# What is your All Time Favorite Cartoon? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 29, 2019, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-all-time-favorite-cartoon/845556 "2019-12-29T18:40:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2019, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-all-time-favorite-cartoon/845556/1 "2019-12-29T18:40:41Z")
I recently saw a very uplifting documentary celebrating the life of Mel Blanc. It’s called “Mel Blanc: The Man of a Thousand Voices” and it was rated 8.0 on IMDB which is extremely high. For those of you who may not know, Mel Blanc was the voice of all the Merry Melody cartoons. That includes Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Sylvester the Cat, Woody Woodpecker, Tweetie Bird, Speedy Gonzales and the list seems endless. He received thousands of letters from kids all over the world and he always answered every single one by hand. One lady once wrote him and told him she had a little girl relative who just loved Bugs Bunny (or one of the other characters he voiced - I don’t remember which one) and she asked if he would telephone this child on her birthday and wish her a happy birthday using the voice of that character. Once people learned that he did that, he started getting those kinds of requests and TTBOMK, he also honored all of them as well. This documentary film is full of examples of how Mel Blanc gave back to the community and to his fans which is why I call it “uplifting”. > **[Mel Blanc: The Man of a Thousand Voices (Video 2008) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1324021/)** > > Mel Blanc: The Man of a Thousand Voices: Directed by Constantine Nasr. With Mel Blanc, Noel Blanc, Keith Scott, Bill Baldwin Jr.. The life and career of the renowned voice actor of animation and radio. In honor of Mel Blanc, I’d like to ask, “What is your favorite cartoon?” It doesn’t have to be one that was voiced by Mel Blanc. I’m not asking you to name a cartoon character such as “Woody Woodpecker”. I’m not asking for a series of cartoons like “The Flintstones” or “Merry Melodies” (from Warner Bros). I’m asking if you can describe one single cartoon that was shown in a movie theatre before a movie played. You likely won’t know the title. Please feel free to just describe the plot if you like. My favorite is one called, “One Froggy Evening” and Mel Blanc does not appear in it at all. IMO, it is the most enjoyable cartoon I’ve ever seen - by far. I’ve watched it about 100 times and it still cracks me up every time I see it. You may remember the story. Here it is: Some workman is helping to demolish an old building and he comes across a time capsule box that was placed into the foundation when the building was dedicated - many years ago. He opens the box and an amazing frog jumps out and starts singing Broadway show tunes. The workman has visions of his becoming wealthy by charging people to come and see this amazing frog who sings in a beautiful baritone voice. He takes the frog to a talent agent. But when he opens the box, the frog doesn’t sing. In fact, the frog never sings when anyone else besides the workman is present. But when the workman and the frog are alone, the frog sings up a storm. The workman obviously becomes very distressed. He spends all the money he has in the world trying to find a way to make his amazing frog pay off. He rent out halls and offers free admission to the public to come see this astounding talented frog. But the frog never sings if anyone else is present. Eventually, he winds up impoverished. The cartoon ends when the workman puts the box into a new time capsule in another building so that someone in the distant future will have the same experience. I always found this cartoon to be side splitting - except for one thing. What a horrible message to give to children. If you have some terrible misfortune, you should pass it along to a total stranger so they will suffer the same catastrophe? What kind of a message is that for little kids? In any event, I loved this cartoon and I never saw another one that comes close to being as funny. Do you have a favorite cartoon you’d like to share? ---
**Author:** ![RioRico](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f04885/32.png) [@RioRico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RioRico)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2019, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-all-time-favorite-cartoon/845556/2 "2019-12-29T19:08:34Z")
I’ll go with the Fleischer Bros rotoscoping Cab Calloway as a walrus singing MINNIE THE MOOCHER. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2019, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-all-time-favorite-cartoon/845556/3 "2019-12-29T19:19:39Z")
“One Froggy Evening” is my favorite, too, but in the interest of variety, I’ll offer up my number two (also by Chuck Jones and Maurice Nobel - but for MGM) “The Dot and the Line” [- YouTube](https://youtu.be/hgqUya0kGPA) ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2019, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-all-time-favorite-cartoon/845556/4 "2019-12-29T19:46:02Z")
I love _One Froggy Evening_ but I don’t think the message is if you get into trouble, pass it along to someone else. The protagonist in the cartoon sees the new building cornerstone as a way to back out of his commitment to the frog. Since he found the singing frog in a building cornerstone, it was okay to leave it in another building cornerstone, and run away like it never happened. The future poor sap is just another get rich quick schemer. If anything, the cartoon’s message is human nature never changes. My favorite cartoon? Too, too many to choose from. Of the Warner Brothers vastly superior oeuvre, \*Birds Anonymous \* comes to mind. Sylvester tries to kick his bird addiction. It was Mel Blanc’s favorite turn as Sylvester, and he won an Oscar for it. Of the non-Warner’s, I like Canada’s Richard Condie’s stuff. _The Big Snit_ is a comedy about nuclear war, and _La Salla_ is a computer generated gem with the immortal line, “Once I had everything. Now, there’s a cow in my nose.” And it makes perfect sense. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2019, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-all-time-favorite-cartoon/845556/5 "2019-12-29T20:01:37Z")
My favorite cartoon is definitely “What’s Opera, Doc?”. Everything about it is absolute perfection. “One Froggy Evening” is first runner-up. ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2019, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-all-time-favorite-cartoon/845556/6 "2019-12-29T20:37:28Z")
