# Best Moments for Looney Tunes Characters **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 15, 2003, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-moments-for-looney-tunes-characters/213353 "2003-11-15T01:15:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2003, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-moments-for-looney-tunes-characters/213353/41 "2003-11-16T01:42:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by The Tooth \* > \*\*Daffy, after being squeezed out of giant Elmer’s cigarette along with Bugs, points to Bugs: > > “He’s Jack.” > > Great timing, for a duck. \*\* “He’s Jack. Jack Rabbit.” To which Elmer replies with the great line, “I guess I’ll open up with a pair of Jacks.” ---
**Author:** ![MrMyth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e19b73/32.png) [@MrMyth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrMyth)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2003, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-moments-for-looney-tunes-characters/213353/42 "2003-11-16T02:48:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Extraneous \* > \*\*[sub]Either that, or the flea in _An Itch in Time_: > > …There’s food around the corner, > Food around the corner, > Food around the corner for me… > [/sub] \*\* User for maximum annoyance effect whenver I am even remotely hungry. I can do a perfect imitation of him. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2003, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-moments-for-looney-tunes-characters/213353/43 "2003-11-16T03:02:53Z")
From “Duck Amok” is my favorite Daffy visual: After the animator finishes screwing around w/Daffy’s voice: (Daffy shaking a finger in the air) “…and I’ve never been so humiliated in all my life!” The look on his face as he drops his hand. Another Daffy: “Because I’m greedy!” ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2003, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-moments-for-looney-tunes-characters/213353/44 "2003-11-16T03:08:55Z")
The cartoon mentioned in the previous post “An Itch In Time”, was featured in a book I saw once, Cartoon Confidential. The book talked about censored/naughty/generally un-PC scenes in old animation. At one point, the dog the flea has staked out starts dragging his butt around on the floor, attempting to relieve the itch. Suddenly he stops and looks at the camera, saying “I’d better be careful, or I could get to like this!” ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2003, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-moments-for-looney-tunes-characters/213353/45 "2003-11-16T04:18:37Z")
Sylvester the cat in **Scaredy Cat** The moment when a white faced Sylvester appears in Porky’s door with just this look. That’s my favorite Sylvester moment. Although the whole cartoon is full of great Sylvester moments. ---
**Author:** ![Yumblie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/76d3ee/32.png) [@Yumblie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yumblie)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2003, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-moments-for-looney-tunes-characters/213353/46 "2003-11-16T05:08:34Z")
Daffy and Marvin the martian have a diplomatic exchange via bullets that carry little flags with messages on them. Daffy fires a bullet into Marvin’s ship and a little flag comes out with “Surrender yourself, or be blown into 1 million microcells” or something like that. Marvin fires a bullet into Daffy’s ship, and BLAM!, it shoots out another bullet into Daffy’s face. Daffy falls over, and fires out another bullet into Marvin’s ship. A little flag comes out that says “Ouch!” ---
**Author:** ![Extraneous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/0ea827/32.png) [@Extraneous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Extraneous)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2003, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-moments-for-looney-tunes-characters/213353/47 "2003-11-16T05:24:47Z")
OK, I’ll throw this in: This character appeared only once, and more’s the pity… The frustrated squirrel in “Much Ado About Nuttin’” - his attempts to crack the coconut are perfect examples of timing and sight gags - remember the push-it-up-ALL-the-stairs-in-the-Empire State-building-then-roll-it-off-the-end-of-the-telescope bit? Thump… Thump… Thump… [sub]Or, for the music lovers: Carrots are devine, You geta dozen for a dime, It’s maa-giii-ccc… [/sub] ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2003, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-moments-for-looney-tunes-characters/213353/48 "2003-11-16T06:04:12Z")
