Of course you realize this means Meme!

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Day 13- Favorite childhood show

Does it count if the “show,” mostly, consisted of strung-together shorts from 1940s cinema presentations?

Course it does. Bugs Bunny remains one of the most firmly entrenched pillars of my comic consciousness.  Even in elementary school, I had little use for the Saturday morning cartoons we were all supposed to be watching, most of which had specific brands of toys and breakfast cereals associated with them. Bugs was the centerpiece of the Channel 5 afternoon lineup of repackaged old cartoons from a generation before. Yeah, Warner Brothers still cranked out newer ones, packed into various Saturday morning permutations on ABC (usually with Daffy or Tweety as the second-billed "star"), but those weren't nearly as well done and besides, who wanted to waste valuable time watching Foghorn Leghorn?

B.B. had it all going for him. The best lines. The vilest enemies, always vanquished. Even mad musical skillz, which ranged from the sophistication of "What's Opera Doc" to the simple stupidity of the "No Place Like Rome" song- it comes along at about the 2:10 mark of this

"Tyler Westcott of Folkfaces plays The People's Climate March" (Watch on YouTube)

- and we lovingly sang it almost nightly as a tubbytime lullaby to Emily, no doubt prompting all kinds of warning notes on her day care Permanent Record Card.

Plenty of it was politically incorrect. More than a little was a bit overpatriotic, especially the early 40s ones. Nobody ever did explain the evolution of Elmer Fudd from fat shlub to wabbit-hunting-wed ensemble, but who knows, maybe he was a 1960s Klingon in disguise.

Bugs's vocabulary still infects mine- from the word "stragedy" to a variety of insults hurled at annoying animals and opposing attorneys.

For lack of anything better, I'd be happy with this as my epitaph:



(And no, that was not inspired by Steinbrenner's passing.)

Comments

[firynze.livejournal.com]

One of these days, I really have to save up and get the Looney Tunes box sets. I still adore those. And The Rabbit of Seville will always be a favourite.

[troubleagain.livejournal.com]

Oh, man, I love da Bugs. And all his pals.

[bluevicksen11.livejournal.com]

I LOVE classic Looney Tunes! I agree with firynze, Rabbit of Seville was my favorite! I think all of the opera themed episodes turned out fantastic.

There used to be an hour of Looney Tunes every Saturday morning on the local ABC affiliate before Disney bought them out and the network started sucking in general.

My grandparents also made the wise investment in a set of video cassettes that I, my siblings, and cousins would play over and over and over when we spent time at their house. We'll still pop them in when we get together and sing all the lyrics we somehow still remember and laugh too hard at all the gags we know are coming.

They don't make cartoons like that anymore.
Also...
"The vilest enemies, always vanquished."
... except for Cecil Turtle! Though he was more of a rival, he's the only character I remember who would always outwit Bugs.