Pineapple is the Bomb

In How’s Crops? (1934), Cubby Bear and Cuddles take harvested produce like corn and turn it into fake unharvested produce (corn is glued onto a wiener or something and wrapped in brown paper). Naturally, they do it from some underground chamber accessed through a hollow tree stump.

I have a fondness for letter and punctuation formation gags. In this one, Cuddles paints TNT on a wall, Cubby rips the letters off and fashions them into sticks of dynamite, which he conceals in a fake pineapple that he uses as a hand grenade.



The grenade is lobbed toward the possum villain and his pick-up truck (which develops a face and starts sweating). Kaboom! Stolen vegetables go flying toward the camera. Two of them. This isn’t Disney, you know.



There’s some solid animation in this cartoon, directed by George Stallings. Steve Muffati gets the animation credit and since Gene Rodemich has been fired, Winston Sharples wrote the score (bereft of popular songs like Rodemich used). The raspy-voiced guy from the Tom and Jerry cartoons provides a few voices.