When I was a kid, this cartoon used to scared me because of how insane and confusing it was. 😰 Now as a grown up, it’s my favorite Tex Avery cartoon! 🤣
I loved this cartoon as a kid. The 1951 'Symphony in Slang' was a pure classic! And I would laugh so hard because I knew even back when I was 7 years old the difference between slang and literal. Polymaths laugh mirthfully at the absurdity of taking the slang literally. But I suspect some damaged souls end up psychopaths since they painfully interpret the slang literally and start doing some weird stuff, much like The Joker! Saint Benedict, pray for us. ♥
I always thought it was absolutely hilarious. Then again anything Tex Avery made was usually pretty good. And there is a cluster of cartoons that he made in his prime which personally I consider the greatest cartoons ever made.
I used to watch this as a kid in the late 2000’s. We had videotapes with compilations of Tex episodes. This one I always found a bit confusing because I am french and did not speak english at the time. Funny to remember that I could still understand some of it because the slang is sometimes similar in french.
@@sha11235 Actually, I was exaggerating. It did made me laugh at the time, but I was like… “why is everything happening in such a messed up way? 🤔”. Besides, back then my English wasn’t THAT good. I couldn’t tell that this was a “literal” story. Imagine watching a cartoon like this in a language that you don’t understand! How can you tell the puns or the symbolisms! 😬
@@melissacooper4282 Many of these things aren't even slang. The word "it" is a substitute for anything that was most recently mentioned to not get redundant. And whenever the word "like" or "seemed" are used, they are key words. It'll be like finding a needle in a haystack is more accurate than saying you are looking for a needle in a haystack.
0:55 "I don't seem to follow you." This was once considered slang as well. The first use of "follow" as a stand-in for "understand" was in the early 1800s. I personally still consider it slang. Even as a kid, I always wondered if the old man was aware that he was in fact dipping his own toes in the slang pool.
Tex Avery was a genius!! Every time I look up one of my favorite childhood cartoons, his name appears! I always remembered Mary letting her hair down and eating like a horse! 😂.
This was on TCM recently, and I actually showed it to my mother. She was in stitches! To this day, I remember parts of it like it was only yesterday when I was sitting on the floor of the living room as a little kid. Especially the cat with the tongue!
me too, except it was the bit about him being beside himself. it wasn't until recently i was able to find this cartoon. for a decade i was searching "man beside himself in cartoon" or "cartoon figures of speech literal," stuff like that, but it would never return anything useful. some years ago, i had the tv on for background noise, and when i heard the line, "i was beside myself with anger," i said, "that's the cartoon!" luckily i was able to go back on the tivo or whatever it was -- the thing that lets you pause live television -- to the opening credits, and that was how i learned it was a tex avery cartoon.
Bravo! I didn't realize until I heard Digger talk, and thought, wow, he was Noah Webster too! He did all the voices on this most Tex Avery-ish of Tex Avery cartoons.
@@markloveless1001 Yup! I didn't catch on until I saw this on T.V. recently, and when I heard Webster say, "Proceed," I knew it was Digger! Then I realized that the voice he used for the hipster was the same he used as Al in "My Friend Irma."
I saw this when I was a kid and it stuck with me all these years. Occasionally, I’ve looked for it, but had no idea what to search for. Today I found it! I’m so happy :0)
@@Synapsidofficial it's the same process either way. They just scan the material and digitally restore any possible damages and make sure the image is steady and the colors are correct. Most of these are on technicolor filmstock, which is very color stable and barely fades. The Cinemascope material just gets stretched to its original aspect ratio with the 16:9 format in mind for the encode so the frame dimensions are used in a effective way. Just like adding the 4:3 aspect ratio material via Pillaboxed mode and putting that into the 16:9 picture so nothing has to be cropped and the entire picture is preserved as it should be.
Best gag ever: The "wolf" swallows Droopy's TV. In the next scene, Droopy is watching TV again, and says, "Now don't ask us how we got the television set back!"
