A lion swallows a bomb to blow up a mouse in his stomach in Tex Avery’s “Slap Happy Lion.” The mouse gets out—then the lion realises what he’s done. He bids us a fond farewell.
Fortunately, the lion isn’t dead. Parts of his body descend from the sky in sequence and he’s just like new again.
This is another one of Avery’s “the-little-guy-is-always-there” cartoons, in this case a lion-frightening mouse (voiced by Frank Graham).
Bob Bentley, Ray Abrams and Walt Clinton are the animators in this cartoon.
So is that what would become the stock Hanna Barbera TV explosion? I'm thinking they lifted it at MGM and took it with them when they opened their own studio...
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