# 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:** 8
**Author:** ![virtee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/dbc845/32.png) [@virtee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/virtee)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2001, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-mel-blanc-quotes/28937/141 "2001-06-16T05:03:27Z")
“There’s somethin’ kinda “Ughhh” ‘bout a boy that don’ play baseball.” - **Foghorn Leghorn** “It ain’t Wendell Wilkie!” - **the Gremlin** (taunting Bugs Bunny) _aside…it took me until college American History to get that joke!_ “Monsters lead such _interesting_ lives…” - **Bugs Bunny** (while manicuring the big, orange, hairy monster) ---
**Author:** ![virtee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/dbc845/32.png) [@virtee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/virtee)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2001, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-mel-blanc-quotes/28937/142 "2001-06-16T05:09:09Z")
Oh, yeah… “If I didn’t know this was hasenpfeffer, I’d swear it was carrots!” ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2001, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-mel-blanc-quotes/28937/143 "2001-06-16T20:18:25Z")
The rabbit kicked the bucket We’re gonna have roast rabbit(same tune) Cat Heaven? I dont know where it is. Ya gotta help me!(the cat with those two mice) Shad up shuttin up ---
**Author:** ![A\_Friend\_of\_the\_Devil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f0a364/32.png) [@A\_Friend\_of\_the\_Devil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A_Friend_of_the_Devil)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2001, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-mel-blanc-quotes/28937/144 "2001-06-17T04:28:38Z")
Ahhh, Warner classics from the Golden Age! I grew up with these. In fact, perhaps in some small way they may be responsible for the warped, oddball outlook I have today… One fave (of many), from _ **Satan’s Waitin’** _: _Dramatis Personae_: The Devil, large, red, horned bulldog; Sylvester, an recently deceased tomcat who has been sent to Hell. The Devil: And what’s YOUR name, pussycat? Sylvester: Sy - Sy - Sy - Sylvester The Devil: Haw, Haw, Haw! Sylvester! Well, let’s see here…Hmmm…(thumbs through a large book)…Sam…Silo…Ahhh! Here we are! Sylvester! (reads)…My, you’ve been a _BAAAD_ pussycat. Haw, Haw, Haw! It’s too bad pussycats have nine lives. You’ll just have to wait here for the other ones. Take a seat over there and I’ll go hurry them along! (The Devil vanishes in a cloud of smoke) ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2001, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-mel-blanc-quotes/28937/145 "2001-07-26T23:30:05Z")
Tweety (in _Tale of Two Kitties,_ on the phone): “Hewwo, Aewial Command? [or something like that]…There’s an unidentified object fwying awound my wittle head!” Foghorn Leghorn: “That boy, I say, that boy is as sharp as a bowling ball. Ball, that is.” The scientist with the redheaded monster: “Bring him [Bugs] to me and I will reward you with a spider goulash!” Bugs (to Napoleon): “Hey, Nappy, that game has Scrabble beat a mile! You oughta patent it!” The flying fish in the 30s Porky Pig cartoon _Sour Puss,_ who, speaking with a bizarre lunatic vibrato voice, baits and heckles Porky and his cat: Any of his lines! 😃 The shark at the end (Ibid.), imitating comedian Lew Lehr: “Pussycats is da cwaziest peepulz!” Bugs and Daffy _(Rabbit Seasoning,_ I think): BUGS: “You’ve got me dead to rights, Doc. Do you want to shoot me now or wait 'till you get me home?” DAFFY: “Shoot him now! Shoot him now!” BUGS: “You keep out of this! He doesn’t have to shoot you now!” DAFFY: “Well, I say he _does_ have to shoot me now! I _demand_ that you shoot me now!” _Elmer obliges and shoots Daffy now!_ ---
