Warner Home Video (Home Video Bumpers)

Written by: fig2090 and yeow95 Editions by: McDonald's1 and CooleyBoy10

Note: The following bumpers were a part of a series of Warner Home Video VHS bumpers spliced into clips of classic cartoons in the Warner Bros. film library, and will be referred to by the cartoon that was spliced within the bumper.

Merrie Melodies Bumper (2000)

Warner Home Video Coming Soon ID (2000)

Bumper: We see a clip from the classic Merrie Melodies short Duck Amuck, in which we start with a white background. Daffy Duck pokes his head in from the right side of the screen and asks the animator where "the scenery" is. Daffy soon disappears to make way for a giant paintbrush, which starts to "paint" the bumper onto the screen, which consists of the Warner Home Video logo resting on a cloudy sky background, with the text "COMING SOON FROM" arched in gold above the logo.

FX/SFX: The clip of Duck Amuck, the paintbrush "painting" the bumper onto the screen, the moving cloud background of the WHV bumper. Very nice integration of the animated clip with the bumper here!

Music/Sounds: The audio from Duck Amuck, which consists of Daffy Duck (voiced by the legendary Mel Blanc) beckoning and then asking the artist where the scenery (which in this instance is the bumper) is. The dialogue is accompanied by a flute tune that starts out timidly but then blossoms into a whimsical tone.

Availability: Extremely rare. It can be found only on the 2000 VHS tapes of My Dog Skip and Scooby-Doo and the Alien Invaders.

Editor's Note: None.

Tom and Jerry Bumper (2000)

Bumper: We fade into a scene from the Tom and Jerry short Salt Water Tabby, in which we see Tom, wearing a bathing suit, chasing Jerry on a beach. Jerry then gets on a beach umbrella and presses the button that closes the umbrella, causing it to get Tom stuck inside of it, along with him. Jerry then manages to climb his way out of the umbrella, and the short is cut to the next part. Jerry manages to make the green crab from the short run into a legging of Tom's bathing suit, which he then runs from the scene in fear. The green crab then attacks Tom, causing him to jump about 15 feet into the air, with him and the umbrella landing at a vertical upside-down direction. The green crab then cuts a hole in the seat of Tom's bathing suit. When the green crab is seen in the seat of Tom's bathing suit, we see some of the bumper behind him. He soon jumps out, revealing the bumper (which features the Warner Home Video logo resting on a cloudy sky background, with the gold text "COMING SOON FROM" arched in gold above the logo). The bumper then zooms out from Tom's bathing suit in order to fill up the entire screen.

FX/SFX: The scene of Salt Water Tabby, the WHV bumper spliced into the clip that expands to fill the screen, the moving cloud background of the WHV bumper.

Music/Sounds: Just the audio of Salt Water Tabby, which features the original audio for the scene as well as the music featured at the end credits, the latter of which is played when the green crab has finished cutting the hole in Tom's bathing suit.

Availability: Rare. It can be found the on VHS of Scooby Doo's Creepiest Capersand the DVD of Leap Frog: Learn to Read at the Storybook Factory.

Editor's Note: Viewers may find the decision to place thebumper on Tom's behind as rather ridiculous, although this may be intentional for the sake of comedy.