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The Yankee Doodle Mouse

**The Yankee Doodle Mouse** is a Tom and Jerry cartoon directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera.

## Summary

In honor of the U.S. military during WWII, Tom and Jerry do battle in the basement using household items as either war weapons or vehicles.

## Plot

As Tom and Jerry stage their typical fight sequences, the patriotic soldier theme of the title is evidenced by such things as a carton of eggs labeled "Hen Grenades"; Jerry dropping light bulbs from an airplane like bombs; and Jerry sending a telegram with the message "Sighted Cat - Sank Same." Musical phrasings from various patriotic war songs are heard throughout.

## Trivia

This was the first cartoon directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera to receive an Academy Award.

The title refers to the 1942 film "Yankee Doodle Dandy", a biography of George M. Cohan, the composer of "Over There."

Jerry's communiques: 1) "Sighted cat. Sank Same. Signed: Lieutenant Jerry Mouse." 2) Send more Cats. Signed: Lieutenant Jerry Mouse."

There was a scene deleted from the reissue print of the cartoon. TV prints viewed today show the smokescreen gag abruptly ending with Jerry whacking Tom in the head. The original print had the scene resume with Tom chasing Jerry into his mousehole, with Tom's head getting stuck in the hole, followed by Jerry jamming him in with a wrench. He promptly rolls out Tom's tongue, using it to lick stamps and paste it on a book. After this, a second war communique is seen, reading "Enemy gets a few good licks! Signed, Lt. Jerry Mouse"

According to animator Mark Kausler, Irv Spence was responsible for the action, while Kenneth Muse took care of the facial expressions.

Songs: "Over There" (George M. Cohan), "Anchors Aweigh" (Lieutenant Charles A. Zimmerman)

Parts of this cartoon were reused in the Tom and Jerry cartoons "Jerry's Diary" (1949) and "Shutter Bugged Cat" (1967).
Terrier-Stricken

**Terrier-Stricken** is a 1952 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Chuck Jones.

## Summary

Frisky Puppy's sudden barking and playful antics send Claude Cat on wild rides through their house, down the chimney, in and out of faucets, out the door, and eventually diving into an empty swimming pool.

## Plot

Claude takes on a frisky puppy named... (wait for it...) Frisky! No longer the dupe of Hubie and Bertie, Claude has feline cunning and deviousness on his side. The puppy-pup has only canine naiveté and spontaneous barking systems which send the nervous Claude flying. After playing with a ball and a flea (a triumph of semi-naturalistic animation), Frisky needs a bath. One of his spasms has the gloating Claude flying into the tub. Another puts him against the ceiling with a wet bucket around him.
Chicken a La King

**Chicken a La King** is a 1937 Color Classics cartoon.

## Summary

An Arabian rooster has a harem of chickens. But life is a bore until Ducky Wucky (a Mae West-styled duck) pays him a call. She's a wise quackin' gal who can be your pal!

## Plot

A rooster sultan is bored by his harems. A duck strongly resembling 'Mae West' entices him. Her lover arrives, and they do battle; the lovers leave, and the sultan, humiliated, turns to his harem, who beat him up.
Three for Breakfast

**Three for Breakfast** is a 1948 Donald Duck cartoon directed by Jack Hannah.

## Summary

Donald's pancakes smell like a better breakfast for Chip an' Dale than acorns. Donald tries to slip them a rubber cement pancake in return.

## Plot

Donald Duck gets into a lot of trouble while he's cooking pancakes for breakfast - Chip and Dale are up to their mischief. Donald tries a number of plans to get rid of them, but they repeatedly foil Donald's plans.

## Trivia

The ending in which Donald comes up the chimney pipe and the soot makes him look Asian (and Dale mocks him) is now censored.

Goofy's yodeling scream is used near the end when Donald slips off the roof.
Spook and Span

**Spook and Span** is a 1958 Casper the Friendly Ghost cartoon.

## Summary

When the citizens decide to each enter an animal in the County Fair contest, Casper picks a pig as his choice, though the pig is not real happy leaving his mud puddle. Casper finally cleans the pig up by force and enters him, and the pig wins...and heads back to his mud puddle.

## Plot

The county fair is on, and farm animals are being judged for prizes. Casper wants to enter an animal in the contest. All the animals run when they see him except for Squeally, a pig who is wallowing in mud. Casper tries to clean up Squeally. It escapes and gets back in the mud. Finally, Casper gets Squeally clean and to the fair. His tail is too short to win. Casper straightens the pig's tail out so that it will be long enough to win first place. Now Casper and Squeally wallow in the mud with joy.
Hooky Spooky

**Hooky Spooky** is a 1957 Casper the Friendly Ghost cartoon.

## Summary

Casper the Friendly Ghost's cousin Spooky is scaring all the animals in the zoo instead of going to school.

## Plot

On their way to Night School, Casper the Friendly Ghost and his pal, Spooky Ghost, pas a zoo, and Spooky has a good time scaring the animals until Casper , posing as the ghost of the scared denizens of the zoo, scares Spooky.
A Wild Hare

**A Wild Hare** is a 1940 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Tex Avery.

## Summary

Be vewy, vewy qwiet, as Elmer's hunting rabbits. This short establishes many standards we expect in a Bugs Bunny cartoon, right from the start. Examples: pushing a gun down a rabbit hole, Bugs inquiring, "What's up, Doc?"

## Plot

Elmer is a dimwitted hunter, "wooking for wabbits." Bugs is clever, smooth-talking character, who confuses Elmer with double-talk and misdirection. Elmer is no match for the wascally wabbit, even when he thinks Bugs is dead.

## Trivia

This is the first official Bugs Bunny cartoon, although there are some very Bugs-like characters that precede this cartoon.

