How many people here, no matter their age, grew up watching the Warner Brother's cartoons Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies?
And, if you did, do you think it seriously influenced your sense of humor for the rest of your life? Does it seem like you have a more subtle sense of humor that is more likely to be "gotten" by others who were raised on WB?
Posted by Damien (Member # 5611) on :
*raises hand*
...aye...I...aye....
Posted by Erik Slaine (Member # 5583) on :
Ah, memories...
Foghorn marks out the length of the rope that Dog is tethered to...
Wiley sends away for another fine Acme product...
Bugs, just minding his own business, is accosted by a macho construction worker. The worker, sadly, has no idea of the amount of trouble a small grey hare can cause...
Tweety is just so cute. No wonder Sylvester wants to eat him (her?)...
How many times a day do we use "loonie-isms"? Like Shakespeare, they have become ingrained in the fabric of our language:
"Of course you know, this means War." "Your, your, your... dispicable." "He don't know me vewy well, do he?"
And why not?
I was having fun watching Animaniacs as well! Tress MacNiel and Maurice LaMarche are a fine substitute for Mel Blanc, though, of course, he could never be replaced.
Well, ya got me goin'....
Th' th' th' th' that's all, Folks!
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Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
Warner Brothers Cartoons = subtle humor ???
Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :
LOL. The Animaniacs killed me. It was the best, discounting, of course, Freakazoid, which was the most entertaining cartoon show EVER...
But I find that most of my quotes/sayings are based on anime... And now that I'm in college, away from my geek-peer group, no one gets my jokes... ;_; Sad.
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
I didn't, actually.
I don't know why. I didn't watch much TV as a kid. G.I. Joe and Quantum Leap excluded. The cartoons I loved were the Animaniacs and Tiny Toons, but even those weren't until high school.
Posted by Ralphie (Member # 1565) on :
Not Animaniacs, Ryuko. I'm specifically referring to Looney Tunes and Merry Melodies.
For little kids, Icarus, it's pretty subtle. There's a lot going on in those cartoons, and it's not the Three Stooges-style humor that most cartoons were of my time period, like Tom and Jerry.
Posted by WheatPuppet (Member # 5142) on :
I, too, am wondering where the subtleties are in WB cartoons.
I do think that there's a whole cultural vocabulary that was created by Loony Toons. Erik posted some of them above. Another one is the momentary gravity-defying pause in midair before falling (this was used so much in cartoons it's like a parody of a parody of a parody at this point).
EDIT: In response to Ralphie: I guess you're right. My objection is revoked.
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Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Those were pretty much the staples of my cartoon diet as a kid. I don't know the degree to which they shaped my sense of humor, but I think that everything that you take in gets digested and incorporated into who you are (one way or another), and stuff that you take in at such a young age has a significantly greater impact than stuff taken in later in life, so I expect that it has.
Posted by Erik Slaine (Member # 5583) on :
We were having a discussion on portable holes just the other day at the dinner table. I think that Who Framed Roger Rabbit and the RPG Toon covered a lot of this ground!
Posted by Chade Fallstar (Member # 5581) on :
Ahh portable holes. In response to your question Ralphie, yes, it makes us way cooler than the younger generation of Animaniacs and Pokemon and Whatever-The-Newest-Crazy-Thing-Out-Of-Japan watchers.
Posted by Erik Slaine (Member # 5583) on :
Wheat Puppet: I do think that Bugs was often, if not subtle, then savvy. The Warner Bros. cartoons always have had that "hip" feel to them. This set them apart from cartoon companies like Hanna Barbera, who, when trying to be trendy, always came off as just sappy.
Aint I a stinker? Posted by littlemissattitude (Member # 4514) on :
Of course, I grew up watching those. But I also watched Popeye and The Flintstones (in fact, I recall watching the first episode of Fred and Wilma and friends the first time it was on, when I was about five years old). And, most of all, I grew up on Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends, which I am absolutely sure affected the development of my sense of humor most of all. Fractured Fairy Tales is my favorite of all time.
Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
I am sitting at my desk wearing a Daffy Duck T-Shirt (his Postage Stamp).
Does that help answer your questions?
I won more than one game of Trivial Pursuit by remembering references from Looney Toons.
You realize that the book, Illuminati (or trilogy depending on how you bought it) lists Bugs Bunny as one of the keys to understanding the conspirators who truly control the world.
Posted by Erik Slaine (Member # 5583) on :
Jay Ward had great writers and voice talent! It even made me excuse the poor animation.
The Flintstones in their heyday were revolutionary. Only the Simpsons have been as successful in prime-time to this date!
Posted by T. Analog Kid (Member # 381) on :
totally looney tunes influenced...
Were you aware that the movements called "Monsters!" in La Villa Strangiato are merely the "industrial" music (whenever they wanted to convey a factory/assembly line atmosphere) from Warner Bros. toons?
And they say Rush took themselves too seriously...
Posted by Jexxster (Member # 5293) on :
Looney Tunes and Merry Melodies are, for me, the highlight of all cartoon humor. I still find myself riveted to the tube if I am fortunate enough to see an episode. In fact, as a teenager my best friends and I went and rented "The Bugs Bunny Movie" one evening because, even though cartoons were not cool, Looney Tunes was just so much more.
T. Analog Kid-As an extreme Rush-o-phile myself I was aware of that. Man, Rush just plain rules. Nice name BTW.
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Posted by Erik Slaine (Member # 5583) on :
Wow! I bought Hemishperes when it came out! I didn't know that.
:marks it on the Trivia for Today calendar:
Posted by Ralphie (Member # 1565) on :
Rush fans may also play in my sandbox.
<--- the original Hatracker Rush fangirl, followed closely by Jeni.
Posted by Erik Slaine (Member # 5583) on :
AAAh! Now I'm stuck on The Road to Bankok and I only have it on vinyl!
:puts in Moving Pictures CD:
Tom Sawyer will calm my Rush shakes. (I hope....)
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Posted by Christy (Member # 4397) on :
Yup, I grew up on Loony Tunes and Merry Melodies, but I have no subtle sense of humor. That's what I keep Tom around for Posted by Bokonon (Member # 480) on :
I watched 90% of the cartoons output between the years of 1979 and 1990. Seriously.
But I'm still bitter no one told me Robotech was on a local station on Saturday morning.
Sassafrass.
-Bok
Fricker-Fracker, Firecracker, siss-boom-bah!
Posted by Ralphie (Member # 1565) on :
I still say, when I'm high peeved off at someone, that I'm going to put them on the rack and "Rackem Frackem."
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Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :
Weird Looney Tunes moments that I remember seeing as a kid and going "What?"
*Foghorn Leghorn is strutting around the barnyard humming Camptown Races (of course) when he steps into some manure. His song is derailed as he says "Hm hm hm hm hm hm hmm...doo dah..." (splat) "Doo doo".
*Speedy Gonzales floating in a canoe with his little guitar (or something similar) as he sings a song about his current beloved, "Marijuana". (A valid Spanish name for a girl. Actually, if you translated my first, middle and maiden names into Spanish, you would get Mayor Marijuana.)
My very favorite Looney Tunes clip still makes me laugh until I cry when I think about it. Bugs Bunny takes a wrong turn at Albuquerque and ends up in the Ozarks. ("Backwoods Bunny") I used to perform that entire sequence for my family playing the parts of Bugs, Pappy, and Elvis by myself. I wish I could find a wav from that scene to link to but I can't! Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
I would not call my sense of humor subtle. Insidious, maybe.
Posted by MojoJojo (Member # 5570) on :
As an evil genius, I, MojoJojo have too been influenced by the monumental Warner Brothers cartoons, as they were a big influence on my superior sense of humor.
