# Your Favorite Mel Blanc Quotes **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 11, 2000, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-mel-blanc-quotes/28937 "2000-08-11T05:25:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2000, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-mel-blanc-quotes/28937/101 "2000-08-14T23:57:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dougie\_monty \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > Nobody else believes me when I tell them about that! I’m glad to finally know I didn’t imagine it. IIRC, that’s the whole cartoon, just that one scene. I remember seeing it on a video I rented that had a bunch of obscure cartoon shorts. Where did you see it at? > > It was in a blooper video I rented–in fact, two or more I’ve rented featured it, at or near the end. It was the cartoon people’s contribution to a WB reel made in the 30s. > \*\* I’ve seen snippets of that reel, and it’s great. Mostly blown lines, and it’s somehow startling to see black & white 1930’s vintage Hollywood stars saying “Goddammit!” over and over. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2000, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-mel-blanc-quotes/28937/102 "2000-08-15T03:04:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by BratMan007 \* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by dougie\_monty \* > > In a bit not in a regular Warner Brothers cartoon, Porky Pig is a carpenter hammering nails. He hits his thumb with the hammer and says, > > "Oh, son of a bi-bi-, son of a b-b-b-b, son of a _gun!"_ > > Nobody else believes me when I tell them about that! I’m glad to finally know I didn’t imagine it. IIRC, that’s the whole cartoon, just that one scene. I remember seeing it on a video I rented that had a bunch of obscure cartoon shorts. Where did you see it at? You can see it at various places on the web, such as [http://www.moderntv.com/modtvweb/qtclips/porky1.htm](http://www.moderntv.com/modtvweb/qtclips/porky1.htm) ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2000, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-mel-blanc-quotes/28937/103 "2000-08-15T15:24:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rilchiam \* > \*\*But my favorite Mel Blanc quote (and I’m not even sure if this was Mel or not) is the lion who is getting his lackey to bring him meat . . . “What, no gravy?” \*\* Didja notice in the movie “Conspiracy Theory” that this clip figures in Mel Gibson’s hallucination? For no good reason, as far as I can tell. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2000, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-mel-blanc-quotes/28937/104 "2000-08-15T16:12:25Z")
JSC1953, hi. Welcome to the board. I’ve never seen that movie, I’ll have to check it out. A word of advice. Careful who you are quoting. That was my original quote. I only point this out because I was completely off the mark. It wasn’t a lion, it was a dog. Review the thread if you wish. I’m just trying to save you some grief if Rilchiam happens to pipe in and say, “Hey, I didn’t say that, it was that idiot Jack Batty.” Have fun. And thanks for the movie tip. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2000, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-mel-blanc-quotes/28937/105 "2000-08-15T16:25:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jack Batty \* > \*\*JSC1953, hi. Welcome to the board. > I’ve never seen that movie, I’ll have to check it out. > A word of advice. Careful who you are quoting. That was my original quote…I’m just trying to save you some grief if Rilchiam happens to pipe in and say, “Hey, I didn’t say that, it was that idiot Jack Batty.” > Have fun. And thanks for the movie tip. \*\* Thanks for the welcome, and thanks for the advice. I think I snipped where I shouldn’t’ve. And I’ll leave with one last WB quote: I’M A FIDDLER CRAB!! SHOOT ME!! IT’S FIDDLER CRAB SEASON!! ---
