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!"
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.
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 04:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-05-27 08:58 am (UTC)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
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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".
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Date: 2004-08-05 09:48 am (UTC)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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Date: 2004-08-05 09:23 pm (UTC)I should point out that the answers were posted a while ago. But thanks for playing, doc.
5. Bugs, talking to fake cops about the two hoods hidden in the oven.
He also said that to the real cops when they showed up. They came out of hiding, begging to be arrested, when Bugs threatened to put the lit match in the oven the second time.