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Sam, Bugs, Daffy: Where Do You Fit In?
Recently, an intrepid Rico coined a phrase: “Yosemite Sam Conservative”. To illustrate:
As you see, Sam’s got the guns going. He listens to Mark Levin and The Blaze. Find him in Provo, Utah. Sam owns a three year supply of canned food and 144,000 rounds, just in case. Candidates: Cruz, Perry, Bachmann, Palin.
Sam’s a cantankerous partner to his well-off establishment suburban cousins, “Foghorn Leghorn Conservatives”:
Found: at the country club outside Atlanta, Tampa, and the Research Triangle. Enjoys Haley Barbour, Karl Rove, Mitch McConnell.
Their wary libertarian allies on the west coast are “Bugs Bunny Conservatives”:
They listen to Dennis Miller, read Reason and Camille Paglia, and will support Rand Paul—most of them.
Their east coast, big city, reform-minded moderate cousins are “Top Cat Conservatives.” Read: City Journal, National Review.
The only “Daffy Duck Conservative” is 10 Cents.
Funny, I thought that was Mitt Romney.
Well, yeah, Romney is wearing the top hat and skis while Ryan is wearing the snow shoes.
-E
I’m a Chicken-Hawk Conservative. Just an angry little bird that will never give up until I kill that damned chicken (The Left).
Eric Cartman conservative. It’s something akin to Bob Packwood.
Marc Anthony
This is my hero.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gP6teva-VKU
And don’t think the Other Side hasn’t been active! From nearly twenty years ago, “Limburger”, a character from “Biker Mice of Mars” that is widely thought to be based on a certain extremely popular AM radio talk show host–
Be honest, though; wouldn’t you pay (ok have Rob Long pay) a fair amount of that stack to have Romney sitting behind the Resolute desk rather than the rank amateur sitting there now (when not fundraising, golfing, etc.).
At the three way intersection of animation, capitalism, and jokes, here’s a Rocky and Bullwinkle ‘Fractured Fairy Tales” segment on how a certain familiar-looking king figures out how to become fabulously rich turning a sleeping princess into a theme park:
I would like to imagine myself as the fabulous Cecil Turtle, the only character who ever consistently got the better of Bugs.
I say, I say, isn’t it obvious son?
Top Cat all the way!
(But you knew that, didn’t you?)
Yep, we always knew you slept in a back alley.
Are you sure?
Maybe you are Marvin the Martian?
Because I like Mendelsohn.
I’m somewhere between Statler & Waldorf (Muppet Show, for the woefully ignorant) and The Brain (of Pinky and… for the culturally deprived). My drive for world domination is derailed by my near-terminal cynical-snarkism.
I guess if I replaced my tin foil hat with a scrub brush you’d be right.
Basil Fawlty
Because I like Mendelsohn.
I must say, Fawlty, you have an amazing memory for little-used musical “quotes” in 80 year old cartoons.
Once you experience a mynah bird emerge from a mountain it had just rent in twain and slowly go hopping/skipping across the landscape to the tune of the Hebrides Overture, you don’t easily forget it.
Even for animated cartoons, there were story conference meetings not unlike the ones Rob presides over today, almost a century later. It’s often difficult to pitch an idea no one has ever seen, and hard to summon up its final effect, especially if it’s not obviously all that funny on first hearing:
“…and then, instead of a flurry of action, along comes a doleful little Mynah bird, see? With really slow sad symphonic music. No Carl Stalling or Ray Scott. All our other characters move around frantically, hitting themselves with hammers for a laugh. But the Mynah bird doesn’t do any of that! That’s why he’s funny!”
“Uh, I don’t know…”
To answer the title question: As a socially awkward fellow I don’t fit in.
You’re absolutely right – I completely forgot about him!
So, this guy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-B5vCLAoqw
The first “campaign commercial”; several years before TV was widespread, election ads were shown in theaters. Here’s 1944’s FDR ad, “Hell Bent for Election”. It’s worth a look. Here’s the “eminently fair” depiction of the political opposition:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=EX2U2Gtp-xU#t=315
Hydrogia,
You need to drop the “s” on the “http”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-B5vCLAoqw
Sylvester’s son had a name, but I can remember what it was. He would say to Sylvester “The shame. The shame. The other kittens will point and say, There’s the kitten whose father was frightened of a mouse.” Driving home his point he would put a paper bag over his head. When all the big brave pussycats in the Republican party failed to run in 2012, there must have been a lot of Sylvester Jr Republicans out there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ANlXjiPLxY
Testing to see if the hyphen in the URL stopped the video from playing. The above link has no hyphen so should show up.
Actually, a little research has confirmed that the Sylvester’s son was named simply Sylvester Jr anyway.