Straight Dope: the Musical

[Elmer Fudd]

Kill the WABBIT!

With my spear and magic Helmet!!

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Yea!, we made it back to Wagnerian Opera. I was of course thinking of Kill the Wabbit when I posted. :smiley:

As background to the musical, should we have a deadly blimp flying around and randomly attacking people? That could work well with Flight of the Valkyries.

Jim

A 1920s style death ray, set on “extra toasty”, will be unleashed upon any audience members who dare to heckle the show with demands for a cite.

At some point in the plot, penis must ensue!

CITE!

CITE! CITE! You just might
Want To Provide a single CITE!
For your claims most outrageoius
Are they lies, quite egregious
Simple proof of others wit
Will surely boost your case a bit!

CITE! CITE! Need it now
Tell us all exactly how
Your claim that bats are birds
Is not supported by just your words
Your evidence has some holes,
And makes us think of useless trolls

CITE! CITE! Give us one
before we abuse you just for fun
Silly claims with no foundation
Make a myth of your creation
Adam and Eve is a real good tale
But give us proof to make the sale

CITE! CITE! Not faith or trust
In your words, doubt we must
For we simply must insist
a background check must exist
of your claims of design, intellegent
something real, true and maybe elegant

CITE! CITE! The need for proof
May make us seem cold and aloof
But if you can provide some link
Perhaps , just then your ideas won’t stink
All we need and want is a CITE
To prove your musings more than right

CITE! CITE! Cecil knows it
No claim can be completely shite
To show you know of what you speak
the Internet; vast and wide, go seek
Join us now, you citeless dunce
In our fight on ingnorance!

My appologies for the bad scanning, use of caps, and such, for some reason, I hear “the Anvil Chorus” as I read it… suggestions, improvements and such are always welcome
Regards
FML

I highly suspect the costumes are going to involve lots of sequins. Lots and really lots of sequins. This production might actually require a BeDazzler Mistress*, in addition to the Costume Mistress.

  • And I will fight Draelin to the death for the honor, I tell you whut. The death!

It’s okay, sweetie, I belong on the stage, anyway. :wink:

Spoilsport. PLUS, who’s to say I won’t end up on stage? I can sing some and dance some – I could start out as an extra in one of the big production numbers, and end up with my own, spectacular, BeDazzled showstopper. Like in “42nd Street,” or “Showgirls.”

Darling! We’ll sing that duet at last…

:wink:

Ah, yes–that timeless ballad, “How You Doin’?” :smiley:

We’ll need backdrop pictures of kittens and breasts. :cool:

The programme should include a clear legal statement about not giving medical advice during the performance.

There will be three types of seating:

  • boxes for Charter members
  • balcony for members
  • the rest occupied by guests

Cecil…people who need Cecil…
Are the most ignorant PEE-pullll…in the world.

Spear and magic helmet?

Here’s a snippet from a song in The Sound of Cecil:
D’oh! A smack, a Homer-esque smack :smack:
Ray, of nineteen-twenties style
Meh, a post I don’t care for
Fa, a bannee’s long exile
So, a word heard in GD
voi-LA, my cites I will now show
Tea, list favorites in CS
That will bring us back to D’oh! D’oh! D’oh! D’oh!

When you know the facts to cite
You can join the ignorance fight

Here you go: What's Opera, Doc? (Short 1957) - Quotes - IMDb

Elmer Fudd: I will do it with my spear and magic helmet.
Bugs Bunny: Your spear and magic helmet?
Elmer Fudd: Spear and magic helmet.
Bugs Bunny: Magic helmet?
Elmer Fudd: Magic helmet.
Bugs Bunny: [aside to audience, cynical] Magic helmet.
Elmer Fudd as Siegfried: Yes, magic helmet and I’ll give you a sample.
[summons lightning that strikes Bugs]
Bugs Bunny: Bye.
[quickly runs off]
Elmer Fudd as Siegfried: That was the wabbit.

Michael Gebert, former film critic for AOL and the editor of The encyclopedia of Movie Awards, said in the book that if he were in charge of doling out awards, “What’s Opera, Doc?” would have gotten Best Picture for 1957, as it is the greatest cartoon ever made.

Congress may have agreed. It was the first cartoon selected for the National Film Registry.

In animation historian Jerry Beck’s 1994 poll of animators, film historians and directors, this cartoon was selected as the #1 cartoon of all time.

I agree it is the greatest short ever made, not as sure about greatest cartoon.

Jim

I’d like to see them work in a staging of the big musical number, Hacksaw!

I heard they did this musical once… in the…

You’d have to pay $14.95 to get in, but then there’d still be ads at the bottom front of the stage, and every now and then the actors would freeze on stage and just when the audience members were at the limits of their frustration, they’d start moving again.

But it would be pretty wonderful anyway.