Fleischer Bros. “Popeye the Sailor Meets Sinbad the Sailor” is probably my favorite, with “Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba’s Forty Thieves” a close second. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2019, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-all-time-favorite-cartoon/845556/7 "2019-12-29T20:39:53Z")
My favorite series would be Rocky & Bullwinkle. But for a favorite individual cartoon, that’s Betty Boop as Snow White with Cab Calloway singing St. James Infirmary from 1933. YouTube link: [Betty Boop: Snow White (1933) HD - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKOSJ5AAwfc) ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2019, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-all-time-favorite-cartoon/845556/8 "2019-12-29T20:41:53Z")
I remember one with a dragon sleeping in a cave on a mountaintop. He wakes up and looks outside. He sees an airliner flying below. He pounces. Clutching the plane in his claws, he rides it like a surfboard, having a grand old time, while utterly terrifying the passengers. I could not find that one on Youtube. But I did find [Canfilm](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pF1MAfhlZQ), which uses canned foods as a metaphor for totalitarian dictatorship. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2019, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-all-time-favorite-cartoon/845556/9 "2019-12-29T20:51:10Z")
Metalocalypse: The Doomstar Requiem is without a doubt, The Best Thing Ever Put On Television. It just so happens to be animated. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2019, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-all-time-favorite-cartoon/845556/10 "2019-12-29T20:57:04Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > My favorite cartoon is definitely “What’s Opera, Doc?”. Everything about it is absolute perfection. “One Froggy Evening” is first runner-up. “Long-Haired Hare” and “The Rabbit of Seville” would have to be very close also-rans. ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2019, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-all-time-favorite-cartoon/845556/11 "2019-12-29T21:36:00Z")
Warner Brothers’ Duck Amuck is my favorite. ---
**Author:** ![galen\_ubal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galen_ubal/32/4440_2.png) [@galen\_ubal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galen_ubal)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2019, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-all-time-favorite-cartoon/845556/12 "2019-12-29T21:42:15Z")
> [@zamboniracer](#): > > Warner Brothers’ Duck Amuck is my favorite. Me too, with 'What’s Opera, Doc?" a very close second. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2019, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-all-time-favorite-cartoon/845556/13 "2019-12-29T21:46:28Z")
For some reason, I’ve always liked _[Bugs and Thugs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugs_and_Thugs)_, a cartoon in which Bugs Bunny is accidentally taken to the hideout of a gang of bank robbers. It featured the classic line, “Would I throw a lighted match in the oven if my pal was in here?” ---
**Author:** ![GESancMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gesancman/32/2923_2.png) [@GESancMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GESancMan)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2019, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-all-time-favorite-cartoon/845556/14 "2019-12-29T21:50:17Z")
[Feed the Kitty](https://www.topcartoons.tv/feed-the-kitty/). ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2019, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-all-time-favorite-cartoon/845556/15 "2019-12-29T21:56:36Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > For some reason, I’ve always liked _[Bugs and Thugs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugs_and_Thugs)_, a cartoon in which Bugs Bunny is accidentally taken to the hideout of a gang of bank robbers. It featured the classic line, “Would I throw a lighted match in the oven if my pal was in here?” MMMM…You might, rabbit, you might. ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2019, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-all-time-favorite-cartoon/845556/16 "2019-12-29T21:59:07Z")
Mel Blanc was great, but he wasn’t Woody’s voice. The Pecker was voiced by Grace Stafford, who was Walter Lantz’s wife. Overall, I like Woody the best. “Bunny Hugged” is my favorite overall, though. ---
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2019, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-all-time-favorite-cartoon/845556/17 "2019-12-29T22:26:45Z")
> [@Charlie\_Wayne](#): > > …I’m asking if you can describe one single cartoon that was shown in a movie theatre before a movie played… I cannot name one single cartoon, I can only name three: The incomparable _Book Revue_ (1946) _Uncle Tom’s Cabaña_ (1947) and _Little Ol’ Bosko in Baghdad_ (1938) are available on Dailymotion and YT, respectively. My fondness for the escalation built into their stories, certain characterizations and overall energy transcends my disgust at their grotesquely racist aspects. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2019, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-all-time-favorite-cartoon/845556/18 "2019-12-29T22:31:12Z")
**Rabbit Fire** kicks off with the classic _Duck-Season-Rabbit-Season-Duck-Season_ schtick, and quickly runs through Bugs impersonating Daffy, and Daffy impersonating Bugs, and Bugs dressing up as a girl, and then circles back around to bickering over whether it’s Duck Season or Rabbit Season; and then that ending _floored_ me as a kid. ---
**Author:** ![janis\_and\_c0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janis_and_c0/32/21_2.png) [@janis\_and\_c0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janis_and_c0)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2019, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-all-time-favorite-cartoon/845556/19 "2019-12-29T22:32:13Z")
You "One Froggy " fans may want to look at this : [It Hopped One Night: A Look at One Froggy Evening - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUYqgLPgIjc) ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2019, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-all-time-favorite-cartoon/845556/20 "2019-12-29T22:34:47Z")
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