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Milk and Money

**Milk and Money** is a 1936 Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Tex Avery.

## Summary

Porky's father is going to lose his farm. Porky goes to town with his horse and works a milk route, with a warning that if he breaks a bottle he's fired. As he's delivering, cats follow along behind draining the bottles. Meanwhile, Hank Horsefly follows them into town. He stings Dobbin, who crashes and breaks many bottles. They happen upon a horse race and accidentally enter; the horse is merely plodding along until it gets stung again. Porky wins the $10,000 race and drives home in a limo just in time.

## Plot

Porky's dad is going to lose his farm, for which he owes rent to a slimy landlord, Mr. Viper. It is up to Porky to get some money. Porky goes to town with his horse and works a milk route, with a warning that if he breaks a bottle, he's fired. As he's delivering, cats follow along behind, draining the bottles. Meanwhile, Hank Horsefly follows them into town. He stings Dobbin, who crashes and breaks many bottles. They happen upon a horserace and accidentally enter; the horse is merely plodding along until it gets stung again. Porky wins the $10,000 race and drives home in a limo just in time.

## Trivia

The title is based on the original expression, "a land flowing with milk and honey", from the biblical book of Exodus describing the agricultural abundance of the Land of Israel.

Colorized in 1995.
The Bear That Couldn't Sleep

**The Bear That Couldn't Sleep** is a 1939 Barney Bear cartoon.

## Summary

As autumn draws to a close, Barney Bear prepares for his long winter's sleep, but his surroundings keep him up until spring.

## Plot

Barney's settling in for the winter. But water leaks, a loose shutter, a noisy fire, a teakettle left on, and some stray embers all get in the way, and Barney also locks himself out. And that's just the beginning.
Hare We Go

**Hare We Go** is a 1951 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Robert McKimson.

## Summary

In 1492, Bugs Bunny sails the ocean blue, as mascot for Christopher Columbus.

## Plot

Christopher Columbus is sure that the world is as round as his head. The King insists that it's as flat as Columbus' head (which he flattens). Bugs, a ship's mascot, helps Columbus demonstrate the planet's roundness by tossing a baseball, which comes back from the other direction, covered with travel stickers (making better use of the sole good gag in the 1939 Looney Tune "Kristopher Kolumbus Jr.").
The Barnyard Brat

**The Barnyard Brat** is a 1939 Color Classics cartoon featuring Hunky and Spunky.

## Summary

Spunky is a bratty nuisance around the farm, and Hunky is reluctant to punish Spunky until the last straw breaks her back.

## Plot

Hunky and her son Spunky are living on a nice farm, but Spunky behaves badly and makes all the other animals mad with his pranks. They strike back, and his mother has to intervene.
Casper Genie

**Casper Genie** is a 1954 Casper the Friendly Ghost cartoon.

## Summary

Casper, the Friendly Ghost, who has a hard time making a friend, is in search of a friend and comes upon a young boy reading about Aladdin and his magic lamp. Casper decides he can make a pal by masquerading as the genie of the lamp. But a burglar, seeing Casper performing for the boy, steals the lamp. Casper foils the burglar, who ends up in the hands of the police, while Casper, the genie and boy all take a nap together.

## Plot

Casper wants to make friends with Billy, a little Boy who is reading "Aladdin's Lamp." Casper plays genie to the poor boy, pretending to be the magic genie of the little boy's lantern. Casper tells the boy to rub the lamp and make a wish. The boy does, and his wish is for the biggest ice cream cone in the world. While Casper grants Billy's wishes for ice cream and toys, a thief decides to rob the youngster of his treasure.
Dog Daze (1937 cartoon)

**Dog Daze** is a 1937 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Friz Freleng.

## Summary

A series of gags at a dog show, including a stage revue. A dog gets into a trunk of roller skates and crashes through the stage show.

## Plot

Spot gags abound in a corny dog show setting. A bird dog appears in a canary cage, an Irish setter hatches pups from eggs, a spitz proudly expectorates, Scotties do the Highland fling, Russian wolfhounds do a Cossack dance, and a clumsy St. Bernard slides around on roller skates. The film also features a group of prairie dogs who perform a hilarious country-Western ditty, and a colony of fleas who get drunk when they get into the booze carried by the St. Bernard.

## Trivia

Shares many gags with Cracked Ice.

Edward G. Robinson and William Powell are caricatured as owners bringing their dogs for show.
Catty Cornered (1953 cartoon)

**Catty Cornered** is a 1953 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Friz Freleng.

## Summary

Rocky the gangster kidnaps Tweety Bird for a million dollar ransom and holes up in an abandoned city building. Sylvester Cat in an alley below hears Tweety's sad cries and decides to rescue him - for his lunch.

## Plot

Rocky and his gang hold Tweety for ransom. The radio announces: "Tweety Bird Missing! Rare Bird Feared Kidnapped! Police authorities believe that Tweety Bird is being held for ransom by the notorious Rocky and his gang. And if you are listening, Rocky, don't hoit the boid!" Sylvester, about to dig into his usual trash meal, hears about Tweety and starts after him, his concern being more carnivorous than civic. Sylvester's constant attempts to nab Tweety bring him unwanted acclaim when he accidentally rescues the canary from the gangsters. The newspaper reads: "Hero cat saves bird; risks life to save friend."

## Trivia

After seeing Sylvester, Rocky and Nick say, "Hey, boss, we tawt we taw a puddy tat!"

