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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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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 Posts: 1777 | Registered: Jan 2003
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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! Posts: 6367 | Registered: Aug 2003
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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.
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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)
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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.
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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).
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.)
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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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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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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.
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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.
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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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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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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 HarePosts: 7790 | Registered: Aug 2000
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{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....
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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.
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Thank you Chris Bridges, you are now my hero. I have been wanting to know the lyrics to that for years. You da man.
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