The Terry Juggling Act

There’s an extended scene in the Heckle and Jeckle cartoon Satisfied Customers (1954) where a grocery store clerk slips into a crate of eggs (courtesy of a banana peel thrown by one of our heroes) and tries to catch them all so they don’t break. He even develops additional hands.



Heckle and Jeckle show their appreciation of the Jim Tyer animation by laughing and applauding as Phil Scheib’s trombones and saxes toot away in a circus-evoking arrangement.

The magpies start throwing all kinds of other stuff at the clerk who manages to save them from falling.



The cartoon opens with another fine walk cycle by Carlo Vinci. There are a couple of Bugs Bunny gags here and one lifted from Tex Avery’s Garden Gopher (did Terry end it with blackface, too?), and the ending is like something from a Max Fleischer Ko-Ko cartoon in the silent days. Fans of the TerrySplash™ will be disappointed by its absence.