That New Car Smell

“Man, my cars are clean!” insists shady auto dealer Buzz Buzzard. He opens the car door. It’s the old skunk gag. Buzz then pulls off one of those jagged, taffy-pull takes that were popular in Woody cartoons for a few years in the ‘50s.



Buzz gets rid of the smell, thanks to a cute pun.



Homer Brightman’s story in Hot Rod Huckster (1954) is loaded with car gags and he even resurrects the Woody Woodpecker song that Mel Blanc had done more than 10 years earlier. Unfortunately, the animation accompanying it is pretty tame. And Brightman can’t seem to make up his mind whether Woody is intelligent or goony.

Don Patterson directed this with a crew of Ray Abrams, Herman Cohen and Ken Southworth.