Who's A Hundred, Doc?

[filkertom]

shsilver and ericcoleman remind us that today is the 100th birthday of the god Mel Blanc.

What are some of your favorite Mel lines? Try to keep it to five or ten, so everyone can play. And don't forget that Arthur Q. Bynan did most of the Elmer Fudd of the 40s and 50s. I'm partial to:

• "... No, I'd better not look. I just might be in there."
• "Buh-bi-buh-bih-buh-Happy Buh-bih-buh-Birthday, you Thing From Another World, you."
• "What an ultramaroon! What a nin-COW-poop!"
• "... The Iludium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator! THAT CREATURE HAS STOLEN THE SPACE MODULATORRR! Delays, delays."
• "... and if an innnteresting monster can't have an innnteresting hairdo, then I just don't know what the world is coming to."

Yours?

Comments

[drzarron.livejournal.com]

Train leaving on track twelve for ANAHEIM, AZUSA, AND CUCAMONGA...

Doesn't ANYONE wanna got to ANAHEIM, AZUSA, AND CUCAMONGA??

[fredhuggins.livejournal.com]

It's pronounced "CU...CAMONGA."

[ericcoleman]

As I said elsewhere, it's either Jack Benny's car, or Sy ...

Oh, and folks can vote for their favorite, Daffy or Bugs in my LJ as well ... yeah I know, shameless plug, I'm a baaaaaaaad boy.

Oh, the Porky Pig line for the WB gag reel is a favorite as well, if you don't know what I'm talking about ... well, I feel bad

No, NO

[capplor.livejournal.com]

Not the WED button!

Oh, yea, and

[capplor.livejournal.com]

"Shoot me now!"

[unclelumpy.livejournal.com]

Ho! Ha-ha! Guard! Turn! Parry! Dodge! Spin! Ha! Thrust!

[dan-ad-nauseam.livejournal.com]

You're dithpicable.

[jcw-da-dmg.livejournal.com]

Yoiks! And . . . a . . . way . . .

[jcw-da-dmg.livejournal.com]

. . . and on this farm he had an igloo . . . E . . . I . . . E . . . I . . . Oooo . . .

[jcw-da-dmg.livejournal.com]

I love me
I love me
I'm WILD about myself!

[huskiebear.livejournal.com]

"He's Jack"

[veritropism.livejournal.com]

"That kid's about as sharp as a pound of wet liver!" (substitute the other "sharp as" lines as you see fit.)

"I know dis defies the law of gravity, but I never studied law!"

[robgonzo.livejournal.com]

"Why for you bury me in the cold cold ground?"

[sdelmonte]

"AHA! Pronoun trouble!"

[judifilksign.livejournal.com]

And: "Antecedent trouble."

[lukeski.livejournal.com]

HO! HA HA! GUARD! TURN! PERRY! DODGE! SPIN! HA! THRUST! *thwack!*

[vixyish.livejournal.com]

o/~ La da da dee dee da da dee da da da dee da abracadaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaabraaaaaaaaaaaaa... o/~

[judifilksign.livejournal.com]

"La da da dee dee da da dee da da da dee abra ca poh-cus..."

[ladystarblade.livejournal.com]

"Where's the kaboom? There was supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom!"

"Musketeers? Unguarded, eh? My blade? Hey, psst. Whoever's in charge here, the scenery, where's the scenery?"

"Run for the hills folks, or you'll be up to your armpits in Martians!"

[devospice.livejournal.com]

They're making a video game out of that! It's coming out for the DS and you get to play the artist taunting Daffy Duck by messing with him and the background and stuff! I better idea for a video game I have never heard.

[stevemb.livejournal.com]

"Being disintegrated makes me very angry! Very angry, indeed!"

Best. Dialogue. EVER.

[fredhuggins.livejournal.com]

"But mostly, I'm all labrador retreiver!"
"Oh, y-y-you are NOT a labrador retreiver!"
"I'm not?"
"N-n-no, I..."
"Look, if ya doubt my woid, get me a labrador and I'll retreive it for ya."
"A l-l-labrador? Wh-why sure, I uh...I uh..."
"Do ya got a labrador?"
"N-n-no."
"Know where ya can get a labrador?"
"N-n-no."
"DEN SHADDAP."

It paralyzed me with laughter as a kid, and still does today.

Re: Best. Dialogue. EVER.

[fredhuggins.livejournal.com]

From that same cartoon, I LOVE Porky's stuttering version of Old MacDonald ("With a muh- and a muh- and a muh-mih-moo moo here...") followed by Charlie Dog saying, "Well, you couldn't ask for a better pigeon than that!"

Other favorites:
"Brother. What a way to run a railroad."

"One for the money, two for the show, three to get ready and...GERONIMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

"This calls for a little stragety!"

"Oh the heavenly blisses/Of his kisses/Fill me with ecsta...it's just a rough idea you understand."

