# 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:** 6
**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, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-toons-favorites/326602/101 "2005-10-18T18:50:19Z")
Newspaper headline: “Carrot shortage. Rabbits leaving the state in droves.” Bugs: “But I don’t even _have_ a drove!” I use this line where possible! ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2005, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-toons-favorites/326602/102 "2005-10-18T18:58:55Z")
> [@ddgryphon](#): > > There is one with a Jack Benny mouse and Jack Benny actually has a cameo at the end of the cartoon. And how about the Abbot & Costello mice? “Ohh…I’m a baaad boy.” ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2005, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-toons-favorites/326602/103 "2005-10-18T19:06:35Z")
> [@Enright3](#): > > 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. Many are. Looney Toons Golden Collection Vol. 3 is being released on October 25th. And it does contain Beanstalk Bunny and Hillbilly Hare, so the world is that much better. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2005, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-toons-favorites/326602/104 "2005-10-18T19:07:03Z")
> [@fishbicycle](#): > > 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. “And the circus penguin that Bugs takes back to Antarctica never fails to crack me up”. \*\* “…oooooooooooh, I’m dyin’!”\*\* ---
**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, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-toons-favorites/326602/105 "2005-10-18T19:14:08Z")
> [@NDP](#): > > [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] I know I just threw them in as favorites – sorry for the misunderstanding. ---
**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, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-toons-favorites/326602/106 "2005-10-18T19:15:25Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > “And the circus penguin that Bugs takes back to Antarctica never fails to crack me up”. > > \*\* > “…oooooooooooh, I’m dyin’!”\*\* Pen-gu-wine – the way they played with language was the best! ---
**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, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-toons-favorites/326602/107 "2005-10-18T19:25:59Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > “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 Thank you! It’s been bugging me since I posted that. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2005, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-toons-favorites/326602/108 "2005-10-18T19:26:59Z")
> [@BayleDomon](#): > > And how about the Abbot & Costello mice? > > “Ohh…I’m a baaad boy.” And the Abbott & Costello cats. “Ohh…I’m a baaad pussycat.” ---
**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, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-toons-favorites/326602/109 "2005-10-18T19:31:41Z")
Who were those two incredibly polite mice? “Would you happen to have a pin about your person?” I believe Stan Freberg did the voice of one of them. Regards, Shodan ---
**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, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-toons-favorites/326602/110 "2005-10-18T19:32:48Z")
> [@Enright3](#): > > 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. Dust off your credit card. [Looney Tunes collections](http://search.deepdiscountdvd.com/search?p=Q&ts=custom&w=looney+tunes). I recommend the Golden Collections. Apparently Vol. 3 is coming out next week and I still have to get Vol. 2. I hate having to catch up. ---
**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, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-toons-favorites/326602/111 "2005-10-18T19:35:14Z")
Sheesh! I didn’t notice **The Tooth** ’s post. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2005, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-toons-favorites/326602/112 "2005-10-18T19:45:15Z")
“Pardon me, but could you spare a buck for a fellow America-” “Here! He’s yours! He’s all yours!” ---
**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, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-toons-favorites/326602/113 "2005-10-18T19:47:04Z")
I’m sorry to hijack, but I saw **Nutty Bunny** ’s location, and that’s exactly where my boss is right now: under his desk, napping! What are the odds? You know, I have a copy of “Coal Black & De Sebben Dwarfs”, and it isn’t racist at all. It portrays cartoon black people. I saw a documentary on WB cartoons, and apparently all the black musicians who supplied the soundtrack were totally OK with it. They didn’t think it denigrated them at all, otherwise they would have objected. I don’t think that if it was made available now, people would freak out. But you never know these days. ---
**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, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-toons-favorites/326602/114 "2005-10-18T19:50:40Z")
> [@Enright3](#): > > So why aren’t these on DVD? [Some](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000AYJXS/002-9961919-8468045?v=glance&n=130&s=dvd&v=glance) are. ---
**Author:** ![Tupug\_Anachi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@Tupug\_Anachi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tupug_Anachi)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2005, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-toons-favorites/326602/115 "2005-10-18T20:02:26Z")
I’ve been known to use Bug’s “What a maroon!” comment on many occasions. My personal favorite characters are Pepe LePeu and Foghorn Leghorn although they appear a little later in the forties. _Ah, say! Ah, say, boy! That there is a chicken!_ ---
**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 18, 2005, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-toons-favorites/326602/116 "2005-10-18T20:26:41Z")
There’s the scene where Bugs dresses up as a mobster : Bugs : “It’s curtains for you, Mugsy ! Curtains !” \< whips out some curtains, sticks them on Mugsy’s head \> Mugsy “Ohhh, they’re adorable !” ---
**Author:** ![mojave66](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@mojave66](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mojave66)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2005, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-toons-favorites/326602/117 "2005-10-18T20:49:02Z")
> [@](#): > > Who were those two incredibly polite mice? > > “Would you happen to have a pin about your person?” > > I believe Stan Freberg did the voice of one of them. Not mice, they were the Goofy Gophers Mac and Tosh, and yep, Freberg played Tosh. The one that consistently cracks me up is their foray into a furniture factory when their home tree is cut down. Mac (or is it Tosh?) is sent into a planing machine and comes out a bit addled and with curly wood shavings on top of his head: Mac: “There was a little girl who had a little curl right in the middle of her forehead.” Tosh: \ Mac: “Thank you. I daresay I needed 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 18, 2005, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-toons-favorites/326602/118 "2005-10-18T20:56:32Z")
> [@mojave66](#): > > Not mice, they were the Goofy Gophers Mac and Tosh, and yep, Freberg played Tosh. > > The one that consistently cracks me up is their foray into a furniture factory when their home tree is cut down. Mac (or is it Tosh?) is sent into a planing machine and comes out a bit addled and with curly wood shavings on top of his head: > > Mac: “There was a little girl who had a little curl right in the middle of her forehead.” > > Tosh: \ > > Mac: “Thank you. I daresay I needed that.” I think that Frasier and Niles Crane could step right into the roles of these two gophers without anyone realizing that anything had changed. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2005, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-toons-favorites/326602/119 "2005-10-18T22:23:01Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > “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 The 'toon is called _Waikiki Wabbit_. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2005, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-toons-favorites/326602/120 "2005-10-18T23:51:57Z")
> [@Honey](#): > > 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. Was it in that same cartoon where, at the end, the mad scientist has released some sleeping gas? I remember a scene where he’s chasing Bugs, and they’re both moving in slow, slow motion, and he’s going “Come [pause] back [pause] here [pause] you [pause] rab [pause] bit!” Then they fall asleep and float to the ground. “Nightey [pause] night.” And then there’s the classic “Wile E. Coyote. Super Genius. I like the way that rolls out. Wile E. Coyote, Sooooper Geeeenius.” Which was the one where Bugs is pretending to be a theater usher? All you see is the flashlight moving as he shows Elmer to a seat, that turns out to be a very high platform from which Elmer is tipped into a glass of water. From the Bugs and penguin cartoon, two favourite lines: “Hoboken?!!! Ooooo, I’m dying again!” and “Pen-gu-wins is practically chickens!” Another cartoon, where Bugs is riding a plane that is headed nose-first to the ground. Inches above, it stops, and the scene cuts to Bugs hanging onto a lever saying, “Thank goodness for air brakes!” **NDP** I had completely forgotten about the cannon ball and the Thomas Hawk. _sniffle_ I want my Saturday morning cartoons **BACK** , damnit! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-toons-favorites/326602.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looney-toons-favorites/326602.md?page=7)