**Author:** ![Hometownboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5e9695/32.png) [@Hometownboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hometownboy)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2001, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-mel-blanc-quotes/28937/146 "2001-07-27T03:38:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by AudreyK \* > [B > “Eats rats, cats, bats, gnats \ rhino-ce-ceroses…” > \*\* Love that one! it’s part of a long list that Bugs reads from a book about what Tasmanian Devils eat “shoats, goats, stoats…” I haven’t checked the release dates but it may well parallel a bit from Jimmy Stewart’s classic “Harvey” in which Jessie White (later the original lonely Maytag repairman) is reading aloud from a book about Pookas which contains a similar long list and concludes “and how are you, Mr [name of Jessie White’s charcter]?” In one of the Sylvester-after-Tweety cartoons, Sylvester disguises himself as a fast-talking vacuum cleaner salesman from “The Little Giant Vacuum Cleaner Company of Walla Walla, Washington” delivering a fast stream of patter as he hurriedly vacuums around the living room, including sucking up Tweety before a quick departure. It’s a great bit. And one of the stories from Mel Blanc’s autobiography is that the first voice he was asked to do is that of a pencil. Q:“How did the voice of the pencil sound?” A:“Thin and squeaky.” [cue cartoon ending theme] And, of course “eep…urp…MmmmmmMouse…Giant…Mmm Mouse” Ah, the memories ---
**Author:** ![OxyMoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e9a140/32.png) [@OxyMoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OxyMoron)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2001, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-mel-blanc-quotes/28937/147 "2001-07-27T04:38:39Z")
Another classic that is _mostly_ unspoken is Chuck Jones’s masterpiece “Feed the Kitty,” in which bulldog Marc Anthony becomes the doting adoptor of a stray kitten (later called Pussyfoot). The look on Marc’s face when he thinks Pussyfoot’s been made into cookies is priceless. Now, as for dialogue: From _Bunny Hugged_, in which Bugs (“The Masked Terror”) takes on Heavyweight Wrestling Champ “The Crusher.” As it opens, he’s conveyed to the ring on a silver platter as Mascot to golden-haired prettyboy **"Ravishing Ronald, the Deeeee-natured Boy!"** After Crusher disposes of RR in seconds, Bugs jumps in. Pinned betweened Crusher’s legs, Bugs realizes: **The time has come…uhhhggh…to employ a little…ermph…_stragedy_!** _Stragedy_, of course, requires needles applied to rear ends and bank vaults appearing out of nowhere. From one of the medieval-themed ones: **Sir Oasis of the Liver!!!** From the one with the dueling French chefs: **The Rabbeeet, she is mine!** Bugs and Daffy end up in a race to win a TV contest. As Daffy falls off a bridge, Bugs asks: \*\*“I wonder if Daffy’ll remember that he can fly…” SPLAT! “Guess not!”\*\* I heartily recommend two incredibly encycolpedic websites for All Things Looney Tunes: [http://www.nonstick.com/](http://www.nonstick.com/) And: [The Warner Brothers Cartoon Companion](http://www.spumco.com/magazine/eowbcc/index.html) > **[Spumco.com is available at DomainMarket.com](https://www.domainmarket.com/buynow/spumco.com)** > > Domain for Sale. Spumco.com. Request Price. What Are the > Advantages of a Super Premium .Com Domain? Increased Traffic. Search Engine Ranking. Brand Recognition. > Immediate Presence. Higher Profits. Great Investment. #1 in Premium Domains. 300,000 of... ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2001, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-mel-blanc-quotes/28937/148 "2001-07-27T04:50:23Z")
The endless parade of flasks labeled: **Hare Tonic** **Hare Restorer** **Hare Remover** Some emblazoned with the claim, “Stops falling hare.” One of my all time favorites was a bottle labeled: **SLEEPING TABLETS** _Take deze and doze_ [sub]One of the slyest little bits of innuendo to ever grace the cartoon screen.[/sub] Which is the bottle Bugs samples from in order to invade the dreams of Elmer Fudd (after he has shredded his WB contract), in “Nightmare Hare”. Storyboarding that short was a busman’s holiday for the animators. The flamboyant backdrops and lunatic pacing of the dream scene is nothing short of outrageous. ---
**Author:** ![11811](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/9d8465/32.png) [@11811](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/11811)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2001, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-mel-blanc-quotes/28937/149 "2001-07-27T10:48:13Z")
Boy’s so dumb he thinks the Mexican Border pays rent ---
