{"id":12897,"date":"2014-06-02T11:22:46","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T16:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/simchafisher\/?p=12897"},"modified":"2015-01-10T20:34:51","modified_gmt":"2015-01-11T01:34:51","slug":"foundational-quotes-from-the-looney-tunes-canon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/simchafisher\/2014\/06\/02\/foundational-quotes-from-the-looney-tunes-canon\/","title":{"rendered":"Foundational Quotes from the Looney Tunes Canon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

It would be hard to overstate how much Looney Tunes means to me. When that WB logo blossoms out of the void, it\u2019s like a flower of joy blooming in my heart. That\u2019s what it\u2019s like, okay?<\/p>\n

We all have our favorite scenes from Looney Tunes, and the kids can recite long swaths of dialogue by heart. But some phrases have actually worked their way into our everyday speech, to the point where we don\u2019t even realize we\u2019re quoting, say, a puma. Here are a few Looney Tunes phrases that have become Fisherized:<\/p>\n

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Oh, t\u2019ree or fou-er.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/iframe>\nSource: Rabbit\u2019s Kin \nTypical use: \u201cWhat time do you think you\u2019ll get out of that meeting?\u201d \u2013 \u201cOhhh, t\u2019ree or fou-er.\u201d<\/p>\nIt\u2019s a sticky one, but I\u2019m not happy about it. When Bugs Bunny is being sadistic to Daffy Duck (who would kill him if he could) or Elmer Fudd (ditto), it\u2019s not so bad, because they were definitely asking for it. Even that poor fat opera singer somehow doesn\u2019t gain our sympathy. \u00a0But Pete Puma \u2014 okay, he is an unpleasant character, and he did want to eat Bugs Bunny, but this is a creature who should be gently led by the hand to learn basket weaving. He shouldn\u2019t have his head lumps hammered back into his skull with a special little sadism hammer Gosh. Bugs Bunny goes too far in this one. Anyway, \u201cOh, t\u2019ree or fou-er\u201d does pass my lips pretty often. I just can\u2019t help it.<\/p>\n****************<\/p>\nAn innnnn-teresting monster<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bugs the Beautician ... Again\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dLdKU4JCYqg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\nSource:<\/span> Water, Water Everyhare<\/em><\/p>\nTypical use: \u201cIs Irene dressed yet?\u201d \n\u201cI guess so. She is wearing pajamas, a vampire cape, and a bucket on her head.\u201d \n\u201cWell, she is an interesting monster.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n****************<\/p>\nAh\u2019m a-splurgin!<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nThis is the only YouTube clip I could find, and they\u2019ve messed with the sound; not sure why. But the pertinent phrase in intact. \u00a0(You can see the same clip\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebaumsworld.com\/video\/watch\/1059050\/%201:19\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a>, but I can\u2019t embed it.)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YTP: Low-Diving Varmint\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qDffTdjhN-s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\nSource: High Diving Hare \nTypical use: \u00a0I\u2019m in the supermarket with my daughter, looking at hot sauce. I decide to go for the big bottle, and turn around to shout at my daughter, \u201cAhhhh\u2019m a-splurgin!\u201d Of course it turns out to be not my daughter, but some nervous-looking stranger who scoots out of there pretty quick.<\/p>\n****************<\/p>\n\u201cShoot him now! Shoot him now!\u201d \u201d Pronoun trouble\u201d \u00a0\u201cYays?\u201d and \u201d . . . not again! . . . \u201d \u201cYou\u2019re despicable.\u201d<\/strong> and \u201cStill lurking about.\u201d<\/strong> \nAlso \u201cOut of sheer honesty!\u201d\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Rabbit Seasoning - Pronoun Problem\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6e1hZGDaqIw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\nSource: All from that masterpiece, Rabbit Seasoning \nTypical Use: \u00a0My kids can recite this entire cartoon. I think it\u2019s pretty easy to imagine how the phrases \u201cYays?\u201d \u201cNot again!\u201d \u201cYou\u2019re despicable\u201d and \u201cStill lurking about!\u201d and even \u201cShoot him now! Shoot him now!\u201d would get used. \u201cPronoun trouble\u201d is a little more arcane, but when your household is full of people who are just learning how to talk. So when someone is trying to tell you, \u201cMAMA, he said hit me back because I told him she took my spoon but she hit him first and you said he was supposed to give it to meeeeeeeeee,\u201d you can imagine how there is often, in fact, pronoun trouble.<\/p>\n\u201cOut of sheer honesty!\u201d is for when you are a terrible human being and you\u2019re not going to deny it, and yet even you are unable to believe what the other guy is trying to get away with. Useful for conversations about Joe Biden, or Robert Sungenis, or when you are checking over the kitchen after the kids cleaned it, and you discover that, rather than wash a pot, they have hidden it inside the toaster oven.<\/p>\n*************************<\/p>\nNo one will ever know!<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"LOONEY TUNES (Looney Toons): The Dover Boys at Pimento University (1942) (Remastered) (HD 1080p)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/shHniEcn_gc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\nSource: \u201cThe Dover Boys at Pimento University\u201d \nTypical use: \u201cI\u2019ll just slip this tooth fairy money under the pillow of the twelve-year-old, who is wide awake. NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nKind of a weird and forgettable cartoon. I have no idea why this phrase stuck. Probably because, around the time we first saw it, my son was about three and could be found running circles around his three older sisters, shrieking, \u201cSNEAKIN\u2019 AROUND!\u201d My kids are subtle that way.<\/p>\n****************************<\/p>\nWhat for you bury me in the cold, cold ground?<\/strong><\/p>\nI can\u2019t find a clip and I\u2019ve been working on this post, off an on, for six days. If you haven\u2019t seen it and\/or can\u2019t call it to mind, I\u2019m just sorry for you.<\/p>\nSource: \u201cDevil May Hare\u201d \nTypical Use: \u00a0You have just given the toddler everything she asked for: an apple, a banana, a banana that is peeled right, instead of one that is peeled wrong; a cracker, a cup of water, a cup of water in the right kind of cup, instead of the wrong kind of cup; the right kind of cup with MILK in it, not WATER. You offer to read her a favorite book, and she freaks out, flails around, gives you a bloodly lip with her flailing head, and then settles down on your lap, and pees on you.<\/p>\n\u201cWhat for you bury me in the cold, cold ground?\u201d is one of the few things the Tasmanian Devil ever actually says. To me, this speaks of the desperate genius of classic Looney Tunes. You just know that the writers were half in the bag at all times, and probably battling against the manic despair that most creative people feel when they do the thing that ends up making them money. Did they have dreams of rubbing elbows with Checkov?\u00a0Did they imagine themselves writing dialogue for rabbits and ducks? \u00a0Anyway, rarely has heart spoken to heart more poignantly than when this cri de coeur slips past the Tasmanian Devil\u2019s spittle flecked lips. I weep for the Taz and the Daffy Duck, and of course the Wile E. Coyote, in all of us. I am despicable, and I know it.<\/p>\nPIC How about ending this cartoon before I hit?<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It would be hard to overstate how much Looney Tunes means to me. When that WB logo blossoms out of the void, it\u2019s like a flower of joy blooming in my heart. That\u2019s what it\u2019s like, okay? We all have our favorite scenes from Looney Tunes, and the kids can recite long swaths of dialogue […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1533,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n<title>Foundational Quotes from the Looney Tunes Canon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"It would be hard to overstate how much Looney Tunes means to me. 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