Favorite Mel Blanc Character

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

Poll question: Favorite Mel Blanc Character

[MuseRider]

1. Yosemite Sam n/t

[Ghetto_Boy]

5. You are correct sir! The YOMAN in a walk

[terrya]

2. Foghorn Leghorn

How can you NOT like Foghorn Leghorn? :-)

[timtom]

26. As much as I love Mel Blanc

and as much as I love Foghorn J. Leghorn, the original concept was better. The character was created by Kenny Delmar on the Fred Allen radio show. His name was Senator Claghorn and he was a denizen of "Allen's Alley."

Having said that, how come nobody has mentioned the wonderful characters Mel Blanc did on Jack Benny's radio show? (Bugs Bunny even made a surprise cameo appearance on one episode.)

[msu2ba]

29. Cy?........Si

Sue?...Si
Sew?...Si

Not to mention that Mel was the "voice" of Jack Benny's Maxwell motorcar. He was great both on JB's radio and TV shows.

[Shopaholic]

32. I Say. . . I Say. . . I Say. . .

Foghorn ROCKS!

[tridim]

3. I'll have to go with the Lion

You know.. "How many lumps do you want?" "Uhhhhh.. Three or four. Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee..." :D

[Blue-Jay]

4. Pete Puma!

I love Pete Puma.

[underseasurveyor]

10. BB: er uh, Say there doc, lets sit and have some tea.

How many lumps do ya want :evilgrin:

PP: Ooooh tree or four.

One of my favorite Bug Bunny - Pete Puma episodes.

[Ghetto_Boy]

7. oh paaaleeese..... the lion was gay.. Yosimite Sam rules!!

[underseasurveyor]

11. Excuse me Getto Boy

I'm not familiar with you. Um, what's with the, 'oh paaaleeese, the lion was gay' comment?

I'll restrain myself for a moment here.

[underseasurveyor]

23. .......................................*tap tap tap*

:evilfrown: Well? What say you G_B? That is a thoughtless and rude thing to say! :spank:

Maybe you don't fully realize the um, well loved and respected, fully embraced and acceptable diversity and nature of our DU family. I don't take kindly to slights and insults of loved ones!

So again I ask, what say you? :evilfrown:

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

33. You're not gonna make too many friends here talkin' like that

:grr:

[tridim]

12. My bad, Pete Puma was voiced by Stan Freberg

Still great though.

[blue neen]

6. Love that Yosemite Sam!

[Ghetto_Boy]

8. neen, you are right on target, th YOMAN all the way!!!

[MuseRider]

9. Gimme an orange aid

and a BI carbonate of soda.

Years ago we were in Telluride on a vacation and we took lots of car trips around the area. There was a lot of work on the road to Ridgeway and one of the guys on the crew looked exactly like Yosemite Sam. I finally took the video camera and got him on tape, it is quite funny. All the way down to the large, red handlebar!

[frylock]

13. whadda maroon..

Bugs all the way. Although, Mel's characters on the old Jack Benny radio show were damn funny as well.

[MrSlayer]

14. Mel Blanc did not do Woody Woodpecker.

Grace Staffort was the voice of Woody.

I voted for Daffy because I didn't see Yosemite Sam.

[Magrittes Pipe]

16. Original Woody.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0153922/

[MrSlayer]

18. My bad, he did do the voice in some early stuff.

I wouldn't consider him to be one of Blanc's characters though. Lantz felt that Woody sounded too evil with Blanc doing the voice. Great write up about Woody's evolution here. http://msms.essortment.com/walterlantzwoo_rsvz.htm

[Magrittes Pipe]

19. If you've seen that short, you'll agree with Lantz.

Blanc's Woody did sound quite a bit more malevolent.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

20. Blanc invented Woody Woodpecker's laugh

so I don't know what you're talkin about

[jus_the_facts]

15. Peppe Le Pu....Mon Ami....without the smell o'course!!!

:loveya: :loveya: :loveya:

[CanuckAmok]

17. "Barney Rubble...what an actor!"

n/t

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

21. Alright Folks- how is Bugs Bunny not the greatest American character ever?

:shrug:

[terrya]

25. I like Bugs Bunny...he just doesn't have Foghorn Leghorn's "presence"

Bugs doesn't "fill a room" like Foghorn Leghorn.

:-)

[YellowRubberDuckie]

22. I thought the Flintstones were Hanna Barbara?

I didn't know Mel Blanc had anything to do with them.
Duckie

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

24. Well they are and he did

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[Jade Fox]

27. Is Tasmanian Devil a Blanc character? Bugs rules of course....n/t

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

28. yes

yes he is

[Kat45]

30. I once saw Mel Blanc give a lecture at MIT and

he did a number of the voices as he talked about his career and the characters. It was a lot of fun seeing the man doing the voices.

[Kat45]

31. Can't forget to mention Elmer Fudd and Pepe LePew and

Wile E. Coyote and the Roadrunner (not that the Roadrunner said much, but that was a great cartoon).