# Non"Character-Driven" Warner Brothers Cartoons **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 25, 2014, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-character-driven-warner-brothers-cartoons/686911 "2014-04-25T00:20:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-character-driven-warner-brothers-cartoons/686911/21 "2014-04-25T17:58:14Z")
> [@rowrrbazzle](#): > > “Wacky Wildlife” (clip): [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0D-QcDfO48](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0D-QcDfO48) Excellent cartoon. Although it’s not Warner Brothers, I have a fond nostalgia for _**[Crazy Town.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iwIUU32T2o)**_ And Tex Avery/MGM’s cartoons _**[House/Car/TV/Farm of Tomorrow](http://vimeo.com/32889552)**_ fit the genre well, I think. ---
**Author:** ![D.E.S.K.Top668](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f07891/32.png) [@D.E.S.K.Top668](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D.E.S.K.Top668)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-character-driven-warner-brothers-cartoons/686911/22 "2014-04-25T23:32:04Z")
> [@bup](#): > > Excellent cartoon. > > Although it’s not Warner Brothers, I have a fond nostalgia for _**[Crazy Town.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iwIUU32T2o)**_ > > And Tex Avery/MGM’s cartoons _**[House/Car/TV/Farm of Tomorrow](http://vimeo.com/32889552)**_ fit the genre well, I think. A couple of those were things I was looking for. I didn’t include them because I found a couple of old **_Mad_ Magazine** Anthologies that had similar articles. I just thought early senility was setting in and I confused **Mad** articles and **WB** Cartoons. Thanks - DESK ---
**Author:** ![Cayuga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Cayuga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cayuga)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2014, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-character-driven-warner-brothers-cartoons/686911/23 "2014-04-26T00:30:11Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > “I should be. I’m a star on TV.” > > I never did find out what that basset hound was talking about Some years ago (I really don’t know how long, as it was well before my time — the mid-1950s, maybe?) there was a TV show called _The People’s Choice_. It was a family sitcom, and each episode was narrated by the family dog, a basset hound named Cleo. I’m guessing that’s what this was a reference to. ---
**Author:** ![Hermione](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/cdc98d/32.png) [@Hermione](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hermione)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2014, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-character-driven-warner-brothers-cartoons/686911/24 "2014-04-26T03:22:18Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > 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. Charlie Dog was, indeed, in the dog show one as well, using the same joke as he did on Porky. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2014, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-character-driven-warner-brothers-cartoons/686911/25 "2014-04-26T03:31:22Z")
> [@Hermione](#): > > Charlie Dog was, indeed, in the dog show one as well, using the same joke as he did on Porky. The dog show one also had a Saint Bernard “rescuing” a frozen hiker. The hiker is Yosemite Sam; a Bugs Bunny short had he and YS climbing the Matterhorn (?) and as BB is going under an ice shelf, he whispers to YS to keep it down or avalanche. YS whips out his gun and starts firing, hoping to drop it all on BB; YS gets it instead. The next scene is a Saint Bernard digging YS out of the ice. It is the exact same clip as the dog show except they took out YS’s arm holding his gun up in a frozen grip. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-character-driven-warner-brothers-cartoons/686911.md?page=1)