74 years ago today, one of the greatest animated shorts ever was released. The Rabbit of Seville. If you are of a certain age, chances are Bugs Bunny introduced you to classical music. - ThreadSky

dannyderaney.bsky.social • 68 days ago

74 years ago today, one of the greatest animated shorts ever was released.

The Rabbit of Seville.

If you are of a certain age, chances are Bugs Bunny introduced you to classical music.

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gloktaknowsbest.bsky.social•67 days ago

As a bald guy, where do I get a scalp massage like that?

sericite.bsky.social•67 days ago

One year my little brother & I were home from college & a late night Looney Tines marathon played this & What’s Opera Doc? back to back. We laughed so hard that we still remember it years later. Just great great stuff.

sander11.bsky.social•62 days ago

robinbudd.bsky.social•68 days ago

💗💗💗💗💗

joaogdcarvalho.bsky.social•67 days ago

It's not a cartoon, it's a masterpiece!

elisabethhobbes.co.uk•67 days ago

I still show them to my classes. 😊

roxineking.bsky.social•67 days ago

Hi Danny. I grew up watching Bugs. Yes I love classical music because of the cartoons. Fond memories.

drchrisisfree.bsky.social•67 days ago

Opera!

luanviero.bsky.social•67 days ago

Bugs Bunny and Tom & Jerry (maybe a little contribution from Woody Woodpecker)

lizziethetiger.bsky.social•68 days ago

Oh yes, classical music and opera 😁

wthr-mike.bsky.social•68 days ago

The way I heard the strings just looking at the first frame..

mhartung62.bsky.social•67 days ago

Awesome!!! My favorite bugs ever

wanderwyrm.bsky.social•67 days ago

That head rub looks so gosh dang satisfying though. Kneed my scalp like it’s a baked potato in need of butter 🧈 🥔

anatxt.bsky.social•66 days ago

Once I tried listening to opera and the result was a whole day listening to Looney Tunes sound effects 😅

dwains.bsky.social•68 days ago

Yessiree

boboosen.bsky.social•67 days ago

I’m trying to find Bugs skating to The Blue Danube waltz…

driver9.bsky.social•67 days ago

The cartoon greatness of Looney Tunes, and Bugs Bunny in particular, will never be equaled.

navygirllaura.bsky.social•67 days ago

Bugs Bunny/Road Runner hour would still hold up.

driver9.bsky.social•67 days ago

No doubt. Those cartoons are timeless, and one of my best childhood memories.

navygirllaura.bsky.social•67 days ago

Absolutely.

I’m old enough to remember when Saturday morning cartoons were funny and cool.

driver9.bsky.social•67 days ago

Two hours of Bugs, Daffy, Sylvester, Yosemite Sam and Road Runner were a Saturday morning ritual. With donuts. I loved it.

navygirllaura.bsky.social•67 days ago

Many of us can reference Acme products and understand why that is hilarious. 🤣

suzannewinland.bsky.social•68 days ago

This is my FAV!!!! 🤣🥬🥦🍅🥑😂

troxx.bsky.social•68 days ago

Miss really cartoons!

earthisbeautiful.bsky.social•67 days ago

Love it!

bethannewills.bsky.social•67 days ago

My school district had a program that took us to symphony performances and operas. My 1st opera I was 7 and I told my Mom it wasn’t a real opera because no one was wearing Viking horns and I knew they wore them in operas because I had seen it on Looney Tunes. The opera I saw was Tosca.

phun-wang.bsky.social•67 days ago

I had no idea it was classical music until later in life and realized wow! What a great way to be exposed to it! Geniuses!

hawaiianimages.bsky.social•67 days ago

Different cartoon but:
"What's up, Doc? Eh? 'Franz Liszt'? Never heard of 'em."

katieburbank.bsky.social•68 days ago

I love Bugs and Looney Toons.

eclipsemage.bsky.social•68 days ago

This is my #1 favorite cartoon of all time forever. My favorite line: "There, you're nice and clean, although your face looks like it might have gone through a machine."

sleeplessanna.bsky.social•67 days ago

No words can describe how much I love the idea of introducing kids to classical music.

shonanchris.bsky.social•67 days ago

I used to sit and watch the LA Symphony Orchestra with my toddler. I don’t even like classical music but he seemed to like it. At 17 he’s one of the best high school aged bass trombone players in the country and probably going to get a scholarship to play in college.

sleeplessanna.bsky.social•67 days ago

I did not start listening to Wagner till I moved out.. at home all Composers but Wagner were listened to.

