It’s been decades since I saw them, but back when I was a kid (46 now,) a local TV station ran an hour block of old Warner Brothers Cartoons. While most of them were the usual Bugs Bunny/Road Runner/Porky Pig type cartoons, I remember some the were, for lack of a better term, narrator/event driven. In the one I best remember, it was a dog show.
It had different breeds and the narrator made bad jokes and puns. The one I remember most is a dog sitting and looking at something off camera. The narrator’s voice-over was along the lines of " Here’s a Setter, pointing…or a Pointer, setting. Aw, forget it, here’s a Poinsettia. (cut to picture of plant)"
There were others that I have a vague recollection of. Different sorts of shows (dog, car, etc.) Travelogues to different locations.
Does anybody else recall these? I’m trying to find them to watch on-line or purchase on hard media. Any help would be appreciated.
Those 50s cartoons where the narrator spoke in rhymes, and the highlight were “bouncing ball” songs. I kinda like the gold prospecting episode. There was also this restaurant episode that featured a live footage of a female model (flashed twice for the benefit of the audience.)
While I don’t remember the two specific cartoons you mention, I remember the bouncing-ball sing-a-longs. IIRC, they were a relatively short-lived fad that several different companies made.
The ones I’m thinking of were definitely WB. The narration would start (REALLY remembering little} with something like “Welcome to the Dog Show. Today we’ll introduce you to the different breeds.” They would then show a Doberman Pincher running around making a pinching motion, going “pinch, pinch,pinch,pinch.”
Another gag was the narrator arguing with a dog about it being a Labrador Retriever. The dog’s response is along the lines of “well,get me a Labrador and I’ll retrieve it.”
Biffy, while I forgot about most of the specifics, that’s exactly one of the ones I was thinking about.
Thank You.
May I asked how you found it?
My Google-Fu has been really weak on this
I have all the Looney Tunes Golden Collection DVD sets. I knew what you were looking for, so I looked through them for one that sounded like one of that series and found “Farm Frolics.” I do remember the specific one you describe about the dogs, but I don’t know what it was called.
Except I don’t think that quote is from the type of cartoon you described in the OP. A down-on-his-luck dog is trying to get (well, force) Porky Pig to ‘adopt’ him, and lists what breeds he is (“Fifty-percent pointer (‘there it is, there it is, there it is’), fifty-percent setter (‘Irish setter’), but mostly I’m all Labrador retriever!”) It is in one of the character-based cartoons.
At least, I remember it in that one. I wouldn’t be shocked if they re-used it as the OP describes, too.
