# 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:** 8
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2012, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-moments-for-looney-tunes-characters/213353/142 "2012-08-31T18:34:05Z")
When Broom Hilda (the witch) taps her feet together, goes “HEE HEE HEE!” and runs away - I love how little bobby pins hover in the air. ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2012, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-moments-for-looney-tunes-characters/213353/143 "2012-08-31T18:35:11Z")
> [@Enright3](#): > > \*\*\* Zombie Alert! \*\*\* > I thought this thread look familiar. It was started way back on November 14, 2003. I know - I got onto the second page really enjoying it then happened to glance at the date and was all :smack:. ---
**Author:** ![BrassyPhrase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea666f/32.png) [@BrassyPhrase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrassyPhrase)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2012, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-moments-for-looney-tunes-characters/213353/144 "2012-08-31T20:05:22Z")
> [@Soylent\_Juicy](#): > > I know - I got onto the second page really enjoying it then happened to glance at the date and was all :smack:. Me too, but still, we learn from our elders. (Or just people that researched it before!) Everyone I loved came up. I’m looking for the one that’s like Chip n Dale. But it’s not that. There was two of them, they had British accents as I remember and they lived in a tree that got cut down and taken to a lumber factory. One of them grabs up a handful of shavings and it ends up like a blonde wig on his head and he starts singing “There was a little girl, Who had a little curl, Right in the middle of her forehead. When she was good, She was very good indeed, But when she was bad she was horrid.” Then the other squirrel/chipmunk basically bitchslaps him. The wigged one says “sorry”. It may not be shown anymore, I don’t know. I loved it b/c my mom would sing me that song. 😃 Yeah, I’m normal. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2012, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-moments-for-looney-tunes-characters/213353/145 "2012-08-31T20:11:15Z")
> [@BrassyPhrase](#): > > I’m looking for the one that’s like Chip n Dale. But it’s not that. There was two of them, they had British accents as I remember and they lived in a tree that got cut down and taken to a lumber factory. The Goofy Gophers, Mac and Tosh. ---
**Author:** ![BrassyPhrase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea666f/32.png) [@BrassyPhrase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrassyPhrase)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2012, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-moments-for-looney-tunes-characters/213353/146 "2012-08-31T20:39:25Z")
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**Author:** ![phxjcc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8491ac/32.png) [@phxjcc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phxjcc)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2012, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-moments-for-looney-tunes-characters/213353/147 "2012-08-31T20:42:48Z")
Friz Freleng’s cartoon Hare Trigger, Yosemite Sam (in his debut) calls himself “the meanest, toughest, rip-roarin’-est, **Edward Everett Horton** -est hombre what ever packed a six-shooter!” ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2012, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-moments-for-looney-tunes-characters/213353/148 "2012-08-31T20:43:13Z")
> [@Soylent\_Juicy](#): > > When Broom Hilda (the witch) taps her feet together, goes “HEE HEE HEE!” and runs away - I love how little bobby pins hover in the air. That’s “Witch Hazel”, not Broom Hilda. The latter is a comic strip character. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2012, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-moments-for-looney-tunes-characters/213353/149 "2012-08-31T20:46:32Z")
> [@BrassyPhrase](#): > > Me too, but still, we learn from our elders. (Or just people that researched it before!) Everyone I loved came up. > > I’m looking for the one that’s like Chip n Dale. But it’s not that. There was two of them, they had British accents as I remember and they lived in a tree that got cut down and taken to a lumber factory. > > One of them grabs up a handful of shavings and it ends up like a blonde wig on his head and he starts singing “There was a little girl, > Who had a little curl, > Right in the middle of her forehead. > When she was good, > She was very good indeed, > But when she was bad she was horrid.” > > Then the other squirrel/chipmunk basically bitchslaps him. > > The wigged one says “sorry”. > > It may not be shown anymore, I don’t know. I loved it b/c my mom would sing me that song. > > 😃 Yeah, I’m normal. 🙂 Here ya go… I live to serve. (4:55 mark) https://www.youtube.com/embed/IzNMST9mgqs?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque > **[Goofy Gophers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goofy_Gophers)** > > The Goofy Gophers are animated cartoon characters in Warner Bros.' Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons. The gophers are small and brown with tan bellies and buck teeth. They both have British accents. Unnamed in the theatrical cartoons, they were given the names Mac and Tosh in the 1960s TV show The Bugs Bunny Show. The names are a pun on the surname "Macintosh". They are characterized by an abnormally high level of politeness. > The Goofy Gophers were created by Warners animator B... ---
