Friday, September 09, 2011

Haiku Friday: Cartoons!



When I was just a small boy growing up in Eastern Europe with the Dallas Defense Attorney and Marta, we all loved the classic cat-and-mouse cartoon "Worker and Parasite" seen above. I can still recreate most of the episodes verbatim.

Of course, here in the United States, children loved similar cartoons like Bugs The Bunny, Scoobie Doo, Snoopy, H.R. Puffenstuff, Col. Klapp, Bullwinkle, Black Sabbath, Tom and Jerry, Caspar the Friendly Dead Child, Mr. Roper's Neighborhood, and others. Let's recall the days of animated entertainment-- in haiku!

Here is mine:

Foxy Natasha
I wanted her to succeed!
Stupid talking Moose...

Now it is your turn. Just make it about a cartoon, any cartoon, and make the first line five syllables, the second line seven, and five again for the third.

As usual, the prize will be your biography here on Monday!

25 comments:

  1. boring afternoons
    I hated Tom and Jerry
    dad still doesn't know

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  2. How can one Smurfette
    Populate a species? Signed,
    Child of the eighties.

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  3. Oblio was my hero,
    Born on an acid trip, I learned.
    Still my favorite ever.

    PS “Worker and Parasite” was more the American boy's favorite. Go figure!

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  4. He-Man was a jock;
    She-Ra Princess of Power -
    that was my dream role!

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  5. Anonymous9:42 AM

    Conjunction Junction,
    Interjections! I'm Just a
    Bill--It's SchoolHouse Rock!

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  6. Anonymous9:43 AM

    Oh, Bugs the Bunny!
    You and your violent antics.
    My mom hated you.

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  7. Trip, trip, trip, trip, trip
    (casual look by Daffy)
    horse runs into tree.

    Hot tears while brothers
    watch anything but Tweety
    and Pepe Le Pew.

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  8. Anonymous10:25 AM

    My favorite 'toon?
    "Adventures of RRL."
    Good gravy, he's cool!

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  9. Fave? Pickles the Cat.
    Attitude and a cat suit!
    No man can resist.

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  10. Go Go Go, Go Go
    Speed Racer, You're a Demon
    On Wheels! Thanks Japan!

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  11. Roger Ramjet, Hero.
    A low budget Bullwinkle
    My "Friend" on FaceBook

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  12. Gigantor! Cartoon
    Version of Johnny Socko's
    Amazing Robot

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  13. Tobor the 8 Man
    Magic Cigarettes for Strength!
    was that RRL?

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  14. Anonymous11:41 AM

    "Tobor the 8 Man?"

    Where the hell did you grow up?

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  15. http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=tobor+the+8th+man+theme+song&mid=C510EAE8AF73210B6FD0C510EAE8AF73210B6FD0&view=detail&FORM=VIRE1&adlt=strict

    TOBOR is ROBOT spelled backwards. It was on Channel 61 in Cleveland and Channel 20 in Washington, DC

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  16. Muscled Flying Mouse
    Saved Pearl Pureheart tied to tracks.
    Oilcan Harry: tie me!


    Pepe Le Pew woos cat--
    My leetle desairt flowaire
    What? Are you shy-ee?

    To learn of romance
    From a skunk and a mouse...Yikes!
    No wonder I'm odd.

    Snagglepuss! Exit...
    Stage Right! Lion with lisp leaps
    On my funny bone.
    No wonder I'm strange.

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  17. Professor...oops! Did not mean to put that last line on the last one.Please judge accordingly!

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  18. Dumb Donald, Mushmouth,
    Weird Harold, Bill, Russell,
    Rudy, Fat Albert.

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  19. Megan, I do a pretty good Fat Albert... and it has gotten me in trouble.

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  20. OK, I just watched the video. Those East Germans must have discovered drugs LONG before the cartoon makers did here in The West.

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  21. I have no time to
    do a real haiku. Sorry.
    refrigeerator.

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  22. In remote West Texas
    In the middle of nowhere
    Sadly, no cartoons.

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  23. Pic-i-nic basket
    Theft: his raison d'etre
    Yogi Bear's life of crime.



    Never caught,swift bird
    Chased by Wil.E.Coyote.
    Acme anvil aids.

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  24. Moose and squirrel are
    Frostbite Falls, Minnesota
    Boris's Badanoff.

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  25. Oh Pink Panther, You
    were a mystery to me.
    I still don't get you.

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