Booby Traps

Booby Traps is a 1944 Private Snafu short.
== Plot ==
Private Snafu is on North African desert patrol. The narrator tells Snafu that "If you're a boob, you will be trapped." Snafu sneers that "I ain't no boob and I won't be trapped." He avoids the booby-trapped shower, but almost falls for the camel with a contact mine for an udder. Then he finds an Arab harem full of barely-clad beauties, but is more interested in a hookah full of TNT instead of tobacco. Snafu then meets one of the girls, who has bombs where her shapely curves should be. And there's a piano with the music for "All Those Endearing Young Charms" resting on top. One of the keys is booby-trapped with explosives, but Pvt. Snafu can't seem to get that last note. Once Snafu finds that one of the girls is actually a fake rigged with bombs, he catches on and runs away, dodging knives and trapdoors as he goes. Once Snafu is safe, a small statue of Adolf Hitler appears next to his ear and plays "Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Charms" correctly. Snafu runs back to the piano, plays the song correctly, and gets blown up. Floating on a cloud as an angel, Snafu plays the song on his harp and is blown up again.
== Caricatures ==
* Artie Auerbach - "Mm, could be."
* Jerry Colonna - "Something new has been added!"
== Availability ==
The Golden Age of Looney Tunes Vol. 4.jpg|(1993) LaserDisc The Golden Age of Looney Tunes Volume 4, Side 8: Ben Hardaway & Cal Dalton (and Private Snafu)
== Notes ==
* This cartoon was released on issue 19 of the Army-Navy Screen Magazine.Private Snafu: Golden Classics (Thunderbean Animation)
* The booby-trapped piano, with the key triggering the dynamite being the last one in a phrase from the song "Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Charms" is a gag used in several civilian Warner Bros. cartoons (such as "Ballot Box Bunny" and "Show Biz Bugs"). This is the first use of that gag.
* The music used when Snafu encounters the scantily clad harem girls is called "The Streets of Cairo".
* Is in the public domain, since the cartoon, as well as many other Private Snafu cartoons, are made by the U.S. government, then declassified some years later.
== References ==
 
Category:1944
Category:Cartoons directed by Robert McKimson
Category:Cartoons directed by Bob Clampett
Category:Shorts
Category:Black-and-white cartoons
Category:Private Snafu Cartoons
Category:Public domain films
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 Robert C. Bruce
Category:Cartoons with characters voiced by Mel Blanc
Category:Cartoons produced by Leon Schlesinger