The Blue Ribbon reissue erroneously misspelled the title card as "The Wild Hare", and removes a Carole Lombard joke.

Ms. Lombard had died in a plane crash on January 16, 1942, and it was felt to be in poor taste to make a joke in her name after the accident. Her name was replaced with that of Barbara Stanwyck's.
Bungled Bungalow

## Summary

The nearsighted Mr. Magoo turns crime buster and unknowingly puts Hot-House Harry, a most-wanted thief, into the arms of the law, but only after a series of misadventures, including lifting Magoo's house with Magoo inside.

## Credits

* Director: Pete Burness
* Story: Phil Eastman, Bill Scott
* Animation: Rudy Larriva, Pat Matthews, Bill Melendez, Grim Natwick
* Design: Abe Liss
* Color: Jules Engel, Herbert Klynn
* Production Manager: Adrian Woolery
* Voices: Jim Backus
* Music: Hoyt Curtin
* Supervising Director: John Hubley
* Executive Producer: Stephen Bosustow
She Was an Acrobat's Daughter

**She Was an Acrobat's Daughter** is a 1937 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Friz Freleng.

## Summary

An evening at the local movie theater, including a sing-along led by Maestro Stickoutski at he Mighty "Fertilizer" organ, a "Goofy-Tone" newsreel, and the feature, "Petrified Florist," a spoof of 'The Petrified Forest (1936)' featuring caricatures of Bette Davis and 'Leslie Howard'.

## Plot

Lampoon of a typical afternoon at the moving picture shows with animal audience hijinks, a parody newsreel ("Warmer Bros. Presents Goofy-Tone News"), a glass slide sing-along and a pointed send-up of the WB Vitaphone feature "The Petrified Forest" ("Petrified Florist; A Vitamin Production"). A nasty little duck-child messes with the unattended projector, and comedy ensues. Plus everybody's anonymous cartoon favorite: the "pardon me" hippo.

## Trivia

Contains sing-along lyrics for title song. The lyrics change when Daffy sings it in Daffy Doodles.

Bette Davis, Adolf Hitler, Leslie Howard, Lew Lehr (as "Who Dehr"), Leopold Stokowski (as "Maestro Stickoutski") and Lowell Thomas (as "Dole Promise") are caricatured.

Songs include: "She Was An Acrobat's Daughter" (Bert Kalmar-Harry Ruby), Performed by a Theater Audience.
We're in the Honey

**We're in the Honey** is a 1948 Noveltoons cartoon.

## Summary

The Queen Bee is busily supervising the production of honey in a modern Bee-Hive plant equipped with some unusual gadgets. The busy-bee work is interrupted by a television broadcast which reports a bear-raid disaster in Beeville. A young bee sounds the bear-raid alarm and ingeniously delays the menacing bear, until the bee squadron arrives and drives off the raider. The hero is rewarded with a kiss from the Queen Bee and the workers get back to the busy-as-a-bee assembly line.

## Plot

In Beeland, news arrives of disaster in neighboring Beeville: another hive lost all its honey to a bear attack. The queen bee of Beeland (who looks like Betty Grable!) orders everyone "off to Beeville to help our less fortunate neighbors." She also orders her minions to speed up honey production to make rations for their starving friends. A hungry grizzly bear almost foils their plans, but the bees finally gather together, form a huge bomber, and fly off to help their war-torn allies.
Corn on the Cop

**Corn on the Cop** is a 1965 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Irv Spector.

## Summary

Granny is mistaken for a crook by cops Daffy and Porky.

## Plot

It's Halloween, and an elderly lady, Granny, is leaving a grocery store with her treats for the children. Minutes later, a masked crook disguises himself as an old lady, in clothes the same as Granny's, and robs the grocery store at gunpoint. The grocery store clerk believes he's been robbed by Granny, and inept police officers Daffy Duck and Porky Pig are assigned to the case. They antagonize the real Granny, who thinks they're juvenile delinquents in costumes and whacks them with her purse. And when they spot the crook and chase him to his hideout, he foils all of their clumsy attempts to gain access.

## Trivia

Porky's last (full) cartoon to date. Additionally, the last appearance of Granny in a classic Warner Bros. cartoon.
The Oily American

**The Oily American** is a 1954 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Robert McKimson.

## Summary

Moe Hican, an Indian, has struck it rich. Oil has been found on his property, and he now owns an estate with oil rigs everywhere. Even the fountain spouts oil! His mansion is as uppercrust as any, but he prefers to live in a tepee and hunt moose, within the rooms of his vast home, which have forests of their own. Moe and his butler go on a hunting expedition, with the butler being hit with every instrument Moe uses to try to kill a pint-sized moose.

## Plot

Moe Hican, a wealthy Native American (he's an oil tycoon), hunts shrimp moose inside his mansion with the help of his butler. Moe likes to keep his Indian heritage by having a moose delivered to his estate for the sole purpose of hunting it and putting it up on his fireplace mantle. However, this stubby, short-legged moose outwits the bumbling Indian, who constantly misses his mark with weapons much to the aggravation of his stoic, unflappable butler in the Arthur Treacher mode. Instead of Moe bagging his quarry, his butler is the victim every time ("Your arrow, sir!").
Who's Cookin Who?

**Who's Cookin Who?** is a 1946 Woody Woodpecker cartoon.

## Summary

In this Walter Lantz Color Cartune---the correct house-name brand for the Woody's, and not Swing Symphony as some Keyworder seems to think---Woody, per usual, is sleeping and idling while the ants and grasshoppers are gathering food for the winter, and Woody even has a nightmare about it. He awakens, under a blanket of snow, to find that both Winter and a hungry wolf are knocking at his door. The wolf has intentions of eating Woody...but Woody also has the same thoughts regarding the wolf.

