Freddy the Freshman

Freddy the Freshman is a 1932 Merrie Melodies short directed by Rudolf Ising.
== Title ==
The cartoon is built around "Freddy the Freshman, The Freshest Kid in Town", a song written by Cliff Friend and Dave Oppenheim and part of the Warner Bros. publishing library.
== Plot ==
Freddy the Freshman, "the freshest kid in town" and a canine "big man on campus", crashes a college pep rally, and becomes the star of the big campus football game.
== Availability ==
Golden-Age-of-Looney-Tunes-3-F.jpg|(1992) LaserDisc The Golden Age of Looney Tunes, Volume 3, Side 7
MaskOfManChuBluRay.jpg|(2024) Blu-ray The Mask of Fu Manchu (restored)
== Censorship ==
* When this cartoon aired in the late 1990s on Cartoon Network's show Late Night Black and White (an installment show featuring black and white shorts from Warner Bros. and Fleischer Studios), the brief shot of the cheerleaders (three stereotypically Jewish birds - with beak noses and pennants written in Hebrew - and a rooster in a tuxedo who acts stereotypically homosexual) during the game was cut.http://www.intanibase.com/gac/looneytunes/censored-e-f.aspx The removed scene was used in the unaired ToonHeads special The Twelve Missing Hares as examples of negative and hurtful stereotypes that were prevalent in animated shorts from the 1930s to the 1950s, despite that this cartoon was produced and released before Bugs Bunny was created.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHNTv3oQoE8
== Notes ==
* This is the first cartoon where the title card starts on a special background, other than starting on a black background.
* Following the debut of the titular song in this cartoon, "Freddy The Freshman, The Freshest Kid in Town" would turn up as an incidental score cue (usually relating to football in some way) in many later Warner Bros. cartoons, often in gags involving sports (mostly football and basketball).
** The song would be sung again in full in both "Sweet Sioux" and "Raw! Raw! Rooster!".
* This short entered the public domain in 1961 as United Artists did not renew the copyright in time.
* Some animation from this cartoon would be reused in "Bosko the Drawback".
== Gallery ==
Freddy Freshman.jpg
Freddy-freshman.jpg|Lobby card
File:Screenshot 2021-02-11 at 2.19.31 PM.png|Layout drawing
== References ==
Category:1932
Category:Merrie Melodies Shorts
Category:Shorts
Category:Black-and-white cartoons
Category:Cartoons directed by Rudolf Ising
Category:Cartoons with music by Frank Marsales
Category:Cartoons animated by Friz Freleng
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:Cartoons with film editing by Bernard B. Brown
Category:One-Shot Cartoons