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Many 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!"


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.

Date: 2004-08-05 09:48 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] theo-knight.livejournal.com
I can't remember titles of cartoons, but...
1. Lenny the cat, looking for water to put out his burning friend, George, in a very early Speedy Gonzalez cartoon.
2. Bugs to "Baby Face," a pint-sized burglar disguised as baby Finster
3. Pete Puma, indicating how many lumps of sugar in his tea.
4. Daffy to Bugs
5. Bugs, talking to fake cops about the two hoods hidden in the oven.
6. Wile E. Cayote, in one of his talking appearances versus Bugs
7. Elmer J. Fudd, Millionaire (in a rabbit costume)
8. ...I have no idea
9. Mama Bear to Papa Bear
10. Marvin, in "Duck Dodgers in the 24th-and-a-half Century"
11. Bugs to Gossamer
12. Bugs' last line in "What's Opera, Doc?"
13. Marc Anthony's owner, right before handing him a kitten-shaped cookie
14. ...I have no idea
15. Bugs to Elmer
16. Father after the Martians came and took back their green baby, in "Rocket Bye Baby"
17. ... I have no idea
18. Yosemite Sam to Bugs. (the tune is "Those Endearing Young Charms")
19. Daffy in "Ali Baba Bunny"
20. Daffy in "Duck Amuck"
21. Daffy in "Robin Hood Daffy"
22. ... I have no idea
23. Bruno the Magnificent in "Big Top Bunny"
24. The bum on the freight train to Bugs, regarding the Hoboken Penguin
25. Daffy in "Drip-Along Daffy"

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