Name That Toon!

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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.

Comments

[dagonell.livejournal.com]

I can remember watching a lot of these, but remembering the names of the characters is going to be difficult.

1. "P-E-T-R-O-L. Gee, what a funny way to spell 'water'!"
They're loosely based on the characters from Steinbeck's mice and men. This is the big dumb guy talking.
2. "You mustn't play with the money. It's very dirty!"
Daffy to a small child with a pile of money.
3. "Oh, three or four."
4. "Ha! That's it! Hold it right there! Pronoun trouble."
Daffy to Bugs, the previous line is "You keep out of this, he doesn't have to shoot you now."
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!"
Wiley Coyote. Yet another plan to catch the road runner.
7. "I may be a screwy wabbit, but at least I'm not goin' to Alcatwaz!"
Elmer Fudd in a rabbit suit. A hypotized Bugs has just been hauled away for Fudd's tax evasion.
8. "No! Not 'Happy Birthday'! No, not that! Please! No! NOT 'HAPPY BIRTHDAY'!"
9. "But Henry, it's Father's Day!"
Mama Bear. Henry is the father. Baby wears a diaper and is taller than either of them.
10. "I claim this planet in the name of Mars!"
The little martian guy, Marvin?
11. "If an interesting monster can't have an interesting hairdo...."
Bugs to Gossamer, the eight-foot pink monster
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!"
The bulldog has just eaten the entire butcher shop. He can't move and his unwilling flunkys have come through the door with a huge vat of gravy.
15. "For shame, Doc. Hunting rabbits with an elephant gun."
Bugs to Elmer
16. "Where's my baby? Yob! Yob!"
The stork brought them Mot, a giant's baby. Yob was the name the giant's gave to the normal size kid.
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!"
Daffy stomping on a genie that comes out of a lamp, the next scene shows him two inches tall.
20. "Who's responsible for this? I demand that you show yourself!"
21. "This never happens to Errol Flynn."
Bugs
22. "The Tower! She's-a gonna fall on the little house!"
The Italian guy trying to get rid of a major character I'm blanking on. The character ends up 'holding up' the leaning tower while he runs away. Bugs, maybe?
23. "And I...will jump one thousand feet into a block of cement! On my head yet!"
The circus artist Bugs is competing against.
24. "Penguins is practically chickens."
The hobo where Bugs is trying to get a penguin back to the South pole.
25. "I told you I'd clean up this one-horse town!"
I'm blanking on the character. He ran for Mayor and ended up as street-sweeper.

I'll probably have more by tomorrow, my sub-concious needs time to operate.
-- Dagonell