I have two. The first is the episode (can’t remember the exact name) featuring the classic “Wabbit Season/Duck Season” exchange between Bugs and Daffy.
The second is “Three Little Bops,” the take-off of the Three Little Pigs story done as a jazz musical. Hilarious and clever.
This is probably Rabbit Seasoning, although it very well could also be Rabbit Fire or Duck! Rabbit, Duck!, since they were all part of a trilogy involving the same basic (albeit hilarious) gag.
Mine would undoubtedly be *Duck Amuck*, one of the greatest and most ingenious (not to mention funniest) movies about movies ever made.
Pretty much anything with Peppy LePew gets my vote.
Any of the early Roadrunner cartoons are up high on my list.
Then there is the Bugs Bunny episode with the mad scientist and the big furry monster would have to be one of funniest cartoon I have ever seen.
The Rabbit of Seville. I love that cartoon.
I like the one with the singing frog…
“Hello my honey,
Hello my baby,
Hello my rag time gal.
Baby you drive me wild.
Baby, my hearts on fire!”
Damn that some funny shit.
The Hassenpeffer episode, I still stop and watch it even though I have it memorized…Wheah is my Hassenpeffer!!!
This is Hair-Raising Hare (1946), with the Peter Lorre-type character
This is One Froggy Evening (1955), which is also note-worthy for not having a single line of dialogue (just the frog’s lyrics)
This is Shishkabugs (1962), the first appearance of Yosemite Sam in this thread
Oh, and alice_in_wonderland, that fourth line should read “Send me a kiss by wire”
Duck Amuck! is one of the funniest cartoons I’ve ever seen! I’d also have to vote for Dripalong Daffy, where Daffy Duck and his sidekick Porky Pig ride into an old West town and decide to fight Nasty Canasta, the humongous bad guy. Daffy sticks his gun right in his face and tells him to leave town and Nasty Canasta just bites off the end of his gun and chews it up!
No on else I’ve met remembers it but Warner Bros made a couple of cartoons featuring Marc Antony (a huge dog) and Cleo (a cute little cat), in which the enormous dog keeps running round trying to save the little kitten from harm.
They’re really funny. Honest.
Alex
“Duck Amuck” gets my vote as well. It is unrivaled in it’s brilliance. Also, don’t forget “What’s Opera, Doc?”.
“Killed 'da wabbitt!
What Have I done?
Da Wabbit is dead…”
It’s gotta be Drag Along Droopy, about Droopy the sheepherder in cattle territory.
Baa Baa Moo Moo Baa Baa Moo Moo…SHEEP, YE DURN FOOL! Hee hee hee.
Droopy bedded down, dreaming of counting sheep. The sheep are asleep dreaming of counting Droopies…snicker.
The Wolf hides behind a rock; Droopy blasts it with gunfire down to the shape of Rodin’s Thinker… man, I have got to get this out and watch it again.
The dog would save the kitty from disaster, then put the little kitty on his back, where the kitty would sleep, after kneading the dog’s skin to make a “nest”.
My favorite was the one where Bugs faces the hillbilly brothers, and leads them on a chase set to a square dance.
“Swing yer partner round ’ round,
pick up a shovel and
knock him down.”
Red Hot Riding Hood! Tex Averay was the best.
Alex B, you jarred my memory! I just saw a special on PBS the other day about Chuck Jones where they featured that particular pairing of Marc Antony and Cleo. People like Spielberg, Robin Williams and several cartoonists were raving about the brilliance of those cartoons. The facial expressions on the dog are absolutely priceless.
Of the Yosemite Sam v. Bugs Bunny titles, my fave is the one where Bugs is made to take the place of Fearless Freep, high dive specialist. Where’s the Archive Guy (or is it just Archive Guy?) with the title?
(this kicks ass! I started a thread, I started a thread!)
I like the Rabbit/Duck Season trilogies too! I also think that the episode with Dafy Duck as Robin Hood was one of the funnier episodes.
Not “Cleo,” people. “Pussyfoot.” Cleo was Pinnochio’s goldfish.
There are a ton of these, I could go on all day and I know guys even more fanatical. My full user name refers to Sniffles the Mouse, so anything with him is a treat. Foghorn and Sam rank high on my list. Bob Clampett was their best director, with stiff competition. But the all-time funniest short is The Dover Boys of Pimiento University, or The Rivals of Roquefort Hall.
Anything with Yosemite Sam. 2 come to mind:
The one with bugs and Yosemite on the pirate ship, and the one with bugs and yosemite in the political race
I’m also fond of “Three Little Bops”, Survey. I’ll almost always sit down to watch it, but it’s not my favorite.
I have a special fondness for the Claude the cat cartoons, particularly the early ones–toward the end he went completely mute and got jealous and nasty. Early on, he was a sympathetic character of sorts. Claude apparently belongs to the same people as Marc Anthony, at least in his later cartoons when he’s gone totally bad (he framed MA for trying to eat the kitten). My favorite is “Cheese Chasers” with Bert and Hubie, two mice bent on suicide after a cheese binge. The two mice also plagued him in several other cartoons.
That’s “Feed the Kitty.” It is one of the great ones, though it doesn’t get the fame that others do.
Anything by Chuck Jones is a treat (he had four of the top five films in “The 50 Greatest Cartoons”). I’m partial to “Duck Amuck,” but “What’s Opera, Doc,” “One Froggy Evening,” and “Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2 Century” are also great ones.