Holiday Highlights (1940)

Mel Blanc: New Year Baby, Tommy, George Washington, Dog, Fox, Turkey

Quotes 

• Narrator : Thanksgiving: a turkey day and a day of feasting throughout the land, when everyone has a turkey for dinner.

  Turkey : [praying, speaking indistinctly]  And thank you for this lovely turkey. TURKEY? WHAT AM I SAYING?

  [he runs off; his tail feathers form a circle, then follow him] 

• Narrator : February 14: St. Valentine's Day, the sweetheart's holiday.

  Little Girl : Hi, there, Tommy. Will you be my Valentine? Hmm? Will you? Huh? Will you?

  Tommy : Oh, my darling! This is so sudden! Oh, I don't know how you say it! But you're so tender, so lovable, your eyes are blue-lipped blooms! Mwah! Mwah! Mwah!

  Narrator : Hey, there! Just a minute. You're a little crossed up, aren't you? Don't you realize this is leap year?

  Little Girl : [impersonating Katharine Hepburn]  Oh, my darling. This is so sudden. Really, it is. You're so sweet, so tender, so lovable.

  [to the audience] 

  Little Girl : And this is so silly, don't you think?

  [kisses Tommy] 

• George Washington's Father : [sees the cherry tree chopped down]  George, my son, thou tell'st me the truth! As man to man, didest thou chopped down yon cherry tree? Didest thou?

  Young George Washington : Hmmm, couldst be...