Mel Blanc, Man Of A Thousand Voices.
Posted on 07/28/2015 11:21:33 AM PDT by PROCON
A “hare-raising” 75 years has passed since Bugs Bunny made his motion picture debut.
The Warner Bros. icon everybody knows and loves first appeared on July 27, 1940 in “Wild Hare,” a cartoon short directed by Tex Avery. The clip features a wily Bugs Bunny outsmarting Elmer Fudd, who hunts for a “silly wabbit” in vain. Warner Bros. made several rabbit cartoons in earlier years, but they were not the same as the distinctive cotton-tailed “Bugs” featured in July of 1940.
Bugs Bunny was an “instant star,” He became one of the world’s best-known cartoon characters, starring in more than 175 films, receiving three Oscar nominations, one Academy Award, and appearing in comic books, TV specials, and video games, as Parade Magazine reported.
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I remember originally seeing that in the paper at the time. I wept. A fond part of my childhood was gone.
Why not? Oh...the firearm.
I am afraid that it has been locked in a vault with Song of the South, never to be seen again.
Bugs is just like Trump and all the lower case politician’s are like Fudd. They all keep hunting that Wascally Wabbit Trump and he makes them look like the fools they have always been.
Back in that day we used to laugh at those cartoons because they were silly.
Nowadays many consider "Caitlyn" normal.
It just proves to me that the era I grew up in, 50's & 60's was the one of the last of the innocent age.
Mel Blanc, Man Of A Thousand Voices.
And they’ll have an opportunity to tune in for more. Variety Magazine recently reported that Time Warner’s Boomerang Network channel would be running brand new episodes featuring Bugs Bunny.
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And I’ll bet the farm they will be watered down, sanitized, PC crap with no guns, so boring and bland, they’ll fail miserably.
To me the greatest cartoons are the Tex Avery ones.
This one is my all-time favorite cartoon.
Rock-a-bye Bear
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2l4cs_rock-a-bye-bear_shortfilms
Yep. I wonder how blatant Bugs Bunny could be all years ago playing the role as a queer hairdresser, or kissing Sam or Elmer full on the mouth, and stuff like that.
Like the Tom and Jerry cartoons that came out in the 60s and 70s where they were friends.
Tom and Jerry with the black, faceless, woman were great.
I still remember (aghast) a Bugs, Daffy & Elmer about whether it was Rabbit or Duck Season. I’ve seen the full cartoon before and since and loved it BUT this particular showing must have been at the height of the Cartoon Violence craze. I think that there were 4 or more times in the cartoon where crafty Bugs got Daffy to say “Duck Season” and Elmer pulled the trigger.
Now in the full cartoon, you saw Elmer pull the trigger, you saw the smoke and heard the bang and Daffy’s bill got spun, twisted etc. from the blast. In this benighted scissors&paste showing, all that was shown to the presumably impressionable kiddies was Elmer reacting and Daffy adjusting. All of the violence was removed! Wowsers what a relief, our kid’s innocence was SAVED!
My best guess was that it was either a new grad from Touchy-Feely who did the hatchet job OR a totally disgruntled tech under orders who probably thought; “OK, you want no violence, I’ll show you what you get!” I could just feel the karma being spread, or was that the fertilizer?
I noticed they replaced the black face with a white face in those episodes.
OMG! Those were junk! I remember I was home one day and the kids had the TV on
I had never seen those "new" Tom & Jerry. I thought I was gonna vomit.
They love, they share,
They share and love and share,
Love love love, share share share,
The Itchy & Scratchy Show!
Then the whole episode consisted of Itchy and Scratchy sitting on the porch drinking lemonade.
Bugs came out of the closet years ago.
So I'm not the only one to notice.
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