**Author:** ![Nekochan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b3f665/32.png) [@Nekochan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nekochan)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2000, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-mel-blanc-quotes/28937/106 "2000-08-15T17:16:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jack Batty \* > \*\* > > Over the hill and over the dale, > duck your head and lift your tale. > > \*\* Thanks for posting that! The above lines were all I could remember. ---
**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:** [August 15, 2000, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-mel-blanc-quotes/28937/107 "2000-08-15T17:39:51Z")
The Bugs & Vampire duel: “Abracadabra, I’m a vampire.” “Abracadabra, I’m an umpire.” “Hocus-pocus, I’m a bat.” “Hocus-pocus, I’m a bat, too.” (baseball bat) “You woudn’t hit a bat with glasses, would you?” (whack; bat falls under stone) “Abracadabra.” (picks up stone) “Hocus-pocus.” (stone lands on bat) “Abracadabra.” (picks up stone) “Hocus-pocus.” (stone lands on bat) “Abraca-pocus. Hocuscadabra. Newport News. Hmm, I can do better than that. Walla-Walla Washington! (vampire turns into two-headed vulture, Bugs calls to the female vulture outside) Oh, goils!” BTW: Mel once was in a bad accident and didn’t look like he was going to pull through. In the hospital, Mel hardly responded to anything until someone thought to ask Bugs how **he** is! ---
**Author:** ![BobSchroeck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/13edae/32.png) [@BobSchroeck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobSchroeck)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2000, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-mel-blanc-quotes/28937/108 "2000-08-15T17:40:56Z")
Didn’t expect to see me again, eh, Svengali? I do this kind of thing to him all through the picture. Gruesome, isn’t it? Gee, ain’t I a stinker? What’s all the hubbub, bub? The rabbits are coming, hooray, hooray! Which way did he go, George, which way did he go? Agony! AAA-go-neee! Didja ever get the feelin’ you wuz bein’ watched? Think fast, rabbit. I’ll do it, but I’ll probably hate myself in the morning. Oh, you and your old gun, you crazy! So long, screwy, see you in St. Louie! And don’t think it hasn’t been a little piece of heaven – because it hasn’t! What’s the hassle, schmassle? …And finally, from Bugs’ first appearance, before he was even named: Tsktsktsk. Too bad… Do you have dizzy spells? Do you see spots before your eyes? Do your ears ring? Are you subject to fits? So am I! Maybe that’s what’s the matter with me! (laughs) and Thirty days! Hath September, April, June and Montana! All the rest have cold weather, except in the summer, which isn’t often! – Bob ---
**Author:** ![SouthernStyle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@SouthernStyle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SouthernStyle)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2000, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-mel-blanc-quotes/28937/109 "2000-08-15T17:50:25Z")
"If I dood it, I’m gonna get in twubble… I dood it." ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2000, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-mel-blanc-quotes/28937/110 "2000-08-15T17:54:59Z")
I can’t stop… My brother recently became a first-time father, and named his son “Jack” (not John, Jack). Which spontaneously prompted this exchange among bro and me: “He’s Jack.” “It’s a lie!! My name is…Aloysius!! He’s Jack. Jack Rabbit!” “Your name is Jack, and you know it, because it is a fact.” One more for the road: “Sweet spirits of camphor, can’t a man get any sustenance around here? Now go AWAY!” ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2000, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-mel-blanc-quotes/28937/111 "2000-08-15T20:59:55Z")
> [@](#): > > Also there’s one cartoon where Bugs and/or Fudd are singing something about “that ol’ shotgun”. A friend and I have been trying to remember it for years. It must have been a rare one, only saw it once. Anybody??? Hey! I used to have that one on an album as a kid. Let me see if I can remember it: \*What’s up Doc? What’s cookin’? What’s up Doc? Are ya’ lookin’ For Bugs the Bunny; Elmer’s gone a-hunting; Just when he has cornered him, Whoops! The rabbit’s gone again! What’s up Doc? What’s cookin’? HEY! LOOK OUT! STOP! You’re gonna HURT someone With that old shotgun! Eh, what’s up, Doc? [in unison:] We really mean it… WHAT’S…UP…DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOC!!!\* Thank you. Thank you. I’ll be here all week! Please remember to tip your waitresses! ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2000, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-mel-blanc-quotes/28937/112 "2000-08-15T21:12:29Z")
By the by, I don’t think that song was part of any short. I think it was part of the Saturday morning pseudo-Vaudeville show that incorporated a lot of the shorts. Remember the opening number: _Overture! Cut the lights! This is it! We’ll hit the hights! And oh what hights we’ll hit! On with the show! This is it!_ ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2000, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-mel-blanc-quotes/28937/113 "2000-08-15T21:14:57Z")
