# Favorite second-line Warner Bros. Cartoon Character **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 9, 2007, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-second-line-warner-bros-cartoon-character/411061 "2007-07-09T17:46:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-second-line-warner-bros-cartoon-character/411061/41 "2007-07-10T00:51:37Z")
Maybe it’s just me, but aside from Gossamer, the Three Bears and Hassan, I always thought the “second-line” cartoons sucked. I especially hated the Dover Boys. Oh well, guess I’m just a Lonney Tunes starfucker. ---
**Author:** ![Mark\_Ryle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8dc957/32.png) [@Mark\_Ryle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mark_Ryle)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-second-line-warner-bros-cartoon-character/411061/42 "2007-07-10T00:54:38Z")
[QUOTE=jayjay] Rassin’ frassin’ doggone nogood..[Hummer Time](http://www.alfy.com/cool_stuff/cartoons/watch_free_cartoons.aspx?videoID=1168&name=It's%20Hummer%20Time) (full short) [/QUOTE] The character list is: hummingbird, big tough bulldog, barnyard cat – no names given. And the vocal talent is Mel Blanc. Thanks ‘jayjay.’ I had forgotten how the bulldog involuntarily starts groovin’ to the hummingbird’s song as he is walking along. Priceless. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-second-line-warner-bros-cartoon-character/411061/43 "2007-07-10T01:20:31Z")
I’ll go with Gossamer. though I never knew that was his name! ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-second-line-warner-bros-cartoon-character/411061/44 "2007-07-10T01:24:06Z")
I used to love Granny’s direct way of dealing with misbehaving animals. Pick up the bulldog; whack him until he coughs up the cat he’s swallowed, then pick up the cat; whack him until he coughs up the bird. But I came in to mention the genie voiced by Jim Backus. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-second-line-warner-bros-cartoon-character/411061/45 "2007-07-10T01:33:01Z")
[QUOTE=jayjay] Rassin’ frassin’ doggone nogood… [Hummer Time](http://www.alfy.com/cool_stuff/cartoons/watch_free_cartoons.aspx?videoID=1168&name=It's%20Hummer%20Time) (full short) [/QUOTE] Great stuff. Thanks! High quality vid, and an in-the-wild sighting of Scott’s “Powerhouse” as well. ---
**Author:** ![pizzabrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9c0ed/32.png) [@pizzabrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pizzabrat)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-second-line-warner-bros-cartoon-character/411061/46 "2007-07-10T01:40:10Z")
[QUOTE=jayjay] That’s called [It’s Hummer Time](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1bqrCN3tkI) (for the hummingbird the cat chases), but I can’t find a full clip on YouTube, just the Happy Birthday sequence [/QUOTE] Ok - that really sounds like it’s a play on the phrase “hammer time” from “U Can’t Touch This”, which of course is nowhere near possible. So was “hammer time” a reference to something else much older? If not, what sense does the title “It’s Hummer Time” make? BTW, mine is the dodo, from “Porky in Wackyland”. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-second-line-warner-bros-cartoon-character/411061/47 "2007-07-10T01:50:13Z")
[QUOTE=pizzabrat] If not, what sense does the title “It’s Hummer Time” make? [/QUOTE] o/` Hummer Tiiiiiiiiime... and the hover'n is easy. Blossoms pumpin' out nectar all right. Your daddy's green and your momma's a'nestin'... so hum, little hummer, glitt'ry and bright... o/` ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-second-line-warner-bros-cartoon-character/411061/48 "2007-07-10T01:52:28Z")
[QUOTE=Anaamika] I’ll go with Gossamer. though I never knew that was his name! [/QUOTE] He wasn’t, until [1980](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gossamer_(Looney_Tunes)), when _Duck Dodgers and the Return of the 24 1/2th Century_ came out. > [@Wikipedia](#): > > The monster would remain dormant for many decades until Jones used the character once more in Duck Dodgers and the Return of the 24 1/2th Century in 1980. This is the first cartoon where the character is called “Gossamer”, and is so named by Marvin the Martian. ---
**Author:** ![pizzabrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9c0ed/32.png) [@pizzabrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pizzabrat)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-second-line-warner-bros-cartoon-character/411061/49 "2007-07-10T01:54:03Z")
[QUOTE=jayjay] o/` Hummer Tiiiiiiiiime… and the hover’n is easy. [/QUOTE] Ah, pfft, of course. ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-second-line-warner-bros-cartoon-character/411061/50 "2007-07-10T02:03:03Z")
[QUOTE=pizzabrat] Ok - that really sounds like it’s a play on the phrase “hammer time” from “U Can’t Touch This”, which of course is nowhere near possible. So was “hammer time” a reference to something else much older? If not, what sense does the title “It’s Hummer Time” make? BTW, mine is the dodo, from “Porky in Wackyland”. [/QUOTE] The tune the bird is humming at the start is “The Good Ol’ Summertime” and hummingbirds come out in the summertime, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-second-line-warner-bros-cartoon-character/411061/51 "2007-07-10T02:31:49Z")