**Author:** ![BrassyPhrase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea666f/32.png) [@BrassyPhrase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrassyPhrase)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2012, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-moments-for-looney-tunes-characters/213353/150 "2012-08-31T20:48:47Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > The Goofy Gophers, Mac and Tosh. Thanks!!! ---
**Author:** ![BrassyPhrase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea666f/32.png) [@BrassyPhrase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrassyPhrase)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2012, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-moments-for-looney-tunes-characters/213353/151 "2012-08-31T20:56:12Z")
**jsc1953** Thank you and I don’t know if you noticed these days that the wolf has a note from Big Snookie to take care of Little Snookie. You probably have, knowing the cartoon but I laughed hard. ---
**Author:** ![Jamicat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c67d28/32.png) [@Jamicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jamicat)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2012, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-moments-for-looney-tunes-characters/213353/152 "2012-09-01T18:49:04Z")
Elmer Fudd… “KILL THE WABBIT KILL THE WABBIT…” :mad: “…I killed the bunny…” ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2012, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-moments-for-looney-tunes-characters/213353/153 "2012-09-01T19:45:42Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > The Goofy Gophers, Mac and Tosh. > [@BrassyPhrase](#): > > Thanks!!! I believe the proper response is “thennnnk yew”. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2012, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-moments-for-looney-tunes-characters/213353/154 "2012-09-01T20:24:36Z")
I didn’t read the entire thread, and I’m sure somebody mentioned this one, but Daffy as Robin Hood, [Yoiks and Awaaaaay!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqswD2gu9B0) Cracks me up every time. ---
**Author:** ![Greekfreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@Greekfreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greekfreak)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2012, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-moments-for-looney-tunes-characters/213353/155 "2012-09-03T09:43:27Z")
My favourite moments are examples of funny silence. “Barbary-Coast Bunny”, where the thug explains about the guy with the bigger hand winning; cue Bugs inflating his glove… “CUT IT OUT, CAN’T YA!!!” “Rabbit Seasoning”(?) The look in Daffy’s eyes when Elmer tells him “But I haven’t got a wicense to shoot a fwickaseein wabbit.” The look on Bugs’ face right after the bull runs into the hidden anvil. To me the _essence_ of Bugs Bunny\*\* ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2012, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-moments-for-looney-tunes-characters/213353/156 "2012-09-03T10:37:44Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > For me it’s the Barber of Seville song: > > Welcome to my shop > Let me cut your mop > Let me shave your crop! > Daintily! Daint-til-ly! > > LOVE IT!!! > > Also like when the Abobnimal Snowman falls in love with Bugs and keeps him as a pet and calls him george. He somehow gets to somewhere where it’s hot and he says “gosh it’s hot.” I say that all the time. I crack MYSELF hot! I feel somewhat inferior because I don’t know the name of the cartoon. But there is one cartoon when Bugs is conducting an orchestra and he is doing battle with a male opera singer. He has some technique that forces the singer to hold a note for a long, long (far too long) time until the singer literally explodes. Talk about a “big bang”! Would anyone know if that is the same cartoon with The Barber of Seville song? ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2012, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-moments-for-looney-tunes-characters/213353/157 "2012-09-03T10:51:46Z")
No, the one you’re thinking of is [Long-Haired Hare](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-Haired_Hare). The other was, I’m pretty sure, [Rabbit of Seville](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_of_Seville) - it was certainly a cartoon that pitted him against Elmer Fudd, in any case. ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2012, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-moments-for-looney-tunes-characters/213353/158 "2012-09-03T11:12:52Z")
Oh yes. Long Haired Hare! I just watched it to be certain. How can there be a funnier cartoon than this one? Can anyone seriously say this is not the funniest Looney Tunes cartoon of all time? From the moment that Bugs is sitting on top of the orchestra shell and taps the shell with his fingers and we see the look of bewilderment and terror in the eyes of the singer, I actually LOL’d. I almost never LOL when watching a cartoon. But from that moment on, every moment of this cartoon was pure comedy gold. I suppose someone might have a cartoon they find funnier than this one. But I just can’t imagine that. IMO, this one is the top. The top of the top. I can’t imagine any cartoon funnier than this one. It is a scream. Absolutely hysterical. For all of you who have never seen it. I wish for you that you find it and watch it and just try not to LOL. I’m willing to wager dollars to donuts that you won’t be able to do that. It is just hilarious. The funniest cartoon I have ever seen. P.S. Thank you Kamino. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2012, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-moments-for-looney-tunes-characters/213353/159 "2012-09-03T11:55:30Z")
No problem. 🆒 Long-Haired Hare is a great cartoon, indeed. (Not my favourite, though…I’m a sucker for interacting with the fourth wall, so Duck Amuck is.) ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2012, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-moments-for-looney-tunes-characters/213353/160 "2012-09-03T12:46:04Z")
I found a very interesting site. Someone lists and rates all the Looney Tune cartoons. You might want to give this a look: > **[Top 100 Greatest Looney Tunes Cartoons](http://100-looneytunes.blogspot.com/)** > > Love Looney Tunes? We'll go through the top 100 greatest Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies to ever be churned out by Termite Terrace. Be sure to check it out, new entries every week! ---
**Author:** ![Mixolydian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Mixolydian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mixolydian)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2012, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-moments-for-looney-tunes-characters/213353/161 "2012-09-03T14:22:50Z")
A favorite note mentioned… In [Design For Leaving](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gms_NKzNLUs), Daffy the salesman has installed all the modern push-button conveniences in Elmer’s home. Daffy, proceeding to walk Elmer over to a designated area: "Stairs, schmairs. We don’t walk upstairs in a pushbutton home, we bring the _upstairs_, _downstairs_. Neat. " Elmer: “But what happens to the downstairs?” Daffy: “Say, that’s a good question…whatd’ya say we find out?” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-moments-for-looney-tunes-characters/213353.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-moments-for-looney-tunes-characters/213353.md?page=9)