**Author:** ![GSV\_Consolation\_of\_Dreams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f1d935/32.png) [@GSV\_Consolation\_of\_Dreams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GSV_Consolation_of_Dreams)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2001, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-mel-blanc-quotes/28937/150 "2001-07-27T13:53:59Z")
I love this bit so much some of it’s burned into my brain: Wile E Coyote runs down hill to Bug’s hole. Produces fold-up door, deploys it and knocks. Bugs rises from his burrow on an elevator and opens the door. Opens his mouth but is interrupted by W.E.C… **WEC:** (In a very cultured voice)Allow me to introduce myself, my name is Wile. E. Coyote…Genius (flourishes business card) I am not selling anything nor am I working my way through college. _I’m missing a line or 2 here, feel free to plug the gap_ You are a rabbit and I am going to eat you for supper…Now don’t try to get away, I am much larger, stronger and faster than you are and, I’m a genius. You may now have the customary two minutes to say your Prayers. **BB replies:** I’m sorry mac the lady of the house ain’t home and besides, we mailed you people a check last week. Slams door in WEC’s face and descends into hole. **WEC:** Why do they always want to do it the hard way? Runs back to his lair and commences to totally fail to catch bugs in amusingly painful ways. ---
**Author:** ![OxyMoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e9a140/32.png) [@OxyMoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OxyMoron)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2001, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-mel-blanc-quotes/28937/151 "2001-07-27T14:28:04Z")
Oh, another Foghorn: “Nice girl, but about as sharp as a sack of wet mice.” ---
**Author:** ![pldennison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc29f/32.png) [@pldennison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pldennison)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2001, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-mel-blanc-quotes/28937/152 "2001-07-27T15:21:38Z")
“Please, don’t send me to Sing-Sing . . . sing . . . sing . . .” “Awfully sporting of the little black duck, isn’t it?” “Oh, you can’t bounce a meatball, try with all your might, turn up the radio, I want to fly a kite!” “This looks like a job for . . . Stuuuuuuuuuuuupor-Duck!” I also always liked the Tasmanian Devil’s, “What for did you bury me in the cold, cold ground?” Not to mention Foghorn Leghorn’s, “I don’t want to look–I just **might** be in there!” ---
**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:** [July 27, 2001, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-mel-blanc-quotes/28937/153 "2001-07-27T15:52:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by CalMeacham \* > \*\*“What’s all the hubbub, Bub?” is another of those lines stolen from the radio. > > This is actually a serious issue. As reported in “Cartoon Confidential” (a wonderful little book) a lot of the Warner Bothers cartoon lines were direct seals from the radio. The catchphrases we pick up from Bugs Bunny are really second-hand survivors from the days of radio: > > “Mmmmm…Could be” > “What’s all the Hubbub, Bub?” > “Walll, now, I WOULDN’T say THAT!” > > and so on. But the originators didn’t think it was that funny. The guy who played Senator Claghorn virtually had his act stolen by Foghorn Leghorn. The lady who originally came up with the “Boop-oop-a-Doop” felt that Betty Boop purloined her act (not a WB cartoon, I know, but the point is the same) and took Fleischer Studios to court over it. I think she had a point – the greater exposure of the cartoons made HER, the originator, look like a cheap imitation. \*\* For some reason, I didn’t notice this before. That woman (who was she, anyway?) who took Fleisher Studios to court lost her suit because she couldn’t prove that the studios stole her act. I recall reading somewhere, possibly at the King Features website, that several women were doing the “Boop-oop-a-Doop” thing around the same time. ---
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2001, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-mel-blanc-quotes/28937/154 "2001-07-27T17:36:28Z")
[sub]LEOPOLD![/SUB] ---
**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:** [July 27, 2001, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-mel-blanc-quotes/28937/155 "2001-07-27T18:12:41Z")
Hate to be a wet blanket this late in the game, but shouldn’t these be more properly called “Chuck Jones/Michael Maltese lines”? They’re the guys who wrote them, after all. ---
