The Fox and the Grapes

The Fox and the Grapes is a 1941 Color Rhapsody cartoon.
==Plot==
Illustrating the origin of what sour grapes are (post-Aesop, that is), Crow gets Fox to trade him his picnic lunch for some grapes high on a vine. After many difficulties, the fox manages to get to them but discovers they are sour indeed.
==Summary==
Traveling through the countryside, a fox rests alongside a tree for a picnic. A nearby crow, however, tries to steal his food but is discovered by the fox and given a hotfoot. Reading from "Eslop's Fables" that foxes love grapes, he offers a vine of grapes to the fox but only if he will give up his picnic lunch in exchange for them. The fox figures that he can just get them himself. First, he tries jumping but, naturally, misses. Next, he tries pole-vaulting but crash-lands. Then, he tries propelling himself on a teeter-totter with a rock, but it lands on his head. Finally, he tries using a tree catapult that thrashes him from side to side. At this point, the fox admits defeat and gives the crow his lunch, only to be called a sucker. In the end, however, the fox is finally able to get the grapes, only to discover that they are sour grapes!
Category:Color Rhapsody Cartoons
Category:Columbia Cartoons
Category:1941 cartoons
Category:Cartoons directed by Frank Tashlin
Category:Cartoons written by Frank Tashlin
Category:Cartoons animated by Bob Wickersham
Category:Cartoons animated by Emery Hawkins
Category:Cartoons with layouts by Clark Watson
Category:Cartoons with music by Eddie Kilfeather
Category:Cartoons with voice characterizations by Mel Blanc
Category:The Fox and the Crow Cartoons