This was the first "Looney Tunes" short made in Technicolor, a few other cartoons that are made in black & white until "Puss 'N Booty" in 1943. It was later reissued as a Blue Ribbon "Merrie Melodies" series in the late 40's or early 50's.
Some of the backrounds are stunning in this cartoon. 5.25 is a good example. Anyone else think the dog is the best character? He should have been in more shorts.
"Ah, something new has been added!" was one of Jerry Colonna's "catch phrases" on Bob Hope's radio show in the '40s (another one was, "I don't ask questions, I just have FUN-N-N-N!!").
Thank you. I have been telling people about this cartoon for years. I am still puzzling over the "something new". Posting a link for this at idsideout. Thanks again.
And if you're looking for a comparison to the original, track down an unaltered copy of this cartoon on VHS (or laserdisc, if you're lucky enough to own one of those relics) and compare it to this "restored" print.
Dammit, this is the restored version! They completely sucked out all of the color subtleties from the original, to the point where there's barely any color at all outside of certain objects and the characters! If it weren't for those colors there, I'd swear it was almost a black & white cartoon! And for the first color Looney Tunes short, thats a crying shame!
The first color Looney Tunes cartoon...Why did they not keep the original intro and ending ? A lot of people can understand that it's a Merrie Melodies cartoon !
Wow this cartoon is fantastic. The background art is vibrant and simply amazing, the animation is great, and most importantly, its actually funny. 5 stars for old cartoons
I'm certainly glad there are fewer "wolves" than there use to be. Women back then certainly had the odds against them. But times have changed thanks to them and I'm very glad for the opportunities they fought for! We are no longer victims!
I wonder if people know what the hepcat movement is really about? The hint is the first 4 letters, hepC, right now people are spreading HepC please get the word out 5 million americans have it and the rest don't know they have it.
@seabass11 - Or maybe they just got completely wrapped up in making an amazingly crafted and entertaining cartoon. You know, 'cause animators are silly and all that...
Actually,it's one of the catch phrases of a famous comedian of the time,Jerry Colonna.He also used to say ''I can dream,can't I?'', like the cat said at the end of this cartoon.
@luridplanet - If I were a media history prof I would definitely put aside a bit of my lecture time to address the fact that '40s Hollywood cartoons have taken almost complete ownership of the concurrent content of American radio. It's a fascinating case study because it has SO much to do with medium. No one in the entertainment biz was betting on decade after decade of shelf life, yet the means for ensuring this anyway in each medium were completely out of balance. Film was treated as a (cont.)
(cont.)....semi-sacred thing purely out of the knowledge that it COULD, if handled properly, outlast the people who made it and potentially continue to make money in as-yet-unimagined ways. Radio, meanwhile, was similarly popular and profitable, but so vastly more difficult and inconvenient to archive that the effort was rarely made, at least not on the same level. I mean, just imagine it - simultaneous broadcasting and direct-to-disc recording (all they had then) ALL THE TIME? Forget it! (cont)
(cont.) So what we are left with is an entire generation's worth of popular culture that is like a book by many authors with whole chapters worth of pages torn out at random, but which has so many remaining references to what's missing that we can practically reconstruct the lost content in it's entirety. However, that content remains not only elusive but, as far as anyone is concerned, the intellectual property of whoever pointed us towards it. Ergo: "Something old has been subtracted!"
You got me there! Victor Mature was one of a kind. He also had a self-effacing sense of humor missing from today's Hollywood stable. He said he was in so many Bible epics because he could "make with the holy look". When denied membership to a club because he was an actor, he said "I'm no actor, and I've got a scrapbook of reviews to prove it!"
Nobody understood cartoon physics and timing better than Robert Clampett. And nobody could animate more hilariously rubbery than Rob Scribner or more precise than Bob McKimson.
Then why does it start with the Merrie Melodies opening titles with the song Merrily We Roll Along? I don't think it was a Looney Tunes cartoon but rather a Merrie Melodies cartoon.
