Comments on: My Knowledge of Opera

By: Noriko-chan

Noriko-chan — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 21:29:58 +0000

1. Mention Repo or Phantom as “operas” before an opera aficionado
2. Prepare to die

By: Fanfroman

Fanfroman — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 21:46:31 +0000

>You totally forgot Gilligan’s Island! Operatic Shakespeare!>

Oh yeah!

“Do not a borrower or a lender be
Do not forget, stay out of debt
Think twice and take this good advice from me
Guard thine own sovereignty!”

I sing this to my 13 y.o. regularly — perhaps his only exposure to opera as of yet…

By: yep

yep — Sun, 24 May 2009 19:29:03 +0000

sad thing is, when i first saw this i was trying to figure out why it was talking about browsers

By: Lancer

Lancer — Sat, 09 May 2009 22:46:16 +0000

I prefer the other one where Bug’s is a conductor… can’t remember what the name is, just remember everybody thinks he’s this famous guy, and he tries to make a singer screw up.

By: Phillip

Phillip — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 02:26:28 +0000

…that was John Cage. Side note, Philip Glass also did movie soundtracks: The Truman Show and The Illusionist to name a couple.

By: scarecrow

scarecrow — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 04:31:45 +0000

It’s true!!! I tried it!

By: Lilith

Lilith — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:50:20 +0000

I recently watched the greatest 100 classic songs on YouTube. I hadn’t noticed that my knowledge in this field was almost entirely based on these cartoons until then.

By: Kat

Kat — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 06:45:00 +0000

—blowing razzberries—-@ Phil

Bugs Bunny Forever!!!

By: Karen

Karen — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 05:36:01 +0000

Poor wittle bunny

By: heather

heather — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 03:37:38 +0000

I loved Repo <3 But the old school looney tunes had classical music from history (Flight of the Valkyries, Barber of Seville, Fingal’s Cave, etcetc) and Repo was music written very recently.

By: Vi31

Vi31 — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:14:55 +0000

4’33″ is about what I can handle of his.

By: Vi31

Vi31 — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:14:07 +0000

Oh Broon-hilda, beee my wuv!

By: Jefoid

Jefoid — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:59:00 +0000

Spear and magic helmet!

By: Jefoid

Jefoid — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:53:40 +0000

Welcome to my shop,
let me cut your mop,
let me shave your crop,
Daintily, daintily

By: Phil

Phil — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:25:10 +0000

Thank you for stating the obvious. I don’t think people would have realized this if it weren’t for your comment.

By: Simon

Simon — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:14:09 +0000

This just tells everyone you nothing about opera. Loser.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:05:05 +0000

My girl’s a real high stepper,
ginger with salt and pepper.

By: Will

Will — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:49:30 +0000

DAIN-tily!

(right?)

By: Ashley

Ashley — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:10:24 +0000

All kinds of win. XD

By: huckleberry hound

huckleberry hound — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:41:55 +0000

Let me shave your mop….

By: papajon

papajon — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:01:28 +0000

Yeah… me too… but also some from crossword puzzles; another tiny pie slice.

By: bibliotechnique

bibliotechnique — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:36:38 +0000

The Bunny of Seville FTW!!!!

By: Strategia

Strategia — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:12:29 +0000

I was confused at first, I mean, I can’t recall Looney Tunes ever doing a cartoon about a web browser….. I = geek.

By: Ruby

Ruby — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:09:16 +0000

I wish I’d had your music prof. We spent half the semester listening to Philip Glass.

By: feckineejit

feckineejit — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:42:02 +0000

No mention of Frasier? – that’s where I learned all I know about opera.

By: Azkyroth

Azkyroth — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 08:35:45 +0000

It’s a wonderful browser that an occasional asshole deliberately decides to write support for out of their web scripting (since numerous sites with identical functionality work just fine, it is clearly not accidental).

By: ab

ab — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 06:24:29 +0000

“What’s opera, doc?” is one of the best shorts they ever did! We watched it in my Tv/Film comedy class.

By: Paz

Paz — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 05:19:31 +0000

Bugs bunny was basicly my parent because i watched looney tunes that much xD

By: notolaf

notolaf — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 04:46:14 +0000

You totally forgot Gilligan’s Island! Operatic Shakespeare!

By: ClickClick

ClickClick — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 04:45:39 +0000

WIN!

By: ClickClick

ClickClick — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 04:44:47 +0000

Opera… not Oprah! WIN!

(And has sudden visions of an opera by or about Oprah, maybe not so bad an idea!)

By: Faetal

Faetal — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 03:20:00 +0000

IF you watch looney tunes long enough, the meaning of life will be shown to you.

By: Mel

Mel — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 02:58:22 +0000

My Music prof in College actually had us watch the Bugs Bunny Opera cartoons in class.

By: Rachel of Cyberia

Rachel of Cyberia — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 02:21:03 +0000

…magic helmet…

By: blurb

blurb — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 01:07:01 +0000

Got that right! and my parents were musicians – they’d be mortified!

By: mrmerrbs

mrmerrbs — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:59:50 +0000

Any opera knowledge of opera I have comes from Bugs Bunny and Frasier….

By: Reverend Loki

Reverend Loki — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:16:29 +0000

Very nice.

I must add, though that my own chart would include the following references:

Phantom of the Opera
Rock Operas (Tommy, et al)
A Night at the Opera (Marx Bros. film)
A Night at the Opera (Queen album)

By: Ibbits

Ibbits — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:37:22 +0000

Oh Brun-hilda you’re so lovely…

yes I know it, I can’t help it…

By: brandonha

brandonha — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:25:54 +0000

with your spear and magic helmet?

By: ElmerFudd

ElmerFudd — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:14:36 +0000

Kill the wabbit… Kill the wabbit… Kill the wabbit…

By: Shancey

Shancey — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:56:45 +0000

It’s also referencing Seinfeld, because Jerry says almost the exact same thing to Elaine in the pez episode

By: Kelzy

Kelzy — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:44:52 +0000

What about the Phantom of the Opera?

By: emma sweet

emma sweet — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:15:24 +0000

got to be honest- was hoping for a REPO! reference. can I get a testify?

By: Meh

Meh — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:08:36 +0000

Groan…. Great reference, but you could have done much better with this graph.

By: KG

KG — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:26:34 +0000

I was hoping for the “Kill the Wabbit Kill the Waaaaabbit” cartoon.

By: brandonha

brandonha — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:22:33 +0000

what’s opera doc?

By: Bubba

Bubba — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:17:38 +0000

I would also like to point out….

That this is a orchestral bugs cartoon and not an opera one.

This is one of the opera ones
What’s Opera Doc aka Kill the Wabbit.

By: Bubba

Bubba — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:13:12 +0000

I so first read opera as oprah

So when i looked at the graph, it didn’t make sense… than i re-read the title… and i was like… AAAAHHHHH opera… not oprah….

By: Brick

Brick — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:03:15 +0000

Nice one!
So true.

By: Faetal

Faetal — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:01:32 +0000

epic win