Tell me, what is so good or funny about the bunny? What is so good about the cartoons in which he is displayed?
He is not funny. His cartoons are not funny. And his line "Ehhhh... what's up, doc?" is stupid and overused (and it is not funny).
Bugs Bunny's character is also terrible: he is a sadist bunny who enjoys tormenting others. Who invented the schmuck?
Bugs Bunny should never have existed. His cartoons should never have been. Him and his cartoons, every trace of it all, must cease to exist.
[hypnosis]
You don't like Bugs Bunny. You dislike him. You hate him. You are in accordance with everything I have uttered. You will form a force to eliminate everything that represents Bugs Bunny whereafter you will erect an honourable statue of me.
[/hypnosis]
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Originally Posted by TosaInu
At times I read back my own posts [...]. It's not always clear at first glance.
As long as you're going to pick on beloved childrens' characters, why not attack Spongebob and Toy Story while you're at it? Surely you must have some logical reservations to Mister Krabbs and Squidward ...
lol, Bugs Bunny was a little too "mean", I'll admit. The people at WB had twisted minds. :P BB is a funny character, and most of his cartoons are good. DD and RR are a lot funnier in my opinion, but I see no objection to Bugs.
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Originally Posted by Kadagar_AV
In a racial conflict I'd have no problem popping off some negroes.
Bugs Bunny isn't that bad, although I do agree, he isn't funny (although the matter of whether his is supposed to be a humorous character is an item up for debate). I think that calling him a sadist, though, is a little extreme - the program is slapstick, something which children peculiarly tend to enjoy watching.
Modern entertainment also has it's flaws however. Although these programs may be less violent, some are simply plain disgusting and teach children totally unacceptable habits. If I had any children of my own, which I don't, and am glad of it, I would rather bring them up on a diet of Bugs Bunny than the irksome drivel we get on our television screens nowadays.
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In every case I can think of, Bugs was just protecting himself or his home. Elmer Fudd was always trying to kill him. Yosemite Sam was always robbing, stealing or cheating someone. Construction workers were always trying to destroy his home to build a freeway. Mad scientists and Martians were trying to take over the world. Daffy Duck was always scheming something. See, what Bugs was doing to others was nowhere near as bad as the things they wanted to do to him. The other guy just got what they deserved. What's wrong with that?
If I had any children of my own, which I don't, and am glad of it, I would rather bring them up on a diet of Bugs Bunny than the irksome drivel we get on our television screens nowadays.
There is a outdoor concert arena around here that does a Bugs Bunny concert every year. The National Symphony Orchestra plays the tunes, while they show the cartoons on a big screen. Just did 2 nights, Aug 3rd and 4th. http://www.readexpress.com/read_free...the_wabbit.php
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In every case I can think of, Bugs was just protecting himself or his home. Elmer Fudd was always trying to kill him. Yosemite Sam was always robbing, stealing or cheating someone. Construction workers were always trying to destroy his home to build a freeway. Mad scientists and Martians were trying to take over the world. Daffy Duck was always scheming something. See, what Bugs was doing to others was nowhere near as bad as the things they wanted to do to him. The other guy just got what they deserved. What's wrong with that?
Heh heh! A good find :) FINALLY Bugs Bunny was destroyed on the screen by Fudd. And he made sure he was rendered dead as he twisted the neck. Good. Good riddance.
Still, what BB did is sadist. He fled from the hunter, certainly, but did he get what he deserve? The hunter simply wishes to kill the (stupid) wabbit using a good shot; for BB to provide what Fudd deserves it takes death (or perhaps many deaths as BB keeps living even if he has been perforated by many blasts from Fudd's gun) instead of playing foolish games, acting sad to emotionally appeal to (the foolish) Fudd whereafter he somehow takes advantage of him, etcetera.
Anyway, the old BB is so repetitive and predictable: when you've seen one it is unnecessary to see the others.
Ya know which character was funny? Sylvester the cat. Also the presentation was splendid (especially the music). BB is just... just... argh.
Emotion, passions, and desires are, thus peace is not.
Emotion: you have it or it has you.
Him and his cartoons, every trace of it all, must cease to exist.
Completely unrelated to BB: Why is it, Bijo, that everything that you don't like that is illogical must cease to exist, must disappear, should be changed? I've been wondering about that.
There are a billion things I don't like, movies, tv shows, cartoon characters, English grammatical oddities, people, whatever. But they don't bother me. I'll go look somewhere else for my fun and am perfectly fine with other people having their own preferences.
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There are a billion things I don't like, movies, tv shows, cartoon characters, English grammatical oddities, people, whatever. But they don't bother me. I'll go look somewhere else for my fun and am perfectly fine with other people having their own preferences.
