to his nephew (i think) and he was talking abt the American Revolution...in one scene he is saying how cold and bitter the winter at Valley Forge was when all of a sudden an ice cream vendor starts rolling through with the ice cream music playing and then he gets shot at by the freezing soldiers who are obviously pissed at him...i love this episode because of this scene. It makes me laugh my ass off. I want to buy the DVD but I want to make sure I get this episode on it. Can anyone help? thanx.

that is Yankee Doodle Bugs http://www.jenn98.com/bugs/1954-6.html

Thanx!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"Yankee Doodle Bugs" (1954).

MY favorite scene is where George Washington gets his "notice"- he calmly walks up to his mailbox, opens the letter and exclaims, "GADZOOKS! I've been DRAFTED!!", and just as calmly walks back towards his house.
Then, he rides his horse into a 'Candy Shoppe' and declares, "Martha, you'll have to run the candy stores alone, while I'm off to fight the war". Now, this joke hinges on the fact that, in 1954, there was a nationwide chain of "Martha Washington Candy Stores" [no longer], and that's a topical reference. {Glad I could explain that to you!}

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"Yankee Doodle Bugs" (1954).

MY favorite scene is where George Washington gets his "notice"- he calmly walks up to his mailbox, opens the letter and exclaims, "GADZOOKS! I've been DRAFTED!!", and just as calmly walks back towards his house.
Then, he rides his horse into a 'Candy Shoppe' and declares, "Martha, you'll have to run the candy stores alone, while I'm off to fight the war". Now, this joke hinges on the fact that, in 1954, there was a nationwide chain of "Martha Washington Candy Stores" [no longer], and that's a topical reference. {Glad I could explain that to you!}

;)
thanx. never knew that. i am really surprised at the many topical references made in the looney toons cartoons. Why do you suppose that entertainment geared for children would include such adult topical references??? As a child, I wouldn't know stuff like that.

Because theatrical cartoons were never made expressly for children. That's a
very common misconception. Cartoons, like the feature films that they
accompanied, were designed for general audiences. They were not geared
to any specific age group. As legendary animator Chuck Jones once explained:
"We didn't make cartoons for children, and we didn't make them for adults. We
made them for us." Those guys (incl. Jones, Tex Avery, Bob Clampett, Friz
Freleng, and others) each had such a great sense of humor that all these
years later we are still laughing at the same gags that made them laugh.
(Of course, the danger with topical jokes is that they eventually become
outdated and obscure to modern audiences. The same is true of celebrities
who were popular then but unrecognizable today, unless you're an old movie
buff. For the most part, though, the Looney Tunes cartoons are still funny
today--to all ages--because those kind of references were kept to a minimum.)

Because theatrical cartoons were never made expressly for children. That's a
very common misconception. Cartoons, like the feature films that they
accompanied, were designed for general audiences. They were not geared
to any specific age group. As legendary animator Chuck Jones once explained:
"We didn't make cartoons for children, and we didn't make them for adults. We
made them for us." Those guys (incl. Jones, Tex Avery, Bob Clampett, Friz
Freleng, and others) each had such a great sense of humor that all these
years later we are still laughing at the same gags that made them laugh.
(Of course, the danger with topical jokes is that they eventually become
outdated and obscure to modern audiences. The same is true of celebrities
who were popular then but unrecognizable today, unless you're an old movie
buff. For the most part, though, the Looney Tunes cartoons are still funny
today--to all ages--because those kind of references were kept to a minimum.)
Interesting. Thank u for that info. :wave:

....there was a period in 1945-'46 where Friz Freleng used the slogan "Does your tobacco taste different lately?" in two different Bugs Bunny cartoons- "Herr Meets Hare" and "Baseball Bugs". THAT was the slogan of "Sir Walter
Raleigh" pipe tobacco...in print and on the radio shows they sponsored (for another of Brown & Williamson's tobacco products, Raleigh cigarettes used a variation of the same slogan- "Does YOUR cigarette taste different lately?").

Advertising slogans of the day were sprinkled into and parodied in many of the Warner Bros. cartoons over the years........

:wave:

....there was a period in 1945-'46 where Friz Freleng used the slogan "Does your tobacco taste different lately?" in two different Bugs Bunny cartoons- "Herr Meets Hare" and "Baseball Bugs". THAT was the slogan of "Sir Walter
Raleigh" pipe tobacco...in print and on the radio shows they sponsored (for another of Brown & Williamson's tobacco products, Raleigh cigarettes used a variation of the same slogan- "Does YOUR cigarette taste different lately?").

Advertising slogans of the day were sprinkled into and parodied in many of the Warner Bros. cartoons over the years........

:wave:

very interesting. I know the sitcoms, like I love Lucy had the Philip/Morris thingy going on, but I didn't realize the cartoons were in on it as well. Thanx!