Found this through theBeat, a great comics and cartoon blog. Normally I would just do my RSSBandit to bloggar thing and put up a snide remark. But this ATROCITY of a story deserved full attention.

LOONEY TUNE-UPS

The Looney Tunes characters — six in all — have been “reimagined” (in studio parlance) for a new series called “Loonatics,” which is set to air next fall on WPIX/Channel 11 as part of the Saturday morning Kids’ WB program lineup.

The show features new versions of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Wile E. Coyote, the Tasmanian Devil, Road Runner and Lola Bunny (the newest of the characters, who was introduced in the 1996 Michael Jordan movie “Space Jam”).

For “Loonatics,” the six characters are being projected 700 years into the future, given superpowers, and outfitted in tight-fitting, slenderizing space gear.

Still standing? There is more:

“This is a kids show intended for kids today who are growing up in the Internet age, an age of technology, an age of hip, cool animation, and something that we hope will resonate with that age group,” explained Sander Schwartz, president of Warner Bros. Animation, in a phone interview from Hollywood.

He said the characters’ superpowers have not yet been finalized. And neither have their names, although they are expected to have names close to those of their ancestors (think Buzz Bunny).

Now, I always believed that my children would be monsters out to conquer the world. But that’s because they will be grown up on a healthy diet of classic Looney Tunes that instructs the joys of being an insane ass. Not this manufactured shite of “hip, cool”.

Christ, I hate anything where I can easily envision the marketing session that came up with the idea.

Someone shall pay.

Link. [Found on theBeat]