Friday, 29 December 2023

Shootin' Match

The Western cliché of one-upsmanship gets trotted out for a parody in Tex Avery’s Drag-a-long Droopy.

The bad guy is dead shot. To prove it, he tosses a nickel into the air. Droopy responds in kind, with a bit of a different result.



Randy Skretvedt points out the same gag was used in two Three Stooges shorts: Horse's Collars (1935) and Out West (1947).

Did you notice something about the shooting? The wolf is big so he can pull the trigger on his rifle with ease. But Droopy is so small, he shakes when firing.

Ray Patterson joins Bob Bentley, Mike Lah, Grant Simmons and Walt Clinton in animating this, my favourite Droopy cartoon.

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