I love the old Warner Brothers cartoons - Bugs Bunny et al. They don't seem to be on anymore, even on the eponymously named Cartoon Network, and that's a shame. (I despise Yu Gi Oh.)
And among all the great episodes (maybe not exactly the right terminology) there is one starring Foghorn Leghorn that is always finding its way into my brain. You know the one.
Cold blustery fall in the barnyard....Foghorn, living in a tattered shack, freezing, looks over with envy at Old Widow Hen's house all weather tight and warm, and conspires to woo her. The conflict comes when Foghorn learns of her son, a very inward focused braniac of a kid, who the street-wise Foghorn has little in common with. Foghorn proceeds to try to win the kid over, fails, and ultimately tries to get the kid out of the way so he can spend the winter in the warmth of Hen's house. Foghorn fails and in the failing is seriously injured leaving him thoroughly bandaged.
Upon returning to Old Widow Hen's house and informing her that he is no longer interested in courting her, she is surprised and asks how he will stay warm for the winter, to which he replies, "I got my bandages to keep me warm."
Also in that episode...."there's something kinda eeee about a boy who's never played baseball."
More Foghorn quoted here. A lot of great ones.
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There may be no greater intersection of our artistic preferences than in our favorite Bugs Bunny moments. Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't I the only person you've encountered to find the name of Frances president (Jaques Chirac) hilarious?
I have been known to quote those particular two quotes from that particular episode, in character and everything. "I've got mah...I say, I've got mah bandages to keep me warm!"
Whenever I see a line of people who, by happenstance, are in order of height, I can help but to begin humming..."Overture, curtain, lights! This is it. We'll hit the heights!..."and so on...
Other memorable lines:
"I'm a Hessian...without agression."
"P-38 space detonator"
"Actually, it's a buck and a quarter quarterstaff, but don't tell him that."
The power of this particular iconographic show in our respective histories, of course, courtesy of being raised in, perhaps, the super TV generation. Not that a lot of kids nowadays aren't watching as much or more, but just that we were at this unique point in time where our parents themselves (from the "Better Living Through Science" generation) were still in a honeymoon period over the technology, and no one even dreamed of the idea that there could be better things we could be doing with our time. Come home from school, flip on the tube.
I'd kicked around the idea of getting the Looney Tunes Golden Collection DVD box, until it occured to me that would be about what... 20 boxes or so? At least, there are four with no end in sight.
I'm not sure if they haven't been, um, corrected for their current release. There's one of Bugs doing a Groucho Marx, hosting a show called "You Beat Your Wife." I wonder if that's in there.
The Jacques Chirac thing still leaves me floored, and NO ONE seems to get it.
The DVD thing is definitely tempting, but you're right about it being a vast and relentless undertaking.
Some future ala carte, build your own might be worthwhile, though perhaps in the future on demand viewing anytime anyplace may be possible.
And some other lines...
"Whoa camel, whoa! When I say whoa, I mean whoa! Whump!"
"Open the gates! (drawbridge opens on Sam) Close it close it, close it up again!"
The whole Rabbit Season bit....
Mozart's Piano Sonata No. 16
or should I say...
GRANNY'S THEME
speaking of likely "corrections"
- Bugs' "native" dance, as well as the native islander from which he is escaping.
- the Japanese soldier charicature(gotta wonder if the Gilligan episodes are still running, too)
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I really enjoy seeing cartoons circa before WWII. You find them every now and again if you flip channels on cable.
There was one about an owl family who had three owlets who were born with great musical gifts. One was born a master violin player, one was born a master opera singer, one was born a master pianist, and the last one was born a jazz singer. Papa owl was outraged. He threw him out of the house.
The young owl walked into a radio station audition and made the cut. Mama owl heard him on the radio and they all ran to the station. Why not fly? I don't know. When they got there, they all sang jazz together. The young owl was welcomed back into the family because he did bring honor to his family.
It is a bit twwisted and wrong, but I always liked it. The young owls jazz tune was something like this: "I like to sing-a, about the moon-a, and a June-a, and the spring-a...I love to sing"
I would have guessed YOU were born with an incredible musical gift, based upon your retarded math skills. HOW MANY OWLETS did you say there were???
So mean.
Four owlets altogether. Altogether is a math vocabulary word which tells us to add.
I do see were you got confused. I typed three as I was thinking four. It must be nice being perfect.
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