classic oldtimey cartoons and the newer cartoons that frequently homaged and attempted to reinvent them, yeah. Animaniacs taught me a bunch of these people. Including the relevant world leaders at the time.
I can't get enough of this little looney tunes bit with peter lorre. I love how mildly annoyed he sounds while he just casually snaps a fricking bat in half. https://youtu.be/7dcfS27xkhU?si=wQZTpNjjkvIDTJQr
People at the absolute least know him from Casablanca, which I imagine most people have seen by the time they're 20/25, it's one of the most enduring films ever made.
It's like Edward G. Robinson, he's been parodied so often that the parody has become an iconic character to people who never knew what/who they were parodying.
"Peter Lorre type" is a character almost separate from Peter Lorre.
>Kids don't know who we are and they don't care, see?
Reminds me of that scene from family guy with Benjamin Disraeli. >you don't know who I am
But I did. And I found the joke hilarious and still do.
Because virginal brides file past his tomb, strewn with time's dead flowers bereft in deathly bloom alone in a darkened room
its a reference you wouldn’t get, zoom zoom
My favorite band did an entire, albeit short, album about the life of Peter Lorre. Unlike most fans, I don't really like this one as much as I do they're other stuff.
It's like Edward G. Robinson, he's been parodied so often that the parody has become an iconic character to people who never knew what/who they were parodying.
"Peter Lorre type" is a character almost separate from Peter Lorre.
The same’s going to happen to all those characters parodying Schwarzenegger, Stallone, Connery, etc. 50 years from now.
>50 years from now.
Try now. My son lost his first baby tooth a few months ago and I said "you can't handle the tooth" in a great impression but, of course, being not quite six years old yet, he had no idea what I was doing and certainly won't have any idea any time soon, if ever.
I guarantee there are huge numbers of teens and early twenty somethings who've absolutely no idea who Jack Nicholson is and wouldn't get that reference.
The Golden Age of Hollywood didn’t care about looks for men as long as you were entertaining. Nowadays all Hollywood celebrities look and act the exact same so it’s hard to make characters out of them.
Shorts like Hollywood Steps Out are still watchable today because despite people not knowing who any of these celebrities are. They are funny enough to pass off as original characters.
It's not a Peter Lorre reference, it's a reference to Looney Tunes. They didn't create this, they're just copying from what another cartoon did a million years ago, in the hope that someone might laugh. But really, why would anyone?
>bassward is noted for being the first SpongeBob episode to not reference SpongeBob or even mention him by name in the series >second episode closest to this happening was Slappy Daze, where SpongeBob shows up in one scene for a 5 second speaking cameo in the pet store
Why did they decide to do that with this character of all characters?
Wait did they seriously reference this old as frick actor? Who would even get the reference besides secondaries that saw him on some looney tunes rerun?
>surely THIS will make anon mad enough to post on Cinemaphile
its a reference you wouldn’t get, zoom zoom
>modern SpongeBob sympathizer
I think you are the zoomer
fricking kys amerimutts
Cope
It's an old famous actor's face, he has been long dead.
I don't remember his name sadly, but he was from Hungary.
petre lore?
Yes
It's this guy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Lorre
As a kid I saw impressions of him in Looney Tunes in the 90s and thought it was funny without knowing who it was supposed to be
probably all my knowledge of golden age hollywood actors is due to looney tunes impersonations
classic oldtimey cartoons and the newer cartoons that frequently homaged and attempted to reinvent them, yeah. Animaniacs taught me a bunch of these people. Including the relevant world leaders at the time.
He also inspired Ren Hoek
>its a reference you wouldn’t get, zoom zoom
Steve Bushemi?
They were thinking about Looney Tunes. Peter Lorre appeared in the cartoons sometimes.
Now that I know his name I looked him up, I was expecting him to look way stranger than he actually looked.
Most of his creepy impersonations are based on a movie where he plays creepy psycho.
