Baseball Bugs is a 1946 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes theatrical animated cartoon directed by Friz Freleng. The short was released on February 2, 1946, and stars Bugs Bunny.
In the short, Bugs Bunny singlehandedly defeats the "Gas-House Gorillas", a baseball team of hulking, cigar-chomping bullies. The cartoon has been called Bugs "at his best" and is still referenced by baseball fans and observers.
Director: Friz Freleng (as I. Freleng) Writer: Michael Maltese (story) Stars: Mel Blanc, Bea Benaderet, Frank Graham |
The Pink Panther's peaceful life as a farmer is challenged when a genetically-modified fly starts to devour all of his produce.
Director: Hawley Pratt
Star: Joe Siracusa
The Pink Panther has somehow picked up an unexpected friend: a large rock that wants to follow him wherever he goes. While an interesting curiosity at first, this new pet soon proves too ...
Directors: Gerry Chiniquy, Art Leonardi (uncredited)
Writer: John W. Dunn (story)
The Pink Panther, who lives in a small, rundown shack in the middle of the city, finds a five dollar bill. He gets so afraid of thieves, he decides to bury the bill in the ground. Later he finds out that a hotel has been erected on the very spot where the bill was hidden. He sneaks into the hotel when a janitor arrives, and starts looking for the right spot to start digging.
Director: Gerry Chiniquy
Writer: John W. Dunn (story)
Wacky Blackout is a 1942 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Bob Clampett. The short was released on July 11, 1942.
We tour a farm and see how the various animals are preparing for the war, in a series of blackout skits.
Director: Robert Clampett
Writer: Warren Foster (story)
Stars: Bea Benaderet, Sara Berner, Mel Blanc |
A very superstitious cat tries to catch Buzzy for breakfast but Buzzy outsmarts him. Animation by Graham Place and John Walworth. Story by Carl Meyer and Jack Ward. Scenics by Anton Loeb. Music by Winston Sharples. Produced in 1947.
Directors: Seymour Kneitel, Graham Place (uncredited)
Writers: Carl Meyer (story), Jack Ward (story)
Stars: Carl Meyer, Jackson Beck
Casper is in an African jungle. He frightens a zebra at a watering hole. Wheezy the elephant has a terrible sneezing problem; he sneezes all the feathers off a peacock and a group of monkeys out of their perches. Casper decides to help, and in the process dislodges the feather that was making the elephant sneeze. But then a fire breaks out, and the elephant is unable to sneeze on command.
Directors: Seymour Kneitel, Myron Waldman (uncredited)
Writer: Jack Mercer (story)
Stars: Jack Mercer, Sid Raymond, Cecil Roy
Ain't We Got Fun is a 1937 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Tex Avery. The cartoon was released on May 1, 1937. The title is based on the popular song of the same name.
This is one of a rare handful of Warner Bros. cartoons (which also include "The Night Watchman", "We, the Animals - Squeak!", "Scaredy Cat", "Claws for Alarm" and "Kiss Me Cat") in which the cats are depicted as the heroes and the mice as the villains rather than vice versa.
The cat's asleep, so the mice are on the loose, for a while at least, in the pantry. When he wakes up, they pile the food on him and get him thrown out, and then they *really* have the run of the house.
Director: Tex Avery (as Fred Avery)
Stars: Mel Blanc, Billy Bletcher
Van Beuren's "Tom and Jerry" series was renamed "Dick and Larry" in the 1950s. That's why the title card presents this cartoon as a "A Dick and Larry Carton".
Summaries
An old farmer has let his entire farm go and it is falling down around him, with mice taking over. Tom and Jerry (the human versions, not the cat and mouse) show up with magical saxophones, and the music has amazing effects on the farm. A chicken lays dozens of eggs, a cow gives gallons and gallons and gallons of milk, and two woodpeckers don't just peck a tree, they cut it down and split it into firewood. Even the farmer's well changes, filling with beer (by the mug of course) instead of water. The farmer trades Tom and Jerry a huge bag of money for the saxophones, but he gets the better deal - the bag is full of the mice from the start of the cartoon, and they carry Tom and Jerry off to throw them into the pond.
Porky Pig's Feat is a 1943 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes animated cartoon directed by Frank Tashlin. The cartoon was released on July 17, 1943, and stars Porky Pig and Daffy Duck.
It was directed by Frank Tashlin with musical direction by Carl Stalling, and produced by Leon Schlesinger. Originally released in black-and-white, clips of a digitally colored version of the cartoon were seen in bonus features for the first two Looney Tunes Golden Collection DVD box sets, before finally being issued in its original monochrome form on the Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 3 DVD.
Porky Pig and Daffy Duck owe an outrageous sum to the Broken Arms Hotel. The manager thwarts their efforts to escape without paying their bill.
Director: Frank Tashlin
Writer: Melvin Millar (story)
Star: Mel Blanc