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Eric Bauza was known for elaborate Halloween costumes and ran the charity Saturday Morning Cartoons United with his fiancée that does licensed screenings to raise funds for homeless/unemployed animators. He was set to host a Powerpuff Girls event next month dressed as Mojo Jojo.

youtube.comSesame Street in the Writer's Room! #sesamestreetYouTube video by Sesame Street

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The cast of a New York institution which has seen its share of celebrity guests and iconic sketches and characters. Also, the cast of Saturday Night Live. (“The Land of Grouch” is a great inside joke.)

variety.comEric Bauza’s ‘Looney Tunes’ Legacy: ‘Coyote vs. Acme’ Producer Says Voice Actor Behind Bugs Bunny and More Had a ‘Deep Love of the Craft’Chris DeFaria, producer of "Coyote vs. Acme," shared his thoughts on the death of Eric Bauza, the voice of many "Looney Tunes" characters.

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“He used to say he was only borrowing Mel Blanc’s Cadillac and that he promised to return the keys when he was done. Take your time. You always did.” Former Warner Bros. executive and producer of Coyote vs. ACME Chris DeFaria remembers Eric Bauza.

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I'm crushed about Eric Bauza. He was one of the warmest, funniest people I've ever met. Watching him do voices up close was like a magic show. Here's part of our conversation from August. www.theringer.com/2026/10/26/m...

theringer.comEric Bauza Extended the Legacy of Bugs BunnyThe voice actor behind many ‘Looney Tunes’ characters died Sunday at age 46. In August, he spoke to The Ringer about embodying the classic cartoons and paying respect to Mel Blanc.

marketingdive.comWalmart CMO breaks down retailer’s Muppet-fueled holiday campaignFor a unified push during the holidays, the retailer is recreating the world of “The Muppet Christmas Carol” and extending its “Who Knew?” brand platform.

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Walmart CMO William White explains the Muppets are being used as a result of their reemergence into the public eye as a result of the 50th anniversary special and World Cup halftime show. Pepe the Prawn specifically appears as a result of his meme status.

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Damn. The day before he died Eric Bauza was on a panel at the Lightbox Expo recreating the square dance scene from “Hillbilly Hare”.

From Warner Bros. Animation and Warner Bros. Pictures Animation: “Eric Bauza was a unique voice talent who brought joy and laughter to millions around the world. During his 15 years at Warner Bros. Animation, he was the voice of Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck among countless other characters.

He followed in the footsteps of giants like Mel Blanc. Eric said that carrying on the legacy of the Looney Tunes was among the greatest honors of his life. In addition to his incredible talent, Eric was a treasured part of our animation family. Our hearts go out to his loved ones.”

youtu.beWalmart Presents: A Who Knew Carol (Full Version)YouTube video by Walmart

The Muppets are the only ones allowed to celebrate Christmas early, and Walmart apparently knows this as they released a Muppet Christmas Carol homage featuring Walton Goggins, Stephanie Beatriz, and Pepe the King Prawn (he wasn’t in the original, hokay?)

As fun as this ad is, just imagine how many new episodes of The Muppet Show we could have gotten with the money they used to make this. Still, I’d take this over Paramount’s Fake Johnny Depp Venmo any day.

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do you know how fucking innately talented someone has to be to have it be said about them 'you are mel blanc's successor' and have that potentially be an UNDERSTATEMENT? god

In 2021, Warner Bros. worked with Story Pirates to do a podcast about Daffy traveling America to make the Duck the new Thanksgiving bird. Besides somehow recreating Looney Tunes slapstick in audio form, Eric Bauza did a damn good job as Chuck Jones-era Bugs and Daffy.

m.youtube.comLooney Tunes Thanksgiving Podcast 🍁 - YouTubeIt’s Bugs & Daffy’s Thanksgiving Road Trip, an original podcast series featuring the Looney Tunes like you’ve never heard them before! When Bugs Bunny and Da...

I planned on posting this as Thanksgiving rolled around as part of the anewfound interest in Looney Tunes as a result of Coyote vs. Acme, but I do so now for much sadder reasons. Thanks, Eric. m.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Eric Bauza, the current voice of Bugs Bunny and so many others, has unexpectedly passed away. I am gutted. A modern voice acting genius, Eric was the true successor to Mel Blanc while simultaneously always showing his respect and gratitude to Mel and all the others he followed.