I simply enjoy criticizing and ranting about commercial products. That's it. And I have been known to rant beautifully about certain things: I must honour it and keep those who enjoy my ranting happy (online and offline) :P
Originally Posted by GG
Bijo, you must have seen the Bugs Bunny game review by AVGN have you?
I always wanted Daffy to kill BB though.
I have indeed. It was a most satisfactory display :) The stupid wabbit.
Originally Posted by Garcilaso
Bijo is full of Tanatos.
Why?
Emotion, passions, and desires are, thus peace is not.
Emotion: you have it or it has you.
That's among my hates, yes. Certain programs I do find much worse, however. Fortunately, the majority of such programs are confined to Britian, so those lucky enough to reside in America do not get to see such vulgar behaviour demonstrated on a television screen.
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There is a outdoor concert arena around here that does a Bugs Bunny concert every year. The National Symphony Orchestra plays the tunes, while they show the cartoons on a big screen. Just did 2 nights, Aug 3rd and 4th. http://www.readexpress.com/read_free...the_wabbit.php
Talking about Bugs Bunny concerts, his creators made one of the best cartoons of all time. Not exactly a commercial product, but a work of love, made in their own time and on their own initiative after their contract work was done.
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Might I enquire to ask thee, what's up doc?
Talking about Bugs Bunny concerts, his creators made one of the best cartoons of all time. Not exactly a commercial product, but a work of love, made in their own time and on their own initiative after their contract work was done.
O mighty warrior of great fighting stock
Might I enquire to ask thee, what's up doc?
Spear and Magic Helmet!
Definitely one of my favs, and they definitely do that one during the concert. Along with another great, The Rabbit of Seville.
I didn't know they did What's Opera, Doc on their own time, your LooneyTunes knowledge impresses.
If I werent playing games Id be killing small animals at a higher rate than I am now - SFTS
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"Why do you hate the extremely limited Spartan version of freedom?" - Lemur
Definitely one of my favs, and they definitely do that one during the concert. Along with another great, The Rabbit of Seville.
I didn't know they did What's Opera, Doc on their own time, your LooneyTunes knowledge impresses.
Strictly speaking, it was done as part of a bloc of cartoons that had a budget and time allocated en bloc. They rushed a couple of other jobs either side of it, and used the time and money saved from them to do What's Opera Doc?
50 glorious years of 'kill da wabbit'
'What's Opera, Doc?,' a cartoon that would likely never be made today, celebrates golden anniversary
Jul 08, 2007, STEVE WATT
At any other time, the film would not have been made. Imagine the pitch: "Let's steal time and funding from our other projects so we can go way over budget making a cartoon with no jokes, and no real gags. The score will be a German opera. Kids won't get it. Most adults won't get it, but I don't care because I think it's funny."
Fortunately, the time was 1956, the director was Chuck Jones, and the place was the Warners Bros. backlot animation studio dubbed "Termite Terrace." The result – released 50 years ago this week – was "What's Opera, Doc?," voted by animators in the 1994 book The 50 Greatest Cartoons: As Selected by 1,000 Animation Professionals to be the greatest cartoon of all time.
It is the antithesis of the routine cartoon. In place of snappy one-liners we see Elmer Fudd and Bugs Bunny singing their parts with complete sincerity and commitment. The backgrounds are beautifully textured paintings. The score is powerful and moving. Bugs cuts a striking figure in a metallic brassiere before Madonna was even born. It's audacious and decadent and beautiful and bold and everything the vast majority of cartoons would never dare to be.
Years later, it was my immense pleasure to meet Chuck and spend several hours with him. Never before, and never since, have I encountered someone as smart, funny, passionate and wry, all rolled into one delightful and charming package. I can only imagine the magic at work as he and fellow geniuses Friz Freleng, Bob Clampett, Mike Maltese, Maurice Noble, Mel Blanc, Carl Stalling and a host of others created thousands (yes, thousands) of cartoons featuring history's greatest ensemble cast.
Chuck told me he and his team of writers and animators never saw themselves as making cartoons for anyone but themselves. Months, and sometimes years, passed before their work ended up in theatres, and by then they had made so many new cartoons public reaction just wasn't on their radar. It was because they made cartoons to humour themselves, and because studio executives didn't much care what they did so long as they stayed on time and on budget, that "What's Opera, Doc?" was possible.
The key was placing it between two Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner cartoons in the production schedule. Formulaic by design, those ones could be done fast and cheap. Knock off the Coyote films ahead of schedule and under budget, reallocate the time and money to "What's Opera, Doc?" so the overall budgets remained intact, and voila! A masterpiece created right under the noses of studio executives who would have vetoed the idea long before Elmer Fudd could have raised his spear and donned his magic helmet.