The mayor bears some resemblance to Fiorello LaGuardia (mayor of New York City from 1934 to 1945).
Fresh Hare

**Fresh Hare** is a 1942 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Friz Freleng.

## Summary

Mountie Elmer is on the trail of Bugs who's wanted dead or alive, "preferably dead". Elmer gets handcuffed to a bomb. Bugs looks through all Elmer's keys but can't seem to find the right one... Bugs foils Elmer with tricks like the Elmer-shaped snowman. Finally Bugs lets himself be arrested. Elmer takes Bugs back to the log stockade and puts Bugs up before a Mountie firing squad. But Bugs starts singing "Dixie". The stockade becomes a field of cotton, and all the Mounties, including Elmer, turn into singing Negro minstrels!

## Plot

Elmer is a Mountie in the North Woods, out to arrest Bugs for being a "scwewy wabbit." Things go badly for Elmer from the start as Bugs, who is "Wanted, Dead or Alive," handcuffs him to a bomb. Bugs then takes advantage of Elmer's superhuman gullibility by swiping his hat and pretending to be his commanding officer- Bugs "drums Elmer out of the regiment" and tears off his uniform (including his boxers). Elmer cries, "I am a diswace to the wegiment!" After a long chase through caves and snowbanks, Bugs finally takes pity on Elmer and gives himself up. Bugs is brought before a firing squad, but when asked for his last wish, he wishes he was in Dixie, hooray, hooray. This causes the firing squad, Elmer and Bugs to immediately transform themselves into a minstrel show.

## Trivia

A scene in which Bugs, Elmer and the firing squad all sing "Camptown Ladies" in blackface has been deleted from the end of the short in recent prints.
Law and Audrey

**Law and Audrey** is a 1952 Noveltoons cartoon featuring Little Audrey.

## Summary

Little Audrey makes a nuisance of herself to a cop while in the park. She and her little dog only want to play ball. First, they break a window, and the second time, they give the troublesome cop a black eye.

## Plot

Little Audrey, by accident, hits the beat policeman while playing baseball on the street with her puppy. The policeman sends her to play in the park, where she gets into a motorboat, which sinks. The policeman, forgetting he can't swim, dives in to rescue the little girl. Audrey saves herself, and, seeing the police officer in danger, has the zoo elephants drain the lake. The grateful cop stops street traffic to play baseball with Audrey.
Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips

**Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips** is a 1944 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Friz Freleng.

## Summary

Bugs fights stereotyped Japanese during World War II.

## Plot

Bugs lands on a Japanese-held island. He tries to outsmart one Japanese soldier by dressing as Emperor Hirohito, but the soldier isn't fooled. He recognizes Bugs from his Warner Brothers films produced by Leon Schlesinger. Bugs has trouble with a tough sumo wrestler but is able to outwit him by dressing as a geisha. Bugs finally rids the island of Japanese by driving up in his ice cream truck (which plays music from The Magic Flute!) and selling each one an ice cream with a secret grenade surprise.

## Trivia

Despite the strong racial overtones of the film, this was never included in the notorious Warner Bros. "Censored Eleven" cartoons. In fact, it was even shown on television and released on laser disk. When the laser disk release was reformatted to a video release, the short caught the ire of many Japanese rights groups. Not long after the initial release of the 10-video set, this short was pulled from the video release of the Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies anthology tapes "The Golden Age Of Looney Tunes" Volume 1. (It was replaced with Racketeer Rabbit.)

Contains animation (themes, sequences or characters) which modern audiences may consider derogatory toward certain ethnic or religious groups.
Bunker Hill Bunny

**Bunker Hill Bunny** is a 1950 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Friz Freleng.

## Summary

Yosemite Sam, as Sam von Schpamm the Hessian, attacks Bugs Bunny's fort during the Battle of Bagel Heights in the American War of Independence. In typical fashion for anyone daring to go up agains Bugs, everything backfires until Sam, ultimately, declares himself "...a Hessian without no aggression".

## Plot

In the Revolutionary War "Battle of Bagel Heights" of 1776, Patriot Bugs and (Yosemite) Sam Von Schamm, the enemy, try to capture each other's forts. "Who am I? I'm Sam Von Schamm the Hessian, that's who I am!" Sam declares. "You ornery fur-bearin' rebel, you'll pay for this," he emotes, adding, "Ya better say yer prayers, ya flea-bitten varmint, I'm a-gonna blow ya to smithereenies!" After being blown up himself at least three times, Sam admits: "I'm a Hessian without no aggression. If ya can't beat 'em, join 'em."
Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur

**Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur** is a 1939 Merrie Melodies cartoon.

## Summary

Millions and billions and trillions of years ago, Caspar Caveman and his pet dinosaur Fido come up against Daffy when they're out duck hunting.

## Plot

For no particular reason our story is set in the Stone Age- millions and billions and trillions of years ago- probably before any of you people were ever born. A prehistoric Jack Benny, Casper Caveman, wakes up and sets off in search of breakfast accompanied by his pet brontosaurus, Fido. He spots Daffy swimming in a pond and tries to nail him with a slingshot, but Daffy escapes the rock by posing as a traffic cop and blowing a traffic whistle. Realizing its mistake, the rock comes back after Daffy, but instead hits Fido; the stunned dinosaur dances ballet for a while before passing out. Casper next tries to club a likeness of Daffy painted on a rock, which gives him a case of tremors. The caveman tries to jump in the pond after Daffy, but is stopped by a "No Swimming" sign. Daffy sets up an array of signage directing Casper and Fido toward a duck dinner -? "the most delicious duck ever." The duck in question turns out to be 50 feet tall (a huge balloon, inflated by Daffy). Daffy hands Casper a knife, and when he sinks it into the inflatable duck, it explodes, sending caveman, duck and dinosaur up to heaven. "Hmm, maybe that wasn't such a hot idea after all," muses Daffy on his cloud.

