Bone Sweet Bone

Bone Sweet Bone, reissued as Bone, Sweet Bone, is a 1948 Merrie Melodies short directed by Arthur Davis. 
== Title ==
The title is a play on the phrase "home sweet home."
== Plot ==
An archaeologist at a museum scolds his small, silent dog Shep for supposedly removing a bone belonging to a dinosaur skeleton and orders Shep to bring the bone back, but Shep finds that the place where he buried his most recent bone has been dug up and a bulldog is walking away with the bone in his mouth. Infuriated, Shep chases the bulldog and so begins a battle of wits with the bulldog in a spacious yard surrounding the bulldog's house. After hoodwinking the dog into trading the bone for a giant plaster bone facsimile loaded with dynamite connected to an ignited fuse, Shep waits for the explosion, then flees the enraged bulldog. He goes back to the museum with the bone in his mouth, but to his dismay, he learns from the archaeologist that the archaeologist had the bone in question in his pocket all the time, and that the bone Shep had labored to retrieve had just been an old soup bone.
== Availability ==
Jdfhjfhjfgjgfj.jpg|8mm (Associated Artists Productions print)
The Golden Age of Looney Tunes Vol. 4.jpg|(1993) LaserDisc The Golden Age of Looney Tunes Volume 4, Side 6
=== Streaming ===
Lt hbo max.jpg|HBO Max (2020 - 2023) (restored)
Lt max.jpg|Max (2023 - ) (restored)
== Notes ==
* The short was re-released into the Blue Ribbon Merrie Melodies program, although the original titles do exist.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djd0gvmDgpA The reissue print was copyrighted 1948, while the original titles were copyrighted in 1947. Originally released in Cinecolor, the re-release print is in 3-hue Technicolor.
** The Associated Artists Productions print of the original titles has split cuts and is in very poor condition. One example of this poor condition is a split cut when at the very end, Shep says, "If you think for a moment this little incident is going to upset me--" then it cuts to him freaking out. The rest of his line, "you're absolutely right," is missing in the original title print.https://web.archive.org/web/20020213200133/http://www.megalink.net/~cooke/looney/update18.html The Blue Ribbon print does not have these split-cuts.https://web.archive.org/web/20020213200237/http://www.megalink.net/~cooke/looney/update19.html
**While the original titles are known to exist, the print they survive on is badly-damaged and is not a 35mm print, hence the Blue Ribbon titles were restored instead.
==Gallery==
BoneSweetBone1082OriginalOpeningRings1.png|Original opening color rings
BoneSweetBone1082OriginalOpeningRings2.png|Original opening color rings
Bone Sweet Bone.png|Original title card
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BoneSweetBoneCredits2.png
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BoneSweetBoneRestored.jpeg|Cropped screenshot of 2020 restoration
BoneSweetBone1406ReissueOpeningRings.png|Opening reissue color rings
BoneSweetBoneDog.jpeg|Shep the Dog model sheet
File:Bone Sweet Bone (1948) - Dinosaur.jpg
File:Bone Sweet Bone (1948) - Tracks.jpg
==References ==
 
Category:1948
Category:Shorts
Category:Merrie Melodies Shorts
Category:Blue Ribbon reissues
Category:Cartoons directed by Arthur Davis
Category:Cartoons written by Bill Scott
Category:Cartoons written by Lloyd Turner
Category:Cartoons animated by Don Williams
Category:Cartoons animated by Emery Hawkins
Category:Cartoons animated by Basil Davidovich
Category:Cartoons animated by Bill Melendez
Category:Cartoons with layouts by Don Smith
Category:Cartoons with backgrounds by Philip DeGuard
Category:Cartoons with music by Carl W. Stalling
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 Mel Blanc
Category:Cartoons produced by Eddie Selzer
Category:Cartoons in a.a.p. package
Category:One-Shot Cartoons
Category:Cartoons originally produced in Cinecolor
Category:Re-released cartoons whose original titles are known to exist