Buddy the Gob

Buddy the Gob is a 1934 Looney Tunes short directed by Friz Freleng.
== Plot ==
Buddy is a sailor in the navy. He is cleaning the crew's laundry when he discovers they are boarding at China. As Buddy tours the place, he finds a Chinese citizen reading a tall sign that translates to an announcement for the 150th birthday anniversary of the Sacred Dragon, wherein a "beautiful girl" will be sacrificed to the dragon. Buddy sets off to intervene with the sacrifice and rescue the girl.
Climbing atop of several citizens, the parade begins with several citizens instrumentally playing Chinese music. After several large head caricatures, the Chinese princess is shown, caged up. Buddy runs off in attempt to rescue her, but is eventually kicked out by the guards. He tries to pole vault over using the spear the guard threw Buddy out with, but is flung backwards near a fence. Buddy takes out the gate to shoot arrows towards the palace's wall to be able to climb up to the prisoner's room.
Another guard is seen locking up the princess while the dragon is nearby. Buddy tricks the guard by hitting him with a barrel and kicking him to spit out the key. Unlocking the princess's lock, the dragon is now unleashed after the two. Buddy and the princess escapes by jumping onto a cart, while a riot of Chinese attendees chases after the two. Eventually, the duo successfully escapes by cutting a bridge before the angry mob can cross it. Buddy and the princess mocks the riot, but one of the rioters manages to get back at Buddy by hitting him with a spear.
== Caricatures ==
* Jimmy Durante
== Notes ==
* This is the first Warner Bros. cartoon to be fully directed by Friz Freleng.
* As was typical for the time, since the cartoon's setting is China, the cartoon features gags centered around Chinese culture and Asian stereotypes that would be considered racist by today's standards. Due to this, it rarely airs on television today, though it did air on Nickelodeon in the 1990s.http://web.archive.org/web/20151106185612/http://looney.goldenagecartoons.com/tv/nick/
* The scene at the beginning of the cartoon with the boats sailing the sea would be redrawn in "What Price Porky", with the water recycled but the ships replaced with ducks with cannons.
* This cartoon was shown in theaters with Easy to Love during its original release.
== Gallery ==
Buddy-the-gob-600.jpg|Lobby card
BtGAD.jpg|Production drawing
== References ==
 
Category:Looney Tunes Shorts
Category:Shorts
Category:1934
Category:Buddy Cartoons
Category:Black-and-white cartoons
Category:Cartoons directed by Friz Freleng
Category:Cartoons animated by Ben Clopton
Category:Cartoons with music by Bernard Brown
Category:Cartoons with characters voiced by Berneice Hansell
Category:Caricatures of real people
Category:Cartoons produced by Leon Schlesinger
Category:Cartoons in the Sunset Productions package
Category:Cartoons with film editing by Bernard B. Brown
Category:Cartoons with film editing by Treg Brown