"That's funny. That NEVER happens to Errol Flynn."

And of course, my OTHER favorite all-time exchange:
"Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Wile E. Coyote, Genius. I am not selling anything, nor am I working my way through college, so let's get down to cases. You are a rabbit, and I am going to eat you for supper. Now, don't try to get away - I am more muscular, more cunning, faster and larger than you are, AND I'm a genius! While you could hardly pass the entrance examinations to kindergarten. So, I'll give you the customary two minutes to say your prayers." (Pause) "I'm sorry, mac, the lady of the house ain't home, and besides, we mailed you people a check last week!" (SLAM)

I couldn't even fathom a childhood (or an adulthood, really) without the Looney Tunes. I feel sorry for the youth of today.

[shikyrie.livejournal.com]

Being a MTM fan, I'd have to go with-"... The Iludium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator! THAT CREATURE HAS STOLEN THE SPACE MODULATORRR! Delays, delays." as well.

[devospice.livejournal.com]

I'll second the "Ho, ha ha, guard" sequence and add:

"Grab a fence post, hold it tight/ Whomp your partner with all your might/ Hit him in the shin, hit him in the head/ Hit him again the critter ain't dead/ Whomp him low and whomp him high/ Stick your finger in his eye/ Pretty little ringing, pretty little sound/ Bang your heads against the ground"

"It's mine you understand! Mine! All mine! Get back in there! Down down down! Go go go!" and from that same one "I'm rich. I'm a wealthy miser."

"... and one baby zebra."

[bald-ruminant.livejournal.com]

"Si."

[bentleywg.livejournal.com]

Si (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIa7GYstYOQ).

Also, pretty much any time he was on the Jack Benny Show.

[tomreedtoon.livejournal.com]

YES! And I recall one show, where Mel played his Mexican named "Sigh," when he came out at the very end. Benny asked, "And what's your name?"

He replied, in his normal voice, "Mel Blanc."

He got a healthy round of applause. And looked very happy.

Understand, most people in animation never get to hear applause. It's gratifying on those few occasions when they do get it.

[gamergeek007.livejournal.com]

Bugs Bunny (imitating Teddy Roosevelt): "I speak softly but carry a big stick"
Yosemite Sam: "I speak loudly and carry a bigger stick and I use it, too" (hits Bugs with it)

And as the voice of Bob and Doug McKenzie's father in Strange Brew.

[mrgoodwraith.livejournal.com]

Among those not already mentioned:

Bugs: "I am Elmer J. Fudd, millionaire. I own a mansion and a yacht."

Wile E.: "I am Wile E. Coyote, Super-Genius!"

Tweety: "Ooh, you'we a gwutton, Mr. Edephant!"

Percy: "You know, we're going to have a terrible time getting all of this food back into the packages!"

And of course the classic exchange:

Bugs: Would you like to shoot me now or wait 'til you get home?
Daffy: Shoot him now! Shoot him now!
Bugs: You keep outta this! He doesn't have to shoot you now!
Daffy: He does SO have to shoot me now! [to Elmer] I demand that you shoot me now! [BLAM!]

Sadly, as I discovered when I did a songwriting workshop at Anthrocon last year and tried to lead the attendees in putting together a song about the aforementioned coyote, the current generation of young people -- not having had Looney Tunes on Saturday morning TV -- fails to get *any* of these references. It's very sad. I think AC should have a regular Looney Tunes marathon.

[unclelumpy.livejournal.com]

Actually, the Goofy Gophers were named "Mac" and "Tosh".

[markbernstein.livejournal.com]

"Actually, it's a buck-and-a-quarter quarterstaff, but I'm not tellin' him that."

"I'm looking over a three leaf clover that I overlooked be-three"

"Shoot me again! I enjoy it! I love the smell of burnt feathers, and gunpowder, and cordite! I'm an elk! Shoot me, go on! It's elk season! I'm a fiddler crab! Why don't you shoot me? It's fiddler crab season!"

"Hasan chop!"

But the "innnnteresting hairdo" quote may be my all time favorite.

[bayushisan.livejournal.com]

"I might be a coward, but I'm a ggrreeeedddyyy little coward."

:)

Daffy and Taz were always my favorites

[mrgoodwraith.livejournal.com]

Ah, Taz! "Wild Torkey Soo-prize!" [BOOM!}

[rabidfangurl.livejournal.com]

"Kill da wabbit, kill da wabbit..." etc.

"Figaro figaro figaro figaro figaro"

I like the opera rip-offs, can you tell?

Also, "I tought I saw I puddy cat. I did, I did see a puddy cat!"

[jcw-da-dmg.livejournal.com]

I think I may be the only person I know who heard all that opera music BEFORE I saw those cartoons!

[partiallyclips.livejournal.com]

The sheer cross-lingual elegance of Pepe Le Pew singing, "Casey would dance with ze blonde strawberry" busts me up every time.