# Looney Toons favorites **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 17, 2005, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-toons-favorites/326602 "2005-10-17T15:33:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2005, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-toons-favorites/326602/41 "2005-10-17T18:35:55Z")
> [@GargoyleWB](#): > > Daffy Duck’s staff-fighting, with his beak spontaneously flipping up. It’s a quarterstaff. (Actually, it’s a buck-and-a-quarter quarterstaff, but I’m not gonna tell _him_ that.) ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2005, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-toons-favorites/326602/42 "2005-10-17T18:37:40Z")
Some that I seldom see mentioned here are those two or three which star Porky and Sylvester and have the same running gag: P&S stop to spend the night at some spooky motel or campground, and only Sylvester sees the supposed ghosts or martians or leprechauns which infest the place. Clueless Porky always finds the place charming and picturesque and poor Sylvester (who doesn’t get to speak in these 'toons) is terrorized all night long. Porky, escorting away a bewildered Martian: “I’m s-s-sorry, you’re just going to have to come back in the morning to show us your beads and rugs – (friendly Nava-Joe).” ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2005, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-toons-favorites/326602/43 "2005-10-17T18:48:38Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > and the third ends with Elmer going buts because every time he turns around, a different animal is in season. Til finally Bugs shows up dressed as a game warden and Elmer, exhausted and desparate, asks him “please tell me. what season is it?” > and Bugs says “It’s baseball season” and throws a ball. “go get it, boy!” and Elmer runs off, shooting his rifle at the ball as he goes I’m a fiddler crab! Shoot me! It’s fiddler crab season! I love that. That, and “my name is…Aloysius!” may be my favorite WB lines. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2005, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-toons-favorites/326602/44 "2005-10-17T18:55:01Z")
> [@teela brown](#): > > Clueless Porky always finds the place charming and picturesque and poor Sylvester (who doesn’t get to speak in these 'toons) is terrorized all night long. Good ones. “T-t-t-tell me, Sylvester…does insanity run in your family?” ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2005, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-toons-favorites/326602/45 "2005-10-17T19:00:33Z")
> [@TheTooth](#): > > Bugs: He is Jack. > Daffy: It’s a lie! It’s a lie! My name is, uh, Aloysius. His name is Jack. Jack Rabbit. > Bugs: Oh, no. You’re Jack, all right. > Daffy: I am not. You’re Jack. > Bugs: You are Jack and you know it, because it is a fact. You forgot the punchline: Elmer: “I guess I’ll just open up with a pair of Jacks.” > [@anyrose](#): > > I also _loved_ the “documentaries” on the home of the future, the farm of the future, and I’m pretty sure there was a third in that series, but I can’t think of it These were produced at MGM by Tex Avery, after he left Warner Bros. in the 1940s over a dispute with Leon Schlesinger. The third in the series was _TV of Tomorrow_. > [@Squee](#): > > I’m not sure if this counts, since it’s a Merry Melody and not a Looney Toon (is there a difference, btw?)… Ar one time, yes, but not anymore. [The Master speaks,](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5_006.html) [and Mark Evanier does, too.](http://www.povonline.com/iaq/IAQ12.htm) A good resource for WB caroons with plot descriptions and such is _Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons_ by Beck and Friedwald. ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2005, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-toons-favorites/326602/46 "2005-10-17T19:00:51Z")
Duck Dodgers…in The 24th And A Half…thentury! ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2005, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-toons-favorites/326602/47 "2005-10-17T19:03:18Z")
Included soley for the sake of completeness: Someone (ususally Wile E. Coyote) chases after someone (usually the Road Runner) and ends up off a cliff in a cloud of dust. WEC feels around below him, feels nothing but air. Sticks his head down to take a look. Gets a worried look on his face. Holds up a sign that says “Oh no!”, then falls. As classic as painting a tunnel entrance on the side of a cliff. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2005, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-toons-favorites/326602/48 "2005-10-17T19:09:04Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Included soley for the sake of completeness: > > Someone (ususally Wile E. Coyote) chases after someone (usually the Road Runner) and ends up off a cliff in a cloud of dust. WEC feels around below him, feels nothing but air. Sticks his head down to take a look. Gets a worried look on his face. Holds up a sign that says “Oh no!”, then falls. > > As classic as painting a tunnel entrance on the side of a cliff. Or when he had set a trap door holding up several tons of boulders over the highway and, of course, it wouldn’t open when the Road Runner was underneath, he goes out with a long stick and starting prying the boulders loose. He holds up a sign that says, “What in heaven’s name am I doing?” He is immediately crushed by the falling rocks. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2005, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-toons-favorites/326602/49 "2005-10-17T19:23:56Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > truth be told, the only Looney Tunes character I never really like was Porky > Something about him just rubbed me the wrong way - not sure what it was Maybe it’s the jacket-with-no-pants look. Bugs & Aladdin’s lamp (A Lad & His Lamp?), with the genie (voice by Jim Backus, IIRC). “I’m heah…I’m heah…let the bells ring & the banners fly. Feast your eyes upon me.” “Sweet spirits of camphor…can’t a man get any sustenance? Now GO AWAY!” ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2005, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-toons-favorites/326602/50 "2005-10-17T19:26:59Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > He is immediately crushed by the falling rocks. My favorite is when he rigged the piano to explode when a certain key is played. Then the RR runs up, sees the piano, and tries to play the sheet music on the piano. He keeps messing up the last note, which makes YEC cringe from the dissonance. YEC walks up and pushes RR out of the way. YEC then plays the tune correctly. KABOOM ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2005, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-toons-favorites/326602/51 "2005-10-17T19:36:28Z")
