Rookie Revue

Rookie Revue is a 1941 Merrie Melodies short directed by I. Freleng. 
== Plot ==
A bugler uses a jukebox to play reveille. In formation, one private has a great deal of trouble remembering what comes after "3"; after he gets it, he decides not to go for the $32 question. In the mess hall, the machine gunners machine gun their food while the bombers catch falling biscuits. The infantry marches for miles, then past a "next time, take the train" billboard. The camouflage troops march by, invisibly. There are training substitutes: wooden guns, cars marked "tank" and, alas, a banner marked "parachute" deployed in mid-jump. More training: aerial games (of tic-tac-toe). The anti-aircraft division has target practice, on an aerial shooting gallery. Finally, in an elaborate process, a general provides firing instructions to a big gun; when it hits his own building, he says, "I'm a baaad general."
== Caricatures ==
* Henry Binder - as a soldier.
* Lou Costello - "I'm a baaad general."
== Availability ==
Golden-Age-of-Looney-Tunes-5-F.jpg|(1997) LaserDisc The Golden Age of Looney Tunes Vol. 5, Side 3, Freleng Follies (USA 1995 Turner print)
Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 6.jpg|(2008) DVD Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 6, Disc Two
lt spotlight 6.jpg|(2008) DVD Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection: Volume 6, Disc 2
=== Streaming ===
lt hbo max.jpg|HBO Max (2020 - 2023)
lt max.jpg|Max (2023 - 2024)
== Censorship ==
* In a series of mess hall gags, the shot of the Suicide Squad, a trio of depressed soldiers unhappily eating hash from a bowl, along with the narrator's line at the end of that shot: "And so, their appetites appeased, the army is ready to carry out the orders of the day", is cut on the rare times Cartoon Network and its sister channel Boomerang have aired the cartoon.http://www.intanibase.com/gac/looneytunes/censored-q-r.aspx
== Notes ==
* The $32 question is a reference to the radio quiz show Take It or Leave It.
* The film is now in the public domain as of 1969 as United Artists failed the renew the copyright in time.
== Gallery ==
File:Rookie Revue (1941) - Juke Box.jpg
File:Rookie Revue (1941) - Chow.jpg
File:Rookie Revue (1941) - Equipment.jpg
File:Rookie Revue (1941) - Tanks.jpg
== References ==
Category:Shorts
Category:Merrie Melodies Shorts
Category:1941
Category:Cartoons directed by Friz Freleng
Category:Cartoons with music by Carl W. Stalling
Category:Cartoons with layouts by Owen Fitzgerald
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:Cartoons with characters voiced by Mel Blanc
Category:Cartoons in a.a.p. package
Category:One-Shot Cartoons
Category:Public domain films
Category:Spot Gag Cartoons
Category:Wartime Shorts