Friday 28 January 2022

Loosey Goosey

In Porky’s Preview (1941), Porky makes his own child-like title cards for his movie. In Walter Lantz’s Mother Goose on the Loose (1942), the idea is extended to the opening titles.



“Fluke of the Month Club” is “Book of the Month Club.” Get it? “Fluke?” “Book”?

Yeah, that’s Bugs Hardaway and his puns at work.

To translate, Frank Tipper and Les Kline animate, Lowell Elliott co-wrote the story and Darrell Calker supplied the boogie-woogie, brassy versions of “Mary Had a Little Lamb,” “This is the Way We Wash Our Clothes” and “Three Blind Mice” that open the cartoon.

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