Inside the elephant is Colonel Rimfire, who pops up and says “I tought I taw a puddy tat.”
Well, Tweety got laughs with the line. 20 years earlier.
Writer Bob Kurtz evokes more old Warner Bros. humour, this time from the Chuck Jones unit. Cool Cat decides to “split the scene” and exits stage right (oh, right, that was another cartoon “cat.”). Instead of following him, the mechano-elephant, for whatever reason, retreats to Larry Hanan’s flowery background and jumps.
It turns out Colonel Rimfire and the elephant fall over a cliff. Why? Well, the coyote got laughs with it. Except Jones and Mike Maltese did a lovely job of setting up the cliff-drops in the roadrunner shorts. This comes out of nowhere.
Can anyone name which Roadrunner cartoon this artwork was pilfered from?
Alex Lovy might as well be named “Colonel Misfire” for directing this sorry excuse for a cartoon. There was so much wasted talent involved, including Kurtz and Larry Storch. Veteran animators Volus Jones, Ted Bonnicksen, Eddie Solomon and La Verne Harding are credited. Lovy must have brought sound effects with him from Hanna-Barbera, as Hal Geer edits them into the sound track.
Word is that Warner Bros. is not planning to follow up the "Blew Up" movie with a feature starring Cool Cat.
The background is from Zip N’ Snort.
ReplyDeleteHonestly, Cool Cat’s not that bad of a character. Sure he’s pretty derivative but he’s at least not unlikable. The problem is the shorts featuring him were pretty weak so they ended up dragging down him as well.
“ Word is that Warner Bros. is not planning to follow up the "Blew Up" movie with a feature starring Cool Cat.”
Don’t worry. You’ve got Tweety’s High Flying Adventure if you want Cool Cat in your pictures. ;)
If it weren't for the puddy tat reference and the Roadrunner background, most people probably wouldn't guess that this was a Warner Bros. cartoon. By this stage, post-Depatie-Freleng, the design was generic Jay Ward, only without the humor.
ReplyDeleteThe second panel looks for the lack of a better term, very Jay Ward-ish.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if you've seen live action- Looney tunes hybrids Space Jam and Back in Action.
ReplyDeleteI don’t know about the former but he has certainly heard of the latter (both it and its sequel)…and yeah it’s safe to say he hates it.
DeleteI think you mean the sequel to the former SPACE JAM:A NEW GENERATION. I generally like,not love, a few of the Cool Cats.
DeleteNote that Bob McKimson dropped the beret and Colonel for his 1969 tries.Like,now,I'm cuttin'now.
It seems that the post-1964 WB-W7cartoons went from jam session to distribution over a few months rather than the year-or-so of the classic era. Several years ago Bob Kurtz told me that he storyboarded Cool Cat in the same year (1967) that it was released. I've long suspected that Don Jurwich ran his story session for "Just Plane Beep" *after* the movie "Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines" became a verified hit in July 1965 -- the cartoon was released less than four months later.
ReplyDelete