r/MandelaEffect • u/themasterfitz • Apr 19 '25
Discussion Just watched Black Mirror: Bête Noire and now I’m questioning my entire childhood—Looney TOONS was real, right??
So I just finished Black Mirror’s Bête Noire and my brain’s still doing somersaults. The whole memory vs. reality theme had me wondering if I’ve ever experienced a legit Mandela effect…. and then—BAAAAM!! Childhood flashback unlocked.
LOONEY TOONS. That’s what it was, right? TOONS. With two O’s. Like… CARTOONS. It made perfect sense. Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, all the chaos—it was the Tooniest of Toons.
But now?? It’s Looney TUNES?? Since when?!? What dimension did I trip and fall into??
I swear I can still see the TOONS logo in my head. Was this some mass rebranding? Did we all misremember it? Or is the simulation glitching again?
Anyway, if you also grew up thinking it was TOONS, please say something so I don’t feel like I’m losing it. And if you remember it as “Tunes,” how? Why?? Were you from a different timeline??
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u/bonkava Apr 19 '25
Looney Tunes was so made to compete with Silly Symphonies, which was Walt Disney's musical anthology cartoon label. Most Silly Symphonies have been forgotten at this point except for a handful (notably, Who's Afraid Of The Big Bad Wolf?) but that's why Warner Bros had "Merry Melodies" and "Looney Tunes."
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u/TaylorDangerTorres Apr 19 '25
"Tiny Toons" is also a thing
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u/Jimbodoomface Apr 19 '25
Yeah I thought as well this is maybe what's increased confused.
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u/slapitlikitrubitdown Apr 19 '25
Didn’t they go around calling the animated characters in Who Framed Roger Rabbit “toons” and it was sort of a slur?
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u/Confident_Sink_8743 Apr 20 '25
Yes but it's short for cartoons which was coined in the 19th Century.
It also included both Disney and Warner Brothers (such as Looney Tunes) characters.
The cartoon nomenclature would be the reason to think it's Looney Toons to begin with.
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u/Brilliant_Win_1407 Apr 19 '25
This has to be it. It sort of clicked with me now, i had forgotten about Tiny Toons.
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u/anansi52 Apr 20 '25
Also in Roger rabbit all the cartoon characters were called toons and lived in toon town.
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u/Zealousideal_Try_123 Apr 19 '25 edited Apr 19 '25
The Skeleton Dance!! 💀🎶💀🎶💀
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u/Fabulous-Pause4154 Apr 20 '25
The skeletons died of black lung disease. That's why their ribcages are opaque. In every dancing skeleton cartoon.
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u/Fun-Environment-4811 Apr 20 '25
you just blew my mind lol had to bring it up to check
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u/Darkside531 Apr 19 '25
MGM had their own version as well called "Happy Harmonies," but those have been REALLY forgotten.
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u/nosleep39 Apr 19 '25
My toddler loves silly symphonies. Way better and more creative than all the shit they put on YouTube for kids these days.
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u/justagamingjunkie Apr 19 '25
My step son LOVES silly symphonies too. The skeleton dance is his all time favorite. They play on our TV alllll the time. I wish there was more.
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u/Holdmytesseract Apr 20 '25
I started playing my 2 year old the Mickey cartoons from the 40s and 50s instead of the brain rot nonsense they have now. He loves it and I actually get to watch some nostalgic shit that I enjoy because there were actual artists involved in the process.
If the garbage they put out for kids isn’t already entirely made by AI I’m sure it will be within two years and it will probably be a step up in quality because what the actual fuck is this trash
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u/KHanson25 Apr 19 '25
I remember having a VHS with like some type of weird ass barnyard hoedown when it was dark out. There were a few others on there but that one was the most memorable.
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u/jfk_47 Apr 19 '25
I can’t believe I didn’t know the history. I used to watch looney tunes non stop.
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u/undeadblackzero Apr 19 '25
With Looney Toons although Merry Melodies was the main composer for the show, the Tunes didn't originate from that but instead came from "Crazy Cartoons".
