Warner Brothers & Hanna Barbera cartoons introduced us to a great deal of culture by repetitive memes. This cinematic universe has hundreds of hours of short-form content, which back in the dark ages of television was fed to us intravenously age 2 to age ~12. Reruns played for decades after the original airdate in the hours after getting off from school or on weekend mornings.
I didn't have any idea who Orson Welles was until I recognized him in school as the person that The Brain ('Pinky and the Brain' on Animaniacs) was a parody of.
To this day I've never seen Peter Lorre, but there was a quite distinctive caricature that repeatedly played on Looney Tunes, and it took half a day of Googling to figure out what that memory referred to.
There are lots of other reference jokes - repeated tropes, voices, facial poses, and musical themes assumed by these shorts that clearly carried some cultural meaning that we intuited by repetition, even if we never understood the source material. It's nice to have a "TVTropes For WB Cartoons" if only because we don't know the name of many of these things to be able to look them up.
Unfortunately the maintainer seems to be largely focused on the 1940's and early 1950's, with most of the references.
How young are you? Looks like what the internet used to look like. It appears the website is from the 90s and had some form of resurrection in 2014. You can still email the original guy on his aol email.
Is "what is this ?" even a productive comment in itself? That's the point the parent is trying to make. If you click on this link, and you can't tell what it is, you probably don't care what it is. And after that, if you don't care enough to search "Daffy Duck" on Google or whatever, you really don't care what it is. Why would we possibly need a Hacker News comment explaining what Warner Brothers cartoons are?
