Reminiscent of Pups, Mr. Twiddle tries to shoot a cannon through an impossibly small hole to get the people in the next room to be quiet. Someone in the other room flips the cannon around.
Twiddle is embarrassed his butt has been blown up and slinks off camera. It’s a variation of a gag Avery used at MGM; in Ventriloquist Cat, the cat uses a mirror to show the audience the damage.
Back to the Pups gag, where Twiddle goes behind a screen to change his pants and he hangs his old ones, with the shell embedded, over the top. Then it’s on to the next scene. In Pups, it’s so much better because it’s the set-up to a topper—there’s a second set of pants with a dog chomped down on them, and the wolf says to the dog “Okay, break it up, son. Joke’s over, y’hear?”
Tex wrote this one himself, and it suffers from a plot that makes no sense. But it gave him a chance to try out some of his old gags and his noise/sleep routine one more time.
The end reveal of the doctor and nurse being the ones causing Mr. Twiddle to explode, and then just going on with their laughing for the fade out just came across as either mean-spirited or nonsensical, since they sent him to the hotel in the first place. Viewers are waiting for retribution, but it never arrives (Bugs pulling the fig leaf off the black hunter and showing it to the audience at the end of "All This and Rabbit Stew" is still probably the No. 1 mean-spirited ending Tex did, but the payoff here is annoying in its own away and probably contributed to the failure of the use of the laugh record for the cartoon).
ReplyDeleteRobGems68 wrote:
ReplyDeleteAvery also repeated the "OUCH-@#$%&*!!" gag from "The Legend Of Rockabye Point" in this cartoon; It was funny, but repetitive.