A pure classic and MGM comedy cartoon madness LOL. I remember it well. Me and my friends watch this cartoon and always discussed it laughing hysterically not knowing that there was a interesting radio and movie history of this one character. Years later I would find out by sheer chance listening to old time radio and listening to an episode with alan reed AKA the voice of Fred Flintstone. Hearing him talk laughing thinking this is cool. And then a very familiar voice started talking and it was that person that played in that cartoon the character that is The voice. Did my research with with this and found out he was frequently on the Damon Runyon theater show as a character called Broadway. And if you listen to it and literally think like when the couch which character was in the heavens and Webster literally translated in his mind. They were literally making fun of the Damon Runyon show and that one cartoon because if you think about everything we talked about in all those episodes it definitely is funnier than it sounds in a way ridiculous LOL.
Featuring the voices of John Brown (for the "hipster", he used his "Thorny" voice from radio's "ADVENTURES OF OZZIE AND HARRIET"- and a bit of "Broadway" from "THE DAMON RUNYON THEATER").
This was funny as hell as a kid and still is..these cartoons never get old old..or I never tire of them.I haven't seen this in years and it's still funny
The rest of it is something like this: I heard from the grapevine there was something about my case. So, they sprung me. It felt good to stretch my legs. I caught a cattle car to Mary I hot-footed it to Mary’s. I couldn’t believe my eyes. She had a lot of little ones. The man had his hands full, too. All of this struck me so hard, I died laughing and now here I am. So, what do you think? What’s wrong? Cat got your tongue? ****That’s what I remember. I loved the Tex Avery stuff, growing up. This was a cartoon for children. I first watched this when I was five years old and later into my teen years. Great stuff!
I still remember this from my childhood. Still funny af! Side note: the late, great, MF DOOM sampled this for his track, "Strange Ways", on his album, "Madvillain".
This is actually extremely informative; you can literally use this short as reference for if you were writing a 1940s-based novel XD That's funny stuff!
Yes, the whole thing is funny with Noah Webster's literal interpretation of the man's story, but I think that there is another little joke in this cartoon; when the man says, "I gave him the slip.", the other man takes it.
I hadn’t seen this since the late 90’s when Cartoon Network used to play classic shorts in the evenings; thank god for the awesome power of google & RUclips for letting me revisit this again. I think this is actually a pretty educational short about commonplace vernacular for like an English class.
@@hollywoodguy70 I'll bet the Zucker brothers were partially inspired by this. You ever see "Woodpecker From Mars" with Woody? There's a joke in there that definitely got borrowed by them.
i miss watching all these great cartoons on 📺 From back in the day. Today's cartoons are nothing like those back when we were a young kid or teenagers. These type of cartoons are timeless and wonderful plus enjoyable to watch too. Once in a great while me tv will show them.
Omg I finally found it, relieving seeing it was uploaded in 2020 so I don't think I was crazy. Over the years, periodically I would try and dig up this cartoon. It's def. much older than my time, but I distinctly remember as a kid seeing this episode and it being my first taste of irony and play on words. It really stuck with me and kinda formed some of my comedy and what I think is funny. It's like 2am right now and I started thinking about this episode again, and started digging and alas! here we are! Thank you so much to the uploader, you helped me scratch an itch that I've been reaching for for a long time. Now, time to sit back and enjoy this episode :D
The same thing happened to me! I saw this on the channel Boomerang as a kid but I forgot the name. Finally I described the cartoon in a RUclips comment section on a video of lost cartoons. Someone said that it sounded like Symphony In Slang and the rest is history. 😄😁😊
When I was a kid, this cartoon used to scared me because of how insane and confusing it was. 😰
Now as a grown up, it’s my favorite Tex Avery cartoon! 🤣
I loved this cartoon as a kid. The 1951 'Symphony in Slang' was a pure classic! And I would laugh so hard because I knew even back when I was 7 years old the difference between slang and literal.
Polymaths laugh mirthfully at the absurdity of taking the slang literally. But I suspect some damaged souls end up psychopaths since they painfully interpret the slang literally and start doing some weird stuff, much like The Joker!
Saint Benedict, pray for us. ♥
I always thought it was absolutely hilarious. Then again anything Tex Avery made was usually pretty good. And there is a cluster of cartoons that he made in his prime which personally I consider the greatest cartoons ever made.
