“I now pronounce you devil and devilish!”
“Eats rats, cats, bats, gnats <snip> rhino-ce-ceroses…”
I know Bugs had a couple of good ones when he was adopted by the female gorilla, but I can’t recall any right now…
In A Tale of Two Kitties, one of the first, if not the first cartoon featuring Tweety Bird, there is a pair of cats modeled after Abbot & Costello, trying to catch Tweety. In one scene, the following axchange takes place:[ul]The Costello cat is up on a tall, quivery, spindly ladder, trying to get Tweety out of his neat. The Abbot cat stands below, steadying the ladder and berating his fat chum for his lack of enthusiasm:
**AC: “Well? Have you got him? Give him to me! GIVE ME THE BIRD!”
CC: **Looks directly at audience.
"Oooh, if it wasn’t for the Hayes Commission, I’d give 'im the boid! (Whistles).[/ul]
It’s nice to see that some phrases survive the test of time.
~~Baloo
It’s actually:
Unga bunga bunga, inga binga binga bunnnnnngah.
Followed, of course, by general displeasure on the part of the listener, and then:
What I say? What I say?
– Bob
From Foghorn
“That boy makes about as much sense as a barrel o’ half-witted monkeys!”
“…makin’ more noise than a coupla skeletons throwin’ a fit on a tin roof!”
“colder than a nudist on an iceberg!”
From Bugs
(childishly)“Ooh, I know lotsa things! I know that 2 and 2 equals 4, and that Carson City is the capital of Nevada!”
“I’m bringing home a baby bumble bee.
Won’t my momma be so proud of me…”
– Keelah (Killer), the vulture
“I’m a chickenhawk, and you’re a chicken.”
Well, since we have the “boid”…
From Book Revue, Daffy as Danny Kaye:
In my willage we had La Cucaracha. La Cucaracha - so round, so firm, so fully packed.
The first part refers to a song about a roach. The second, to the slogan for Lucky Strike cigarettes. I wonder what kind of cigarette a roach is. Seems like Cecil mentioned this once, hmm…
Sylvester’s son (What was his name anyway?) after the “mouse” has kicked the crap out of him repeatedly: :Oh father! The shame!" (Puts bag on head.)
The king who (formerly) employed Yosemite Sam as his chef: “If I didn’t know this was hasenpfeffer, I’d swear it was carrots.”
Spike and Chester aren’t mentioned yet. Chester, spastically prancing around: “Hey Spike! Whattaya wanna do? Huh Spike? Ya wanna chase cars? Huh? Wanna chase cars, Spike? Do ya? Huh?” WHAP! “Shaddap.” “No, you wouldn’t wanna do that, Spike. Of course not. <To camera> Spike’s my Hero!”
Some of my most memorable Daffy quotes:
“Slight pause whilst I adjust my accoutrements.” (Daffy’s chaps come off when he draws his guns)
“He’s Jack.” (whispers pointing at Bugs next to him in the clutches of the giant)
“Mother?!” (peeped in a moment of realization before being clobbered by the son aka The Shropshire Slasher)
“Thanks for the sour persimmons cousin.”
To all contributors to this thread:
Having a place to go that continually brings tears to my eyes from laughing so hard really warms my soul. So many of you are making additions to this fabulous compendium of Warner Brothers favorites that I can only be honored. The chance to crawl underneath the mantle of such a genius as Mel, and get a brief whiff (and what a whiff!) of glory, is reason alone for living. As a lifetime imitator of every Loony Toons and Merry Melody character that I am able to impersonate, this is the most fun that I’ve been able to have without taking my clothes off. Thanks to all of you and keep up the good work. Meanwhile:
Yosemite Sam whacking the dragon that he is riding horseback with his sword and yelling, “Yah Mule, Yah Mule!”
Pe Pe Le Pew saying, “Ah, she is so shy. She wishes to play the seek and go hide”. Or, “We shall play 'Romiette and Julio”.
The “Goofy Gophers” with such impeccable grammer and manners.
The earliest Tweety cartoons where he is not so very lovable AT ALL. Sylvester and the red tomcat competing for the catch. Tweety violently rebuffs their every effort, all with a tres wicked grin.
The original Wiley Coyote cartoons with Bugs before the Roadrunner. The Roadrunner, I believe, was a budgetary decision by the studios. No big speaking parts to pay any royalties for. Only a brief “Beep Beep” from Mel. (Please refer to the Simpsons episode where Homer is selected to do the new character’s voice for “Itchy and Scratchy” and meets the woman who does the voice of Itchy, who supposedly also did the voice of the Roadrunner. Homer says, "You’re the one who said, “Beep Beep?!!”. She replies, “Nah, just ‘Beep’. They repeated it in the cartoons”). Such is the ultimate impression received from the Roadrunner series. The first ones were far more inventive, the latter ones entirely predictable.
