You remember the classic Warner Bros. cartoon High Diving Hare? That’s the 1949 cartoon where Yosemite Sam is expecting to see Fearless Freep, but when he doesn’t show, Sam makes Bugs Bunny do the high diving act.
In it, there’s a scene (at the 6:13 mark) where Bugs puts up a door on the diving board, and Sam beats on it and yells, “Open up that door!” then turns to the camera and says, “Didya notice I didn’t say ‘Richard?'”
When I was young, I didn’t really get the joke. I thought it was kinda silly, but I didn’t know the reference behind it.
I do now. And so will you.
That skit inspired a song, which was recorded by several artists. How popular was it? There were four different recordings by different artists in the Billboard Top Ten in a seven week period from late January to mid-March 1947.
Now, we’ll open up the floor. Joke, wisdom, links, whatever. It’s Thursday Night Open Thread.
Who wants to start?
