The Rattled Rooster

The Rattled Rooster is a 1948 Looney Tunes short directed by Arthur Davis.
== Plot ==
A hungry rooster, whose motto is "The early bird gets the worm," is unable to get worms; the other chickens either get there first or trick him out of the worms. There's one worm nobody else competes for, because it's a trickster. It uses the garden hose, a balloon, toothpaste, and a high-voltage line to fool the chicken. It gets the chicken stuck in a pipe, then launches it with a hotfoot. The rooster doesn't believe it, so the worm launches him again. The worm attaches a baby rattle to his tail and fools the chicken, but a real rattlesnake mistakes the worm for her child. The worm and rooster team up to get the rattler stuck in a fence, using a couple of golf balls, then shake hands and walk away. The light finally dawns on the rooster, and he comes back after the worm who traps him in the fence, right next to the snake.
== Caricatures ==
* Red Skelton - "He don't know how really clever I am, do he?"
== Availability ==
lt rattled 8.jpg|8mm
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 with original titles)
Lt max.jpg|Max (2023 - ) (restored with original titles)
== Notes ==
* This is the final short to be written by Dave Monahan; he would eventually begin working for Columbia's Screen Gems as a writer with Cal Howard until the studio's shutdown. He would then retire from writing theatrical shorts and move on to commercials before briefly returning to theatrical works, working as the live-action director of an animated feature, The Phantom Tollbooth (1970).
* This is the final cartoon directed by Arthur Davis to be in the a.a.p. package.
* This cartoon was shown in theatres with The Big Punch during its original release.
* The film can of the a.a.p. 8mm release pictures the rooster as a miscolored Foghorn Leghorn, who does not appear in this short.
== Gallery ==
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RattledRoosterRestored.jpeg|Cropped screenshot of 2020 restoration
Rooster (The Rattled Rooster).png|Rooster
Worm (The Rattled Rooster).png|Worm
1948 - The Rattled Rooster 01.jpg
Rattled-Rooster-600.jpg|Model sheet
== References ==
Category:1948
Category:Looney Tunes Shorts
Category:Shorts
Category:Cartoons directed by Arthur Davis
Category:Cartoons with characters voiced by Mel Blanc
Category:Cartoons produced by Eddie Selzer
Category:Cartoons animated by Don Williams
Category:Cartoons animated by John Carey
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 film editing by Treg Brown
Category:Cartoons with sound effects edited by Treg Brown
Category:Cartoons with music by Carl W. Stalling
Category:Cartoons with orchestrations by Milt Franklyn
Category:Cartoons in a.a.p. package
Category:Blue Ribbon reissues
Category:One-Shot Cartoons
Category:Re-released cartoons whose original titles are known to exist