What makes Warner Brother's Cartoons unique?  This reason why I was
wondering is because my son said one day how come these cartoons stay
around so long. I said because of their uniqueness but that is my
problem. What makes them so unique and why do they contiune to have so
much success.

Researchers may be uncertain as to what you are after. Are you seeking
"opinion" as an answer?

tutuzdad-ga

no i am after the right answer. I do not know what that is but it
would be nice to get it.  There must be something unique about their
cartoons they have been around for 60 years now.

Perhaps this informal site suggests a reason:  there were just so many
Warner Bros. cartoons coming out of a production mill that apparently
inadvertantly developed its own style, perhaps reinforced by feedback
from the viewers.
Why they have stayed around so long could have something to do with
Warner Bros.' being taken over by Time, and then later when Turner
acquired Warner's pre-1948 library.

http://www.2blowhards.com/archives/000855.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turner_Entertainment

That could account for why the cartoons are ever present  - "stay
around so long."  Whether that is "success" or just omnipresence
because they just keep being shown all the time is something someone
else can comment about.

I am a first time user with google anwers.  You guys who are leaving
me comments are giving me some ideas but will i get a formal answer
from a researcher.

Maybe, I haven't locked your question and am just kicking time doing
some casual research, I haven't come up with much yet but let's see. 
Don't loose hope yet!

Regards

THX1138

Researchers have blue names  (Tutuzdad and Thx1138) and are the only
people who can post an "answer".  Comments are free.

My opinion is that one of the important aspects of the WB cartoons
from the Jones/Freling et al era is the incredibly complex music
composition that went into it. Carl Stalling's orchestral work is
simply astounding and syncs to the action smoothly. Later work (70s
and on) has almost no relation to the on-screen action.

Another thing is that the cartoons (especially early ones) were
originally designed for theater screening during a time that a good
number of folks in the audience did not have English as their primary
language. The cartoons were able to be enjoyed on one level even
though the dialogue was not followed. Excellent music scoring helped
this, by the way. Early Popeye work by Leon Schlesinger  was similarly
simple to follow and did not rely on complex dialogue. Later cartoons
by the same folks were just made to the same standard.

If you can mute the sound and not lose much meaning you have the mark
of a well-written and acted performance. This applies to cartoons and
Shakespeare.

Anyone with an idea?

I'm going to have to go soon, but here might be some pointers...

From a discussion board:
"The frustrating thing for me, prior to taking this class, was that I
could tell which cartoons I liked and which ones I didn't, but had no
way of expressing why. Learning about limited animation, for example,
helps me differentiate between the superior product of Warner Brothers
in the 1950's and the lackluster Hanna-Barbera productions that
followed it. Most of all, I now consider animation a serious art form
with many benefits that should not be dismissed as merely a child's
genre. After analyzing a Bugs Bunny episode, I found a ton of jokes
that I probably missed the first twenty times I watched it. My mission
now is to collect as many episodes of Bugs Bunny and Coyote/Roadrunner
cartoons as I can and watch them all."
https://segue.middlebury.edu/index.php?action=site&site=fmmc1003a-w04&section=4391&page=16645&story=25842&detail=25842

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"Of the old animation -- Looney Tunes, Bullwinkle, the Grinch and
Disney classics like Fantasia -- the reason for interest is primarily
twofold.

First, "kids grow up with them," said pop culture professor Jack
Nachbar at Bowling Green State University in Ohio.

Second, "If you look especially at Warner Brothers, what is recognized
is classic humor, something like the restoration of comedy on the
stage," Nachbar says.

McDonnell agrees. "Watching it now, I'm amazed at all the incredible
references to then-current events and the subtle sexual innuendos."

Many of the Warner Brothers cartoons also emphasize societal messages,
said Jay Wright, curator of the touring museum exhibit "That's All
Folks!"

"This is a parcel of our way of looking at things," he said. "Like
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner. The message is that no matter how
hard you try, you don't always win."
http://www.stp.uh.edu/vol57/91-11-15.html

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Mikulak, W. A. 1996. The canonization of Warner Brothers cartoons, or
how Bugs Bunny came to the Museum of Modern Art. Journal of American
Culture 19(1):21
http://www.rpi.edu/~bulloj/L-R.html

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Regards

THX1138