Sometimes, the finest dialogue doesn't have to come from classic books or great movies.
During our vacation we've had some time to watch cartoons. Not the new-fangled kind, but vintage, 1950's-1960's Looney Tunes stuff. You don't have to know the characters intimately to figure out, really quickly, who they are. That's how good the writing on these shows is.
Half the fun of these little gems is listening to the characters bantering back and forth. And now that Hooman and Nickels are old enough to really GET the dialogue subtleties, we've had a ball coming up with our favorite lines from a recent afternoon of chilling out.
Yosemite Sam: "You're making me look like a fool!"
Bugs Bunny: "You don't need ME to make you look like a fool."
Yosemite Sam: "You're DURN RIGHT!"
Daffy Duck: "FINE. I don't want to belong to a club that would have ME as a member!"
Convict: "Are you saying I'm stupid?!"
Daffy Duck: "Oh, no! I'm not saying you are stupid. I'm saying you LOOK stupid."
These are some of most original writing of twentieth century American culture:
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"Just one little bird . . . no one'll know the difference . . . then I'll quit!"
Bugs: "Be vewwy vewwy quiet, We're hunting Elmers."
Cracks me up every time!!
We didn't hear either of those, though hunting Elmers is just awesome! Who woulda thunk the best writers in America were doing work for Bugs Bunny and company?
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