It was a Looney Tunes Cartoon. It's like one of the later Blue Ribbon Reissues where release a WB Looney Tune Cartoon as a Merrie Melodies. e.g: The Scarlet Pumpernickel
forever alone?
chulo41297 2 weeks ago
hahaha...4:14 - 4:20 "something new has been added"
1luiszepol 3 weeks ago
my fave cartoon when i was little . lolz.
willnickey 1 month ago
2:06 Space left in for the audience to applaud!
LandondeeL 1 month ago
Mel Blanc is the best actor at doing voices of the WB cartoon shorts. R.I.P Mel Blance.
1993joshualiu 2 months ago
<3 I love this cartoon. So many childhood memories
cynthx 2 months ago
Bob clampett is the master of the craziness cartoons.
woody1948able 2 months ago
Rosebud. The word favorite Orson Welles`s
woody1948able 2 months ago
Mel Banc is the best in impersonating Celebrities of his age.
woody1948able 2 months ago
My favortie cartoon.
1993joshualiu 3 months ago
normally, im not a huge fan of old-fashioned stuff, but i like these cartoons. they're just so funny!
SUPERSTAR3333333 3 months ago
Why did the dog use a female cat puppet?.
1993joshualiu 4 months ago
@1993joshualiu to get the cat
emily558ful 2 months ago
this is probably the most underrated Clampett cartoon I ever saw!
GhettoKarter1992 4 months ago
For a Cat he is one player Dog
thegleekster1 4 months ago
This looks like a Bob Clampett cartoon.
6891man 4 months ago
@6891man - Gee, I wonder why.....
narozzz 3 weeks ago
I love the goils and the goils love me! hahaha
babyfireflychola 6 months ago
@babyfireflychola Just like the Sheik of Arabi! xD
MrKuwaitwolf 2 weeks ago
face at 1:33 makes so much more sense now that I've grown up lol
Dmanbradley 7 months ago
This was the first "Looney Tunes" short made in Technicolor, a few other cartoons that are made in black & white until "Puss 'N Booty" in 1943. It was later reissued as a Blue Ribbon "Merrie Melodies" series in the late 40's or early 50's.
HomeoftheGoodGuys 8 months ago 2
One of my favourite Merrie Melodies cartoons
Lamporre 9 months ago
WHO WHO WHO MEOW WHO WHO WHO MEOW WHO WHO WHO MEOOOOOOWWWWWW!
MoltorTube 1 year ago
Well, something new has been added!
spiritgirl41192 1 year ago
Some of the backrounds are stunning in this cartoon. 5.25 is a good example. Anyone else think the dog is the best character? He should have been in more shorts.
tailsxcream 1 year ago
@tailsxcream he also apears in the heckling hare and the crackpot quail
andrewparrot21 1 year ago
Hahahah stupid!!! " well something new has been added!"
MrFucker47 1 year ago
"Ah, something new has been added!" was one of Jerry Colonna's "catch phrases" on Bob Hope's radio show in the '40s (another one was, "I don't ask questions, I just have FUN-N-N-N!!").
fromthesidelines 1 year ago
4:37 = LMAO.
tennisbabee08 1 year ago
This was the first color Looney Tune, but you wouldn't know it because this is the Blue Ribbon Classic reissue Merrie Melodie print.
steelbeard1 1 year ago
as ive said many times, they just dont make em like anymore
dagreedo98 1 year ago
Thank you. I have been telling people about this cartoon for years. I am still puzzling over the "something new". Posting a link for this at idsideout. Thanks again.
IdEyeOne 1 year ago
Hep Cat is Hep
IAMTHEDECIEVER 1 year ago
Amazing work of art. They don't make them like this anymore!!!
CaseofGlass 1 year ago
So funny!!! I wish it still came out on!!!!
"I love the girls and the girls love me"
"Well I can dream can't I?"
MrFucker47 1 year ago
im sure a gorgeous hunk of man!!
060777pepper 1 year ago
Love this cartoon! So brilliant! Amazing acting and action. Hilarious drawings. Clampett is a God.
