>My Knowledge of Opera Attributed to Bugs Bunny

“What’s Opera, Doc?”

Featuring Bugs Bunny (Mel Blanc), and Elmer Fudd (Arthur Q Bryant)

Elmer: Be vewy quiet. I’m hunting wabbits.
WABBIT TWACKS!!
(thrusting spear) KILL THE WABBIT! KILL THE WABBIT! KILL THE WABBIT!

Bugs: : Kill the wabbit?

Elmer: YO HO HO! YO HO HO! YO HO…

Bugs: Oh mighty warrior of great fighting stock
Might I inquire to ask eh… what’s up doc?

Elmer: I’m going to kill the wabbit!

Bugs: O mighty hunter, ’twill be quite a task
How will you do it, might I inquire to ask?

E: I will do it with my spear and magic hewmet.

B: Spear and magic hewmet?

E: Spear and magic hewmet.

B: Magic hewmet?

E: Magic hewmet!

B (spoken, disparagingly): Magic hewmet.

E: Yes, magic hewmet, and I give you a sample!
(exit Bugs at warp speed)

B:BYEE!

E:That was the Wabbit!

cue overly obese white stallion & love music

E: Oh Brunhilda, you’re so wuvewy.

B: Yes I know it, I can’t help it!

E: Oh Brunhilda, be my wuv!
dancing & prancing
Weturn, my wuv! A longing burns deep inside me.

B: Retoirn my love! I want you always beside me!

E: Wuv wike ouws must be …

B: Made for you and for me…

B&E: Return, won’t you return my love … For my love is yourrrrrrs.

oops! Shoulda glued on that helmet!

E: I’LL KILL DA WABBIT! AWISE STOWMS!
NOWTH WIND BWOW! SOUTHWIND BWOW!
TYPHOON! HUWWICANE! EARTHQWAKES!
SMOG!!!!!!!!!!

WHITE WIGHTNING! STWIKE DA WABBIT!

gasp

What have I done? I’ve killed da wabbit!
Poowr widdle bunny!
Poowr widdle wabbit. snivel sob

Well, what did you expect in an Opera? A happy ending?

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJAXJWm8G4A&hl=en&fs=1]