The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #3767   Message #20234
Posted By: Tim Jaques tjaques@netcom.ca
29-Jan-98 - 08:25 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Camp Granada (Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah)
Subject: RE: camp grenada origin?
Bugs loved to poke fun at opera. He also did a Wagner take-off. In another, he annoys an opera singer by singing What Do They Do On Rainy Nights In Rio, plunking on a banjo, and disrupting his performance. I suspect that cartoons in those days could refer to opera and be understood because it could be heard on "ordinary" radio in those days.

His square-dance routine, where he dosey-dos a couple of rabbit-hunting hillybillies around, is also a classic. I wish I could remember the words he sings to the fiddle tune.

Looney Tunes, Merrie Melodies -- fine cartoons. And Fantasia too, for that matter. Beats Sailor Moon.