# The Best Song Ever Sung by a Cartoon **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 30, 2003, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-song-ever-sung-by-a-cartoon/178561 "2003-05-30T16:17:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-song-ever-sung-by-a-cartoon/178561/1 "2003-05-30T16:17:49Z")
Once a long, long time ago (BCS-- before Cafe Society) in a thread far, far away I remarked that Sugar, Sugar was the best song ever sung by a cartoon. It didn’t take two post before someone corrected me: Sugar, Sugar _wasn’t_ actually sung by cartoon characters. It was sung by studio musicians who _pretended_ to be cartoon characters. I never did thank that poster for lifting the scales from my eyes. I still think Sugar, Sugar is one of the best songs ever sung by a cartoon, just beating out Josie and the Pussycats (long tails and ears for hats!) but The Archies have been replaced at the very top of the list by Unaesta. Unaesta is an unseen band in GTA: Vice City and they sing the most ass-wiggling, kick-ass, ass-stomping song ever sung by would-be animations-- La Vida Es Una Lenteja. Too bad this song will never get any airplay. What do you think is the best song ever sung by a cartoon? P.S. La Vida Es Una Lenteja translates into, I believe, Life Is a Lentil. Sample lyric: GET UP!! and go to the refrigerator! RockStar North have a strange sense of humor. ---
**Author:** ![Kantalooppi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a5b964/32.png) [@Kantalooppi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kantalooppi)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-song-ever-sung-by-a-cartoon/178561/2 "2003-05-30T16:27:37Z")
Uncle Fucka. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-song-ever-sung-by-a-cartoon/178561/3 "2003-05-30T16:40:12Z")
“Why Don’t You Do Right?” Written by Joe McCoy Vocal by Amy Irving _Who Framed Roger Rabbit?_ Either that or the Nations of the World song from Animaniacs… ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-song-ever-sung-by-a-cartoon/178561/4 "2003-05-30T16:41:16Z")
A tie: _When You Wish Upon a Star_ from **Pinocchio** _St. James Infirmary Blues_ from **Snow White** (Betty Boop short) ---
**Author:** ![nitroglycerine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c5a1d2/32.png) [@nitroglycerine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nitroglycerine)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-song-ever-sung-by-a-cartoon/178561/5 "2003-05-30T16:48:42Z")
I’m partial to the classics…“Hello My Baby” by the Warner Bros frog and “Is You Is or Is You Ain’t My Baby” By Tom (of Tom and Jerry of course). But then again, I’d go along with the Nations Of The World song too. OH! And don’t forget the Jetsons classic “Oop Eep Ork”, and that one song fred Flintstone sung…“There’s a place I know where the four winds blow called Bedrock, twist twist…” Fred coulda been a rock and roll contender if it wasn’t for Wilma holding him back. 🙂 Jon ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-song-ever-sung-by-a-cartoon/178561/6 "2003-05-30T16:53:19Z")
Rabbit of Seville, “Come into my shop, let me cut your mop, daintily, daintily…” Elmer J Fudd “Kill the Wabbit, kill the Wabbit” Animaniacs Wakko “Wakko’s World” and “State Capitals” ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-song-ever-sung-by-a-cartoon/178561/7 "2003-05-30T17:04:31Z")
I’ve been partial to “Under the Sea” from **The Little Mermaid** Other choices: “What is Your Order?” from **Daffy’s Duck Hunt** (a reworking of Harry Warren’s “The Latin Quarter.”) “Gaston” from **Beauty and the Beast** Wagner’s “Ring Cycle” (excerpts) in **What’s Opera Doc?** ---
**Author:** ![monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monster)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-song-ever-sung-by-a-cartoon/178561/8 "2003-05-30T17:18:00Z")
“Is You Is, Or Is You Ain’t My Baby”, as mentioned above. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-song-ever-sung-by-a-cartoon/178561/9 "2003-05-30T17:22:50Z")
“Kiss the Girl” also wins major points (from _The Little Mermaid_). ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-song-ever-sung-by-a-cartoon/178561/10 "2003-05-30T17:28:07Z")
Anything in a Betty Boop cartoon, from Cab Calloway’s hot jazz, to the toonland jazz of Grampy. Sharon Apple’s signature tune in _Macross Plus_. Hypnotic. ---
**Author:** ![rj2003](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/48db29/32.png) [@rj2003](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rj2003)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-song-ever-sung-by-a-cartoon/178561/11 "2003-05-30T17:38:10Z")
“kyle’s mom’s a bitch!” by cartman ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-song-ever-sung-by-a-cartoon/178561/12 "2003-05-30T17:40:23Z")