Hoppercool 1 year ago
And if you're looking for a comparison to the original, track down an unaltered copy of this cartoon on VHS (or laserdisc, if you're lucky enough to own one of those relics) and compare it to this "restored" print.
pokemanmaster03 1 year ago
Dammit, this is the restored version! They completely sucked out all of the color subtleties from the original, to the point where there's barely any color at all outside of certain objects and the characters! If it weren't for those colors there, I'd swear it was almost a black & white cartoon! And for the first color Looney Tunes short, thats a crying shame!
pokemanmaster03 1 year ago
The first color Looney Tunes cartoon...Why did they not keep the original intro and ending ? A lot of people can understand that it's a Merrie Melodies cartoon !
alex9920iasi 1 year ago
Gotta love the classics.
MDthornton83 1 year ago
...cats with high heels?!
Onsube 1 year ago
Had two of my all time favorite gags.
MrERIKEBM 1 year ago
*honks nose*
hey somethin' new has been added!
hahahahahha!
saphireroze001 1 year ago
4:33, worlds biggest idiot of all cats!
goodstuffbunny 2 years ago
Wow this cartoon is fantastic. The background art is vibrant and simply amazing, the animation is great, and most importantly, its actually funny. 5 stars for old cartoons
kevmcallister 2 years ago 6
2:10-2:21 = Bob McKimson animation
DisneysNineOldMen 2 years ago
I'm certainly glad there are fewer "wolves" than there use to be. Women back then certainly had the odds against them. But times have changed thanks to them and I'm very glad for the opportunities they fought for! We are no longer victims!
grizabella626 2 years ago
Poor Willoughby.
DogoHalibar 2 years ago
LMAO it dont get any better than that. everyone sounds so seriouse, Just laugh and enjoy!!!
neonnoodle2001 2 years ago
Someone could transcribed the lyrics, I am french and I can't not understand everything.
Thank you and Have fun
bastiendestel 2 years ago
I wonder if people know what the hepcat movement is really about? The hint is the first 4 letters, hepC, right now people are spreading HepC please get the word out 5 million americans have it and the rest don't know they have it.
49MikeM 2 years ago
@49MikeM - Uuhhh....
I'm not saying that code has never been used, but I think you should know that this cartoon was made in 1942.
But the Beatles singing about Henry the Heroin Horse - now, THAT was COMPLETELY intentional.....
narozzz 1 year ago
LMAO & 3:17-3:34
stomp919 2 years ago
seabass: Different animators, maybe.
baxterfilms 2 years ago
This was the first color Looney Tunes cartoon because before that only the Merrie Melodies were in color up until this point,right?
kblixt 2 years ago
You can see the cat's reflection in the mirror from 1:12-1:19, but from 1:20-1:27 you can't. The animators messed up and/or got lazy.
seabass11 2 years ago
Computer animation was VERY VERY expensive in those days!!!
(relax, it's a joke!)
ralekriver 2 years ago
@seabass11 - Or maybe they just got completely wrapped up in making an amazingly crafted and entertaining cartoon. You know, 'cause animators are silly and all that...
narozzz 1 year ago
great voices by mel blanc
jdough789 2 years ago
rofl!
1:18..gorgeous hunk of man.....
Warner Bros Rock!
freakster05 2 years ago 4
i like the way the cat walks and his singing
deathproof357 2 years ago
I saw the "something new has been added" joke in Private Snafu cartoon as well. Did it originate there, or is it a reference to some saying or movie?
CockyDoody 2 years ago
It was a line from a radio advertisement - can't remember for what product.
luridplanet 2 years ago
Actually,it's one of the catch phrases of a famous comedian of the time,Jerry Colonna.He also used to say ''I can dream,can't I?'', like the cat said at the end of this cartoon.
bookbill 2 years ago
@luridplanet - If I were a media history prof I would definitely put aside a bit of my lecture time to address the fact that '40s Hollywood cartoons have taken almost complete ownership of the concurrent content of American radio. It's a fascinating case study because it has SO much to do with medium. No one in the entertainment biz was betting on decade after decade of shelf life, yet the means for ensuring this anyway in each medium were completely out of balance. Film was treated as a (cont.)
