Episode 45: Intro, official Hucklebug headsets, shout-outs, Listener Topic of the Week – worst weather we’ve endured, where Hucklebug prizes come from, movies, lowlights & highlights, fuck-offs and you-rules, best Bugs Bunny and Warner Bros. cartoons ever.
Your Hosts
Subscribe
Follow Us
Archives
Categories
Search
I was living in Ohio during the blizzard of ‘78. It was a monster. I remember looking out the window and seeing sheets of white coming down for what seemed like days on end. We must have missed around two weeks of school, since that year we didn’t get out until the middle of June.
The toon you were talking about is the great Feed The Kitty. The killer shot in that one is when Marc Antony, thinking that Pussyfoot has been mixed into the cookie dough and baked, is given a cat-shaped cookie by his owner. When his eyes start watering and his lip starts quivering, and he puts the cookie on his back and starts bawling, that’s priceless.
My pick for best Bugs cartoon: I’m with Bet, it’s Rabbit Of Seville, hands down. Trivia: when Bugs plays the piano melody using his fingers on Elmer’s head, he’s drawn with five fingers instead of the usual four. Also great: the Bugs/Daffy/Elmer trilogy. I think Stennie mentioned Rabbit Seasoning (“A-ha! Pronoun trouble!”), but there’s also Rabbit Fire (Daffy: “I say it’s duck season, and I say, FIRE!”) and the finale, Duck! Rabbit! Duck! (“I’m a dirty skunk? I’M a dirty skunk?!”).
Other favorites:
*Bully For Bugs (“Stop steaming up my tail! What’re ya tryin’ to do, wrinkle it?”)
*Homeless Hare (Bugs takes on the contruction worker)
*Baseball Bugs
*8 Ball Bunny (“THE SOUTH POLE?!?! Ooh, I’m dyin’!”)
*Rabbit Hood (with a cameo appearance by Errol Flynn)
Favorite non-Bugs cartoons, in no order:
*One Froggy Evening is a masterpiece of the highest order, of course
*The Three Little Bops
*High Note
*The Mouse That Jack Built (featuring Jack Benny, Rochester, Mary Livingstone, and Don Wilson)
*Drip-Along Daffy
*Duck Dodgers In The 24½th Century
*She Was An Acrobat’s Daughter (“please do not spit on the floor”)
*I Love To Singa (starring Owl Jolson)
*and most any Pepe le Pew and Road Runner cartoons (they each made the same cartoon over and over anyway)
She really is out of her mind. Last night, I went around and fixed all the clocks for daylight savings time. Too bad I put them in the wrong direction, so when I woke up I said “this is awfully bright for 6:30”. Because it was 8:30, so I had to scramble to get to church. I’ll blame them furriners for messing with my head.
And you’ll be so proud of me—I saw three movies last week. (International flights are good for that). I saw “Stranger Than Fiction” – I’d say three stars. Will Ferrell was pretty good—he could do understated. I also saw “Marie Antoinette”, which only gets 2 and a half stars. I think Sofia Coppola was trying to portray the shallowness of MA as symbolic of something greater, but she just came across as shallow. The third was “The Queen”, but the flight ended before I saw the end of it. I’m pretty sure I know how it ended. I’m still mixed about it—I still feel like they’re picking on an old lady who can’t defend herself in public. Three and a half stars.
Aahhh, the stick licking. Here are some links:
Pictures: http://www.x-entertainment.com/articles/0782/
Funny stuff: http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=583727
I must have been past them when they moved to changing colors – because I haven’t seen those. These and Bit-o-Honey were staples of my movie watching at the theater as a kid!
Poor, Poor Taytie – that’s terrible about his car!!
Mmmm…in the move – I’ve got piles going to YMCA – I wonder if there are some potential listener topics of the week prizes. I may have to make some donations!
I loved Stennie’s rendetion of “Shoot me now” and “Hello my Baby, hello my darlin’, etc.” & Bet’s “Michigan Raaaagggg”
Favorite Cartoons:
Rabbit Hood
The Song of Hiawatha
Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears
The Abominable Snow Rabbit – isn’t this the one where he’s going to hug him and kiss him and name him George?
Duck Dodgers – very classy!
I’m also a big Scooby Doo fan – I love to figure out the mysteries. “And if it wasn’t for those darn kids…”
Worst weather ever:
In Canada for spring break 1993 with my then-gf when a huge noreaster was heading right at my college town (Syracuse). We found out about it at 10pm. The noreaster was going to wipe out all of central and norhtern NY state by 9am the next morning. So we dropped everything and made our way south, stopping off at Niagra Falls at 3:30 in the morning—we couldn’t see it, but it sounded HUGE. Got into Syracuse at 6:30. We crashed and woke up 8 hours later to find our city had been, indeed, wiped away. The storm was still raging and visibility was about a block. Thanks to it being spring break, we had no food in the apt. so I had to trade a 6 pack of Coca-Cola Classique I brought back from Canada with a friend of mine for some food. Syracuse University cancelled class for the first time in it’s 130 yr history. Days later people were skiing to class and I was enjoying the 9ft drifts that were great for diving off of and into.
Don’t have a favorite Loony Tune that hasn’t already been covered. Though my favorite character would be the early Daffy Duck—the one that was batshit insane.
Thanks for the “you rule” for Grae! I admire anyone who can do a marathon. 26.2 miles!!!
Hey, how about a fuck off to Dick Cheney for saying anti-war people undermine the troops?
RIPs: Richard Jeni, Boston singer Brad Delp, Betty “Trudy Kockenlocker” Hutton.
I hadn’t heard about Betty Hutton (and in fact, can’t find her obit anywhere—are you sure?). I had her in the Dead Pool. I’m four points up on all you losers.
In any case, we recorded the show last night, so these RIP’s will have to wait until next week.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
You recorded last night??
If only I had known, I’d have commented earlier! ARRRRRRG!!!
/stupid
TCM sent out an e-mail about it. They’re changing their schedule on Thursday for a Betty Hutton tribute. No Morgan’s Creek, though.