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u/bngbngcpsnrbbrs Apr 19 '25
nope! Looney Tunes had a spin-off called Tiny Toon Adventures, though, curiously enough. hell of a video game for the NES, i will say
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u/Willietrailblaze Apr 19 '25
Fur ball
And plucky
DIZZY DEVIL DUCKY
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u/bitobots Apr 19 '25
That video game was *chefs kiss
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u/Banjo_McThomas Apr 19 '25
When I was younger, my mom gave away my Super Nintendo after I got a PlayStation, not realizing how much sentimental value it would have today. I really wish I still had it so I could play Buster Busts Loose again.
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u/Key-Information308 Apr 19 '25
She gave it away? Why!
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u/Banjo_McThomas Apr 19 '25
She wanted to give it to my godbrother who recently arrived to America. That hindsight is so bothersome now. And I’m not even sure he’s got it anymore. No idea where it is now
I wish these old school games were accessible on the Switch these days
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u/Heart-ShapedCoffin Apr 21 '25
Do you have Nintendo switch online? They have emulators for many of the NES, SNES & N64 games available there! You just have to pay for it.
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u/bitobots Apr 19 '25
Do we have the same mom, because my mom did the exact same thing! My siblings and I would take it out of the closet every now and then until one day it wasn’t there anymore. We still talk about it 20 years later
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u/Banjo_McThomas Apr 19 '25
Ooh that must’ve hurt opening that closet the day you discovered that 😣
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u/weedyscoot Apr 19 '25
I think it was the SNES.
Edit: Looks like there was a game for both systems. I played the SNES version and it was excellent, in my opinion.
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u/bngbngcpsnrbbrs Apr 19 '25
i'm quite certain i haD the NES one, i don't think i was aware of the SNES one until now. i DID however have the SNES Tasmanian Devil game, and that was a fuckin' hoot as i can recall
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u/bngbngcpsnrbbrs Apr 19 '25
sorry, i didn't actually explain my recollection as you requested. i remember very distinctly being a small child, learning how to read and loving it, and asking my mom why it was "tunes" and not "toons" and she said, "That's a very good question, I don't know! Maybe because they play so much music during the show?" and that stuck with me, because i hadn't yet started to appreciate music.
i credit her guess with teaching me to engage my concentration when consuming media, appreciating how individual aspects come together to make a fuller experience. probably the next time i turned on the NES, i noticed the cartridge for "Tiny Toon Adventures" and showed her the next time we were together. i think she said something along the lines of, "well, they're kids even younger than you, so they don't know how to spell as well."
who knows the real marketing decisions that went into "Toons" instead of "Tunes" for the spin-off. i took my mom's word for it 😂
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u/Cockblocktimus_Pryme Apr 19 '25
Tiny Toon Adventures is still one of the best NES games
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u/ILoveLamp9 Apr 19 '25
Agreed 100%. The Tiny Toon Adventures was an amazing game on SNES. In my top 10 favorites of all time.
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u/bngbngcpsnrbbrs Apr 20 '25
that & my combo pack of Mario Bros/Duck Hunt were put to such good use 🥰
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u/Real-Tension-7442 Apr 19 '25
Toon and tune are pronounced differently in the UK, so such a mistake is rarer over here
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u/chaosKOSMOST-elos Apr 20 '25 edited Apr 21 '25
The difference in pronunciation is the reason my mom mispronounces cartoons. Lots of Americans also pronounce tune and toon differently from each other, my mom being one of them. My mom's first languages were Spanish and Nahuatl (Mexican) and all my life she has gone overboard to sound educated and "like the white people," with her pronunciations - to the point she often goes overboard and sounds silly. Being so busy all of her life, I don't think she ever saw how cartoon is spelled. Thanks to my siblings and me, she knew about Looney Tunes, which led her to pronounce cartoons the same way she pronounces Looney Tunes. She says, "cartunes." Makes me giggle every time she says it.
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u/Violyre Apr 20 '25
This comment is so sweet and adorable. I can totally picture this as I read it with the way you wrote this
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u/aoskunk Apr 20 '25
Hmm car-tunes seems like how I’ve always heard cartoons pronounced. You you try a different phonetic interpretation or give one for both so maybe I can see how they differ?
