Starts at around 5:31. I’m ashamed of myself (and everyone else) for not thinking of putting up framegrabs of Mama Bear shooting aimlessly at Papa Bear with the moose-head during the election. I love how her and Junyer’s first instinct is to kill the moose. This cartoon is the medium at its best. There’s no need to elaborate because it speaks for itself. It makes me cry that cartoons will never be this good again.
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Yes, one of the best cartoons Chuck Jones and his crew ever made! The animation is great, the gags and timing are top-notch, even Robert Gribbroek’s and Peter Alvarado’s respective layout and background work are gorgeous. Everything about this picture works and brings it to a dynamic fruition!
It’s also really the last of Jones’ “quiet” pictures (as opposed to pantomime cartoons), where he uses the absence of loud sounds and/or music in contrast to sudden violent actions to great effect (“Fair and Worm-er” and “The Eager Beaver” are two examples from the same period, and others before that included shorts like “The Unbearable Bear” and “Fin and Catty”).
So, does Papa Bear = McCain?
The blow back I’m getting is that it was he, not Palin who was a “drag on the ticket!”
Or am I reading too much into this?
Wonderful cartoon. Absolutely hilarious. Everything about the picture was perfect, right down to the backgrounds. Also, it’s nice to see Papa Bear get his wish for once. Thanks for putting this up. You know what makes a great cartoon.
I hope that you are wrong about the quality of the new cartoons. If my kids will never see a cartoon like this, then the TV will be banned from my house.
My favourite of the 3 Bears series (with “Bee-Deviled” Bruin a close second).
The timing, animation, and character diversions (since when does Mama ever go for her rifle?) are what make this outing work.
The scene involving the hairbrush is truly the epitome of effective parenting :)