Origin of Phrase

[dougc]

Does anyone know when the phrase "I do this kind of thing to him all through the picture" (or slight variation) was first used in a WB or MGM cartoon?
dougc

[Crazy Tom]

I have part of the answer...I know for sure that this was all Fred (Tex) Avery's doing. In 1941's Tortoise Beats Hare, the turtle (toitle) says that line about halfway through the film. After that, I know someone in The Early Bird Dood It (1942) said that line, then Droopy said it in Dumb Hounded a year later and it's been said a couple of more times up until about 1946, or somewhere in there (that's my guess).

It started with WB and Tex Avery, but when he moved to MGM he kept that phrase going.

[Pietro]

It is possible that it could've started
by one of Avery's earlier works
at Lantz, working on Oswald the Rabbit.

-Pietro

[Matt Yorston]

Don't forget Junior Pig in Avery's "One Ham's Family". He says, in regard to the wolf chasing him, "I crash and bang him like this all through the picture" after one such crashing and banging.

[Joe Tully]

It's in Wabbit Twouble too, when Bugs is leading around Elmer with the towel-on-a-stick.

[Crazy Tom]

Originally posted by Matt Yorston
Don't forget Junior Pig in Avery's "One Ham's Family".

You caught me brain-dead there! I totally forgot that!