Looney Tunes Easter Yeggs Review

Hello and welcome to Tooncast Beyond. This is

episode 74 .5. Yes, that's right, folks, 8 .5.

And happy Easter, everybody. We hope you're all

having fun Easter egg hunts, eating ham and whatever

the hell else you're supposed to eat on Easter.

Chocolate. Chocolate rabbits, whether they're

the ears or the ass or whatever. As you heard,

TV's Mr. Neil is joining me. Hello, sir. Keep

smiling. Yes, keep smiling. Yes, we're here because

we are so... It's been a few years since I did

an Easter episode. My buddy Peacock, Michael,

and I, a number of years ago in the original

Tooncast classic, we did It's the Easter Beagle

with Charlie Brown, because that was really the

only Easter cartoon I really remembered at the

time. Yeah. Until I remembered Easter Yeggs.

Well, to be fair, there are a few different Easter

cartoons. There was a Paws, believe it or not,

the Paws Easter... coloring kits they had their

own easter special and uh yeah it's it's good

that you didn't do an episode about that but

yes this is a much better one yes uh go ahead

no i was i was just gonna i just wanted to throw

that in there because i know that there's a few

other easter cartoons but not not that many yeah

i mean Obviously Halloween, Christmas are pretty

much the two big ones. But Easter and Thanksgiving

and even Valentine's Day to a lesser extent always

gets the shaft on... I mean, hell, they start

playing Christmas movies the day before Thanksgiving,

so... Yeah, it's pretty much... Charlie Brown

has all of the holidays covered. They even have

an Arbor Day one. Yeah. And nobody else does

them. Yeah, nope. So Easter Yeggs, it's a 1947

Bugs Bunny and Elmer Flood cartoon directed by

Robert McKimson. The story was done by Warren

Foster, obviously Mel Blank and Arthur Q. Bryan,

but obviously with Mel's deal, Arthur was not

credited as Elmer. Carl Starling was on the music.

Animation was done by Charles McKimson, which

is Robert's brother, and a bunch of other people.

Here's the Easter Rabbit. Hooray! And the Happy

Easter Rabbit. Here kid, have an egg. I want

an Easter egg. I want an Easter egg. I want an

Easter egg. I wanna play you little... this I

remember a few years ago I think it was a couple

of years ago I put this I put one image from

this cartoon on Facebook and I'm like this is

a way not to raise your children folks because

the one thing that always got me about this cartoon

is when he goes when bugs goes to the first house

the dead -end kids house and the dead -end kid

is laying in that weird -looking crib thing he's

sucking on the barrel of a gun That is the best

laugh in this whole cartoon. That always gets

me. I'm like, what the hell? Oh my god. So basically

the premise of this, folks, if you haven't seen

this, well, first of all, you've been living

under a very large rock. Second of all - Or you're

a millennial, because they don't show these cartoons

anymore. Damn, that's just wrong. Take that,

Millennials. You know, one of these days the

Millennials are gonna do some sort of, you know,

Skynet uprising on us and kill us all. That's

why we need to bring back the Looney Tunes, because

they need to laugh. Yes. They've had 15 or 20

laughless years. Oh God, what was the Bugs Bunny

one where he starts laughing and he's like, laugh

clown, laugh. Oh my God. Oh, I don't know. It

was him and Leo the lion. Cause they were at

the circus and Bugs dressed up as a clown to,

you know who I'm talking about, right? Leo the

lion. Okay, okay. So anyway, Easter eggs. The

Easter Bunny every year gets some dumb rabbit

to do his job for him, because he's a lazy prick.

It just so happens that it's Bugs this year that

gets the job. And as I said before, first house

he comes to is the dead -end kid's house. And

I wasn't sure where this was going. I remember

when I first saw it, like... Because, okay, most

everyone knows, most of the Looney Tunes openings,

it's sometimes, well obviously it's always the

Warner Brothers logo, but sometimes it's bugs

pulling it down or pushing it up or whatever.

Very rarely do you see Elmer doing any of that

stuff. It's usually bugs, Daffy, or Porky that

does any of that. So at first when he goes to

the first house, I'm like, okay, where is this

going? How is this going to be and he goes the

second house of course the second house is is

Elmer's house and Elmer must be making a lot

of money off his hunting wabbits because wow

that house Yeah, and he shows up very late in

the cartoon. It's like halfway through when we

finally get Elmer. Mm -hmm Yep But I just, I

love this. I think it's just so fun. It's morbidly

fun, but it's fun. And the kid's in it a lot

less than I remember. He's only in like two scenes.

He shows up, he shows up later in the cartoon

where, you know, there's a, there's a gag about

bugs going from house to house and it keeps being

Elmer. And then the one house, it's the kid.

He's like, why don't you stay? Get away from

here. Oh no. Yeah And then the next stops he

goes to his Elmer's and he opens the door You

know, it's that long shot. He opens the door

and Elmer's gonna charge through so he closes

the door and Elmer's head ends up going through

the door He paints his head as he's hey kid and

kid comes in I want to use that I want to use

that I want to use that and he just starts beating

on him. He's smacking him with a claw hammer.

