It's Got Me Again (1932 May 13) | Merrie Melodies

[Themaniacnextdoor]

The rain effect is truely amazing. Almost no animators now and days could make it look so good with the tech they had in the 30's.

[lcramer6]

That part with the two mice on the piano at around 4:30 is creepy.

[Managuense1]

Guys, anyone remember "Porky Pied Piper", "He was her man" about a female mouse appleseller in the snow and her boyfriend Tony who used to beat her up? I also remember a blind mouse peddler who was actually a millionair living in a mansion with a buttler and all! I will always Love Looney Tunes and Merried Melodies!

[SteveCarras]

HEY! Mickey/Oswald clones!! HAHAHA! {Yeah, I know, it was the thirties.]

[WWEChampion16]

4:09 scene was used in Toyland Broadcast.

[Familygirl17]

OK, why is there an old mouse with a bad foot exactly like the one in this MGM cartoon I saw?

[deadlyshoesalesman]

@Familygirl17 The producers, Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising, moved from Warners to MGM and recycled a lot of their work there. They even brought Bosko with them. Do you remember the name of the MGM cartoon?

[canonet17]

@deadlyshoesalesman

I think its called Bosko's Parlor Pranks. They made it in technicolor.

[verbusen]

That was awesome, and the most mice I've seen in a cartoon! Thanks for the subtitle info as well, really great stuff!

[31operafan]

Did Walt Disney do the voice of the mice, too? Just kidding. They do sound a lot like Mickey.

[jpongsin2002]

there diffrents of the pig. ( Piggy ) (porky pig)

[thunderstruck665]

LOL, I felt bad for the cat. He wasn't the villain!

[RatPfink66]

@thunderstruck665 Cats in pop culture of the day weren't cuddly pets at all. They were ferocious mousers and yowlers, something you threw old boots at!

[stuartforbes]

Man, if I was Walt Disney, I'dve been PISSED!

Its a roomfull of Mickeys... they even sound like Mickey... what a rip-off!

[brosro]

@stuartforbes Put big ears and a tail on Bosko and Honey and guess who......?

[Mr111989]

@stuartforbes I am not sure but I don't think that Mr. Disney would have cared unless he was extremely paranoid about Mickey and company. If it ever gets uploaded to YouTube, see the Van Beuren "Film Fables" short about Red Riding Hood if you want an example of Disney getting pissed. Or look at the Big Cartoon Database for information as to what I'm talking about.

[daevczen]

Mice go nuts in a room full of musical instruments. Oh, and there's a blowtorch too.

[LFirstbasema]

This was up for an Academy Award for best short, but it lost to Disney's Flowers and Trees.

[catchersmitt0]

no shame in losing to a good rival... Flowers and Trees is pretty cool too.

[VictrolaJazz]

This is the archtypical cartoon everyone thinks of when I play one of my 1920's records--they always say "It sounds like one of those old cartoons where all the mice are dancing around!" Good reason for that--it was a 20's orchestra playing the music, albeit in 1932 by this time.

[CountDisco1]

That's because most of the talkies released before July 1, 1934 were ILLEGAL to show in the United States pretty much until around 1968 because of demented conservatives who deemed reality to be immoral (i.e. sex, homosexuality, miscegenation or mixing of the races, pregnancy, etc. etc.) All that anyone could see from the late 1920's and early 1930's were cartoons, and even those were censored by the self righteous bastards, i.e. Betty Boop

[CountDisco1]

See the article on "Pre-Code Hollywood" on wikipedia for more information.

[verbusen]

@CountDisco1 Remember that America is overall a conservative country. Maybe they think you are a bastard also because you have self righteous ideals yourself. If the rest of the world was so liberal why didn't they make wild cartoons, all I see and hear of are cartoons made in AMERICA. And if there are none I suggest you be pissed off at the WHOLE WORLD. I've seen some stuff from Russia from later on, but in the 1930's they were busy STARVING the Ukraine doing GENOCIDE. France? UK? Where?

[opticalguy1954]

@CountDisco1 has a shaky grasp of history. They were never ILLEGAL. The earlier cartoons could be booked and shown IF you wanted to see old, b/w cartoons. I remember seeing shows in theaters in the early 1960s where they booked old cartoons and comedy shorts and the place would be packed. They were shown pretty often on local TV as part of kiddie shows until about 1970 when kiddie shows were phased out and overtly racist humor was avoided due to public outcry.

[MWolfL]

What's the cat doing on the roof? I thought cats hated water!

[bigg3469]

The mouse & the cat were voiced by the legendary Mel Blanc.

[jgbennie]

Not in this cartoon. Blanc wasn't employed by Schlesinger for about another five years. My guess is Max Maxwell is the mouse.

[bigg3469]

If you listen closely the cat's yowling & howling you could tell that it was the voice of Mel Blanc. The sad part was in these cartoons of the 1930's they (the studios) do not post the voice credits of the voice over actos & actress so we (the viewers) has to play a "guessing game" of who was the voice in these early cartoons.

[bigg3469]

oops I meant to say ACTORS & ACTRESSES. My bad. :(

[SteveCarras]

No, "jbnennie"'s right.Exactly who DID the voice is unclear..

[jgbennie]

Thanks, Steve. Blanc was working at KGO San Francisco during the 1931-32 radio season.

Bigg's right; it's a shame none of these people were ever creditted.

[SteveCarras]

@bigg3469

Maybe like a few late 1936-37 Porky's, where Mel Blanc's voice was added after the release [so I've read], much later B;ancv's voiced was dubbed;like Mammy Two Shows being given "the June Foray treatment"-------but I doubt anyone redubbed this tabby here in re-release [that is, anyone from Mel Blanc on in terms of arrival at on the acting scene].

[SIMPFANN]

How did you include links in your subtitles? What software did you use to do that? I've never seen it before.

[deadlyshoesalesman]

The annotations and links are a new feature of YouTube's. I love them. (Note that YouTube only allows us to link to other YouTube pages.)

[Armoreska]

Nominated for Oscar