Hollywood Capers (1935)

Beans again! At this point, any personality he once had has been thrown out the window and trampled on and thoroughly digested. What's left is a furry Buddy.

Wow..that sentence scared me. Actually what's interesting about this one is the fact the supporting cast seems more alive than they used to be.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Jack
• King
• Looney
• Tunes
• Beans
• the
• Cat
• Hollywood
• Capers
• 1935

[ndurring]

Origially Beans was a partner for Pokry Pig, "Porky and Beans" but, Porky was more popular so Beans was eventually dropped.

[Crayshen]

@ndurring

Actually it gets better. 'I Haven't Got A Hat' was a scattershot attempt to find a character. They were literally told to make an animated 'Our Gang' and use whatever stuck. Because Beans was the mischievous one, they'd thought he would be the breakout star...it just so happens Porky's bit in that completely stole the show...

Well that and "CORNFLAKES!" But that's a different cartoon altogether.

[ENACODNOM]

You're too harsh on Beans! This second cartoon is not worse than its predecessor and both are sure a slight improvement over Buddy!

[Crayshen]

It just pains me that the whole Tom Sawyer/Adventurous kid vibe we got in the earlier two shorts was thrown out.

I get it though, they were looking for a 'versatile star' so they could promote a mascot etc etc. (It took a while for them to find Porky a groove too.)

Still with that reasoning, it's kind of ironic the modern shorts came to revolve around the personalities of the characters rather than the gags. (Or at the least a marriage of both)

[ClawMachine44]

I like the Charlie Chaplin part.

[MelosAntropon]

Notwithstanding some of the brilliant ideas in this (especially as regards the Frankenstein monster), it is astonishing to realize that the "cheap" looking animation here was only three years before masterpieces like "Have You Got Any Castles" - talk about exponential growth in their field by the Warner Brothers animators! View the two cartoons back-to-back and you'd think they came from different centuries!

[TiCar85]

What thrill.

[BazookaBuhnull]

Wuss shmuss. If Beans is indeed a scaredy cat, then he woudn't try to stop that robot which he did successfully.

[meyerj75]

Beans is a wuss. Warner Brothers fired this cat. They FIRED him! FIRED! FIRED! FIRED! Porky Piggy should've dropped in to kick his butt. Hahaha!

[MWolfL]

@ENACODNOM

Speaking of 'too harsh on Beans' that studio guard had better buy Beans a new car.

[drewcomix]

There's a family resemblance between the camera man and Freddy the Freshman from an earlier Looney Tune.