Isn't it amazing to think that most of these Looney Tunes/Merry Melodies cartoons are 70-80 years old and they're more brilliant and hilarious than 99% of anything that's been aired on television since?!
From what I recall from Mel Blanc's autobiography, one of the reasons the creation of Yosemite Sam came about was due to Elmer Fudd being too darn dumb; as Bugs needed an adversary with some smarts to keep the cartoon series interesting.
@@jacobschweitzer1068 Sam was more devious, underhanded, and nefarious than Elmer; that in itself takes a bit more brainpower. An example of Sam's nefarious deviousness was his attempt to woo an elderly wealthy widow (Emma, aka "Granny") into marriage; whereupon he would _off_ the widow; get all of her wealth; close down the orphanage and old-folks home that Emma was bankrolling. Elmer Fudd would have never stooped to such nefariousness.
@@shaydystheshadowqueen9584 Marvin the Martian always reminded me of a general science teacher I had in middle-school 8th grade (US . . . I specify country as YT is an international platform). A young man; slight in stature, with horned-rimmed glasses; and had a speech pattern slightly toned down from Marvin the Martian. But that science teacher was brilliant, as some of his class lectures had to do about the broad future of laser technologies; where in 1968, it was only known as a intense light beam that could burn. That same teacher also allowed me to demonstrate the physics of propulsion with launching homemade rockets, on school grounds, with pyrotechnic powders. Present-day middle schools in the US would never allow such displays to happen.
A little like wilie e coyote and the road runner. Wilie e coyote never had a good day either. That's one of the things I love about Yosemite Sam and Wilie E Coyote, they never have a good day but but it never gets them down.
No doubt we grew up when cartoons were just funny and entertaining. There was no hidden message, well, there were hidden messages but they were very very subtle.
These were and are the best cartoons ever. They are perhaps even more funny now than they were when I was a kid in the 60s and 70s. I will never outgrow this stuff.
@@gawainethefirst You miss the memory of them, saturday morning cartoons we're glorified ads for kids to cling onto the merchandise, though not all are bad cartoons and every decade has good and bad cartoons.
@@gawainethefirst MeTV has cartoons from 7-10 on Saturdays. The first hour are Popeye and Pink Panther cartoons, the second hour is Tom and Jerry (as well as other MGM cartoons like Droopy and Barney Bear), and the last hour are Looney Toons.
@@gawainethefirst me too. I like finding old compilations of cartoons like "Popeye", "Looney Toons", "Woody Woodpecker", "Tom and Jerry", " Rocky and Bullwinkle", "Pink Panther", etc. and, watching them when I'm feeling stressed out. I think it's the antidote to our modern anxiety inducing news cycle. It's difficult to be consumed with worry while watching something so very silly. I can feel my blood pressure beginning to normalize just thinking about it. Those completely ridiculous characters and utterly inconsequential plot lines help me to forget about the state of the world for a short while. It's like a 5 minute vacation.
....yosemite Sam.... next to Daffy, my two favourite WB Characters...both irascible, stubborn, self opinionated , devious and brilliant. I totally cracked up....at 68 I am a ball rolling around the floor.... god bless Mel Blanc and the creators of these classics.
best chars to me are this order 1-Daffy: the ammount of shit he puts up with bugs, the same jokes he pulls off to deal with trouble, and hes a coward....but a GREEEEDY lil coward XD 2-Bugs: has a style to him but he can be annoying at times but hes good 3-Sam: NEVER get tired of what he goes through. always loved him chasing bugs and daffy 4-Sylvester: him shutting up foghorn and his antics with tweety 5-Mugsy/Rocky: the best type of gangsters when it comes to humor XD
@@ronaldshank7589 I just aged 52 years young and my wife just ages young later this year this is very very classic and we will be watching in to the far far future are children there children and futures to approach all children and adults from all around the world should be watching these greatest cartoons . laughing on the floors and holding on to these priceless memories .
I love the episodes where Sam is wrangling animals. Be it sharks, gators, or lions, he ain't afraid of them, and they hate him too much to stop trying to eat him, in spite of the beating he gives them. 😂
Me and my dad watched these together all the time, we loved them,. My dad's favourite saying was, "I knew I should have turned left at Albuquerque". 😆😆😆. Yo semite Sam was my favourite, and foghorn leghorn. Great memories with my dad. 😊🇬🇧
my dad would watch with me too. he explained about why the looney tunes animation was so much better than Hannah Barbara. He's over 80 and still talks to me like Foghorn Leghorn to make me laugh.
