Hassan – Hassan from Ali Baba Bunny and Sergeant Schultz from Hogan’s Heroes
https://wiki.wizard101central.com/wiki/NPC:Hassan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Baba_Bunny
https://youtu.be/siqPMOYh7DA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Banner
Hassan is the Ossuary Guardian outside the Overlord’s Ossuary in Alkali Barrows.
Hassan will not let you into Xerxes vault and threatens you with a “Hassan Chop”. Eventually Hassan decides that he will leave his post if you get him a tapestry from within the vault.
To gain entry into the crypt you will need the Vault Key from the Crypt Conscripts. But Hassan didn’t tell you this. Hassan sees nothing, hears nothing, mmm… knows nothing.
Ali Baba Bunny is a 1957 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies short directed by Chuck Jones. The short was released on February 9, 1957, and stars Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck.
In 1994, it was voted #35 of the 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time by members of the animation field.
In the Arabian Desert, a rich Sultan stores his treasure in a cave and leaves his dimwitted guard Hassan to watch the cave. As the Sultan leaves, a burrowing trail crosses the desert towards the cave, bumps into Hassan’s sword, and enters the cave. Enraged, Hassan tries to open the cave’s door to kill the intruder. However, he forgets the command to do so (“Open sesame”), and his fierceness turns to dumbfoundedness trying to remember the appropriate phrase. While he tries random words beginning with ‘s’ (“Open, uh… sarsaparilla? Uh, open Saskatchewan?”), Bugs Bunny and his traveling companion Daffy Duck emerge from the burrow, believing they have arrived at Pismo Beach, they missed that left turn at Albuquerque (and a right one at La Jolla). Daffy’s complaints about traveling underground and arriving at the wrong place end when he is mesmerized by the riches. Determined to keep it all for himself, he forces Bugs back into the burrow and eagerly indulges himself, jumping into the pile of treasure.
Hassan eventually says the correct command (“Open septuagenarian? Open, uh, saddle soap? Uh, open sesame?”), marches in and is mistaken by Daffy as a porter. Uttering his catchphrase “Hassan, chop!” he attacks Daffy. After being attacked, Daffy flees in terror
In the comedy series Hogan’s Heroes John Banner played Sergeant Hans Schultz. The series debuted on the CBS Television Network in 1965. The character of Schultz is a bumbling, but ultimately lovable, German guard at a World War II prisoner-of-war camp. The camp is used by the prisoners as a secret staging area for sabotage and intelligence gathering. To obtain nuggets of information from the commandant’s office, the prisoners often bribe Schultz with food and candy. Schultz’s main goal is to avoid any trouble with his superiors, which often leads him to ignore the clandestine activities of the prisoners. (On those occasions, he often used his catchphrase “I hear nothing, I see nothing, I know nothing!” As the series went on, this became simply “I know nothing. Nothing!”)
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