# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2005, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-toons-favorites/326602/81 "2005-10-18T14:46:29Z")
> [@Little Nemo](#): > > In addition to all the classics already mentioned (the OP started with my all time favorite) there was the one where Elmer went crazy and believed he was a rabbit. Psychiatrists sent to commit him captured Bugs instead and “cured” him into believing he was Elmer. I loved hearing Mel Blanc doing Bugs Bunny sounding like Elmer Fudd. actually, this was referred to earlier by whoever it was that posted he wanders around muttering “I am Elmer J Fudd, millionaire, I own a Mansion und a Yacht” ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2005, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-toons-favorites/326602/82 "2005-10-18T14:47:31Z")
> [@Paul in Saudi](#): > > Why in the world are we no longer making something of this high quality? We have writers, we have voices, we have animation. Why can’t someone produce more Looney Tunes? and the tag of it was “I may be a cwazy wabbit, but I’m not going to Alcatwaz!” ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2005, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-toons-favorites/326602/83 "2005-10-18T14:54:11Z")
> [@Paul in Saudi](#): > > Why in the world are we no longer making something of this high quality? We have writers, we have voices, we have animation. Why can’t someone produce more Looney Tunes? Because it is _obviously_ more important to make drek like _Loonatics_. That way, Hollywood Execs can give “creative input”. Which of course makes the _whole thing_ better. :smack: :rolleyes: 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2005, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-toons-favorites/326602/84 "2005-10-18T14:55:40Z")
> [@Paul in Saudi](#): > > Why in the world are we no longer making something of this high quality? We have writers, we have voices, we have animation. Why can’t someone produce more Looney Tunes? I always thought that many (not all) of the Animaniacs cartoons were of this quality. It is one reason I watched them, because they reminded me of the 'toons from my youth. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2005, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-toons-favorites/326602/85 "2005-10-18T14:56:33Z")
BTW–check my Sig Line for more on this topic. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2005, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-toons-favorites/326602/86 "2005-10-18T14:57:15Z")
> [@Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy](#): > > 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. O we’re the boys of the chorus We hope you like our show We know you’re rootin’ for us But now we have to gooooooooooo… ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2005, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-toons-favorites/326602/87 "2005-10-18T15:06:07Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > O we’re the boys of the chorus > We hope you like our show > We know you’re rootin’ for us > But now we have to gooooooooooo… Thuuuuuuuuuuuh Five O’Clock Whistle’s on the brink Thuh whistle won’t blow and whaddaya think? My papa’s still in thuh factory Cuz he don’t know what tiiiiiiiiiiiime it happens ta be! ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2005, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-toons-favorites/326602/88 "2005-10-18T15:16:27Z")
> [@mack](#): > > 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? Don’t know the name of the song, but I think I found the 'toon: [http://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/5309-Yankee\_Doodle\_Bugs.html](http://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/5309-Yankee_Doodle_Bugs.html) ---
**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 18, 2005, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-toons-favorites/326602/89 "2005-10-18T15:20:31Z")
> [@Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor](#): > > Because it is _obviously_ more important to make drek like _Loonatics_. > > That way, Hollywood Execs can give “creative input”. Which of course makes the _whole thing_ better. :smack: :rolleyes: 😛 Animaniacs came the closest. IT was an excellent effort with some excellent new characters and humor built on multiple levels. Bright colors for the very young, Lots of slapstick for the grammar school set and lots of wordplay and movie references for the Teen & Adult audience. Up until August of this year Nick Toons was showing them every night at 6:30pm. I re-watch most of them with my kids. They are 8 & 5 and all 3 of us loved them. The kids would sing along to the theme song. My daughter had to be the 8 year old in 2005 imitating Mindy and say “Love you, bye bye” and walking off. My son thought Wacko was the greatest. Any Pinky & the Brain was a treat for all of us. Good Feathers was a huge treat for me, I forgot how funny they were. I really think they captured a lot of the spirit of Termite Terrace. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Nutty\_Bunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d07c76/32.png) [@Nutty\_Bunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nutty_Bunny)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2005, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-toons-favorites/326602/90 "2005-10-18T16:22:26Z")
It’s so funny how many of us quote some of the same lines. In addition to “Shut up, shutten up” and “You might rabbit, you might”, I also say “Da back please, da back”, but I’ve forgotten which one that’s from. I just know that Bugs said it. Besided the obvious ones with Bugs and Daffy, etc. I also love the ones with the two mice and the cat (“You are a gazelle” “I-I’m a gazelle”) and Beaky Buzzard (“Oh no no no no no”). Oh and Marc Anthony’s kitten? Cutest. Kitten. Ever. I hope I can give my child-to-be an appreciation of Looney Tunes. I’ve got the DVDs. We’ll have to have Boomerang on at all times. All children need to see Looney Tunes. It says a lot for a 50-60 year old cartoons to be able to make a 35 year old laugh out loud. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2005, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-toons-favorites/326602/91 "2005-10-18T16:53:01Z")
> [@Nutty Bunny](#): > > It’s so funny how many of us quote some of the same lines. > > In addition to “Shut up, shutten up” and “You might rabbit, you might”, I also say “Da back please, da back”, but I’ve forgotten which one that’s from. I just know that Bugs said it. > > Besided the obvious ones with Bugs and Daffy, etc. I also love the ones with the two mice and the cat (“You are a gazelle” “I-I’m a gazelle”) and Beaky Buzzard (“Oh no no no no no”). > > Oh and Marc Anthony’s kitten? Cutest. Kitten. Ever. > > I hope I can give my child-to-be an appreciation of Looney Tunes. I’ve got the DVDs. We’ll have to have Boomerang on at all times. All children need to see Looney Tunes. It says a lot for a 50-60 year old cartoons to be able to make a 35 year old laugh out loud. “Da back, please da back” is from the one with two guys marooned on an island desparate for food - BB thinks the pot is a hot tub and asks to be ‘wet down’ as one of the guys is basting him ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2005, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-toons-favorites/326602/92 "2005-10-18T17:20:32Z")
