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I Love to Singa (Short 1936)
( 1936 )
A spoof of Al Jolson's "The Jazz Singer", a strict piano teaching owl is cursed with a son who "loves to singa", but only jazz.
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I'd Love to Take Orders from You (Short 1936)
( 1936 )
Quitting time for a scarecrow. He gets home, and his little boy scares him. To the title song, he teaches his son the basics of scare-crowing. Bedtime for junior; he prays to be a big scarecrow, just like his daddy. The next morning he sneaks out before anyone else is up and practices scaring a rooster, a squirrel, and a rabbit. He takes up his father's place, but the...Read all
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Milk and Money (Short 1936)
( 1936 )
Porky's father is going to lose his farm. Porky goes to town with his horse and works a milk route, with a warning that if he breaks a bottle he's fired. As he's delivering, cats follow along behind draining the bottles. Meanwhile, Hank Horsefly follows them into town. He stings Dobbin, who crashes and breaks many bottles. They happen upon a horse race and accidentall...Read all
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Page Miss Glory (Short 1936)
( 1936 )
A bellhop in the No 1. hotel of a smalltown awaiting the arrival of Miss Glory dreams he has to page Miss Glory at a first class hotel in New York, and this turns out to be a nightmare. Finally he is awakened by the manager, because Miss Glory's car has arrived, but instead of a beautiful lady, a child star a la Shirley Temple steps out ...
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Plane Dippy (Short 1936)
( 1936 )
Porky Pig joins the Army Air Corps. After overcoming the problems caused by his small stature and surviving the rigors of basic training, Porky gets his first assignment, as a janitor for the experimental "robot plane." When a boy standing in front of the command microphone for the robot plane starts to show off the tricks his dog can do, Porky's wild ride begins...
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Porky the Rain-Maker (Short 1936)
( 1936 )
Porky is sent to buy feed for the starving animals on his drought-ridden farm. He is conned into buying "Weather Pills" and when the animals swallow them it wreaks havoc.
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Ain't We Got Fun (Short 1937)
( 1937 )
The cat's asleep, so the mice are on the loose, for a while at least, in the pantry. When he wakes up, they pile the food on him and get him thrown out, and then they *really* have the run of the house.
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Egghead Rides Again (Short 1937)
( 1937 )
City dweller Egghead dreams of being a cowboy, but his bouncing around gets him kicked out of his boarding house. He sees an ad for a ranch looking for a cowboy and applies. His tryout includes tests of marksmanship and use of a branding iron, but most of it consist of chasing down and roping a troublesome little calf. He passes the test, but the job isn't exactly wha...Read all
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I Only Have Eyes for You (Short 1937)
( 1937 )
The iceman is in love with a pretty girl, and an old spinster is pining and cooking for him. But his dreamgirl prefers crooners like Bing Crosby, Rudy Vallee, or Eddie Cantor. After leaving her, he spots the sign of an imitator, and thinks he could ask him to do the crooning for him while he is trying to date his girl. The imitator accepts, and at first the trick is w...Read all
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I Wanna Be a Sailor (Short 1937)
( 1937 )
A young parrot, against his mother's wishes, wants to become a mariner like his no-account father, runs away from home, and heads for the ocean with a young duck who wants to join him.
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Little Red Walking Hood (Short 1937)
( 1937 )
A retelling of Little Red Riding Hood with Egghead, Wolf, Red, and Granny. Granny won't let the Wolf in her house, but she lets Egghead walk right in the front door. The Wolf seeing this breaks the door down so he can get inside.