## Trivia

This cartoon is notable for being the first Daffy Duck cartoon directed by Chuck Jones.

The cartoon fades out on the music of the "J-E-L-L-O" radio jingle- Jack Benny's sponsor at the time.

Portions of this short were used in the video "Walk The Dinosaur" by Was (Not Was).
Fire Chief

**Fire Chief** is a 1940 Donald Duck cartoon directed by Jack King.

## Plot

Donald and his nephews are the staff of a fire station. Huey, Dewey, and Louie, annoyed by Donald's snoring, ring the fire alarm. Soon, his bumbling sets the fire station itself on fire. They race off at the alarm, not realizing they are already at the destination, and the firefighting efforts go downhill from there.
Buddy of the Legion

**Buddy of the Legion** is a 1935 Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Ben Hardaway.

## Summary

Buddy gets a new job in a book shop, but spends his work hours daydreaming about leading the Foreign Legion and fighting Amazons.

## Plot

Buddy is hired to work in a book shop. When the owner is away, Buddy is putting books away when he sees a book with stories about the Foreign Legion. He imagines himself as a leader of a troop of legionnaires in Arabia fighting Amazon warriors. He is defeating the Amazons when the bookstore owner comes back and he is thrown out for daydreaming.
Hawaiian Birds

**Hawaiian Birds** is a 1936 Color Classics cartoon.

## Summary

A young female bird takes off with a 1930s swing jazz band (the Big City Orioles) to New York from her serene Hawaiian environment. The cartoon turns into a bleak depiction of the Depression in 1930s Manhattan. The bird is thrown out of a swanky jazz club in mid-winter, becomes despondent, and even attempts suicide. But there's a happy ending.
Scrappy Birthday

**Scrappy Birthday** is a 1949 Andy Panda cartoon.

## Summary

Andy Panda tries to catch a fox to turn into a fur coat for his girlfriend Miranda's birthday. The two fill the screen with pandemonium when Andy's gift falls far short of the fur coat that Miranda's expecting.

## Plot

For her birthday, Andy presents his sweetheart, Miranda, with her usual present, candy and flowers. Miranda complains she wants something decent for her birthday like a fur coat...which Andy can't afford. A con man tells him he doesn't need money. He sells him a tracking hound and tells him he can hunt for the fox himself. Unfortunately, the fox Andy and his hound find has no intentions of being caught. Eventually, Andy does capture an animal to make a fur stole with. It's not the fox but, rather, something that's more of a surprise.

## Trivia

This is the last Andy Panda cartoon, and Miranda Panda's only animated appearance. Their subsequent appearances would be in comic books.

After Andy Panda's film career, a call from Walt Disney and told Lantz NOT to use a character that is similar to Mickey, so Lantz reopen his studio and Andy's new cartoons never return to production, by replacing Andy with Chilly Willy.￼
Clean Pastures

**Clean Pastures** is a 1937 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Friz Freleng.

## Summary

The Lord sees that the stock value of "Pair-o-dice" is dropping on the exchange so he dispatches a slow-witted and slow-talking angel to sinful Harlem to recruit new customers. When this fails, God finds success sending a group of musical angels with a little more swing in their style, so much so that even the Devil wants to join up!

## Plot

Up in heaven (known as Pair-O-Dice), a disgusted St. Peter is worried about all the sin and partying that is taking place down in Harlem especially the fact that nightlife is attracting more business to "Hades Inc." than to his own place. He sends down a group of angels to lead souls onto the straight and narrow. After a Stepin Fetchit angel does little good in trying to keep Bojangles Robinson and a blackface Al Jolson out of a seedy nightclub, St. Peter decides to send down a group of more hep angels, including Cab Calloway, Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller and the Mills Brothers, to steer people on the right path. In the end, Satan himself is allowed into heaven sporting a halo! An all-black musical cartoon with a very lively music score.

## Trivia

Includes caricatures of Cab Calloway, Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, Al Jolson (singing "Sonny Boy" in blackface) and more.

In 1968, United Artists (then owners of the A.A.P. library of pre-1948 Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons) compiled the cartoons they considered too potentially offensive to be shown on television, and withheld those cartoons from distribution. AT that time, UA felt that these eleven cartoons should be withheld from broadcast because the depictions of black people in the cartoons were deemed too offensive for contemporary audiences.
The Screwy Truant

The Screwy Truant is a 1945 Screwy Squirrel cartoon directed by Tex Avery and released by MGM

## Synopsis

A corny B Picture where Screwy Squirrel decided to play hookie and is chased around by a truant officer.

## Plot

The cartoon centers around an adolescent version of Screwy Squirrel, who skips school to go fishing, which causes truant officer Meathead Dog to go around attempting to arrest Screwy, with various failures. At the end, Screwy reveals that he wasn't in school because he had measles.
Hawaiian Aye Aye

**Hawaiian Aye Aye** is a 1964 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Gerry Chiniquy.

## Summary

Tweety Bird is on vacation with his mistress, Granny, in Hawaii, where Sylvester Cat is scrounging for food on a beach. Sylvester spots Tweety and tries to reach him in his cage, which is guarded by Granny's pet shark named Sharkey. Sharkey keeps foiling Sylvester's plans.

