Little Blabbermouse

Little Blabbermouse is a 1940 Merrie Melodies short directed by Friz Freleng.
== Title ==
The title is a play on "little blabbermouth."
== Plot ==
A mouse, imitating W.C. Fields, leads tours of a drugstore for other mice. There are a number of products living up to their names: vanishing cream, reducing pills, sleeping powders, smelling salts, cough medicine. On to the lunch counter: a giant malt (sign). More products: shaving brush, Krazy mineral water, a rubber band (and brushes dancing to it). A musical revue: the clocks all sing "Start the Day Right"; an order pad would "Love to Take Orders from You"; a ballet troupe wants to "Shake Your Powder Puff"; and so on. Greeting cards greet our tourists. The mousetraps are harmless, but the cat next to them isn't, and thus ends the tour. An annoying little boy who's been chatting away the whole time finally gets a jar of alum in the face to shut him up.
== Caricatures ==
* Marian Jordan - the title character is based on her character Tini
* W.C. Fields
* George Washington
* Jerry Colonna - greeting card character says "Greetings, Gate!"
== Availability ==
The Golden Age of Looney Tunes Vol. 4.jpg|(1993) LaserDisc The Golden Age of Looney Tunes, Volume 4, Side 5
L.T.M.C..jpg|(2012) DVD Looney Tunes Mouse Chronicles: The Chuck Jones Collection, Disc 2 (USA 1995 Turner print)
lt mouse chronicles blu.jpg|(2012) Blu-ray Looney Tunes Mouse Chronicles: The Chuck Jones Collection, Disc 2 (USA 1995 Turner print)
=== Streaming ===
lt hbo max.jpg|HBO Max (2020 - 2023) (restored)
lt max.jpg|Max (2023 - 2024) (restored)
== Notes ==
* Little Blabbermouse would star the same year in another short titled "Shop, Look and Listen", which was also directed by Friz Freleng. He also appeared in Looney Tunes comic books.
* The European Turner dubbed print replaces original 1938-1941 Merrie Melodies ending music cue with 1941-1955 ones. The American Turner dubbed print, however, does not have this edit. As the HBO Max restoration uses the EU dubbed soundtrack, the error persists in that version.
* The "rubber band" gag would be used again in "Tin Pan Alley Cats" as well as "Dough for the Do-Do".
* This was the last cartoon that Ben Hardaway wrote for Warner Brothers before he left to work for Walter Lantz Productions. He would eventually return in 1948 and write "A Bone for a Bone" for Friz. Soon after, he left to work on "Pow-Wow the Indian Boy", featured on Captain Kangaroo.https://tralfaz.blogspot.com/2019/02/the-non-animated-bugs.html
* According to the model sheet, the Blabbermouse character was originally named "Parcheezer."
== Gallery ==
LittleBlabbermouseRestored.jpeg|Cropped screenshot of 2020 restoration
BlabbermouseMODEL1.png|Model sheet
BlabbermouseMODEL2.png|Model sheet
File:Little Blabbermouse (1940) - Giant.jpg
File:Little Blabbermouse (1940) - Rubber Band.png
== References ==
 
Category:Merrie Melodies Shorts
Category:Shorts
Category:Cartoons directed by Friz Freleng
Category:1940
Category:Cartoons with music by Carl W. Stalling
Category:Blue Ribbon reissues
Category:Cartoons with orchestrations by Milt Franklyn
Category:Cartoons with film editing by Treg Brown
Category:Cartoons with sound effects edited by Treg Brown
Category:Cartoons produced by Leon Schlesinger
Category:Cartoons with layouts by Owen Fitzgerald
Category:Caricatures of real people
Category:Cartoons with characters voiced by Mel Blanc
Category:Cartoons in a.a.p. package
Category:Cartoons with missing Leon Schlesinger credits
Category:Spot Gag Cartoons