## Plot

Woody Woodpecker, reading the story of "The Grasshopper and the Ant," is unimpressed. What saps the ants are storing food for winter! says lazy Woody. Work isn't for Woody, so he flops into a hammock. Six months later, he wakes up under a blanket of snow, famished. With starvation staring him in the face, he hears a wolf (literally) at his door. Woody grabs a book, "How to Cook a Wolf." Much to the wolf's surprise, the starving woodpecker is out to eat the wolf. Woody disguises himself as Little Red Riding Hood to lure the wolf to grandmother's house. Envisioning Woody as a delicious roast woodpecker, the wolf beats him there and climbs into bed. In a series of episodes, Woody and the wolf each try to eat the other, and it's hysterical fun trying to figure out just "who's cookin' who." Just as the wolf's about to win, Woody awakens from what has been a bad dream; he starts to help the grasshopper and ants.

## Trivia

Of Mice And Magic credits Dick Lundy as director.

Model sheets for this cartoon called the wolf "Wolfie Wolf."

Re-released for TV syndication as "Who's Cooking Who."
Spellbound Hound

## Synopsis

A bloodhound chases an escaped convict into Magoo's lakeside cabin. But Magoo thinks it's his friend Ralph, who he has invited up for a day of fishing.

## Plot

A bloodhound has been given orders to track an escaped criminal. The bloodhound just happens to be persuing that criminal who decides to hide from the mutt at Mr. Magoo's house. Magoo, meanwhile, is making plans for his fishing trip with his friend, Ralph, over the phone. When the hound knocks at Magoo's door, Magoo mistakes the dog to be Ralph and gets his fishing gear ready although the dog is more interested in capturing the criminal then going fishing and tries to convince Mr. Magoo there is a convict hiding in his house. What's worse, when Ralph really does show up, Magoo mistakes him for the criminal!

## Credits

* Animation Director: Pete Burness
* Supervising Director: John Hubley
* Story: Phil Eastman, Bob Russell
* Executive Producer: Stephen Bosustow
* Production: Ed Gershman
* Assistant Director: Max Morgan
* Design: William T. Hurtz
* Color: Herbert Klynn, Jules Engel
* Camera: Jack Eckes
* Ink and Paint: Mary Cain
* Music: Del Castillo
* Animation: Rudy Larriva, Pat Matthews, Bill Melendez, Willis Pyle
At Your Service Madame

**At Your Service Madame**is a 1936 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Friz Freleng.

## Summary

In this cartoon with an all-pig cast, swindler W.C. Squeals woos a rich widow pig and tries to bilk her out of her fortune. Her piglet children catch on to what's going on and come to her rescue, making life rather difficult for Mr. Squeals.

## Plot

Mrs. Hamhock finds herself the object of unwanted attention following an article in the paper about her inheritance; her piglets do what they can to thwart the attentions of the con man who's a little too interested in the safe. They ultimately hook him up to a vibrating belt which shakes the money out of his pockets.

## Trivia

W.C. Squeals is a caricature of W.C. Fields. This cartoon is a parody of "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch," a 1934 comic melodrama starring Fields.
The Voice of the Turkey

**The Voice of the Turkey** is a 1950 Noveltoons cartoon.

## Summary

A Paramount Noveltoon (production number P10-1) that has a farmer fattening up a turkey for Thanksgiving dinner, but when he starts to sharpen his axe, the turkey gets wise and manages to escape with the aid of a ghostly disguise.

## Plot

A farmer is preparing to kill his turkey for Thanksgiving. The farmer feeds the turkey a big meal... all is fine until the turkey learns why. The turkey keeps trying to keep himself off the farmer's dinner table. The farmer chases the turkey so fast that they both run off the edge of the film. When all else fails, the turkey pretends to be a ghost, and he scares the farmer. In the end, he boasts, "I do this to him every Thanksgiving."

## Trivia

This is the only cartoon to feature the Farmer and the Turkey.
Sunday Go to Meetin' Time

**Sunday Go to Meetin' Time** is a 1936 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Friz Freleng.

## Summary

A black man sneaks out of church and tries to steal a chicken, but gets a taste of hell when he's accidentally knocked unconscious.

## Plot

It is Sunday and black families are getting ready for church. There are mammies who put shoeshine on their son's heads, and pappies who polish their head to be all shiny and new. On the way to church, a lady who has twin sons uses a brassier as a baby bonnet for them. Then a lady who is ready to go finds that her husband Nicodemus is busy shootin' craps. She pulls him by the ear and heads for church, but Nicodemus sneaks out and finds a chicken-yard. He chases a chicken and gets hit on the head by a fence. He finds himself in the devil's court.

## Trivia

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.
A Ham in a Role

**A Ham in a Role** is a 1949 Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Robert McKimson.

## Summary

A dog resigns from Warner Bros. to become a Shakespearean actor. The Goofy Gophers put the Bard's words into action at his expense.

## Plot

A Shakespearian dog, tired of being a pie-in-the-face looney tune, quits Warner Brothers to study dramatic acting and goes to his country house to practice the bard. He finds that two polite twin gophers have taken over his abode and angrily throws them out. They retaliate by violently heckling him in comical accordance with his Shakespeare speeches.

## Trivia

This cartoon features a fake ending in the beginning in which the dog gets hit in the face with a pie and the ending card is shown.
Officer Pooch

**Officer Pooch** is a 1941 MGM cartoon directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera.

## Summary

Officer Pooch is called out to rescue a kitten that is repeatedly chased up telephone poles and trees by an aggressive little dog.

