Bugs and Daffy - 7/24/01

[Jon Cooke]

"Duck Amuck"
"All A-Bir-r-r-d"
"Little Beau Pepe"
"Rabbit Rampage"
"Cheese Chasers"
"Ready, Woolen, and Able"


-Jon

[Sveven Dvorking]

Duck Amuck
Although terribly overplayed, this is a great classic. There are so many good gags in this cartoon that it is hard to get tired of it. The use of a certain foul-language word is a little much, but other than that... If Mr. Jones didn't direct it, it would be rare:rolleyes:

All Abir-r-rd
The train station Gower Gulch or whatever it is seems weird. The title is an obvious spoof of the popular train phrase "All aboard"

Little Beau Pepe
The title is a spoof of the B&W Porky Pig cartoon Little Beau Porky.

Rabbit Rampage
Weird that we got this on the same day as Duck Amuck. As a remake of that cartoon, Bugs takes Daffy's place as the harassed character and Elmer takes Bugs's place as the silly animator.

Cheese Chasers
One of the Hubie and Bertie cartoons. This one seems to be oveplayed on Cargoon Networm, but that's only because it's a Jones cartoon. The mice wanting to be eaten and the cat who wants to be hurt make this a funny cartoon.

Ready, Woolen, and Able
A wolf-sheepdog cartoon. This was the 500th cartoon for my collection a while ago.

[Jack]

Little Beau Pepe
The title is a spoof of the B&W Porky Pig cartoon Little Beau Porky.

Little Beau Porky's title is a spoof of Little Beau Peep

I find it strange that they threw "All Abir-r-r-rd" into the mix. It would otherwise be an all Jones hour. Anyway, it's one of the best Sylvester cartoons to include Tweety (IMO). I think Freleng really took advantage of the train setting.

Also, I like how there's a package to Mel Blanc (or at least that's what it looks like).


Jack:D

[Matthew Hunter]

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Little Beau Pepe
Little Beau Porky
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Maybe I can help you here. This pun is not really understood by today's audiences, but my 80 year old grandmother explained the meaning of that word to me a long time ago, where I'd run into it somewhere. It was a 20's/30's/'40's slang term for "boyfriend", as in "My beau took me out for dinner last night." The two titles just happened to spoof the same thing. They took "Little Bo
Peep", a nursery rhyme/story, and then replaced "Bo" with "Beau". and, for an added touch, each cartoon deals in some way with romance, I believe.
-Matthew

[happyheathen]

[i]
Maybe I can help you here. This pun is not really understood by today's audiences, but my 80 year old grandmother explained the meaning of that word to me a long time ago, where I'd run into it somewhere. It was a 20's/30's/'40's slang term for "boyfriend"...
-Matthew [/B]

Why am I feeling old, v. old...

and don't forget 'Beau Geste' (I know the spelling may be wrong - I just don't care)

[Jack]

Matthew's right, it's play on both phrases.

From hap-hap-happyheathen:
Why am I feeling old, v. old...
You're only as old as you feel, you aren't that old anyway:D

I'd have to say "Little Beau Pepe" is one of the better Pepe cartoons (it's the French Foreign Legion one, right?). I always liked that one.

I'll have to watch "Rabbit Rampage" again, the more I see it, the more I like it. It's fun to see the rabbit frustrated, every so often, unable to take what he dishes out when his foe is more powerful. Bwa Ha Ha Ha!




Jack:cool:

[happyheathen]

First:


Originally posted by Jack


You're only as old as you feel, you aren't that old anyway:D


Thanks - you're kind


Originally posted by Jack


I'd have to say "Little Beau Pepe" is one of the better Pepe cartoons (it's the French Foreign Legion one, right?). I always liked that one.

Jack:cool:

Why is this beginning to remind me of the great 'Tuco' discussion?

Quick! who/what was/is 'Beau Geste'?

d

le sighhhhh...

[Jack]

I looked it up and 'Beau Geste' was a movie from 1939 about three brothers who join the foreign legion to (gasp) escape scandal!

Jack:D

[happyheathen]

Originally posted by Jack
I looked it up and 'Beau Geste' was a movie from 1939 about three brothers who join the foreign legion to (gasp) escape scandal!

Jack:D

Mel Brooks' "The Last Remake of Beau Geste" - it has been done to death - and now you know why the French Foreign Legion was in the 'toon...

d

and now - what the H... kind of cat is the avatar???

(rare, v. rare)

[Jack]

A snow leopard? I dunno, but he's really cute.



Jack:D

[happyheathen]

Originally posted by Jack
A snow leopard? I dunno, but he's really cute.



Jack:D

yes, it is a snow leopard kitten, now appearing at the SF zoo.

unabashed plug: www.sfzoo.org

snow leopards being one of the few good things to come of the nixon presidency.

[J Lee]

I'll have to watch "Rabbit Rampage" again, the more I see it, the more I like it. It's fun to see the rabbit frustrated, every so often, unable to take what he dishes out when his foe is more powerful. Bwa Ha Ha Ha!

It's interesting to note that the first two Bugs Bunny cartoons made after the studio reopened following Jack Warner's foray into 3-D production -- "Hare Brush" and "Rabbit Rampage" are the only cartoons in the entire Bugs Bunny series where Elmer gets the best of the rabbit. You don't suppose Chuck and Friz were trying to send a subtile message to J.L. by turning the series on its head after he knocked them out of their favorite jobs for six months, do you?