"Pigs In A Polka" featured in "Ransom"?

[Philo & Gunge]

One night, I was flipping through channels and I saw the Mel Gibson movie, Ransom. During the scene, some lady and a kid were watching what appears to be Pigs In A Polka. In the scene, a wolf tries to get into a house but the door shuts vibrating him. Is this that cartoon or am I dreaming? I mean, Ransom is a BEUNA VISTA movie.

[J. B. Warner]

Funny you should mention this - I recall seeing "Pigs in a Polka" in another out-of-place location, only this was an episode of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer". After a vampire attack, one character opens the door to a room where a bunch of bodies are scattered around, with a lone bloody handprint on the screen of a TV, playing the cartoon (particularly, the scene where the pig is stomped by the stork atop the chimney - the circumstances kinda kill the funny, though). I'd wanted to bring it up here at some point.

[Philo & Gunge]

Funny you should mention this - I recall seeing "Pigs in a Polka" in another out-of-place location, only this was an episode of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer". After a vampire attack, one character opens the door to a room where a bunch of bodies are scattered around, with a lone bloody handprint on the screen of a TV, playing the cartoon (particularly, the scene where the pig is stomped by the stork atop the chimney - the circumstances kinda kill the funny, though). I'd wanted to bring it up here at some point.
That's out of place!!!!!1111:anime:

[Cdawg]

Your eyes weren't playing tricks on you, Philo. That was Pigs In A Polka in the movie "Ransom".

Cdawg

[Bobby B]

Funny you should mention this - I recall seeing "Pigs in a Polka" in another out-of-place location, only this was an episode of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer". After a vampire attack, one character opens the door to a room where a bunch of bodies are scattered around, with a lone bloody handprint on the screen of a TV, playing the cartoon (particularly, the scene where the pig is stomped by the stork atop the chimney - the circumstances kinda kill the funny, though). I'd wanted to bring it up here at some point.

"Prest-o Change-o" is another WB cartoon seen playing on a TV in an episode of BtVS. And a Roadrunner cartoon is heard but not seen in another episode. Strange since even though it spent most of its life on the WB, it's owned by Fox.

[jeff_schiller]

And in the Mel Gibson movie "Conspiracy Theory", there is a brief clip of the "don't forget the gravy" scene...

[J. B. Warner]

And in the Mel Gibson movie "Conspiracy Theory", there is a brief clip of the "don't forget the gravy" scene...
And to very eerie effect at that.

The same cartoon was also utilized in the movie "Cats and Dogs" (which I doubt too many people saw) but with a whole bunch of extra sound effects added in.

[J Lee]

Some non-Warner Bros. movie releases have used clips from some of the public domain WB cartoons in the past, while for others Warners actually gets paid by another studio for their use -- most famously the "Road Runner Show" opening images and music, used in Steven Speilberg's "Close Encounters," which was released by Columbia Pictures. Of course, in those cases the director/producer/star has to have enough clout with his studio to justify spending the extra bucks to get the WB clips, but in the case of Speilberg, Gibson, etc., that's not a very big expense based on what the studio probably expects to earn in return.

[J. B. Warner]

Also in "Close Encounters", Spielberg utilizes "Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2th Century" (a good choice too).

I also heard somewhere that all the segments of Joe Dante's "Twilight Zone - The Movie" utilize at least one clip from a Warner cartoon. But then again, it's Joe Dante, what do you expect?

[Philo & Gunge]

But then again, it's Joe Dante, what do you expect?
A serious courtroom drama with a Daffy Duck fanatic in it! :o

[Philo & Gunge]

I also heard somewhere that all the segments of Joe Dante's "Twilight Zone - The Movie" utilize at least one clip from a Warner cartoon.
I have seen this movie many times (Dante's is my favorite segment in the film) and it is indeed true. Just about every scene uses a classic cartoon or soundtrack. You couldn't escape them. ;)