*maniacal laughter*
Wiley Coyote was a truely evil genius, though not of the truely genius level that I, MojoJojo can attain, being the greatest evil genius in the world, but Wiley was often defeated by, not his own silly schemes, but by blind toon-luck! Many of his evil schemes had no flaws whatsoever, that is to say that there was nothing wrong with them, but the Roadrunner's incredible toon-luck would manifest itself, the writer's turning to toon-luck deus-ex-machina to defeat the evil Wiley (even though it was not always his fault).
CURSES
*Strikes Evil Pose*
I have no problems with Warner Brothers, they employ me, providing monetary support for my evil plans to destroy those accursed POWERPUFFS and take over Townsville.
Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!
Posted by Sweet William (Member # 5212) on :
One of my funniest rememberies is when I came home from a Spanish-speaking LDS mission, and my little sister was watching a Speedy Gonzalez cartoon.
His cousin, Slowpoke Rodriguez was singing:
La cucaracha, La cucaracha (the cochroach) Ya no puede caminar (he can't walk now) porque no tiene (because he doesn't have) porque le falta (because he lacks) marijuana que fumar (some pot to smoke)
Pretty much laughed my butt off.
BTW: the last line is supposed to be Las patitas de atras (his little back feet)
[ September 12, 2003, 03:28 PM: Message edited by: Sweet William ]
Posted by Ralphie (Member # 1565) on :
Who IS that Mojo Jojo?
Posted by Sweet William (Member # 5212) on :
deus-ex-machina
I love this word. I fully intend to use it more and more in private conversation.
"Dear, you can't play some deus-ex-machina part and just rescue the kid from his stupid decisions"
How do you pronounce that?
BTW: Tonight, I am going to do the same thing I do every night:
TRY TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD!!!!
[ September 12, 2003, 03:32 PM: Message edited by: Sweet William ]
Posted by Da_Goat (Member # 5529) on :
Mojo Jojo is the evil monkey from the PowerPuff Girls that repeats everything he says, usually within the same sentence.
And, yes, I grew up with Loony Tunes and I'm sure it affected my sense of humor. Of course, I also grew up watching Tom & Jerry, Ren & Stimpy, The Simpsons, and Animaniacs - all of which I've been watching for as long as I can remember - so I don't know which affected my sense of humor the most.
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
DAY-oos eks MOCK-in-awe
Posted by Human (Member # 2985) on :
Be vewy vewy quiet! I'm hunting wabbits!
Posted by The Rabbit (Member # 671) on :
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Posted by Papa Moose (Member # 1992) on :
I weighed in on this in chat, but yes, I watched WB cartoons. And yes, I think it could have influenced my sense of humor (or lack thereof, depending on who'd talking).
--Pop
Posted by Ralphie (Member # 1565) on :
quote: Mojo Jojo is the evil monkey from the PowerPuff Girls that repeats everything he says, usually within the same sentence.
Oh, go ON with you!
(However, I have discovered the secret to has been posting as Mojo Jojo, so I shall have no further reason to ask.)
Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :
Hey SW, thanks for those lyrics! I've been wanting them for a while now.
Posted by Chris Bridges (Member # 1138) on :
katherina, thank you. I've been wondering how to pronounce that for years but never had the energy to look it up.
Major Looney Tunes fan, and delighted to report that they're finally, finally getting released on DVD.
When my coworker first got hired, he was trying, possibly a bit too hard, to make friends. He hadn't figured me out yet - still hasn't - and kept pestering me about my music preferences. I couldn't explain them, they're all over the map. One day he saw me wearing my headphones while I coded pages and demanded to know what I was listening to. Wordlessly I handed them over, and he put them on. It was the Rabbit of Seville.
How do! Welcome to my shop, let me cut your mop, let me shave your crop! ...Daintily, daintily... Hey you! Don't look so perplexed, why must you be vexed, can't you see you're next? Yes you're next, you're so next...
He doesn't ask anymore.
My favorite character, then and now, is Bugs Bunny. Even as a kid I preferred him to Woody Woodpecker and other favorites for two important reasons: He was a wiseass. He never struck first. Unlike many other cartoon characters, he just wanted to be left alone but would fight back decisively when provoked. There was a movement once to make him the official United States mascot for just this reason.
