Tokio Jokio

Tokio Jokio is a HYPER Infamous Looney Tunes short

## Plot

A man announces that footage of Japannazis have been released to the public. The film footage then begins with a rooster who is about to crow. (an obvious spoof of Pathé) When he does, however, he changes into a vulture with glasses and buck teeth, while rubbing his hands. Behind him, the rising sun of the Japanese Rising Sun Flag appears. The voiceover says: "Ohh, cock-a-doodre-doo, prease!", in a further emphasis that this vulture is Japanese.

The first segment is "Civilian Defense". The voiceover proudly presents the Japanese air raid siren system, which turns out to be two Japanese wearing kimonos taking turns in pricking each other in the buttocks with a needle, a possible nod to the obscene Japanese hand gesture, kancho. A listening post is literally a pole with key holes in it, and an aircraft spotter is literally someone painting spots on a plane. The fire prevention headquarters have burned down to the ground. The surprised voiceover exclaims: "Ohh, Son a gun. Too rate!"

A lesson about incendiary bombs is given. The text states that one should never approach incendiary bombs for the first five seconds. A small Japanese man with an umbrella appears, reads the text, checks his watch (which is decorated with Nazi swastikas) to count the seconds, and roasts a sausage above the dynamite stick. He explodes and reappears out of the explosion pit without his face, but his glasses and hat still in the same place. The figure says "Oh, rosing face, prease! Rosing face!" as a pun on the Asian concept of "losing face" or shaming oneself in public.

The second segment is "Kitchen Hints", which stars General Hideki Tojo as a cook. Tojo explains how a delicious Japanese club sandwich is made: a bread ration card is sliced in two, a piece of a meat ration card is put in between, then it is eaten and afterwards Tojo hits himself over the head with a club. With a large hump on his head, he starts playing with his lips.

The third segment is a style show which shows the new Japanese victory suit: no cuffs, no pleats, no lapel and ... no suit! A small Japanese is shown at this conclusion, shivering in diapers in the snow, while trying to warm himself to a candle.

Then "Red Toga-San" brings us the highlights of today's Japanese sports, while talking out of an iris. Suddenly the iris fades out and his false teeth get stuck into the circle. They clatter to the ground. The Japanese "king of swat", his head shaped exactly like his trophy, is shown in his baseball outfit. Suddenly he spots a fly, which he tries to kill with a fly swatter, but misses and spins around in a circle. The fly grabs the swatter and clobbers him down. Afterwards it takes his trophy and flies away.

The fifth segment shows personalities who made headlines that week. A skull in the title changes into the face of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto sitting at his desk. He introduces himself and leaves his desk, while walking on stilts to look bigger. He says that he "will dictate peace time in the White House." An editor's note covers the screen informing the audience that: "this is the room reserved for Admiral Yamamoto." When the card is removed an electric chair is shown and Chopin's funeral march is quoted.

General Masaharu Homma, according to the voice-over, demonstrates "Japanese coolness and calmness during air raid attacks." Homma does however exactly the opposite and runs around in panic before ducking into a tree trunk. When he sticks his head out of the trunk, a skunk does the same. Disgusted by the smell of the Japanese he ducks and reappears with a gas mask on his head.

"Flashes from the Axis" is the next segment. A monocled donkey called Lord Hee-Haw (a caricature of the American-British radio broadcaster and Nazi collaborator Lord Haw Haw, or possibly of Fred W. Kaltenbach, who was himself nicknamed *Lord Hee-Haw*) brays loudly before announcing that "the Führer had just received a postcard from a friend vacationing abroad". Adolf Hitler reads the message, "Wish you were here," and turns the card around to see the picture. It depicts Rudolph Hess in a prison camp (Hess had flown to Great Britain in 1942 and landed there by parachute to negotiate with the Allied Forces. He was arrested immediately). Hitler looks up in amazement and wiggles his nose. The next shot shows the "celebrated" ruins of ancient Rome and then cuts to Benito Mussolini sitting on a modern Roman ruin, with a sign titled "Ruin #1", all the while playing with a yo-yo with a sad look on his face.

The next segment focuses on the Japanese navy achievements. A large submarine is "three weeks ahead of schedule", according to the voiceover. Indeed, they are still working on it while it sails under water. When the submarine sails out of sight a small worker hurries behind it, only to stop after a giant crash. He freezes, takes his hat off, and *Taps* is played. Then he shakes his shoulders and returns the way he came. After this, a group of Japanese submarine sailors are shown using "intricate and technical machinery", which are actually pinball machines, gambling machines, and a peep show machine.

A Japanese sailor pilots a Kaiten human torpedo on a dangerous mission. The voice-over says that the pilot doesn't care about the danger, but when he asks him if he has anything to say the pilot exclaims: "No, nothing, except...RET ME OUT OF HERE!", apparently stuck in the torpedo.

The final scenes are again literal interpretations of certain marine boats and air force planes. A plane is shot into the air with a large slingshot, another plane has tricycle landing gear, actually a small man riding a tricycle attached to the plane, an aircraft carrier is presented which carries remains of crashed planes, and a minesweeper has two hands operating a broom to sweep mines away. When this ship accidentally explodes, a buoy emerges from the sea with the note: "Regrettable incident please".

## Why People Call It Looney Trash

1. This cartoon pokes fun at asians in a very offensive manner, not to mention that the jokes in it are dull and boring.
2. Like the Censored Eleven and the other World War II Cartoons, this cartoon has a lot of offensive content and a lot of padding,
3. The worst moment of the cartoon is when it says a room has been prepared for the visit of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the commander of the Japanese navy, and then cuts to a room containing an electric chair. This means that we have a Looney Tunes cartoon which **calls for the death of a real-life person**. To add insult to injury, Yamamoto died in combat a month before the cartoon was released, making the reference outdated anyway.

## Reception

Some of the fans say this is the worst Looney Tunes Short ever, along with Jungle Jitters, Canned Feud, Mexican Cat Dance, See Ya Later Gladiator, Well Worn Daffy, The Jet Cage, Pre Hysterical Hare, and Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips.