Yosemite Sam

Yosemite Sam is a Warner Brothers cartoon character who is often featured in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of animated cartoons.http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0000588/ Because of his irritable demeanor and nefarious exploits, Yosemite Sam typically plays the role of villain in cartoon shorts opposite Bugs Bunny.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq0CnGzIFBU Yosemite Sam has taken on many different occupations in his cartoons but is most often featured as a gun-slinging cowboy or prospector from the Gold Rush era of the American West.http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0000588/

Yosemite Sam’s appearance is short, with dark red hair, a long mustache (which bears a resemblance to the mustache of his creator, Friz Freleng) and bushy eyebrows. http://www.nytimes.com/1995/05/28/obituaries/isadore-friz-freleng-dies-creator-of-cartoons-was-89.html?scp=10&sq=%22yosemite%20sam%22&st=cse He often wears an over-sized cowboy hat, cowboy boots and two six-shooter pistols. Yosemite Sam has also donned several location-specific and period-specific costumes, including a Roman soldier’s uniform (in “Roman Legion Hare”), an 18th century ship captain’s hat (in “Captain Hareblower”) and a Medieval knight’s suit of armor (in“Knighty Knight Bugs”). http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048559/ http://video.yahoo.com/watch/218906/822507 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3274382137005127076# Yosemite Sam speaks in a gruff voice, performed by Mel Blanc, and uses Old West vernacular phrases.http://movies.nytimes.com/person/6641/Mel-Blanc

Yosemite Sam debuted in the 1945 cartoon “Hare Trigger,” a Warner Brothers cartoon which featured Yosemite Sam playing a would-be train robber, one of his recurring roles.http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/139872/Hare-Trigger/overview?scp=1&sq=%22hare%20trigger%22&st=cse In the “Hare Trigger,” Bugs Bunny plays a passenger on the train that Yosemite Sam is attempting to rob.http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/139872/Hare-Trigger/overview?scp=1&sq=%22hare%20trigger%22&st=cse Bugs Bunny thwarts Yosemite Sam while the two cartoon characters spoof spaghetti western film scenes. For instance, the end of the episode features the Bugs bunny tied to a set of railroad tracks as the train speeds towards him.http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/139872/Hare-Trigger/overview?scp=1&sq=%22hare%20trigger%22&st=cse

In the 1996 film Space Jam, Yosemite Sam was not portrayed as a villain.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117705/ Instead, Yosemite Sam helped Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Marvin Martian and the the other Loooney Tunes cartoon characters in their conflict with the Monstars.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117705/ In one of the film’s scenes, Yosemite Sam and Elmer Fudd dress in black suits and sunglasses in a parody of the movie Pulp Fiction.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENXZJ4-WtrM

"Be you the mean hombre that's a-hankerin' for a heap of trouble, stranger? Well, be ya?" — Yosemite Sam in "Hare Trigger"http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0000588/quotes

"Dem's fightin' words!" — Yosemite Sam in "High Driving Hare" http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0000588/quotes

"I hate that rabbit!" — Yosemite Sam in "Ballot Box Bunny"http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0000588/quotes

"Say your prayers, varmint." — Yosemite Sam in "Buccaneer Bunny"http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0000588/quotes