 This is the SF Productions podcast network TV signals in Kansas seven four-year time Remember some old 2d shows before President Turner put that in false colorization law through in the 20s Don't be so sure about that. There were some great shows back then. Oh, wait a minute I mean call it a VC see back before all the video was put directly in the computer memory in the comnet people used to tape shows Let me see Let me let me hook this up here. Let me see what we got Back with us to the 60s and 70s the dwelling place of the lost generation an era whose heroes role models and very lives were molded and formed by weekly installments of favorite television programs Welcome to the place your parents didn't understand welcome to the vast wasteland. Welcome home They're exciting episode of vast wasteland I'm your host Mark Schminbar along with Wilbur Neil and Marty Wiley and we're here to talk about 60s and 70s television and Tonight, it's yet another cartoon show. Yes. It's gonna be our Warner Brothers cartoon show as if you couldn't have already guessed Talk about all the one fine and the wine and wonderful the white be fine and wonderful That's right But we grew up on Saturday mornings with Well before we jump into that just want to tell you our schedule is Tuesdays at 6 Wednesdays at 10 and Thursdays at 3 p.m. Here on a CTV cable 21 Also our address if you want to write to us and and boy, it's just been rolling in that mail box 15 Box 15 15 26 Columbus, Ohio 4 3 2 1 5 and now on to Warner Brothers cartoons go Robert well by galley those Warner Brothers cartoons I could remember waking up early Saturday morning and turn on the TV and there'd be Captain Kangaroo, but after that we could see Bugs Bunny and Parkie Pig and Daffy duck and Coyote and Wiley Coyote and a roadrunner and bonk horn leg for the guns all this and Sylvester and Tweety and I'm losing my dental work Okay, but I'm all those guys by golly they they were just out there and you could just see them all the time Of course the ones that we saw were Remakes of the ones that they had done that they had in the movie theater right and this is now They're probably showing like a re remake of those even But we won't get into that yet because it's the ones that we saw that we're gonna concentrate We think these were probably the better ones. Although the ones in the theater were good. They they went through some character Reformations and changes and things there. They look less like the animals and more like Personifications of animals, I guess well, there was no real Continuity then, you know, I mean it was just whoever just Warner Brothers was nobody at the time So they just basically pulled whoever they wanted to off the streets. So For all intents and purposes You know, see those things like in the like in the magazines with the the next That's basically how they got these artists back then so It wasn't until they became an established studio that you really started to see every cartoon They looked exactly the same and sounded exactly looking at this Key crew behind Bugs Bunny, for instance, we got Mel Blank on the voice Tex Avery Bob Clampett Bob Clampett. He went on to do beanie and Cecil That's right. Chuck Jones who just went on to do just about every cartoon is about Um Fritz Freelig Warren Foster rich Hogan Michael Maltese and Ted Pierce. So we're the writers. They actually had writers But um Was an Oscar-winning rabbit. I know I would have my own writers. Yes indeed indeed, but we just got a stellar crew That's right. Cartooning and animation kind of people that went on to do other things in the field And it's just incredible Bugs is probably the the best known of the characters. I'm going out on a limb here, but I'll say He's probably the best known the with his What's up back Being just a general smart Alec But pretty way with it. Yeah, of course There are some times when somebody will come back and really slam bug a good one But he usually comes back with something else after that and the big thing you always notice about bugs is he never Attacked first. This is true. You know, he was always defensive moves always the retaliator. That's right. This means war You know, of course that this means war, of course, of course by shoving bugs into the limelight as they did We did set up the poor tragedy that happened to Daffy duck who started out bad. He started out Daffy He used to be Looney Tune Better and twisted that's right Yeah There's no question But you notice that the difference between say a bugs money and a woody woodpecker, for example Basically the same the same basic setups for intensive purposes, but woody woodpecker would usually initiate That's that's the big difference and that's and that's why I think woody woodpecker was