I used to watch this as a kid in the late 2000’s. We had videotapes with compilations of Tex episodes. This one I always found a bit confusing because I am french and did not speak english at the time. Funny to remember that I could still understand some of it because the slang is sometimes similar in french.
Didn't scare me.
@@sha11235 Actually, I was exaggerating. It did made me laugh at the time, but I was like… “why is everything happening in such a messed up way? 🤔”.
Besides, back then my English wasn’t THAT good. I couldn’t tell that this was a “literal” story. Imagine watching a cartoon like this in a language that you don’t understand! How can you tell the puns or the symbolisms! 😬
I love the fact that they interpret the slang literally!
That's the joke, Mr. Webster gets literal with it.
Mr. Webster is like an autistic person. Most autistics take things too literally.
@@melissacooper4282 Many of these things aren't even slang. The word "it" is a substitute for anything that was most recently mentioned to not get redundant. And whenever the word "like" or "seemed" are used, they are key words. It'll be like finding a needle in a haystack is more accurate than saying you are looking for a needle in a haystack.
@@melissacooper4282 As an autistic person myself, I can understand that.
@@snotloutisagod2956 I usually don't use slang much, but I find it highly interesting to examine it as an autistic person.
I remember seeing this when I was a little kid. Good times.
Right on!
I remember this cartoon, loved it.
Me too
Classic
Is it true that the Disney Channel series Phineas and Ferb had a little Tex Avery design to the characters and backgrounds?
The fact that some of this slang is no longer in use, or even legible, is a testament to how old animation has now become as an art form.
Some of it is just considered regular language now
0:55 "I don't seem to follow you." This was once considered slang as well. The first use of "follow" as a stand-in for "understand" was in the early 1800s. I personally still consider it slang. Even as a kid, I always wondered if the old man was aware that he was in fact dipping his own toes in the slang pool.
@@Asterra2no he knew from Webster the really old expressions. It was his job to keep up with it and apparently he was slacking
I love how literal this cartoon is lol 😆
This is the most literal story I ever heard! 🤣
Me too.
That’s the joke.
@veronicaa.1416I use it to teach about idioms!
" I was up against IT. … But I carried ON." Where is the rest?
Chris Vellner what’s it mean?
We want to find out what happened to Mary. Did she have a bunch of little 1s.😂🤣
Valerieann Rumpf oh okay
Whassah mattuh? Cat got your tongue?
@@emiliopolanco8587 the cartoon is cut , the end is missing
Imagine if one of them ordered a Bloody Mary.
Or a Black Russian. (Okay, that one's from "The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear".)
🤣😂
Drixenol86 *gets out whole ass mirror* I’ll fetch her- I mean one right up
Imagine if they released *all* the MGM shorts instead of just the Tex Avery ones
@@GeneralGeorgeS.PattonJr. You can probably find it on Dailymotion.
I want ALL of Tex Avery on DVD!!!
ME TOO!!!
@@alvinjones670 I only have 1 of the 4 volumes on VHS tape & I want them ALL
yeah its available thru Warner Archive NOW
Tex Avery's LAST cartoon is called Sh-h-h-h released by Walter Lantz Productions from Universal Pictures
Your in luck the Tex Avery Archive Collection is out on DVD volume 1 and 2 on Amazon. Uncut for collectors and not suitable for children.
@@hamhockbeans I have both now hehe
hope theres a 3rd one planned
As they forgot 1 Screwy Squirrel episode hehe
One of the Greatest and Most Original Cartoons of All Time.....
Tex Avery was a genius!! Every time I look up one of my favorite childhood cartoons, his name appears! I always remembered Mary letting her hair down and eating like a horse! 😂.
That's why he was given the title king of cartoons
Give some credit to Rich Hogan for the writing of the short
This was on TCM recently, and I actually showed it to my mother. She was in stitches! To this day, I remember parts of it like it was only yesterday when I was sitting on the floor of the living room as a little kid. Especially the cat with the tongue!
me too, except it was the bit about him being beside himself. it wasn't until recently i was able to find this cartoon. for a decade i was searching "man beside himself in cartoon" or "cartoon figures of speech literal," stuff like that, but it would never return anything useful. some years ago, i had the tv on for background noise, and when i heard the line, "i was beside myself with anger," i said, "that's the cartoon!" luckily i was able to go back on the tivo or whatever it was -- the thing that lets you pause live television -- to the opening credits, and that was how i learned it was a tex avery cartoon.
