Egghead gets called out on his scepticism (a running gag through the cartoon) so to prove he’s right, he gets in the box.
Buzzsaw saws. The box is opened. “I still don’t believe it,” defiantly states Egghead. Of course, we all know how this is going to turn out.
The stage curtain closes and the cartoon ends with Egghead (top) chasing after Egghead (bottom). It’s a shame director Tex Avery didn’t have him do it over the ending credits.
Dave Monahan gets credit for the story and Virgil Ross for animation. Egghead is played by Danny Webb. I don’t know who the narrator is. Carl Stalling scores The Umbrella Man during most of this sequence.
Between this and Tex having him tip his head to the audience in "Cinderella Meets Fella", Egghead was, if nothing else, the most modular character in 1930s Hollywood cartoons.
ReplyDeleteFriz staged the same old gag creatively in SHOWBIZ BUGS and, against all odds, made it seem fresh.
ReplyDeleteAlso, this is the last we see of Egghead, before he made the full metamorphosis into Elmer Fudd.
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