Much Ado About Nutting

Much Ado About Nutting is a 1953 Merrie Melodies short directed by Chuck Jones.
== Title ==
The title is a play on the William Shakespeare play Much Ado About Nothing.
== Plot ==
From atop his tree in Central Park, a squirrel spies an outdoor stand selling nuts. The squirrel crosses the street, races up the peanut cart and jumps into a bag of peanuts. He has a stack of them in his arms before spying something more glorious than peanuts: walnuts! Moments later, he sees the most beautiful sight in his life: Brazil nuts! Finally, in all their eye-popping glory, coconuts. Coconuts stacked to the sky. Excited, the squirrel manages to roll a coconut back to his tree. But his anticipated feast is thwarted when he discovers he can't bite into it. He can't even crack it open with a rock. The rock breaks. He can't drop it from a branch in his tree. It just makes a hole in the ground. The squirrel finds to his mounting frustration that nothing seems to break the coconut, but the squirrel is determined to crack open his prize. He is, in fact, determined enough to roll the coconut to the top of the Empire State Building.
== Availability ==
W UK10550 LooneyTunesVideoShowNo15The.jpg|(1984) VHS The Looney Tunes Video Show Volume 15
Lt plpst.jpg|(1985) VHS Pepe Le Pew's Skunk Tales
Lt ppst beta.jpg|(1985) Beta Pepe Le Pew's Skunk Tales
Bumper03.jpg|(1996) VHS Special Bumper Collection (Vol. 3)
lt ssw.jpg|(2007) DVD South Sea Woman
lt blsc.jpg|(2007) DVD Burt Lancaster Signature Collection
Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 6.jpg|(2008) DVD Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 6, Disc Four (restored)
lt spotlight 6.jpg|(2008) DVD Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection: Volume 6, Disc 2
=== Streaming ===
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== Notes ==
*The unnamed squirrel from this cartoon later makes a cameo appearance at the end of Looney Tunes Back in Action (2003).
== Gallery ==
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==References==
 
Category:Merrie Melodies Shorts
Category:Shorts
Category:1953
Category:Cartoons directed by Chuck Jones
Category:Cartoons written by Michael Maltese
Category:Cartoons with music by Carl W. Stalling
Category:Cartoons with orchestrations by Milt Franklyn
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 produced by Eddie Selzer
Category:One-Shot Cartoons
Category:Cartoons with no dialogue