> [@](#): > > actually, this was referred to earlier by whoever it was that posted he wanders around muttering “I am Elmer J Fudd, millionaire, I own a Mansion und a Yacht” Actually, I hadn’t realized there was a second page to this thread when I posted. My mistake. ---
**Author:** ![ddgryphon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8c91f0/32.png) [@ddgryphon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ddgryphon)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2005, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-toons-favorites/326602/93 "2005-10-18T17:50:18Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > My favourite line from that one is “Operator! Operator! We’ve been . . . disconnected.” Although “Shaddup, shudding-up” runs a close second. > > One that I remember seeing, but which will probably never be shown again because of its un-PC nature, involves the delivery of a (very small) moose to the house of an oil-rich Indian who wants to do some hunting. During the course of the film, the Indian manages to plunk arrows into his butler’s butt several times. Each time, the butler returns it, saying “Your arrow, sir!”, with an increasingly angry tone of voice. At the end, moose still unpunctured, the butler turns the Indian over his knee and spanks him with the arrow, saying “Your arrow, sir! And **my** resignation!” > > Saturday I was talking to my dad for his birthday, and I wound up quoting the “Do you want to shoot me now, or shoot me later?” scene to him. I think I need to send him some Looney Tunes this year. I still find myself laughing when I randomly conjure up [deadpan british butler]“Your Thomas Hawk, Sir.”[/deadpan british butler] ---
**Author:** ![ddgryphon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8c91f0/32.png) [@ddgryphon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ddgryphon)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2005, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-toons-favorites/326602/94 "2005-10-18T18:00:16Z")
_What’s Opera, Doc?_ _Bunny of Seville_ _One Froggy Night_ Are all among my favorite all time viewing pleasures. Marc Anthony and the Kitten was comedy gold. Other favorites include, but are not limited to: The cat that was constantly scared into locking itself to the ceiling when the dog sneaks up on it and barks (they must’ve owned a lab even though the dog was some kind of hound). I love the two dogs in the house of the future. There is one with a Jack Benny mouse and Jack Benny actually has a cameo at the end of the cartoon. Daffy was a brilliant creation and almost never failed to amuse. Good times. I remember a number of Travelogue and informational style shorts that always featured bad puns – I loved those and the follow the bouncing ball sing alongs. Ahhh. . .to be young at heart. ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2005, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-toons-favorites/326602/95 "2005-10-18T18:08:10Z")
I don’t think this great one has been metioned yet. Bugs is down south in the Confederacy and Yosemite Sam is the Confederate General. Bugs comes up to Sam, saying, “Suh, the Yankees are in Chattanooga” and then falls over. Sam becomes alarmed and immediately rides off. Scene shifts to a baseball park with Sam leveling a rifle at the New York dugout, where we just see several pair of eyes peering out in fear. “The first Yankee that sets foot out of that dugout is gonna get it.” ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2005, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-toons-favorites/326602/96 "2005-10-18T18:17:12Z")
Bugs Bunny with that big red monster… "An interesting monster must have a interesting hairdo!” he says just before putting up the monster’s hair in dynamite curlers. In the Easter Rabbit episode “Easter Yeggs”, Elmer Fudd says: "I’m waiting for the Easter Wabbit, and when he comes in with his wittle basket all fwuffy and cute… BANG. Easter Wabbit stew. He he he he. “I can’t miss with my Dick Tracy hat!” ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2005, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-toons-favorites/326602/97 "2005-10-18T18:29:17Z")
I had a professor in college who showed “Duck Amuck” as a perfect example of existentialism. My second favorite. First favorite is “Hillbilly Hare”, where Bugs becomes a square dance caller, and the two hillbillies have to do whatever he says - “Kick your partner, hit him in the head, hit him again, that critter ain’t dead” - then they jump into a hay baler - “Whirl whirl, twist and twirl, jump around like a flying squirrel, Now don’t you cuss and don’t you swear, come right out and form a square” and they come flying out as hay bales. What sustained brilliance. I can’t remember a bad Looney Tunes cartoon, and the Road Runner and Wiley Coyote have the classic form of Greek tragedy. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2005, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-toons-favorites/326602/98 "2005-10-18T18:32:40Z")
Nobody has mentioned “The Honeymousers,” which was a dead-on spoof of “The Honeymooners”. A later cartoon had characters patterned after Gleason and Carney, who were bums on a train, when Bugs hops in the train car. “Fooooooooooooooood!” And the circus penguin that Bugs takes back to Antarctica never fails to crack me up. ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2005, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-toons-favorites/326602/99 "2005-10-18T18:38:27Z")
So why aren’t these on DVD? It’s much better than the tons of other crap that make it to DVD EVEN BEFORE THE SERIES GOES INTO SYNDICATION! I’d totally buy that. I always liked the theme of the “portable hole”. They would throw this black circle on the ground and it would be a hole through the ground. Anyone else remember those? ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2005, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-toons-favorites/326602/100 "2005-10-18T18:39:03Z")
> [@ddgryphon](#): > > … I loved those and the follow the bouncing ball sing alongs. [Nitpick]The “follow the bouncing ball sing alongs” were not Looney Toons. They were from Paramount’s cartoon divisions (i.e., Max Fleischer and Famous Studios).[/Nitpick] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-toons-favorites/326602.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-toons-favorites/326602.md?page=6)