A few years ago, when I staged a tribute to Chuck and his incredible body of work, showing 15 of his greatest cartoons on the big screen as they were originally meant to be seen, it wasn't "What's Opera, Doc?" that got the biggest reaction, initially. The nearly 500 people in attendance gave their most enthusiastic reaction to the opening credits of "One Froggy Evening" featuring Michigan J. Frog, and "Rabbit of Seville," the famous Bugs Bunny-Elmer Fudd barbershop ditty. Both great cartoons, to be sure, and both on any animation historian's top 10. The interesting thing was that for weeks afterward, people told me how moved they were by "What's Opera, Doc?" Some had never seen it before. Others had seen it on TV, but absent the big screen and big sound, they had failed to fall under its spell. Seeing it that day, the way audiences first saw it in 1957, they were enthralled.
That's what makes "What's Opera, Doc?" the greatest cartoon ever, and that is why a piece of such grandeur will never be repeated.
That's not to say good work hasn't been done in recent years. The laughs are plentiful with The Simpsons in its heyday, Family Guy most of the time, and South Park when they find that sweet spot between satire and absurdity. On the big screen, Pixar tells stories as captivating as the greatest Disney epics of the past, and pulls the viewer into spectacular and compelling worlds.
They are all great in their own way, but they are to be expected. Animated sitcoms are supposed to be funny and irreverent and mildly scandalous. Feature films are supposed to have rich character development, radio-worthy songs, and captivating storylines. Bugs Bunny cartoons are not supposed to feature a lisping Viking rabbit hunter enthusiastically professing his operatic love for a bunny in drag.
These days, cartoons are made for the small screen, for syndication, for licensing, for Happy Meal toys and theme park rides. Gone are the days when someone like Chuck could trick the system and go on a flight of fancy to animation immortality with such a hugely impractical and absolutely beautiful film.
No one who knows and loves "What's Opera, Doc?" will ever hear Wagner's "Der Ring des Nibelungen" without hearing, in their own minds, "Kill da wabbit . . . kill da wabbit." While classical music aficionados may be offended by that fact, I'm okay with it. More than okay with it.
Hmph. Call me a barbarian but I find them most entertaining when Daffy is thrown in the mix as well.
Rabbit Fire, Rabbit Seasoning, and my favorite Looney Tunes cartoon of all time, Duck! Rabbit! Duck! are the height of animated excellence.
"Wabbit Season!"
"Duck Season!"
"Wabbit Season!"
"Duck Season!"
"Wabbit Season!"
"Wabbit Season!"
"Duck Season! FIRE!!!"
...and Daffy gets his head blown off. Always hilarious.
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"I'm going to die anyway, and therefore have nothing more to do except deliberately annoy Lemur." -Orb, in the chat
"Lemur. Even if he's innocent, he's a pain; so kill him." -Ignoramus
"I'm going to need to collect all of the rants about the guilty lemur, and put them in a pretty box with ponies and pink bows. Then I'm going to sprinkle sparkly magic dust on the box, and kiss it." -Lemur Mafia: Promoting peace and love since June 2006
Originally Posted by TosaInu
At times I read back my own posts [...]. It's not always clear at first glance.
Hmph. Call me a barbarian but I find them most entertaining when Daffy is thrown in the mix as well.
Rabbit Fire, Rabbit Seasoning, and my favorite Looney Tunes cartoon of all time, Duck! Rabbit! Duck! are the height of animated excellence.
"Wabbit Season!"
"Duck Season!"
"Wabbit Season!"
"Duck Season!"
"Wabbit Season!"
"Wabbit Season!"
"Duck Season! FIRE!!!"
...and Daffy gets his head blown off. Always hilarious.
Ah, the classic. I always enjoyed Daffy getting his bill blown off. Especially when he unwittingly is the cause of it.
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Hmph. Call me a barbarian but I find them most entertaining when Daffy is thrown in the mix as well.
Rabbit Fire, Rabbit Seasoning, and my favorite Looney Tunes cartoon of all time, Duck! Rabbit! Duck! are the height of animated excellence.
"Wabbit Season!"
"Duck Season!"
"Wabbit Season!"
"Duck Season!"
"Wabbit Season!"
"Wabbit Season!"
"Duck Season! FIRE!!!"
...and Daffy gets his head blown off. Always hilarious.
LOL!!!! i loved that short! (and still do) we got the entire bugs bunny collection a few years ago and every time, they make me laugh!
shame on you Bijo for disgracing the bunny!
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