## Plot

Imagine me on Honolulu in a muumuu, says Granny, enjoying her vacation on a reclusive Hawaiian island. She goes to a luau, leaving Tweety alone with "Sharkey" the pet shark (who lives in a doghouse in the ocean). When Sylvester tries to get Tweety, the bird sends Sharkey to "sic 'em." The guard shark bites into Sylvester's rubber raft, inflating Sharkey and sinking the cat. Sylvester tries a wire-and-pulley lift to get himself over the island while dreaming of his delicious "broiled squab" meal. He fails to notice that he's heading in to Sharkey's house!

## Trivia

Tweety's last appearance. Note that he is wearing a green bowtie.

Also the last appearance of Tweety's owner Granny.

The only Sylvester and Tweety cartoon directed by Gerry Chiniquy. The last animated by Art Leonardi, Bob Matz, Lee Halpern or Virgil Ross.

Also the last Merrie Melody cartoon to employ use of concentric rings in opening/closing graphics.
Puss 'n Boos

**Puss 'n Boos** is a 1954 Casper the Friendly Ghost cartoon.

## Summary

Casper the Friendly Ghost saves three kittens and they accept the unpopular little ghost as their friend. They and Casper have a lot of fun and the level-headed little specter stays busy keeping them out of mischief. Casper finds a good home for the orphaned-kittens but, despite the comforts of their new home, the kittens escape and return to their ghost-friend.

## Plot

Casper rescues two baby kittens from drowning, and they become his friends forever. They're hungry, though, and they need milk. Casper pulls off his sheet to become invisible so that he can milk a friendly cow. When the cow sees a bucket with her milk in it floating away, she immediately runs to a "Psycowatrist," as she believes that she is losing it. Now, full of milk, one of the kittens sees a nest of baby birds in a tree and charges them. The mother bird comes to their defense. The other kitten ties a string to a bone and drags it in front of a sleeping bulldog. The dog doesn't think it's funny and gives chase.
Window Cleaners

**Window Cleaners** is a 1940 Donald Duck cartoon directed by Jack King.

## Plot

Donald Duck is a window washer who has problems, from his hat and tail feather being trimmed to waking up Pluto to break the window. And finally tormenting a bee, getting tied up on the platform only to have his rear end stung by a bee.

## Summary

Donald is washing windows on a high-rise; Pluto is his assistant, hauling the rope for the platform and refilling buckets but mostly sleeping. And when things are finally going well, Donald makes the mistake of tormenting a bee.
Owly to Bed

**Owly to Bed** is a 1959 Herman and Katnip cartoon.

## Summary

Herman protects Hooty the owl from Katnip.

## Plot

A sleep-walking baby owl finds its way in Herman's house, and the friendly mouse makes friends with it. But the owl arouses Katnip, who takes out after it, but Herman always manages to rescue the little owl. The owl finally makes a nest for its self out of Katnip's fur which Herman has stripped off.
Show Biz Bugs

**Show Biz Bugs** is a 1957 Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Friz Freleng.

## Summary

Daffy Duck arrives at his vaudeville theatre to learn that Bugs Bunny has been given top billing over him. A competition ensues with Daffy out to get the top billing he deserves. Bugs seems to be the crowd favorite however as Daffy can't seem to best him in dancing, a magic act, juggling or in playing musical instruments. It pushes Daffy to extreme measures.

## Plot

Bugs and Daffy put on a vaudeville show. While Bugs is effortless, Daffy has to work hard to get any respect: "What, that rabbit's name over mine?" Daffy competes with Bugs for the audience's approval in many vaudeville acts, including dancing, performing music and magic tricks. Even "Daffy Duck and his Trained Pigeons" make an appearance.

## Trivia

Bugs does not say "What's up, Doc" in this cartoon.

This was the second Friz Freleng Bugs Bunny/Daffy Duck cartoon to be mostly made up of reused animation from earlier cartoons. The other shorts included A Star is Bored and Person to Bunny.

As revealed in the audio commentary on the second Golden Collection set, the song "The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady" was intended to be used during the sequence where Daffy showcases some trained birds. A pre-score recording was produced, but was not used in the final cartoon. Other pre-score music included slightly longer versions of both "Tea for Two" and "Jeepers Creepers".

This short contains scenes with animation repurposed from earlier cartoons; reused footage includes scenes taken from "Hot Cross Bunny", Bugs Bunny Rides Again, "Ballot Box Bunny", "Case of The Missing Hare", "What's Up, Doc?" and "Curtain Razor".

When Bugs and Daffy dance to Tea For Two, the animation is reused from "Hot Cross Bunny" (this sequence would be used in "The Bugs Bunny Show" television series).

Daffy's dance to "Jeepers Creepers" was also reused from "Hot Cross Bunny".

The xylophone gag was previously used in the Private Snafu short Booby Traps and the Bugs/Yosemite Sam short Ballot Box Bunny (and later in Rushing Roulette), only in both cases the instrument used was a piano. The song used in each case, as in Show Biz Bugs, is "Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms" and in each case it was reused animation.

The final act and the pigeon circus had been used in an earlier Porky Pig cartoon called Curtain Razor in which a fox does the same act Daffy does attempting to show Porky he is a star.

The scene where Bugs and Daffy challenged each other by dancing was reused animation from Bugs Bunny Rides Again starring Bugs and Yosemite Sam. Likewise the cartoon was mainly made up of reused footage from earlier cartoons.

