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?
Thanks for the interesting video. If it weren’t for the internet, cultural artifacts like this would simply not be available. I’m not being sarcastic.
I remember having to explain it to my friends because I listened to old time radio shows and was familiar with the song.
Yes I was a 10 year old ’80s kid that knew about the Jack Benny “feud” with Fred Allen. What of it?
I was a 10 year old kid who knew about Jack Benny’s forever 39 and George & Gracie’s “Say goodnight, Gracie”.
That’s good….but Obama is the biggest joke since the 1938 radio broadcast of Martians landing on earth.
Thanks for that. I feel so old when trying to explain references to kids who, to them, the ’80s was ancient history. When I was a kid, I thought in the old days things moved faster and everything was in black and white. But I wasn’t naive enough to think everything was silent, and real life had title cards.
Are you pondering what I’m pondering?
Satchel Paige, a great pitcher in the Negro leagues who eventually was allowed to play in the major leagues, was born July 7, 1906. I have fond memories of Satch occasionally doing broadcasts of White Sox games with Harry Caray in the early 1970s.