Or “heights” … ---
**Author:** ![BobSchroeck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/13edae/32.png) [@BobSchroeck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobSchroeck)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2000, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-mel-blanc-quotes/28937/114 "2000-08-15T21:29:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by spoke- \* > \*What’s up Doc? > What’s cookin’? > What’s up Doc? > Are ya’ lookin’ > For Bugs the Bunny; > Elmer’s gone a-hunting;[/1] Actually, it’s [1]“Bugs Bunny bunting, Doc has gone a-hunting”\* at least according to the version I learned. – Bob ---
**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:** [August 15, 2000, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-mel-blanc-quotes/28937/115 "2000-08-15T22:15:58Z")
> [@](#): > > By the by, I don’t think that song was part of any short. I think it was part of the Saturday morning pseudo-Vaudeville show that incorporated a lot of the shorts. No, that is most definately from a short. To be specific, it’s from [What’s Up, Doc?](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0043128) and is featured at the very end of the movie [“What’s Up, Doc?”](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0069495) which stars Ryan O’Neal & Barbara Streisand. ---
**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:** [August 15, 2000, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-mel-blanc-quotes/28937/116 "2000-08-15T22:20:57Z")
Let’s try those links again. The short is [What’s Up , Doc](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0043128) and is featured at the end of [“What’s Up, Doc?”](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0069495). ---
**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:** [August 15, 2000, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-mel-blanc-quotes/28937/117 "2000-08-15T22:22:39Z")
OK, I give up. For some reason, the UBB is getting my links confused. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2000, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-mel-blanc-quotes/28937/118 "2000-08-15T22:57:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jeff Olsen \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > By the by, I don’t think that song was part of any short. I think it was part of the Saturday morning pseudo-Vaudeville show that incorporated a lot of the shorts. > > No, that is most definately from a short. To be specific, it’s from “What’s Up, Doc” which stars Ryan O’Neal & Barbara Streisand. \*\* OK, let’s get this straight. The song is originally from a cartoon; the cartoon is also featured at the end of the Streisand movie. I think the cartoon is also entitled “What’s Up Doc”, to further confuse matters. But it’s the one where Bugs tells his life story…how he started in the chorus (Oh, we are the boys in the chorus/we hope you like our show/we know you’re rootin’ for us/but now we have to goooo), and proceeds to his vaudeville act with Elmer Fudd (hey, pinhead–what’s high in the middle, and round on both ends? Ohio! O-Hi-O! Geddit??) Elmer and Bugs then sing the song. ---
**Author:** ![Gilligan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Gilligan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gilligan)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2000, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-mel-blanc-quotes/28937/119 "2000-08-15T23:23:08Z")
Along with Bugs’ “What an ignoramus! What a maroon!”, didn’t he once say “What a ta-ra-ra-goon-de-ay!”? I think Sir Ossis of Liver was one of the knights from the King Arthur cartoon. “Say your prayers, varmint!” “I smell the blood of an English wabbit.” "You’re not a chicken! You’re a loud mouthed schnook! “Le mew, le mew, le meow, le purr.” “Oh, Father! The shame of it all!” “Well whaddaya know? Wan outta piddies!” “Arriba! Arriba! Andale! Andale!” ---
**Author:** ![BobSchroeck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/13edae/32.png) [@BobSchroeck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobSchroeck)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2000, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-mel-blanc-quotes/28937/120 "2000-08-16T00:56:41Z")
Inga binga bunga, bunga binga binga bunnnnnnnnngah. – Bob [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-mel-blanc-quotes/28937.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-mel-blanc-quotes/28937.md?page=7)