Posted on 01/01/2009 9:47:38 AM PST by AnnGora
Thanks for the heads up. Just started recording all day.
See 12pm hour. You just missed it!
I think we should all drink a toast to possibly the most talented man who ever lived - Mr. Mel Blanc.
“Looney Tunes Marathon” is what the Obama administration is going to be. The guy hadn’t even been inaugurated and his fellow travellers were already getting arrested.
Thanks for the heads up. I love Looney Tunes.
No “Water, Water, Every Hare”? I always swore that if I became extremely rich I would build a castle that would have in big neon on the side. “Evil Scientist! BOO!”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92pC4o5r5fg
You know what I don’t dig?
The fact that Bugs Bunny taught generations of impressionable kids that it’s acceptable to chew audibly and with one’s mouth open.
Unforgivable.
THANK YOU!
It appears they have left out the ABSOLUTE BEST Bugs/Daffy cartoon of all time - DUCK! RABBIT, DUCK!
Mel Blanc pulls off speaking as Bugs doing a Daffy imitation and then does Daffy imitating Bug’s voice. It’s priceless! The man was a genius.
Synopsis
The cartoon, set in winter, finds Daffy Duck removing and burning every “Duck Season Open” sign he finds in order to warm himself in the winter (”I am a duck bent on self preservationum..munum”, he tells the audience). He then attempts to convince Elmer Fudd that it is actually Rabbit Season, prompting Bugs Bunny to use his wits to keep Elmer from shooting him. After each shot, irritated Daffy is forced to put his beak back in place. In the end, Bugs (dressed as the Game Warden) successfully convinces a thoroughly loopy and confused Elmer that it is, in fact, Baseball Season. As Elmer goes off, shooting a baseball, Daffy finally admits that it’s really Duck Season... and is promptly shot up by a dozen hunters lying in wait.
Watching these classics, I am really amazed how sophisticated they really are and how much I learned from them, even though as a child, I wasn’t aware at the time of all the cultural references. The one on right now has Peter Lorre as a character. Didn’t know that when I was 8 years old.
So much more original, creative, and culturally enlightening than today’s watered down, politically correct, brain-washing cartoons that are made for kids.
Could that possibly be Rabbit Seasoning in the 3pm hour?
Could that possibly be Rabbit Seasoning in the 3pm hour?
Careful. I might open up my box of ACME Do-It-Yourself Missiles!
Rabbit Seasoning was the first in the hunting trilogy followed by Duck! Rabbit, Duck! and then Rabbit Fire. I can’t remember if Mel did the Bugs/Daffy impersonation thing in Rabbit Seasoning so I’ll have to check it out. Thanks!
The Looney-Tunes-Marathon will be starting on January, 20, in Washington D.C.
That one will produce no laughter, only tears.
“Porky in Wackyland” is my all-time favorite!
There are some PC edits, though-in one of the cartoons that aired during the 6AM hour, the one where Elmer is a Mountie, at the end he has finally arrested Bugs and has him before a firing squad. He asks Bugs if he has any “last reqwests”, and then the cartoon ends. But that’s not where it originally ended! They cut the part where Bugs says yes, he has a last request, and begins singing, “I wish I was in Dixie, Hurray, Hurray”; Bugs is suddenly transported to what appears to be a cotton plantation and there’s a black man playing a banjo and singing along with Bugs!
I remember an edit about 10 years ago.
Don’t remember the name of the cartoon, but, in the original, Columbus is trying to convince the King of Spain that the world is round.
“The world, she’s-a round like my head!” says Columbus in his best Chico Marx voice.
The King of Spain produces a huge sledgehammer and bangs it down on Columbus’s head.
“The world, she’s-a flat like your head,” says the King of Spain in a Frito Bandito voice.
Well, the last time I saw this cartoon, this part was completely cut out, due, I guess, to the violence and the stereotyped accents. So Ridiculous! I don’t even see this cartoon on this list for today.
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