Re: Looney Tunes: The October List, '08 Edition
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Re: Looney Tunes: The October List, '08 Edition         

Group: rec.arts.animation · Group Profile
Author: Derek Janssen
Date: Jul 9, 2008 20:33

Don Del Grande wrote:
>
>
> ? - it looked like a mix of Bosko and Buddy shorts to me.

(So...you can tell the difference, then?) :/
>>The good news: An entire disk of wartime shorts

(Plus the complete set of Economic educational Sylvester shorts, which
had masqueraded as "cartoons" for most of our TV-syndicated childhood!)
> Speaking of which, I've always wondered - at the end of "Herr Meets
> Hare", when Bugs appears as Stalin, he says in a Russian accent, "Does
> your tobacco taste different lately?" - is that meant to be a
> reference to anything in particular?

Also a commercial.
> (While I'm asking - I've heard this one in a number of cartoons
> (mainly Popeye); what was the origin of "Sold, American"?)

Fans of the Jack Benny radio show (those sponsored by Lucky Strikes)
need not ask.
http://benny.crispy.com/audio/season_19/1948-02-29_645.mp3

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