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.
Early Boomer here, and part of the “I can’t believe any adult wouldn’t get it” crowd.
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.
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.
Like Lewis and Martin, or The Three Stooges in Space. Those were the days! 
Remember 13 Ghosts? A 3-D delight! 
And isn’t that Mel Blanc himself at the 5:05 mark?
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.
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?” 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.)
That and Rochester, his manservant.
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.
Mel Blanc not only voiced people, he also provided the “voice” of Benny’s 1923 Maxwell Roadster (which Benny drove because he was so cheap).
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.
1968 baby, myself, grew up on that (and was born in Albuquerque, no less 
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Early Boomer, April '46, and I am quite familiar with the line.
For this, most Pink Panther cartoons work well too.
Hey, which Pink Panther cartoon is this quote from?
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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.
I only remember Pink Panther talking once.
“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!”
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.