Foxy Adolf

Bob Clampett’s Looney Tunes short Eatin’ on the Cuff isn’t just about a moth, a bee, a black widow spider and a pianist sing-speaking their story in rhyme. The year is 1942, and there’s a war on. You know what that means.

Clampett and writer Warren Foster toss in only one reference to the war, and it’s not the usual heavy-handed kind you’ll find in other Warners cartoons in the era with plugs to buy bonds or “V for Victory.”

The moth devours a suit, a dress and then chows down on a fox wrap. But it turns out the fox fur is hiding the head of the head Nazi.



And, for extra humiliation, the moth buzzes off Adolf's moustache. Ja, sehr gut!



Virgil Ross received the rotating animation credit on this cartoon, the last time his name appeared in connection with the Clampett unit.