Article 13 of rec.humor.funny: Path: santra!tut!draken!kth!enea!mcvax!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!nrl-cmf!ames!killer!texbell!ssbn!lzfme!think!bloom-beacon!watmath!looking!funny-request From: dryfoo@athena.mit.edu Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny Subject: Warner Brothers song Keywords: original, chuckle Message-ID: <2688@looking.UUCP> Date: 27 Jan 89 11:30:06 GMT Sender: funny@looking.UUCP Lines: 106 Approved: funny@looking.UUCP Reply-Path: uunet!athena.mit.edu!dryfoo } From: } Subject: Re: On with the Show this is it... } } In article writes: } > Could someone please send me the complete set of words for the song } > that opens/closes the bugs bunny cartoons. You know...the song starts } > off something like this: } > } > Oh Mashay, Purple Lights } > This is it; the life we like } > We've been rehearsing and working our parts } > We know every part by heart... } } My goodness! "Oh Mashay, Purple Lights"? } } } } I'm sorry, I'll behave now. } .... } From: } This is TOTALLY from long-term memory, probably not totally right, but } it's the best I can come up with for now... } } Overture, curb the lights, } This is it, the night of nights, } ... } Are there other verses? Actually, wasn't too far off. I have a newly-released book on the Warner Bros. animation studios (the real inside story) called "From Cels to Cells -- Bugs, Thugs, and Drugs at Warner Brothers" And it lists the words to this song. If you sing it, you'll see how well it fits the tune. I'll add explanations as appropriate: Oh Mache' Curb the Lights! This a zit? Deny the knights! No Morey -- hearse Ignore nursing apart. Ween? Oh, Avery part! Pie art! Oh, Mature! Curb the Lights! This a zit? We lit the hides! And owe what hides we lit. Unwitting Joe, This a zit? NOTES: OH MACHE' -- (as in paper-mache -- for various reasons, this was WB slang for heroin) CURB THE LIGHTS! -- (The assistant animators and 'tweeners used to laugh at how badly their stoned-out bosses reacted to the bright lights used in production.) THIS A ZIT? -- (Cartoon characters never have complexion problems before their close up scenes. This was the animation studio's dig at live actors and the difficulties of working with them.) DENY THE KNIGHTS! -- (Again, a dig at the live stuff. WB had been cranking out those chivalry epics one after another.) NO MOREY HEARSE -- (Morey Amsterdam wanted to do some voices for them, and the animators wanted him. Blanc pulled some strings with Jack Warner, though, and Morey was `dead') IGNORE NURSING APART -- (Chuck Jones's very shapely young wife was nursing her new baby around the studios, and he'd asked everyone -- especially the lascivious Tex Avery -- not to stare at her.) WEEN? OH, AVERY PART! PIE ART! -- (Jones frequently threatened to decorate Avery's face with a pie if he (TA) didn't stop staring at his (CJ) wife's breasts. OH, MATURE! -- (Victor Mature was always hanging around the studios, trying to get them to model a 'toon after him. The couldn't get rid of him.) CURB THE LIGHTS! -- (ibid) THIS A ZIT? -- (ibid) WE LIT THE HIDES! -- (Referring to the evening of the drunken rampage in which they burned all the old WB Tarzan costumes.) AND OWE WHAT HIDES WE LIT. -- (They, of course, had to reimburse the studio for this arsonous running amok.) UNWITTING JOE -- (Their secret nickname for a local teamster boss who had a lot of leverage over all their union staff) THIS A ZIT? -- (ibid) } Are there other verses? Yes, but you don't want to hear 'em. They are *reeeaaalllly* obscure! Hope this helps. -- Gary L. Dryfoos -- Edited by Brad Templeton. MAIL, yes MAIL your jokes to funny@looking.UUCP Attribute the joke's source if at all possible. I will reply, mailers willing. Remember: PLEASE spell check and proofread your jokes.