Your Favorite Mel Blanc Quotes

“Arise, Sir Loin of Beef. Arise, Earl of Cloves. Arise, Essence of Myrrh, Milk of Magnesia, Quarter of Ten.”

“Odds fish. The very air abounds in kings.”

There are others, from other cartoons. These are the ones, to the best of my recollection, that Bugs bestows on the Sheriff of Nottingham, while he crowns him again and again with an increasingly dented scepter.

Sachmo of Armstrong, Count of Basie and Earl of Hines are used elsewhere, in the cartoon takeoff of “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court.”

I like when Bugs turns Merlin in to a horse, and he keeps unzipping himself, only to continue finding himself a horse. Bugs saunters off, saying, “Well, that gives him a hobby.”

Lordy lou, I love Warner Bros. cartoons!

I was watching Warner Bros. cartoon’s this afternoon and the had a Pepe Le pew cartoon. Pepe and his love are flying through the air on snow skis and Pepe makes machine gun noises:

“I pierce you with the ‘ack-ack’ of love, powderpuff”

My ultimate favorite is not a line, but a laugh. I just love the Witch Hazel laugh and have tried futilely to duplicate it.

Bugs and the Gremlin…I saw this one just the other day with my kids.
::Gremlin hits bugs on head with monkey wrench::
bugs: I’m only tree and a half years old…
Gremlin: I like him,he’s silly!

makes me laugh just THINKING about it!

Jack Batty, et al…

There is one more title bestowed by Bugs that hasn’t been mentioned yet…

“Sir Rupp of Figs,” (syrup of figs being a common laxative in our grandparent’s time.)

Incidentally, if you don’t already have them, pick up the two CDs of the “Carl Stalling Project,” which has great tracks from many of the classics mentioned in this thread (no vocals, though). Stalling’s arrangements for cartoons were nothing short of genius (as hearing them sans visuals reveals). If the musical description of Bugs being chased up and down a set of basement stairs (and turning the light on and off) doesn’t bring a great smile to your face, then you’re pretty far gone, brother.

It was Ralph Phillips, the daydreaming boy. I loved that bit, and as far as I know there were only two done: “From A to Z-z-z-z” and “Boyhood Daze”. My fave line from either of those (Boyhood Daze, I believe):[ul]"Father, you’re too young to play in Africa. Go to your room![/ul]In addition, there’s one non-WB cartoon that always cracks me up. It’s about the first badman (directed by Tex Avery) and it’s narrated by Tex Ritter (John Ritter’s dad, a famous person in his own right). The final line is spoken by the subject, from within the first jail ever built in Texas (back in the days of the cave-men and dinosaurs):[ul]“When y’all gonna let me outta here?”[/ul]It always brings tears of laughter to my eyes, I tell ya!

~~Baloo

I almost forgot “Drip Along Daffy”.

“I would like…(aside) I would like? I would like a trip to Europe. I would like to introduce myself!”

“Put down that comic relief! Give me the parade! Give me…give me…give me one dozen roses.”

And you’re right about the music. Pure genius that rarely fails to capture the essence of the action and raise it to a new level of hilarity.

Don’t recall the whole song, but here’s the ending (its the cartoon that’s playing on the plane at the end of "What’s Up Doc? starring Barbara Streisand and Ryan O’Neil (a damn funny movie)).

Watch out, son
You’re gonna hurt someone
With that ol’ shotgun
What’s…
Up…(we really mean it)
Dooooooccccccc!

Boy, I’ve taken a Email beating on this. I could have sworn it was a lion. Anyway, the first thing I ought to do is apologize to Piano for claiming to be more of cartoon connoisseur than he/she. Apparently, I am full of crap. That’s ok, memory fades with old age.

Now, does anybody remember, or have access to, the complete lyrics of the Square-Dance call bugs whips off to the two hillbillies?

In addition to the wonderful “Carl Stalling Project” CDs, you should get “Reckless Nights and Turkish Twilights - The Music of Raymond Scott”. These are the compositions that Carl Stalling used to create many of the famous Warner Bros themes.

Besides, who can resist “Dinner Music for a Pack of Hungry Cannibals”.

Older cartoon, Porky is hunter, Daffy is prey, Porky drains an entire lake with a bucket to find Daffy, who is flopping about like a dying fish.

PORKY: N… now cut that out, d…d…duck.
DAFFY: Ya mean you don’t believe I’m a fish?
PORKY: N… no.
DAFFY: Cynic!

Something about a duck calling a Pig a cynic just kills me.

Also;
“My name is Elmer J Fudd, millionaire, I own a mansion and a yacht.”
Always a great way to introduce one’s self.

And finally…
That girl reminds me of the highway between Dallas and Fort Worth… No curves!"

  • Foghorn Leghorn.

Telemark is absolutely right about the Raymond Scott CD: I have it at work and bug the hell out of everyone by playing “Powerhouse.” About 95% of my co-workers recognise the tune, but can’t place it!

It’s pretty amazing stuff, and hard to believe that it was recorded in the late 1930s…talk about a guy who was 20 years ahead of his time. Dopers who invest in the disc (Columbia CK 53028) will doubtless recognise a lot of the Ren and Stimpy soundtrack as well.

I always thought Witch Hazel was supposed to be modeled after Josephine Hull in Arsenic and Old Lace.

Jack: All I can remember off the top of my head is the line “Trout, trout, prettly little trout, jump right in an splash about.” There was a similar ‘toon about BB and two chefs, each trying to outdo the other with a recipe for rabbit. "Rabbit ala’ Antoinne" was the big winner, IIRC.

I found a recap of Hillbilly Hare. It doesn’t give the full text, and some of what it does have is wrong:

http://www.websamba.com/Bugs_Bunny_Cartoons/cartoons/hillbilly.html

I’ll see if I can reconstruct the correct lyrics.
I have both Carl Stalling CDs (I slipped the first one into my company’s phone system so people would hear it when they were on hold) and the Raymond Scott collection, but there’s also one called Bugs Bunny on Broadway. According to the liner notes, someone put together a show with the old cartoons (all music related, The Rabbit of Seville, What’s Opera, Doc etc.) with a live orchestra doing most of the music. Somehow it loses something, the new orchestra just doesn’t have the same pop that the original did. Maybe that’s what happens when you treat something like a museum piece.

Aha! I just tracked this down on an un-official web site.
(not reprinted with any permissions so I hope I don’t get sued.)

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?

allemande - a dance step with the arms intertwined.

Good job on finding the words, Jack.

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.
“Allemande” is the correct spelling of the square-dance term. It literally means “German woman” in French. (See More of the Straight Dope for details on various languages’ words for German and Germany.)
I haven’t seen the cartoon “Lights Fantastic” since about 1962. It features a bunch of humorous billboards and neon signs, and may never have been colorized. I don’t know whether WB ever made it available on video.

Damn. You took my fave before I could post it.

So my second best…Scotsman suggests a “game” with Bugs, so he immediately (fwwzzZAP) produces a card table and starts dealing…

“Siddown, Pigeon” (love that one)
“Nah, nah, we dinna play that game”
“We dinna?..Is there another??”
“Aye, Golf”.
“Ok, Mac. But don’t you get tired runnin’ them 18 bases?”

I LOVE this one! “I’m here, I’m here…It’s too good to be true, but I’m here! Three cheers and a tiger for me…”