RH have inspired me to triviate.
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fr_defenestratoBTW, i think googling is NOT ok. grrr. i expect my brother to get most if not all of these, since they deal extensively with stuff that entered our collective childhood lore through joint viewing and subsequent mockery.
just so's you know, i started writing these questions citing "that cartoon about blah blah blah" but eventuall decided to do the research to cite each one as explicitly as possible--obviously, not all this crap is out of my head, but the ANSWERS to almost all of the questions were (the exceptions are marked thus: ***).
BRADYS AND OTHER 1960S-'70S TV
For what suitor of Marcia Brady did "something suddenly come up" (preventing him from being her date) when Marcia's nose was footballed into enormity? (***Bonus: who played him? And if you take the time to look this guy up like I did, check out the name of the character he played in his earliest actor listing on imdb and note also what screen time he shared with Julie Andrews.)
What was Morticia Addams's sister's name? What vocal irregularity did she boast?
What instrument was Lurch wont to play?
What were Laverne's and Shirley's last names?
At what brewery did Laverne and Shirley work?
Who was Laverne's on-again, off-again boyfriend (first and last name)?
What was the name of Shirley's stuffed cat? (Extra points for the story behind its naming!)
Without resorting to imdb or other reference work, quote Corp. Walter O'Reilly's entire speech announcing the death of his commanding office Henry Blake.
What is Radar's first name?
What is Maj. Charles Emerson Winchester's sister's name? What are the rank and name of the semi-regular character who mispronounces it to rhyme with a venereal disease?
What do the B. and J. in B.J. Hunnicutt stand for?
Much to her father's disappointment, That Girl Ann Marie (Marlo Thomas) briefly decides to change her first name to Marie and her last name to the name of her hometown, which is...?
On which beach did Major Nelson find (I Dream of) Jeannie's bottle?
On which beach did Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck expect to emerge from the ground, instead ending up in Ali Baba's cave? According to Bugs, in what U.S. city did their journey go astray?
Sylvester, who later--interminably and very tiresomely--pursued Tweety Bird, debuted in a Porky Pig cartoon ("Kitty Kornered," 1946), at the end of which he and three other felines oust Porky from bed and house by masquerading as what?
NAME THAT TUNE!
What is the name of the M*A*S*H theme song? Who wrote it?
On only one occasion did M*A*S*H begin without the main theme song. Played instead was the song "North Korean Blues" (a.k.a. "Tokyo"), written and performed by what semi-regular cast member?
What car owned by Archie and Edith Bunker "ran great" according to the theme song?
The Andrews Sisters sing what song at the end of the Abbott and Costello vehicle "Hold that Ghost" (1941)?
The overture/credits music for "Arsenic and Old Lace" (1944), derives in part from the melody of a hymn that Aunt Martha and Aunt Abby (and later, Mortimer) sing in the movie. What is the name of the hymn? ***Is it authentic or written for the movie?
In the lesser Marx Brothers movie "The Big Store" (1941), one department store counter clerk (the actress's name is perhaps lost to history) steals the show with a very bizarre, jazzy, "eerily emotionless" rendition of what song?
In "Solid Serenade" (1946), Tom inadvertantly wakes up Jerry by singing what song to his prospective girlfriend?
In "Buccaneer Bunny" (1948), Yosemite Sam in his pirate incarnation sings "Sixteen Men on a Dead Man's Chest" while burying his treasure. In the first iteration he cites the traditional bottle of rum; the second time around the libation changes to what specific brew?
In the WB animated short "My Favorite Duck" (1942), Daffy Duck annoys Porky Pig by (among many, many other things) getting a then-popular song stuck in his head. What song was this, and what song did it briefly replace in Porky's head?
In "Hare Tonic" (1945) Elmer Fudd purchases Bugs Bunny at a grocery to make rabbit stew. What song does he sing on the way home, replacing the title phrase with "wabbit stew"?
Warner Brothers used a pair of twin puppies called Ham and Ex in a few cartoons in 1935 and 1936. One 1935 cartoon involving an elementary school talent show features the debut of Porky Pig (whose voice, by Joe Dougherty, is very unlike what Mel Blanc would eventually make of it) reciting The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere, as well as Ham and Ex singing the title song of the cartoon, which is...?
Joe Dougherty voiced another stutterer in a 1936 WB short directed by Tex Avery, whose main character is a newborn owl with a fully fledged talent for jazz singing--this character's theme song, also the name of the cartoon, is...?