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Porky the Wrestler (Short 1937)
( 1937 )
Porky, along with everyone else, is hitchhiking to the big wrestling match. He gets a ride from the challenger, but at the arena, Porky is mistaken for the challenger and gets thrown into the ring. The champ is making mincemeat of Porky when Porky crawls out and has the champ tying himself in knots, then swallowing a spectator's pipe and doing a steam locomotive impre...Read all
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Porky's Garden (Short 1937)
( 1937 )
A small town agricultural fair is giving a prize for the largest home grown product. Porky sets to work planting a garden; his neighbor tries a feed mix for his chickens. But the chickens won't eat the feed, so he sets them loose in Porky's garden (one eats some spinach and does a Popeye impression). Porky rescues a pumpkin that they missed and takes it to the fair. T...Read all
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A Sunbonnet Blue (Short 1937)
( 1937 )
Two mice in love are joking and playing at a fashionable hat shop. But a rat tries to play the old fashiomed villain who kidnaps the girl. So all the other mice there are helping her lover to find her. Hiding under all the hats they finally get her back...
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Uncle Tom's Bungalow (Short 1937)
( 1937 )
In this parody of Uncle Tom's Cabin, Little Eva and Topsy try to rescue old Uncle Tom from the clutches of the evil slave-dealer Simon Simon [sic] Legree.
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Cinderella Meets Fella (Short 1938)
( 1938 )
A partial updating of the Cinderella story. When the fairy godmother is late, Cinderella calls the police, who put out an APB and find her in a bar. Her first attempt at turning the pumpkin (canned) and mice into a coach produces Santa. Cinderella gets to the ball (in a stagecoach) and meets Prince Charming Egghead. They dance, and spend some quality time on the balco...Read all
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Daffy Duck & Egghead (Short 1938)
( 1938 )
Egghead goes hunting Daffy Duck but is beaten to capturing him by the ambulance drivers taking back to the asylum. Daffy sings the "Merrie Melodies" theme song, "The Merry-Go Round Broke Down."
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Daffy Duck in Hollywood (Short 1938)
( 1938 )
Daffy Duck wreaks havoc on a movie set at Wonder Pictures ("if it's good, it's a Wonder"). Daffy's creative editing impresses producer I. M. Stupendous.
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The Isle of Pingo Pongo (Short 1938)
( 1938 )
A travelogue spotlights the tropical island of Pingo Pongo, showing the unusual flora and fauna and the lives of the happy natives.
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Johnny Smith and Poker-Huntas (Short 1938)
( 1938 )
Johnny Smith enters an America where the Indians behave like 1930s average Americans. When he is arrested, the girl Poker Huntas rescues and elopes with him.
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The Mice Will Play (Short 1938)
( 1938 )
The mice are on the loose after hours in a doctor's office, playing with the various pieces of medical apparatus. Susie Mouse is caged for research until her lover Johnnie frees her. A mouse orchestra plays a swinging wedding song. But throughout, a cat is stalking...
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The Penguin Parade (Short 1938)
( 1938 )
An evening at a night club for penguins, (and a walrus or two). The stage show includes an appearance by a penguin incarnation of Bing Crosby, who sings a jazzy version of, "When my dreamboat comes home". The band's three singers do a scat version as well. This is followed by a full swing band instrumental of the song which works the band into a "Hot Jazz" frenzy, lit...Read all
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The Sneezing Weasel (Short 1938)
( 1938 )
Mama hen takes her chicks out to breakfast, but little Wilbur can't get any worms. Finally, a big worm escapes, and he runs after it; meanwhile, the rest of the family has gone inside to escape a thunderstorm. Mama realizes Wilbur's missing and goes after him, just before the weasel (hidden behind a tree) gets him. He's caught a cold and is put straight to bed. Mama r...Read all
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Believe It or Else (Short 1939)
( 1939 )
In this spoof of the newsreel series, we meet a man who drinks large amounts of milk, a snake charmer, a man building a ship in a bottle, the world's loudest hog caller, a man who hasn't left his room for years, a human basketball, an optical illusion, a new giant telescope showing life on Mars and none on the moon, a wishing well in Egypt, the world's fastest woodcut...Read all
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Dangerous Dan McFoo (Short 1939)
( 1939 )
An arctic saloon. The tiny dog, Dan McFoo, is playing a pinball-like marble game in the back. His girlfriend, Sue, sounding like Katharine Hepburn, stands by. A stranger comes in with eyes for Sue; he begins a boxing match with Dan. After Dan gets knocked down, he accuses the stranger of having something in the glove; the ref finds four horseshoes and a horse. After t...Read all
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A Day at the Zoo (Short 1939)
( 1939 )
A tour of the zoo, in typical Tex Avery style: a series of one-liners and sight gags, punctuated by Elmer Fudd teasing a lion at intervals, despite the admonishments of the narrator.