Is it just Gomez as a fish?
thats the talking worm from corpses bride
I can't get enough of this little looney tunes bit with peter lorre. I love how mildly annoyed he sounds while he just casually snaps a fricking bat in half. https://youtu.be/7dcfS27xkhU?si=wQZTpNjjkvIDTJQr
Why does Peter Lorre get parodied so often with hardly anyone under 40 recognizes him?
Because he played a child rapist in a classic German film so of course that is the perfect thing to reference on Spongebob.
because it's funny anyway?
People at the absolute least know him from Casablanca, which I imagine most people have seen by the time they're 20/25, it's one of the most enduring films ever made.
People may not remember Peter Lorre the actor, but the characters he played were unforgettable.
It's like Edward G. Robinson, he's been parodied so often that the parody has become an iconic character to people who never knew what/who they were parodying.
"Peter Lorre type" is a character almost separate from Peter Lorre.
Nyeah, see? Nyeah. Kids don't know who we are and they don't care, see?
>Kids don't know who we are and they don't care, see?
Reminds me of that scene from family guy with Benjamin Disraeli.
>you don't know who I am
But I did. And I found the joke hilarious and still do.
>parodied so often that the parody has become an iconic character to people who never knew what/who they were parodying.
OH YEEEEEES
he looks funny and he was a popular actor during the golden age of animation. Seems simple to me.
Why do people still do the Bela Lugosi voice when playing Dracula?
Because virginal brides file past his tomb, strewn with time's dead flowers bereft in deathly bloom alone in a darkened room
My favorite band did an entire, albeit short, album about the life of Peter Lorre. Unlike most fans, I don't really like this one as much as I do they're other stuff.
>Because virginal brides file past his tomb, strewn with time's dead flowers bereft in deathly bloom alone in a darkened room
Correct!
Shut up, baby, I know it.
because he's been parodied so many times
he's like the wilhelm scream of character parodies
The same’s going to happen to all those characters parodying Schwarzenegger, Stallone, Connery, etc. 50 years from now.
>50 years from now.
Try now. My son lost his first baby tooth a few months ago and I said "you can't handle the tooth" in a great impression but, of course, being not quite six years old yet, he had no idea what I was doing and certainly won't have any idea any time soon, if ever.
I guarantee there are huge numbers of teens and early twenty somethings who've absolutely no idea who Jack Nicholson is and wouldn't get that reference.
The Golden Age of Hollywood didn’t care about looks for men as long as you were entertaining. Nowadays all Hollywood celebrities look and act the exact same so it’s hard to make characters out of them.
Shorts like Hollywood Steps Out are still watchable today because despite people not knowing who any of these celebrities are. They are funny enough to pass off as original characters.
Is funny how 20s comedy shorts, reappear in 50s tv and in the 80s as a cultural reference of the 50s children.
At least kids still know who the Three Stooges were.
They still do, right?
>remember seeing Peter Lorre in Looney Tunes as a kid
>now realize those caricatures look more like Steve Buscemi
>making a reference to Peter Lorre in 2023
I mean I respect it. I don't know who that's for though.
They spammed him into situations that has nothing to do with him
This is the character the crew insists on using over Squilliam or Flats the Flounder.
It's not a Peter Lorre reference, it's a reference to Looney Tunes. They didn't create this, they're just copying from what another cartoon did a million years ago, in the hope that someone might laugh. But really, why would anyone?
You will never be like Golden Age Looney Tunes
>t.
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>too young to know famous actor
>gets called out
>starts b***hing and trying to deflect
You have to be 18 to post here
Keffals?
>bassward is noted for being the first SpongeBob episode to not reference SpongeBob or even mention him by name in the series
>second episode closest to this happening was Slappy Daze, where SpongeBob shows up in one scene for a 5 second speaking cameo in the pet store
Why did they decide to do that with this character of all characters?
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Wait did they seriously reference this old as frick actor? Who would even get the reference besides secondaries that saw him on some looney tunes rerun?
With their dicks
Peter Lorre