Buddy's Day Out

Buddy's Day Out is a 1933 Looney Tunes short planned by Tom Palmer and finished by Friz Freleng.
== Plot ==
Our Hero, Buddy is silently introduced, as is his sweetheart Cookie, Cookie's baby brother Elmer, and a dog called Happy. Cookie is giving Elmer a bath and becoming quite wet in the process. Buddy merrily washes his car, the word "Asthma" strewn across it, with a hose, and steps away for a moment, leaving Happy the Dog alone to bark at the device and clamp on to it with his teeth. As the hose loses steady control, the car is blasted clean, but loses its roof. Buddy takes notice and shuts off the hose. Cookie, meanwhile, readies herself for a date with Buddy, whom she calls when she has adequately prepared.
Buddy happily tries to start his vehicle so he can pick up Cookie, but the car begins moving in reverse, smashing through doghouses, clothes lines, and a greenhouse, and, because of the latter, arrives at Cookie's house with a decorative arrangement of flowers, at which she is well pleased. Buddy, suddenly arrived, holds the car door for Cookie, with Baby Elmer in the back seat, Buddy and Cookie set off on a picnic. As they drive, Happy the Dog tails behind, finally brought to the back seat by Elmer. The car loses control a bit on the country road, but felicitously is stopped, by a log, at an ideal picnic site.
Buddy sets up the luncheon whilst Cookie takes up her guitar; Baby Elmer finds his way into the picnic basket, while Happy the Dog whimpers for some food. Elmer pounds a cake on to Happy's head, leaving the poor creature to run frantically around until the cake finds itself all over the baby. Cookie shames her baby brother, and Elmer, with Happy, stalks away to the car, where he starts the engine much to the fright of Buddy & Cookie, who must then chase the ungoverned vehicle in Elmer's baby carriage.
Finding themselves atop a small building bordered by an operant train track straddled by Buddy's car, Buddy and Cookie move atop a nearby ladder, which drops from its height to form a tangent from the track just as a train appears, moving towards a sure collision with the car carrying Baby Elmer and Happy; the ladder miraculously becomes a spare piece of track onto which the train turns, and thus is Baby Elmer saved. Buddy tickles Elmer, who then naughtily sprays his brave rescuer with milk.
== Television ==
* Sunset Productions (1955–1968)
* Looney Tunes on Nickelodeon/Nick at Nite (1988 - 1993)
== Availability ==
Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 6.jpg|(2008) DVD Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 6, Disc Three (restored)
== Notes ==
* This is one of three Buddy cartoons to be remastered for a DVD release, the others being "Buddy's Beer Garden" and "Buddy's Circus".
* This is the first cartoon to be produced at the Termite Terrace studio. It is also the first to be produced by Leon Schlesinger.
* This is the first Warner Bros. cartoon to have a director credit.
* This is the first cartoon with film editing by Treg Brown, who would work on editing film for Warner Bros. cartoons until 1965.
* The cartoon was originally so poorly received that Warner Bros. refused to accept it. Tom Palmer was fired, and Friz Freleng was brought in to rework the film into one of acceptable quality, although Palmer is the only one credited as the director. Several scenes were cut as well, explaining the numerous splices throughout the audio. 
* Among the signs passed by Buddy and Cookie is a directional sign pointing travelers to "Tom's Place," presumably referring to director Tom Palmer.
* Animation cels from this cartoon were featured in a 2010 episode of the PBS series History Detectives.https://www.pbs.org/video/history-detectives-wb-cartoons/
* It was originally shown in theaters with Goodbye Again.
* This is the first cartoon to use "Beauty and the Beast" as the opening song.
== Gallery ==
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== References ==
Category:Looney Tunes Shorts
Category:1933
Category:Shorts
Category:Buddy Cartoons
Category:Black-and-white cartoons
Category:Cartoons directed by Tom Palmer
Category:Cartoons produced by Leon Schlesinger
Category:Cartoons with film editing by Treg Brown
Category:Cartoons with music by Norman Spencer
Category:Cartoons with music by Bernard Brown
Category:Cartoons in the Sunset Productions package