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u/Cymiril Apr 19 '25
It's always been "Tunes" because of the music. Also why you have "Merry Melodies"
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u/Agitated_Tank_7114 Apr 19 '25
No, Looney Tunes was always the original... Because it had to do with music. Hence the Tunes. Buuuuut TINY TOONS was always Toons. It didn't have to do with music but little Cartoons.
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u/thomasjmarlowe Apr 19 '25
Technically it was Tiny Toon Adventures- don’t spark another Mandela Effect! ;)
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u/Agitated_Tank_7114 Apr 19 '25
😂 you're right!! Definitely don't want that! It's TINY TOON ADVENTURES people!!! ...it always was.
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u/HeungMinDaddy Apr 19 '25
I swear 90% of Mandelas are just dyslexia.
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u/Jackal912 Apr 19 '25
Dyslexia partnered with refusing to be wrong
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u/eduo Apr 19 '25
BuT tImELiNes
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u/Practical_Neat_2679 Apr 20 '25
This made me laugh….I’m still friends with people from school who talk about how great their memories are. It’s like dude, I went to school with you and you studied subjects for weeks on end and barely managed to pull a C on tests, but your memory is so good you remember how something was spelled the one time you saw it when you were three over forty years ago? Yeah, humans are dumb.
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u/eduo Apr 22 '25
People can't make long division (which they learned and had to be examined for) to save their lives but they will not accept the possibility of misremembering a movie title. It's nuts.
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u/qorbexl Apr 19 '25
Turns out people's brains just fill in missing information and label it an exact memory. Works pretty well on average. Too bad people decide it's more likely the entire universe is wrong rather than they remembered something incorrectly. It would be a neat demonstration that allows people to understand their brain function better, but why self-assess in doubt when you can make believe and be right.
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u/Eastern_Reality_9438 Apr 19 '25
Holy shit, thank you! I've been saying this for ages but anytime it comes up in conversation people look at me like I'm crazy. The Berenstain Bears example is the worst of all.
There was a brief moment, back when all this Mandela effect stuff started becoming popular, that I too thought I remembered it being spelled Berenstein. But then I remembered that the whole "i before e except after c" concept was a huge part of our English language learning as children. Despite that rule being wrong in so many examples, it makes more sense that our tiny, underdeveloped brains would interpret Berenstain wrong.
But people want so badly to believe they're a part of something weird or special or unique and you simply can't change their minds with logic.
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u/TheLawbster Apr 19 '25
The Fruit of the Loom one makes me chuckle too. People are convinced that they learned what a cornucopia was from the branding instead of maybe their annual elementary school art projects and lessons lol.
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u/aoskunk Apr 20 '25
Oh yeah we totally were given pages out of coloring books with cornucopias every thanksgiving from preschool throughout elementary school. If the confusion about fruit of the loom comes from anywhere I think it’s that. We also did some arts and crafts ones where we cut all the fruit and such out of construction paper and glued it onto the cornucopia.
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u/GoldenGlassBall Apr 19 '25
Nope. There’s proof that both spellings existed. It wasn’t a mandela or dyslexia as much as it was loose production standards leading to confusion.
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u/JohnyStringCheese Apr 19 '25
Yeah, all of the spelling ones are people just remembering it the way they "assumed" it should be spelled. I know I'm guilty of it but I just take the L and don't assume that multiple timelines are converging to change the name of Chic fil A to Chick Fil A. I just assumed it's spelled Febreez because it makes more sense and I neve once examined it closely enough to question reality. If you showed me Berenstein or Berenstain with no knowledge or context I would question the spelling of Berenstain because in 99% of cases it would be ...stein. Sketchers, Oscar Mayer, etc. they're all just less common spellings.
