Smile, Darn Ya, Smile!

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SmileDarnYaSmile!2007restoration.png|Cropped screenshot of 2007 restoration
Smile, Darn Ya, Smile! is a 1931 Merrie Melodies short directed by Rudolf Ising.
== Plot ==
Foxy is a trolley engineer, whose problems include an obese lady hippo who can't fit into the trolley and a set of wheels that detach from the trolley car while it's moving. Foxy picks up his vixen girlfriend and gives her a ride, but then the car is blocked by a cow who won't get off the track. A group of nearby hobos sing the title song while Foxy tries to move the cow; he finally runs the car underneath the cow and goes on his way.
The trolley then goes down a hill and runs out of control; Foxy tries to stop it, but the brakes don't work. The trolley runs off of a cliff, throwing Foxy into the air. He wakes up from what turned out to be just a dream. The radio by his bed is playing the title song, but Foxy smashes it with a bedpost.
== Availability ==
Golden Age LT Vol 1.jpg|(1991) LaserDisc The Golden Age of Looney Tunes, Vol. 1, Side 1: 1930s Musicals
The golden age of looney tunes vhs 1.jpg|(1991) VHS The Golden Age of Looney Tunes, Vol. 1: 1930s Musicals
Lt public enemy.jpg|(2005) DVD The Public Enemy
Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 6.jpg|(2008) DVD Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 6, Disc 3 (restored)
Lt public enemy blu.jpg|(2013) Blu-ray The Public Enemy (part of "Warner's night at" movies in SD)
61cY+-DcmqL. SL1000 .jpg|(2023) Blu-ray Dance, Fools, Dance
=== Streaming ===
lt hbo max.jpg|HBO Max (2020 - 2023) (restored)
lt max.jpg|Max (2023 - ) (restored)
== Notes ==
* The title song was featured twice in the 1988 movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit, first when Eddie drives into Toontown, and again at the end of the film. The song plays as part of the background area music in the Esplanade at the Disneyland Resort as well as in the Mickey's Toontown area of Disneyland Park.
* The lady hippo's gibberish dialogue is actually the following sentence played backwards: "Susie heard one of those Atlantic bells! Whataya think?"
** After Foxy deflates the lady hippo's body, she then says the following sentence backwards: "...for a week... my diary looks like the register..."
** The backwards dialogue is lifted from the soundtrack of the 1931 film Expensive Women, spoken by Polly Walters.
* Inside the trolley car are a number of parody advertisements based on real products of the time, including Arrow collars ("Narrow Collars"), Smith Brothers cough drops ("Sniff Brothers Cough Drops") and Fisk Tires ("Risk Tires").
* A version of this cartoon with the title song's lyrics edited out appeared in the Pee-wee's Playhouse episode "Now You See Me, Now You Don't".
* This short is a mostly a remake of "Trolley Troubles", a Disney short featuring Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, in whose creation Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising had once been involved.
* The scene showing the cow chewing and spitting tobacco was animation re-used from "Sinkin' in the Bathtub".
* This is the first and earliest cartoon to fall under the Associated Artists Productions package of shorts.
* This cartoon entered the public domain in 1959 as United Artists did not renew the copyright in time.
== Gallery ==
Tuyie2q354wty4657u6hjbcc.png|Production background
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== References ==
 
Category:1931
Category:Merrie Melodies Shorts
Category:Shorts
Category:Black-and-white cartoons
Category:Foxy Cartoons
Category:Cartoons directed by Rudolf Ising
Category:Cartoons animated by Friz Freleng
Category:Cartoons with music by Frank Marsales
Category:Cartoons produced by Leon Schlesinger
Category:Cartoons produced by Hugh Harman
Category:Cartoons produced by Rudolf Ising
Category:Cartoons in a.a.p. package
Category:Public domain films
Category:Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Category:Cartoons animated by Larry Martin
Category:Cartoons that reuse footage from earlier cartoons
Category:Cartoons with film editing by Bernard B. Brown
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