Your top 5 favorite Warner Bros. cartoons?

This December as an ersatz "Christmas present" to myself, I decided to finally splurge and buy all five Looney Tunes Golden Collection DVD sets.

I've had a blast watching and re-watching the material since: I find these cartoons even more entertaining now than I did as a kid. Whether or not their creators meant them as such, these films were works of art, and still hold up excellently today.

So, what are your top five favorite cartoons of the studio's output? Mine are:

* Rhapsody Rabbit (1946)
* Dough Ray Me-ow (1948): "Breathe, stupid, breathe! You forgot to breathe again!"
* High Note (1960): An old favorite, even though I haven't seen it in a while: I always liked the anthropomorphism of notes as they arranged themselves in the form of the "Blue Danube."
* A Bear for Punishment (1951), starring the Three Bears: The scene where an oversize "Junyer" tries to shave his father with a jagged, broken blade is a riot!
* Show Biz Bugs (1957): The interplay of the "rivalry" between Bugs and Daffy here is perfect.

 

I Love to Singa
What's Opera Doc?
Porky in Wackyland
Pigs is Pigs
Have You Got Any Castles?
This list could go on forever...

 

The Three Little Bops is in my top three

Shorty Rogers + Stan Freberg + Friz Freleng = WB cartoon musical bliss.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTSOjbp0Hs0

 

Duck Amuck
Duck!Rabbit!Duck!
The Rabbit Of Seville
No Barking
Feed The Kitty

 

That's another of my all time faves!

I love what Junyer says after he finally manages to give his father a shave.

"Duh, Ma, Pa won't talk to me... I nudged him and nudged him. He's awfully still..."

Stan Freberg's voicework as "Junyer Bear" in that cartoon is nothing short of brilliant!

 

Duck Amuck
One Froggy Evening
Robin Hood Daffy
Baseball Bugs
Show Biz Bugs

 

The Rabbit of Seville is my favourite.

 

Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs (1943) – controversial, but brilliant.
Plane Daffy (1944) – everything that makes 40s cartoons great – including Hitler!
Rabbit of Seville (1951) – perfect timing, rapid-fire gags, Music Appreciation 101.
Crowing Pains (1947) – Foggy, Henery, Dawg & Sylvester in broad slapstick.
Kitty Kornered (1946) – another rubbery wild ride by Bob Clampett.

 

Jeez, how can one possibly pick just five?

How about:

Duck Amuck
Kitty Cornered
High Diving Hare
Baseball Bugs
Porky Pig's Feat

 

Exactly! So, Here are five of my MANY favorites:

Slick Hare
My Favorite Duck
Daffy Doodles
Rackateer Rabbit
Swooner Crooner

 

Heh, that's part of the challenge! Unfortunately, a "top 500 cartoons" thread would take up too much space...

 

I also vote for the Rabbit of Seville.

 

I don't have the titles handy, but:

The one where Bugs gets blasted into space, and Marvin is on that two dimensional landscape.

Inky and the Minah Bird

The Rabbit of Seville

Odor-able Kitty

The one where Wile E. Coyote moves in and tries to match wits with Bugs

 

Duck Rabbit Duck ("Do you want to shoot him now or wait until you get home")
Rabbit of Seville ("Welcome to my shop/Let me cut your crop")
Bully for Bugs ("Quit steamin' up my tail!")
Robin Hood Daffy ("Thrust! Parry!")
Duck Amuck ("This is a close up?")

 

Duck Amuck! Why? Because of the SUPER SILLY Things that happen to Daffy..I nearly split my sides laughing SO HARD!! Especially when he Bangs on A Anvil which turns into a Bomb! THAT'S HILARIOUS!! A REAL RIOT!! Others is a similar Cartoon where Bugs is the unwitting victim,The "Marrage Of Figaro" Parody and the two that feature Bugs and -COULD IT BE?-A TALKING WILE E. COYOTE!! Michael Boyce

 

I'm with Friz Freleng: Rhapsody Rabbit is my favorite, but others come close

 

Bunny hugged.

Rrrrrrrravishing Ronald the deeeeee-natured boy and Theeeeeee Crusher

 

The Great Piggy Bank Robbery
Duck Amuck
Duck Dodgers in the 24th & 1/2 Century
What's Opera Doc?
The Scarlet Pumpernickel

As you can probably tell, I have a special affinity for Daffy Duck.

Evan

 

Oh bruddah! Dere goes me bread and buddah!

 

I forgot about TSP and DDi24th1/2C!

 

My favorite part of that cartoon is when Bugs erases and redraws Daffy as that freakish creature on all fours, Daffy then commenting he "doesn't feel quite like himself" gets a good look in the mirror, and shouts "YOU KNOW BETTER THAN THAT!!!"

 

Actually, there were *four* WB shorts featuring Bugs and a talking Wile E.:

Operation: Rabbit (1952)
To Hare Is Human (1956)
Rabbit's Feat (1960)
Compressed Hare (1961)

There was also Hare-Breadth Hurry (1963), which had Bugs "filling in" for the Road Runner; Wile E. is silent in that one as he is in normal Road Runner cartoons.

 

When I was a teenager, back in 1986-87, I used to babysit these two boys and we'd watch DA religiously. The part that always made us hit the floor howling was when Daffy says, "Alright, let's get this picture started," iris fade, black with the words "THE END," with Daffy screaming "NOOO!! NOOOO!!" and pushing the "THE END" backdrop out of the way! Twenty years later, it STILL makes me howl!

MY five? Off the top of my head:

Gorilla My Dreams
Easter Yeggs
Boobs in the Woods
Hillbilly Hare
Crowing Pains

HUGE fan of Robert McKimson here.