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Detouring America (Short 1939)
( 1939 )
This travelogue across America is filled with sight gags such as the 'Old Reliable' geyser spitting into a spittoon, cliff-dwelling Indians who walk horizontally up and down the faces of cliffs to get to their homes, and a Texas cow puncher who really punches cows. Also featured is Mr. Butter Fingers, a 'human fly' who climbs the outside of the Empire State Building.
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Fresh Fish (Short 1939)
( 1939 )
A tour of the waters near a South Sea island, introducing us to the various kinds of marine life, including the pickled herring, the hermit crab, the starfish, a seahorse race, and many other puns. Among the running gags, a two-headed fish who keeps asking for directions to Mr. Ripley and a professor in a diving sphere looking for a rare wim-wam whistling shark.
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Land of the Midnight Fun (Short 1939)
( 1939 )
A cruise to Nome, Alaska, starts with some cruise-ship jokes: the ship pulls out of the harbor like a car, raising anchor also raises the front of the boat, the ship follows the coast by curving around it. On arrival, we see some local scenes: A penguin eats two fish, then is eaten by the third; the dogs of a dog sled stop (behind an iceberg) at a telephone pole; a ti...Read all
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Screwball Football (Short 1939)
( 1939 )
A series of gags hung on a football game. The running gag is a baby licking an ice-cream cone; the portly man sitting next to him keeps stealing licks. We see the warmups (a kicker punts sitting in a chair; three other kickers break into a chorus line). The coin flip: the players pile on. The kickoff: the ball stays put and the man holding it is kicked. A re-kick: one...Read all
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Thugs with Dirty Mugs (Short 1939)
( 1939 )
Killer and his gang are robbing every bank in town in numerical order, except they skip the 13th National Bank. The police are unable to catch them, despite their predictability (and their endless sight gags). Finally, they get help from an unlikely source: the guy in the front of the theatre who sat through the picture before. They capture Killer, and he gets a long ...Read all
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The Bear's Tale (Short 1940)
( 1940 )
The bears go out for a bicycle ride while their porridge cools. Goldilocks comes along, but stops at grandmother's house instead, where the wolf is waiting. He sends her away, then realized she'd do just fine, so he rushes over to the bears' house. Red gets to Granny's house, finds a note from the wolf, and calls Goldie.
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Ceiling Hero (Short 1940)
( 1940 )
A series of blackout gags parodying aviation and aviation films. Gags include a parchutist whose parachute reads "Good to the last drop", jokes about LA's expanding city limits, and a satire of test pilot and their bravery.
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Circus Today (Short 1940)
( 1940 )
A barker guides us through a sideshow, a menagerie, and on to the big top, for a series of typical Avery gags. For example, the trapeze artists, the Flying Cadenzas, literally fly; the lion puts his head in the tamer's mouth; and the human cannonball flies around the world.
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Cross Country Detours (Short 1940)
( 1940 )
A wacky travelogue takes us to the forests of Yosemite, the rocks of Brice Canyon, the frozen wastes of Alaska, the desert wastes of New Mexico, the Grand Canyon, the Colorado River and the giant redwoods of California.
