Happy fiftieth birthday, best Warner Brothers cartoon ever!

[napoleonherself]

(slightly belated)

NOW YOU HAVE NO EXCUSE TO NOT HAVE SEEN IT. Unless you're blind, I guess. That's an excellent excuse for never having seen something.

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[ryl.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes. The cartoon that ensures that I start singing "Weturn My Wuv" whenever I hear Wagner. And that sentence had far too many w's in it.


Oh Bwunhilda, you're so wuvwy
Yes I know it, I can't help it...

[napoleonherself.livejournal.com]

I totally thought until just this morning that all of the music was Wagner. But hey look, right there on the title card, that bit's by Michael Maltese! I done got some edumacatin' even before leaving for class (where, ironically enough, we watched The Rabbit Of Seville today and are probably watching What's Opera, Doc? tomorrow).

[napoleonherself.livejournal.com]

s/on the title card/in the credits/, but meh

[nidoking.livejournal.com]

I don't think Wagner ever wrote "Kill the Wabbit".

He may have written an opera about werewolves, though, depending on your interpretation of events and familiarity with relatively obscure Sierra games.

[napoleonherself.livejournal.com]

Well, he didn't write those words, no, but he did write the music.

I am now imagining an opera about werewolves where the actors just growl musically instead of using words. It would be an interesting experience.

[nidoking.livejournal.com]

Gene Roddenberry got songwriting credit for creating lyrics for the "Star Trek" theme song that were never actually used in the show. That's why the guy who actually wrote the theme song refused to do any more music for the show after two episodes.

[ryl.livejournal.com]

The music is definitely Wagner. I have a cassette of four overtures and that's one of them. Mike Maltese just made it memorable by adding great words that have to be better than overly emotional German opera.

[napoleonherself.livejournal.com]

Oh man, even if you tried to translate Maltese's version into German, I bet you'd wind up with a bunch of words that are fifty syllables long each.

German is weird.

[nidoking.livejournal.com]

"Striechen der Hoppenflufferbunny, striechen der Hoppenflufferarmerveringbunny, striechen der Hoppenflufferarmerveringkrössendressenbunny!"

[napoleonherself.livejournal.com]

You have no idea how hilarious I find that.

Mainly the krössendressen part. It's so apt, and all.

[nidoking.livejournal.com]

I can't access YouTube from work. How's that for an excuse?

I have seen it before, though... it was used in a movie that I watched many times as a child. I never did understand it back then. I think I fast-forwarded or recorded over that part.

[napoleonherself.livejournal.com]

YOUR EXCUSE IS BAD AND YOU SHOULD FEEL BAD.

(After all, it's nothing a little murderin' wouldn't fix, right?)

I didn't really understand it when I was a kid either, but that sure didn't stop me from watching it. Of course, we had it on a compilation tape that was missing the title card, so the entire family knew it only as "Kill The Wabbit," but eh.

[nidoking.livejournal.com]

It would require murdering pretty much the entire Department of Homeland Security, then replacing them with members who believe that YouTube is vital to the security of our country. Probably also Congress, the Supreme Court... more or less the entire Government.

I don't think so.

[napoleonherself.livejournal.com]

Pfft, whatever. I guess that if murdering essentially our entire government and thus instituting complete anarchy is too much work to do in order to be able to watch videos at work, then you can just sit there and be all not-mass-murdering-ish!

I mean, uh.

I think my argument kind of went to a weird place there.

[napoleonherself.livejournal.com]

I actually had never seen that before today! And now that I have seen it, I have to admit that it was pretty awesome too.

Although it does make me curious just how many times Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd actually got married...

[psykofishie.livejournal.com]

When I was a kid watching this, I never thought I was watching "a piece of grandeur." I just thought the obese pony was funny.

[napoleonherself.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I always more thought it a piece of Bugs-dressed-up-in-a-slightly-sillier-outfit-than-he-usually-crossdresses-in, but hey. Either way, hilarity ensues.