First time classic gags were used.

[Jave]

Does anyone know for sure when were the following classic jokes first used?

- Character scolding animator. ("It's right here on the script!")
- A cat dies, and his nine lives float to heaven.
- Film Breaking. (Goonland?)
- An anvil falls on someone.
- Commiting suicide by producing a gun.

Does anyone know when these were first used? And any other classic gags you remember?

[Cdawg]

I think I know a couple of these: I believe that the first use of an anvil in a Warner Brothers cartoon was in "A Tale Of Two Kitties", & Porky complains about Daffy being off script in "Porky's Duck Hunt". I couldn't find a cat dying with it's 9 lives rising up until "Notes To You" in 1941.

Cdawg

[Steve Carras]

first use of ACME toonwise:
"PORKY'S POPPA" (1937) (maybe some earlier ones used it..)

Blackout gags - "ISLE OF PINGO PONGO"(too bad the Mills Bros.,who not only are Afrrican American-think "racial slur" but also "super-square" due to their usually homespun style and who also broke up decadesd ago-talk about three strikes-have kept it off).BTW Graham Webb's book (if I recall correctly) ID'd not Robert C.Bruce but (I believe) Gil Warren as the narrator.(Now is the time for Sogturtle or J.Lee to jump in)

[Thad Komorowski]

- Character scolding animator. ("It's right here on the script!")

Wasn't that the plot of nearly all silent cartoons?


-Thad

[Pietro]

Wasn't that the plot of nearly all silent cartoons?

With Max Fleischer's Koko the Klown, yes.

The gun-to-the-head bit was also used several times in silents, such as in the classic Otto Messmer Felix short, "Felix Dopes it Out" (1924).

-Pietro:daffy:

[Cartman]

Does anyone know for sure when were the following classic jokes first used?

- A cat dies, and his nine lives float to heaven.
- An anvil falls on someone.


Does anyone know when these were first used? And any other classic gags you remember?

The earliest of these gags that I know of are both in Disney cartoons.

The anvil was seen in the Mickey Mouse cartoon BUILDING A BUILDING (1933) when it falls on Pete from a beam above.

The nine lives gag was seen in the Silly Symphony THE CAT'S OUT (1931) when after the cat is knocked unconcious by a weather vane, his nine lives float out, but he manages to pull one back in.

I honestly haven't seen that many anvil gags used in vintage WB cartoons. They were more common in modern WB toons like "Tiny Toon Adventures" and "Animaniacs."

[Nick]

When was dynamite first used in a cartoon? I remember it in a Mickey and Pluto cartoon (I have no idea of the title).

[Thad Komorowski]

I honestly haven't seen that many anvil gags used in vintage WB cartoons. They were more common in modern WB toons like "Tiny Toon Adventures" and "Animaniacs."

Yes, I hate how it's become a "classic Looney Tunes trademark"... I think it was used in about a dozen of the 1001 originals, and that dozen includes the Road Runner cartoons an anvil was used...


-Thad

[Cartman]

When was dynamite first used in a cartoon? I remember it in a Mickey and Pluto cartoon (I have no idea of the title).

I believe you may be referring to the 1931 short THE DELIVERY BOY.

[oldgreypole]

Another early cartoon that has the nine ghost cats gag is "Pied Piper Porky" [1939], although it doesn't predate the Mickey Mouse cartoon, "The Cat's Out" [1931].

[Boy Wonder]

[QUOTE=Steve Carras]first use of ACME toonwise:
"PORKY'S POPPA" (1937) (maybe some earlier ones used it..)

Yeah, acutally "Buddy's Bug Hunt" was the first.

[David Gerstein]

The cat's-nine-lives-float-to-heaven bit appears in a Disney short as early as LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD (1922).
A suicide gags ends Felix the Cat's 1919 debut, FELINE FOLLIES. Felix (or "Master Tom", as he's called here) discovers that his girlfriend already has a huge litter of kittens; runs desperately to the gasworks and ends the cartoon drinking gas from a spigot to kill himself.