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The Early Worm Gets the Bird (Short 1940)
( 1940 )
Mammy blackbird puts her three little ones to bed, but one of them stays up reading "The Early Bird Catches the Worm." Mammy throws the book out the window and warns the little ones about the fox, which will surely get them if they try to be an early bird. The reader pays no heed, and gets up at 5 AM. Alas, the worm has seen the book, so is alerted and evades the bird...Read all
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A Gander at Mother Goose (Short 1940)
( 1940 )
A collection of short gags based on classic nursery rhymes and fairy tales. Mary, Mary Quite Contrary, in her best Katharine Hepburn, tells us how her garden is really doing. Humpty Dumpty doesn't completely crack up. Jack and Jill go up the hill and have too much fun to come down. Little Miss Muffet frightens the spider off. The Three Little Pigs give the Big Bad Wol...Read all
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Holiday Highlights (Short 1940)
( 1940 )
A look through the highlights of the year from Arbor Day to Thanksgiving, Easter to Christmas, all major events of the year are covered.
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Of Fox and Hounds (Short 1940)
( 1940 )
Willoughby, a big dumb hound, is repeatedly tricked by George, the fox, into jumping off cliffs, among other things.
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A Wild Hare (Short 1940)
( 1940 )
While hunting rabbits, Elmer Fudd comes across Bugs Bunny, who tricks and harasses the hunter.
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Porky's Preview (Short 1941)
( 1941 )
The audience enters Porky's movie theater, with a collection of quick gags: A firefly acting as usher, a kangaroo taking tickets and putting the stubs in her pouch, a chicken buying child tickets for her eggs. A skunk tries to buy a ticket, costing a nickel, but he only has one scent. He looks for a way to sneak in. Meanwhile, Porky introduces the show: a collection o...Read all
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Aloha Hooey (Short 1942)
( 1942 )
Sammy Seagull and Cecil Crow have stowed away on the same ship. Cecil, from Iowa, wants to see a hula dancer; fortunately, they've just come within flying distance of a tropical island with a lovely dancer. They take turns trying to impress her, with such stunts as skywriting hearts (Cecil almost drowns) and fancy dives (Cecil almost crashes, then gets into a fight wi...Read all
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Blitz Wolf (Short 1942)
( 1942 )
Yet another variation on the Three Little Pigs theme, this time told as WW2 anti-German propaganda (the US had just entered the war), with the wolf as a thinly-disguised Hitler.
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Crazy Cruise (Short 1942)
( 1942 )
A travelogue, stopping in a southern tobacco plantation, the Swiss Alps, Egypt, Central Europe, Africa, and others, long enough for one joke per location. Bugs Bunny makes only a cameo appearance at the end.
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The Early Bird Dood It! (Short 1942)
( 1942 )
The early worm barely escapes the bird, again. In search of a way to get rid of the bird, he enlists the help of a cat, but the bird is too smart for the cat.
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Dumb-Hounded (Short 1943)
( 1943 )
The Wolf escapes from prison but is hounded by the police dog named Droopy. Wherever The Wolf goes, the little fellow is there, too.
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Red Hot Riding Hood (Short 1943)
( 1943 )
The characters of the traditional fairy tale demand a new approach to the story as a sexy urban comedy with Red as a nightclub singer.
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Who Killed Who? (Short 1943)
( 1943 )
A man is murdered in an isolated mansion, and the detective tries to find out whodunit. But the house he's investigating is decidedly haunted, and he never knows just what's 'round the next corner.
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Big Heel-Watha (Short 1944)
( 1944 )
To prove he's a true Indian brave, Big Heel-Watha decides to catch a squirrel - but wouldn't you know it; Screwy Squirrel is the first one he sees.
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Swing Shift Cinderella (Short 1945)
( 1945 )
Bored with chasing Red Riding Hood, the Wolf decides to go after Cinderella, but her fairy godmother takes a shine to him instead - and has an arsenal of magical powers to help achieve her ends.
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Henpecked Hoboes (Short 1946)
( 1946 )
George and Junior are two hungry bears wandering along a railroad who try to make a meal out of a not too bright barnyard chicken, making a rooster very jealous in the process.
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The Hick Chick (Short 1946)
( 1946 )
In this triangle drama a country chicken chooses between a country rooster and a city rooster.
