Tuesday, January 10, 2006

How much attention did you pay Looney Tunes?

I grew up on Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck.

These cartoons are classics, and we might never see their like ever again.

Hanna-Barberra cartoons were too tame, no hunting rifles nor falling anvils, and favour silly un-funny puns. Mickey Mouse cartoons were kinda pointless as well, none of the major characters speak proper english.

Instead, I picked up an odd accent from Bugs.

If you watch Bugs Bunny again today, you'll be surprised by some of the dialogue that you might not have caught when you were young.

There's the pair of Goofy Gophers that talk like Frasier and Niles.

Even Daffy spouts diaglogue like, "What's with the copious flow of lacrimal fluids?"

Foghorn Leghorn's racial slurs like, "That boy's so stupid he thinks a Mexican boarder pays rent!"


You don't hear lines like these these days.

1 comment:

Norman said...

There's just something funny about seeing sophisticated vocabulary in a children's show. Like Calvin & Hobbes.

Come on, "lacrimal fluids"! Poll every university grad in malaysia and less than 5% will know what that is.

Heck, less than 5% will even use the word "copious" in their verbal vocabulary.