Hamateur Night

Hamateur Night is a 1939 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Tex Avery.
==Summary==
It's amateur night at the local theatre, and a procession of bad acts comes and goes: various musicians, a magician, and some actors. But they keep getting interrupted by Egghead singing "She'll Be Comin' 'Round the Mountain".
==Plot==
At a talent show, a variety of hapless performers strut their stuff to a generally unappreciative audience. In this "Gong Show"-like format, unpopular acts get dropped through a trapdoor in the stage. There's a singing penguin who sails up into the rafters during sustained high notes; a dog who orates when told to "speak"; a wolf actor who's so bad, the rotten tomatoes actually wait in midair for their chance to hit him in the face; a tiny flea who recites "Mary Had a Little Lamb" and makes a huge clatter when she falls through the trap door; and a pair of chickens whose balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet is constantly interrupted by a laughing hippo until "Romeo" beats him up. Egghead repeatedly comes out for unscheduled renditions of "She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain," and wins the prize when the entire audience turns out to be Egghead clones.
==Trivia==
Director Fred 'Tex' Avery himself is the voice of the hippo in the audience.
Category:Cartoons
Category:Merrie Melodies Cartoons
Category:Egghead Cartoons
Category:One-Shot Cartoons
Category:1939 cartoons
Category:Leon Schlesinger Productions Cartoons
Category:Cartoons directed by Tex Avery