never successful because people were like Why are you picking on that person? Bugs was always like, you know, I'm minding my own business. Somebody attacks me I'm going to it. Yeah, but you know, you're so Daffy. I mean Well, I like the one where it's rabbit season. No, it's duck season Robert season I see it's duck season and I say fire It's of course just probably contributed more to your twisted personality pickable No question. Poor guy is sad How many times how many times did bugs go around in drag, you know to attract somebody Hey, the funny thing was old flood would fall for him I was like tooth band, let's get it How dumb can this guy be? It's like bugs had some silicone somewhere stored down in the rabbit hole and everything else and he just come up with these There's one cartoon that kind of rationalizes why Elmer does this every time and it's the one where they are They find themselves in front of an audience somehow in a vaudeville audience and they realize it's a big hit and so and so Elmer Let's himself be taken in as part of the act and this is like the only time they rationalize it They just don't say Elmer is a complete idiot every other time. This is the only time to say Yeah He thinks is coming on How many other humans are actually in the water brother's universe, you know, I mean Yeah, that's about it Yeah, yeah So so it all you had to pick from in the female human writing was granny Raise your hand Poor little Tweety Big old At Tweety bird just never got out of what about one or two years old Tweety's my name, but I got Here's a fun picture of Elmer bud getting taken in by bugs bunny Well, there it is folks, it's there There it is And it's all over the place When he probably goes over and shoots daffy again again Yet they come back for more Okay, you remember like they decided some time in this in our childhood anyway Where they decided that we shouldn't be watching these cartoons because we're gonna do those kind of things Oh, yeah, right, you see lots of kids jumping off cliffs While he coyote does it and he gets right back up and so instead here here watch this watch these nice pacifist things like Here you go They like teamed up daffy-deck with speedy guns Allison did these weak little show. Oh, yeah One's in the 70s. Oh my bad sad and just no story and just Just no violence There's the main thing I never hit anybody over the head with the hammer you never dropped it an anvil Or even tried to fly off a cliff no with Batman not wings not once I never did these things Well, yeah, I think we all try to jump it off of something with something but we knew that if we fell we weren't gonna get back up Exactly at least we fell from a far distance Why not give kids credit For having oh, yeah, oh, yeah, you got it. You got if you shoot somebody They're not gonna pick their feathers up Always keep my feathers numbered for just such an emergency Things like like the Artlyn clutter son that took a dive out the window his daughter, but she was okay mostly. That's the thing You know they say oh, but the drugs had nothing to do with it Stupid little kids. We're gonna go jump in our window too many cartoons Yeah, they're watching this during one of those cartoons teaching them how to be People are age if we had to watch those cartoons. I doubt it There was Well, then you get in then you get into the ones that you know that why consider to be the The forgotten ones almost They're the ones that are kind of like in the background Usually see them at the beginning of the like the Saturday morning cartoon with the big lineup the big lineup of everybody in their tuxes But yeah right there Well, it's not they're not in their tuxes, but But that's a basic idea and but the ones are like for getting like Foghorn Leghorn Do I really consider you know if you yeah? Well, he's having really gets a lot of I think he gets a lot more mileage than some of them I think I think speedy can dollars gets way too much Personally because I think that's like a one-joke kind of deal Wow It's a universe of comedic Properties you can extract from that a fast mouse Plus the fact that you've got this incredibly enormous a Mexican stereotype in the middle of this yeah I was always amazed that you had no like Mexican groups like No, they did change they did change speedy when he started off He had like the gold tooth and hair slick. Yeah, maybe some again. He had big sombrero Went on a whole lot. It was like usually speedy was going going after the sister it was Oh speedy. Oh come he liked my sister Yeah Yes So much in common Often you see ducks in Mexico It's well it was they got the speedy Gonzalez Roadrunner against the Sylvester and Wiley Cody one, too Okay. Yeah, that was that was like a big waste. It's like what I already