I am glad Eric lived long enough to see Coyote vs. ACME be released and share in its victory. Eric was a true Looney Tunes fan and his voice work was some of the finest out there. Tanks fer everyting, Doc.

Baw gawd, here comes Mortimer with the wooden chair!

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billboard.comAnthropic Sued For Stealing Elvis Presley Music to Train AI: ‘Deeply Protective of These Iconic Songs’Anthropic faces a lawsuit over Elvis Presley's music as owners of the music legend's rights sue the AI giant for using his songs to train models.

The estate of Elvis Presley has filed a lawsuit against Anthropic accusing the Claude AI database of being trained on illegally-obtained sources which include the lyrics to 274 Elvis songs, seeking damages of $150,000 per song or roughly $41 million:

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sources such as BitTorrent downloads and a data set including multiple YouTube subtitles of nearly 200,000 copyrighted music videos rather ominously referred to as “The Pile”.

The suit further alleges Claude itself knows it is infringing copyright when using song lyrics; when asked to rewrite songs “for a modern audience”, it responded that its rewrites “[edge] past [being] ‘inspired by’ into reproducing the copyright song, even when the words are swapped out”.

The lawsuit alleges that Claude deliberately circumvents sources which are legally required to display the name of the songwriters and copyright holders of copyrighted songs - which they allegedly referred to as “useless junk” - by deliberately training the AI on illegal copies acquired from…

youtu.beDanhausen Stars in His Very Own Snickers Halloween Commercial (October 2026)YouTube video by JeffTheFutureJaros⭕

This is my first time seeing Danhausen after having heard much about him and I am now convinced that he should become the new “funny horror guy” in the same vein as Elvira and Grandpa Munster

theringer.comThe New Apu‘The Simpsons’ just brought back its most controversial character—with a new voice. Here’s how the Kwik-E-Mart manager made his return.

For a show not known for twists, The Simpsons knew using a Halloween special to bring back Apu was one so big they asked Marvel Studios how to prevent spoilers from being leaked. Alan Siegel, author of the fantastic STUPID TV, BE MORE FUNNY, on the process.

nytimes.comKnicks coaches didn’t get rings on banner night; MSG staff received phishing email: Sources (Gift Article)“We are not disclosing anything about the rings,” an MSG Sports spokesperson said in a statement Thursday evening.

Employees of the Knicks were sent an email purporting to offer them a championship ring free of charge. Though it is common to award all employees of an NBA team with a ring, the email was actually a test to see if they would fall for phishing scams. www.nytimes.com/athletic/771...

The assistant coaches were handed empty boxes during the ceremony as their inclusion was last-minute and it is even possible that the head coach also received an empty box. Commissioner Adam Silver is so at odds with James Dolan that the NFL’s Roger Goodell oversaw the ceremony.

variety.comTrump Says Google CEO Rejected His Request to Rename Atlantic Ocean on Google MapsPresident Donald Trump, who has already renamed two bodies of water after America, said he would like to redub the Atlantic Ocean as well -- but that the CEO of Google pushed back on the idea.

DJT says a lot of really weird things, but “I asked the CEO of Google if he could rename the Atlantic Ocean but he told me oceans are really big” is so stupid that it’s probably true variety.com/2026/digital...

“Sundar. Really nice guy. I asked him if he could change the name of Google to Trumple and he said ‘no. People use Google as a verb and it’s technically a trademark violation. Like Xeroxing. Do you want to be a trademark violation?’”

nbcnews.toOfficer who found man dead in Florida home allegedly moved in, renovated and assumed his identity for yearsBrian Louis Sguros, 35, had responded to the Lauderhill home in July 2022 for a welfare check.

I guess a gritty reboot of Weekend at Bernie’s was inevitable. I just expected it to be, you know, a movie and not real life.

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A Florida man was found dead in his home during a welfare check in July 2022. Weeks later, one of the officers who discovered his body moved into the home and spent years impersonating him, according to investigators.

EXCLUSIVE: photographs have surfaced of the botched attempt to move Eisenhower’s globe to Pete Hesgeth’s office.

During the government shutdown in February, Secretary of War Pete Hesgeth decided he wanted one of the globes produced for Dwight Eisenhower archived in the Pentagon for his office. A team from Hesgeth’s office tried to move the globe themselves and damaged it, leading them to leave it where it is.

washingtonpost.comHegseth wanted Eisenhower’s globe for his office. His staff broke it.Photos obtained by The Post show a gash in the World War II-era artifact that resulted from a botched relocation attempt inside the Pentagon.

deadline.comTyra Banks To Produce Feature About The Invention Of The Sports BraTyra Banks will bring the stories of Lisa Lindahl, Polly Smith, and Hinda Miller, the inventors of the sports bra, to the big screen.