This is a common cartoon gag, which also appears in _Ballot Box Bunny_. The song is always _Those Endearing Young Charms_. Did it appear in _Show Biz Bugs_\* as well? \*You can’t go mentioning this cartoon without pointing out the famous final scene, in which Daffy, in an attempt to get audience applause, drinks gunpowder, nitroglycerin, etc. “Mothers, you’d best hold on to your daughters!” _BOOM_ (audience applause) Bugs: They love it! They want more! Daffy (now a ghost, floating towards Heaven): That’s the only problem with the trick- I can only do it once! ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2005, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-toons-favorites/326602/52 "2005-10-17T20:20:16Z")
On rare occassions one might come across a WWII era toon that has been lost for a long time. I remember one about the first thanksgiving and the pilgrims. The wartime jokes were flying thick and I only got a few of them. There was “Ye Olde Blacke Market” and the Mayflower had a naval AA gun crew on board. But she also had a bunch of obviously modern symbols on the side of her hull that must have been a liberty ship reference. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2005, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-toons-favorites/326602/53 "2005-10-17T20:31:44Z")
> [@jrfranchi](#): > > I love the cartoons with Mugsy and hiding them in the oven. That is one of my favorites too! It was the first one I thought of when I saw the title. I even sometimes say “You might rabbit, you might.” When someone asks a “would I” question. No one ever seems to get it. ---
**Author:** ![Meaty\_Beaty\_Big\_and\_Bouncy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@Meaty\_Beaty\_Big\_and\_Bouncy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meaty_Beaty_Big_and_Bouncy)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2005, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-toons-favorites/326602/54 "2005-10-17T20:37:38Z")
Overture, curtain, lights, This is it, the night of nights. No more rehearsing and nursing the part, We know every part by heart. Overture, curtain, lights, This is it, we’ll hit the heights. And oh what heights we’ll hit, On with the show, this is it. 🆒😃 ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2005, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-toons-favorites/326602/55 "2005-10-17T20:40:18Z")
> [@Khadaji](#): > > That is one of my favorites too! It was the first one I thought of when I saw the title. I even sometimes say “You might rabbit, you might.” When someone asks a “would I” question. No one ever seems to get it. I do the same thing and get blank looks. My wife at least knows what it is from but I use that and other references to Looney Tunes and forget this is not universal knowledge, I tend to think of it as such. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2005, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-toons-favorites/326602/56 "2005-10-17T20:43:56Z")
“It’s Sam the Pirate !” “Pirate Sam !” “Sam the Pirate !” There’s the one where Bugs and Sam are running for office. Bugs does the “I speak softly, but carry a big stick !” bit. Sam replies “Well, I speak _loud !!_, and I carry a _biiigger_ stick ! And I use it too !” \< whacks Bugs on head \> ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2005, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-toons-favorites/326602/57 "2005-10-17T20:44:15Z")
> [@jrfranchi](#): > > I do the same thing and get blank looks. My wife at least knows what it is from but I use that and other references to Looney Tunes and forget this is not universal knowledge, I tend to think of it as such. It doesn’t help that a lot of the people that I interact with are Brits who claim to have not watched looney toons as youths. The also don’t get my \*\*Grinch \*\*references. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2005, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-toons-favorites/326602/58 "2005-10-17T20:59:44Z")
quote=mobo85]“Mothers, you’d best hold on to your daughters!” _BOOM_ (audience applause) Bugs: They love it! They want more! Daffy (now a ghost, floating towards Heaven): That’s the only problem with the trick- I can only do it once! [/quote] actually it’s “Ladies, hold onto your hearts” & “I know, I know. But I can only do it once!” (I’m a WB-geek) [qupte=khadaji]I even sometimes say “You might rabbit, you might.” When someone asks a “would I” question. No one ever seems to get it. [/quote] do you say it with a thick fake irish brogue? Animaniacs did a spin on the “Those Endearing Young Charms” gag - Slappy Squirrel rigged the piano for the bulldog with whom she had a running feud - but not only did the dog play the correct note and nothing happened, he finished the whole stanza before the piano exploded. Slappy said something like “new twist on old gag” ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2005, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-toons-favorites/326602/59 "2005-10-17T21:02:29Z")
:smack: lousy job of coding, huh? :eek: this is what it _should_ have looked like > [@mobo85](#): > > “Mothers, you’d best hold on to your daughters!” _BOOM_ (audience applause) > Bugs: They love it! They want more! > Daffy (now a ghost, floating towards Heaven): That’s the only problem with the trick- I can only do it once! actually it’s “Ladies, hold onto your hearts” & “I know, I know. But I can only do it once!” (I’m a WB-geek) > [@khadaji](#): > > I even sometimes say “You might rabbit, you might.” When someone asks a “would I” question. No one ever seems to get it. do you say it with a thick fake irish brogue? Animaniacs did a spin on the “Those Endearing Young Charms” gag - Slappy Squirrel rigged the piano for the bulldog with whom she had a running feud - but not only did the dog play the correct note and nothing happened, he finished the whole stanza before the piano exploded. Slappy said something like “new twist on old gag” ---
**Author:** ![mack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mack)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2005, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-toons-favorites/326602/60 "2005-10-17T21:47:45Z")
I guess this is a actually a trivia question but it’s been driving me nuts for years. Well, only occasionally. This looks like a good place to ask it. There’s an episode where bugs is teaching his nephew (I think) his cock-eyed version of US history. In one part he says something like “…and \ bought Manhattan island for a song” and they show a piece of music. What is the name of that damn song? Do they even show it? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-toons-favorites/326602.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-toons-favorites/326602.md?page=4)