Favorite Cartoon Character Explosion?

[Marty26]

Which cartoon character explosion is your favorite?

I love the dog's explosion during The Goofy Gophers (after being blown up, he actually looked like a totally different cartoon dog). I also like Sam's explosion after hitting the "charged note" on the piano in Ballot Box Bunny, as well as Wile. E's explosion when trying to hog-tie the Roadrunner with that dynamite lasso in Ready, Set, Zoom.

[Matt the Y]

The hand grenade exploding between Wile E.'s teeth in "Zipping Along".

The hand grenade and Coyote freezing so that the Coyote's bogus latin name can appear and disappear, after which the grenade finally explodes.

Spike's failed attempt to kill Droopy with a lighter and gas leak in "Wags to Riches" (done in by a faulty lighter which he has to flick open himself but not before the gas/fire combination takes effect and the room explodes!).

The three-way back-and-forth routine with the bomb and Butch's hat in "Trap Happy". The two ultimately get confused and the bomb is rested atop Butch's head where it explodes!!!

Donald Duck suffering numerous household explosions in "How to Have an Accident in the Home"; blown up by lighting his pipe in a room with a gas leak ("If you insist... he did!!!"), also blown up by lighting a match while looking into a gas stove and trying to remove a stain on his shirt by leaving cleaning fluid too close to an open stove (It removes the stain allright but also the shirt itself as well!).

Wally Walrus being blown up by his own hand grenade (sent back to him via Woody's slingshot) in "Smoked Hams". The way he examines the grenade to see if it's the same one he just dropped and shaking it in the process therefore reactivating it is a howl!

... And, of course, the fatal explosion involving Sylvester's backfiring anti-dog bomb at the end of "Tweet and Lovely" ("It's a good thing pussycats have got nine lives!").

[Leviathan]

The explosion of the Dog inventor's "great invention" in BABY BOTTLENECK; IT's so intense that you can actually see the words "BOOM" when it explodes.

[kaseykockroach]

My favorite cartoon explosions:
Birdy and the Beast-both the gasoline scene and the grenade at the end
Goofy Gophers-grenade gag
Baby Bottleneck-I love how energetic the "great invention" is.

[Chow Hound]

Foggy's "Watch it Fizz!" explosion at the end of Little Boy Boo :foggy:

I also like the one where Foggy gets all his feathers blown off, and then states that he keeps them numbered for just such an emergency as he's picking them up off the ground. Can't remember which one that was in though.

[Matt the Y]

Foggy's "Watch it Fizz!" explosion at the end of Little Boy Boo :foggy:

I also like the one where Foggy gets all his feathers blown off, and then states that he keeps them numbered for just such an emergency as he's picking them up off the ground. Can't remember which one that was in though.

That was "All Fowled Up" [1955]. He uses the same line at the end of "Weasel Stop" [1956] when he has all his feathers removed and baled and a variant of the line in "The High and the Flighty" [1956] when he bites into an electric ear of corn causing his feathers to pop off his body like corn kernals, after which he comments that "I always keep a spare in my locker". Even Daffy uses the line when he's blown up in "Suppressed Duck" [1965] so it wasn't just exclusive to Foggy. ;)

[Stanislav]

I'll just quote the scene (y'all will recognize what cartoon it's from...).

"YOSEMITE SAM....OF OUTER...[BLAM!!].....space?"

The expression on Sam's face and the way Mel intones that final word never fail to elicit guffaws in me, even after dozens of viewings... :)

[absolutpaul]

Wile E's bomb-on-a-flume in Zoom and Bored.

I also love the one in Hip Hip Hurry, when he drops the grenade, it bounces off a phone wire and explodes. Then, he drops the now-useless grenade pin, another bounce, and somehow another grenade explodes in his face!

There are lots of great explosion gags in Captain Hareblower as well. "Talcum powder doesn't explode!"

[TnAdct1]

Definitely the end gag in "The Old Grey Hare", in which old Bugs gives old Elmer a stick a dynamite that doesn't blow up until the end card is shown (thus shaking the card).

[J. B. Warner]

I can't believe I'm the first to mention the Free Drink of Water gag from "Beep Beep". The expression on Wile E.'s face right before the explosion is one of the funniest drawings ever put on film.

