Wagner's "Kill The Wabbit" (aka "Flight of the Valkyries")

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Did Elmer and Bugs ruin this for you, too?

― Stoner Guy, Thursday, 30 June 2005 03:30 (twenty years ago)

I'll always associate it with Apocalypse Now.

― van nostrum (Buck Van Smack), Thursday, 30 June 2005 03:34 (twenty years ago)

Wait, 'ruin'? Are you nuts?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 30 June 2005 03:35 (twenty years ago)

I'll always associate it with Apocalypse Now.

A fave MST3K joke of mine from Warrior of the Lost World -- as two helicopters sweep over a forest engaged in a (fairly lame) chase/battle sequence, Joel and bots start humming the familiar Wagnerian notes...and then break into "Kill the Wabbit" for the final part.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 30 June 2005 03:37 (twenty years ago)

Kill The Wabit is brilliant. Best Bugs Cartoon ever.

― Andrzej B. (Andrzej B.), Thursday, 30 June 2005 10:29 (twenty years ago)

"What did you expect? A happy ending?"

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 30 June 2005 10:37 (twenty years ago)

So is it "Flight of the Valkyries" or "Ride of the Valkyries" or both? I've seen it both ways, and I suspect that "Flight" is incorrect and mistaken for "Flight of the Bumblebee" .. but I can't find a totally definitive answer on the internets... Since the Valkyrie(s) "flee", "flight" makes sense, but still I think it's "Ride", based on recordings of the opera.

― geyser muffler and a quarter (Dave225), Thursday, 30 June 2005 11:31 (twenty years ago)

Well, the Valkyries bring the dead sould to Valhalla and typically that is a trip that takes place through the sky, so "flight" makes sense. This is what annoys me about the Bugs Bunny cartoon is that I can't even think about the real meaning or visualize the sounds as these majestic beings taking dead warriors to the land of the Gods. All I see is Elmer with his spear and magic helmet. Spear and magic helmet? Spear and magic helmet! Magic helmet? Magic HEL-MEEEEET! Instead of something truly awe-inspiring, which I imagine it would have on me unadulterated, I see a little bald douchebag with a pointy metal helmet sliding around his bald head.

― Stoner Guy, Thursday, 30 June 2005 11:51 (twenty years ago)

i've only ever seen 'ride of...' - maybe it's the helicopters in AN that have led to the confusion?

― zebedee (zebedee), Thursday, 30 June 2005 11:52 (twenty years ago)

the fact that elmer trumps wagner's intention is more an indication of the latter's weakness in ref.this bit of the um gesamtkunstwerk i think

ie it wz (i think) composed a long time before most of the rest; certainly it sticks out like an ad-break in a movie on TV whenever it arrives

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 30 June 2005 11:57 (twenty years ago)

the fact that elmer trumps wagner's intention is more an indication of the latter's weakness in ref.this bit of the um gesamtkunstwerk i think

You may think so, but I think this reasoning is completely faulty and wrong. One time associations often create permanent memories. How many times did I see this cartoon growing up before I ever heard it in any other form? Multiply the repeat viewing effect by the fact that I couldn't stand the cartoon because it was beyond my interests at the time. Abracapocus.

― Stoner Guy, Thursday, 30 June 2005 13:03 (twenty years ago)

"Wo bwunhilllll dwe, I weally Wubbbb you..."

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 30 June 2005 13:06 (twenty years ago)

OMG! I was watching this only yesterday! Classique!

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 30 June 2005 13:06 (twenty years ago)

you may think that reasoning is completely faulty and wrong but i think it is completely faultless and right!!

(anyway the other point is the key one: valkeries is just NOT wagner's greatest moment, and thus quite easily overthrown by stronger better art) (other examples: nick drake)

(chuck jones > wagner)

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 30 June 2005 13:07 (twenty years ago)

I must disagree on the "Best Bugs Cartoon Ever" tag. Ergo, I will throw it out to the larger ILM masses via its own thread!!!!

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Thursday, 30 June 2005 13:47 (twenty years ago)

"If I didn't know this was Hossenpfeffer, I'd swear it was Carrot!"

That's my fav Bugs cartoon, just for that line.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 30 June 2005 13:50 (twenty years ago)

Magic hewmet?

Magic hewmet.

Classic.

― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Thursday, 30 June 2005 13:57 (twenty years ago)

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