Roadrunner season!
er … I mean
Wabbit season!
I’m a Daffy fan … well, he’s number two on my list.
I like you.
I have to agree with TheLoadedDog’s comments, and add that Bugs is unusual in that he’s both an underdog and a heavy, depending on the situation. He’s got one up on Daffy, as we’ve already established. But in many Chuck Jones cartoons, he plays the underdog. He’s just minding his own business (or he’s made one of his typical wrong turns at Albuquerque) when somebody gets in his way. Of course, you realize, this means war! (Much like a bear, Bugs Bunny will only attack if provoked.)
The #1 cartoon was, and always will be, What’s Opera, Doc?.
And oh yeah, Elmer season!
Something the Government got right. It is a national treasure.
Was it Tex Avery who did the “House/Car of the Future” or the ones featuring “ed” (goes fihsing, hunting, etc?
Those are the ones I want on DVD.
“Be vewwy vewwy quiet. We awe hunting Elmuhs.”
::machinegun laugh::
Warner Bros. cartoons inducted into the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress:
What’s Opera, Doc? (1957, inducted 1992)
Duck Amuck (1953, inducted 1999)
Porky in Wackyland (1938, inducted 2000- only non-Chuck Jones Warner cartoon to be inducted)
One Froggy Evening (1953, inducted 2003)
Tex Avery indeed do a series of “tomorrow” cartoons, but at MGM. Can’t recall an “Ed” character, though- Avery’s stock characters at MGM included Screwy Squirrel, Droopy, an unnamed wolf, and two clueless animals of indeterminate specie named George and Junior.
While normally a Bugs fan, one of my top five WB cartoons is “Robin Hood Daffy.” It has such great lines, and also a quarterstaff (actually, it’s a buck-and-quarter quarterstaff, but I’m not telling him that!)
“Ho! Ha! Guard! Turn! Parry! Ha! Spin! Ha! Thrust!” (boinnnnnnnng)
That is currently in YouTube, just so you know.
Don’t you mean fricasse hassenpheffer?
But I never liked it but I love sauted duck, so…
And I’m just not eating Elmer Fudd.
Regardless of what season we think it should be, in the cartoon, it clearly has to be Wabbit Season. There is copious amounts of snow on the ground. The ducks would have all flown south a month or two ago, so it must be wabbit season.
If I didn’t know better, I’d swear this tasted like carrots!
No one ever gets it when I use this quote!
Often I use it when I’m at a music venue and a violinist steps on the stage.
Although Duck! Rabbit! Duck! takes place in the snow, the first two in the so-called “Hunter’s Trilogy”- Rabbit Fire and Rabbit Seasoning- take place in fair weather.
You don’t say.
::goes to YouTube and watches Robin Hood Daffy::
Yoickth and away!
HAHAHAHAHAHA!
[del]If I didn’t know any better, I’d swear this Hassenpfeffer was carrot…[/del]
dammit, Scuba Ben…
You be quiet, he doesn’t have to shoot me now.
Daffy: This license permits bearer to shoot a frica… Hey, bud, how do you spell “Fricasseeing”.
Bugs: F-R-I-C-A-S-S-E-E-I-N-G… eh, D-U-C-K!
[Elmer shoots Daffy; his beak spins around]
Daffy: Hey, let’s see that thing!
[reading]
Daffy: … fricasseeing duck. Well, I guess I’m the goat.
GOAT
SEASON
OPEN
Tex Avery did, indeed, do the “House of the Future” etc. at MGM. “Ed” was a character in Avery’s Field and Scream, also done at MGM. For a character sheet of “Ed”, and the entire Avery film list, see Joe adamson’s classic book “Tex Avery: King of Cartoons”
as for what’s available on DVD - I’d love to be able to pick and choose my favorites…
hmmm…
::scurries off to LimeWire::
Come to think of it, Costanza was quite a bit like Daffy toward the end of “Seinfeld’s” run. However, I think an even closer match was Edmund Blackadder in the first “Black Adder” series. Both the first Edmund and the Chuck Jones Daffy were sputtering schemers whose deviousness was exceeded only by their incompetence.