May 14/CC: V1)
13. "Curtain Razor" (Freleng/May 21/SS: P&F)
14. "Bowery Bugs" (Davis/June 4/GC: V3)
15. "Mouse Mazurka" (Freleng/June 11/MCs)
16. "Long-Haired Hare" (Jones/June 25/GC: V1/PC: V2)
17. "Henhouse Henery" (McKimson/July 2)
18. "Knights Must Fall" (Freleng/July 16/BB80)
19. "Bad Ol' Putty Tat" (Freleng/July 23/GC: V2)
20. "The Grey Hounded Hare" (McKimson/August 6/GC: V4)
21. "Often an Orphan" (Jones/August 13/GC: V6)
22. "The Windblown Hare" (McKimson/August 27/GC: V3)
23. "Dough for the Do-Do" (Freleng/September 3/GC: V1)
24. "Fast and Furry-ous" (Jones/September 17/GC: V1/PC: V1)
25. "Each Dawn I Crow" (Freleng/September 24)
26. "Frigid Hare" (Jones/October 8/GC: V1)
27. "Swallow the Leader" (McKimson/October 15/GC: V4)
28. "Bye, Bye Bluebeard" (Davis/October 22/GC: V3)
29. "For Scent-imental Reasons" (Jones/November 12/GC: V1/WBAAAC/PC: V1/SS: PLP)
30. "Hippety Hopper" (McKimson/November 19/SS: S&HH)
31. "Which Is Witch" (Freleng/December 3)
32. "Bear Feat" (Jones/December 10/CG: V6)
33. "Rabbit Hood" (Jones/December 24/GC: V4/PC: V1)
34. "A Ham in a Role" (McKimson/December 31/GC: V6/PC: V3)

Blue Ribbon Reissues

1948 - 1949 Season

1. "Bedtime for Sniffles" (Jones/January 1)
2. "Prest-O Change-O" (Jones/February 5)
3. "Swooner Crooner" (Tashlin/February 12) {first Looney Tune to be reissued}
4. "Hop, Skip and a Chump" (Freleng/March 5)
5. "He Was Her Man" (Freleng/April 2)
6. "I Wanna Be a Sailor" (Avery/April 30)
7. "Flop Goes the Weasel" (Jones/May 21)
8. "Horton Hatches the Egg" (Clampett/June 18)
9. "The Egg Collector" (Jones/July 16)
10. "The Mice Will Play" (Avery/August 6)
11. "Inki and the Minah Bird" (Jones/August 20)

1949-1950 Season

1. "Tom Thumb in Trouble" (24-Sep-1949)
2. "Farm Frolics" (15-Oct-1949)
3. "The Hep Cat" (12-Nov-1949)
4. "Toy Trouble" (31-Dec-1949)

Character Debuts

• February 26 - Colonel Shuffle in "Mississippi Hare"
• March 12 - The Supreme Cat in "Paying the Piper"
• June 25 - Giovanni Jones in "Long-Haired Hare"
• September 17 - Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner in "Fast and Furry-ous"
• October 8 - Playboy Penguin in "Frigid Hare"
• November 12 - Penelope Pussycat in "For Scent-imental Reasons"
• December 24 - Sheriff of Nottingham and Little John in "Rabbit Hood"

People

Births

• May 21 - Will Ryan
• June 29 - Gregory Lewis Burson

Deaths

• December 25 - Leon Schlesinger (aged 65)

Warner Club News Stories and Art

Apr. 1949

May 1949

Front cover of the June 1949 issue

June 1949 - Part 1

June 1949 - Part 2

July 1949

Aug. 1949

Oct. 1949

Nov. 1949 - Part 1

Nov. 1949 - Part 2

Dec. 1949

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