Tyra Banks will be producing a biopic about the inventors of the sports bra. I hope it brings up the fact that Polly Smith would later go on to be a costume designer for the Muppets.

It seems to happen a lot in every industry, but there’s a real sad irony in how both EA and Activision were both small indie outlets founded to be the alternative to The Industry and eventually became The Industry by slowly gobbling up and killing small indie outlets

Same as how the most famous commercial Apple ever made was “we’re not Big Brother” followed by its infamous follow-up “our consumers aren’t lemmings” to eventually become Big Brother and eventually acquire a fanbase of lemmings

Time Warner’s attempts in the 1990s to out-Disney Disney are surprisingly overlooked, as they lead to gems like this, which I think even someone who would give a Star Wars/Marvel crossover a pass would find incredibly forced.

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To tie this in with (what else?) wrestling, to cross-promote Quest For Camelot, Baron Ruber made an appearance on an episode of WCW Thunder.

Fittingly, the actor playing Baron Ruber has an expression on his face that brings to mind those bird-powered appliances from The Flintstones who mug to the camera and deadpan “it’s a living”

Does Coach have any cultural relevance aside from “the show the future Mr. Incredible and Patrick Star were on”? Great theme song, though.

Remember Coach? It’s back! In The Office form!

variety.comLea Michele Returning for ‘Glee’ Reboot as Rachel Berry (EXCLUSIVE)Lea Michele will reprise the role of Rachel Berry in Disney+ and Hulu's upcoming reboot of 'Glee.'

With all due apologies to Mr. Povenmire and Mr. Barry, if I had a nickel for every revival of a musical-theater-based series which featured the return of a former cast member, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice.

You own “Who’s on First”, a comedy routine repopularized by its use in “You Can See Everything”. In 2016, the estates of Abbott and Costello sued the producers of “Hand to God” over the skit’s inclusion. The use was ruled to be infringing were it not for the fact it was never formally copyrighted.

(The script to “Who’s on First” would not be copyrighted until 1944, six years after it was first performed; however, the copyright was never renewed and the estates were unable to claim the routine itself as a derivative of the 1944 script as a result.)

Important Sesame Street Twitter update: The Count, the first character to have an official account, has stopped a 14-year streak in which he did nothing but count from 1 to 6,052

After discovering the existence of a sitcom called “The Ghost Busters”, Columbia contemplated Ghoststoppers or Ghostblasters before buying the rights to the name “Ghostbusters” from Filmation for $500,000 plus 1% of the gross profit. Due to Hollywood accounting, Ghostbusters never made a profit.

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We all know the "Viggo broke his toe" story but what's another movie fact you're personally compelled to bring up every time without prompting? For me, it's the fact that Robin Tunney is wearing a wig in The Craft because of having just shaved her head to save her job filming Empire Records.

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The Master of Disguise “9/11 Turtle Club” is technically both true AND false; though the Turtle Club scene was the first to be filmed and a moment of silence was held, it was not filmed ON 9/11. Filming was intended to start in late September 2001 before being postponed due to the attacks.

Lilo and Stitch was animated at the Disney Orlando studio without a test screening due to the team’s hatred of Michael Eisner’s reactions. During a screening of The Lion King Eisner looked away when Simba saw Mufasa’s spirit, leading him to ask why Simba went back home: “What happened? Mustafa who?”

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The original theatrical and VHS releases of The Santa Clause had Tim Allen’s character quipping he could reach his ex-wife by dialing 1-800-SPANKME. This was cut from all subsequent releases after it was discovered this was an actual sex line and Disney unsuccessfully tried to buy the number.

After deeming Danny Devito as too expensive, Nintendo rejected Tom Hanks for the 1994 Super Mario Bros. as they felt he lacked broad audience appeal. Hanks would then win two consecutive Oscars and then voice the lead role in Toy Story.

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An intended running gag for The Muppet Movie involved Henry Kissinger continually asking if he could have a cameo only to be turned down by Kermit each time, “settling” for having his face carved into Mount Rushmore. The original script claimed “we know it’s impossible but we’ll get him anyway”.

Will J. Pierrepont Finch disavow the Brotherhood of Man?