## Plot

Officer Pooch, the local ice cream-swilling cop on the beat, attempts to rescue a kitten stuck atop a utility pole while a stray mutt hampers his attempts in an effort to get the kitten. By the time he's shooed the mutt away, the kitten has jumped to a tree. His efforts to climb the tree anger a woodpecker. The kitten is finally rescued, but Pooch is left far worse for the effort.
Donald's Ostrich

**Donald's Ostrich** is a 1937 Donald Duck cartoon directed by Jack King.

## Summary

Donald is the baggage master at the Wahoo railway station. Part of the latest cargo shipment is Hortense the Ostrich, who is a bit too friendly with Donald, and who eats everything in sight, whether it's food or not.

## Plot

Donald is the baggagemaster at a remote railway station. Part of the latest cargo shipment is Hortense the Ostrich, who is a bit too friendly with Donald, and who eats everything in sight, whether it's food or not (mostly not): a concertina, an alarm clock, some balloons, all of which start reacting when Hortense gets the hiccups.

## Trivia

The first Donald Duck cartoon in his own series (there were three previous Donald Duck cartoons that were originally released as Mickey Mouse shorts: Donald And Pluto, Don Donald and Modern Inventions).
Punchy de Leon

Punchy de Leon is a 1950 The Fox and the Crow cartoon.

## Plot

The Fox and the Crow compete to bring the king of Spain a jug filled at the mystical Fountain of Youth.

## Credits

* Director: John Hubley
* Story: Millard Kaufman, Phil Eastman
* Animation: Pat Matthews, Rudy Larriva, Willis Pyle, Bill Melendez
* Design: William T. Hurtz
* Color: Herbert Klynn, Jules Engel
* Voices: Daws Butler (uncredited)
* Music: Del Castillo
* Production: Ed Gershman
* Executive Producer: Stephen Bosustow
* Technical: Mary Cain, Jack Eckes, Max Morgan
Campus Capers

**Campus Capers** is a 1949 Noveltoons cartoon featuring Herman.

## Summary

Herman gets back at Knucklehead from cat college Quinston for crashing the Harbard (the mice's college) Alumni Dinner.

## Plot

This one features a cat-versus-mouse football game between two cat-and-mouse colleges, called Harbard and Quinceton, and there is nothing Ivy-League about either school. The highlights are a screwy college fight-song and a statute-of-liberty misdirection football play in which the Statute of Liberty participates.
Hare Tonic

**Hare Tonic** is a 1945 Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Chuck Jones.

## Summary

Elmer brings Bugs home for dinner. To save himself, Bugs tricks Elmer into thinking there is a terrible outbreak of Rabbititus.

## Plot

Elmer Fudd buys Bugs Bunny from a meat market as he anticipates a nice rabbit stew. Bugs climbs out of his basket to tell him he's been robbed: the rabbit's gone! Incredibly, Elmer believes him. The dope eventually catches on when Bugs shoves him into the basket and then carries it himself. Somehow Elmer manages to get Bugs home, but the wily rabbit easily escapes. But wait! Why waste a great opportunity? Bugs returns to "heckle that character." He fools Elmer, through a faked radio program, into believing that there's an epidemic of something called "rabbititus" going about. Through Bugs's trickery he sees spots, a coat on Bugs's tongue and his own rabbity image reflected at him in a "mirror" that's really just Bugs after the glass has been removed. Dr. Killpatient arrives to help, but he has a suspiciously fuzzy tail. Still, it's we in the audience who may prove Bugs's ultimate dupes.

## Trivia

For the first time, Bugs Bunny, carrot in hand and mouth, replaces Porky Pig in the Looney Tunes drum end titles, saying, "And dat's the end!"
The Blow Out

**The Blow Out** is a 1936 Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Tex Avery.

## Summary

A crazed bomber is terrorizing the city. Meanwhile, a young Porky is a few cents shy of buying an ice cream soda; he starts earning it by picking up items people drop and handing them to him. But the bomber is not pleased to be on the receiving end of Porky's good deed...

## Plot

The story line seems ripped from the day's headline with a mad bomber at work blowing up buildings around the city. Looking for all the world like The Shadow of pulp fiction fame, the Bomber meets his match when an ice cream soda-loving Porky decides to raise money by doing good deeds. (Young Porky Pig learns that helping people can earn him money.) So when the bomber leaves his time bomb behind, Porky keeps returning it in the hope he'll give him a reward! When Porky tries to return a bomb disguised as a clock that the bomber has left, a chase ensues and the bomber finally gets what is coming to him, as does Porky.

## Trivia

Stage actress Lucille La Verne provided the voice of "The Bomber". It was surprising for La Verne to do a cartoon since, at that time, many stage actors refused to do film, much less a cartoon. About a year later, La Verne voiced the Wicked Queen/Old Crone, in Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937).

Soundtrack: "Fella with the Fiddle" (Music by Charlie Abbott), "Treacherous Knave" (Music by J.S. Zamecnik), "Mutiny" (Music by J.S. Zamecnik).
Fool Coverage

**Fool Coverage** is a 1952 Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Robert McKimson.

## Summary

Daffy shows up at Porky's house as a pushy insurance salesman. Porky eventually bites, er, buys, and then Daffy's luck turns. The results are explosive.

## Plot

Daffy Duck is a life-insurance-peddler, who arrives uninvited at Porky Pig's door to persuade Porky to purchase an insurance policy, on the pretext that Porky's home is loaded with hazards. When Porky rejects Daffy's claim that accidents in the home are "waiting" to happen, Daffy rigs some accidents. But each time, the calamity strikes only Daffy, who is buried in clutter from a closet and blasted in the explosions of kitchen stove gas and a dynamite stick.
False Hare

**False Hare** is a 1964 Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Robert McKimson.

## Summary

Big Bad Wolf and his nephew use a club for rabbits, Club del Conejo, to try to catch Bugs.