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Posted by Willy Shmily Tiger (Member # 5647) on :
I did. That's where I first heard The Barber of Seville.
Hobbes Posted by T. Analog Kid (Member # 381) on :
Nice Pinky and the Brain reference, BTW, another all-time great toon.
Ralphie, whatd'ya know, you get Rush *and* Deus Ex all in one thread!
I'm with The Wabbit, er, The Rabbit on Wagner. So much so that my youngest, Robert, (nicknamed "robbit") regularly gets swirled in circles to choruses of "Spin da' Robbit, Spin da' Robbit..."
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Posted by Erik Slaine (Member # 5583) on :
I think that's pretty subtle, actually. Beyond the obvious parody, that is.
Edit: Oops, the barber lyrics, that is....
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Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :
I didn't say I didn't watch WB cartoons, Ralphie. That was my staple in my diet of TV when I was a kid. I also cannot listen to Wagner without thinking Kill the Wabbit, I argue Rabbit Season Vs. Duck Season Vs. Elmer Season extensively... But I also love all the Stephen Spielberg produced WB cartoons.
Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :
quote: He never struck first. Unlike many other cartoon characters, he just wanted to be left alone but would fight back decisively when provoked.
"Of course you know... THIS means war."
Posted by Chade Fallstar (Member # 5581) on :
I think my favorite bugs bunny song would be the one he sings in the bathtub once. I forget how it went or the name of the cartoon. But it started "Be it ever so humble there's no place like home" and went on to detail Nero's burning of Rome. Great stuff.
Posted by Erik Slaine (Member # 5583) on :
Tiny Toons while having a few moments, was rather flat in comparison to the old Looneys. It was a product of the "Baby" toon flood a few years back. When the same team gave up the pretense, and concentrate on the winning WB formulae Animaniacs proved that toons could be savvy again. I loved the dynamic of the Warner Brothers, and their sister, Dot (she's the cute one!). So much like the Marx Brothers, that they wouldn't have gotten away with it when the Marx's were still around. Pinky and the Brain started out on that show. I miss Slappy Squirrel. And where is that silly dog, Buttons? Shouldn't he be watching Mindy (same voice as Bart Simpson, by the way) instead of Lady (Tress MacNiel)? These guys had great timing, and though not all of the cartoons were classics, most really hit the mark!
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Posted by Erik Slaine (Member # 5583) on :
I posted this last week in the link thread, but it seems appropriate here.
Where all your cartoon voice questions can be answered: Voice Chasers Posted by T. Analog Kid (Member # 381) on :
Tiny Toons did amazing Parodies, though... their send up of "Citizen Kane" is priceless...
Posted by saxon75 (Member # 4589) on :
I also liked "Sepulveda Blvd."
Elmyra: I'm Paula Abdul and you're Michael Jackson. Get down witcha bad self!
Posted by Ralphie (Member # 1565) on :
quote: I didn't say I didn't watch WB cartoons, Ralphie. That was my staple in my diet of TV when I was a kid. I also cannot listen to Wagner without thinking Kill the Wabbit, I argue Rabbit Season Vs. Duck Season Vs. Elmer Season extensively... But I also love all the Stephen Spielberg produced WB cartoons.
No, Ryuko. I'm not talking about Animaniacs. I'm specifically referring to Looney Tunes and Merry Melodies.
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Posted by Sweet William (Member # 5212) on :
Mi placer, PSI.
Posted by Chris Bridges (Member # 1138) on :
Chade:
Be it ever so crumble-ly there's no place like Rome Nero he was the emperor and the palace was his home But he liked to play with matches and for a fire yearned So he burned Rome to ashes and fiddled while it burned From Upswept Hare Posted by Sweet William (Member # 5212) on :
Thanks Kat. I fully intend to use this phrase somehow. Tonight. Or maybe at church.
Posted by Bokonon (Member # 480) on :
This thread is SOOO boring.
Quick, someone do a song & dance number!
