Looney Tunes

Looney Tunes was one of two most popular programmes to be shown in movie theatres from 1942 into the 60's, beating it's competitors (Disney, Paramount's Famous Studios, Universal's Walter Lantz Productions) during the short film era of cartoons.

I think Looney Tunes is a good thing, for animation students in particular, to watch, because it uses the 12 principles of animation as often as it can, which is useful to observe and learn from when applying it to your own animations. 

They always have short, but funny stories to their cartoons, expressing the character's emotions with exaggerated facial expressions or motions; not necessarily dialogue or narrative all the time...