Wow! I never realized that I had memorized practically every word of this episode memorized. I haven't seen it in at least 10 years. See what drawing in front of the TV can do!
@SteveCarras --"Drink Only To Me With Thine Eyes", I believe.
@TeamRocket2010 --Though first given the name two years before, this character wouldn't consistently be referred to as "Elmer Fudd" for several years yet. @ricsanta1 -- Consider also the 1960 Walter Lantz short, "Billion-Dollar Boner". Somewhere some young lady is thinking, "I'd sure like to be the appraiser on that one."
Priscilla turned up years later in a TINY TOON ADVENTURES SHORT as one of the Acme Looniversity staff.
As a fan of Fibber McGee & Molly radio show, it's interesting seeing its connection to this cartoon. Arthur Q. Bryan, voicing Elmer Fudd, also played Doc Gamble, a regular on Fibber McGee & Molly. Another regular, Bill Thompson, voiced several characters on show, including elderly Old Timer. Old Timer's catch-phrase was "That's not the way I heered it." It became so popular in 1940s, anyone watching grandfather saying it in this cartoon would have immediately thought of Old Timer.
@Harlan346 Bob Bruce wrote a book?!? I'd buy it. First I've heard of it.
I knew they edited the sound on film but I've never known the process. I'm used to grease pencils, razor blades and splicing tape, something confined to the barrel of obsolesence.
I never heard of it, either, JG. Bear Manor would be the first publisher I'd thin of,. and I'd ALSO buy it..in Matthew Hunter's 2003 interview on his Too Looney site, with Bruce's son or somebody, it was found Bob did five characters, including narrator at least, in "Isle of Pingo Pongo"..
6:45 Even as a kid I knew the Indian mouths "GOD-DAMN-SON-OF-A-BITCH". Stalling's music cue makes it more obvious.... Bugs does this in "Rhapsody Rabbit" - Musta been a Freleng gag!
@musicom67 There was a similar gag in Freleng's "Buccaneer Bunny." When Bugs throws the anvil to Sam under the guise of jumping from the Crow's Nest, thus temporarily sinking the ship, we see Sam under water holding the anvil and rather emphatically mouthing something before discarding the anvil and restoring the ship.
I have no idea what he's saying, though; any ideas?
@musicom67 Yep, I almost seem to think he was intended to NOT say it out loud, but the music and lip movements hint he has to be saying that line silently, Typical classic WB innuendo!
Bruce was a radio announcer and wasn't a character guy. The few times I've heard him do characters, he doesn't disguise his voice all that well. You can tell it's him.
Rethinking it over, it is no one else but Bruce...and he also played the old guy in the rain with a wife not toohappy [at which Blanc takes over-"But my WIFE doesn't like it!!!"]["Porky's Snooze Reel",1941].
1:30 The famous caricature of Aexander Woolcott as "Town Crier"
1:38 "Gavotte in G" playing [I actually have a Hindsight CD of the Lawrence Welk-ish Shep Fields band actually PLAYING this from the same year,1940!]
2:48 What IS that pretty song playing..? It appears in "Often an Orphan", the Charlie Dog/.Porky short when the dog's passed by the first time. In that scene, LOL at the pin-up girl 1621 calendar.
6:46 at Indian in famous "mouthing the f word" bit
Bruce does a good other voice besides that "announcer" voice we're more familiar with.
Kartoonkid95 2 months ago
Wow! I never realized that I had memorized practically every word of this episode memorized. I haven't seen it in at least 10 years. See what drawing in front of the TV can do!
tchetta 3 months ago
The Hardship of Miles Standish and Confederate Honey seems like they could have worked as Egghead cartoons (if you think about the time period)
Urilious 7 months ago
7:01 So! Laugh at my boner will they?! I'll show them how many boners the Joker can make!
5:46 Now I know who Gaston got his shooting lessons from.
WarehouseOfWarpage 7 months ago
At first you don't succeed try try again say very good very good ho ho ho very good very good very good ho ho ho
zatchfan202 9 months ago
@SteveCarras --"Drink Only To Me With Thine Eyes", I believe.
@TeamRocket2010 --Though first given the name two years before, this character wouldn't consistently be referred to as "Elmer Fudd" for several years yet. @ricsanta1 -- Consider also the 1960 Walter Lantz short, "Billion-Dollar Boner". Somewhere some young lady is thinking, "I'd sure like to be the appraiser on that one."
Priscilla turned up years later in a TINY TOON ADVENTURES SHORT as one of the Acme Looniversity staff.
HaggisMcCrablice 9 months ago
clevland indians LOL
ShadowDragonFilms 10 months ago
This is Elmer Fudd before he encountered with Bugs Bunny.
TeamRocket2010 11 months ago 3
As a fan of Fibber McGee & Molly radio show, it's interesting seeing its connection to this cartoon. Arthur Q. Bryan, voicing Elmer Fudd, also played Doc Gamble, a regular on Fibber McGee & Molly. Another regular, Bill Thompson, voiced several characters on show, including elderly Old Timer. Old Timer's catch-phrase was "That's not the way I heered it." It became so popular in 1940s, anyone watching grandfather saying it in this cartoon would have immediately thought of Old Timer.
gitanalolita 1 year ago 3
Edna May Oliver-like Prisilla is great. Love it when she leaves one of the wet shirts on the line. Great stuff.
tpalmer64 1 year ago 2
LOL! The grandpa got struck by lightning!
WWEChampion16 1 year ago 2
I love the part when the Indian pulls a boner and the Indians were all robbed of victory.
