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Randy Stankey
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posted 03-20-2001 11:02 AM

I gotta' agree with Evans about "What's Opera, Doc?"

That particular cartoon is probably the first real exposure to classical music that kids get nowadays!

My second has got to be "Rabbit of Seville" (I think that's the title.) Same reason.

Tell me... how many people can listen to a recording of "Barber of Seville" without flexing your fingers in time to the music? (Ala Bugs putting hair tonic on Elmer?)

John Keegan
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posted 03-20-2001 11:41 AM

I agree with a bunch of you in "What's Opera Doc", but one of my favorites has to be the one with Bugs Bunny with the Big Orange Monster when Bugs does all those nasty things to him..does nails, etc. I don't remember the name of it but I always get a big laugh when I see it. I also enjoy Road
Runner and Wile E Coyote cartoons. But I don't see many of them around anymore. Anyway, my two cents.

Mike Blakesley
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posted 03-20-2001 01:32 PM

The best parts of the Road Runner cartoons are the facial expressions of Wile E. when he's about to get blown up or whatever. I love it when he pulls out a parasol just as a boulder's about to fall on his head.

Evans A Criswell
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posted 03-20-2001 01:41 PM

Wile E. Coyote and the Roadrunner were the all-time best. I managed to find a laserdisc with 14 of them, including the first one made.

What I love about these (and other) cartoons are the wonderful laws of physics that apply. I actually compiled a very large list of such laws from a thread discussing them on USENET back in the 1993-1995 time frame. When I got the Tom and Jerry laserdisc box sets, I wrote a bunch more and added them to the end. You can get this interesting list here . It's a plain text file, so you can view it with the browser, or download it and email it around. It was a lot of fun to write!

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Leo Enticknap
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posted 03-20-2001 06:35 PM

I'll second Randy on 'The Rabbit of Seville'. Bugs plays Leporello, Porky is Figaro and Daffy (in drag) is the girl (so long since I've heard any of the actual opera that I can't remember what she's called).

Some of the mid-40s Tom & Jerry (i.e. when Tom actually walks on four legs, mieows and has recognisable cat fur) is good fun too, but, as with 'Coal Black', the Mammy character limits its circulation nowadays. There's even one episode in which Tom dresses up in blackface to fool another cat into thinking he's Mammy (she issued them with an ultimatum: he who fails to catch the mouse is going 'O-W-T - OUT!') and so relieve him of the captured Jerry, complete with "Shortnin' Bread" on the soundtrack.

I guess it would probably be illegal to show much of this stuff now, not least because of anti-animal cruelty legislation...

Randy Stankey
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posted 03-20-2001 08:16 PM

The monster's name is "Gossamer". He is such an IN-teresting monster!

Don't forget about "Michigan" the singing frog!

Gordon McLeod
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posted 03-20-2001 08:29 PM

Everready a rather perverse silent cartoon also Thank you masked man

Paul Mayer
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posted 03-21-2001 08:30 PM

Every couple of years or so, "Bugs Bunny on Broadway" concert show makes the rounds. Last appearances in SoCal were October 1996 and July 1999--so maybe they're about due for a reappearance. This is a live concert with a click-tracked 50-piece orchestra playing the scores as these films run on a screen overhead (1" Type C instead of 35mm unfortunately). Naturally all of the classical-based WB titles are in this show--a real treat if you ever get a chance to see (or run) it!

Randy Stankey
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posted 03-21-2001 08:46 PM

There's a CD of music from (and inspired by) the B.B. (and other W.B.) soundtracks. It's called "The Carl Stalling Project".

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posted 02-26-2006 06:49 PM

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Timothy Eiler
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posted 02-26-2006 06:49 PM

Any Cartoons with Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd

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Don Furr
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posted 02-26-2006 07:13 PM

It's got to be Woody Woodpecker's WELL OILED.

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Monte L Fullmer
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posted 02-26-2006 09:50 PM

What about the Mirisch Productions (UA release) of the "Pink Panther" antics with "the Inspector"? Also from Mirisch was the "Ant and the Aardvark" series. Both contained music from Mancini.

These were dime a dozen rentals for a lot of small town houses and drive-in's.

Yep the Universal releases of those Walter Lantz's "Woody Woodpecker" series. There were three generations of Woody, and the first and second generation of Woody were the greatest.

Then, we have Fox's "TerryToons" with MIGHTY MOUSE, Paramount's Fleischer's "Popeye", MGM's "Tom and Jerry" .. a small selection that were just as great as the WB and Disney characters.

In 1941 Warner Bros actually had a moment when they were the king of the animated shorts - over Disney.

But, oh we can't forget Maroon Studios for "Roger Rabbit" and ToonTown (LOL)

-Monte

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Jim Bedford
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posted 02-27-2006 10:25 AM

Duck Dodgers, Feed the Kitty, Rabbit of Seville, What's Opera Doc?, Road Runners and hundreds of other great WB cartoons were all done by Chuck Jones. He used to say that he made cartoons for himself and his pals, not for kids. He was a genius who in 1977 was the first animator to get a retrospective from MOMA. (He also said that visiting Telluride at 8750', which he did over a dozen times, was "the most fun I ever had without breathing.")

But my vote for the greatest cartoon is Betty Boop's "Snow White." It is the most surreal, off-the-wall cartoon I've ever seen. Looking at the backgrounds and the story, you have to ask: "What were these guys smoking?!"

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Jonathan M. Crist
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posted 02-27-2006 10:53 AM

One of my favorites is "To Hare Is Human" which features Wily Coyote against Bugs Bunny instead of the Road Runner. Coyoyte acutally speaks in this one ("This is no ordinary rabbit")

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