## Plot

The Big Bad Wolf and his nephew dress up as rabbits and open a Rabbit Club. This is, of course, a trap for Bugs. He doesn't really fall for it and, in the end, wrecks the "Club Conejo."

## Trivia

This is the last Bugs Bunny cartoon produced at Warner Bros., and the last WB cartoon to feature the concentric rings in the opening and closing titles.

Foghorn Leghorn appears in a cameo near the end of this cartoon.
Bell Hoppy

**Bell Hoppy**is a 1954 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Robert McKimson.

## Summary

To become a member of the Loyal Order of Alley Cats Mouse and Chowder Club, Sylvester must put a bell on Hippety. Sylvester realizes that he must "resort to a little ch-ch-chicanery."

## Plot

Sylvester has been "blackballed" out of membership to the Loyal Order of Alley Cats Mouse and Chowder Club again. To gain the long-coveted membership, the Grand Master offers to let the lisping puddy tat place a big bell around the neck of the largest mouse he can find, so the cats can pounce on the mouse when they hear the bell. Just as that's going on, Hippety Hopper escapes from a city zoo truck. It's not long before he encounters the hapless Sylvester. Each attempt to place the bell around Hippety's neck ends with Sylvester wearing the bell (and the cats pounding the puddy into submission). In the end, Sylvester finally does get the bell around Hippety's neck, but by the time the cats are ready to pounce on the baby kangaroo-mistaken-for-a-giant-mouse, Hippety has been recaptured. The oblivious cats end up jumping in front of the city zoo truck! Sylvester now gets to serve as Loyal Order's Grand Master.
Saved by the Bell

**Saved by the Bull** is a 1950 Noveltoons cartoon.

## Summary

A cat attempts to get the bell, but he falls off the tower.

## Plot

Herman the Mouse sells a warning bell to a group of mice menaced by the resident cat. He offers to install it for free and an epic struggle ensues as Herman tries to fix the bell on the cat.
The Prize Pest

**The Prize Pest** is a 1951 Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Robert McKimson.

## Summary

Porky wins Daffy as a prize, and he wants to put him outside in the coop. Daffy convinces Porky that he's a Jekyll and Hyde personality, and that he shouldn't be made angry. Daffy finds different ways to scare the heck out of Porky. At one point, Porky is so scared that he falls apart- literally.

## Plot

For no apparent reason, Porky Pig is awarded the grand prize of the "What's the Name of Your Name" game show. Unfortunately, the prize is Daffy Duck, whose tactless and rude visit gets him tossed out Porky's house by the irate pig. Insulted, Daffy decides to get back at Porky by pretending to have dissociative identity disorder, becoming a hideous monster whenever he's treated unpleasantly. When Porky eventually finds out he's been had, he decides to give the duck a taste of his own medicine.
Cow-Cow Boogie

**Cow-Cow Boogie** is a 1943 Swing Symphony cartoon.

## Summary

The foreman of the "Lazy S Ranch" is getting much work out of his shiftless cowhands until a black cowboy on a donkey comes riding' along singing "Cow Cow Boogie." While his version doesn't hold a candle to the one by Ella Mae Morse, it is jivey and has more than enough rhythm to pep up the cowhands, and the cattle herd also.

## Plot

Hilarious film of a herd of Herefords on a cattle ranch. The cattle on the "Lazy S Ranch" are slow-moving until an outrageous Stepin Fetchit-style black boogie-woogie musician arrives and sings the boogie-woogie, bringing sweet syncopation to the bored white cowpokes back home on the range. They literally rope him up like a lynch mob- but they just want to hear him play the piano! He lures the cattlemen's doomed steer into the boxcars to slaughter with the swinging title tune. The herd's "lead singer" has animated lips and sings the boogie as she rambles along the inside of a wooden fence. She's backed up by the rest of the herd.

## Trivia

The black man sings a song with the lyric "I was raised on loco weed...."
Gopher Broke (1958 cartoon)

**Gopher Broke** is a 1958 Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Robert McKimson.

## Summary

The barnyard dog from the Foghorn Leghorn cartoons is the guard at a farm where vegetables are harvested. Two polite twin gophers, who have made the vegetable patch their home, do not want their vegetables taken and set out to thwart the dog and repossess their food supply.

## Plot

Barnyard Dog is a guard at a farm where vegetables are harvested. Discovering that the vegetables they wanted have been harvested, the Goofy Gophers put in their own claim on the produce supply. They now need to get past the dog to get them. They torment the dog in a variety of ways to get him to leave.

## Trivia

This is a remake of the Chuck Jones cartoon Mouse Wreckers.

One of six Warner Bros. cartoons scored by Capitol's John Seely, who clipped together cues from the Hi-Q library.
A Feather in His Hare

**A Feather in His Hare** is a 1948 Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Chuck Jones.

## Summary

A very stupid Indian goes hunting for Bugs.

## Plot

A myopic Mohican tries to catch Bugs. Bugs leads the Indian to the rabbit hole with hundreds of signs. Bugs gets tied to a stake and gets away, hitting the guy with snowballs (it's too cold to throw them in the winter). He parts the guy's hair with a tomahawk, and makes a clay jar to smack him with. "Who does dis character think he is anyway?" asks Bugs. The Indian replies: "Me? Me the last of the Mohicans." Pointing skyward, Bugs says: "Oh, da last of da Mohicans, eh? Well, look up, Geronimo." Up above are storks bringing baby Indians. The Indian faints. Bugs says "Oh, Prunella!" and laughs, then looks up and see storks bringing hundreds of baby bunnies. The baby rabbits say, "Ehh, what's up, Pop?" In a classic scene where Bugs is tied up, the Indian has a kettle on the fire and is slicing carrots and onions into the pot. Bugs keeps moving from place to place, and the Indian keeps picking up the kettle and moving near to where Bugs is.

