(Comments on ) Looney Tunes DVD collection

[robcat2075]

We'll just put a band-aid on it...

[robcat2075]

Today, we've all seen them on the internet but I wonder who Chuck Jones saw in 1950 that was his model for someone who had overeaten themselves into immobility.

 

"Chow Hound" (1950)

[robcat2075]

"Much Ado About Nutting" (1952)

 

[Wildsided]

23 hours ago, robcat2075 said:

"Much Ado About Nutting" (1952)

 

I wonder if this originally came out in November...

[robcat2075]

57 minutes ago, Wildsided said:

I wonder if this originally came out in November...

Hmmm... Wiki lists it as May 23, 1953.

I must have misread the date on the opening title.

I have no idea how fast these things circulated after they were "released"

In all my reading I've only found one instance where the number of prints made for any movie of that era was mentioned (250 for a special WWII Donald Duck cartoon). But that's nothing compared to "wide releases" today.

It's possible there were many theaters that cartoon didn't get to... until November.

 

Edit: the copyright date is indeed 1952. I guess it sat on the shelf for a while.

[Wildsided]

Sorry, Robert. I was just making a rude joke about November and there being much ado about 'nutting'. At least according to the Internet.

(trust me,no need to look it up if you've never heard of it)

[robcat2075]

Here is a swift turn-around with a frame-by-frame slo-mo from "Mouse and Garden" (1959).

I have watched this endlessly, trying to figure out what was going on.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[robcat2075]

"Porky's Poor Fish"  (1940)

Someone didn't understand the core concept of a octopus.

[robcat2075]

"Hare Remover" (Frank Tashlin/Robert McKimson, 1946)

The only sense I can make of this odd gag where first the dog and then Elmer start eating grass is that it is a reference to the Biblical story of King Nebuchadnezzar going mad and "eating grass like an ox".

Those two years of Lutheran confirmation classes were not wasted.

 

[itsjustme]

18 hours ago, robcat2075 said:

"Hare Remover" (Frank Tashlin/Robert McKimson, 1946)

The only sense I can make of this odd gag where first the dog and then Elmer start eating grass is that it is a reference to the Biblical story of King Nebuchadnezzar going mad and "eating grass like an ox".

Those two years of Lutheran confirmation classes were not wasted.

 

All I've got is that dogs eat grass when they are sick to their stomach...I'm guessing it settles it down.