One More Time

Plot synopsis:
Foxy is a policeman on the beat. He handily subdues a criminal who pops out of a trashcan and sprays bullets with a machine gun. Foxy has his own gun. It shoots out an expandable arm with a platform on the end. A mouse with a mallet stands on the platform and knocks the criminal unconscious; Foxy slams the lid back on the trashcan.Meanwhile, a mouse in his tiny car and a hippo in her oversized automobile are rudely hogging the road and refusing in turns to let each other pass. The hippo gets the better of the mouse, but accidentally runs over Foxy. Foxy starts to write the lady out a ticket. Her weeping and her pleading lead him to forgo the ticket and throw a trashcan over her head instead.Foxy goes to visit his girlfriend at the nickelodeon. She has a huge dog with a penchant for licking everyone. Foxy's girl plays the piano, and Foxy dances. But their musical fun is brief; suddenly, they hear a machine gun. A tough-looking bird in a tiny roadster is chasing, and shooting at, a hippo in top hat and tails. The bird backs the hippo against a brick wall and steals his pocket watch. The police give chase, and Foxy runs after him on foot. The bird drives through a pipe and comes out the other end in a huge car with three tough mugs riding in back. One of the mugs stops Foxy by spitting tobacco juice at him. He stops the police by throwing a grenade, which explodes and destroys their cop car, turning it into a tandem bicycle. The blackened policemen immediately ride it into the mud.Foxy hasn't given up. And he redoubles his efforts when the criminals drive by the nickelodeon and kidnap his girlfriend. Foxy hops on a wooden horse and rides after them. The horse has an expandable neck; Foxy extends its head, grabs the girl with its teeth and pulls her out of the car. Now Foxy and his girl are pursued by the criminals. Foxy tricks them by riding into the jail. They drive in after him, but he, his wooden horse and his girl pop out of the manhole in the street. Foxy slams the door on the criminals.All seems well, but the bad guys have the last laugh. The tough little bird pops out of the manhole and shoots Foxy with his machine gun. Foxy screams "Yow!" as we iris out.All the dialogue is sung to the tune of "One More Time," using substitute lyrics.Foxy: (yelling at traffic) One more time. / Just one more time. / One more time.***Foxy: (to the criminal in the trashcan) No more crime, big boy. / No more crime.***Hippo: Uh-oh, one more fine.Foxy: Yeah, one more fine. / For running me down and the fire plug too, / There's a great big cell at the jail for you. / One more fine. / Yeah, one more fine.Hippo: Don't you bawl me out. / Don't you call me names.Foxy: Aw, tell it to the judge. / I know you dames. / One more fine. / Yeah, one more fine.Hippo: Eating all alone will make me lazy.Foxy: Talkin' alone will make you crazy.Hippo: Please let me go / Just this one time? / You can drink my gin. / You can have my dough. / Please, won't you let me go? / Just one more time?Foxy: (spoken) Aw, baloney! (throws trashcan over her head)Hippo: (sniffs the air) I know. Old Gold.***Policemen: One more time. / Just one more time. / It took long enough / For the old rough stuff / To come out in the open sure enough.Tough mugs: Oh, not this time. No, not this time. Ha ha ha!Foxy: You're not so hot!Tough mugs: You're on the spot.Policemen: One more time. / You're just in time. / For one more ride / To the calaboose. / You know that judge / Won't turn you loose.Tough mugs: Not this time. Ha ha ha!

