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The manic variety cartoon that slipped jokes for adults past kids and a geography lesson past everyone. Yakko, Wakko and Dot burst out of the Warner Bros. water tower alongside Pinky and the Brain, Slappy Squirrel, and a cast of oddballs — fast, smart, and endlessly quotable.
The 1993 tearjerker about a troubled boy who bonds with a captive orca and sets him free — capped by the iconic image of Willy leaping over a breakwater to Michael Jackson's "Will You Be There." Its most astonishing legacy, though, played out in the real ocean.
Michael Jordan teams with Bugs Bunny and the Looney Tunes to beat a squad of talent-stealing aliens, the Monstars. A live-action/animation hybrid with a monster soundtrack, it made the Tune Squad jersey a playground staple.