Boyhood Daze

Boyhood Daze is a 1957 Merrie Melodies short directed by Chuck Jones.
== Plot ==
Ralph Phillips breaks a window while playing baseball inside. He is grounded and sent to his room until his father gets home. Feeling unappreciated, he daydreams about heroically saving his parents from African cannibals. He launches a paper airplane and imagines himself as a jet ace, skywriting and rounding up an armada of Martian spaceships. When his father finally arrives, Ralph imagines himself as a prison inmate, but his father just says he'll have to pay for the window and sends him outside to play. Ralph grabs his ball and glove and runs out to the yard, but when he spies a cherry tree, he envisions he's George Washington with an axe.
== Caricatures ==
* George Washington
== Availability ==
Gfdgsdg.jpg|(1993) LaserDisc Looney Tunes Assorted Nuts
LTCE VOL 2 RUNNING AMUCK.jpg|(1999) VHS Looney Tunes: The Collectors Edition Volume 2: Running Amuck (1998 THIS VERSION, without notice)
Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 6.jpg|(2008) DVD Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 6, Disc One (1998 "THIS VERSION" print, without notice)
Lt bombers.jpg|(2009) DVD Bombers B-52 (1998 "THIS VERSION" print, without notice)
51LA0AzTVqL. SL500 AA300 .jpg|(2011) Blu-ray Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 1, Disc Two (restored)
LTPC VOL 1 DVD.jpg|(2012) DVD Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 1, Disc Two (restored)
== Censorship ==
* When this cartoon aired on ABC, the following scenes were cut:http://www.intanibase.com/gac/looneytunes/censored-b.aspx
** The pre-credits scene of Ralph breaking the window and sadly going upstairs to his room (The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show provided their own opening and closing title cards for the shorts they aired and cut out any opening credits that played over moving scenes).
** The entire sequence of Ralph's parents getting captured by African jungle natives and Ralph swooping in to rescue them by slaughtering the natives.
* In contrast to ABC, the versions shown on TBS and Nickelodeon left in the pre-credits scene and showed the entire sequence of Ralph rescuing his parents from jungle natives, but cut the initial shot of them dancing around the cauldron, where their shadows are cast over Ralph's parents as they talk to each other and where they back away and run as Ralph advances on them were left in.
* Cartoon Network left in the African native fantasy and the pre-credits sequence, but edited the scene of Ralph imagining himself as a convict awaiting punishment from the warden in his cell to remove Ralph smoking and stomping out a cigarette.
== Notes ==
* This short was used in the special Bugs Bunny's Lunar Tunes.
== Gallery ==
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BoyhoodDazeLobbyCard.jpg|Lobby card
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BoyhoodDaze_SMALL.jpg|Color key sketch and production background
795-PB1.png|Production background with a Porky Pig cel from "Duck Dodgers and the Return of the 24½th Century"
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== References ==
Category:Cartoons directed by Chuck Jones
Category:1957
Category:Merrie Melodies Shorts
Category:Shorts
Category:Cartoons written by Michael Maltese
Category:Cartoons animated by Abe Levitow
Category:Cartoons animated by Richard Thompson
Category:Cartoons with effects animated by Harry Love
Category:Cartoons with music by Milt Franklyn
Category:Cartoons with backgrounds by Philip DeGuard
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 Daws Butler
Category:Cartoons with characters voiced by Marian Richman
Category:Cartoons produced by Eddie Selzer