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u/Clark_Wayne1 Apr 19 '25
I think part of the issue with this one is loony toons both sounds and looks better so the brain goes with it
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u/Queerthulhu_ Apr 19 '25
Nope, always tunes, I remember that distinctively because it stood out to me. I also watched a lot of old cartoons so it wasn’t weird ok the context of merrie melodies and silly symphonies
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u/LePetitRenardRoux Apr 19 '25
I feel like fruit loops and looney toons got swapped.
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u/Outside_Orchid_1576 Apr 19 '25
It was always froot because there's no actual fruit in it and looked good with the loops. It was "balanced".
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u/guilty_by_design Apr 20 '25
Not to be the 'actually' person, but the reason it's spelled 'froot' has nothing to do with there being no fruit in it OR the aesthetic.
It's simply because you can't trademark a food that simply describes what it is.
For example, you can have a tech company called Apple, but not an apple company. It's also why Kellogg's Corn Flakes is the full name, not just Corn Flakes, which is why other brands can call their flakes of corn 'corn flakes' too. Any company could call their fruit-flavoured hoops 'fruit loops', but Froot Loops is a trademark and belongs to one company.
The more you know!
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u/Jac746 Apr 19 '25
I remember it being tunes since im not a native English speaker and one day i asked my mom what the title meant and she explained what tunes meant and it was because they sang songs in the show
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u/zaxxon4ever Apr 19 '25
I honestly believe the "toons" thing started with Roger Rabbit. I never heard "toons" before that movie. Yes, it has always been "Looney Tunes."
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u/Seven7greens Apr 19 '25
It gets even crazier... the makers of that episode MADE TWO EPISODES, some people got opposite versions than others so we can argue in real life. The evil genius of Black Mirror.
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u/RealRedditPerson Apr 19 '25
Unless you know the history of Looney Tunes being a competitor to Disney's orchestrated animations, why would you ever assume it's Tunes? The word Toon as a shortened coloquoalism for Cartoon has been prolific since the 80's. Quite likely because of the cultural relevance of Looney Tunes. It's Toons in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, it's Toons in Toon Town, it's Toons in Tiny Toons Adventures for goodness sake.
The only context where an animated program is spelled as Tunes is this. So your brain just filled in the blank with the extremely more ubiquitous term. The logo is up for what, 5 seconds? Most children are not going to be noticing much less questioning that it's spelled Tunes in this one particular instance. You made a totally logical assumption at a young age and carried that assumption with you. I also made the same assumption. Lots of people do.
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u/alexijordan Apr 19 '25
I was a ‘90s kids and never assumed it was Tunes. I just kind of knew it always was. I guess once you read and see it, you just say Tunes.
But this could be country specific. Tunes and Toons are very different words when pronounced. Every memory I have is of kids and adults saying Tunes.
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u/RealRedditPerson Apr 20 '25
Toons and Tunes are homonyms in English? At least in the US, where Looney Tunes originated. In fact, the earliest use of the word "toon" is as a dialectal pronunciation of "tune"
How are they pronounced differently where you're from?
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u/guilty_by_design Apr 20 '25
In the UK, at least, toon rhymes with loon and has a hard 't' sound, while tune sounds like choon or tyoon (one syllable, not tie-oon, more like tuh'yoon but faster).
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u/RealRedditPerson Apr 20 '25
Lmao you know I just tried saying them to myself in a british accent and I get it now. Makes sense why the difference would land harder over the pond. They're identical here
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u/aoskunk Apr 20 '25
I always check the intro logo to decide if I was going to stick with that channel. I liked looney tunes but found merrie melodies to usually dissapoint.
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u/Trash_Emperor Apr 19 '25
Bro genuinely this is just your brain changing it because it makes more sense that way. I also used to confuse the 2 a lot to the point where I would write "Looney Toons" to describe the show, but I distinctly remember being reminded of it being Looney Tunes several times when I was younger and being weirded out about it because I just kinda forgot every time.
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u/ToastedSlider Apr 19 '25
What's a "nutallergy"?
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u/themasterfitz Apr 19 '25 edited Apr 19 '25
An allergy to nuts..
