I recently bought the Golden Collection; good investment although curses on Warner Brothers for deliberately holding back several classic cartoons. I demand that the next collection feature:
*Ali Baba Bunny ("Hassan CHOP!")
*Robin Hood Daffy ("Dodge! Parry!" etc.)
*One Froggy Evening
*Duck! Rabbit! Duck (c'mon, you include two parts of the Hunters Trilogy and not the last)
*What's Opera, Doc? (although it was nice to see the Wabbit of Seville)
*Birds Anonymous (one of my favorites of the Tweety/Sylvester episodes)
*A better Coyote/Road Runner one, also perhaps Operation Rabbit with Bugs Bunny and Coyote
*An episode of Sam Sheepdog and Ralph Wolf that actually establishes the time card gag, the best part of the series (this one merely features SAM [called Ralph] checking in, which is not nerely as funny)
*I know it would never be shown in a million years, but Daffy the Commando just cracks me up
My favorite bit in the whole collection is in "The Ducksters," the one where Porky is on Daffy's game show. Daffy forces Porky to identify an opera based on a selection and just taps a key. Porky says "Cavaliera Rusticana" and he's wrong. Daffy asks the audience? "Rigoletto!" they shout. I have no idea why, but that is like the acme of humor for me.
Personally, I'd like to see "Ducking the Devil" (dunno why, but this is my favorite Tasmanian Devil 'toon), "Pigs Is Pigs" and "The Hardships of Miles Standish". The latter will probably never happen because of what one Indian says to the other. (If you read his lips. And it is there.) Ultimately, what I'd like to see is a comprehensive release of all of the Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies shorts. Including the politically incorrect ones. No, especially the politically incorrect ones.
"Mmm, now, could be!"
The Bugs Bunny/RoadRunner movie included most of those (not as separate titles, but as "flashback" scenes.
Didn't have Froggy Evening, Birds Anonymous or Sam Sheepdog; but had the rest.
Is that on DVD yet?
I had it on VHS for quite some time.
I don't have any DVD's yet myself but I also have a whole shelf of VHS tapes. I'm pleased to announce that I've already turned the next generation onto the joy of Looney Toons (as opposed to Tiny Toons, or whatever they play on Saturday mornings nowadays- not to sound like a crotchedy old timer, or anything.) The great bulk of them are absolutely superb in every way- from the art direction/ animation to the amazing Carl Stalling music to the Freudian subtext to the memorable moments to the perfectly timed slapstick and on and on...I feel priveleged having grown up on them and seeing new layers reveal themselves as I grew older.
So...are you a Bugs person or a Daffy person? I'm a Daffy myself.
I prefer Wile. E. Coyote (super genius) myself.
I'd say I'm a Bugs Bunny person, with a little bit of the original Daffy Duck thrown in. (You know, Daffy when he was crazy.) Sniffles is my favorite of the lesser characters.
"Of course you know, this means war."
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