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[filkertom]

The Warner Bros. cartoon "A Wild Hare", directed by Tex Avery, was released today in 1940. This was the first meeting of Elmer Fudd and Bugs Bunny, and in many ways it was really the first Bugs cartoon.

We could spend all week listing favorite Warner Bros. cartoons, so let's refine it just a bit: What are some of your favorite lines, or exchanges? (We will assume that the entire canon of "Rabbit Season! Duck Season!" is in there, to save space.) I could go on for hours myself; let's try five six seven:

• "Yoiks! And away! [WHOM] ... Yoiks! And away! [WHOM] ... yoiks [WHOM] yoiks [WHOM] yoi[WHOM] yoik[WHOM]...."
• "... No, I'd better not look. I just might be in there."
• "I may be a craven little coward... but I'm a greeeeeeeedy craven little coward!"
• "Dere! You're nice and clean! Although your face... looks... like it... may have... gone through... a... ma... chine."
• "Oh, Bwunhiwda, you'we so wovewy!" "Yes, I know it! I can't help it!" "Oh, Bwunhiwda, be-he my wuuuuv!"
• "'Wile E. Coyote: Super Genius'. I like the way that rolls out. 'Wile E. Coyote: Super Genius'!
• "The Eludium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator! That creature has stolen the Space Modulator! Delays, delays!"

Comments

[ericcoleman]

MINE MINE MINE ALL MINE I'm a happy miser

[glitchphil.livejournal.com]

Golden Age Chuck Jones' animated facial expressions. Particularly perturbed ones.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Roger the hell that. Chuck was the most gifted filmmaker in history, for my money.

[illusionmajik.livejournal.com]

Years ago there was this tribute to loony tunes. I must have been like 8-9 at the time.

They had celebrities like David bowie and Jeff goldblum talking about the characters like they were real people

It was pretty cool

[annathepiper]

*chortle* Oh yes, the Rabbit Season Duck Season exchange is gold, but I also must love me some Pronoun Trouble. :D

And I gotta love me some Yosemite Sam as well:

"Well, I speak LOUD! And I carry a BIGGER STICK! And I use it, too! *WHAM*"

[shikyrie.livejournal.com]

Heh. Fancy meeting you here. :)

[unclelumpy.livejournal.com]

• "Awfully THPORTING of the little black duck."
• "I'm not like other people... Pain HURTH me."
• "Hey, were did my little friend go?" "Huh! Dis you have to SEE to believe."
• "It CAAAAAAAN happen here!"
• "Gimme a whole bunch. I need a whoooole LOTTA lumps."
• "Oh, we're the boys of the chorus, we hope you liked our show, we know you're rooting for us, but now we have to gooooo!"
• "Hey, I better stop this or I might get to like it!"
• "What are you afraid of? This is only a tiny little bird." "Y'mean a small little... Itsy-bitsy... Teensy-weensy defenseless boid?" "Yes." "LEMME AT 'EM! LEMME AT 'EM, BABBOT!"

And that's only scratching the surface....

[unclelumpy.livejournal.com]

• "Don't ya think he's kinda CUTE?" "Yeah, cute as a STOMACH PUMP!"

[twfarlan.livejournal.com]

Still favorites, and so far unmentioned:
"YEOW! Mah biscuits are burnin', mah biscuits are burnin'!"
"I knew I should have taken that left turn at Albequerque."
"... and I will love him and pet him and name him George!"
"Ya know? I used to have a litt-el friend. But... he don't move no more!"

[unclelumpy.livejournal.com]

That last one was from an MGM Tex Avery cartoon... But still a good one!

Looney Tunes

[markiv1111.livejournal.com]

My all time favorite Bugs/Elmer line is something that was never actually said, but merely postulated. Some LA fans (I think LA fans) were casting Lord of the Rings with Warner Brother characters, notably Elmer Fudd as Strider. And his great line would have been, "Woe is me! The wing is wost! Come back, you wascal Wingwaiths!"

Nate

Re: Looney Tunes

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

I've had something written for several years, which I'm planning to record soon, you might be interested in. ;) Suffice it to say, my Strider was Porky Pig. "A-a-alright, everybody. The fate of m-Mi-m-Mi-m-Mi -- oh, just go out there a-an' kick Orcish butt!"

[annathepiper]

Oh, and while we're talking musical Bugs quotes:

* "My gal is a high-born stepper! Ginger, with salt and pepper! She's a fancy stepper when she dances, go and see 'er as she skippers and prances! My gal! Don't do much talkin'! Dances! Even when she's walkin'! One and two and three and four, she dances all day long!"

* "Oh carrots are divine, you get a dozen for a dime, it's maaaaagic! They fry, a song begins! They roast, and I hear violins, it's maaaaagic!"

* "Oh give me a hooooome, where the buffalos roooooam, and the deeeeeer and the antelopes play (and the rabbits!)"

* "I'm lookin' over a three-leaf clover, that I overlooked be-three!"

And hell, the entire squaredance sequence at the end of "Hillbilly Hare". :D

Daffy has some great musical lines as well:

* "She was an acrobat's daughter, she swung by her teeth from a noose! But on one matinee, her bridgework gave way and she flew through the air like a goose!"

I think my other huge favorite Bugs exchange has got to be between him and the bull in the bullfighting cartoon:

Bugs: "What a gulli-BULL! What a nin-COW-poop!"
Bull: *clobbers him with hoof*

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

I adore the square dance in "Hillbilly Hare". Only one nearly as good is Henry Morgan's on Musically Mad, and it's neither as good nor as well known.