[Matt the Y]

A few more...

The bit in "The Unruly Hare" where Bugs puts half a dozen explosive cigars in Elmer's mouth and lights them all. The MASSIVE explosion that then occurs around Fudd's head is a riot (Makes one wonder how he even survived after that blast. The worst that happens is his head smoulders).

The bit in "Henpecked Hoboes" where Junior flubs George's attempt to lure a chicken into a dynamite nest by pressing the detonator down too soon (Turning George's normally serious monotone voice into a throaty black caricature, "O-kay, Junior. Bend ovah!!!!"). PIC, I know, but also quite funny.

All the explosions that happen to the Commissioner (courtesy of the escaped Mad Bomber) in the Inspector short, "Napoleon Blown-Aparte" (one of my favorites).

All the explosions that happen to the safecracker in the Pink Panther short, "Dial P For Pink".

The bombing of the school at the end of "Teachers are People".

The massive explosion at the end of "Mouse Trouble" that destroys the house (but not Jerry) and sends Tom into the hereafter.

Sylvester miming pulling the trigger on his disassembled rifle in "Gonzales' Tamales" and suddenly having it explode in his own face anyway!!!

[Bobby Bickert]

The booby-trapped jack-in-the-box in "Seein' Red White n Blue". How many other cartoon explosions have swastikas in them?

[AcmeCoyote]

I can't believe I'm the first to mention the Free Drink of Water gag from "Beep Beep". The expression on Wile E.'s face right before the explosion is one of the funniest drawings ever put on film.

Absolutely. I would have to say any explosion that is preceded by a brief look of grim realization on the doomed character's face is a win for me.

[Matt the Y]

Also...

The scene in the climax of "Canned Feud" where Sylvester stuffs the mouse's hole with tons upon tons of explosives, carefully lights it, and receives the biggest explosion this side of the coast!!! Yet, after the smoke and flames die down, the house is still standing and Sylvester seems a bit frazzled but that's the maximum effect of the explosion! Ah, the wonders of cartoons!

The scene in "Scrambled Aches" where Wile E. uses the dynamite stick on the lasso only to have it tangled around his body. The look on the Coyote's face when he stares the dynamite stick in the face and then nervously waits for the explosion while giving us that "look" is a riot!

Charles M. Wolf's addle-brained attempt to use a hand grenade (with instructions, no less!) only to learn too late he only has ten seconds to throw it after the pin has been yanked in "Hare-Less Wolf".

The house-busting explosion at the end of "The Stupor Salesman" when McSlug tries to flick Daffy's bic without realizing the oven gas is still turned on.

Porky's house similarly getting destroyed with explosives at the end of "Mouse Menace".

Goofy being blown up with a dynamite keg down his pants in "Two Gun Goofy" while kissing a girl. He isn't harmed by the explosion but the explosive effects occurring simultaneously with his girlfriend's kiss causes him to suspect she is quite a kisser!!! "Whhhhhat a gal!"

Wile E. Coyote trying (and failing) to defuse his bomb in "Fastest With the Mostest". The relaxed look on the Coyote's face when he glances with relief at the wire he's pulled only to subsequently find out it's the WRONG wire at which point his relaxation turns to dread is hilarious!

Buzz Buzzard's foiled attempt at dynamiting a bridge in "Puny Express" with Woody leading him into the fuse box and through the wires then pressing the detonator on Buzz (the heartfelt "goodbye" look Woody gives Buzz before blowing him up is great!).

Giovanni Jones getting blown up by his own dynamite pen when giving Bugs an "autograph" in "Long-Haired Hare".

Bugs proving to be as cunning as Wile E. when he asks Wile E. to sign his last will and testament with a fountain pen (really a dynamite stick). Naturally, Wile E., a "genius", is too smart to fall for Bugs' trick and extinguishes the fuse but he's NOT smart enough to realize Bugs has still outsmarted by giving him a double-fused dynamite stick! I love the ultra-smug look on Wile E.'s face when he says, "Being a genius certainly has its' advantages", while tossing the "harmless" dynamite stick in his hand before cringing when he realizes it still has a lit fuse.

[Matt the Y]

ZOMG! I almost forgot one of my favorite cartoon explosions of all time!!!

