[Sca-cooks] OT Bugs Bunny was rabbit eggs- correction...

[kattratt]

Ok ok we will take it off list after this but I just had to reply
here....

Susan Fox-Davis wrote:
>
> >the Braised Bunny ah lah Pierre?
>
> A l'Antoine!  Vive la France!  Alouette, gentil alouette!

Yep Dead ON!!!! A l'Antoine!!!! Thank You.


>
> >Nichola
>
> I interned at Hanna Barbera, typing cartoon voice scripts.  Was asked if I
> wanted to audition for Smurfs [which dates that] but chickened out - much to my
> chagrin NOW.

Let's see that would be the really heavy Scooby Doo time, as well as
Jetson's, Super Globetrotters maybe although that might be early,
Snorks, maybe? We Must talk!!!



>
> >But whose 2nd fav cartoon is "Coal Black and De Seben Dwarves".
>
> Good gracious, when did a young person like you ever manage to see this
> politically-incorrect hidden treasure?

Hehehe oh my...  risking being rather Politically incorrect...
I also own, "Goldilocks & the Jivin Bears", "Uncle Tom's Cabana" and
"Uncle Tom's Bungalow", "Popeye Ala Mode", "All this and Rabbit Stew"
and several others...
It is true you can find anything when you look hard enough.  ;)

>
> > Not to be politically incorrect, _or_ to seem to speak ill of the
> > dead or anything, but I was never a big fan of Chuck Jones's later
> > version of Bugs (the one with the weird, unpleasantly and
> > inappropriately soulful eyes, post-about 1955). Bob Clampett and Tex
> > Avery, on the other hand...
> >
> > Adamantius
> > _____________


The weird part is that I liked all of them.  I think I prefer Tex
Avery's but I still Love the others.  I think I have always loved Tex
Avery's zaniness.
>
> Cartoon Network has a great animation history show on Sunday Nights called "Toon
> Heads" that collects similarly-themed or otherwise connected animated shorts
> into a half-hour with historical commentary.  That is where you can see "What's
> Opera, Doc" in the same show with "Rabbit of Seville" and "Long-Haired Hare."
> Other times, it will track the development of a specific character or animator,
> all WB or MGM, clearly goodies from the Turner Net-owned archives. After this
> show, they run a half-hour each of Tex Avery and Chuck Jones.  I wish they'd do
> one on Bob Clampett, whose compendium of work reaches far beyond the Warner
> Bros. milieu.

Actually I think they did do one on Bob Clampett but it was not very
long lived... I think it had a puppet type commercial (Marionettes
style).  I seem to remember "Killer" the vulture was in the ad.


 I went to a program at the Motion Picture Academy, years and
> years ago when Clampett was old but still alive, and you would weep to see the
> wonders.  Like, a pencil test for a ten-legged running beast from a never-done
> animated version of Burroughs' Mars books.


Ooooh that would be cool to see.... you might just become my mentor...
lol.
  [No food content here, but I'm just
> glad to find someone else with whom I can talk animation arcana!]

Saving your address and taking this off list.

So no one else has to suffer through Cartoon Geek Speechs... lol

Nichola, Deep in the South of Carolina, but deep in heart in Toon Town.