A Hound for Trouble

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A Hound for Trouble is a 1951 Merrie Melodies short directed by Charles M. Jones. 
== Plot ==
Charlie Dog has stowed away in a ship and the captain throws him off in the middle of Italy after the captain has failed earlier to throw him off in Peru. Looking for a new owner, Charlie fruitlessly asks several people to claim him when he finds a pizzeria owner and tries to rest inside. When the owner finds Charlie, the dog tries to convince him that he needs a pet while Charlie is looking for a master. However, the owner kicks him out and leaves the restaurant. Wanting to get back in for room and board, Charlie breaks in the closed restaurant while the owner is gone.
Donning Italian accent and garb, Charlie sets to work as a waiter, horrifying customers with his barefoot grape-stomping. The owner comes back, and Charlie suggests that they should have a floor show with his musical rendition of "Atsa Matta for You?" Having enough, the owner tricks Charlie into holding the Leaning Tower of Pisa while the owner abandons him. Charlie, completely unaware that the tower is deliberately leaning, tries to call for help which falls on deaf ears. "Doesn't anyone around here capice?!"
== Availability ==
Lt vs14.jpg|(1984) VHS The Looney Tunes Video Show Volume 14
Gfdgsdg.jpg|(1993) LaserDisc Looney Tunes: Assorted Nuts: Memorable Supporting Players and Cult Classics From the Looney Tunes Vault
LTCE VOL 10 CANINE CORPS.jpg|(2000) VHS Looney Tunes: The Collectors Edition Volume 10: Canine Corps
Hsjtrd65riujdhr.jpg|(2007) DVD On Moonlight Bay
Lt omb blu.jpg|(2021) Blu-ray On Moonlight Bay (restored)
346061 front.jpg|(2023) Blu-ray Looney Tunes Collector's Choice: Volume 2 (restored)
=== Streaming ===
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== Goofs ==
* On the original restored version present on HBO Max and later released for the On Moonlight Bay Blu-ray, the words "Directed by Charles M. Jones" on the director credit card is distorted due to Photoshopping errors from the restoration process. A new print with this error corrected was later released on Looney Tunes Collector's Choice: Volume 2.
== Notes ==
* This is Charlie Dog's final starring cartoon. Charlie would make one last appearance in the Golden Age, via a cameo in one scene from Robert McKimson's "Dog Tales" (1958) via reused animation from "Often an Orphan" (1949).
* Charlie would work as a waiter in an Italian restaurant once again in the 2000 direct-to-video feature film Tweety's High-Flying Adventure, where he serves Tweety some bird seed with marinara sauce.
* The ending music would be later reused in "Chow Hound", another cartoon released during 1951, and was also previously used in "Homeless Hare" the previous year.
== Gallery ==
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== References ==
 
Category:1951
Category:Shorts
Category:Merrie Melodies Shorts
Category:Cartoons directed by Chuck Jones
Category:Charlie Dog Cartoons
Category:Cartoons written by Michael Maltese
Category:Cartoons with music by Carl W. Stalling
Category:Cartoons with layouts by Robert Gribbroek
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 orchestrations by Milt Franklyn
Category:Cartoons with characters voiced by Mel Blanc
Category:Cartoons produced by Eddie Selzer
Category:Blue Ribbon reissues
Category:Re-released cartoons whose original titles are known to exist