if you could provide Golden Collection commentary

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If WB decided that for the next Golden Collection to include audio commentary from it's fans who post here (technically the poeple who provided commentary are fans), and you were selected, what cartoons would you want to give commentary for?

I'd provide commentary for:
Porky and Daffy
The Daffy Doc
A Wild Hare
Bacall to Arms
Beep Prepared
Tweety and the Beanstalk
Hyde and Go Tweet
Chasers on the Rocks
Daffy Rents
A Taste of Catnip
Rodent to Stardom
Bugsy and Mugsy
Hare-Way to the Stars
Pop 'Im Pop

[Matt the Y]

My choices might include...

Brother Brat
The Unruly Hare
Nasty Quacks (definitely!)
Hopalong Casualty
Zoom at the Top
Now Hear This
Wagon Heels
The Stupor Salesman
Muscle Tussle
Cool Cat
His Bitter Half
Norman Normal
Often an Orphan (definitely!)
Mouse Menace
Horton Hatches the Egg
Hare-Less Wolf
The Hasty Hare (definitely!)
Fair and Worm-er
Ceiling Hero
A Wild Hare (definitely!)
Hollywood Canine Canteen
The Oily American

[Leviathan]

I'd like to do Commentary on Chicken Jitters and Farm Frolics, if for no other reason than to balance out GC Volume 3

[Larry T]

I'd love to comment on these cartoons:

Kristopher Kolumbus Jr
We The Animals Squeak
Coal Black And De Sebben Dwarfs
To Duck Or Not To Duck
Hop and Go
Tom Turk and Daffy
Hare Ribbin
The Unruly Hare
Mouse Menace****************
Two Gophers From Texas**********
Mexican Joyride*******************
Odor Of The Day******************

(I would ESPECIALLY love to do the commentaries on these last four titles ;) )

[Leviathan]

The Unruly Hare
Mouse Menace****************
Two Gophers From Texas**********
Mexican Joyride*******************
Odor Of The Day******************

(I would ESPECIALLY love to do the commentaries on these last four titles ;) )

I'll wager you're a big Art Davis fan, Larry.

[Sean Gaffney]

Buddy's Bug Hunt/Buddy Steps Out
Good Night, Elmer
Daffy Rents
The Weakly Reporter

I'm being perfectly serious. You know these cartoons, when they come, will be orphaned and commentaryless. I aim to change that. I can talk about them for the entire cartoon and not betittle them once. Well, OK, maybe once. XD

[Bugsmer]

War And Pieces
Wild Wife
Angel Puss
Bosko The Doughboy
Ups 'N Downs
Secrets of the Caribbean (you might not hear anything but heavy breathing,
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .so you'd better hope they include subtitles)
Africa Squeaks
Bowery Bugs
False Hare
Hare-Um Scare-Um
Nasty Quacks

[Larry T]

I'll wager you're a big Art Davis fan, Larry.

I do really like the Davis cartoons, but I especially like the artists' work that he had in his unit at the time (Emery Hawkins, Bill Melendez, Don Williams, Izzy Ellis, Basil Davidovich).... which is why I'd enjoy doing those commentaries.

I'm also a fan of the McCabe and Tashlin cartoons too- there was some great talent hidden in those units in the early 40s.

[Matt the Y]

I do really like the Davis cartoons, but I especially like the artists' work that he had in his unit at the time (Emery Hawkins, Bill Melendez, Don Williams, Izzy Ellis, Basil Davidovich).... which is why I'd enjoy doing those commentaries.



Larry, when was Izzy Ellis in the Davis unit? Do you know of some uncredited scenes he did in some of Davis' films?

[Greg Method]

If I had my druthers, I would love to take on some of the '60s shorts, as they're always on the short end of the stick when it comes to having any historical significance or insight attached to them (and probably deservedly so in most cases). They're always more or less lumped together and referred to quickly in any story on the studio, as if it's always best to move on to get to the end.

My list would definitely include....

Person to Bunny
Lighter Than Hare
Strangled Eggs
Lickety Splat
Prince Violent
The Last Hungry Cat
Crow's Feat
The Jet Cage
Mad as a Mars Hare
Dumb Patrol
The Iceman Ducketh
Cats and Bruises
Corn on the Cop
Tease for Two
Boulder Wham
The Solid Tin Coyote
any Cool Cat or Merlin short

[Mark J]

I'm also a fan of the McCabe and Tashlin cartoons too- there was some great talent hidden in those units in the early 40s.

IMHO Tashlin was making some of the best cartoons (and most consistently excellent) at WB in 1943-1946, animation wise, story wise, and humor wise, but McCabe? Every McCabe toon I've seen has good animation with really awful gags - stupid signs, lame ending gags, slow scenes that go nowhere, over the top offensive and unfunny anti-Japanese gags, even his one good Daffy has the stupid end with the Indian stealing his tires and returning them because they don't fit on his 'pup pup', a lame end to a decent cartoon.

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I wonder how informative the commentaries would be if some of us provided commentary, instead of Jerry Beck, Michael Barrier, and the people who had worked on the cartoons themselves. I wonder if they would be as informative if we gave commentary on cartoons. Sure, there's stuff we know about, but there ight be more that they know about, and we might keep talking about our experiences with the cartoons (talking about how much we like the cartoons, talking about not seeing certain cartoons as much as we'd like to, maybe talking about cartoons that we'd heard about and really wanted to see but hadn't seen for the longest time and then how we felt when we finally saw them for the first time, etc).

[Matt the Y]

IMHO Tashlin was making some of the best cartoons (and most consistently excellent) at WB in 1943-1946, animation wise, story wise, and humor wise, but McCabe? Every McCabe toon I've seen has good animation with really awful gags - stupid signs, lame ending gags, slow scenes that go nowhere, over the top offensive and unfunny anti-Japanese gags, even his one good Daffy has the stupid end with the Indian stealing his tires and returning them because they don't fit on his 'pup pup', a lame end to a decent cartoon.

I don't mind most of the McCabe-directed shorts I've seen. I admit I certainly would never put him on the same stratospherically high level as the master genius known as Tashlin but his cartoons are at least worth watching and do occasionally have moments of brilliance. In "Gopher Goofy", for example, an otherwise predictable gag is actually made funnier by McCabe's direction. It's the scene where the farmer reaches under his hat where the gophers are hiding and grabs and squishes a tomato by accident. The farmer then jerks his head away and gives us that absolutely horrified and almost traumatized looking face which is absolutely hilarious! It shows that McCabe was at least a strong enough director to save even a pedestrian gag with a wonderful sense of timing and personality.

I also enjoy "Confusions of a Nutzy Spy", "The Ducktators" (McCabe's "cult classic") and, of course, the best of McCabe's short stint as director, "The Daffy Duckaroo" (and, believe it or not, I like the closing gag with the Indian's "put-put";) ).

And, while we're still on the topic of this thread, I must add that if a McCabe cartoon were ever released to a Golden Collection, I wouldn't mind doing commentary for one of his films particularly "The Ducktators" or "Daffy Duckaroo" (or even perhaps.... "Tokio Jokio":eek: if only to point out its incredibly dated and unfunny Japanese stereotypes).

[J. A. Boschen]

My choices:

-Page Miss Glory (1936)
-Russian Rhapsody (1943)
-Beep Prepared (1961)
-War & Peices (1964)