A horse yells for help. After sound effects lifted from a Squidly Diddley cartoon, the horse says “Give me a hand.” I don’t possibly know what could happen next.
What?? Cool Cat claps?! As in “giving him a hand”? Oh, my sides! Who could guessed that was coming?
Or this? The Indian Brave says “Me give-um you squaw,” hands a hefty woman to Cool Cat, and then runs away. The suspense is killing me about the response.
“Indian giver!” yells C.C.
Don’t you get it?? He’s an Indian who gave. Indian Giver! That’s genius. Aren’t you uncontrollably shaking with laughter? I don’t know if I can take any more of this hilarity.
Hey, an Indian is painting eyes, a nose and a mouth on a bucket.
“Me, pail face.”
Pail face! Paleface! I’m retching with laughter. I know you are, too.
Thus ends Injun Trouble, the last Merrie Melodies cartoon of Hollywood’s Golden Age. About time for a Cool Cat reboot, isn’t it? Maybe team him with the Marvel Universe or Sonic or the Tennessee Williams Snagglepuss in that comic book series. Now that’s comedy!
Vitagraph means Looney Tunes series././if that's the right screencap!
ReplyDeleteFor years, those post-1964 Warner cartoons went largely unseen, with the exception of the Road Runners. You know what? I was fine with that. Those late cartoons are largely worthless and sully the good name of Looney Tunes. They can return them to the vaults and lock them away again, so far as I'm concerned. I'd be happy never to be subjected to one of them ever again.
ReplyDeleteI remember a friend of mine and I watching some of the final " Looney Tunes ' with this beginning and ending title. It was a Daffy cartoon, and that's it. When it ended we just looked at each other and he said: " Oh, I think we supposed to laugh ". Kind of sad. This brought down the curtain on what was once a side splitting series of cartoons that gave us stories for adults and mature thinking youth, and action for the kids.
ReplyDeleteI like a few things about "Injun Trouble" -- Bob McIntosh's colour style, Bob McKimson's effort at efficiency (as in his other C.C., "Bugged By a Bee," Col. Rimfire and his ultra-irritating TALLY-HO! are nowhere to be found), and the Topless Saloon which surely earned some belly laughs. Of the directors who handled Cal Howard's storyboards (storybores?) in the late 1960s, McKimson came closer than anyone else (Rudy Larriva, Alex Lovy, Paul J. Smith) to making a funny cartoon.
ReplyDeleteThis short was directed by Alex Lovy.
ReplyDeleteUh, no it wasn't. It was by Robert McKimson. Lovy had already left the previous year.
DeleteAnyway, my favorite Cool Cat short is Bugged By a Bee. This one isn't great, especially as the studio's swan song. But I did like the material in the "topless" bar in the last minute.
The Indian gave Cool Cat an INDIAN!
ReplyDeleteDon't laugh. Some people consider Scooby-Doo classic animation. (Well, compared to Cool Cat... But still...)
ReplyDeleteBut that's Hollywood: no matter how big or great you were (in this case, Warner Bros. cartoons), you go out with a whimper. Look at MGM. Once the king of movie studios, it's about to celebrate its centenary as Amazon's bee-yotch.
I think Hanna and Barbera simply ran out of ideas for Tom and Jerry. Putting them with weak suburbanites didn't help. Neither did Cinemascope. The animation wasn't limited but the '40s stuff seemed to have more grace.
ReplyDeleteThe less said about the Lantz cartoons at the end, the better.
The East Coast studios seemed to fade away.
Hey, at least it's funnier than The Beary Family (of course this is from the same guy that think's the Hanna Barbera Alice in Wonderland special is underrated).
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