Tags: psychedelic

Review:
An early Merrie Melodie shows its pedigree..
"One More Time" is an antique cartoon: a relic from an era when sound was new and characters had huge, googly eyes adapted for a harsh world in black and white.
The story is boilerplate cops and robbers, and gets its title from the song the characters sing throughout its length.
And it's a very hot song: a jazzy, cautionary tale that would have been at home in any burlesque house or gambling backroom.
Brave Officer Foxy represents law and order, and he doggedly pursues the baddies in a Prohibition-age world of rubbery menace where the entire cast sways and bounces to the music's devilish rhythm.
The animation team of Hugh Harman, Rudolf Ising and "Friz" Freleng produced three Merrie Melodies starring Foxy, and "One More Time" is their meanest.
In 1931 they were still walking in Disney's footsteps, so their thugs are jowly, scruffy lowlifes of uncertain species (presumably canine), whereas Foxy wears a resemblance to a certain rodent who will go nameless here.
The toon's simple plot gets personal when the thugs abduct girlfriend Roxy, but Foxy rescues her and corrals the fleeing toughs straight to the jailhouse.
As he padlocks the door, the angry jailbirds deliver the song's finale through the barred windows.
In triumph, our hero assumes centerstage and takes his bows while Roxy looks on dreamily.
However, the cocky officer ought to be watching his back, because a baddie has emerged from a manhole with a machine gun.
Foxy takes one bow too many and presents a perfect target for the mug who opens fire.
With a cry of "Yeowwww!" that lasts to the closing fade, poor Foxy throws up his arms and grinds his backside helplessly on the pavement as the mug spanks him with gunfire.
The moral: "Crime does not pay, but getting the last laugh does.".
Foxy, we hardly knew ye..
Foxy's hour upon the stage was a brief one, perhaps three cartoons, for reasons both obvious and not so clear.
The Foxy cartoons are entertaining enough, but not overly so.
I suspect Foxy was a wee bit too much like a certain rodent for the studio's taste and comfort for him to continue on for very long.
Rumors persist that Foxy left Warner Brothers and struck it rich wildcatting in the Texas oil fields, but this has not been confirmed.
It is hoped that his life was a happy one once retired from the screen.
Worth watching.
Recommended for fans of black and white cartoons..
Foxy appears for one last time.
The third Foxy cartoon after 'Lady, Play Your Mandolin!' and 'Smile, Darn Ya Smile', 'One More Time' like those two is not great but still pretty good, and perhaps the best of the three.Once again, 'One More Time's' story is limited, with a thin structure, little sense and is somewhat derivative.
Some of the sound is slightly rough and not as crisp as it could have been even for an early cartoon.Animation is uneven, the black and white is crisp and there are some lovely details, good flexibility and perspective visuals, but other parts are on the crude side like with the character designs.However, much of the animation is not bad and generally it's the best-looking of the three Foxy cartoons.
The music is suitably peppy and devilish, while there is a nice mix of amusing and dark moments.
The most note-worthy example of the latter being a pretty ballsy ending, the one thing surprising about the story.
Foxy is the most compelling and expressive of all three of his cartoons.In summary, Foxy's last cartoon is a decent one.
7/10 Bethany Cox. Hiding a gun in his pants?
Doesn't he worry about losing his manhood?.
One of the few cartoons starring Foxy - Warner Bros.
soon decided that Merrie Melodies wouldn't feature any of the stars* - casts the vulpine character as a cop.
But I ask you: what cop in his right mind sticks his pistol in the front of his pants?!
There are plenty of things that a guy can stick in that area, but a gun could easily deprive him of his manhood.So, this is an OK cartoon, despite the limited plot.
In case you're wondering what's up with the song, for about the first six or seven years, Merrie Melodies cartoons would always take the name of a song and have the characters sing the song in one scene (hence titles like "One More Time" and "I Haven't Got a Hat").
WB ended this by the end of the '30s.*In the late '30s Elmer Fudd's prototype Egghead began appearing regularly in Merrie Melodies, followed by Sniffles, Inki, and finally Bugs Bunny..
It's hard to watch the ending of ONE MORE TIME .
. in which a crook machine-guns policeman Foxy on an American street without thinking of the Dallas Cop Massacre of 2016.
Inter-species hatred between rodents Foxy and his gal Roxy and an eclectic group of thugs comprised of two canines, a primate, and a machine-gunning bird show that these bomb-tossing anarchists out to monopolize America's streets through their Domestic Terrorism need to be Neutralized with Extreme Prejudice by bomb-wielding robots (such as the one used in Dallas, and the unarmed 'Bot with which Foxy rescues the kidnapped Roxy).
America's current breakdown of Law & Order is predicted here by Warner Bros.' budding Looney Tunes Animation Division, which would go on to prognosticate most of America's 21st Century Calamities, Catastrophes, Cataclysms, and Apocalypti.
When a rich, limousine-driving hippo lady tries to flee from a hit-and-run crash, she brazenly attempts to bribe Foxy--who quickly nails her in her tracks--with "gin and dough." As Leader Trump was quoted as saying Oct. 7, 2016, he'd have settled this skirt's hash with a real good groping.
Clearly, Warner is warning the U.S. with ONE MORE TIME that only a male leader such as Foxy or Trump is capable of bailing America out of her current Moral Morass.