Let’s take a (brief) moment to recognize other incredible cartoons like the MGM classics “Bats in the Belfry” and “Hoppity Goes To Town”. But back to policeman Porky answering a call at the haunted house where the ghost keeps singing, “Jeepers… creepers… Where’d you get those peepers?”. And the magnum opus where a young Porky trades his collection plate nickle for a cheap stogie from the neighborhood bully. “Little boys shouldn’t smoke…” is the constant refrain as the cartoonists go on a busman’s holiday with the animation. Including impersonations of Al Jolson, Der Bingle and many other contemporaries. Let us not forget Porky as the Pied Piper of Hamlein (“I just blew some corn through my little horn.”), where a prototypical Sylvester, playing the saboteur “King of the Cats”, keeps insulting Porky with such wonderful epithets as, “Ah, your sister smokes corn silk.” At which point Porky finally addresses the camera and asks the audience, “How does he know so much about my sister?”
Keep those cards and letters coming folks.
PS: I do not recall that Mel was allergic to carrots. He merely hated them and always had to have a bucket to spit his mouthful into after doing Bugs.
Weren’t the two gophers named Alphonse and Gaston, maybe after two incredibly polite movie? book? characters? “After you my dear Alphonse.” “No no, after you, my dear Gaston.”
When I get lost I still say “I must’ve took a wrong toin at Albukoikee!”
My favorite Marvin the Martian (he turned 50 last year!) is “Oh drat these computers. They’re so naughty and so complex I could pinch them!”
…And fifty percent Labrador retriever (after 50% of everything from Irish Setter [pipe in mouth and tam o’shanter], doberman pinscher [pinches porky], etc etc). To which Porky replies:
Porky: You are not a Labrador retriever.
Dog: I am too.
Porky: Well prove it.
Dog: Alright, get me a Labrador, and I’ll retrieve it.
Porky: Well, er, um…
Dog: Have you got a Labrador?
Porky: Er, no…
Dog: Do you know where you can get a Labrador?
Porky: Uh, no…
Dog: Have you ever seen a Labrador?
Porky: Well… no.
Dog: Then SHADDAP…!!!
Wasn’t it?
Overture,
curtain, lights.
This is it,
tonight’s the night.
We’ve practised rehearsing
and nursing each part.
We know every
part by heart.
Overture,
curtain, lights.
This is it,
we’ll hit the heights.
And oh what,
heights we’ll hit.
On with the show,
this is it…
There may also have been some different lyrics at the close of the one hour prime time show during the sixties.
Anybody?
“Whoops. What the?” He feels the point with his thumb. “Yipe!” He peeks out from under the hairdryer and sees a knight in armor glaring down at him. Bugs takes a bite of his carrot. “Eh, what’s up, duke?”
“Surrender, varlet. Thou art the prisoner of me lance.”
“I art? And whomsoever art thou, in thy cast iron tuxedo?”
“I, knave, am Sir O of K, Earl of Watercress, Sir Osis of Liver, Knight of the Garter…” He has a garter around his leg. “…and Baron of Worcesterchestershistershire. Shire.”
“My. He’s a big one. Hey, uh, look, pressure cooker. I bet you know a lot of my friends. Ooh!”
Bugs accidentally pricks his finger with the tip of the lance.
“Like, uh, Duke of Ellington, Count of Basie, Earl of Hines, Cab of Calloway, Satchmo of Armstrong.”
“Upstarts and rogues. Never heard of them.”
“Rogues, eh? Upstarts, eh? Look, Sir Rup of Figs, don’t go around insultin’ my friends or I shall get me a can opener and open thee up like a can of solid packed tomahtoes.”
“What? Wouldst tilt with me?”
“Tilt with thee I will, and I won’t wilt. Just lend me a weapon. That’s all. That’s all.”
some small corrections in bold:
Overture,
curtain, lights.
This is it,
The night of nights.
No more rehearsing
and nursing a part.
We know every
part by heart.
Actually, wasn’t the chemical injected into Gibson called “gravy”? So there is a connection of sorts.
In a cartoon featuring a sheik from either Iraq or Iran, the cartoonists manage to slip something else by the censors. Bugs is getting out of the shower and right before he covers up with the towel, there is a quick glimpse of something that confirms he’s a male.
::holds up a candle into the howling winds of darkness all around::
First Mel, now Victor Borge (please ignore the temporal discontinuity), sigh… I guess I’ll never get this shameless thread-bumping thang down pat.
Mad scientist to bugs after the ether jar brakes.
While chasing him very slowly.
“COME… BACK …HERE …YOU… RAB…BIT!!!”
Some leader type guy: That hare must die!
Bugs: Hare? Die?
Bugs: Hair dye! It’s a joke son! You missed it!
Bugs: Don’t go up there. It’s dark!
Bugs: Is there a doctor in the house?
Audience member: I’m a doctor.
Bugs: Aaahh…what’s up doc?
Not a Mel Blanc quote, but a bit of “Rabbit of Seville” trivia. Next time you see it take a look at the playbill outside the theater, just as the cartoon is starting. It list the “actors” who will be in the show. No, I’m NOT going to give any clues!
“Stop steaming up my tail!”(Bully for Bugs)
“I better be careful or I could get to like this!”(An Itch in Time)