Hocus Pocus Powwow

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Hocus Pocus Powwow SS 1.jpg|Merlin: Ah, yes, Second Banana, my boy, tonight we open in Powwow City, once again to astound the public of one of my classic performances in the art of prestigi-prestigi- in the art of magic. If our luck holds out.
198023 10150124652473926 5943239 n.png|Second Banana: Uh oh, I think our luck just ran out.
198023 10150124652473926 5943260 n.png|Tickets.
198023 10150124652473926 5943261 n.png|Merlin: Tickets?
198023 10150124652473926 5943262 n.png|Merlin: Ah, yes, yes, yes, tickets.
198023 10150124652473926 5943263 n.png|Merlin: Got em' right here. Hmm, let's see...
198023 10150124652473926 5943264 n.png|Merlin: You said tickets, didn't you?
198023 10150124652473926 5943265 n.png|Merlin: Ah, here we are, my good man.
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Hocus Pocus Powwow SS 3.jpg|I said tickets, not flowers.
198023 10150124652473926 5943266 n.png|Merlin: Oh, yes, tickets.
198023 10150124652473926 5943267 n.png|Merlin: Slipped my mind for a minute there.
198023 10150124652473926 5943268 n.png|Merlin: Let's see... where did I put those tickets?
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198023 10150124652473926 5943245 n.png|Merlin: The president of the railroad will hear about this!
Hocus Pocus Powwow SS 5.jpg|Merlin: Oh, an unfortunate incident, my boy, but if we start walking, we'll get to Powwow City by nightfall.
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198023 10150124652473926 5943270 n.png|Merlin: But first, a little sustenance.
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198023 10150124652473926 5943273 n.png|Merlin: Atascadero Escondido!
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198023 10150124652473926 5943276 n.png|Lo: Huh? What kind magic hat that?
Hocus Pocus Powwow SS 6.jpg|Merlin: Dig in, my boy, dig in.
198023 10150124652473926 5943238 n.png|Lo: Me gotta have magic hat!
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198023 10150124652473926 5943278 n.png|Merlin: Oh, a delicious kidney.
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198023 10150124652473926 5943280 n.png|Merlin: Indians!
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Hocus Pocus Powwow SS 10.jpg|Merlin: Unhand my hat, you scoudrel!
Hocus Pocus Powwow SS 11.jpg|Lo: Oh boy! Rabbit. Me eat!
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Hocus Pocus Powwow SS 15.jpg|Portable warpath.
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Hocus Pocus Powwow SS 23.jpg|Merlin: Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, or whatever the case may be.
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Hocus Pocus Powwow SS 25.jpg|Merlin: Where's a cavalry when you need em'?
Hocus Pocus Powwow is a 1968 Looney Tunes short directed by Alex Lovy.
== Plot ==
Merlin the Magic Mouse and his sidekick Second Banana ride a train to their next show in Powwow City. However, they don't bring tickets, and the conductor catches the stowaways and kicks them off the train in the middle of an Indian territory. Merlin apologizes to Second Banana about the situation and decides to have a rest meal before walking to Powwow City. A dopey American Indian, Lo, notices Merlin preparing a meal with his magic hat, and wants the hat for himself. Merlin sees that Lo is shooting arrows at him and hides behind a rock. Lo still finds Merlin and steals his hat. Lo pulls out a rabbit to eat, but the rabbit bites Lo on the nose. A chicken then spawns out of the hat and lays an egg on Lo's head. Lo attempts to smash the chicken with a hammer, but it flies away, and he strikes his own head, allowing Merlin to take his hat back.
Lo continues to chase after Merlin but is tricked into being run over by an ongoing train, falling off a canyon, and running on a conveyor belt which Lo calls a "portable warpath". Merlin and Second Banana then hide and walk off in a teepee tent, and Lo removes the tent to uncover the two mice. Merlin decides to "peacefully surrender", but first he must make Lo "smoke" a peace pipe, which is just a stick with dynamite attached to the end of it. Despite outsmarting Lo and successfully reaching their show, Merlin and Second Banana are forced out, as their audience are Indians too.
== Notes ==
* When shown on television anthology programs like The Merrie Melodies Show, the title was changed to Hokus Pokus Pow Wow.
* This short uses the same title card credit images from "Speedy Ghost to Town", with one being used twice for extra credits.
* This is the only Warner Bros.-Seven Arts cartoon to use Warner's version of the falling object whistle, which is used around the end of the cartoon, after Merlin lights up a dynamite to Lo the Indian and blows up, blasting him up until he falls on the ground.
* It is also the only Merlin cartoon to use Hanna-Barbera's falling object whistle, used when the Lo spin falls off a cliff. The other Merlin cartoons used instead a different Hanna-Barbera falling object whistle.
* Beginning with this cartoon, the color scheme on the "Abstract W7" opening and closing logos are changed, so the background is now blue and the W7 shield is yellow.
* The engine on the train is a 4-4-0 (four leading wheels, four driving wheels, and no trailing wheels), which is called an "American" type due to the large number of the type that were produced and used in the United States.
* Merlin's head without his hat is flat in this short, while in "Merlin the Magic Mouse", his head had a tuft of hair.
* This cartoon seldom airs on American television due to racial stereotyping of Native Americans that would be deemed offensive to modern audiences, with its last known airing being on Cartoon Network at 4 July 2002.
* Larry Storch takes over from Daws Butler as the voice of Merlin and Second Banana from this point on.
* Lo, the Poor Indian was planned to star in his own series of shorts, featuring his wife and son and his tribal neighbors. The closure of Warner Bros. Animation, along with presumably the ethnic stereotyping, prevented this from coming into fruition.
== Gallery ==
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710QvXE2wcL. SL1144 .jpg|Lobby card
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LoThePoorIndianPitch.jpg|A pitch for Lo the Poor Indian's own series of cartoons.
=== TV Title Cards ===
Screenshot 20200403-200256.png|The Merrie Melodies Show
 
Category:1968
Category:Shorts
Category:Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Cartoons
Category:Looney Tunes Shorts
Category:Cartoons directed by Alex Lovy
Category:Merlin the Magic Mouse Cartoons
Category:Cartoons written by Cal Howard
Category:Cartoons animated by Ted Bonnicksen
Category:Cartoons animated by Volus Jones
Category:Cartoons with layouts by Robert Givens
Category:Cartoons with music by Bill Lava
Category:Cartoons animated by Laverne Harding
Category:Cartoons animated by Ed Solomon