To wit, the explosive (Pun very intended!!!) finale of "The Missing Mouse" in which the REAL explosive white mouse makes its' way into Tom & Jerry's house. By this time, however, Tom has no reason to fear; the explosive effects in the chemicals the mouse has swallowed have worn off and the now "non-explosive" mouse is no longer a threat. Or so it seems.... Tom administers the greatest kick in the butt of all time to the white mouse and the most gut-wreching, terrifying, totally destructive explosion of all time lets out... after which the entire city has been annihilated! The radio announcer cheerfully reminds everyone that, "The mouse will NOT explode!" A shell-shocked and thoroughly injured Tom pokes his head out of the debris and comments, "Don't... you... believe it!"

[Mr. Semaj]

-The tiny dynamite gag from Drooler's Delight.
-The hidden dynamite gag from I Taw a Puddy Tat.
-The fireworks finale of Toby Tortoise Returns.
-Bugs blowing out Sam's dynamite in Southern Fried Rabbit.
-The dynamite gag from His Bitter Half - Daffy sitting on the soot-covered background is some of the most beautiful artwork in any Looney Tunes short.
-The shrinking dynamite from Yankee Doodle Mouse.
-The giant magnet from Compressed Hare - I first saw this the same day as Chuck Jones' passing.

Just to name a few.

[Marty26]

Also...

The scene in the climax of "Canned Feud" where Sylvester stuffs the mouse's hole with tons upon tons of explosives, carefully lights it, and receives the biggest explosion this side of the coast!!! Yet, after the smoke and flames die down, the house is still standing and Sylvester seems a bit frazzled but that's the maximum effect of the explosion! Ah, the wonders of cartoons!

The scene in "Scrambled Aches" where Wile E. uses the dynamite stick on the lasso only to have it tangled around his body. The look on the Coyote's face when he stares the dynamite stick in the face and then nervously waits for the explosion while giving us that "look" is a riot!

Charles M. Wolf's addle-brained attempt to use a hand grenade (with instructions, no less!) only to learn too late he only has ten seconds to throw it after the pin has been yanked in "Hare-Less Wolf".

The house-busting explosion at the end of "The Stupor Salesman" when McSlug tries to flick Daffy's bic without realizing the oven gas is still turned on.

Porky's house similarly getting destroyed with explosives at the end of "Mouse Menace".

Goofy being blown up with a dynamite keg down his pants in "Two Gun Goofy" while kissing a girl. He isn't harmed by the explosion but the explosive effects occurring simultaneously with his girlfriend's kiss causes him to suspect she is quite a kisser!!! "Whhhhhat a gal!"

Wile E. Coyote trying (and failing) to defuse his bomb in "Fastest With the Mostest". The relaxed look on the Coyote's face when he glances with relief at the wire he's pulled only to subsequently find out it's the WRONG wire at which point his relaxation turns to dread is hilarious!

Buzz Buzzard's foiled attempt at dynamiting a bridge in "Puny Express" with Woody leading him into the fuse box and through the wires then pressing the detonator on Buzz (the heartfelt "goodbye" look Woody gives Buzz before blowing him up is great!).

Giovanni Jones getting blown up by his own dynamite pen when giving Bugs an "autograph" in "Long-Haired Hare".

Bugs proving to be as cunning as Wile E. when he asks Wile E. to sign his last will and testament with a fountain pen (really a dynamite stick). Naturally, Wile E., a "genius", is too smart to fall for Bugs' trick and extinguishes the fuse but he's NOT smart enough to realize Bugs has still outsmarted by giving him a double-fused dynamite stick! I love the ultra-smug look on Wile E.'s face when he says, "Being a genius certainly has its' advantages", while tossing the "harmless" dynamite stick in his hand before cringing when he realizes it still has a lit fuse.

Ah, that reminds me of another one of my favorites. In that same cartoon (Operation: Rabbit), Wile E. plants a dynamite stuffed mechanical bunny to go after Bugs. And then Bugs retaliates with a dynamite filled mechanical Coyote. The way Wile E. tries to woo her, gets blown up, starts dazedly dancing while singing "Here Comes The Bride," and then gets blown up by his own mechanical bunny (with a hilarious "Oh No!") were priceless!