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From: shiue@h-sc1.UUCP (steve shiue)
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Subject: Re: Classic Cartoon Quotes
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Date: Wed, 23-Oct-85 02:25:59 EDT
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> I have this faint recollection about a scary yet funny Daffy Duck
> cartoon that I must have seen 25 years ago -- it involved DD as
> "Duck Tracy" and was full of satirical commentary on the Dick Tracy-style
> of villians and violence.  Anyone else remember this?
> 
> Rob Mitchell
> {allegra,ihnp4}!mtuxo!jrrt

	Firstly:  The gangster cartoon to which Rob refers
is called "The Great Piggy Bank Robbery" and is one of the
earlier color ones (Scenario:  Daffy is reading his Dick
Tracy comics, hits himself in the head, and has a delirious
fantasy about being Duck Twacy the private investigator).  If 
you watch cartoons of this period
there are frequently obscure references to WWII period stuff
that you might not catch without reading or talking to
someone in the know.  One such reference in this cartoon is
when Daffy falls through a trapdoor into the basement of the
gangsters' hideout, and then says, "Was that trip really
necessary?"  What he was referring to was a common slogan
from the gasoline rationing period of WWII.  Of course there
is a  great scene where Daffy is confronted by various
bizarre Dick Tracy-style villains (Juke Box-Jaw,
Pickle-Puss,  Double-header,  Neon-noodle, and Jack
O'Lantern, to name a few) - the artwork is fantastic.  This
cartoon is from  the period before everything got cheap and
the colors and backgrounds went all to hell (the older
cartoons had a more 3-dimensional quality because of the
richness of color and shading).  Best moment - when Daffy
wrestles with Neon noodle and winds up twisting him into a
"Eat at Joe's" sign.

	Secondly:  Here are a few of my personal favorites.

"Never send a  monster to do the work of an evil scientist."
	-Evil Scientist, in some Bugs Bunny cartoon

"Survival of the fittest.  And besides - it's fun!!"
	-Daffy Duck, in "Rabbit Fire", leaving tell-tale
"wabbit twacks" outside Bugs' hole.

"Consequences, shmoncequences - as long as I'm rich."
	-Daffy Duck, in "Ali Baba Bunny" - already
extensively quoted (Daffy says this when the Real genie of
the lamp is about to zap him - the "consequences" of
desecrating the lamp).

"I only wish my brother George were here."
	-Bugs Bunny, in a Liberace imitation/reference/joke,
complete with piano and candelabra (this cartoon had
something to do with a Jekyll & Hyde theme).  Who ever said
these cartoons were for kids.

"H-h-happy B-birthday, you thing from another world, you."
	-Porky Pig, handing gift-wrapped dynamite to Marvin
Martian in "Duck Dodgers in the 24&1/2th Century".

"Hey I better cut this out - I think I might get to like
it!"
	-Dog in a very obscure Elmer Fudd cartoon, "An Itch
in Time", after dragging his heinie around the floor for
several seconds (using front paws).  Only masturbation joke
ever in a cartoon - usually edited when shown on TV.

				-Steve Shiue