The 1939 WB short "Sniffles and the Bookworm" (directed by Chuck Jones) set its action--a bunch of literary characters coming out of their books after hours at a bookshop--to a song that was written by Johnny Mercer for the feature film "Going Places" the year before. What was the song?
Chuck Jones directed two "Bugs Bunny takes a penguin home" cartoons in consecutive years, 1949 and 1950. In the latter, "8-Ball Bunny," Bugs plays guitar and sings about himself and "his tribulations" in the third person. His song is interrupted by one of several appearances in the cartoon of "a fellow American who's down on his luck"--a voice-unmistakable animated version of what movie star? (and specifically in reference to what role in what movie?)
In "Falling Hare" (1943) Bugs is tormented by a gremlin around and in a U.S. bomber. Two songs in the incidental music for this short are synched cleverly with the action: first, to what American folk song does the gremlin beat on the "blockbuster bomb" with a mallet? ***Second, to what Russian folk song does Bugs attempt to break down the aircraft door? (I could sing this to you, but I had to look up the name...) Extra credit: What early American tune does the gremlin's laugh resemble?
In "Acrobatty Bunny" (1946), Bugs squares off against a lion named Nero. At one point he dons a clown costume and sings what song to Nero, in the context of which he smacks the shit out of the lion? *** In what other WB cartoon(s) is this song sung/gag done?
Speaking of Nero, in a Bugs sings a modified version of "Home, Sweet Home" in "Upswept Hare" (1953)--interrupting his bath to find an elusive note on Elmer Fudd's grand piano. What are the filked lyrics?
In "The Hardship of Miles Standish" (1940), Elmer Fudd plays John Alden, who conveys Standish's love for Priscilla via a singing telegram rendition of what song?
Three WB shorts ["Ballot Box Bunny" (1951), with Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam playing a "pie-ana"; "Show Biz Bugs" (1957), with Bugs and Daffy Duck on a xylophone; and an idiotic 1965 recycling in "Rushing Roulette" with the Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote, and a piano] use an "exploding keyboard" gag where characters try to rub each other out by rigging a bomb to a particular note on the keyboard; the villain asks the presumed rube to play a tune, which the rube tries a couple of times and gets wrong--after which, of course, the villain forgets the bomb, demonstrates the correct tune, and gets blowed up. What song is played/misplayed in all three sequences?
Despite his trouble with the above tune, Bugs Bunny has been known to play a lot of piano and a little violin. His piano credits include "Rhapsody Rabbit" (1946) and "Hyde and Hare" (1955), and he shows off his fiddle licks in "Hurdy Gurdy Hare" (1950). What pieces does he play in each? ***Anybody know other examples of Bugs's musical expertise?
Daffy Duck also has a good deal of musical talent... apart from his own piano skills, as demonstrated in the 1988 feature film "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" (with appallingly wrong Daffy animation, BTW), he plays a variety of instruments in "Ducking the Devil" (1957), probably the funniest WB short featuring the subsequently one-trick Tasmanian Devil. This short is a veritable treasure trove of (out-of-date even for 1957) pop tunes and folky ballads, so points for as many as you can name. Points also for correctly identifying the one instrument that utterly fails to soothe Taz's savage breast.
Apart from Red's song "The 5 O'Clock Whistle" (see below) in "Little Red Riding Rabbit" (1944), Bugs Bunny distracts the Big Bad Wolf by repeating everything he says, leading them to start a duet of what then-popular song by Percy Wenrich?
In Chuck Jones's brilliant and oft-quoted "What's Opera, Doc?" (1957), Elmer Fudd and Bugs Bunny sing new lyrics to music from Richard Wagner's "Ring" trilogy. (1) To the "Ride of the Valkyries," Elmer threatens to do what? (2) To the "Pilgrim's Chorus," Elmer entreats Bugs (dressed as Brunhilde) to do what?
Extra points for being able to quote all lyrics of "Here's the Easter Rabbit, hurray!" as sung by Bugs in "Easter Yeggs" (1947) and/or "A Boy's Best Friend Is His Mother" as sung by Bugs in "Hare Trigger" (1945) and/or Daffy the Mustache Fiend's song while decorating a billboard in "Daffy Doodles" (1946) and/or "The 5 O'clock Whistle" (by Glenn Miller) from "Little Red Riding Rabbit" (1944).
AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT
And entirely unrelated to anything, just because it's driving me crazy and I don't know the answer: At/toward the end of what movie does Jim Broadbent (I think) tell his estranged and just-returned wife that he'll have to think things over (i.e., whether she can come back) and then say, "I'm joking, you stupid cow!"
just so's you know, i started writing these questions citing "that cartoon about blah blah blah" but eventuall decided to do the research to cite each one as explicitly as possible--obviously, not all this crap is out of my head, but the ANSWERS to almost all of the questions were (the exceptions are marked thus: ***).
BRADYS AND OTHER 1960S-'70S TV
For what suitor of Marcia Brady did "something suddenly come up" (preventing him from being her date) when Marcia's nose was footballed into enormity? (***Bonus: who played him? And if you take the time to look this guy up like I did, check out the name of the character he played in his earliest actor listing on imdb and note also what screen time he shared with Julie Andrews.)
What was Morticia Addams's sister's name? What vocal irregularity did she boast?
What instrument was Lurch wont to play?
What were Laverne's and Shirley's last names?
At what brewery did Laverne and Shirley work?
Who was Laverne's on-again, off-again boyfriend (first and last name)?
What was the name of Shirley's stuffed cat? (Extra points for the story behind its naming!)
Without resorting to imdb or other reference work, quote Corp. Walter O'Reilly's entire speech announcing the death of his commanding office Henry Blake.
What is Radar's first name?
What is Maj. Charles Emerson Winchester's sister's name? What are the rank and name of the semi-regular character who mispronounces it to rhyme with a venereal disease?
What do the B. and J. in B.J. Hunnicutt stand for?
Much to her father's disappointment, That Girl Ann Marie (Marlo Thomas) briefly decides to change her first name to Marie and her last name to the name of her hometown, which is...?
On which beach did Major Nelson find (I Dream of) Jeannie's bottle?
On which beach did Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck expect to emerge from the ground, instead ending up in Ali Baba's cave? According to Bugs, in what U.S. city did their journey go astray?
Sylvester, who later--interminably and very tiresomely--pursued Tweety Bird, debuted in a Porky Pig cartoon ("Kitty Kornered," 1946), at the end of which he and three other felines oust Porky from bed and house by masquerading as what?
NAME THAT TUNE!
What is the name of the M*A*S*H theme song? Who wrote it?
On only one occasion did M*A*S*H begin without the main theme song. Played instead was the song "North Korean Blues" (a.k.a. "Tokyo"), written and performed by what semi-regular cast member?
What car owned by Archie and Edith Bunker "ran great" according to the theme song?
The Andrews Sisters sing what song at the end of the Abbott and Costello vehicle "Hold that Ghost" (1941)?
The overture/credits music for "Arsenic and Old Lace" (1944), derives in part from the melody of a hymn that Aunt Martha and Aunt Abby (and later, Mortimer) sing in the movie. What is the name of the hymn? ***Is it authentic or written for the movie?
In the lesser Marx Brothers movie "The Big Store" (1941), one department store counter clerk (the actress's name is perhaps lost to history) steals the show with a very bizarre, jazzy, "eerily emotionless" rendition of what song?
In "Solid Serenade" (1946), Tom inadvertantly wakes up Jerry by singing what song to his prospective girlfriend?
In "Buccaneer Bunny" (1948), Yosemite Sam in his pirate incarnation sings "Sixteen Men on a Dead Man's Chest" while burying his treasure. In the first iteration he cites the traditional bottle of rum; the second time around the libation changes to what specific brew?
In the WB animated short "My Favorite Duck" (1942), Daffy Duck annoys Porky Pig by (among many, many other things) getting a then-popular song stuck in his head. What song was this, and what song did it briefly replace in Porky's head?
In "Hare Tonic" (1945) Elmer Fudd purchases Bugs Bunny at a grocery to make rabbit stew. What song does he sing on the way home, replacing the title phrase with "wabbit stew"?
Warner Brothers used a pair of twin puppies called Ham and Ex in a few cartoons in 1935 and 1936. One 1935 cartoon involving an elementary school talent show features the debut of Porky Pig (whose voice, by Joe Dougherty, is very unlike what Mel Blanc would eventually make of it) reciting The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere, as well as Ham and Ex singing the title song of the cartoon, which is...?
Joe Dougherty voiced another stutterer in a 1936 WB short directed by Tex Avery, whose main character is a newborn owl with a fully fledged talent for jazz singing--this character's theme song, also the name of the cartoon, is...?
The 1939 WB short "Sniffles and the Bookworm" (directed by Chuck Jones) set its action--a bunch of literary characters coming out of their books after hours at a bookshop--to a song that was written by Johnny Mercer for the feature film "Going Places" the year before. What was the song?
