That's All Folks: Chuck Jones RIP

Whamo writes: "Legendary animator, Chuck Jones, creator of classic cartoon characters such as Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Road Runner, & Pepe Le Pew has died (cnn) aged 89 years. When you were a kid was there ever a better baby-sitter than several hours of Looney Tunes & Merry Melodies? Thank you, Mr. Jones for all the great memories and, respectfully, That's All Folks...." CT: I just wanted to mention that Chuck actually read Slashdot. We had a poll once where he was an option, and he was flattered that he was winning it.

D*mn

[TheDigitalOne]

Now we will never know if the Coyote ever catches the Road Runner.

Where's the kaboom?

[dagnabit]

There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering kaboom...

R.I.P., Mr. Jones, and thanks for sharing your talents.

Pure genius.

[meth88]

Bugs: "Do you want to shoot me now or wait till you get home?" Daffy: "SHOOT HIM NOW! SHOOT HIM NOW!" Bugs: "You keep outta this; he doesn't have to shoot you now." Daffy: "Oh, yeah? Well, I say he DOES have to shoot me now! So SHOOT ME NOW!" --BANG!-- Daffy: "Let's try that again..." Bugs (shrugging): "Okay; do you want to shoot me now or wait till you get home?" (in a flat, actor read-through voice) Daffy: "Shoot him now; shoot him now." (Ditto) Bugs: "You keep outta this; he doesn't have to shoot you now." Daffy: "AH HA! (aside to the audience)Pronoun trouble. It's not he doesn't have to shoot you now, he doesn't have to shoot me now. Well, I say he DOES have to shoot me now! SO SHOOT ME NOW!" --BANG!--

Re:enjoyed the pbs documentary

[leviramsey]

I have YET to find "Rabbit of Seville" so the kids can understand why I sing Rossini whilst washing their hair.

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..... I'm scared now....

[Backs away]

Re:Not just Chuck

[Kirruth]

Fred Quimby, Mel Blanc, Charles Schultz and now Chuck Jones.

We are at the closing of an Age.

I'm hoping when they get to Heaven, someone hands them an anvil and they tumble back to Earth.

Re: That's something they could put on his tombsto

[Psiren]

Reminds me of something Billy Conolly said in an interview once. He said he wanted to have really tiny writing on his gravestone so that people would have to stand on his grave to read it. Then a pre-recorded voice would say "You're standing on my balls!". So damn funny!

Seems to me people wth a good sense of humour are still planning to make people laugh when they're gone. I guess Chuck falls into this category too. We'll still be laughing at his cartoons many years from now.

Chuck if you can see this......

[i_want_you_to_throw_]

.....on your way up to heaven, don't forget to make the left turn at Albuquerque!

Re:Best Music Video Ever: Rabbit of Seville

[BobGregg]

I played violin in the Alabama Youth Symphony, back in the day (early '80s). One day the conductor brought out the new music we were supposed to play: "The Barber of Seville". Do you know, every single person already knew the music, by heart? The whole orchestra sight-read the whole piece the first time through, just about perfectly. Why? You know why.

Thank you, THANK you, bless you, Chuck Jones.

Re:enjoyed the pbs documentary

[Mr. Slippery]

I have YET to find "Rabbit of Seville" so the kids can understand why I sing Rossini whilst washing their hair.

Welcome to my shop
Let me cut your mop
Let me shave your crop
Dain...tily
Dain...tily
Don't look so perplexed
Why must you be vexed
Can't you see you're next
Yes you're next
You're so next...

In any sane society, Chuck Jones would be canonized. He leaves behind a great legacy...I agree with JMS that two hundred years from now people will still be watching "Duck Dogers in the 24th and 1/2 Century!" [midwinter.com]

Thanks, Chuck. You will be remembered, most fondly.

Re:Chuck Jones ruled

[3waygeek]

[ComicBookGuy]
Best math cartoon ever!
[/ComicBookGuy]

Re:D*mn

[drwiii]

For what it's worth, I just so happen to have a frame grab [min.net] of that.

I learned French from Pepe Le Pew

[konmaskisin]

I always spoke French awkwardly (many anglo Canadians speak French with an Anglo accent on purpose in order to signal they "don't really speak French") ... Finally I had a class where the French teacher said: "il faut exagérer pour prendre l'habitude - tu devrais faire semblant que tu es Pepe Le Pew à chaque fois que tu parles français".

Heheh ... it worked.

So long Mr. Jones

[l0wland]

Can't imagine a world without Accellerratis Incredilibus, Carnivoris Vulgaris, and ACME Birdseed and -Dynamite. :-(