-Bok
Posted by Chris Bridges (Member # 1138) on :
{Leaning back on ash tree and plucking my lute)
Oh, join up with me, so joyous and free, And away to old Sherwood, hie! For I'm Robin Hood, and I'm very good, At avoiding the Sheriff's eye. So, we'll trip along merrily O'er the green swards so gracefully To trip and trip and trip and trip and trip it up and down! To trip and trip and trip and trip and...whoa, whoops, trip it....
[splash]
Sooo, triiip it uuuup, aaaaaand doooown!
(Takes soggy bow)
Posted by Ralphie (Member # 1565) on :
I've been waiting to use this one here, but no opportunity has presented itself. Posted by Storm Saxon (Member # 3101) on :
With your spear and magic helmet?
Posted by Chris Bridges (Member # 1138) on :
Spear and magic helmet!
Posted by Storm Saxon (Member # 3101) on :
Storm: Be vewy quiet. I'm hunting Walphies. (Spoken:) Walphie TWACKS!! Walphie HOLE!! (Thrusting spear:) KILL THE Walphie! KILL THE Walphie! KILL THE Walphie! Ralphie (spoken): Kill the Walphie?
Storm: YO HO HO! YO HO HO! YO HO....
Ralphie: Oh, mighty warrior of great fighting stock Might I inquire to ask, eh... what's up, doc?
Storm: I'm going to kill the Walphie!
Ralphie: Oh, mighty warrior, 'twill be quite a task. How will you do it, might I inquire to ask?
S: I will do it with my spear and magic hewmet.
R: Spear and magic hewmet?
S: Spear and magic hewmet.
R: Magic hewmet?
S: Magic hewmet!
R (spoken, dismissively): Magic hewmet.
S: Yes, magic hewmet, and I give you a sample!
(Ralphie exits at near-light speed.)
S (spoken): That was the Walphie!
(There follows a chase, and then:)
S: Oh, Walphie, you're so wuvly.
R: Yes, I know it, I can't help it.
S: Oh, Walphie, be my wuv...
(They dance, then... )
S: Weturn, my wuv... a fire burning inside me...
R: Return, my love, I want you always bee-side me.
S: Wuv wike ours must be...
R: Made for you and for me....
R & S : Return, won't you return, my love... for my love is yours.
(While singing, they embrace. Ralphie' helmet falls to the ground revealing... rabbit ears!)
Storm (spoken, outraged): I'll KILL the Walphie!! (spoken): North winds bwow, south winds bwow. Typhoons, Hurricanes... Earthquakes!! SMOG!!!!!! Thunder, wightning, stwike the Walphie!!
(Lightning flashes, striking something distant. Moving closer, we see the limp, lifeless form of Ralphie. A drop of water clings to a crushed flower)
S: What have I done? I've killed the Walphie! Poor wittle bunny.... (Sob!)
(Ralphie is carried off in Storm's arms.)
R (spoken): Well, what did you expect from an opera, a happy ending?
Posted by popatr (Member # 1334) on :
I love the old looney tunes and merrie melodies. I kinda said this on the old "why are cartoons today so crappy" thread.
I find that I have a very poor sense of humor nowdays. Some people will find something funny, and I'm just like "what?". But those old cartoons can still make me laugh.
On a side note, I found Hitchhiker's Guide mindsplittingly funny.
Posted by Ralphie (Member # 1565) on :
That, Stormy, was beautiful.
Posted by sarcasticmuppet (Member # 5035) on :
I love how they snuck classical music into cartoons.
Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :
It's easier than writing your own. Posted by Willy Shmily Tiger (Member # 5647) on :
quote:I love how they snuck classical music into cartoons.
The ones where they do are always the best.
Ralphie:
Hobbes Posted by Chade Fallstar (Member # 5581) on :
Thank you Chris Bridges, you are now my hero. I have been wanting to know the lyrics to that for years. You da man.
Posted by Ron Post (Member # 5658) on :
-shift in-
Yeah, Bugs was cool, but he never went far enough.
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![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
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and take over Townsville.![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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