The ending where Daffy is wearing a devil suit and drinks dangerous chemicals for his final act is edited in different ways in TV prints.
Meatless Flyday

**Meatless Flyday** is a 1944 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Friz Freleng.

## Summary

A spider tries a number of tricks to catch a fly. A sugar cube on a string fails when the fly cuts the string. The fly does a trapeze act to taunt the spider, but the spider acts as the fly's catcher; the fly gives him a hotfoot. Buckshot dipped in candy coating fails when the spider's magnet also attracts a cupboard full of dangerous cutlery. The spider spots the fly disguised as the bride atop a wedding cake, and disguises himself as the groom. They chase through an electrical conduit, lighting a neon sign, until an air-raid warden shouts "Put out that light!" They return through the conduit, and the spider catches the fly. He's about to carve up the fly when the fly points to the calendar, declaring September 27 to be "meatless Tuesday."

## Plot

A housefly is buzzing near the ceiling. On a table below, a hungry spider plans his trap. He tries everything- except building a web- to catch the fly. The spider tries to catch the fly with a sugar cube, but no luck. The fly performs a trapeze act in the air to taunt the spider, and the spider says "Look at him! A poor man's Bugs Bunny!" The spider tries to join him, but the fly shoots him down in flames. "Look, I'm a Zero!" says the spider, referring to the Japanese suicide fighter plane. The ensuing warfare contains a reference to civil defense: the chase ends up inside a giant, outdoor sign... which a Civil Air Patrol guard, on duty, promptly orders shut off (an obvious reference to air raid warnings during the early part of the war). The spider paints buckshot like candy and tries to draw the fly in with a magnet after he eats the buckshot, but instead, every sharp knife, etc. in the kitchen is attracted and flies at the spider. The fly pretends to be the bride on a wedding cake, but the spider shows up as the groom, and the fly leaves a stick of dynamite in his place and the spider blows up. They chase around some more. Finally, the spider catches the fly, and is about to carve him up when the fly points out the date and that it is "Meatless Friday" (a reference to food rationing on "Meatless Friday"). The spider goes running to Washington, D.C. yelling, "You can't do this to me!"

## Trivia

Tex Avery claimed to have done the voice of the spider, but he had left Warner Bros. by the time that this film was recorded.
Casper Comes to Clown

**Casper Comes to Clown** is a 1951 Casper the Friendly Ghost cartoon.

## Summary

Casper the Friendly Ghost rescues Browny Bear from a swarm of bees and trains him to be a juggling bear. A circus ringmaster spots Browny and grabs him. Casper rescues Browny (and the rest of the circus) from an escaped gorilla.

## Plot

The adult ghosts are testing themselves on a Scare Meter; but poor, lonely Casper has no wish to frighten anyone. Yet he's a ghost; and when he tries to befriend an owl and two rabbits, all he does is scare them away. Casper even scares some bees that are chasing a bear cub. But the cub is grateful to Casper, and unafraid of him. The two become fast friends, and Casper names the cub Brownie. Casper soon finds that the cub has a natural talent for juggling, so he teaches him how to juggle while balancing on a hoop. A ringmaster happens to see Brownie and takes him away. He soon has Brownie doing his act on a high wire. Casper finds him, but an enormous gorilla may spoil the happy reunion.
Spunky Skunky

**Spunky Skunky** is a 1952 Casper the Friendly Ghost cartoon.

## Summary

Casper is once again looking for a friend, and he meets a skunk. The guys don't want to play baseball with the skunk because of his smell. Casper comes to the rescue when Wolfie threatens them. The guys agree to let the skunk join the game... but they fasten clothespins to their noses!
Mr. Duck Steps Out

**Mr. Duck Steps Out** is a 1940 Donald Duck cartoon directed by Jack King.

## Plot

Donald is heading out for a night on the town with Daisy, but first he needs to ditch his resourceful nephews. Easier said than done. They get to Daisy's house first, but Donald buys them off with ice cream, which works for about 10 seconds. Eventually, Donald and Daisy do some pretty wild dancing, made wilder when the nephews get a hot ear of popcorn into Donald.

## Summary

Donald is headed for Daisy. However, his nephews are too.
Robin Hoodlum

Robin Hoodlum is a 1948 The Fox and the Crow cartoon.

## Plot

A slight role reversal for the Fox and Crow in this one, as the Crow was usually the smart one who ended up with the winning hand. Fox is Robin Hoodlum and the Crow is the Sheriff pursuing R. Hoodlum and his merry band. He escapes one trap after another until he is lured into an archery contest at the Palace---everybody plays the Palace sooner or later---and caught. He escapes, through the efforts of his faithful followers, and they kidnap the Sheriff and the King to act as their servants.

## Credits

* Director: John Hubley
* Production: Ed Gershman
* Story: Sol Barzman, Phil Eastman
* Design: Jules Engel, William T. Hurtz, Herbert Klynn
* Animation: Pat Matthews, Rudy Larriva, Willis Pyle, Robert Cannon
* Music: Del Castillo
* Technical: Mary Cain, Max Morgan
* Executive Producer: Stephen Bosustow

## Trivia

* It's first UPA cartoon to be released.
* It's also first The Fox and the Crow to be made UPA.
Of Rice and Hen

**Of Rice and Hen** is a 1953 Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Robert McKimson.

## Summary

Miss Prissy, the slow-witted hen, sets out to land a husband - Foghorn Leghorn, and Barnyard Dog is willing to help her by dressing as a rooster to "rival" Foghorn Leghorn's non-existent affections and make him jealous so that he'll marry Prissy without thinking. Foghorn Leghorn falls for the scheme - hook, line, and sinker.