It's hard to watch. It's just so hilarious And

a little bit of trivia here, the song that Bugs

is singing throughout the episode is from a really

old Bugs Bunny cartoon. I think it's called Harem

Scaram or something like that. Please pass the

catch up, I should have stayed in bed and something

like that. I'm touched in the head. It's a really

really old song from one of the first bugs money

cartoons. I don't even think he was like He was

officially bugs yet, and it was still egghead

as the hunter. Yeah, so yeah Yeah, it's nice

nice little callback Yeah, absolutely. It really

really is and it's just so like this is what

cartoon is cartoons are supposed to be like folks

They're supposed to be fun They're not supposed

to be Bugs and Daffy living in a house together

with the other Looney Tunes as their neighbors

I hear when they get along and have like little

Domestic problems that you know this is not what

the Looney Tunes are supposed to be these They're

supposed to be beating each other over the head

with a with a frying pan and stuff like that

Yep, absolutely I and of course the end of this

is uh... you know uh... dead actually no for

that rabbit for god uh... near whatever another

he's such a passive aggressive rick is that i

have you know i didn't even want something done

right you gotta do it yourself you know and of

course bugs lights the fuse uh... there was a

bomb that they never set up a year Yeah, and

he lights the fuse and he looks right at the

camera, you know, obviously looting to his game

before Ferris Bueller, but you know, it's the

suspense that gets me. And he uses that line

in all of his, not all of the Bugs Bunny cartoons,

but something, it's either the suspense that

gets me, or it's the suspense that kills me,

or he uses that in various other of his cartoons,

and I love that he does that. I mean, that's

like, you know, the whole gag of, like, if you

go back to baseball bugs, you know, when the

Gas House Guerrillas are basically destroying

the T -Totallers and the scoreboard goes up and

up and up and up and up, and then they just do

kind of one -sided, isn't it? You know, it's

that kind of joke. And I just absolutely love

that. Ah, Looney Tunes, I love you. What else

did you want to say about this one? Um, just

the style Robert McKimson style is very I don't

want to say weird but it kind of is just because

it it's not like like the the Chuck Jones bugs,

which is very spelt and and tall for some reason

the The McKimson Bugs Bunny is like kind of doughy

and fat. He's like he's like a middle -aged Bugs

Bunny He's like having a midlife crisis. Yeah,

looks like he looks like he's running around

in like in sweat clothes Yeah, it is beady your

eyes to he's I notice the eyes are like much

narrower Yeah, absolutely Yeah, the animation

model is a little different but on the flip side

of that Elmer looks pretty much the same Yeah,

it looks pretty much the same. You could tell

it's a McKibben Cartoon even from Elmer's style

though. Yeah. Oh, yeah, I can't really explain

why cuz it's such a It's such a nuanced thing,

but you can I can all I can always tell when

it's a McKimson cartoon and the only one that

always kind of throws me is is tech No, not tech

savory Fris free link because frizz is like the

most generic of them all His his is like the

the one that could almost be one and could almost

be the other but I can't really for some reason

I can't really place it except for when like

when Geez, what's his name? You know somebody

Sam shows up, then you know it's a freeze -reeling

cartoon Yeah, I mean and I love all this stuff

and McKimson has some good ones, but he's not

somebody that has Don't want to say has he's

not somebody who has a lot of good ones But he

does it because I know that a lot of people don't

like his For a lot of reasons and for some odd

reason I've had the Bugs Bunny cartoons and a

lot of them in my iTunes for years now For some

odd reason this one is paired with wabbit trouble

from from clamping. I have no idea why Yeah,

here's His spugs money cartoons are not my favorite

and his daffy cartoons. I don't like it all he's

his strength is are the characters that He created

like the barnyard You know foghorn Lake our horn

and the dog and Henry Hawk Henry Hawk. Yeah,

Henry Hawk. Yeah Yeah, and I just There was a

I don't know somebody somewhere on Facebook the

other day Shared so I saw I saw I don't know

where I even saw the stupid thing It's basically

two cats on top of a fence that are walking past

each other. Hi Sam. Hi Ralph I'm like only Looney

Tunes fans will get this You want to talk about

some screwed up Looney Tunes cartoons. Most of

the Sam and Ralph ones are. There aren't that

many, are there? No. I know there's at least

two. Yeah, there's at least two. But anyway,

Easter Yeggs, I thoroughly enjoy it. It makes

me laugh all the time. And all of the Bugs stuff

really makes me laugh. And most of Daffy's does.

And it doesn't really matter who's directing

him. Think my favorite daffy's are Robin Hood

daffy and duck among. Oh god. Those are those

are classics. Yes, they are Ladies and gentlemen,

it's a buck -and -a -quarter staff. Yeah, it's

a book Just call me Friar duck Dodge Perry Trust

spin So it seems folks we're gonna be doing some

Looney Tunes talking over the summer Yeah, we

just keep cracking ourselves up So Happy Easter

to everybody whether you celebrate the religious

aspects of Easter or not whether you just want

You know all the candy from the white rabbit

or not or whatever of every has happy sir go

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