**Author:** ![jab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee7513/32.png) [@jab1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jab1)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2001, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-mel-blanc-quotes/28937/156 "2001-07-27T18:55:04Z")
And they weren’t the only writers, either. [This page](http://www.spumco.com/magazine/eowbcc/eowbcc-w.html) gives the names of most of the writers that worked on WB cartoons. (You have to scroll down nearly to the bottom.) > [@](#): > > Warren Foster, Mike Maltese, and Tedd Pierce were probably the three most important writers at the Warner studio from 1937, when on-screen credits for stories started to be awarded, through 1964, when the studio closed. Cartoon directors preferred some writers over the rest: [quote] [ul][li]Don Christensen with Norm McCabe[/li][li]Lou Lilly, Ernest Gee and Mike Sasanoff with Bob Clampett[/li][li]Bill Scott and Lloyd Turner with Arthur Davis[/li][li]Sid Marcus with Bob McKimson[/li][li]Robert Givens with Chuck Jones[/ul][/li][/quote] And there were others. This is an excellent directory; I thank **OxyMoron** for posting the link on page three. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2001, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-mel-blanc-quotes/28937/157 "2001-07-27T19:19:09Z")
Bugs and Daffy hosted “Carnival Of The Animals”. Daffy (with spit) “Saint Sains!” Bugs: “Sa Soh.” Daffy “Sait Sains!” Bugs “The man’s name is ‘Sa Soh’.” ---
**Author:** ![Heath\_Doolin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Heath\_Doolin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heath_Doolin)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2001, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-mel-blanc-quotes/28937/158 "2001-07-27T23:38:42Z")
Ok some that I have not seen: Foghorn Leghorn: That kid is about as suttle as a hand grenade in a bowl of oatmeal Duck Dodgers and Eager Young Space Cadet (Daffy and Porky): Porky:“I have a suggestion sir. If we follow all the lettered planets in order, we are sure to reach planet X.” Daffy:“HO HO AND HA HA. Of all the stupid ideas. Hahaha! That’s rich. Hahaha. Wait I have a idea! If we follow these lettered planets, we are sure to reach Planet X! GADS!” (Daffy get the PERFECT look on his face) “How do I DO it?” Porky: “Oh I dunno.” and also: Ducks ships begins the takeoff, then floors it into the ground. “Whoops! Had the silly thing in reverse!” Daffy Duck as “Duck Twacy”: “Scram Sherlock, I’m working this side of the street” Daffy Duck/Bugs Bunny leaping into a hole after being chased by Elmer: Bugs:“Is he up there?” Daffy: “Dunno” Bugs: “Tell you what, you jump up and take a look see” Daffy: “Righto” (Daffy chins up out of the hole) BLAM!!! (Daffy falls back down) Bugs: “Is he gone?” (Daffy turns and dazedly looks at Bugs with a crumpled beak and bullet holes) Daffy: “STILL LURKING ABOUT!” Bugs: “Ok, how about you jump up there and lead him away while I run the other way?” Daffy: (twiddling his hands in a daze) “NO MORE FOR ME THANKS! I’M DRIVIN!” (Daffy collapses to the floor) Absolute genius. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2001, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-mel-blanc-quotes/28937/159 "2001-07-28T00:18:48Z")
Daffy: No, no, no! Don’t push the RED button! Don’t EVER push the RED button! (Daffy to, I think, Elmer, after having gadgetized his house out the wazoo.) Bugs: Look! Out in the audience! Monster: People!! Butler to Indian chief boss: Your ARROW, sir!! (plucks arrow from tuckus) Daffy: Down, down, DOWN!! Go, Go, GO!! Mine, mine, MINE!! (Daffy, to Genie he is stomping back into a lamp) Bugs: I’m looking over, a three-leaf clover, that I overlooked be-three Bugs to Yosemite: The Yankees! The Yankees, sir. They’re in . . . Chattanooga. Obnoxious girl to wolf disguised as grandma: Hey, grandma! I brought you this bunny! To HAVE!!! [/quote] How I miss watching those cartoons. On a side note, I was once at a party where the host had (I think) the Rose Bowl game on with the sound OFF, playing music from the Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies. It synched amazingly well. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2001, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-mel-blanc-quotes/28937/160 "2001-07-28T00:31:48Z")
Let’s see . . . I have no remembrance of cartoon short names, so I’ll just go with circumstances and lines. Yosemite Sam is chasing Granny around - Granny: “I haven’t had this much fun since the boys came back from Gettysburg.” In the Daffy Duck/Robin Hood cartoon - Daffy: “Actually, it’s a buck and a quarter quarterstaff, but I’m not telling him.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-mel-blanc-quotes/28937.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-mel-blanc-quotes/28937.md?page=9)