tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738012638904762739.post1626296590945983789..comments2024-03-28T11:45:24.378-07:00Comments on Tralfaz: Punny ProductsYowphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09264605351878574044noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738012638904762739.post-65935558076297772912016-09-05T18:05:14.492-07:002016-09-05T18:05:14.492-07:00Aside from Friz borrowing gags here from his previ...Aside from Friz borrowing gags here from his previous cartoons, he'd borrow from this one after he returned from MGM, when the Astaire-Rogers dance sequence ended up as part of "Malibu Beach Party". It also seems to have been <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QziuxlMewv0&feature=player_detailpage#t=52" rel="nofollow">at least partially rotoscoped from "The Gay Divorces",</a> and was one of a handful of Schlesinger cartoons that borrowed live action or live-action references from non-Warner Bros features, in this case coming from RKO (which at roughly the same time had contracted with Leon's studio to do the titles for "What's Your Birthday?", which might explain why the Schlesinger staff had access to the Fred and Ginger routine).J Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15175515543694122729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738012638904762739.post-65529638179965642752016-09-05T14:03:09.853-07:002016-09-05T14:03:09.853-07:00The Fats Waller sequence would be reused almost in...The Fats Waller sequence would be reused almost intact in "Tin Pan Alley Cats."<br /><br />Nabisco Shredded Wheat was advertised as "The original Niagara Falls cereal" because it was originally manufactured there. <br /><br />There was a "Herbert Tareyton" brand of cigarettes.<br /><br />The Turner folks did seem to chop this cartoon up, didn't they? Sort of like the hatcheting that King World gave the Little Rascals shorts.<br />rnigmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01370724366178429029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738012638904762739.post-62090405739843903742016-09-05T12:43:56.741-07:002016-09-05T12:43:56.741-07:00And yes Log Cabin Syrup used to come in a containe...And yes Log Cabin Syrup used to come in a container shaped like a log cabin. I think they even recreated it for the 100th anniversary back in the 1980s.joecabhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16862252671814767307noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738012638904762739.post-13047262475723646922016-09-05T11:30:55.486-07:002016-09-05T11:30:55.486-07:00"Blackface doesn’t have the seal of approval ..."Blackface doesn’t have the seal of approval these days, so Jolie, Aunt Jemima and the energetic Gold Dust twins and Fats Waller caricatures (doing a pretty swinging version of Warren and Dixon’s Nagasaki) in the cartoon aren’t culturally appropriate these days."<br /><br /><br />Yep, all their scenes are cut for re-airings (If they ever air at all) making it a pretty short cartoon, clocking in at almost under 5 minutes (same with Freleng's "Confederate Honey". It would be much less of a hassle to completely ban the cartoons than to do this).Jonathan Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12233850225669612698noreply@blogger.com