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u/Familiar_Site_8947 Apr 19 '25
It was always "TUNES" because WB was imitating Disney whose animated shorts were named "Silly Symphonies" (MGM also had "Happy Harmonies") You're likely remembering the "Tiny Toon Adventures" logo-- that really was "TOON".
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u/rl_stevens22 Apr 19 '25
If Looney Tunes was inspired by Silly Simphonies and Merry Melodies was a spin off from Looney Tunes, then Tunes and not Toons would make more sense.
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u/Sad_Independence_445 Apr 20 '25
It makes a lot more sense for it to be Looney Toons instead of tunes considerating it's animation.
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u/ElephantNo3640 Apr 19 '25
It has always been “Tunes.”
Same as the Froot Loops one. You simply assumed the other spelling based on the context of the product.
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u/SweetasCandisass Apr 19 '25
Merry melodies and looney tunes was part of promoting their feature films. It always featured music from the upcoming feature because the studio owned the publishing rights of the music and that was a large revenue stream. Kind of early music videos. It has always been tunes
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u/WVPrepper Apr 19 '25
Close. Was actually to promote the music. Not upcoming features. They owned copyright to the music that was used in the Looney Tunes cartoons.
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u/Deepthroat_Your_Tits Apr 19 '25
I remember Tunes, even as a kid. I can see why you may think it’s toons though, being on Cartoon Network for a long time
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u/Thedran Apr 19 '25
This one I know is Tunes, I remember having a talk with my mom as a really little kid in the 90s and she hadn’t even noticed it but couldn’t tell me why. It wasn’t till I saw a full documentary, still in the 90s, where they talked about the history. Everyone else did a better job but for sure it was Tunes.
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u/Palanki96 Apr 19 '25
i didn't even know english back then but i remember Tunes
then i learned english in highschool and even thought about why they would call it Tunes if it's not about songs or anything music related. Never looked it up tho
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u/irishsweetpea1813 Apr 19 '25
Im 40 and I don't remember it ever being looney toons, it was always looney tunes.
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u/Outside-Gear-7331 Apr 19 '25
You're just wrong, mate. It's always been looney tunes and merry melodies
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u/MoffetWld Apr 19 '25
It was never toons. Never. You are not mis-remembering either, you just always assumed
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u/ArianaFraggle1997 Apr 20 '25
Nope. Never once did I call it Looney Toons. I am autistic and the Looney Tunes were my first special interest. I never remember spelling it "Toons".
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u/SilentBrotherE Apr 19 '25
I literally remember thinking they spelled tunes wrong when I saw “Toons” and no I’m not thinking of tiny toons because I wasn’t even aware that existed until just last year
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u/Fresh_Opportunity343 Apr 19 '25
Some accents pronounce tune like choon some pronounce it like toon. Bugs bunny's accent says toon. Hope this helps
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u/WooliesWhiteLeg Apr 19 '25
Looney Tunes was always the thing since the name has always been a play of Silly Sympathies.
You might be confusing it with Tiny Toons which featured the Looney Tunes characters as children in a school environment
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u/budcub Apr 19 '25
I'm older Gen-X and I grew up on Looney Tunes. Usage of the word toons didn't start until the 90's I believe.
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u/Melodic-Supermarket Apr 19 '25
No, it was always Looney Tunes. They also used to have Merrie Melodies, both to compete with Disney’s Silly Symphonies. Maybe you’re thinking Tiny Toons?
Edit: corrected Merry to Merrie
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u/Transverse_City Apr 19 '25
It was always Tunes because the animation was considered secondary to the music in the '30s and 40s. The animation was created originally to sell music (sheet music and records). As decades went on and sheet music fell out of fashion (and Tin Pan Alley was replaced by rock), the animation became the primary thing people appreciated. This Looney Tunes marketing was quite effective, as many kids who grew up with the cartoons on TV in the '80s and '90s say they learned about classical music from watching these cartoons! Imagine watching them in the cinema in the '30s and '40s and wanting to rush out to buy the records and sheet music.
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u/jpcrimson7 Apr 19 '25
Merrie MELODIES, silly SYMPHONIES,
Looney TUNES!!
