Thursday, 31 August 2017

I Can't See a Thing

The best gag in The Reckless Driver (1946) is when driver exam cop Wally Walrus (Will Wright) tells Woody Woodpecker (Bugs Hardaway) to read an eye chart. It says “I can’t see a thing.” Woody reads it correctly but Wally (deliberately, I suspect) interprets the statement literally.

The animation checker missed a couple of things. Woody’s “collar” disappears and then his tongue turns yellow.



Woody’s matured after five years in cartoons. Instead of being a nutcase just because he’s a nutcase, he has motivation for his abuse as the cop is being a jerk to him for no reason.

Les Kline and Grim Natwick got the animation credits, though others worked on this cartoon.
Posted by at 07:38
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3 comments:

  1. Loren Broaddus31 August 2017 at 08:50

    This is Verne Harding's animation.

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  2. Pokey31 August 2017 at 22:38

    One of the funniest Woody gags (A Bugs eye chart one was in 1952-53's "Forward March Hare" where Bugs reads the standard letters on the eye charts..rabbits vision talent from eating all those carrots,naturally..two different eye chart gags but equally funny..)

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  3. Chris Sobieniak4 September 2017 at 21:51

    I think it was even funnier when it was the bowl of alphabet soup and the same message could be read in that!

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