Bugs as Brunnhilde in “What’s Opera, Doc?” - when he’s so enraptured, his toes curl. And of course, Michigan J. Frog doing absolutely nothing. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2003, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-moments-for-looney-tunes-characters/213353/49 "2003-11-16T07:06:03Z")
**Elmer Fudd** In _The Rabbit of Seville_, after Bugs has rubbed the tonic and fertilizer on Elmer’s scalp, and he sits him up and holds the mirror for him. Elmer sees his hair start to grow and gets a big smile on his face, and then the tips blossom into flowers. Among all his other troubles, he’s pissed off about being bald, too. It seems to explain why he’s in such a rotten mood every other time we ever see him. **Baby Bear** He was the big, galumphing, good-hearted, disaster-inducing son of the Three Bears family. In one of their cartoons, it’s Father’s Day, and Baby Bear is trying to do all sorts of good deeds for his Pa. The shaving scene is pretty good, but there’s a bit where he want’s to fill his dad’s pipe. “Sit down, Pa, I will fill your pipe for you on Father’s Day,” (or something like that) and he takes the pipe and lumbers off to the kitchen. He gets a canister down off a high shelf and starts reading the label out loud. “G-U-N P-O-W-D-E-R. Tobacco.” **The Coyote** One of his contraptions to catch the Roadrunner worked like this. The coyote had rollerskates on his feet and an outboard motor strapped around his waist. In one hand he was holding the handle of a little red wagon, with a washtub and ten (10) gallons of water on it. He put the propeller from the outboard into the water, started the engine, and when he cranked the throttle, the whole thing started moving. That’s one of the most brilliantly impossible things I’ve ever seen. [sub]I have long maintained that the Coyote (from the Roadrunner cartoons) and Wile E. Coyote are two different characters, played by the same actor.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2003, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-moments-for-looney-tunes-characters/213353/50 "2003-11-16T07:38:26Z")
**Cheese Chasers** - So many great moments. “It just don’t add up!” Probably my all time favorite Warner Bros. cartoon. ---
**Author:** ![Briny\_Deep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/briny_deep/32/17188_2.png) [@Briny\_Deep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briny_Deep)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2003, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-moments-for-looney-tunes-characters/213353/51 "2003-11-16T08:05:01Z")
Porky in _Duck Dodgers_, handing a lit stick of dynamite to Martin the Martian: “Happy B-b-b-b-b-birthday, you th-th-thing from another world, you!” [KA-BOOM] Daffy, on a TV gameshow: “Thisssss? Is a LIFE???” Giant Elmer with a peppermill: “This oughta gwind their bones vewy nicewy!” ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2003, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-moments-for-looney-tunes-characters/213353/52 "2003-11-16T08:57:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mr. Blue Sky \* > \*\*From “Duck Amok” is my favorite Daffy visual: > > After the animator finishes screwing around w/Daffy’s voice: > > (Daffy shaking a finger in the air) > “…and I’ve never been so humiliated in all my life!” > > The look on his face as he drops his hand. > \*\* I’ve never quite gotten why he had that particular reaction at the time. Don’t hit me! ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2003, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-moments-for-looney-tunes-characters/213353/53 "2003-11-16T09:15:11Z")
I rather liked that scene where Wile E. Coyote’s trap backfires on him. Classic comedy! ---
**Author:** ![RobuSensei](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/919ad9/32.png) [@RobuSensei](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobuSensei)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2003, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-moments-for-looney-tunes-characters/213353/54 "2003-11-16T09:16:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by zamboniracer \* > \*\*Bugs: “Look. Out there, in the audience.” > > Monster: “ARRGH! PEOPLE!” > > Bugs: “And so, having re-re-disposed of the monster, exit our hero, stage left.” \*\* I like the bit right after this, too. IIRC: The robot girl bunny walks into the shot. Bugs: “Eh. Mechanical.” \>\>SMOOOOOOCH!