. . . that no one will tell us? In his commentary audio track in Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume Two, Disc One for THE HECKLING HARE (and let's be VERY clear here: Bugs Bunny comes nowhere near heckling enough to get "flipped the bird" at a Trump Rally, let alone get punched in the face by some Rabbit-Hating White Geezer), LT fixture Greg Ford says that Western Civilization was shaken to its Very Foundations when some guy named Leon wouldn't let another gent called "Tex" end this animated short by having Bugs say, "Hang onto your hats, folks; here we go again" because that phrase was the infamous punchline of a dirty joke making the rounds in 1941. Nowadays it's hard to see the humor in this smattering of words. First of all, only geezers, military people, and dudes called "Tex" even wear hats. Therefore, most people view hats as the opposite of an aphrodisiac. Maybe Mr. Ford knows WHY this line is supposed to be funny. If so, his explanation must be one of Looney Tunes' Forbidden Eleven Comments, to be locked away from the General Public along with the scarlet-lettered Eleven Bad Cartoons.
Review of The Heckling Hare
