Detouring America

Detouring America is a 1939 Merrie Melodies short directed by Tex Avery.
== Plot ==
A tour of the United States includes recurring checks on the progress of the human fly climbing the Empire State Building. Also featured are jokes and gags on the Everglades, the Wyoming prairies, Alaska, a California prospector, Sioux Indians and a Jerry Colona-esque (literal) Texas cow-puncher. In a final check back on the human fly, who has almost made it to the top of the Empire State Building, when the narrator tells him to say a word to the audience, he yells "HELP!"
== Caricatures ==
* Jerry Colonna
== Availability ==
Golden-Age-of-Looney-Tunes-5-F.jpg|(1997) LaserDisc The Golden Age of Looney Tunes, Volume 5, Side 2, Early Avery (1995 Turner dubbed version)
Dhgshgfdh.jpg|(2006) DVD Each Dawn I Die (1995 Turner dubbed version)
Gfzhxffdzsgfchg.jpg|(2008) DVD Warner Gangsters Collection Volume 2 (1995 Turner dubbed version)
== Censorship ==
* Two scenes are cut on the Associated Artists Productions transfer that Cartoon Network and Boomerang aired due to ethnic stereotyping:http://www.intanibase.com/gac/looneytunes/censored-d.aspx
** A poor, black hitchhiker at the North Pole, singing "Carry Me Back to Ol' Virginny", and an Eskimo obliges by literally carrying the poor, black man all the way to the Virginia state line.
** Although the Native American segment is not removed entirely, despite rumors to the contrary, only one scene from the segment is cut: An Indian mother dealing with the dopey, oversized, adult son she is carrying on her papoose.
It should be noted that Turner Classic Movies, which normally would censor outdated ethnic and racial stereotypes, actually aired this short uncut back in 1999. The uncut version used there is the American 1995 Turner print.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNFmJN-Dr_Yhttps://archive.org/details/Det-Ame-Uncut
== Notes ==
* This cartoon was nominated for an Academy Award in 1939, making it the second Warner Bros. cartoon to get a nomination, and the first color cartoon from the studio to be nominated. However, the short lost to the Disney cartoon "The Ugly Duckling".
* The short's original ending card was never released on any home video format, but the original ending titles are intact on the censored a.a.p. print on American television.
* This cartoon is the second to feature the WARNER BROS. font without the yellow banner. The first is "Wise Quacks". This would be another prototype WARNER BROS. design. This is also one of three cartoons to have WARNER BROS. not on a banner with the 1938-39 Color Rings.
== Gallery ==
0ef4df9a7975243f0538aa25dc3a4c76.jpg|Low quality title card
== References ==
 
Category:Merrie Melodies Shorts
Category:1939
Category:Shorts
Category:Cartoons directed by Tex Avery
Category:Spot Gag Cartoons
Category:Cartoons animated by Rollin Hamilton
Category:Cartoons with music by Carl W. Stalling
Category:Academy Award nominees
Category:Cartoons produced by Leon Schlesinger
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 with characters voiced by Robert C. Bruce
Category:Caricatures of real people
Category:Cartoons in a.a.p. package
Category:One-Shot Cartoons