I couldn't resist including one of my favorite lines from an animated short as the subject line of this comment. Since I want to discuss one or two of the scenes in this in a little detail, be warned: Here may be spoilers.
Bugs is minding his own business when Elmer arrives with less than gentle or friendly attentions, Bugs flees, with Elmer and his shotgun not far behind. One semi-running gag features Bugs and/or Elmer going around and over people seated in a movie theater row, all the while saying, "Pardon me-excuse me." The funniest bit is when Bugs is dressed up as a little old lady and when Elmer realizes the little old lady is Bugs, he grabs him and Bugs yells for the usher and says, "This man is annoying me!". The usher then calls Elmer a "masher" and throws him bodily out of the theater!
My favorite scene is the one where Bugs utters the line I used as my subject line: Elmer is standing out in front of the doors of the screening room when Bugs turns on the "Intermission" light and the audience streams madly out, trampling Elmer under foot in the process. As the audience smokes in the lobby, Elmer picks himself up and brushes himself off-whereupon Bugs then changes the indicator to "Curtain" and the audience rushes madly back to their seats, running Elmer over again. The pattern repeats, each succeeding series coming more rapidly than the last and somewhere in the middle is when Bugs utters his line, as he is busy throwing the switch that leads the audience to stampede back and forth, with Elmer always underfoot by this point. It's a priceless bit, exquisitely timed.
This short in available on Looney Tunes Golden Collection, Vol 3 and is well worth seeing. The Looney Tunes Golden Collections are themselves well worth purchasing. Recommended.
Bugs is minding his own business when Elmer arrives with less than gentle or friendly attentions, Bugs flees, with Elmer and his shotgun not far behind. One semi-running gag features Bugs and/or Elmer going around and over people seated in a movie theater row, all the while saying, "Pardon me-excuse me." The funniest bit is when Bugs is dressed up as a little old lady and when Elmer realizes the little old lady is Bugs, he grabs him and Bugs yells for the usher and says, "This man is annoying me!". The usher then calls Elmer a "masher" and throws him bodily out of the theater!
My favorite scene is the one where Bugs utters the line I used as my subject line: Elmer is standing out in front of the doors of the screening room when Bugs turns on the "Intermission" light and the audience streams madly out, trampling Elmer under foot in the process. As the audience smokes in the lobby, Elmer picks himself up and brushes himself off-whereupon Bugs then changes the indicator to "Curtain" and the audience rushes madly back to their seats, running Elmer over again. The pattern repeats, each succeeding series coming more rapidly than the last and somewhere in the middle is when Bugs utters his line, as he is busy throwing the switch that leads the audience to stampede back and forth, with Elmer always underfoot by this point. It's a priceless bit, exquisitely timed.
This short in available on Looney Tunes Golden Collection, Vol 3 and is well worth seeing. The Looney Tunes Golden Collections are themselves well worth purchasing. Recommended.