Big Game Haunt

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Big Game Haunt is a 1968 Merrie Melodies short directed by Alex Lovy.
== Title ==
The title is a play on a "big game hunt."
== Plot ==
Colonel Rimfire runs Cool Cat out the jungle to blast him. Cool Cat then hides in a haunted house. Rimfire tries to ask the "owner" of the house for Cool Cat, and Cool Cat tricks Rimfire and slams the door on him. He finds the stove tingle but Cool Cat still manages to dodge the attacks.
The racket they make awakens a ghost named Spooky who was sleeping in a chest. Rimfire loses Cool Cat again, but finds the ghost and runs away in fear. Spooky spots Cool Cat and is scared as well. Spooky just wants to be friends, but Cool Cat and Rimfire both just want to get away from him. Spooky finds Rimfire hiding in a barrel and Rimfire jumps off without his hat and gun. Spooky attempts to carry it to Rimfire, while Cool Cat tries to find Rimfire. Cool Cat confuses Spooky in Rimfire's gear and runs off only to know the real person is and is stormed off again.
Spooky starts to use his ghostly powers and walk through walls. Cool Cat uses a curtain, which confuses Spooky and Rimfire as a spook. Rimfire is the first to run out of the haunted house, but Cool Cat follows and Spooky continues to follow Cool Cat. Cool Cat eventually runs out of breath, and Spooky sits with him to be ready for the "next race".
== Availability ==
=== Streaming ===
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== Notes ==
* A clip from this short appears in The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries episode "A Good Nephew Is Hard to Find".
* This was the only appearance of Spooky until the The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries episode "What's the Frequency, Kitty?"
** Spooky was intended to star in his own series of cartoons with a human sidekick named Buddy (no relation to the character of the same name from the 1930s cartoons), but the closure of the cartoon studio the following year prevented this from coming into fruition.
== Gallery ==
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=== TV Title Cards ===
29.png|The Merrie Melodies Show
 
Category:Merrie Melodies Shorts
Category:Shorts
Category:1968
Category:Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Cartoons
Category:Cool Cat Cartoons
Category:Cartoons directed by Alex Lovy
Category:Cartoons written by Cal Howard
Category:Cartoons with music by Bill Lava
Category:Cartoons with layouts by Robert Givens
Category:Cartoons animated by Ted Bonnicksen
Category:Cartoons animated by Volus Jones
Category:Cartoons animated by Ed Solomon
Category:Cartoons with backgrounds by Bob Abrams