Parents' Guide to Bugs Bunny's 24 Carrot Holiday Special

The 24 Carrot Holiday Special has 5 different segments of varying quality. It gets off to a dark start, with Daffy and Porky becoming fill-in elves for a mean and threatening Santa. The Granny/Tweety/Sylvester and Tazmanian Devil bits fall flat, as their gags just rehash old material. As always, kids will love seeing Wile E. Coyote's elaborate Christmas traps and how the Road Runner turns them back on Wile. The very last story, where Bugs and Elmer Fudd get in an argument about snow clearing, brings some of the charm of old-timey Looney Tunes. Kids will be entertained by the one-upping back and forth between the rivals, and how Bugs cleverly beats Elmer Fudd at his own game.

There's a ton of slapstick violence and hostility between characters, which is not a surprise given the franchise. As Looney Tunes is the very definition of cartoon violence, it's true that it won't impact kids as strongly as realistic plots. But parents should keep in mind that without the stellar writing from the older 'toons, some of the action and dialogue feels just plain mean and aggressive. And things like having main characters' stutters and speech impediments used as comedy feels pretty dated 90 years after the cartoon's inception.