Here's something I can't stand (re:Porky pig)

[Drtooth]

Okay, I've been quiet about this for years, but I can take it no longer.

This has to be the biggest misquotes in History, but... well... I can't stand how people take his tagline and ruin it.

Far too long have I heard (and seen) "Abbbidi-abbidi-abbidi- that's All Folks." Being the animation buff I am, this is like saying "Fozzy Bear" or not knowing the names of Statler and Waldorf.

The truth is, in grand Porky Pig stuttering fashion, he's really trying to say "The End." As many Porky fans will note, he always stutters trying to say one thing, and says something else to the same effect. So naturally, what he's really saying is:

"Ah, the-th-the-the the- That's All Folks."

Figured I betyter clear it up, since even Muppet Wiki got it wrong.

 

[D'Snowth]

"Ah, the-th-the-the the- That's All Folks."

At least Hawkeye from M*A*S*H got it right too.

 

[Winslow Leach]

Slightly off-topic, but in the same ballpark...

In their films of the 1930s and 1940s, Oliver Hardy would often utter his famous catchphrase to Stan Laurel, "well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into."

For years, authors have sometimes misquoted Ollie in studies of the team's films, by claiming the quote is "well, here's another fine mess you've gotten me into." Ollie never said "fine mess," it was always "nice mess."

Interestingly, the team did make an early talkie called Another Fine Mess in 1930. Maybe this is where the confusion over the quote started? But in the film itself, Hardy does say the correct "nice mess."

There was a horrid 1986 "comedy" directed by Blake Edwards (The Pink Panther series) called A Fine Mess, purported to be a modern-day homage to Laurel & Hardy, starring that (sarcasm alert) classic comedy duo, Ted Danson and Howie Mandel. The title was the least of this film's problems.

 

[Mistersuperstar]

Okay, I've been quiet about this for years, but I can take it no longer.

This has to be the biggest misquotes in History, but... well... I can't stand how people take his tagline and ruin it.

Far too long have I heard (and seen) "Abbbidi-abbidi-abbidi- that's All Folks." Being the animation buff I am, this is like saying "Fozzy Bear" or not knowing the names of Statler and Waldorf.

The truth is, in grand Porky Pig stuttering fashion, he's really trying to say "The End." As many Porky fans will note, he always stutters trying to say one thing, and says something else to the same effect. So naturally, what he's really saying is:

"Ah, the-th-the-the the- That's All Folks."

Figured I betyter clear it up, since even Muppet Wiki got it wrong.

I always wondered that. Even Kermit does a Porky Pig parody at the end of a Muppet special and gets it wrong. I always considered it a stuttered "that's". I started to think that maybe I had got it wrong.

 

[CensoredAlso]

Sort of like how everyone says "Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, who's the fairst of them all?" When the original Disney movie everyone thinks they're quoting, actually says, "Magic Mirror on the Wall..."