Loved this cartoon! So unique at showing examples of phrases we use everyday! Lol 😂
Finally! One of my all-time favorite cartoons in HD!
Ran into this cartoon when i was in high school 1981 an it's STILL my favorite in 2020!
I’ve been looking everywhere for this for years.. This was one of my favorites as a kid.
This cartoon takes everything literally
A that's the joke in this show🤣
The voice actor in this is John Brown, who played Jim Gillis and Digby O'Dell on the radio sitcom "The Life of Riley."
Bravo! I didn't realize until I heard Digger talk, and thought, wow, he was Noah Webster too! He did all the voices on this most Tex Avery-ish of Tex Avery cartoons.
@@markloveless1001 Yup! I didn't catch on until I saw this on T.V. recently, and when I heard Webster say, "Proceed," I knew it was Digger! Then I realized that the voice he used for the hipster was the same he used as Al in "My Friend Irma."
I saw this when I was a kid and it stuck with me all these years. Occasionally, I’ve looked for it, but had no idea what to search for. Today I found it! I’m so happy :0)
Seeing this cartoon remastered this nicely is something I didn't no I needed until now.
It would've been better if they didn't cut the ending off. Some remastering.
The quality of this remaster is amazing. It looks like this animation could have been made yesterday.
Yeah Warner did a great job with the new Transfers of the old MGM Cartoons. Even the ones done in Cinemascope.
@@KRAFTWERK2K6 wouldn’t CinemaScope be easier since it’s closer to the resolutions we view today?
@@Synapsidofficial it's the same process either way. They just scan the material and digitally restore any possible damages and make sure the image is steady and the colors are correct. Most of these are on technicolor filmstock, which is very color stable and barely fades. The Cinemascope material just gets stretched to its original aspect ratio with the 16:9 format in mind for the encode so the frame dimensions are used in a effective way. Just like adding the 4:3 aspect ratio material via Pillaboxed mode and putting that into the 16:9 picture so nothing has to be cropped and the entire picture is preserved as it should be.
I was just thinking about this one the other day. I loved it as a kid, and was wondering how much of it my kids would get if they watched it.
Best gag ever: The "wolf" swallows Droopy's TV. In the next scene, Droopy is watching TV again, and says, "Now don't ask us how we got the television set back!"
I had to Google up some of the terms but otherwise I was understanding what he was saying.
Its HILARIOUS
Just like the Tom and Jerry Golden Collection remastered but in 4K scans.
I know they are the 2nd hand prints, but I’m so glad they finally released this set!
One of my absolute favorite Tex Avery cartoons.
I haven’t thought about this episode since i saw it as a kid in the 80s. I’m a kid again. Thanks 🙏🏻
One of my absolute favorites.
This is pure gold straight from my childhood. I feel bad for the kids today that don’t have these gems in their lives.
This looks amazing! I need this set!
About time they honored him too!
When I was a kid, I saw the French version many time and, surprinsingly, they adapted the jokes really well
I have been searching for this one forever. All i could remember was "so i carried on"😂
This is my favorite cartoon of all time. I watched Tom & Jerry all the time and I would get so excited when this came on!
I remember when they had this episode on tv. It was great! Don’t let the flame die out
It's blasphemy to not put the whole cartoon on here!
This was my first time ever seeing this cartoon. I literally almost died laughing!
As for someone on the spectrum who likes to put phrases and slang literally, I found this hilarious
Remember watching this when I was younger, now every time I think of "paint the town red" I visual this!
I love these cartoons, and they look amazing in high definition!
It looks like modern and new!