\<\< Bugs: “Well… so she’s mechanical!” Bugs does a robot-walk, following her off. One other moment that sticks in my mind, although I don’t remember the context: Taz: “Whyfor you bury me in cold cold ground?” ---
**Author:** ![Horseflesh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horseflesh/32/7502_2.png) [@Horseflesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horseflesh)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2003, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-moments-for-looney-tunes-characters/213353/55 "2003-11-16T12:29:46Z")
Heh, I just used a Daffy line in one of my posts: “You keep out of this, he doesn’t have to shoot you now.” Favorite episodes are Hillbilly Hare, Rabbit of Seville, Wile E. Coyote vs. Bugs Bunny, the one where Daffy is trapped by a devilish animator (Bugs), Broom Hilda vs. Bugs, and the classic one with Vincent Price as the Mad Scientist (Boo!) vs. Bugs. Also all the Ralph and Sam toons. From that Vincent Price episode I love when Bugs sits Gossamer down and does his nails while relating how _interesting_ monsters are. Also love the blackjack game between Bugs and Black Jack Shellac. Bugs stands on one card (the 21 of hearts) and BJS has 2 tens of spades (from a single deck). Oh yeah, another one with a bulldog and cat that keeps inadvertantly bothering him trying to get a mouse or bird. The dog keeps punishing the cat with increasingly complex torture devices. “Oh no, not Happy Birthday! Anything but Happy Birthday! NOT THE HAPPY BIRTHDAAAAAAAAY!!!” Good-bye-eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2003, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-moments-for-looney-tunes-characters/213353/56 "2003-11-16T12:51:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Extraneous \* > \*\*Bugs to the Martin brothers, _Hillbilly Hare_: > > …Grab a fence post, hold it tight > Whomp your partner with all your might > Hit him in the shin, hit him in the head > Hit him again, the critter ain’t dead…\*\* Possibly the single most butchered cartoon for network broadcast… My favorite: “Be vewwy, vewwy quiet. We’re hunting Elmers!” ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2003, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-moments-for-looney-tunes-characters/213353/57 "2003-11-16T12:56:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Horseflesh \* > **Heh, I just used a Daffy line in one of my posts: "You keep out of this, he doesn’t have to shoot you now."** Yeah. You and I were BOTH quoting Daffy 'n Bugs: “SHOOT! SHOOT NOW! I DEMAND YOU SHOOT ME NOW!!!” ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2003, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-moments-for-looney-tunes-characters/213353/58 "2003-11-16T13:18:47Z")
I don’t know what episode it was, but Elmer is chasing Bugs around the house when Bugs runs downstairs to the basement. Before Elmer can follow, Bugs comes running back up, grabs Elmer and says in perfect deadpan, “Dont go down there. It’s dark!” and then runs off. For some reason, that makes me giggle hysterically. Another giggle moment is between Porky Pig and the brown dog (what’s his name, anyway?) when the dog is trying to get Porky to adopt him. He starts listing all the different breeds he’s decended from, and then finishes with: Dog: But mostly, I’m Labrador Retriever. Porky: Y-y-y-y-you are not. Dog: Yes I am! I’ll prove it. Get me a labrador, and I’ll retrieve it. Porky: … Dog: Have you… got… a labrador? Porky: Uhh, no. Dog: Do you know where you can… get… a labrador? Porky: Uhh… no. Dog: Then **shaddap!** ---
**Author:** ![jimmmy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/73ab20/32.png) [@jimmmy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimmmy)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2003, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-moments-for-looney-tunes-characters/213353/59 "2003-11-16T15:55:50Z")
The OP got mine. Not mentioned, eventually Sam decides he is not going to chase a match Bugs thru down in the powder magazine, Sam starts sweating, playing jacks, can’t stands it starts to run & it blows … v funny. Hillbilly one was parcticularly good too…really as were almost all of these. Not mentioned: every time the Witch zips away she leaves those Bobby pins…Bugs rescuing HAnsel and Gretel from her. Also the big Orange Monster in Chucks : Bugs doing his Nails “Monsters are the most in-terest-ing people …” spiel ---
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“Only a big, fat, rat would shoot a guy in de back!” Also the take-off on mob movies, with Bugs scamming the crime boss for payment after a job - as several bad guys! “And me, boss? And me, boss? And ME, boss?” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-moments-for-looney-tunes-characters/213353.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-moments-for-looney-tunes-characters/213353.md?page=4)