The truth is that much of classical music was first introduced to me through Warner Brothers cartoons. Shorts like "Rhapsody Rabbit" were the first places I heard Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, or really any Liszt until 10 years later. The cartoons used many operas for a variety of shorts: Wagner in "What's Opera Doc?," Rossini in "The Rabbit of Seville," and Mozart in "Long-Haired Hare." As amazing as The Ride of the Valkyries is, I still imagine Elmer Fudd in the viking helmet singing "Kill the Wabbit, Kill the Wabbit!", and so it shall be until I find the time to watch the Ring cycle.
These days, Looney Tunes is not even on the air. I remember coming across them until 5 or 6 years ago, but they have since disappeared. The cartoons were an important part of my childhood, but now they're considered old and outdated. Now all the classical music introduced to kids is Spongebob's stuckup neighbor, Squidward, playing a horrible sounding sqeaky and out-of-tune clarinet.
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