History WesternAnimation / ILoveToSinga

* CatchPhrase: Professor Fritz Owl: "Enough is too much!"; Owl Jolson: "I love to singa!"

* {{Bowdlerization}}: When this cartoon was shown on TNT's short-lived series, ''The Rudy and Gogo Show'', two scenes were edited for time constraints (other airings of this cartoon outside TNT's ''The Rudy and Gogo Show'' were instead shown uncut, including on TBS, Cartoon Network and Boomerang):
** Owl Jolson's being forced to sing "To Celia" and interjecting it with "I Love to Singa" before his parents catch him and he gets thrown out of the house.
** Some of the failed auditions for Jack Bunny's radio program.

** Owl Jolson being forced to sing "To Cilia" and interjecting it with "I Love to Singa" before his parents catch him and he gets thrown out of the house.

"I Love to Singa" is a ''[[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Merrie Melodies]]'' short directed by Creator/TexAvery (or, as he is still credited here, "Fred Avery," with his animators, [[Creator/ChuckJones "Charles Jones"]] and Virgil Ross) that premiered on [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation July 18, 1936.]] It is one of ''Literature/The100GreatestLooneyTunes''.

* PublicDomainSoundtrack: The owlets perform the beginnings of various classical works: the tenor part from the Sextette of Donizetti's ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYIRlQ8QbmI Lucia di Lammermoor]]''; [[Music/RobertSchumann Schumann's]] ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq7ncjhSqtk Träumerei]]'': Music/FelixMendelssohn's ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2XFrgJGPrM Frühlingslied]]''; and ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoKrw-0dze Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes]]'' (words by Ben Jonson, melody anonymous).

* HopelessAuditionees: A line of HopelessAuditionees are trying out for “Jack Bunny’s” radio talent show; however, averting the second part of this trope, he gives them no encouragement at all.

* ClicheStorm: The song is a satire of the clichés of popular songs of the era, with Harburg's lyrics using many stock phrases and rhymes that audiences were familiar with.

* SimpletonVoice: The stuttering bird. (voiced by Joe Dougherty, who, at the time, was voicing WesternAnimation/PorkyPig.)
* {{Slapstick}}: The sequence in which Jack Bunny is disposing of the talent show losers as all of the losers get ejected from the studio in amusing fashions.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: All the owlets look exactly alike, except for "Owl Jolson's" red coat and blue tie.

* ToothyBird: The stuttering bird.

''I Love to Singa'' is a [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Merrie Melodies]] short directed by Creator/TexAvery (or, as he is still credited here, "Fred Avery," with his animators, [[Creator/ChuckJones "Charles Jones"]] and Virgil Ross) that premiered on [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation July 18, 1936.]] It is one of ''Literature/The100GreatestLooneyTunes''.

!!''I Love To Singa'' provides examples of:

* ReferenceOverdosed: The middle section of the song:
-->''I was born a singin' fool-a,''
-->''Lah-de-dah!''
-->''Ol' Major Bowes is gonna spot me,''
-->''Got through Yale with boola-boola,''
-->''Lah-de-dah!''
-->''Old microphone's got me!''
** "Major Bowes" was the master of ceremonies of a popular radio amateur competition.
** "Boola-boola" is the Yale University Fight Song.
** "Old Rocking Chair's Got Me" is a song about an old man who spends all his time in a rocking chair, waiting to die.

* IndecipherableLyrics: The middle section of the song:

* BillyElliotPlot: Owl Jolson wants to sing popular music, but his parents, especially his father, don't approve and want him to embark on a classical career instead.

''I Love to Singa'' is a [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Merrie Melodies]] short directed by Creator/TexAvery (or, as he is still credited here, "Fred Avery," with his animators, [[Creator/ChuckJones "Charles Jones"]] and Virgil Ross) that premiered on [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation July 18, 1936.]] It is one of ''Literature/TheOneHundredGreatestLooneyTunes''.

''I Love to Singa'' is a [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Merrie Melodies]] short directed by Creator/TexAvery (or, as he is still credited here, "Fred Avery," with his animators, [[Creator/ChuckJones "Charles Jones"]] and Virgil Ross) that premiered on [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation July 18, 1936.]]

* FatGirl: The fat pigeon who auditioned. See TrapDoorFail.

* TrapDoor: How Jack Bunny disposes of the amateurs who fail their audition.
* TrapDoorFail: The fat pigeon couldn't fit through the trap door, so Jack Bunny hits her on the head with his mallet to shove her through.

* TrapDoor: How Jack Bunny disposes of his rejected amateurs.

[[caption-width-right:300: We bet you’ve got the song in your head just looking at this.]]

[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ILoveToSinga.jpg]]

[[caption-width-right:300:Admit it, it's [[EarWorm stuck in your head]] right now.]]

* {{Earworm}}: Don't attempt to watch this unless you are prepared to singa, about the moon-a and the June-a and the spring-a, for the next few days-a.

-->We just received another telegram, Station GOMG. Stop. Your program coming in great. Stop. Think it's fine. Stop. Glad to hear your amateurs. Stop. They're all very funny. (''camera pans back to show her continually pushing away the deliveryman as he keeps trying to hold her'') Stop! Keep up the good work. Stop! Good luck. STOP! The gang. ''STOP!'' (''she pushes him offscreen and he crashes'')

The cartoon, very popular at the time, was designed to feature the eponymous tune by [[Film/TheWizardOfOz Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg]], has a plot mirroring that of Al Jolson's most famous film, ''Film/TheJazzSinger''; un-coincidentally, Jolson (with Music/CabCalloway) had introduced the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uQdCcD_pG8 song]] in a 1936 Creator/WarnerBros feature, ''The Singing Kid''.

* AmbiguouslyJewish: The owls speak with heavy Teutonic (Yiddish?) accents; the plot is based on that of ''Film/TheJazzSinger'' (and Creator/AlJolson was Jewish), which deals with the conflict between an Orthodox Jewish cantor and his son.