# "I shoulda turned left at Albuquerque" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** cartoons-animation\ **Created:** [September 16, 2020, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-shoulda-turned-left-at-albuquerque/920796 "2020-09-16T22:29:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2020, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-shoulda-turned-left-at-albuquerque/920796/121 "2020-09-18T12:17:02Z")
> [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > Okay, now you’ve got me worried. I was a 50’s kid in San Diego, watched a LOT of TeeVee, LOVED the old WB cartoons as a child (and still do), thought I’d seen them all numerous times, and yet the Albuquerque line rings no bells for me. Can you (or anybody) determine how many times Bugs delivered the line? Or is this thread an elaborate hoax to gaslight me? I’m not sure how many times he delivered the line. All I know is I saw it all the time on TV in the late 70s-early 80s when they played the old cartoons. I wonder if different broadcast areas bought a different “package” of syndicated cartoons they could play, and the couple people here who hadn’t seen it were in an area that didn’t buy that cartoon. I’m sure I’ve seen a cartoon in which Bugs emerges from a horizontal hole he’d been digging to deliver the line at least 10 times. ---
**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:** [September 18, 2020, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-shoulda-turned-left-at-albuquerque/920796/122 "2020-09-18T14:11:14Z")
Early Boomer here, and part of the “I can’t believe any adult wouldn’t get it” crowd. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2020, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-shoulda-turned-left-at-albuquerque/920796/123 "2020-09-18T14:31:53Z")
Late-era Boomer here, loved watched Bugs Bunny cartoons on Saturday mornings (although they were already 10-20 years old when I first saw them), and I totally get the reference. ---
**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 18, 2020, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-shoulda-turned-left-at-albuquerque/920796/124 "2020-09-18T14:57:34Z")
We saw them on the big screen at the Saturday matinees. They always had a cartoon or two (or a serial episode) before the main feature, which was either a western or some goofy comedy. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2020, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-shoulda-turned-left-at-albuquerque/920796/125 "2020-09-18T15:11:26Z")
Like Lewis and Martin, or _ **The Three Stooges in Space** _. Those were the days! 🥰 Remember _ **13 Ghosts** _? A 3-D delight! 👌 ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2020, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-shoulda-turned-left-at-albuquerque/920796/126 "2020-09-18T15:28:07Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > …[Train leaving on Track 5, for Anaheim, Azuza, and Cuc…amonga!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrTWjS9bT68) > > I bet a lot fewer people will get that one. I was born in 1951, and I remember the Jack Benny TV show using it… And isn’t that Mel Blanc himself at the 5:05 mark? ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2020, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-shoulda-turned-left-at-albuquerque/920796/127 "2020-09-18T15:34:35Z")
I remember growing up in the 60s when _The Bugs Bunny Show_ (starring that Oscar-winning rabbit) was being broadcast in prime time on ABC, and it later ran for many years on Saturday mornings. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2020, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-shoulda-turned-left-at-albuquerque/920796/128 "2020-09-18T15:40:19Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > And isn’t that Mel Blanc himself at the 5:05 mark? Yes. In that episode he is playing Jack’s plumber. He speaks with something close to Bugs’ Brooklynese accent. Another one of Benny’s stock actors was Frank Nelson, who appears at 8:05. He was best known for his catchphrase [“eeeYESSSSSS?”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JA_r1Ynl4Ls) He started on Jack’s radio show as well. I think Looney Tunes might have used that one sometimes also. They were full of catchphrases from radio and early TV (as well as creating their own.) ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2020, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-shoulda-turned-left-at-albuquerque/920796/129 "2020-09-18T16:08:39Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Another one of Benny’s stock actors was Frank Nelson, who appears at 8:05. He was best known for his catchphrase [“eeeYESSSSSS?”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JA_r1Ynl4Ls) He started on Jack’s radio show as well. I think Looney Tunes might have used that one sometimes also. [The Simpsons certainly has.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JyoDFmrUSM&ab_channel=DrRockso1987) ---