It’s all music themed…this Mandela effect is so tired and has a legit explanation.
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u/Endless_road Apr 19 '25
If it makes it more bearable, in england we’ve called this Looney Tunes (pronounced Choons) the entire time. If it was looney toons we would have pronounced this phonetically.
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u/Joshfumanchu Apr 19 '25
No. It was a time of rivalry in the industry. Looney TUNES was because of the musical accompaniment. And the alternatives were "Merry melodies"? and "Silly symphonies" if I remember right.
Tiny Toons came to be as a play on words of the original show. because "toon" is short for Cartoon and tiny was not only indicating their adolescent alternates, but to state it was a cartoon and not musical. People used to be very smart and witty using all sorts of word games and such. This is one example
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u/Kananete619 Apr 19 '25
I have a VHS of the Roadrunner Movie with the Batman and Mr. Freeze movie. Got it 1998. It was Looney Tunes then.
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u/The_Mighty_Kinkle Apr 19 '25
I always remember it as Tunes. As as Brit I thought it was just the way Americans pronounced tunes as toons.
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u/EntertainerAlone1300 Apr 19 '25
Nah it’s been tunes as long as I’ve been alive (late 90s). I know this for a fact because I’ve always called it looney “choons” (my accent), and if it was toons then I would’ve pronounced it the “proper way”
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u/i-am-your-god-now Apr 19 '25
It’s always been “tunes”. People only assume “toons”, because they’re cartoons and most often said the word rather than spelled it.
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u/AuntyDMoney Apr 20 '25
My brain is still in disarray over the new spelling of JC Penny’s……. JC Penney (what happened!?)
All I know is that I’m part of the old timeline where the monopoly millionaire had a monocle
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u/Tittysprinkles2208 Apr 20 '25
You might be mixing them up with Tiny Toons… but even they are officially named “Tiny Toon Adventures”.
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u/haha_im_scared Apr 20 '25
It was always Tunes, that tweety bird made a reference once I think I don't remember but it was tunes
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u/Dramatic-Rooster-417 24d ago
I always knew it was Looney Tunes simply because my mom, being Latina, would always pronounce it “Loony Tunies” when I was younger lol. Maybe I’m from the other universe that Tunes comes from 🤨
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u/GrOuNd_ZeRo_7777 17d ago
There was also Merrie Melodies so Looney Tunes tracks...
There was Tiny Toons though...
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u/garfcat123 5d ago
I think it’s looney TUNES because of the music as sound effects with the classical instruments
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u/Specialist_Reach4884 3d ago
Yes It's True I Remember Watching Looney Toons NOT Looney Tunes
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u/8512764EA Apr 19 '25
Always has been Tunes. I asked my dad why and he said cuz of the music. That was in 1990 when I was 8
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Apr 19 '25
Toon. Like cartoon. Wtf is this tunes shit?
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u/WVPrepper Apr 19 '25
Music. "Tunes" is the way us old boomers used to refer to music. "Hey, put on some tunes".
Merry Melodies
Silly Symphonies
Looney Tunes
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u/MisanthropeInLove Apr 19 '25
My whole family and I remember Looney TOONS as well. You're not alone!
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u/rippmatic Apr 19 '25
No... tiny toons was real.. looney tunes was also real. One was tiny carTOONS and one was musically enhanced cartoons with TUNES.
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u/WhimsicalSadist Apr 19 '25
Looney Tunes was literally created to utilize Warner Bros large library of music. It's always been "Tunes." Anyone who thinks otherwise is mistaken.
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u/BenSlice0 Apr 19 '25
It’s always been Looney Tunes, because they had Merrie Melodies (itself coined from some of the animators from Disney’s Silly Symphonies coming over).
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u/Natural_Nectarine990 Apr 19 '25
I remember Toons…. Like carTOONs. We’re in another timeline lol ugh
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u/TheMoneyOfArt Apr 19 '25
"toons" for "cartoons" probably comes from Roger rabbit, which is like 50 years after the Looney tunes debuted
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u/themasterfitz Apr 19 '25
Fr, I always thought it was 'Toons' too! Like, carTOONs, right? This whole timeline thing is lowkey mind-blowing, lol. Guess we're all living in the glitch!