Chuck Jones directed two "Bugs Bunny takes a penguin home" cartoons in consecutive years, 1949 and 1950. In the latter, "8-Ball Bunny," Bugs plays guitar and sings about himself and "his tribulations" in the third person. His song is interrupted by one of several appearances in the cartoon of "a fellow American who's down on his luck"--a voice-unmistakable animated version of what movie star? (and specifically in reference to what role in what movie?)
In "Falling Hare" (1943) Bugs is tormented by a gremlin around and in a U.S. bomber. Two songs in the incidental music for this short are synched cleverly with the action: first, to what American folk song does the gremlin beat on the "blockbuster bomb" with a mallet? ***Second, to what Russian folk song does Bugs attempt to break down the aircraft door? (I could sing this to you, but I had to look up the name...) Extra credit: What early American tune does the gremlin's laugh resemble?
In "Acrobatty Bunny" (1946), Bugs squares off against a lion named Nero. At one point he dons a clown costume and sings what song to Nero, in the context of which he smacks the shit out of the lion? *** In what other WB cartoon(s) is this song sung/gag done?
Speaking of Nero, in a Bugs sings a modified version of "Home, Sweet Home" in "Upswept Hare" (1953)--interrupting his bath to find an elusive note on Elmer Fudd's grand piano. What are the filked lyrics?
In "The Hardship of Miles Standish" (1940), Elmer Fudd plays John Alden, who conveys Standish's love for Priscilla via a singing telegram rendition of what song?
Three WB shorts ["Ballot Box Bunny" (1951), with Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam playing a "pie-ana"; "Show Biz Bugs" (1957), with Bugs and Daffy Duck on a xylophone; and an idiotic 1965 recycling in "Rushing Roulette" with the Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote, and a piano] use an "exploding keyboard" gag where characters try to rub each other out by rigging a bomb to a particular note on the keyboard; the villain asks the presumed rube to play a tune, which the rube tries a couple of times and gets wrong--after which, of course, the villain forgets the bomb, demonstrates the correct tune, and gets blowed up. What song is played/misplayed in all three sequences?
Despite his trouble with the above tune, Bugs Bunny has been known to play a lot of piano and a little violin. His piano credits include "Rhapsody Rabbit" (1946) and "Hyde and Hare" (1955), and he shows off his fiddle licks in "Hurdy Gurdy Hare" (1950). What pieces does he play in each? ***Anybody know other examples of Bugs's musical expertise?
Daffy Duck also has a good deal of musical talent... apart from his own piano skills, as demonstrated in the 1988 feature film "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" (with appallingly wrong Daffy animation, BTW), he plays a variety of instruments in "Ducking the Devil" (1957), probably the funniest WB short featuring the subsequently one-trick Tasmanian Devil. This short is a veritable treasure trove of (out-of-date even for 1957) pop tunes and folky ballads, so points for as many as you can name. Points also for correctly identifying the one instrument that utterly fails to soothe Taz's savage breast.
Apart from Red's song "The 5 O'Clock Whistle" (see below) in "Little Red Riding Rabbit" (1944), Bugs Bunny distracts the Big Bad Wolf by repeating everything he says, leading them to start a duet of what then-popular song by Percy Wenrich?
In Chuck Jones's brilliant and oft-quoted "What's Opera, Doc?" (1957), Elmer Fudd and Bugs Bunny sing new lyrics to music from Richard Wagner's "Ring" trilogy. (1) To the "Ride of the Valkyries," Elmer threatens to do what? (2) To the "Pilgrim's Chorus," Elmer entreats Bugs (dressed as Brunhilde) to do what?
Extra points for being able to quote all lyrics of "Here's the Easter Rabbit, hurray!" as sung by Bugs in "Easter Yeggs" (1947) and/or "A Boy's Best Friend Is His Mother" as sung by Bugs in "Hare Trigger" (1945) and/or Daffy the Mustache Fiend's song while decorating a billboard in "Daffy Doodles" (1946) and/or "The 5 O'clock Whistle" (by Glenn Miller) from "Little Red Riding Rabbit" (1944).
AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT
And entirely unrelated to anything, just because it's driving me crazy and I don't know the answer: At/toward the end of what movie does Jim Broadbent (I think) tell his estranged and just-returned wife that he'll have to think things over (i.e., whether she can come back) and then say, "I'm joking, you stupid cow!"