## Plot

Foghorn saves lovelorn Miss Prissy from ending it all, so she starts to see him as her new beau. Miss Prissy sets out to land Foghorn as her husband, and the Barnyard Dog is willing to help her by dressing as a rooster to "rival" Foghorn's non-existent affections and make him jealous so that he'll marry Prissy without thinking. Foghorn falls for the scheme- hook, line and sinker.

## Trivia

This cartoon's title is a play on "Of Mice and Men."
Innertube Antics

**Innertube Antics** is a 1944 MGM cartoon directed by George Gordon.

## Summary

A donkey, putting a small pile of rubber out for wartime recycling, is dismayed by the much larger piles his neighbors have put out. He goes into the back yard and finds a huge buried inner tube, but that inner tube has a mind of its own.

## Plot

A suburban homeowner, embarrassed by his small rubber contribution to the war drive in comparison to his neighbors, goes searching the yard for more. He finds an inner tube half-buried in his backyard. His efforts to dig it up become a major excavation, as the inner tube proves to be bigger than first thought.
Dance of the Weed

**Dance of the Weed** is a 1941 MGM cartoon directed by Rudolf Ising.

## Summary

A clumsy yokel of a male weed courts a delicate female flower ballerina by trying to dance with her.

## Trivia

A distinctive point about this cartoon is that MGM cartoon composer Scott Bradley was allowed to write and record the entire score before the film was animated.
The Tears of an Onion

**The Tears of an Onion** is a 1938 Color Classics cartoon.

## Summary

None of the other vegetable children will have anything to do with the Little Onion, except for the cute Little Peach who has a cold. Suddenly, a Crow invades the garden and steals the Little Peach away. The others are powerless except for the Little Onion, who defeats the Crow with his own special "devices."

## Trivia

This is the sole Color Classics cartoon still protected by copyright.
The Hungry Goat

**The Hungry Goat** is a 1943 Popeye the Sailor cartoon.

## Summary

A goat is starving because scrap metal drives have snapped up all the cans. He finds his way onto a battleship - a giant tin can! The first sailor he sees is Popeye, who he is more than happy to turn into a goat himself.

## Plot

Very unusual cartoon about a hungry goat trying to eat all the metal on the ship that Popeye is assigned to, thus getting him into trouble with the admiral. Popeye, who finds himself swabbing the deck, encounters the goat and quickly makes enemies. However, the goat makes friends with the admiral, and Popeye finds himself dealing with the goat's appetite. All kinds of crazy gags in this one, including one scene in which the goat asks the projectionist to run the film back to the opening credits. The goat leaves the frame of the movie to inspect the title. Later, the audience watching the cartoon comments on the action taking place on the screen! The cartoon ends with Billy The Kid Goat laughing in the movie theater audience as the Paramount logo flashes on the screen.
Cracked Ice

**Cracked Ice** is a 1938 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Frank Tashlin.

## Summary

W.C. Squeals, a pig who talks like W.C. Fields, wins an ice skating tournament after many crazy stunts. He tries to get at a St. Bernard rescue dog's gin supply. This leads to a variety of riotous escapades.

## Plot

It's ice skating time. After a few generic ice-skating gags, we get to the main story. An animal falls through the ice, and a pig doing W.C. Fields (W.C. Squeals, apparently) calls for help from a Saint Bernard dog. The dog dispenses a drink, and Squeals begins scheming to get some himself. First he tries faking his own fall through the ice, but the dog sees through it and downs the drink himself. Then Squeals tries using a dish of bones and a magnet, but the magnet falls through the ice and gets stuck around a fish. The fish then swims through a liquor spill from the dog's casket; the drunken fish grabs an ax and, swimming in a circle, dunks another skater. He then latches onto Squeals' skates, and hauls him into an ice-skating contest, where the fish-induced antics win him first prize. Squeals fills the loving cup from the dog's cask, and the fish swims off with it.

## Trivia

Shares some gags with Dog Daze.

There are humorous references to "Gone With The Wind" and Charlie McCarthy.

Mr. Squeal is the same con man from At Your Service Madame.
Tin Pan Alley Cats

**Tin Pan Alley Cats** is a 1943 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Bob Clampett.

## Summary

A "Fats Waller" cat visits the Kit Kat Club to be tempted by wine, women and song, rather than listen to the pious sermons and hymns of the Uncle Tomcat Mission. A jazz version of "Nagasaki" gets so hot and makes him sing so high that it sends him "out of this world," straight to a Technicolor Wackyland, complete with Hitler, Stalin and Japanese enemies. Scared back to earth, he runs from the club to join the Uncle Tomcat Mission band for a rendition of "Dat Ol' Time Religion."

## Plot

A fat cat (a caritcture of Fats Waller) is walking down the street scatting, when he comes upon a club called "The Kit-Kat Club". On the way in, he walks by a place called "Uncle Tomcat Mission", where a gospel singer warns him not to enter the club, and to beware of "wine, women, and song". The cat replies "Well, wats de motta wit dat?", and walks in the club. After playing some piano, he is blasted out of this world with a wild trumpet solo. He lands in a world similar to that in "Porky in Wackyland"(1938).

## Trivia

Contains the song 'The Schlesinger Swing.' Cab Calloway is caricatured.

Contains newly recolored animation from "Porky in Wackyland" (1938).

The last of Warner Brothers' all-black classics (except for the Inki cartoons).

