My favorite Albakoikee short:
That only works if you’re coming from Las Cruces and points south.
It’s the little ice cube tears that make it.
“Did you ever find Bugs Bunny attractive when he put on a dress and played girl?”.
Ditto this. My kids all enjoy good fun quality animation far better than that Disney-tripe.
But he should either be coming from Hollywood or NYC. Well, planning such a trip that has a waypoint in Albiqoikie might explain how Bugs gets so lost.
Really? You’re surprised that there are adults in 2020 who wouldn’t get a reference to a specific cartoon short from 1945?
Very late Boomer, got it.
In my very early years I saw these cartoons in English with limited comprehension except of course “AlbyuKoiKee” was memorable, then as a tween I’d see it in Spanish dub which alas took away the accent gag; but when I finally saw a map of NM showing Albuqerque, it clicked.
IIRC, part of the gag was that old US Rte. 66/ State Rte. 6 in New Mexico had a number of changes of alignment in the 30s so the people travelling West on the Mother Road at some point had to turn away from the “original” direction or else they’d find themselves off track.
Alba-koy-kee
Millennial. Never heard it before.
1947 and of course I know it. In fact, I use it often. Ranks right up there with “Duck season!” “Rabbit season!” and
I’m pretty sure it was a running gag featured in several cartoons. Being unaware of the reference is almost as unlikely as being unaware of Bugs Bunny.
When I teach trigonometry, specifically the Law of Cosines, I do a classroom example based on the one where Bugs becomes a matador. The premise is Bugs missed his left turn and wound up in Mexico, traveling x miles past Albuquerque. He then deals with the bull, turns 80°, and heads to Coachella, traveling y miles. So what is the distance directly from Albuquerque to Coachella?
I then include a little geography lesson. If Bugs wound up in Mexico, then he must have been traveling south in the first place. He should have made a right turn at Albuquerque.
It’s funny how much the left turn upset the Geography nerd in me while never considering just how ridiculous a form of transportation tunneling through solid ground is. I wonder if there’s a Geology nerd out there with the opposite gripe.
Especially when he goes completely under the Atlantic Ocean in Frigid Hare and Ali Baba Bunny (at a minimum).
The sequel:
I think of the reference every time I see the word Albuquerque, although I can’t spell it for nothing!!
Born in early 60’s.
My entire childhood I thought wabbits tunneled to get around.
That part of it is now called the Southern Ocean. 
First, you’ve got the best username for commenting in this thread.
But I think you and Chronos have wildly unrealistic ideas about what is broadly relevant culturally to American adults. With ~80 million American adults alive today born after 1980, and an ever growing and splintering culture, it should come as no surprise that not even some but many adults are going miss this one reference to one particular episode of an old cartoon, even if it’s a gag that had an impact and a small life outside of its original context.
When you consider that:
- Exposure to something like Loony Tunes required either a cable TV subscription or renting them on tape for at least a few decades (say, 80s-2000s), or at least depended on region. It certainly wasn’t broadcast on any network stations when I was a kid (80s and 90s)
- Exposure to something like Loony Tunes in the internet/Youtube age likely depends on being directly and intentionally directed to it
- There are plenty of Americans who spend minimal time engaging with TV culture
- There are 10s of millions of immigrants (and their descendants) who might or might not have made their way to Loony Tunes
Again, I’m not saying that there’s not a decent (and aging) chunk of the population that probably get this reference, but it’s been a nostalgic, throw-back reference for almost half a century already.
I mean, I get it. I know the Three Stooges, because my dad watched them when he was a kid, and so rented them on VHS when I was a kid. But for every parent that did that for thing X from their childhood, there’s another parent who didn’t, or for whom that thing was never part of their childhood. And for today’s younger adults, we’re really talking about even another generation of “pass it on or not”.
I was mostly commenting on your mistaken contention that the reference is to a single cartoon. Even if you have only seen a handful of Bugs Bunny cartoons you have likely heard it.