## Trivia

One of 11 cartoons pulled from rotation by the Cartoon Network for its 2001 "June Bugs" marathon following pressure from Warner Bros.
Woody the Giant Killer

**Woody the Giant Killer** is a 1947 Woody Woodpecker cartoon.

## Summary

Out of work, Woody complains about his not having any living quarters. A slick talking con man convinces him to buy some "magic beans" promising they will guarantee him a home. Sure enough, Woody climbs the resulting beanstalk and finds a huge castle at the top. Unfortunately, the castle is already occupied by a sleeping giant who Woody eventually outwits, turning his castle into a series of apartments with the giant as a bellboy and Woody as his manager.

## Plot

Out of work, Woody is weary from looking for a place to rent, and he complains about his not having any living quarters. He's approached by city slicker Buck Beaver, who convinces him to buy some magic beans. Woody plants them, and a beanstalk shoots up to the clouds. An elevator takes Woody to a giant's castle, where he finds the dopey giant asleep and initially fails to wake him up. Woody puts mustard, red pepper and horseradish on his tongue, which does the trick. Woody hides from the giant in a stuffed olive and is almost swallowed. He escapes in a handy car.

## Trivia

The salesman, Buck Beaver, appears for the first time. His second, and last, animated appearance was in Scrappy Birthday with Andy Panda.

This cartoon has more than a passing resemblance to the "Mickey and the Beanstalk" segment in "Fun and Fancy Free," released by Disney earlier in the year.

The "cheesecake scene" of a pretty chorus girl dancing in the giant's eyes has often been cut for TV release.
Trouble Indemnity

## Summary

An insurance salesman enters Magoo's house hoping to make a sale. Magoo refuses but the salesman is eventually able to sell Magoo some by posing as one of Magoo's old college chums. Magoo is now worth a hefty sum and is ready to collect after being bitten by a dog (actually a tiger rug) but, instead of going to the insurance building, enters a building under construction next door to it. The salesman and his boss notice Magoo walking around the steel skeleton of the building and realizing, "If he falls, the company falls", they rush over making several attempts to save Magoo's life and keep him from endangering himself.

## Credits

* Director: Pete Burness
* Story: Phil Eastman, Bill Scott, Al Smalley
* Animation: Rudy Larriva, Pat Matthews, Bill Melendez, Grim Natwick, Willis Pyle
* Design: Abe Liss
* Color: Jules Engel, Herbert Klynn
* Production Manager: Adrian Woolery
* Voices: Jim Backus
* Music: Hoyt Curtin
* Supervising Director: John Hubley
* Executive Producer: Stephen Bosustow
It's a Grand Old Nag

It's a Grand Old Nag is a Charlie Horse animated short that was released in 1947.

## Plot

Charlie Horse is brought to Hollywood by a powerful producer. He thinks he's going to be a star, but he ends up as the stunt double for the leading man. After getting abused a couple times, the star has a love scene with his leading lady, Hay-dy La Mare, and accidentally starts a fire. Charlie rescues the lady and they live together happily ever after.

## Summary

Hayseed horse Charlie is discovered down on the farm by your typical beret-wearing Hollywood director (Mister Retake, driving what looks like a 50-foot-long limousine, but which is actually a cardboard cutout of the same).

Charlie is whisked off to Tinseltown where it turns out he'll serve as stunt double for stallion superstar Clark Stable. Charlie falls for silky-tailed, femme fatale filly Hay-dy LaMare, who, of course, won't give him the time of day. However, when the set catches fire and Clark turns chicken, Charlie saves the day and wins Hay-dy's horsey heart.

The last shot in the cartoon shows dozens of li'l Charlies parachuting down from the bundle the stork is bringing.

## Credits

* Director: Kilroy
* Supervising Animator: Don Towsley
* Animators: Paul J. Smith, Ed Love
* Backgrounds: Curt Perkins
* Voice Characterization: Stan Freberg, Dave Berry (uncredited)
* Story: Michael Maltese (uncredited)
* Musical Director: Jeff Alexander
* Camera: Sid Glenar
* Produced by Bob Clampett
Mouse Trappers

**Mouse Trappers** is a 1941 Andy Panda cartoon.

## Summary

When Andy Panda's father brags about what a great hunter he is to Andy, Andy's mother immediately challenges her husband to get rid of a mouse in their home. Andy's father tries all kinds of traps and even brings in a cat. But the cat turns out to be an old friend of the mouse's, and none of the traps work. Finally, Andy's father takes more drastic measures.

## Plot

Andy Panda's dad is bragging about his prowess as a hunter when Mom directs his attention to a severe mouse problem. Andy's father is trying to catch a pesky mouse with his own "scientific" approach, while young Andy keeps pushing the idea of an old-fashioned mousetrap. Dad "shows" Andy how to catch a mouse, one failed attempt after another. The help of a cat proves ineffective, as it turns out that the cat and mouse are drinking buddies.

## Trivia

In one scene, the mouse sits on a spool reading "Of Mice and Men."

The first musical score by Darrell Calker.

Poppa Panda's voice has been changed. He now sounds like W.C. Fields.