**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 18, 2020, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-shoulda-turned-left-at-albuquerque/920796/130 "2020-09-18T16:55:31Z")
That and Rochester, his manservant. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2020, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-shoulda-turned-left-at-albuquerque/920796/131 "2020-09-18T16:57:55Z")
As a Black character, Rochester was interesting for the time because although he was a servant, he wasn’t the least bit subservient to Benny. As the clip showed, he often got the better of him. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2020, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-shoulda-turned-left-at-albuquerque/920796/132 "2020-09-18T17:03:55Z")
Mel Blanc not only voiced people, he also provided the “voice” of Benny’s [1923 Maxwell Roadster](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17N2g2Ryqi8) (which Benny drove because he was so cheap). ---
**Author:** ![Die\_Capacitrix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/die_capacitrix/32/9_2.png) [@Die\_Capacitrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Die_Capacitrix)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2020, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-shoulda-turned-left-at-albuquerque/920796/133 "2020-09-18T19:00:58Z")
> [@outlierrn](#): > > '61, I checked the link to make sure it wasn’t some obscure reference as opposed to the obvious. 1970, did the same check. I have an Italian coworker who was born in 1973. He knows all the roadrunner cartoons, which don’t have much to be translated. There are a number of animated shows we discuss over coffee, including Star Blazers. My husband, who is also American, and only 2 years older than me, never saw this show, but probably because he didn’t watch The Great Space Coaster as much as I did. > **[La Linea (TV series)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Linea_(TV_series))** > > La Linea ("The Line") is an Italian animated series created by the Italian cartoonist Osvaldo Cavandoli. The series consists of 90 episodes, which were originally broadcast on the Italian channel RAI between 1971 and 1986. The background tune for the series was created by Franco Godi. > The series features a man known as "Mr. Linea" (voiced by Carlo Bonomi in a grammelot similar to the Milanese dialect) drawn as a single outline of an infinite line, which encounters various obstacles during his wa... ---
**Author:** ![Dogginit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogginit/32/16920_2.png) [@Dogginit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogginit)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2020, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-shoulda-turned-left-at-albuquerque/920796/134 "2020-09-18T22:28:47Z")
1968 baby, myself, grew up on that (and was born in Albuquerque, no less 😁) ---
**Author:** ![GaryM](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garym/32/241_2.png) [@GaryM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaryM)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2020, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-shoulda-turned-left-at-albuquerque/920796/135 "2020-09-19T00:23:40Z")
Early Boomer, April '46, and I am quite familiar with the line. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2020, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-shoulda-turned-left-at-albuquerque/920796/136 "2020-09-19T02:05:56Z")
> [@Die\_Capacitrix](#): > > I have an Italian coworker who was born in 1973. He knows all the roadrunner cartoons, which don’t have much to be translated. For this, most Pink Panther cartoons work well too. Hey, which Pink Panther cartoon is this quote from? [quote] > [@](#): > [/quote] ---
**Author:** ![peedin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peedin/32/14095_2.png) [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2020, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-shoulda-turned-left-at-albuquerque/920796/137 "2020-09-19T13:37:05Z")
TL;DR. Born in 1957 and have no clue as to left turning at Albuquerque. But yes to Point Me in the Direction of Albuquerque. Or as my father called it Albaturkey. My brother went to school at UNM and my niece has lived there over 20 years. ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2020, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-shoulda-turned-left-at-albuquerque/920796/138 "2020-09-19T15:53:28Z")
I only remember Pink Panther talking once. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2020, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-shoulda-turned-left-at-albuquerque/920796/139 "2020-09-22T14:57:04Z")
“Miami Beach at last!” was one of them. And the carrot festival in Coachella. And the La Brea tar pits. “There are no La Brea tar pits in Scotland!” ---
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2020, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-shoulda-turned-left-at-albuquerque/920796/140 "2020-09-22T18:02:26Z")
Because of this thread I spent 8 hours watching bugs bunny with my 5 year old daughter this weekend. She loved every minute of it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-shoulda-turned-left-at-albuquerque/920796.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-shoulda-turned-left-at-albuquerque/920796.md?page=8)