> [@](#): > > Oh Brunhilda, you’re so lovely > > Yes I know it, I can’t help it Elmer Fudd and Buggs Bunny in What’s Opera Doc? IIRC Also _Poor Unfortunate Souls_ from The Little Mermaid and _Beauty and the Beast_ as sang by Mrs. Potts. ---
**Author:** ![vl\_mungo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc8723/32.png) [@vl\_mungo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vl_mungo)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-song-ever-sung-by-a-cartoon/178561/13 "2003-05-30T17:46:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by nitroglycerine \* > \*\*I’m partial to the classics…“Hello My Baby” by the Warner Bros frog and “Is You Is or Is You Ain’t My Baby” By Tom (of Tom and Jerry of course). But then again, I’d go along with the Nations Of The World song too. > > OH! And don’t forget the Jetsons classic “Oop Eep Ork”, and that one song fred Flintstone sung…“There’s a place I know where the four winds blow called Bedrock, twist twist…” > Fred coulda been a rock and roll contender if it wasn’t for Wilma holding him back. 🙂 > > Jon \*\* Man, I opened this thread just to vote for “Hello, My Baby”… and I’d like to add “Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone” also by the Frog. BTW, **The Violent Femmes** do a great cover of “Eep-Epp-Ork-Uh-Uh” on an album called “Saturday Morning’s Greatest Hits”. ---
**Author:** ![Pabitel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bbce88/32.png) [@Pabitel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pabitel)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-song-ever-sung-by-a-cartoon/178561/14 "2003-05-30T17:48:42Z")
“Oh, bwunhiwda you’we so wovewy!” “Yass I know it! I can’t help it!” “Oh Bwunhiwda, be my wife!” On a more serious note. The song “Beauty and the Beast” sung by Mrs. Potts in the movie won an Oscar for best song. ---
**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:** [May 30, 2003, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-song-ever-sung-by-a-cartoon/178561/15 "2003-05-30T17:49:44Z")
To hijack here for a moment, Disney Channel occasionally runs clips of their cartoons set to classic rock. The one they did for “Heart of Rock and Roll” was brilliant! ---
**Author:** ![Trion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Trion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trion)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-song-ever-sung-by-a-cartoon/178561/16 "2003-05-30T17:50:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Telemark \* > \*\* > Animaniacs Wakko “Wakko’s World” and “State Capitals” \*\* Actually, I think Yakko did the State Capitals. ---
**Author:** ![Pabitel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bbce88/32.png) [@Pabitel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pabitel)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-song-ever-sung-by-a-cartoon/178561/17 "2003-05-30T17:51:34Z")
Boy take ten minutes to complete a post and half a dozen slip in under the radar. You only beat me to it by 8 minutes Zebra. ---
**Author:** ![evilhomer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/43a26b/32.png) [@evilhomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilhomer)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-song-ever-sung-by-a-cartoon/178561/18 "2003-05-30T17:52:00Z")
The first songs I thought of were the “Nations of the World” from Animaniacs, or the Hillbilly song by Bugs Bunny. Or, from the Simpsons, “Who Needs the Quickie Mart”. For sheer stick-in-the-headedness, “You Don’t Make Friends With Salad!”. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-song-ever-sung-by-a-cartoon/178561/19 "2003-05-30T17:58:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by evilhomer \* > \*\*For sheer stick-in-the-headedness, “You Don’t Make Friends With Salad!”. \*\* You really are eeeeviiiiil **homer**. I swear, if I leave work and I’m still doing the cha-cha in my head while humming about sa–LAD!, I’m going to hunt you down and spill ink remover on you. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-song-ever-sung-by-a-cartoon/178561/20 "2003-05-30T18:15:29Z")
“When She Loved Me,” from **Toy Story.** Play the song and break out the hankies… Runner up to “Blame Canada,” from the **South Park** movie, just for the sheer silliness of the idea. 😉 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-song-ever-sung-by-a-cartoon/178561.md?page=2)