Pipe Dream Bull

A hallucination brought on by smoking a pipe is the best part of appropriately-named MGM cartoon Pipe Dreams, though it takes about a minute and a half before the plot gets there.

Characters are made out of various tobacco products. The dream begins with discarded cigar butts as singing hobos. They meet up with a bull formed out of a pouch of tobacco, a pipe, a pipe cleaner and matches (a nod to Bull Durham tobacco).



The bull chases them. The hoboes jump into a covered ashtray for safety. The bull tries to slow down to avoid crashing into it. The friction causes the match-stick feet to catch fire.



Too late.



The crash separates all the parts of the bull and there’s a quick pan to some fancy pipes where the various parts land.



This cartoon was released in 1938 after Harman and Ising had been dropped by the studio and before they were hired back after two new studio bosses (Milt Gross and Harry Hershfield) didn’t work out.