Name That Toon!
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poltr1Many of you who are close to my age have have very fond memories of watching Warner Bros. cartoons on TV. In the late 60s and early 70s, some TV stations were scrambling to find syndicated programming to show to children in the early morning and middle afternoon. The Warner Bros. cartoons that originally aired before feature movies were somehow available, and stations picked them up. Even though they were intended for a more adult audience, a lot of us kids got the sight gags and the humor.
Below are lines of dialogue from 25 classic Warner Bros. (Looney Tunes and/or Merrie Melodies) cartoons from 1948-1959. Identify the speaker and the title of the cartoon these appear in. (To the best of my knowledge, each one comes from a different cartoon.)
[Updated 5/27 07:30: Just a reminder that web searching is considered cheating. Try to do these from memory.]
1. "P-E-T-R-O-L. Gee, what a funny way to spell 'water'!"
2. "You mustn't play with the money. It's very dirty!"
3. "Oh, three or four."
4. "Ha! That's it! Hold it right there! Pronoun trouble."
5. "Would I turn on this gas if my friend Rocky was in here?"
6. "Brilliance! That's all I can say! Sheer unadulerated brilliance!"
7. "I may be a screwy wabbit, but at least I'm not goin' to Alcatwaz!"
8. "No! Not 'Happy Birthday'! No, not that! Please! No! NOT 'HAPPY BIRTHDAY'!"
9. "But Henry, it's Father's Day!"
10. "I claim this planet in the name of Mars!"
11. "If an interesting monster can't have an interesting hairdo...."
12. "What did you expect from an opera -- a happy ending?"
13. "My, what a long face. But I know just the thing for that."
14. "This time we *didn't* forget the gravy!"
15. "For shame, Doc. Hunting rabbits with an elephant gun."
16. "Where's my baby? Yob! Yob!"
17. "And think how much better it would be when we get electricity!"
18. "Okay then. Can ya play a pie-anna?"
19. "No, no, no! Down, down, down! Mine, mine, mine!"
20. "Who's responsible for this? I demand that you show yourself!"
21. "This never happens to Errol Flynn."
22. "The Tower! She's-a gonna fall on the little house!"
23. "And I...will jump one thousand feet into a block of cement! On my head yet!"
24. "Penguins is practically chickens."
25. "I told you I'd clean up this one-horse town!"
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Below are lines of dialogue from 25 classic Warner Bros. (Looney Tunes and/or Merrie Melodies) cartoons from 1948-1959. Identify the speaker and the title of the cartoon these appear in. (To the best of my knowledge, each one comes from a different cartoon.)
[Updated 5/27 07:30: Just a reminder that web searching is considered cheating. Try to do these from memory.]
1. "P-E-T-R-O-L. Gee, what a funny way to spell 'water'!"
2. "You mustn't play with the money. It's very dirty!"
3. "Oh, three or four."
4. "Ha! That's it! Hold it right there! Pronoun trouble."
5. "Would I turn on this gas if my friend Rocky was in here?"
6. "Brilliance! That's all I can say! Sheer unadulerated brilliance!"
7. "I may be a screwy wabbit, but at least I'm not goin' to Alcatwaz!"
8. "No! Not 'Happy Birthday'! No, not that! Please! No! NOT 'HAPPY BIRTHDAY'!"
9. "But Henry, it's Father's Day!"
10. "I claim this planet in the name of Mars!"
11. "If an interesting monster can't have an interesting hairdo...."
12. "What did you expect from an opera -- a happy ending?"
13. "My, what a long face. But I know just the thing for that."
14. "This time we *didn't* forget the gravy!"
15. "For shame, Doc. Hunting rabbits with an elephant gun."
16. "Where's my baby? Yob! Yob!"
17. "And think how much better it would be when we get electricity!"
18. "Okay then. Can ya play a pie-anna?"
19. "No, no, no! Down, down, down! Mine, mine, mine!"
20. "Who's responsible for this? I demand that you show yourself!"
21. "This never happens to Errol Flynn."
22. "The Tower! She's-a gonna fall on the little house!"
23. "And I...will jump one thousand feet into a block of cement! On my head yet!"
24. "Penguins is practically chickens."
25. "I told you I'd clean up this one-horse town!"
I'm screening comments for the first 24 hours to give people a chance to answer them. I plan to post the answers in 7 days' time.
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Date: 2004-05-27 09:45 am (UTC)#20 -- Daffy, "Duck Amuck"
I don't know titles of other episodes, alas...
#19 has got to be Daffy as well; I think #1 is Bugs; #10 is obviously Marvin, and #7 and #15 obviously Bugs, but I can't place the episodes.
#18 is Yosemite Sam in the episode, I think, where he's trying to get Bugs to play a booby-trapped piano, and Bugs keeps playing the wrong note.
Not bad, Doc. Thanks for playing.
Date: 2004-06-08 11:11 pm (UTC)#12 was actually Bugs, as he was being carried off in the sunset by Elmer. You got the correct cartoon, though.
#20 is spot on. #19 was Daffy, #1 wasn't Bugs, #10 is indeed Marvin, #7 was Elmer in a Bugs suit, and #15 was Bugs.
The setting in #18 is correct. Bonus question: what's the tune?
Re: Not bad, Doc. Thanks for playing.
Date: 2004-06-09 12:12 am (UTC)It goes "mi-re-do, mi-re-do-mi-sol-fa-la-KABOOM".