A hillbilly fires a huge assault cannon. Cut to a pig and a chicken eating feed from a plate. Kaboom! They turn into ham and eggs. Not only did Avery have the plate, ham and eggs drop from the sky in both cartoons, he had the camera pull in for a close-up.
You can see the later version of the gag in this post.
Tubby Millar gets the story credit on this cartoon; Rich Hogan and Roy Williams got it on the latter.
Since Friz's cartoon never got the Blue Ribbon treatment, Avery's effort was sort of the replacement for the re-release (and it's almost like a second generation thing, as Junior in Freleng's pre-war cartoon wants to be a risque taxicab, while 15 years later, dad's the boring taxi and now the son wants to be an even more exciting/dangerous 1950s hot-rod).
ReplyDeleteThe other interesting thing is Tex then basically copied from himself a year later, for "Little Johnny Jet", and that was the cartoon that ended up getting Tex his second and final Academy Award nomination at MGM.