A pure classic and MGM comedy cartoon madness LOL. I remember it well. Me and my friends watch this cartoon and always discussed it laughing hysterically not knowing that there was a interesting radio and movie history of this one character. Years later I would find out by sheer chance listening to old time radio and listening to an episode with alan reed AKA the voice of Fred Flintstone. Hearing him talk laughing thinking this is cool. And then a very familiar voice started talking and it was that person that played in that cartoon the character that is The voice. Did my research with with this and found out he was frequently on the Damon Runyon theater show as a character called Broadway. And if you listen to it and literally think like when the couch which character was in the heavens and Webster literally translated in his mind. They were literally making fun of the Damon Runyon show and that one cartoon because if you think about everything we talked about in all those episodes it definitely is funnier than it sounds in a way ridiculous LOL.
Featuring the voices of John Brown (for the "hipster", he used his "Thorny" voice from radio's "ADVENTURES OF OZZIE AND HARRIET"- and a bit of "Broadway" from "THE DAMON RUNYON THEATER").
He also played Digby "Digger" O'Dell, the friendly undertaker on The Life of Riley
He certainly did.
This is one of my favorite shorts, how nostalgic
This was funny as hell as a kid and still is..these cartoons never get old old..or I never tire of them.I haven't seen this in years and it's still funny
I've been after this for forty years.it must have been 1980 since I last saw it.unbelievable.thanks
Love Tex Avory's humor, got my wife into his cartoons now👍
i looked for this cartoon for a long time , i didnt knew its name and i just found it , ive seen it four times already and shared it .I love it!
The rest of it is something like this: I heard from the grapevine there was something about my case. So, they sprung me. It felt good to stretch my legs. I caught a cattle car to Mary I hot-footed it to Mary’s. I couldn’t believe my eyes. She had a lot of little ones. The man had his hands full, too. All of this struck me so hard, I died laughing and now here I am. So, what do you think? What’s wrong? Cat got your tongue?
****That’s what I remember. I loved the Tex Avery stuff, growing up. This was a cartoon for children. I first watched this when I was five years old and later into my teen years. Great stuff!
Omg 😂 yes this was one of my absolute favorites as a kid.
My brother and I loved this cartoon. One of our favorites. I would like to find the whole cartoon.
I still remember this from my childhood. Still funny af!
Side note: the late, great, MF DOOM sampled this for his track, "Strange Ways", on his album, "Madvillain".
Oh man I remember watching this as a kid. Even then this cartoon absolutely killed me.
Metaphorically speaking. 🤣
LOL I remember seeing this cartoon when I was a kid, and laughing and laughing 🤣
I remember this! Wow I haven't seen this since the 70's...too bad the rest isn't there
I want the full version 😭
Why show half a cartoon I agree
My favorite Tex Avery Cartoon of them all too hilarious!😆😆😂😂🤣🤣🤣
I have been looking for this on RUclips since forever! Thank you!!!!
"At Dinner Mary Let Her Hair Down."😄
God, I remember watching this short once on Tv when I was a kid growing up in Egypt so it feels very nostalgic to revisit it
That is one of my favorite Tex Avery episode! 😂
This is actually extremely informative; you can literally use this short as reference for if you were writing a 1940s-based novel XD
That's funny stuff!
2:03- I think THAT anger character should have been the Emotion character from the Inside Out film.
XD
Yes, the whole thing is funny with Noah Webster's literal interpretation of the man's story, but I think that there is another little joke in this cartoon; when the man says, "I gave him the slip.", the other man takes it.
This is one of the greatest cartoons on Earth.
This and the “Of Tomorrow” series are my favorite Tex Avery shorts
I remember watching this in the 5th grade and asking my teacher what it meant to be born with a silver spoon in my mouth.
And did the teacher say it meant he was born rich?
Just saw this today for the first time in my life this is hilarious
This is my second most favorite cartoon behind hillbilly hare.
Moscow Mule! I didn’t know that was an old drink!
Now we need a short in gen z slang
No cap😂
I hear that MGM intro and immediately think the Tom and Jerry theme. Sometimes I forget that other famous cartoons were also made by the same studio
Lmao, I love how this old ass humor still stood up to this day
How long has its been for someone to reach heaven and they don't understand slang?
Going by The Good Place, I’d say...400 years?