narozzz 1 year ago
(cont.)....semi-sacred thing purely out of the knowledge that it COULD, if handled properly, outlast the people who made it and potentially continue to make money in as-yet-unimagined ways. Radio, meanwhile, was similarly popular and profitable, but so vastly more difficult and inconvenient to archive that the effort was rarely made, at least not on the same level. I mean, just imagine it - simultaneous broadcasting and direct-to-disc recording (all they had then) ALL THE TIME? Forget it! (cont)
narozzz 1 year ago
(cont.) So what we are left with is an entire generation's worth of popular culture that is like a book by many authors with whole chapters worth of pages torn out at random, but which has so many remaining references to what's missing that we can practically reconstruct the lost content in it's entirety. However, that content remains not only elusive but, as far as anyone is concerned, the intellectual property of whoever pointed us towards it. Ergo: "Something old has been subtracted!"
narozzz 1 year ago
Man, what happened to all these classic Looney Tunes cartoons? It seems like the only ones they show any more are the really popular ones.
Lamporre 2 years ago
The Dog looks like Whiloby from "The Heckling Hare". ON LOONEY TUNES GOLDEN/SPOTLIGHT COLLECTION 2
SuperCartoon 2 years ago
It is Willoughby. He was renamed as Rosebud in this cartoon. This was his last appearance.
KrazyKartoonKid 2 years ago
@SuperCartoon it is its williouby the dog
8728bugsbunny 7 months ago
For some reason the dog in this cartoon reminds me of the dog in the Nintendo game Duck Hunt.
andymate2006 3 years ago
I meant. . they don't make stars like that anymore.
jsb1750 3 years ago
Great cartoon, especially when the cat's reflection turns into 20th Century Fox's leading man, Victor Mature. (Google him, kids.
They don't stars like that anymore.)
jsb1750 3 years ago
You got me there! Victor Mature was one of a kind. He also had a self-effacing sense of humor missing from today's Hollywood stable. He said he was in so many Bible epics because he could "make with the holy look". When denied membership to a club because he was an actor, he said "I'm no actor, and I've got a scrapbook of reviews to prove it!"
MrUnidyne 2 years ago
haha 1:42
HaxxorsProduction 3 years ago
hep breh brehs
burmppootbarpmeep 3 years ago
"well...something new has been added!!" I love that line and the look on his face! :D
BeigeFunk 3 years ago
please subscribe. :)
sobieski007 3 years ago
=DDD
sobieski007 3 years ago
Nobody understood cartoon physics and timing better than Robert Clampett. And nobody could animate more hilariously rubbery than Rob Scribner or more precise than Bob McKimson.
samacal 3 years ago 2
hoorayyy
cabbycab 3 years ago
This was the very first Looney Tune in Color! Amazing!
KrazyKartoonKid 3 years ago
Then why does it start with the Merrie Melodies opening titles with the song Merrily We Roll Along? I don't think it was a Looney Tunes cartoon but rather a Merrie Melodies cartoon.
Jac2Mac 3 years ago
It was a Looney Tunes Cartoon. It's like one of the later Blue Ribbon Reissues where release a WB Looney Tune Cartoon as a Merrie Melodies. e.g: The Scarlet Pumpernickel
KrazyKartoonKid 3 years ago
fabulous!
mattpedraza 3 years ago
The very first Looney Tune in color - missing its start and end sequences (it had Porky in the end, coming out of the now colored drum).
deyanmegara 3 years ago
Well, I can DRRREAM can't I??
TheShoeOfMattie 3 years ago 5
cartoons will never be this good again.
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siskavard 4 years ago 7
@siskavard - Well, they CAN be.....if a lot, and I mean A LOT of things change.....
narozzz 1 year ago
Hey, are you followin' me?!
Yeah, I'm followin' ya!
Oh.
ZippZapp 4 years ago 7
ah! something new has been added!
impressivebill 4 years ago 21
I know.
They really give you a chance to soak his face in.
Great stuff.
theogore 3 years ago
@impressivebill
I laughed hysterically at that line! Solid gold!
DJCandyManMike 1 year ago
beautiful! :)
zuijkis323 4 years ago 3
no problem :)
sobieski007 4 years ago