Hop, Skip and a Chump

Hop, Skip and a Chump is a 1942 Merrie Melodies short directed by I. Freleng. 
== Title ==
The title is a play on the phrase "hop, skip and a jump."
== Plot ==
A grasshopper named Hopalong Casserole is hopping freely. Meanwhile, two blackbirds that resembles Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy hides behind a bush while attempting to prepare to whip the grasshopper behind there. Hopalong sneaks behind Laurel, who asks what he is trying to catch. When Hardy peeks out of the bushes, Laurel ends up smashing him with a whip.
Laurel is told to bag the grasshopper, but only grabs a bumblebee instead, which chases after the birds until they run into a lake. Hardy attempts to hop after the grasshopper, using springs from several junk beds, but ends up getting hit repeatedly by tree branches and eventually falls off a cliff. Laurel falls down the same cliff trying to find Hardy. Using a fishing rod with corn, while hiding in a piano, Hopalong tramples upon the piano, which causes the hammers to repeatedly hit the birds. The grasshopper hides in a cuckoo clock, where the grasshopper carries a hammer to repeatedly sock Hardy. Hopalong manages to outrun the birds behind an iris out and brags upon a black screen, but Hardy reappears via an iris in the take the grasshopper.
== Caricatures ==
* Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
== Availability ==
The Golden Age of Looney Tunes Vol. 4.jpg|(1993) LaserDisc The Golden Age of Looney Tunes, Volume 4, Side 6
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=== Streaming ===
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== Goofs ==
* The restored print has digitally removed a quotation from the "That's All Folks!" ending card. This gaffe also occurs with "The Bug Parade" and "The Shell Shocked Egg"'s ending cards for their restored versions.
== Notes ==
* The original title card is currently lost, but included a comma after "Hop",Catalog of Copyright Entries as seen on the lobby cards below. The Blue Ribbon reissue omits the comma from the title. 
*A cel of the original title card once existed in Michael Maltese's personal collection, but has since likely deteriorated.https://blueribbonblues.neocities.org/checklist.html
== Gallery ==
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== References ==
Category:Cartoons directed by Friz Freleng
Category:Merrie Melodies Shorts
Category:1942
Category:Blue Ribbon reissues
Category:Re-released cartoons whose original titles are known to exist
Category:Shorts
Category:Cartoons written by Michael Maltese
Category:Cartoons with music by Carl W. Stalling
Category:Cartoons with characters voiced by Mel Blanc
Category:Cartoons with layouts by Robert Givens
Category:Cartoons with orchestrations by Milt Franklyn
Category:Cartoons with film editing by Treg Brown
Category:Cartoons with sound effects edited by Treg Brown
Category:Cartoons produced by Leon Schlesinger
Category:Caricatures of real people
Category:Cartoons in a.a.p. package
Category:One-Shot Cartoons
Category:Cartoons with missing Leon Schlesinger credits