In 1968, United Artists (then owners of the A.A.P. library of pre-1948 Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons) compiled the cartoons they considered too potentially offensive to be shown on television, and withheld those cartoons from distribution. AT that time, UA felt that these eleven cartoons should be withheld from broadcast because the depictions of black people in the cartoons were deemed too offensive for contemporary audiences.
Do or Diet

**Do or Diet** is a 1953 Casper the Friendly Ghost cartoon.

## Summary

Casper the Friendly Ghost saves a very plump turkey from the butcher knife on Thanksgiving Day. Casper tries to make the turkey lose weight, thus becoming so thin that the farmer won't want to eat him.

## Plot

As usual, Casper, the Friendly Ghost, is out to make friends but the only creature willing to respond is a fat turkey worrying his wattles off about the upcoming Thanksgiving Day. Casper does all he can do to get his friend to go on a diet and lose weight but the turkey keeps eating and getting fatter. Thanksgiving arrives and here comes Farmer Jones, axe in hand, ready to execute the main course of his holiday dinner. But the farmer sees Casper and flees in panic, so Casper has a new friend...at least until next Thanksgiving.

## Trivia

The title is based on a quotation by Alfred Lord Tennyson: Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
Ups an' Downs Derby

**Ups an' Downs Derby** is a 1950 Noveltoons cartoon.

## Summary

Said to be the fastest horse around, Lightning the horse is a sure bet for the Ups and Downs steeplechase. The jockey is all set to go for the big race, but Lightning decides to take a nap instead. The jockey tries all sorts of things to get Lightning to wake up. The real fun begins as he comes up with a plan of how to enter the race with a sleeping horse.
Blue Hawaii

**Blue Hawaii** is a 1950 Screen Songs cartoon.

## Summary

Singalong with spot gags about the (then) territory of Hawaii. A tourist ship heads out to Hawaii, with lots of visual gags, such as Pearl Harbor shown as a pearl necklace with the clasp opening up and letting ships in. When Jimmy Durante comes off the ship, a lei is thrown over him and gets caught on his big nose. A tandem surfer rides a wave. A big wave covers him. When the wave is gone, the bottom surfer is now a shark.

## Plot

"Blue Hawaii" begins as a travelogue. As we watch an impossible number of persons board an ocean liner, the narrator tell us, "Each year thousands of fun- and sun-worshiping vacationists flock to the Hawaiian islands, eight semi-tropical islands nestled like sparkling gems in the languid waters of the blue Pacific." The cartoon provides visual puns and wacky sight gags as we are taken to "dazzling Diamond Head"; Pearl Harbor (a harbor surrounded by a giant pearl necklace); Waikiki Beach; and a still-active volcano (that needs a spittoon for its eruptions). We see how poi is made and how canned pineapple is harvested. We witness a luau and see a native girl throw a lei on Jimmy Durante's nose. Next, we're invited to follow the bouncing ball and sing along to "Blue Hawaii."

## Trivia

Groucho and Harpo Marx and Jimmy Durante are caricatured.
Solid Ivory

**Solid Ivory** is a 1947 Woody Woodpecker cartoon.

## Summary

Woody is shooting pool at a farm house when one of his pool balls rolls into a nearby henhouse. He takes the ball back but must battle with the hen who thinks the woodpecker is taking one of her eggs. Woody makes several attempts to get the ball back from the protective poultry finally disguising himself as a macho continental rooster whom the hen falls for causing Woody to retrieve his ball. But it doesn't last long. The hen gets wise prompting Woody to trip spilling all the hen's eggs all over himself and getting conked with his own pool ball!

## Plot

Woody Woodpecker is playing pool in his barn. He loses control of one of the balls (the white one), which bounces across the yard and lands in a hen house. When he goes to get it, an overprotective setting hen will not let him have it, thinking that Woody is trying to steal one of her eggs. Woody loses the battle that follows, so he tries a rod and reel, baited with corn. The hen hooks it up with the light circuit and almost electrocutes Woody. He tries hypnotizing her with nylons, but she beats him back to the eggs. A disguise as a love struck French rooster with a Charles Boyer accent finally gets her off the nest, but Woody drops the eggs. The baby chicks that pop out of the broken eggs make the hen happy, so all is forgiven.

## Trivia

Last onscreen credits for Grim Natwick and Milt Schaffer at Lantz.

The mother hen is sitting on her nest reading "The Egg and I."
Porky's Five & Ten

**Porky's Five & Ten** is a 1938 Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Bob Clampett.

## Summary

Porky decides to sail to a tropical island to open a store. The fish try to rob him.

## Plot

Porky sets sail for the Boola-Boola islands in the South Seas with a ship full of general merchandise and plans to open a 5 & 10 cent store. But a swordfish cuts a hole in the ship and Porky's goods fall into the ocean, where the fish make creative uses of them, ultimately opening a Hollywood nightclub, complete with fish impersonating various stars. Porky is saved when a waterspout comes along, re-stocking his ship.

## Trivia

This cartoon was colorized in 1992.

Fish impersonate such Hollywood stars as Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy and Mae West.
Elmer's Pet Rabbit

**Elmer's Pet Rabbit** is a 1941 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Chuck Jones.

## Summary

Elmer buys Bugs for 98 cents in a pet shop.

## Plot

Elmer Fudd spots Bugs in a pet shop window, but after he takes him home Bugs heckles him and complains about having to eat carrots.

## Trivia

The first cartoon in which Bugs Bunny is named. Also, he sports a completely different voice, and he has no buck teeth.

