Tommy Morrison at Terrytoons did.
He grabbed the concept, complete with narrator, juicer and the mother-in-law and tossed them into Phoney News Flashes, released six years after the MGM spot-gagger.
“Here is one separate model which has one room for every member of the family—”
“—including mother-in-law.”
“Inside the house we find separate sleeping arrangements for Mr. and Mrs. Householder, Junior—”
“—and for mother-in-law.”
“Each kitchen is completely equipped including an all-inclusive super-juicer for Mr. and Mrs. For Junior—”
“—and for mother-in-law.”
You get the idea. Things go up-hill a bit from here; I actually liked the Cinemascope spoofs in the next scene.
As far as I can tell, Dayton Allen is using his real voice as the narrator. He later does a Durante impression.
Oh, I hope you noted the Mighty Mouse lamp in Junior’s room. Nothing like Paul Terry cross-promotion. Maybe he got the idea from his mother-in-law.
Morrison and the rest of the Terry story people seemed to be trying a little bit harder for at least a hint of self-awareness in some of their non-CinemaScope efforts right before and just after Terry sold out to CBS, but before Gene Dietch's changeover (though some of the pre-Deitch CinemaScope Terrytoons could be among the oddest U.S. theatrical cartoons ever made).
ReplyDeleteA bunch of gags from all over the place, including the gabby catcher, the catcher going into the wall, the ball spitting, saving taxes/going to the pen, and so forth.
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