I'm also really fond of (and I might not have it exact here):

Be it ever so crumbly, there's no place like Rome,
The Emperor was Nero, the palace was his home.
But he liked to play with matches, and for a fire yearned --
[checking pitch by hitting a piano key] La! Yearned! --
So he burned Rome to ashes and fiddled while it burned.

[gamergeek007.livejournal.com]

I think my favorite is when Bugs and Yosemite Sam were both running for mayor. Bugs quotes Teddy's "Big Stick" line and Sam retorts with, "I speak LOUDLY and carry a BIGGER stick and I use it to," then hits Bugs over the head with his stick.

[ericthemage.livejournal.com]

"I'm going to blow it up. It blocks my view of Venus."

[jmthane.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes, the Martian...

"There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering kaboom. What happened to the Earth-shattering kaboom?"

[farnex.livejournal.com]

Perhaps I am in the wrong but I believe it went:

"Where's the Kaboom? There was supposed to be an Earth shatteringing Kaboom."

[lukeski.livejournal.com]

Ho! Ha ha! Guard! Turn! Perry! Dodge! Spin! Ha! Thrust! [whack!]

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

I specifically wrote that into "The Sinister Sixty Strike", just to see who'd get it. No one has, that I know of.

[admnaismith.livejournal.com]

*Yhou Uhwrth Creatuwrs make me vehwry angwry.

*I'm a Hessian without no aggression. If yuh can't beat 'em, join 'em.

*Hello my baby, Hello My honey, Hello my rag time gal...

*Would I turn on this gas if my friend Rocky was in there? (You might, rabbit, you might).

*Ahhhh, yer brudder blows bubble gum!

*No, Finster musn't touch the money! It's verrry dirty!

*Ohhhhhh no you don't! Not this time! ...(wicked grin)...Wait till you get home!

[annechen-melo.livejournal.com]

"So I sez to my friend Myrtle, 'You know, Mert, i bet monsters live such Innnnnterestin' lives'."

[unclelumpy.livejournal.com]

"Now let's dip our paddies in the WAH-ter!"

[tchall.livejournal.com]

Ahhhhhhhhh, you're mudder rrrrrrrrides a vacuum cleaner!

[tchall.livejournal.com]

My name is Hansel!

Yah, and I'm Gretel!

[pixel.livejournal.com]

"With my spear and magic helmet! (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8034326735565232748&q=wagner+bugs)"

[pixel.livejournal.com]

Andthe associated:
"Kill the Wabbit! Kill the Wabbit! KILL THE WABBIT!"

"Kill the wabbit?"

[eamclaren.livejournal.com]

"I'm not like other people -- pain hurts me!"

(I use this a lot.)

[gpeefalt.livejournal.com]

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH! I'm dying!

One widdle piddie went to market. *poing*
One widdle piddie stayed home. *poing*
One widdle piddie had roast beef. *poing* WOOSH *BOOM*
Oops. Wan out of piddies.

[djonn]

I'm going to bobble the exact dialogue, but the bit that goes:

"Of course you realize this violates the law of gravity."

"That's all right, I never studied law!"

I think this was done at least twice, once with Bugs and once (via signs) with Wile E. and the Roadrunner.

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"Of course you know, this means war!"

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"You're dethpicable."

[wookiee71.livejournal.com]

"Crusher!"

"Just passin by! DUYYYY!!!"

Crusher reminds me of Goldberg.

I also loved Rabbit Rampage.
"Continue to draw me like this and we'll both be outta woik!"

"You comic book Rembrandt!"

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

"Now, we'll just pin those li'l old shoulders to the li'l old mat, and...."

No, no, NOT the WED Button

[capplor.livejournal.com]

(Daffy Duck, to Elmer Fudd).

I remembered most...

[theturbonerd.livejournal.com]

... but for the rest I cheated: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Looney_Tunes_Show

"Its a great trick, but I can only do it once."

"Fortunately I keep my feathers numbered for just such an emergency."

"You realize, of course, that this means war!"

"What's all the hub-bub, bub?"

"That's a joke... I say, that's a joke, son."

"I knew I should have taken that left turn at Albuquerque."

"I may be a craven little coward, but I'm a greedy craven little coward."

"Boy's as sharp as a bowling ball."

"Genius. That's what it is, sheer genius"

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

[huskiebear.livejournal.com]

"He's Jack!"

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Best. Callback. Ever.

[kayshapero]

"EEEEEEEK! You know better than that!"; heck, all of Duck Amuck where poor Daffy has even weirder stuff than usual happen to him, and it turns out Bugs is drawing him.

[admnaismith.livejournal.com]

Enyeahhhh, ain't I a stinker?

Duck Amuck...and stuff..

[amgem.livejournal.com]

When words just won't cut it...



I'm planning on having this as a tattoo (with the screwball flag extended, of course!!) in the not-too-distant future.

Then there are the additional lines from "Robin Hood Daffy,"

"With my trusty quarterstaff!" "Actually, it's a buck-and-a-quarter quarterstaff, but I'm not telling him that."

Daffy, fighting with his $1.25 quarter staff "Ho! HaHa! Guard! Turn! Parry! Dodge! Spin! Ha! Thrust!" (quarter staff bounces off log, bending his beak)

"Really, I AM Robin Hood!!" *WHAM*
"Suuuuuuure you are..."