He also claims to not eat carrots (yet he eats them and other vegetables while complaining).
Boogie Woogie Sioux

**Boogie Woogie Sioux** is a 1942 Swing Symphony cartoon.

## Summary

Big Band swing music from the 1940s combines with some politically incorrect overtones about Arizona Indians. Characters include "Tommy Hawk and His 5 Scalpers." In this madcap musical, an Indian chief fires his rainmaker and hires Tommy Hawk, whose trap drums produce some amusing results.

## Trivia

Reissued as Indian Beatnick for television.
100 Pygmies and Andy Panda

**100 Pygmies and Andy Panda** is a 1940 Andy Panda cartoon.

## Summary

Andy Panda (still an infant) pesters Papa, who's trying to take a nap. When he gets his magic wand in the mail, he practices on Papa and competes against the witch doctor of the Pygmies, who wants to see who has more magic.

## Trivia

This cartoon is rarely seen because of its portrayal of black stereotype characters. This cartoon is not currently shown on American television because of characters, scenes or situations that portray potentially offensive, negative or otherwise currently socially or politically unacceptable content which may be perceived as fostering potentially negative stereotypes of Blacks.

The final appearance of Mr. Whippletree.

Includes reused animation from Life Begins for Andy Panda.
Boo Hoo Baby

**Boo Hoo Baby** is a 1951 Casper the Friendly Ghost cartoon.

## Summary

After running away from home, Casper the Friendly Ghost finds a baby and takes it to a foundling home, where the babies welcome him and become his playmates. Unfortunately, the nurse, not knowing that Casper's friendly, calls the police. After a cop shoots at him (and, naturally, misses), Casper leaves the place in tears. But the nurse and cop have a change of heart when they hear the babies crying for the friendly ghost. Casper gets a job there handing out bottles, and he is even able to provide for five baby quintuplets by attaching a glove to their bottle.
Pop 'Im Pop!

**Pop 'Im Pop!** is a 1950 Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Robert McKimson.

## Summary

While telling Junior about his battles with giant mice, Hippety shows up, and now Sylvester must prove himself. Junior eggs his father on: "C'mon, Pop! Go get the mouse like you said you could, unless you want to destroy a child's faith in his father!"

## Plot

A circus comes to town featuring Gracie the Fighting Kangaroo and her youngster, Hippety Hopper. Hippety slips out of the circus tent and hops into a yard where Sylvester Cat is bragging to his son, Junior, about how good a mouser he used to be. To prove he still has his mettle, Sylvester must fight against the playful Hippety, whom they, as usual, mistake for a giant mouse.

## Trivia

The first appearance of Sylvester Jr.

The last Sylvester cartoon animated by J. C. (Bill) Melendez.

Gracie, the Fighting Kangaroo is the mother of Hippety Hopper.

The Blue Ribbon release featured blue rings.

This release also features the original title cards and includes credits.
Hop, Skip, and a Chump

**Hop, Skip, and a Chump** is a 1942 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Friz Freleng.

## Summary

A pair of Laurel and Hardy-like crows pursue Hopalong Casserole, a wily grasshopper whose fatal mistake is to believe a closed iris shot can shield him from his enemies.

## Plot

The grasshopper Hopalong Casserole easily outwits two birds that are modeled on Laurel and Hardy; he substitutes a bee when they think they've trapped him in a bag, he lures one off a cliff (apparently these are flightless crows), he plays "The Storm" on a piano they are hiding in, and he escapes through the closing "iris out."

## Trivia

The crows are caricatures of Laurel and Hardy.

Hopalong jumps into the end credits to avoid the crows.
Mousetro Herman

**Mousetro Herman** is a 1956 Herman and Katnip cartoon.

## Summary

Herman is a little beret-wearing beatnik mouse visiting friends who live in a music shop. Mice play jazz on various instruments, raising Katnip's ire- and leading to the traditional cat-and-mouse hijinks. Herman gets rid of Katnip so that the mice can continue their a jam session. At one point, Katnip gets pressed into a long-playing record, but when they play him on an old record player, it's just discord. There's also a snake-charmer bit.
The Beach Nut

**The Beach Nut** is a 1944 Woody Woodpecker cartoon.

## Summary

A crowd gathers at the beach to witness vacationer Wally Walrus thrashing Woody Woodpecker. Wally explains, in flashback, why he is trying to rid himself of Woody... it seems he went to the beach for his day off and, unfortunately, the obnoxious woodpecker had the same idea disrupting Wally's peace and quiet with his antics, even disguising himself as a swami to fool Wally into "finding" him. Back to the present, Wally concludes his story and hurls Woody into the ocean but not without bringing the entire dock down with him, sending Wally and the crowd into the drink themselves!

## Plot

A trip to the balmy seashore reveals thousands of people relaxing in the sun. All, that is, but big, fat Wally Walrus, who's choking the daylights out of Woody Woodpecker. Wally explains, in flashback, why he is trying to rid himself of Woody. The woodpecker is a terror on the beach, heckling Wally at the beach. Woody surfs while singing "My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean." It seems that Woody, among other things, walked on his face, jammed his face into a nice, big cake, and ran over him with a surfboard, swiping his lunch (including his hot dogs) on the way. Practically choked him to death with smoke from a bonfire, burned his beach umbrella from over him and his beach chair from under him. Almost drowned him with a fire hose. Chasing him to the amusement center, Woody, disguised as a yogi, persuaded him to dive through a plate glass window. Fastening Woody to an anchor, Wally throws him into the sea, but the anchor rope pulls the pier and everything else in after it, and we iris out on Woody swimming into the sunset with the walrus and thousands of people swimming after him.

## Trivia

Wally Walrus makes his debut in this cartoon.