Bugs Bunny Pops Up in Da Kwaziest Places!

[Mike]

Yesterday afternoon, I was watching Growing Pains on ABC Family (the show's a guilty pleasure of mine). It was the episode where Mike's high school is putting on the play "Our Town." There's a brief montage of scenes in the middle of the episode where Mike is shown "rehearsing" with the female lead (in actuality, he's just putting the moves on her). There's some instrumental music playing during the montage, and you know what the music was? An instrumental version of "This is It!" from The Bugs Bunny Show! It was really surprising, and really neat. It was probably easy for the producers of the show to get the rights to the music (since Warner Bros. produced Growing Pains), but still, it was a really nice surprise!

Mike

[Steve Carras]

Seems EVERY studio for theatrical flciks use a Warner cartoon..or character just some examples.

Paramount's TOMMY BOY and CLUELESS (both early 1995) use respectively soudntrack from a generic (very hgih key) LT theme and Marvin the Martian-Barney and Betty Rubblenames are appropriated for the way director-creator-writer Amy Heckerling's version of teen life sees various characters-Warner's EYES WIDE SHUT (which as I've noted in WORST PRODCUER regarding Terrytoons being in Technicolor, which would be an inorny for distributor 20th Centuiry Fox given their increasing reliance on their own captive lab DeLuxe and giving some flip sides) is an example not couting sister studio New Line's continual use of the hotly debated lab (cf.Cinecolor) which I';m watching (whicvh I mentioned in the other thread due to its un-WB use of DeLuxe, though being Kubrick DeLuxe London, with better quality) had its leads Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman's preadolescent daughter Helena,played by unknown child star Madison Eginton, watching the DFE/Jones/Warner Bros.1979 Bugs special.

One of New Line's immediate pre-Warner Bros.-sister status flicks, AMERICAN BEAUTY's Thora Birch's pre-teen animal starrer,the charming MONKEY TRROUBLE (produced but not directed by Warner Bros.'s MATCHSTICK MEN (and THELMA AND LOUISE and GI JANE)'s Ridley Scott) has a sdcene from Fritz's 1941 THE WABBIT WHO CAME TOSUPPER

Universal's CHEECH AND CHONG UP IN SMOKE (remember them) from 1977,the first rated R film I saw 9iat 17 and my MOM was with me-I must sound like Linsday Lohan from Disney's FREAKY FRIDAY (if not the Jodie Foster one) with that type of comment!but this is in retrospect) had my fave, A HICK, A SLICK AND A CHICK directed by Art Davis.

Warner's Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke vehicle (and Oscar WInner for Washington) TRAINING DAY had a kid watching another pre-48 Friz toon, one of his best, PIGS IN A POLKA.

And finally, just out of many, Columbia's LAST ACTION HERO with Schwartzenegger had a 1952 Roadrunner, GOING GOING GOSH, Fox's SOMETHING ABOUT MARY (the first Farrelly Fox film), has Lee Evans imitiaitng Bugs Bunny, and Warner's CATS AND DOGS (with an all star ccast with voices ranging from noted liberal Alec Baldwin to noted consertive..Charlton Heston!!-wonder how THAT worked out..had Jones'slast masterpiece, CHOW HOUND.

It's worthwhile to note that pre-1955 shorts were uisually chosen and NO BUGS/DAFFY or SPEEDY/DAFFY shorts!!!! MGM's UPTOWN GIRLS with Brittany Murphy (heard in KING OF THE HILL) has some footage credited to Warners but I didn't see it...hopefully not a Daffy/Bugs cartoon excerpt.

[nakak]

In DFE's "Le Quiet Squad", we see Inspector is reading Bugs Bunny comic book.

[Daffyfan2003]

Another WB music reference was on "Boy Meets World." Eric went to the opera with Mr. Feeny. When they started playing... I can't remember what it was called, but it was the same Wagnerian music that Chuck Jones and Mike Maltese used in "What's Opera, Doc?" "Kill the Wabbit, kill the Wabbit!"

Eric: Hey, I know that piece!

Mr. Feeny: You do?

Eric: Yeah! That's Bugs Bunny!

Just thought I'd bring that up, while we were on this subject.

[Cartman]

Another WB music reference was on "Boy Meets World." Eric went to the opera with Mr. Feeny. When they started playing... I can't remember what it was called, but it was the same Wagnerian music that Chuck Jones and Mike Maltese used in "What's Opera, Doc?" "Kill the Wabbit, kill the Wabbit!"

Eric: Hey, I know that piece!

Mr. Feeny: You do?

Eric: Yeah! That's Bugs Bunny!

Just thought I'd bring that up, while we were on this subject.

I remember that. Yes, I uhm used to *ahem* actually watch BMW when I was a kid when it used to air on TGIF. :o It wasn't exactly my favorite show on that program though.