Jim Carrey Ain't Horton

THIS is Horton...at least the one we remember.

UPDATE: I'm so heartened that this is getting more reaction than politics this weekend! I'll shower you with some trivia on this cartoon, since the original credits were stripped from this version.

• It was directed by the great Bob Clampett, perhaps Warner's wildest director in Termite Terrace.
• Mel Blanc took a rare back seat to narrator Frank Graham, Kent Rogers as Horton and Sara Berner as Maysie. He still contractually got the sole voice credit.
• It featured "The Hut Sut Song" - definitely one of the top ten annoying songs you never get out of your head.
• Sara Berner also played the hillbilly flea in the classic "An Itch In Time" with Elmer Fudd.
• Ted "Dr. Seuss" Geisel collaborated with Warners' Michael Maltese in writing the cartoon version.
• This was far from the only time Warner and Geisel teamed up. Geisel also co-created a Warner wartime cartoon series for the defense department, Private Snafu.

Comments

[donita, Riverside, CA]

AAAAIIEEEEE!!!!! Curse you, Hoffman!!!! I forgot that THAT was the cartoon with THAT song in it!!!!! That thing gets stuck in my head like effin' cement! It drives me completely crazy! Oh no! Well, I hope you're proud of yourself. I will NOT get any sleep tonight. What the hell is that song anyway? That song doesn't exist anywhere else. NOBODY sings it. Probably because it's the worst thing ever written EVER. It's going to take me ten years to get it back out of my head.

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[Hoffmania!]

Then you better not go here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kKU1S0lWxo

[blackdog]

Hope you don't mind, but I borrowed this and posted it with accolades and links over at http://bigbrassblog.com/

Warner Brothers made the best damn cartoons.

[donita, Riverside, CA]

Oh jeez, Hoff, I WENT there! I couldn't help myself. See? I was right. That song drives people insane!

I loved the guy at the dinner table who looked like he had Tourette's or something.

[David Aquarius]

This is nothing. I've had the Scarecrow song from the Wizard of Oz in my head for 49 years.

[Mad as Hell]

Try getting "Puff the magic dragon" out of your head!

[donita, Riverside, CA]

Mmmm... Right now I've got While My Guitar Gently Weeps in my head. The Jake Shimabukuro version.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xUoCTiEzZI

[donita, Riverside, CA]

Ooh, yuck. Not that one. Play this one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puSkP3uym5k

[Scott C.]

I'd never seen that before, and I was sure that I'd sat through just about every WB cartoon -- even the shamelessly racist ones they only show at film festivals now. So thanks for that, Hoff. But as much as I enjoyed it...I'm sorry, that just ain't Horton to me. I inherited the Sixties era LP when I was a tot, and I listened to Horton Hatches the Egg, Horton Hears a Who, and the Sneetches over and over and over, and for me, all Dr. Seuss characters speak in the dulcet tones of Marvin Miller (except for the Grinch, who speaks like Boris Karloff [and sings like Thurl Ravenscroft]).

[Hoffmania!]

I had the Yertle the Turtle album when I was a kid! It shared the album with a Horton story and a couple of others, but I only listened to the Yertle cut. Maybe that's why I grew up Liberal.

And furthermore, I'm heartened to see that this post has more comment action than any political hoo-ha I posted so far this weekend!