Richards Favorite Videos

1. “Looney Tunes on Nick” Ending

2. Nick at Nite up next bumper

3. Sports Cartoon (Karate)

Was interested in this and all the other short cartoons Nickelodeon would play throughout its daytime programming, but once was enough. They were too uneventful to keep my attention more than a second time. even though I watched them multiple times anyway.

4. Alpha Bits (cut off)

A-B-C DELICIOUS! lolz. Loved this commercial. never bought or ate the cereal.

5. Sparkle Crest

The animation was impressive, the bold blue gel as tooth paste was crazy to me, and the recognizable tune of Locomotion that I knew from The Jim Henson hour made this one a winner. I was only able to experience its awesomeness at friend and family houses though since we got our tooth paste from the health food store. naturally.

6. Nickelodeon ID (Octopus)

This made sense to me when I saw it on tv. looking back…not somuch.

7. “Looney Tunes on Nick” bumper

8. NES Paperboy

9. Flexiblocks

I hated blocks and anything building-related and I wanted these things. The sheer wtf-omg-ness of BLOCKS that fkking MOVE was just too irresistible not to be mine. except they never were mine. I never asked for them because although I was amazed and desired them for archival purposes, I knew I would never play with colored bricks on hinges.

10. “Looney Tunes on Nick” bumper and ending

Speedy Gonzales gave a friendly child-relatable Mexican figure to younger viewers. later attacks that he was ‘racist’ were idiotic damaging lies.

11. Nick at Nite up next bumper

12. Sports Cartoon (Football)

“Sports Cartoon” is a really uncreative title for this series of shorts. I feel about this one the same as the other: I liked it, but always desired dialog and more editing to liven it up a little.

13. 11th Cable Ace Awards

14. “Best of SNL” Promo

15. “Bigfoot Strikes Again” VHS (cut off)

16. “Looney Tunes on Nick” bumper

17. Russian Porcelain Plate

18. “Patty Duke Show” Promo

19. “Looney Tunes on Nick” bumper

This was Nick’s first Looney Tunes on Nick intro.
The nick logo was featured as:
A pencil drawing Daffy on screen,
Dirt from Bugs’s rabbit hole,
Stage curtains,
Foghorn Leghorn’s umbrella,
a UFO,
Speedy Gonzales’s sail,
a flower,
a rock crushing Will-E.,
and Sylvester and his son’s popcorn box.

“ENOUGH IZ TU MUCH! go awn an singa. about ya moona and ya joona batta swinga…” And also, how good is the gag about the girl reading the telegraph saying “stop” to the dudes advances? golden…

I Love to Singa is both the title of a song written by Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg and a later Merrie Melodies animated short subject based on that song. Arlen and Harburg originally wrote the tune for the 1936 Warner Bros. feature-length film The Singing Kid. It is performed three times in the film: first by Al Jolson and Cab Calloway, then by the Yacht Club Boys and Jolson, and finally again by Calloway and Jolson.

During this period, it was customary for Warners to have their animation production partner, Leon Schlesinger Productions, make Merrie Melodies cartoons based upon songs from their features. One of the resulting short subjects, I Love to Singa, was directed by Tex Avery and released by Warners on July 18, 1936. The cartoon, one of the earliest Merrie Melodies produced in Technicolor’s 3-strip process, is recognized as one of Avery’s early masterpieces.

Plot

I Love to Singa depicts the story of a young owlet who wants to sing jazz, instead of the classical music that his German parents wish him to perform. The plot is a light-hearted tribute to that of Al Jolson’s film The Jazz Singer.

The young owl, voiced by Tommy Bond, best known as “Butch” of the Our Gang (Little Rascals) films, is unjustly kicked out of his family’s house by his disciplinarian violinist father (voiced by Billy Bletcher) after he is caught singing jazz instead of Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes to his mother (voiced by Martha Wentworth)’s reed (pump) organ accompaniment. While wandering, he comes across a radio amateur contest, hosted by “Jack Bunny” (a pun on Jack Benny), and billing himself as “Owl Jolson”, wins the contest, but not before his father has finally seen his son’s potential and allowed him to freely sing jazz.

Cultural influence

The I Love to Singa cartoon has taken on something of a cult following in recent years. In the “Cartman Gets an Anal Probe” episode of the adult cartoon South Park, characters Eric Cartman and Officer Barbrady lapse into Owl Jolson’s odd song-and-dance routine whenever they get hit with an alien beam. In Warners’ 2003 film Looney Tunes: Back in Action, Owl Jolson’s dance sequence from I Love to Singa repeatedly appears on the video screen of the ACME Corp. Chairman (Steve Martin), since he cannot properly operate his remote control. He also shows up in the Looney Tunes: Back in Action game, in the France, Las Vegas, and Africa levels. He can be turned on and shut off by being hit by either character. When approached, Bugs and Daffy will make comments.