Looney Tunes: Recycled Gags

[George3000]

A thread to talk about many gags that had been re-used in later WB cartoons; for example: the ending scene to "Curtin Razor" was re-used as the final scene to "Show Biz Bugs".

[TrogdorNyimbhat]

This is off the top of my mind:

None of this (punch), or this (punch), or this (ic... I mean punch) and definantely not THIS (I forgot)!

I dare you to step over this line! Now this one, this one, this this...

Which way did he go bub, which way did he go? - He went thatta way (two different directions)!

Oh, no! I killed him! *sob* *sob*... - (kicks him)

Rabbit season! - Duck season! - Rabbit season! - Rabbit season! - Duck season!

Goodbye, I'll miss you, don't forget to write (fools him/them into leaving)!

Time for some good ol' peace and wewaxation (gets disturbed)!

EDIT: These were only recycled in Looney Tunes I think.

[sun]

If you see enough of them, Bugs is always making the wrong turn at....................Albequerque......reused, and reused,,,and it doesn't really belong here, given tribute to in an ep in Animaniacs, where Yacco makes a wrong turn, and looks at his map (al la Bugs) and says the same gag, about Albuequrque.....It may have originally been used in a Jack Benny radio show using a different city...sp Cucumonga?
Another visual gag, used over, over, and over,,,is that one where Wiley, or Daffy, or someone is running after the oponent, and slams into the top of a tunnel or wall WAMMM!!!!! That one may have originally come from the Keystone Cops, as a lot of that stuff in comedy is. not sure about that though...Stu

[J. B. Warner]

There's a routine in "Little Red Riding Rabbit" (MM, Freleng, 1944) where Bugs and the wolf chase each other up and down a flight of stairs, continually going in and out of various doors (and the wolf never being in front of the one Bugs comes out of) that culminates in the wolf disguising himself as a door, then Bugs knocking on his head and running off. The first half of the gag is repeated in "Buccaneer Bunny" (LT, Freleng, 1948), with Yosemite Sam chasing Bugs up and down the steps on his pirate ship. However, in this cartoon, the gag concludes with Sam opening a door and getting a cannon in the face.

In "A Bird In A Guilty Cage" (LT, Freleng, 1952), Sylvester grabs a shotgun, shooting a hole in the wall and another hole in the floor. Tweety escapes through the wall, so Sylvester shoves the gun in after him, but another gun emerges from the hole in the floor. Confused, Sylvester ties a colored ribbon on the end of his gun and sticks it in the hole again, notices that the gun that comes out of the floor has a different ribbon, and fires - only for the gun in the floor to shoot him in the rear. He takes his gun out of the wall to see that it now has the same color ribbon as the gun in the floor did. This exact same gag is repeated almost identically in "A Star is Bored" (LT, Freleng, 1956), only with Daffy sticking his gun in a tree attempting to shoot Bugs, and the other gun coming out of Bugs' rabbit hole.

"Bad Ol' Puddy Tat" (MM, Freleng, 1949) features a gag where Tweety drops a stick of dynamite down Sylvester's throat. Sylvester then rushes to a nearby water cooler and drinks straight out of the spigot to try and put out the fuse, but the dynamite explodes, propelling Sylvester into the water tank. The same gag is reused in "Ant Pasted" (LT, Freleng, 1953), but with Elmer swallowing dynamite and falling victim to the same fate instead.

Friz Freleng once said that if a joke got laughs from an audience, he would repeat it in a later cartoon, since audiences usually only saw each cartoon once in theaters. However, when the shorts are shown on TV, it kind of shows a lack of originality.