I could be having the most hellacious day on earth and I watch this 5-minute gem and I am dying with laughter! And now I know where John Winchester got idgit from haha!
Yep. That is exactly what I was going to say. The bit with the elephant is my favorite. Every time I see it I laugh so hard I get cramps in my side. Every time.
I came across this video by accident this morning, Friday December 10th 2021, I really wasn't in the mood to go to work but this really uplifted me been thinking about this video all day. Kept me going haha
In the diving board bit (from “High Diving Hare”), you should have left in where Sam zooms back up after stepping across that line and says to Bugs “I hate you!” before zooming back down again
Watching this now compared to 40 years ago I can really appreciate how the music choreographs with the action. Just things you didn’t notice back then.
So Bugs first squared off against Elmer Fudd, but as time went on, the Looney Tunes crew began feeling like that wasn't looking so funny. Fudd is just kinda dumb, and likeable in that way, so it began to look like Bugs was just bullying the hell out of this guy. The solution was to bring in a rotten-tempered, arrogant, loudmouthed blowhard instead. Someone who you could always smile when he got his comeuppance for being a jerk. Howdy, Sam.
I like the bit where Yosemite Sam whacks a caged lion with his club, then Bugs Bunny opens the cage, the lion roars and Sam whacks it again and again going "How many times to I have to tell ... you ... to ... shut ... up?" and getting more worried as his sentence goes on.
YOSEMITE SAM: "Can't ya see I'm trying to sleep?! (grabs guitar from Bugs) Give me that instrument, ya buck-toothed varmint!" (pulls and tears strings from the guitar while mumbling incoherently against Bugs' musical sense, then hands Bugs the wrecked instrument and walks off stage)
YOSEMITE SAM: (after storming into the studio with his rifle in hand and twisting a miniature- capped Bugs' next musical device, a trumpet, into knots): "Here. (hands to Bugs the knotted trumpet) Now, if I hear just one peep, one little freep, I'll blast ya." (Bugs scratches his head while examining the damage to his trumpet, and Sam departs, uttering unintelligible curses) BUGS: (twirling his finger): "Ah, let's see now. The middle valve goes down, and the music goes round and round, and it comes out here. (points at rim of trumpet horn, then looks at camera) You know, folks, it may take awhile to figure this out. So, in the meantime, what do you say we look in on a real cool cat named Sylvester
My favorite parts are when Sam almost makes it out of the canon but it still let's him have it and when he's coming out of the man hole with the lions grabbing him back in and the second time he's getting dragged back down he prays then he gets back out and the lions paw comes up doing a 360 looking for him..it's genius.
He never fails to find a way to screw himself over, does he? It's like his irascibility leaves him with no foresight as to what he may be walking into.
Ah the memories of youth. Waking up early on Saturday morning so I can watch all the cartoons till noon. Todays youth have no clue what good times they missed.
I still recite lines from Looney Tunes/Merry Melodies in whatever circumstance I encounter, nearly every day. Most don't get it but I do and that's what makes it fun .. like when I do something that will have not-so-great consequences I'll say, in my best old world accent, "oooohh, I shall hateth myself cometh the dawn" .. and I know exactly what Bugs Bunny episode that came from ... still love 'em, still laugh. Absolutely the best.
The attention to the small details is so masterful. At the 3:47 mark Yosemite is seen for a second with his hands in prayer when dragged down into the lion's den.
I loved these cartoons when I was a little kid. I loved them when I was 12. I loved them when I was 16. I loved them when I was 21. Now I am 62 and would like to buy these cartoons, but don't know where to buy these great cartoons. I have searched Amazon, but it seems like they only offer these old ones. I wouldn't mind having the old ones, but I want the ones that were shown on tv until the networks stopped showing cartoons on Satirday mornings.
I miss the old style cartoons they were the best, with Mel Banc and the other's. They can never replace them. I agree with Tony. You can never replace old style with the new.
I love Yosemite Sam better than Bugs Bunny to a certain extend. But yet I love all of these old school cartoons back then compare to so called modern version.
Kind of like how off set, Herman the Baby was more grown up than Roger Rabbit? I agree, if cartoons were actually real people they'd be just as different from their onscreen personas as human actors.
There's a scene here that features an animated parody of character actor:Charles Laughton..spoofing his on screen interpretation of Nero from"The Sign Of The Cross".