was supposed to teach semester how to order from acne So you can catch the bird exactly like Wiley was so successful See that's another bird Yes Then one of the few times actually spoke And that was that was the infamous bugs money Wiley Coyote meeting Mud spelled backwards is dumb And you've got a Voice when he started to see Well, it was kind of a psychological trauma, you know, it's like this is a natural Bodacious credit plan It's like you you're on his car to you get your paper even after a while He's probably expecting like ticker tape parades when he finally does catch the roadrunner, you know So he's bigger he can get like lucrative lucrative commercial endorsements at that point At least they're expecting to right so acne's like we'll keep giving you a little bit more credit line on there so what do you want again those There's a super lake vitamins My favorite my favorite one of all the all the Roadrunner ones the Roadrunner Coyote things is the one where he gets the big steel ball Just goes to all things and it ends up right back at the same point and he's just sitting there at the end it starts up The ball is all crinkled and crumpled up It's violence There's always always thought come on now he's eating the he's eating the bird seed with the little pellets in there that magnet Okay, yeah No, the magnet's power roll out to pick up stuff from large cities What's the deal here Magnets never seem to work and the one where he didn't take the super leg pills where he can run And he ends up running past him Because the Roadrunner stops or trips him or something and he can't stop so he runs into the big the big semi-trucker There's the acne grease. He always Yeah, it's in the grease and runs into the semi-trucker. He gets out there He gets the grease. He's on the railroad tracks. He can't stop He runs into the freight train that's going by the Roadrunner sitting on the back And then there's one another Another one is kind of off the off the characters all together the the cart the animal characters one with Mr. Wilbur Oh, yeah Oh, yeah The Martian baby boy Yeah, the yahoo and the frog one yeah, yeah the frog one's fun Okay, it takes the frog and he's gonna take it to the talent agent need progress is there Yeah, that that's that's that's a great of course that's a wonderful a cylindrical story because at the very end He goes back to the same to the new building that's being built Yeah, and he slips it into the new cornerstone and then it's like 2055 and a guy with this disintegrator raise taken out the building this new You know demolition worker and he finds the frog and he does the same thing This frog is just uh, yeah The frog that hibernates in in the boxes. He's like fluffy Open up the box. It's still alive. It's like twinkies Oh Mine in there's um, oh, let's see one of my favorite bugs bunny ones is the one about the um, where he ends up in in shirwood forest Sirloin sirloin of beef cirrhosis of liver That's man lj That's that's just one of my favorites Sirloin for nothing. I'm in gratitude for your faithful I shall night be and along the same lines the the windafi deck would be the scarlet pumpernickel Yeah Then it was kind of like a takeoff on the aero flin um Hero movie that he got to do a lot of takeoff because he got to do The 24th and a half century It was against the martian Martian You're making me very There he is. Oh, yeah Like when bugs like put the steel trap in his mouth and did lady Yeah He's incredible like tola or barretta bugs bugs barretta. He should have been a detective It was one well a couple times. Yeah, they after every every, um He's fouled up. Uh, who was it the little the little short guy and the great big guy and in the house way up on the hill there That's money private eyeball Okay, and then another like, um Single episode when their bugs finds himself with the hillbillies, which I think is like the classic bugs buddy square dance Oh, we have the square dance. Yeah over hill over dale And the hillbillies never pick up that it's bugs. I guess or they're just so dedicated to the square dance The armor square dancing. That's right. The square dance. What's the thing? Just beat each other Everybody promenade. Of course that's another one where bugs does dragon They fall for it. Yeah everybody. Well, that's all I can get something to start doing square dance Although my my personal favorite Is uh, what's opera doc? This is my my personal all-time favorite. This is not this is not the uh, barbersawville parody This is the huge vogner parody With uh elmer as the uh, as the god of light is thore Was he odin or something? That's the war. Yeah This huge, you know, it's this huge opera sets and uh, and uh Bugs is like slamming them all all over the place, you know, just like