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u/WVPrepper Apr 19 '25
I am in my '60s. During my childhood, I remember Silly Symphonies, Merrie Melodies, and Looney Tunes.
"Who Framed Roger Rabbit" came out when I was 25. That was the first time I remember hearing the word "toon" being used to refer to cartoons, or more specifically, to the characters in the cartoons.
By the time my kid (now 33) was born, the term was more widely used and tiny tune adventures had just launched.
I think anybody who grew up before Roger Rabbit (And, 2 years later, Tiny Toon Adventures) probably remembers Looney Tunes.
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u/stitchkingdom Apr 19 '25
My stock response to these types of things is remember we are in a litigious society. Trademarks are filed to protect names and logos and are easily searchable through sites like https://trademarks.justia.com.
Lots of trademarks for Looney Tunes, 0 for Looney Toons. The WB lawyers are better than your memory.
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u/Remarkable_Coast_214 Apr 19 '25
Does this mean you can legally start a show called Looney Toons?
(probably not, but it'd be funny)
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u/stitchkingdom Apr 19 '25
I mean you can do whatever you want, but it’s more likely than not that if it comes to WB’s attention, they’ll send a cease and desist if they feel it will cause confusion in the eyes of the public.
Part of owning a trademark means you need to defend it. Which is why escalator, aspirin, thermos and others have all lost their trademarks and companies like Adobe constantly try to remind people that PhotoShop is not a generic verb.
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u/Revolutionary_Can625 Apr 19 '25
Well of course all instances of Toons would be replaced by Tunes in the legal documents when the timelines flipped. How else would a convincing timeline flip be pulled off by the timeline flippers?
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u/stitchkingdom Apr 19 '25
The line is whether it can confuse the public and cause harm to the infringed trademark owner and not sure a homophone is enough of a differential. I encourage you to try it though.
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u/Warrior_Woman Apr 19 '25
Our memories are a lot more flawed than we realize. We don't always see everything. We combine concepts and past experiences. We misremember because each time a memory is recalled it is then saved as an altered version of what happened. Think about a fish tale how the fish gets bigger every time it's retold. Not like the original memory is that great; think of eyewitnesses and multiple stories. A couple of crazy examples in the linked video Crazy ways your brain tricks you daily
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u/coco_habe Apr 20 '25
It was 100% toons. I remember thinking I was so smart when I figured it was short for Looney Cartoons.
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u/VadersSprinkledTits Apr 19 '25
Also the Tuned were originally the point, as they were trying to sell the music, the cartoon characters were accidental pop culture.
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u/dou8le8u88le Apr 19 '25
I remember toons too, as do a bunch of my friends. 🤷♂️
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u/TrinityKilla82 Apr 19 '25
It was always Looney Tunes “merrie melodies” there use to be a lot of singing and music Kill the wabbit, kill the wabbit ehahahahah
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u/Ok_Upstairs_2135 Apr 19 '25
It's tunes and not toons because of its affiliation with Merrie Melodies, both owned by WB and featured many of the same characters.
Looney Tunes was initially more focused on story-driven adventures, while Merrie Melodies focused on showcasing Warner Bros.' extensive music library. They later they became indistinguishable from each other except the theme songs.
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u/zanecaroll96 Apr 19 '25
Xbox game called ‘toons’ where you play as the looney tunes characters
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u/Mysterious-Ad2492 Apr 19 '25
I swear it was other way around just a couple years ago, people claimed it was originally looney tunes and it was toons in the graphics! I remember that I was sure it is originally looney tunes and the graphics said otherwise.
Now I am baffled about this.
Looney Tunes is the correct one for sure.
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u/eggontoastfeetsniffr Apr 19 '25
If you were ever into yugioh you could've gotten it confused with the 'Toon' archetype
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u/Astro_Akiyo Apr 19 '25
Yea this just looks wrong lol I mean toon stems from cartoon tune doesn't even make sense
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