In Bedtime Bedlam (1955), Woody accepts an evening babysitting job for $50. After a rich woman played by June Foray and her mute husband leave, Woody discovers the baby is a gorilla. He makes a break for it—then suddenly stops, realising $50 is at stake. The agony of the situation is clear.
The story is lame. The gorilla has no real personality, Woody gets bashed around a bit, then somehow the gorilla escapes every danger as Woody tries to tire him out. There’s no reason or logic behind the gorilla’s survival. At the end, Woody learns via TV that Mr. and Mrs. Moneybelt are leaving for 20 years. Why did she tell Woody that the job was only for an evening?
Can you tell Paul J. Smith and Homer Brightman were the director and writer?
Gil Turner, Bob Bentley and Herman Cohen are the animators on this short.
9/20/19
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Woody wouldn't be able to get away with shooting down an airplane on television these days, as it's considered a mental disorder/terrorist delemnia as he did at the end of this cartoon. Even when I saw it back in 1977 on WKBD-50 Detroit, I couldn't believe he got away with it. Even Elvis was notorious for shooting at a TV set (at Robert Goulet was on the screen,apparantly), and I find it disturbing rather than funny.Smith & Brightman were being too laborous at attempts for humor in this one.
An Itchy and Scratchy cartoon (skit) that Bart and Lisa Simpson wrote in the Simpsons episode "The Front", Elvis was shown shooting at the TV he was watching when Scratchy's head (stripped to the skull by flesh-eating ants) was launched (via a barber's chair) into the TV; maybe the true(?) story about Elvis shooting at a TV set inspired that scene.
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