drinking them here drinking them there at one point Yeah, here we go. Yeah I don't know if you can get that opera out there It's uh, near the end he uh, it in this is I think this only happens once This only happens once in the entire history of the warneboro's cartoons that elmer actually wins Because elmer elmer finally calls up light lightning and thunder and smog and And uh lightning hits, uh bugs and falls down and uh elmer grief-stricken Takes bugs up to ballhalla And then at the last second bugs looks up and says, what do you expect? He's back from opera. Happy ending. Happy ending. Yeah How many um, it's like uh When I got older and actually heard classical music And my son did this too He thought it's cartoon music. Yeah Oh, it was written for an opera? No mom, they wrote this for cartoons And one thing I thought was was really interesting was um, I just recently saw phantasia And this is the first time I made this connection was um, in one of the in one of the cartoons I don't remember the one with the um, oh with the uh, the tenor At the hollywood bowl type thing Where where uh bugs comes up and uh, masquerades as the conductor and I'm going Leopold Stravinsky was the conductor of phantasia That's why they're all saying leopold Dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun And the whole bowl falls apart Well that musk was great for doing that holding out something so he could do something He's like when he's got the he's got the the sheriff of nottingham sitting there nodding back and forth He pulls out this big oven and he starts picking up a cake Real quick, real quick, he picks up the cake just so he can have it there so the sheriff can fall in it Yeah, well, he did a lot of that one of my favorites was in one of the uh, winner ones where they're uh Uh, where this guy's chasing him And he gets a bucket of water from nowhere and says I saw this in a toothpaste toothpaste ad once He throws the water and it instantly forms an ice and the guy hits it like One of my favorites I mean, it's corny it's corny because it's always a black cat falling into some Oh, the amour Literally bad friendship I shoot you with the ek ek of love My little passion flower No, we had the get you the babes every time Now some of you saw Some of you saw in the 40s that you don't that you didn't see later was so much parody of current uh radio stars and uh And movie stars. Yeah, because a lot of the early ones are just Yeah, it's true. We haven't cut tiny tunes. Yeah. Yeah, we wanted before we get out of here We have we have to say some about tiny tune adventures. There's a new show I don't know. It's a lot hipper than uh, I don't know if we can if we can give it an official plug because that would be in a commercial for it but but You didn't hear it from us, but watch it Okay, it's it's good. It sounds dumb. It sounds like it sounds like it sounds like Warner Brothers babies, but it isn't It's it's a lot more slick and polished. It's great This is this is the show you have the entertainment if you're into Warner Brothers You have to watch tiny tune adventures and that's enough enough said anyways. Do we have anything else here? Uh more more what's opera doc No, we didn't mention Yosemite Sam. Oh, Yosemite Sam. Famous lion and Roger out of his kids are burning All right. I hate that forever Yosemite Sam the man who could throw an entire party in and of it. Yeah That's right There Yosemite Sam what a guy what was he he was a cowboy a pirate He was a he was a knight. He was a bad knight. He's just sitting there as well. Yeah, basically a bad guy Yeah, honestly, you've got um the one little fellow the day dreamer. Yeah Um Ralph Ralph. Yeah, he was Ralph. He was Ralph. This is a daydreamer. He was kind of at a one time Yeah, this is one of the early Chuck Jones ones. I think this is I it seems like a lot of a lot of the Chuck Jones He did the one that he did the frog. He did he did uh, y'all y'all. Yeah, y'all y'all Job yeah, that's right Is that one no over over the other way the other way Anyway, I think we covered almost everyone for more. I think we did we were 50th anniversary. Yes, that's right So we want to I think it's bugs 50th anniversary. Yeah, it's bugs. I think they've been around for even longer Because they were back in the 30s Anyways, they've been around for a while. Anyways Well, we were gonna go on to other things, but we'll do it another show. What the heck anyways, um Uh, I think we're about to be thrown out of here. So We'll see you next time and what are we doing next time? Um, there's some more cartoons. Oh, I don't know ready for a holiday show. It's coming up. I think yeah Next week may be our maybe our big holiday show. So for all of us here at Bass Wasteland, we'll see you next time