Payday

Payday is a 1944 Private Snafu short directed by Friz Freleng. 
== Plot ==
Somewhere in the Middle East, Snafu spends his payday walking through a local bazaar. Technical Fairy First Class operates his own stand, allowing Snafu to invest in his future. He presents a poster with an ideal future for Snafu: a suburban house, a streamlined car, a gorgeous wife, a baby in a stroller, and a doghouse on a well-manicured lawn. Snafu is ready to hand over his money. But a devil appears and lures him into a souvenir shop. As Snafu spends his money, the image on the poster changes. The streamlined car is replaced progressively to a Ford Model T, to a horse and carriage, to a bicycle, and finally into a pair of roller skates.
Later, in the Caribbean, Snafu wears a pith helmet and fondles a wad of cash. Its another payday. Technical Fairy appears to him with a bank-book. Within it written: "no dollars, no sense". Snafu is once again led astray, into a local bar. The smoke from the bar turns into a cocktail shaker. The image from the poster changes again after Technical Fairy First Class sees Snafu walk into a hotel with a prostitute.
Still later, in the Arctic, Snafu purchases a totem pole from an Eskimo. Technical Fairy operates a "Last Chance" booth. Snafu chooses to enter a Quonset hut and risk his money in a game of craps. As he keeps losing, the image on the poster changes. The suburban house disintegrates into a flophouse, the stork repossesses the baby, and the wife packs a suitcase and leaves. Snafu exits the hut wearing a cardboard box. He has lost his clothes.
He finds a single coin and runs naked to gamble it away. In the remains of Snafu's house, a phone rings. A mouse picks it up and informs the caller that Snafu does not live here anymore.
== Notes ==
* This cartoon was included on the 38th issue of Army-Navy Screen Magazine.
* The scene at the bazaar includes stalls operated by the Sheik and the Son of the Sheik. These are references to the films The Sheik (1921) and The Son of the Sheik (1926), both featuring Rudolph Valentino in the eponymous role.
* The house is reused in the newsreel segment of "Bacall to Arms", showing how civilians can use Army radios to prepare when someone's mother-in-law comes to town for a visit.
* Almost the whole cartoon didn't have any dialogue, expect in the end with the mouse telling the caller that Snafu does not live here anymore. 
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== References ==
 
Category:1944
Category:Shorts
Category:Cartoons directed by Friz Freleng
Category:Private Snafu Cartoons
Category:Black-and-white cartoons
Category:Cartoons with music by Carl W. Stalling
Category:Cartoons with film editing by Treg Brown
Category:Cartoons with sound effects edited by Treg Brown
Category:Cartoons with orchestrations by Milt Franklyn
Category:Cartoons with characters voiced by Mel Blanc
Category:Cartoons produced by Eddie Selzer
Category:Public domain films