What?!? No mention of [Count Blood Count](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_Blood_Count) from _Transylvania 6-5000_? Or the totally overconfident but horribly confused [Henery Hawk](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henery_Hawk)? Pretty much all the rest mentioned so far are ones I enjoy hugely as well. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-second-line-warner-bros-cartoon-character/411061/52 "2007-07-10T02:44:16Z")
Probably the Goofy Gophers. ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-second-line-warner-bros-cartoon-character/411061/53 "2007-07-10T02:48:05Z")
Way before WB cartoons came out on DVD, I started collecting them on VHS, starting with the public domain reels. You know, the ones that were $2.99 in a bin at the drug store. I managed to get quite a few WB cartoons I’d never seen nor heard of. The quality of the dubs is not so great, but there are some gems. They had a couple of cats patterned after Abbott & Costello, which I’d never seen. Somewhere I have the one with the American Indian in his mansion, with the waterfall down the staircase for his canoe…that one’s banned now. There was at least one cartoon that had mice as shoemakers or something, and the head mouse would give a presentation to the others on how to automate a factory, etc. I haven’t seen this or any others like it since the '60s on TV. And of course, there’s “Coal Black And De Sebben Dwarfs,” which is a masterpiece. ---
**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-second-line-warner-bros-cartoon-character/411061/54 "2007-07-10T03:14:21Z")
[QUOTE=fishbicycle] Way before WB cartoons came out on DVD, I started collecting them on VHS, starting with the public domain reels. You know, the ones that were $2.99 in a bin at the drug store. I managed to get quite a few WB cartoons I’d never seen nor heard of. The quality of the dubs is not so great, but there are some gems. They had a couple of cats patterned after Abbott & Costello, which I’d never seen. Somewhere I have the one with the American Indian in his mansion, with the waterfall down the staircase for his canoe…that one’s banned now. [/QUOTE] I think I remember that one…Moe Hican was his name, I believe. At least, that’s what I remember reading on his mailbox. Is that right? ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-second-line-warner-bros-cartoon-character/411061/55 "2007-07-10T03:49:34Z")
[QUOTE=Hung Mung] I think I remember that one…Moe Hican was his name, I believe. At least, that’s what I remember reading on his mailbox. Is that right? [/QUOTE] That’s the one! ---
**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-second-line-warner-bros-cartoon-character/411061/56 "2007-07-10T04:07:38Z")
Good ol’ early morning Nickelodeon. Hell, I watched so many cartoons from the mid '80s to early '90s that I was _thrilled_ when Nick started advertising the end of Bosco reruns. Fucking Bosco. ---
**Author:** ![Valearl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Valearl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valearl)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-second-line-warner-bros-cartoon-character/411061/57 "2007-07-10T06:23:17Z")
How about the Sheep Dog and the Wolf that have to clock in every morning to their respective jobs. I love the way the dog is just about to get destroyed by some contraption when the whistle blows and they clock out and are just two guys heading home for the evening. ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-second-line-warner-bros-cartoon-character/411061/58 "2007-07-10T07:46:32Z")
I do believe you mean [Sam Sheepdog and Ralph Wolf](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Sheepdog_and_Ralph_Wolf). Yeah, I always enjoyed them. The amazing thing this thread has made me realize is how many of these odd, offbeat or obscure characters are ones I appreciate and remember after all these years. Yeah, Bugs, Daffy, Porky and the rest of the lead characters are great but this really was a world rich with wonderful 2nd or 3rd tier characters that have stuck with me for alot longer than I would have imagined. ---
**Author:** ![papaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b77776/32.png) [@papaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/papaw)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-second-line-warner-bros-cartoon-character/411061/59 "2007-07-10T09:38:23Z")
Henery Hawke was my favorite second billing. ---
**Author:** ![Mark\_Ryle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8dc957/32.png) [@Mark\_Ryle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mark_Ryle)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-second-line-warner-bros-cartoon-character/411061/60 "2007-07-10T10:39:44Z")
[QUOTE=Kolak of Twilo] … this really was a world rich with wonderful 2nd or 3rd tier characters that have stuck with me for alot longer than I would have imagined. [/QUOTE] \*It’s Hummer Time \* is a good example. The characters, _three_ of them, don’t even have names. It is quite an obscure short, but even so, the quality is there and the characters have depth and are memorable. There’s a companion cartoon to\* It’s Hummer Time\* called [Early To Bet](http://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/644-Early_To_Bet.html), in which The Gambling Bug, in his only appearance, bites the barnyard cat, giving him gambling fever. The cat keeps betting with the bulldog and keeps losing, leading to the punishments. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-second-line-warner-bros-cartoon-character/411061.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-second-line-warner-bros-cartoon-character/411061.md?page=4)