Of Thee I Sting

Of Thee I Sting is a 1946 Looney Tunes short directed by Friz Freleng.
== Title ==
The title is a pun on the Broadway musical Of Thee I Sing.
== Plot ==
In Target for Tonight-style, a narrator describes a mosquito attack upon a man in his cabin who has safeguarded his porch against insect invasion.
== Availability ==
The Golden Age of Looney Tunes Vol. 4.jpg|(1993) LaserDisc The Golden Age of Looney Tunes Volume 4, Side 3
=== Streaming ===
Lt hbo max.jpg|HBO Max (2020 - 2023) (restored)
Lt max.jpg|Max (2023 - ) (restored)
== Notes ==
* Material was reused from "Target Snafu".^ p.78 Shull Michael S. & Wilt, David Doing Their Bit: Wartime American Animated Short Films, 1939-1945 2004 McFarland
* This is a post-war short, but it is done in the style of war-time newsreels. By this time, most Warner Brothers cartoons had reduced their references to the war to minor elements.
* The names of the planes in the attack are: Gravel Gertie (a Dick Tracy villain), Bugs Bunny, Sweet Sioux (with a pin-up girl who looks like the red-headed singer from Tex Avery's "Red Hot Riding Hood"), and Mrs. Kalabash (a mysterious character often referred to by Jimmy Durante).
* This was the earliest re-released short in the Looney Tunes series to keep its ending music. Both American and European Turner "dubbed" versions replace the 1946-55 ending rendition of The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down with the 1941-55 ending rendition of Merrily We Roll Along.
** As the restored print uses the soundtrack of the Turner print, the ending music error persists.
* A 16mm black and white print of the cartoon with the original titles was sold on eBay in 2022. eBay listing of a 16mm print with original titles
** In the original titles, in a vein similar to that of "Kitty Kornered" and "The Great Piggy Bank Robbery", the WB shield does not zoom in to the viewers, nor does it fade away when the "LOONEY TUNES" captions appear, though the latter is likely due to an animation error. 
** As Warner Bros. only restores 35mm prints, the Blue Ribbon titles were restored instead.
== Gallery ==
Oftheeistingoriginalrings.jpg|Original WB shield opening (from a 16mm B&W print)
Of thee I sting original titles 1.png|Original opening rings (from a 16mm B&W print, with the WB shield still presented on the Looney Tunes title card, likely due to an animation error)
Oftheeistingoriginalcredits1.jpg|Original staff credits (from a 16mm B&W print)
Oftheeistingoriginalcredits2.jpg|Original director credit (from a 16mm B&W print)
Of thee I sting original titles 3.png|Original ending rings (from a 16mm B&W print)
OfTheeIStingRestored.jpeg|Cropped screenshot of 2020 restoration
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OfTheeIStingLobbyCardPreliminarySketch.jpg|Lobby card preliminary sketch
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OfTheeIStingLobbyCard.jpg|Lobby card
Of Thee I Sting (1946) - School.jpg
== References ==
== External links ==
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es:Of Thee I Sting
Category:Shorts
Category:Looney Tunes Shorts
Category:Blue Ribbon reissues
Category:Cartoons directed by Friz Freleng
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