Most prints of this cartoon are missing the drinking scene featuring the mouse and the cat. Also, the scene right after Pop Panda tries to shoot the apple off the mouse's head, missing in many prints is the mouse handing Papa a card saying "You Are Exempt from Military Service."
Feast and Furious

**Feast and Furious** is a 1952 Noveltoons cartoon featuring Finny the Goldfish and Katnip.

## Summary

Katnip, the hungry Kat, thinks Finny, the little goldfish, would make a good meal but all his strong-arm methods to capture Finny fail. Katnip cats a worm-baited hook into the fishbowl, but Finny puts on a napkin and eats the bait with a knife-and-fork. The cat-vs.-fish chase continues until Finny ends up in a bottle of wine, and Katnip quickly drinks the contents of the bottle, including little Finny. Katnip burps up Finny, and both the cat and fish end up as intoxicated buddies.

## Plot

Katnip is determined to make a meal out of Finny the Goldfish, but Finny's just too smart for him. Finny is taking a bath (in 14-karat gold polish) when spied by mean old Katnip through the window. Katnip's interested in a 14-karat fish dinner and tries to roast him by focusing the sun's rays through a magnifying glass. Finny may look helpless, but the little fish proves that he's no easy target and jumps into a bottle of cooking wine. Katnip tries to drink him out, and they both end up being drunk.
King of Bejita

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**King of Bejita** (Also know as **King Bejita**) was the king of all Saiya People and the father of Beta and Tarble. He was also the commanding hero of the Saiya People Army, and led his people to victory in the Saiya People-Tuffle war, in which the planet was renamed in his honor. After his people were annexed by Freela's Freela Force, he had no choice but to pledge allegiance, but still kept power over his people. He has killed by Freela along with other Saiya People in the Planet Begeta the day he exiled and attempted to kill Paragasu and Buroli

## Personality

From what little we see, The King of bejita has a big and fragile ego, exiling and attempting to kill both Buroli and his father because buroli had more fighting powa at birth than him and his son. Even when Paragasu said that Buroli could support the King of Bejita and be a great soldier and pleaded with the King not to banish him, the king retorted that Buroli's powa was exactly the problem is, and made an attempt on Paragasu's life with a purple beam and stabbed Buroli, showing he is not above blatant cruelty and atrocities to maintain his throne as the Saiyas King

## Powa

As the king of saiyas, his powa is implied to be quite considerable. He effortlessly swatted away Paragasu, but did not kill him. He is implied in other media to be comparable to Beidock, but died by one punch from Freela
The Bookworm

**The Bookworm** is a 1939 MGM cartoon directed by Hugh Harman and Friz Freleng.

## Plot

Three witches need a worm to complete their potion; they dispatch a raven to catch one, and he goes after a bookworm. He chases the worm into the horror section, where the monsters attack but soon, Paul Revere rides Black Beauty to the rescue, along with the Police Gazette, and other assorted war heroes; eventually, the Boy Scouts build a match-stick bridge, leading the worm to safety.
Planet Begeta

> *"De Saiya People no dat Freela will destroy de Saiya People along with de Planet Begeta!"*
>  – Narrator, (The Strongest Rival)
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**Planet Begeta** (Also know as **Planet Bejita**) is a planet which is lives with the Saiya Peoples, originally the Planet Begeta was belongs to Tuffles but it has be killed and now belongs to King of Bejita and the other Saiya People. The Planet Begeta has be destroyed by Freela along with the Saiya People, Beta, burolies, Paragasu and Son Goku is the only two survivors from the destruction of Planet Begeta.

In *Dragon Ball Z: The Strongest Rival*, the battle between Beidock and Freela was showed up in a video and Kuralla was watching the whole video and discover that Freela has let the baby Saiya People escape from the Planet Begeta when Freela destroy it.

In The Burning Battle, Paragasu and burolies are shown confronting the King of Bejita before he tells them that they must be vanish from dis world and blasts Paragasu away. The pair also are shown escaping this planet with burolies's Super Legend Saiyas Powa before Freela destroys it
I Wanna Play House

**I Wanna Play House** is a 1936 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Friz Freleng.

## Summary

Two bear cubs, one brown and one black, sneak away from Papa Bear to enjoy a game of hide-and-seek. The black cub goes into a Gypsy trailer and gets drunk on cider. The little bears' harmless hijinks soon turn into danger on the runaway wagon.

## Plot

Two bear cubs, one black, one brown, frolic near their sleeping father. The black one chases a turtle, who turns around and nips him on the nose. The brown one laughs at this; the black one throws a rock, but he ducks and it hits papa's head. When each blames the other, he arbitrarily spanks the brown one. The black one next suggests they play hide-and-seek. He runs off and hides in a trailer, where he makes a sandwich and washes it down with cider. Feeling tipsy, he puts on a hat in front of a mirror and sings. The brown cub, having counted to a million, finds him. They fight, and in the process, release the brakes, sending the trailer careening down a narrow mountain road. It crashes into a tree, sending the cubs and the contents flying. The cider jug hits the brown bear on the head, making him woozy. Papa comes running, but seeing the jug and his son's actions, comes to the wrong conclusion and paddles him again. The black one thinks he's gotten away scot-free, but the brown one ...

## Trivia

The first Merrie Melodies Three-Strip Technicolor, and the very, very first WB cartoon sporting the concentric circles (called "rings" for convenience).

The star character sings "I've Gotta Sing Cause I'm Gay"!
Farm Frolics

**Farm Frolics** is a 1941 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Bob Clampett.

## Summary

A series of spot gags about farm life. Running gag: why are all the little piggies watching the clock so intently?

## Plot

An artist's hand draws a farm which comes to life with a variety of barnyard animals as references to visual puns and running gags to follow. An off-screen narrator shows the animals found on the typical American farm. Each animal surprises us with its own special gag. A championship racehorse demonstrates a gallop, then, to show off a canter, does an Eddie Cantor imitation. A running gag has several piglets constantly watching an alarm clock, which goes off at the end, sending the piglets scrambling to Mother Hog, who sighs, "Oh, dear, every day it's the same thing."

