You know, I have quite an active mind and imagination. Possibly a result of a weird childhood and too much comedy television. Everything I think of (almost) is in the form of comedy skit or a cartoon including sound effects.
Sometimes, when I’m in a meeting, I imagine a giant black pyramid-shaped weight (with Acme. 1000 lb. painted on it in white letters) hanging above someone’s head. Or them tied to a giant red rocket which has the fuse lit.
When I see people stalking along angrily fuming I can practically see the black cloud above their heads. Despite this, I don’t really want to crush people or shoot them to the moon,# its just funny.
Are there any scenes from kids shows or cartoons that are still memorable to you? Have the violence and far-out methods impacted on the person you are today?
My favourite cartoon scene on first thought is the whole sequence in the Simpsons where Homer is not allowed to swear. Beehive lands on homer while napping. Cut to money landing in swear jar. A sequence of unfortunate events begins. each one intersected by the money landing in swear jar. Homer impails his foot (silky sound of spike moving through flesh and muscle tissue) on a rake. “Oh fiddle-dee-dee, I seem to have impailed my foot on a spike, I’m going to need a tetanase shot”
Not sure if it’s another part of the same sequence but there’s a bit (I think it’s when homer founds out burns has thanked every member of the family except him. "Kids, please leave the room… f…"Cut to church bells ringing, birds fleeing a tree. Flanders leaning out of a window… “Wow, that’s the loudest profanity I ever heard”
My absolute favorite cartoon is the WB “From Hare To Heir”, where Bugs Bunny is authorized to give the bankrupt Yosemite Sam a million pounds, subtracting an amount every time he loses his temper. The fake swearing that Mel Blanc does in this picture makes me laugh darn near until I cry, every time I watch it, after 40-plus years.
"Stop that music, ya crazy rackin’ frackin’ varmint rabbit!!!
In Duck Amok, Daffy is being screwed with by the sound guy. All sorts of weird sounds are coming out of his mouth. When he’s finally had enough, the sound guy stops and Daffy has his voice back, he’s staring red-eyed and his hand drops.
Everything that happens in my world takes on a cartoon aura in my brain. People hitting walls and bouncing back from them in an accordion-shape (with the sound of the instrument) is one of the most common ones. I recently told a friend I’d like to erase things like in the old Bugs Bunny cartoons where the animator is screwing with him.
And Yosemite Sam on the dragon… “Whoa, dragon, whoa! When I sez whoa, I mean whoa!”
I just love realism influencing unreal events, so I would have to say the pre-credit sequence in Urusei Yatsura: Beautiful DreamerWe see some sort of post (non-nuclear winter) scenes of a devasted, seemingly abandond town. The peaceful is then ruined once we see the usual gang of idiots handing out by lakeside, partying, and caring on like they don’t have a care in the world. They look no diffrent from how we usually see them and in the middle of the lake is the ruins of the highschool, half-submerged, with the clock bells still working, despite the missing hands. We then cut to the high-school, befor all this happend.
Tom and Jerry–the one where Tom’s cousin (who looks exactly like Tom) is deathly afraid of mice. At one point, Jerry scares the cousin so badly that he melts through the floor. Always slays me!
Cat Concerto and Uncle Pecos–more Tom and Jerry toons. TOO funny!
Cock-a-Doodle Dog–dog’s been out all night partying, and the rooster keeps him awake all day with his crowing.
Mama yo quiero!
Mama yo quiero!
Mama quiero, mama!
Dash e-peppah!
Dash e-peppah!
Da da da dadadadadada da da… (no, I can’t remember what words that last part even sounds like now).
“I’m daancin’! I’m daaancin’!”
Vintage Tom & Jerry cannot be beat. (“Is you is, or is you ain’t, my baby?”)
Several gazillion Cobra paratroopers suddenly dropping in on NYC? Boo-yah! I’m almost tempted to buy the DVD just for that opening alone.
And in a related vein, I’ll toss out Unicron’s transformation from **Transformers: The Movie. Watching it for the first time in a theater was a life-altering jaw-dropping experience. Pity that shrinking it to 4:3 for the home versions loses the effect.
I would also mention that Squirrel E. Squirrel is the best character of the looney toons bunch–but too sadistic to have gotten more than two episodes. “I am Napoleon!”
No mention of the “Rabbit Season // Duck Season Exchange?”
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But seriously, I liked the Baby Looney toons exchange between baby Bugs and baby daffy. ((Baby looney toons is on Cartoon Network, and is recently new… episodes date around 2000-2004… if the show hasnt stopped yet)). It is obviously a Prequel.
The baby looney toons are playing “school”
[Spoiler] Daffy and Bugs are fighting over the first seat on the imaginary school bus.
Bugs: “I want the first seat”
Daffy: “No I want the first”
Bugs: “You want the first seat, so I should let you have it.”
Daffy: “No you want the first seat, so go ahead and have it!”
Bugs: “Why Thank you daffy!”
Daffy: “That was a sneaky trick Bugs! I gotta remember to never fall for that one again!”
((Which of course is the confimation that it is indeed a throw back to the Rabbit season // Duck Season exchange)) [/Spoiler]
I love the bits where Bugs is in a shouting match with a villain, say Yosemite Sam, and then Bugs starts repeating everything he says, then eventually Bugs starts clapping and singing a song, and Yosemite Sam joins in. While Yosemite is singing to himself, Bugs makes his get-away.
