Deputy Droopy

**Deputy Droopy** is a 1955 *Droopy* short directed by Tex Avery and Michael Lah.

## Plot

Droopy is put in charge of guarding the safe in the sheriff's office and told to alert him by making any noise if any outlaws show up. Two outlaws, Slick Wolf and Butch, show up to steal the gold, trying to be as quiet as possible, but Droopy keeps tricking them into making noise through various ways of pain and humiliation, forcing them to run outside the office or use various methods to prevent being heard, despite having gotten bound and gagged by them.

1. First, the robbers accidentally step on nails, and run outside to scream in pain.
2. After binding and gagging Droopy, they attempt to crack the safe. Butch accidentally Slick in the posterior with his screwdriver, forcing Slick to go outside to scream in pain. Upon returning, he drags Butch outside to scream "**CUT IT OUUUUUT!**" After they return, Butch drags Slick outside and screams "**OKAY!**", before being slapped by Slick.
3. Droopy somehow got his arms free from the rope, but he kept himself bound and gagged as he dealt with the outlaws by himself. To start, he heated up their screwdriver with a blowtorch, making it too hot to pick up and forcing both robbers to take turns running outside to scream in pain after touching it.
4. Eventually, Butch lays in a rocking chair. Droopy places the sheriff's cat's tail under one of the chair's rockers. Slick grabs the cat just after he wakes up from having his tail crushed by the rocker, and takes him outside to scream in pain, but the cat bites his hand and he screams instead.
5. Butch sits on another chair, but Droopy places a lobster under him. Slick returns in time to contain his companion's screams inside a bottle, then runs outside to empty it. Butch runs outside and lets out more screams, only to get slapped again.
6. Droopy trips the small outlaw into a baby bed, feeds him some milk, then pats him on the back. The tall outlaw takes him back outside and pats him again until he burps, then runs back in alone.
7. Droopy lays some glue by the safe; when the tall outlaw steps on it, he is trapped. Droopy lights a stick of dynamite and places it in his mouth; the outlaw extends his tongue, with the dynamite on it, to where his compatriot is. The dynamite explodes in the small outlaw's face.
8. Droopy whacks the tall outlaw with a large plank. The outlaw calls his partner-in-crime on the sheriff's phone and screams.
9. Droopy tickles the tall outlaw with a feather as the small outlaw returns. They swap heads and the small outlaw, with the tall outlaw's head, runs outside to laugh. Droopy whacks the tall outlaw (with the small one's head) again. He gives the head to the small outlaw, who runs outside again; both heads scream. Droopy whacks the tall outlaw's body again, freeing him from the glue in the process. He runs outside as the small outlaw, still having both heads, runs inside and then out again. They restore their heads before the tall one screams.
10. Finally, Droopy lights several sticks of dynamite (in various sizes) as the outlaws return. One-by-one, the outlaws run outside carrying the dynamite to let it explode, until both of them run out with the biggest one.

The outlaws decide to give up, thinking that the gold isn't worth the trouble, and even lock themselves in the sheriff's cell, only to learn that the battery in his hearing aid has been dead for a week. They are also revealed to have hearing aids; Droopy, who is free from the rope and gag at this point, laughs and says "Don't look at me, boys." He then walks away with the keys, revealing that he too wears a hearing aid.

## Availability

* (1989) VHS - *The Adventures of Droopy*
* (1993) LaserDisc - *The Compleat Tex Avery*, Side 9
* (2007) DVD - *Tex Avery's Droopy: The Complete Theatrical Collection* (dubbed version; Warner Bros.)
* (2016) Blu-ray - *It's Always Fair Weather* (dubbed version; Warner Bros.)
* (2021) DVD/Blu-ray - *Tex Avery Screwball Classics: Volume 3* (restored; Warner Bros.)

## Notes

* Droopy is voiced by Daws Butler instead of Bill Thompson.
* Despite being played a major role, Droopy speaks only three lines in this short.
* The holstered revolvers on the tall outlaw's belt disappear after the scene where he and the small outlaw step on a nail.
* This cartoon was aired during the NBA Cartoon Network All-Star Slam on February 9, 2003.

1. ↑ http://www.whataboutthad.com/mgm-cartoon-filmography-by-production-number/