Hey, be glad that Saint Peter knows English at all! He spoke Aramaic and Greek.
Compare the character of Anger here to the character in "Inside Out".
James Scharnott hi Frank Zappa
But I'm scared. You do it for me
Tex Avery was the best cartoon maker
This was my favorite cartoon ever....I haven't seen it in 48 years......
Feels like metaphors and real things to me. And the fact that the angels taking things too literally is what make this sketch hilarious.
One of my absolute FAVORITES!!
I remember this .I used to love these cartoons where everything was so literal
“What’s cooking?” How’s tricks?” Does anyone say those anymore?
Slang comes and go doc
Garth Davis depends honestly
Garth Davis some do
I always liked "How's tricks."
Hipsters still do, by Golly!
I saw this cartoon 15 minutes ago and it is my favourite cartoon ever since.
Imagine the slang nowadays. “I put on my kicks, and hit the road.” 😂
I hadn’t seen this since the late 90’s when Cartoon Network used to play classic shorts in the evenings; thank god for the awesome power of google & RUclips for letting me revisit this again. I think this is actually a pretty educational short about commonplace vernacular for like an English class.
Release *ALL* the MGM shorts! Not just the Tex Avery ones!
I thought this logo gave us nightmares in the future.
These are the best cartoons in all time! All kids should be watching these cartoons. The cartoons from today are not good
Yeah except for the fact that several cartoons from this time (not including this one) didn't age well
I've always loved this one. I think watching this as a kid sparked my love of idiomatic language.
Same here. This and Airplane! made me wish we lived in a literal world like that.. as long as I'd be in on the joke ;)
@@hollywoodguy70 I'll bet the Zucker brothers were partially inspired by this. You ever see "Woodpecker From Mars" with Woody? There's a joke in there that definitely got borrowed by them.
1:11 I JUST CAUGHT it's the dictionary guy... that's funny.
Literal goose bumps! 🤣
Goose honks
Do geese get people bumps
I just saw this for the first time in my life this is HILARIOUS OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!
I loved this cartoon when I was a kid. 😄😍
This was terrific. Unfortunately it was cut short, but it was still fun
THIS.... IS A CLASSIC!!!! Tex Avery's BEST work!!!!
This was My favorite cartoon as a kid!! I hate they cut the rest off!! Boo!!
A Symphony in Slang is a hilarious cartoon.
HILARIOUS AN ENJOYABLE WATCH!!! THANKS FOR THE UPLOAD!!!
Why do you never finish it , it's always cut short
I haven’t seen this since I saw it as a kid in 1980 something. I couldn’t cut the mustard 😂
I can't believe you cut this short like that. I gotta find the whole cartoon. :(
YES!!!!!
2:02 I was beside myself with anger. From inside out!
i miss watching all these great cartoons on
📺 From back in the day. Today's cartoons are nothing like those back when we were a young kid or teenagers. These type of cartoons are timeless and wonderful plus enjoyable to watch too. Once in a great while me tv will show them.
This cartoon is hilarious. One of my all tine Tex Avery faves.
Omg I finally found it, relieving seeing it was uploaded in 2020 so I don't think I was crazy. Over the years, periodically I would try and dig up this cartoon. It's def. much older than my time, but I distinctly remember as a kid seeing this episode and it being my first taste of irony and play on words. It really stuck with me and kinda formed some of my comedy and what I think is funny. It's like 2am right now and I started thinking about this episode again, and started digging and alas! here we are! Thank you so much to the uploader, you helped me scratch an itch that I've been reaching for for a long time. Now, time to sit back and enjoy this episode :D
*sigh* sidenote, kinda bummed that the episode cuts off early. Missed my most nostalgic part
The same thing happened to me! I saw this on the channel Boomerang as a kid but I forgot the name. Finally I described the cartoon in a RUclips comment section on a video of lost cartoons. Someone said that it sounded like Symphony In Slang and the rest is history. 😄😁😊
@@DozaCraft I think they're using this as a promotion for the Tex Avery DVD collection. It's to get you to buy the DVD. It worked with me.😅
i swear to god, i half-exepected the tom and jerry theme to play at the beginning
Same here.