77J 1 year ago 2
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sascatisa 1 year ago
jgbennie - thank you so much for posting this! Our family LOVES this cartoon and I've been trying to find it on youtube for years!
sascatisa 1 year ago
Cartoon of my Kindred. John Alden and Priscilla Mullins.. I am 13th generation.
tmargerum 1 year ago
@Harlan346 Bob Bruce wrote a book?!? I'd buy it. First I've heard of it.
I knew they edited the sound on film but I've never known the process. I'm used to grease pencils, razor blades and splicing tape, something confined to the barrel of obsolesence.
jgbennie 1 year ago 3
@jgbennie
I never heard of it, either, JG. Bear Manor would be the first publisher I'd thin of,. and I'd ALSO buy it..in Matthew Hunter's 2003 interview on his Too Looney site, with Bruce's son or somebody, it was found Bob did five characters, including narrator at least, in "Isle of Pingo Pongo"..
SteveCarras 1 year ago 2
I think all Elmer has to do is wait for Bugs to break a glass window to catch him off guard.
NewYorkS4U 1 year ago
JOHN ALDEN AND PRISCILLA MULLINS ARE MY ANCESTORS! No joke, they are! It's awesome watching a cartoon of my ancestors!
chugmilk12 1 year ago
It turns out I have direct lineage to John and Priscilla. That makes this even funnier for me. Thanks for posting this!
barkon 1 year ago
I would think the ballplayer Indian in the background at 6:06 was a (then Boston) Brave! ;-)
AshburnStadium 1 year ago
The day I'm typing this comment is April 27, 2010, exactly 70 years after the original release of this cartoon!
77Pacer 1 year ago
Thanks for putting up a cartoon I thought was gone with the Lindberg Baby.
A real treasure!!
Thanks for posting!
sonnyfontaine 1 year ago 2
4:57 iihh my laundry
ihh this one's not dry yet,
yah ya didn't even touch me
daffy duck laff.
umajunkcollector 2 years ago
7:28 boy was John Alden peeved.
77J 2 years ago
at one point the old man says "boner"
pikachusuperfanatic 2 years ago 2
Indeed he does. Remember: in this case, the old man means "boneheaded mistake". :-)
ricsanta1 2 years ago
@pikachusuperfanatic
BONER DIDN'T mean the same thing 70 years ago!!!!
SteveCarras 1 year ago 2
They were too Indians! They were the CLEVELAND INDIANS!!!
Dietpepsivanilla 2 years ago 7
@Dietpepsivanilla - The potheads out there would LOVE the Cleveland Indians' phone number!
It's (no joke!) 216-420-HITS.
OldsVistaCruiser 1 year ago 2
6:45 Even as a kid I knew the Indian mouths "GOD-DAMN-SON-OF-A-BITCH". Stalling's music cue makes it more obvious.... Bugs does this in "Rhapsody Rabbit" - Musta been a Freleng gag!
musicom67 2 years ago 3
Bugs said something far worse at the end of "Rhapsody Rabbit". If you'll "pardon my French", he mouthed "f***ing a**hole".
OldsVistaCruiser 2 years ago 11
@musicom67 There was a similar gag in Freleng's "Buccaneer Bunny." When Bugs throws the anvil to Sam under the guise of jumping from the Crow's Nest, thus temporarily sinking the ship, we see Sam under water holding the anvil and rather emphatically mouthing something before discarding the anvil and restoring the ship.
I have no idea what he's saying, though; any ideas?
looneywoman 1 year ago
8:30 -- Could be wrong, but at the *very* end, as the iris is closing, Grandpa looks poised to say something worse himself!!!
looneywoman 1 year ago
@musicom67 Yep, I almost seem to think he was intended to NOT say it out loud, but the music and lip movements hint he has to be saying that line silently, Typical classic WB innuendo!
wileyk209zback 10 months ago 2
thank you so much for uploadng this episode you cant imagine how hard was it to find it I didnt know the name?
montodeflino 2 years ago
I think Arthur Q. Bryan is also the Grandpa.
Johnffrey87 2 years ago
IMBD says the grandpa is voiced by Robert C. Bruce.
springofpiesucks 2 years ago
My ear says it, too.
Bruce was a radio announcer and wasn't a character guy. The few times I've heard him do characters, he doesn't disguise his voice all that well. You can tell it's him.
jgbennie 2 years ago
It somehow doesn't sound like Bruce to me, either Blanc or Bryan...though I could be wrong on that [and I hope lightning strikes me..]
SteveCarras 2 years ago
@jgbennie
Rethinking it over, it is no one else but Bruce...and he also played the old guy in the rain with a wife not toohappy [at which Blanc takes over-"But my WIFE doesn't like it!!!"]["Porky's Snooze Reel",1941].
SteveCarras 1 year ago 2
Elmer sings "You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby" really, really, great! Arthur Bryan did a stupendous job on that solo.
springofpiesucks 2 years ago
not to mention the awsome backround music by Carl Stalling!
springofpiesucks 2 years ago
The guy could sing... You DO remember "What's Opera, Doc?"
musicom67 2 years ago
i haven't seen this since cocopugg was around! thank you to death! this is one of my favorite Elmer Fudd shorts!
springofpiesucks 2 years ago
1:19 "Plymouth 1621-1/2!
1:30 The famous caricature of Aexander Woolcott as "Town Crier"
1:38 "Gavotte in G" playing [I actually have a Hindsight CD of the Lawrence Welk-ish Shep Fields band actually PLAYING this from the same year,1940!]
2:48 What IS that pretty song playing..? It appears in "Often an Orphan", the Charlie Dog/.Porky short when the dog's passed by the first time. In that scene, LOL at the pin-up girl 1621 calendar.
6:46 at Indian in famous "mouthing the f word" bit
SteveCarras 2 years ago
Actually, the indian is mouthing "You G-d damn son of a b*tch"
glowworm2 2 years ago