sleeplessanna.bsky.social•67 days ago

Most people cannot sit through 15 hour Wagner Epic. 'kill da webbit" but this is 15 hours told in 2.5 minutes by Sydney Symphony, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgzZ_nLOJJE

sleeplessanna.bsky.social•67 days ago

Opera takes my mind of reality. It's music and voices and I can forgive most of the time the production I don't like.

sleeplessanna.bsky.social•67 days ago

That's awesome.. congrats.

daleleeack.bsky.social•68 days ago

This is my very favorite Bugs cartoon!!!!

godhatesyeast.bsky.social•67 days ago

remember when jeremy irons described his introduction to classical music through looney tunes on snl

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C_uGpuCvpQ6/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

airmaxnhoodies.bsky.social•67 days ago

Absolutely 💯

bludragonz11.bsky.social•67 days ago

Saturday morning cartoons for the win! My mom always said they'd rot my brain, but I was learning with them 😝

briguy1024.bsky.social•67 days ago

This is when cartoons were works of art, not the lame crap kids watch today!

docdx.bsky.social•68 days ago

Probably my favorite Looney Tune.

yeahmybad.bsky.social•68 days ago

I went to see Yes in concert years ago. They were having difficulty keeping an opening act on the tour, so they decided on doing something different.

They had this cartoon and "Bully for Bugs" as the opening act - and the crowd LOVED it.

catmommandy.bsky.social•68 days ago

Last year our philharmonic did an event and played along to various Looney Tunes cartoons. I smiled ear to ear the entire time.

pmsbiker.bsky.social•67 days ago

📌

drcollette.bsky.social•63 days ago

Never not funny.

alaskarights.bsky.social•67 days ago

The Anchorage Symphony (I play the piano) is doing “Bugs Bunny at the Symphony” w an array of the classic cartoons plus live orchestra on Jan 11th. So happy introduce families to Bugs & classical music - & thrill people who grew up w Bugs & his pals. We all need the smiles & togetherness. 🎵🎹

reverendjesus.com•67 days ago

Oh my god, that would be AMAZING

breadbae.bsky.social•67 days ago

Damn I’m about to check to see if my local orchestra is now also doing this.

karenkiely.bsky.social•67 days ago

How did I not know this?! Must get ticket NOW!

jampamatos.jampa.br•67 days ago

I LOVE this one, but I think chaotic Woody Woodpecker going full sweeney todd while singing the barber of seville is also 10/10, and my personal favorite

thedrewster02.bsky.social•64 days ago

Not to mention that the Barber of Seville cartoon came out 6 years before the Rabbit of Seville. So without that cartoon, we probably wouldn’t have the Rabbit of Seville short to begin with.

lilreridin.bsky.social•67 days ago

A CLASSIC!!

canadianjargon.bsky.social•68 days ago

This and Hillbilly Hare are my two favourite Bugs cartoons

lizreusswig.bsky.social•63 days ago

Love this…definitely one of the greatest! 🥰

rubytuesday72.bsky.social•68 days ago

oldskoolguitar.bsky.social•66 days ago

Probably one of if not my favorite Bugs Bunny shorts

saphyb.bsky.social•67 days ago

One of my all time favourites! 💖

rbf8493.bsky.social•68 days ago

Him, and Gilligan's Island. https://youtu.be/bXId5jOTxdg?t=30

thefinnegan.bsky.social•67 days ago

https://youtu.be/fSEQERAdCPU

jsharkey67.bsky.social•67 days ago

God bless Carl Stalling.

deangullberry47.bsky.social•68 days ago

"You'rrrrrrrrre so next!"

pagooey.bsky.social•68 days ago

Come into my shop
Let me cut your mop

dannyderaney.bsky.social•68 days ago

Let me shave your crop
Daintedly...daiiiiintedly

iiitpiii.bsky.social•66 days ago

Love Buggs! Guessing this is where hair stylists got "tossing hair" from.

leganto.bsky.social•68 days ago

And " I'm a gremlin , from the Kremlin" to the tune of "Ochi Chornye" as the gremlin pounds on a nuke detonator with a sledgehammer...

mztonya.bsky.social•68 days ago

When we got the "Barber of Seville" piece in concert band when I was in high school, we played it the first time like we'd already played it before! Lol! We already knew it from Bugs Bunny 🤭

sarcasmo.bsky.social•68 days ago

😆

jebpllc.bsky.social•68 days ago

And Bebop..
https://www.b98.tv/video/three-little-bops/

akeley.bsky.social•67 days ago

100%

grobielauren.bsky.social•67 days ago

Bugs Bunny? Yes. More than anything? CSO and Choir. Mahler=snore. Don't go hear Mahler performed with someone who just flew for over 24 hours.

Totally unrelated, how is your dad?

fraucheezpuff.bsky.social•67 days ago

I play this and the video almost weekly...

stadler91.bsky.social•67 days ago

Opera too!

playfulmuse.bsky.social•67 days ago

"What's Opera, Doc?" has to be my favorite animated short.