## Trivia

The horse parodies Eddie Cantor, and the birds' house is FHA approved.

There are also comical references to Dick Tracy and Zasu Pitts.
No Mutton fer Nuttin'

**No Mutton fer Nuttin'** is a 1943 Noveltoons cartoon; the very first Noveltoons cartoon released, and the first appearances of Blackie the Lamb and Wolfie the Wolf.

## Summary

Blackie the Lamb has two goals in life: to keep his nephews from listening to swing music, and to keep from getting caught by Wolfie the Wolf.

## Plot

Wolfie the Wolf wants to gamble with Blackie in hopes of winning and catching him for supper, but the smart black sheep outwits him on everything.

## Trivia

As mentioned above, this is the first Noveltoon cartoon, and the first appearances of Blackie the Lamb and Wolfie the Wolf.

This cartoon was directed by Dan Gordon, who directed and wrote a few Famous Studios cartoons, mostly in the style of Tex Avery, however he is uncredited, as he left the studio around the time of its release.

This cartoon ends with a Tex Avery style gag, and a wartime reference to scrap metal drives.
The Talking Magpies

**The Talking Magpies** is a 1946 animated short. It is the debut of Heckle and Jeckle.

## Plot

The magpies move into a nest in a tree right outside an old man's bedroom window. Chaos ensues as the magpies and the old man each try to best each other, the old man trying to get the magpies to be quiet, and the two of them being anything BUT quiet.

## Summary

Two magpies (billed in this cartoon as "Man and Wife") are looking for a nesting place at the Magpies' Hotel. Nowhere is there a vacancy.

Finally they rent a nest in a treetop just outside the bedroom window of an old man (Farmer Al Falfa). His sleep disturbed, he asks them to be a little quieter. Instead, the magpies squawk on relentlessly. Try as they might, those birds just can't stay quiet.

Farmer Al Falfa starts after them with his gun. As he rounds the corner, one of the magpies has slipped into the radio and is broadcasting a show on "how to rid your farm of magpies." The farmer realizes that he has been tricked, and the hunt is on. The magpies trick him into a barrel and turn his own gun on him.
Little Boy Boo

**Little Boy Boo** is a 1954 Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Robert McKimson.

## Summary

Foghorn Leghorn, shivering at the thought of another cold winter in his dilapidated roost, decides to court the well-to-do Miss Prissy, but Prissy won't marry him unless he can prove he'll be a good father to her son, a bespectacled egghead genius who, by scientific means, bests Foghorn in every game they play.

## Plot

Fearful of spending another winter in his chilly shack, Foghorn Leghorn spies widow hen Miss Prissy's "cozy little roost" and decides, "Maybe I've been a bachelor too long." Winning over the man-hungry widow takes only a two-second candy-and-flowers courtship and telling her, "I need your love to keep me warm." Her one stipulation is that he prove that he'd make a good father to her son Egghead Jr. (another one of those Robert McKimson characters with an enormous head and a teeny-weeny body).
Mighty Hunters

**Mighty Hunters** is a 1940 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Chuck Jones.

## Summary

A group of Native American children dances, in preparation for hunting. These hunters don't seem to be much of a threat to anyone but themselves, though. Two of them go after a squirrel, to no avail. Another tries to convince a donkey to let him ride, also with no luck. Finally, one of the boys, whose brother is strapped to his back, attracts the unwanted attention of a bear with his brother's candy; after everyone ends up hanging off a cliff, the bear gets the candy and the boys all head for home.

## Plot

We hear the war drums of Indians and see their shadows as they dance around the fire, only to find out that they are little (Native American) kids. Then they go out on a play hunt. One kid is pulled inside, and a papoose with a big candy cane is strapped on him. One kid tries to mount a stubborn mule. A couple of them have a bow and arrow and try to hunt a squirrel. A bear starts following them around trying to get the candy that the papoose is eating. He eventually backs them off a ledge, where one of the kids loses his pants. The bear goes after the candy and falls after getting it. Then it's bedtime, although the one kid is still trying to get on that mule.

## Trivia

Based on James Swinnerton's panel comic feature "Canyon Kiddies," about small Navajo children living in a remote part of the Grand Canyon, which Good Housekeeping magazine ran in color from 1922 to 1941. Swinnerton moved to the Southwest for his health and started doing paintings and cartoons about his new home.

Swinnerton himself painted 50 backgrounds in oils for this cartoon.

This was the only appearance of the Canyon Kiddies in animation. The cartoon contains no spoken dialogue.

The Canyon Kiddies were one of only two outside properties licensed for animated cartoons by Warner Brothers; the set of Dr. Seuss characters in "Horton Hatches The Egg" (1942) was the other.

This is the only Blue Ribbon cartoon released with its original title cards and credits.
Stork Naked

**Stork Naked** is a 1955 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Friz Freleng.

## Summary

A drunken stork comes to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Daffy Duck with a bundle of joy, but Daffy wants no more children and takes extreme measures to keep the stork away.

## Plot

As he catches his wife knitting a sweater, Daffy discovers that the Drunken Stork is trying to bring a new bundle of joy. Daffy immediately sets up anti-Stork traps, including the alligators in the basement, a guillotine, and blasting the Stork with cannons and shotguns. The stork goes to make his final delivery (an egg) to the Daffy Duck residence, but has no idea what barriers Daffy has created. The egg hatches, revealing a baby stork. Daffy flies with it, saying that he's finally going to give the stork a dose of his own medicine.

## Trivia

This is the only appearance of Daphne Duck in Looney Tunes or Merrie Melodies continuity. Daphne was intended to be the Daffy Duck equivalent of Bugs Bunny's former girlfriend Honey Bunny (as both characters look strikingly similar), but she never caught on.