Posted on 07/30/2002 1:16:51 PM PDT by Mr. Mulliner
Edited on 04/29/2004 2:00:56 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
The "wascally wabbit," who's faced down Elmer Fudd, Marvin the Martian and Yosemite Sam, has come out on top again: According to the latest issue of TV Guide, Bugs Bunny is the greatest cartoon character of all time.
Bugs is also the only character from the pre-television animated-short golden age to make the magazine's top 10.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Have you seen the music videos based on a collection of clips from the series? Good stuff. So far, I've seen the same video sequence with Kansas' "Dust in the Wind" and The Beatles' "Yesterday". There's probably a lot more out there; I've only recently discovered the stuff.
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Ditto! ;o)
My good friend dated his son at one time. She is a speech pathologist.
True story!
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Gonna have to dig those old books out.
A decade? About 25 years overstayed from my standpoint.
Understand that I'm talking mostly about the strip itself here, and not the 12-frames-per-second schmaltzfests that were the Dolly Madison specials. But if you go back and look at the run of strips from about the mid-60's to the early 70's, they were funny and even topical, with a point of view and some sense of commentary. But what I tend to think is that that enormous merchandising empire made Schulzie play it safe, and the strip turnrd into the cartoon equivalent of oatmeal - bland, safe, inoffensive, and boring. The topical commentary just faded and was gone before too long.
You don't need to be topical and have a specific point of view for a strip, of course - lots of strips don't. But if you haven't got something to say, then for God's sake at least be funny. And it wasn't funny - it was an endless parade of kite-eating trees and battles with the Red Baron, sandwiched in between Met Life commercials. Is Charlie Brown finally going to kick the sh*t out of that football? Dunno, but I wouldn't f***ing bet on it!
And so on and so on. Yeah, B&B will fade away, as a product of a particular moment in time, but it was damn funny when it was on, which Peanuts almost never was. Sorry. ;)
You're right- remember the flap around 1990-91 when they wanted to start playing some of the original episodes? Guess we can forget about Mumbles for sure.
IMO, the original theme tune was one of the best.
I think I know what Cloud William is referring to. I downloaded the one featuring "Dust in the Wind" by searching either Bearshare or WinMX in the "videos" category. I've still got to find the correct codec to make it work, all I get is the audio track. It's in .avi format, I believe. Just search "Cowboy Bebop", you'll find it.
I was curious about that, too. Here's what I found:
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"In Mel's last decade, the story was that he had trained his son Noel to take over voicing his many characters. Noel is a smart fellow, and he can sound amazingly like his father, but he prefers not to make his living as a voice actor. Once in a while, he'll do a voice — for a short spot but instead, a number of others have been called upon to replicate Mel. Their ranks include Greg Burson, Jeff Bergman, Joe Alaskey, Billy West, Bill Farmer, Frank Welker, Neil Ross, Mindy Segal, Bob Bergen, Jim Cummings, Maurice LaMarche and (!!) Frank Gorshin.
(Briefly: Burson most often does Bugs these days, although West did him in Space Jam and Segal does most of the singing jobs. Alaskey usually speaks for Daffy, and that's him doing both Tweety and the Puddy Tat on The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries on the WB network, although Farmer did Sylvester in Space Jam. Bergen most often does Porky, Cummings usually does the Tasmanian Devil, and Yosemite Sam has been voiced by Burson, Alaskey, LaMarche, Gorshin, and Bergman. Burson does most Foghorn Leghorn jobs, but Gorshin speaks for the rooster in a newly-released cartoon short. The voice of Barney Rubble is usually done by Bergman in commercials, and Welker on programs.)
These men are all very talented. When given good dialogue and direction — most can sound incredibly like Mel Blanc, to the point where experts have been fooled.
However, with due respect to my friends with the amazing vocal chords, none of them is Mel Blanc. Even collectively, they are not Mel Blanc.
These days, no one is. Sadly."
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