Its appeal has only been enhanced by time, and my adult appreciation for classical music and opera.

A beloved classic.

rorywrites.bsky.social•67 days ago

I took a class on opera in college and we watched What’s Opera, Doc?

sparkytrish.bsky.social•68 days ago

Omg one of my fav childhood episodes!

purplehoorean.bsky.social•68 days ago

There’s nothing better than the Bunny with attitude💜

loupeacham.bsky.social•67 days ago

Bugs Bunny and the Little Rascals.
https://youtu.be/mKkJAu16yJ0?si=hJnYUGeOfoV6gTcd

professorcanine.bsky.social•68 days ago

This one and the viking one ("kill the wabbit") are the greatest cartoons ever made.

sarcasmo.bsky.social•68 days ago

I love this one too. No music but the hairstyle scene cracks me up

https://youtu.be/J4fjA8W-6es?feature=shared

dannyderaney.bsky.social•68 days ago

yes indeed!

pezlee.bsky.social•63 days ago

Best cartoons ever!

rirugrat.bsky.social•67 days ago

And the entire episode is very hard to find on the internet

patricia59.bsky.social•68 days ago

Bugs Bunny, and also Gilligan's Island, when they did the Carmen/Shakespeare mashup (Harold Hecuba's musical Hamlet) LOL

leganto.bsky.social•68 days ago

" Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
Do not forget, stay out of debt..."
Yes, all those lyrics are still in my brain

patricia59.bsky.social•68 days ago

Ginger singing, “Hamlet Hamlet, do be a lamblet” and Gilligan singing “I ask to be or not to be” yep, permanently etched in mine!

pjgrating.bsky.social•68 days ago

I ask to be
Or not to be
That is the question
That I ask of thee.

Brilliant.

patricia59.bsky.social•68 days ago

A boy who loves his mother’s knee…and so I ask to be or not to be

cmraman.geek.org•67 days ago

Nah, we had the Metropolitan Opera radio broadcast in our house Saturday mornings (fortunately after cartoons). So even chance of it being Bugs Bunny or that.
(Also one of my great childhood memories was the first night they sprayed for Mediterranean fruit flies in our county. Why a great memory?

cmraman.geek.org•67 days ago

Because they were using old Hueys as the spray aircraft and my father, as soon as he heard the choppers in the distance, put on “Ride of the Valkyries” and cranked it up for the whole neighborhood to “enjoy”. Good timing, too, it hit the climax right when they were going over our house.)

moreirc.bsky.social•67 days ago

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reneedechert.com•67 days ago

I feel seen!

geetnerd.bsky.social•66 days ago

So good.

Now's, where's Wagner's "Kill The Wabbit?"

geetnerd.bsky.social•66 days ago

Shit, 2 posts below! Mea Culpa.

rodrigotello.me•67 days ago

Wait, hold on... I thought the scene had Elmer growing flowers, not a salad...

jab1963.bsky.social•66 days ago

Loved this.

phil44.bsky.social•68 days ago

It was for me

cassilda.bsky.social•67 days ago

When I was a kid, Nickelodeon had a Looney Tunes programming block. In homage to Bugs's operatic adventures, they advertised it with a jingle set to Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, and to this day I cannot hear that piece without the lyrics from playing in my head.

cassilda.bsky.social•67 days ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50Xulk_r1Ro

withaykie.bsky.social•67 days ago

Man, I still find myself singing this every couple of months.

cassilda.bsky.social•67 days ago

Right? I swear it's my mind's elevator music.

cassilda.bsky.social•67 days ago

Also, I was today years old when I realized "when you've had enough/of doing grownup stuff" was aimed at parents, not at me who didn't want to do my homework.

newlife25.bsky.social•67 days ago

I was in labor with my youngest, epidurals were not the standards of care in 1981, and I laughed my labor pains away while watching Bugs!

Laughter was truly the best medicine!

janicebraden.bsky.social•67 days ago

Yes! True story - I didn’t grow up with classical music at all but was in Ukraine in 1993 and bought a ticket to the Kyiv Opera. It was Barber of Seville and when they started the music, I realized I knew it after all thanks to Bugs.

dannyderaney.bsky.social•67 days ago

almost every piece classical music/opera (which is also classical music) is due to Looney Tunes and Tom and Jerry.

dannyderaney.bsky.social•68 days ago

Kill the Wabbit! Kill the Wabbit!

kdmyers.bsky.social•67 days ago

In addition to this being our introduction to Opera, the animation is simply amazing and holds up today. Look at the way 2 stripes make the armor 3d and The abstract backgrounds.