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Lonesome Lenny (Short 1946)
( 1946 )
Screwy Squirrel is bought in a pet shop to be the companion of a daft dog so strong that he squeezes his playmates to death.
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Hound Hunters (Short 1947)
( 1947 )
George and Junior get a job as dog catchers, but are increasingly frustrated in their attempts to catch one measly little dog.
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King-Size Canary (Short 1947)
( 1947 )
A mangy cat on the verge of starvation finds a tiny canary and a bottle of 'Jumbo-Gro' fertilizer, which gives him an idea that leads to giant cats, dogs, mice and canaries chasing each other round Lilliputian towns and cities...
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Red Hot Rangers (Short 1947)
( 1947 )
Forest rangers George and Junior try to snuff out a frisky flame with a sparky personality that threatens to set the forest alight...
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Slap Happy Lion (Short 1947)
( 1947 )
The king of the jungle, after a well-spent day terrorising the rest of the animals, is petrified by a mouse...
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Uncle Tom's Cabaña (Short 1947)
( 1947 )
Uncle Tom tells the blood curdling story of how the evil Simon Legree tried to foreclose on Tom's simple log cabin.
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The Cat That Hated People (Short 1948)
( 1948 )
A black cat explains reason after reason why he cannot stand people, and opts to relocate to the moon. When he does, he finds characters there that make him realize people aren't so bad anyway.
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Little 'Tinker (Short 1948)
( 1948 )
B.O. Skunk tries desperately to win the love of a girl, any girl, and goes to such lengths as imitating Frank Sinatra.
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Lucky Ducky (Short 1948)
( 1948 )
It's hunting season, and all the ducks are wisely staying undercover - apart from this freshly-hatched little duckling, who turns out to be more than a match for two inept would-be hunters...
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What Price Fleadom (Short 1948)
( 1948 )
A dog lives in harmony with Homer the flea. But Homer spots a lady flea on a passing dog, and soon he's being attacked by that dog. And he just can't leave the lady flea alone. Meanwhile, his original host finds a goodbye note from Homer and goes looking.
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Bad Luck Blackie (Short 1949)
( 1949 )
A cute and very tormented kitten is bullied by an incomparably evil bulldog, who lives to know better after a black cat crosses his path.
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The Counterfeit Cat (Short 1949)
( 1949 )
A cat steals the headpiece of a dog to deceive the bulldog Spike and get a chance to eat the canary Spike is guarding.
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Doggone Tired (Short 1949)
( 1949 )
An energetic dog needs a night's rest if he's going to be ready for rabbit hunting at dawn. A crafty rabbit does everything he can to keep him awake.
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Little Rural Riding Hood (Short 1949)
( 1949 )
The last of Tex Avery's variations on Red Hot Riding Hood (1943), in which the country wolf visits his city cousin, who tries to teach him the rudiments of civilised behaviour when watching girls in nightclubs - without, it has to be said, a great deal of success.
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Out-Foxed (Short 1949)
( 1949 )
Droopy is an unlikely fox-hound, but the highly civilised (and resourceful) English upper-class fox makes even more unlikely prey...
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Wags to Riches (Short 1949)
( 1949 )
A millionaire with two dogs (Spike and Droopy) leaves his fortune to Droopy with the stipulation that should he be killed the entire fortune will revert to Spike. Guess what Spike is up to?
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The Chump Champ (Short 1950)
( 1950 )
Droopy and Spike compete in a series of athletics contests, and no prizes for guessing who starts cheating...
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The Cuckoo Clock (Short 1950)
( 1950 )
A cat is driven up the wall by the inhabitant of the cuckoo clock, so he spends the film trying to catch him.
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Garden Gopher (Short 1950)
( 1950 )
When Spike tries to bury a bone, he finds a belligerent gopher, setting off an escalating battle.
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The Peachy Cobbler (Short 1950)
( 1950 )
A poor, sick cobbler, given the last crust of bread in the house by his wife, feeds it instead to some birds that are really shoemaker elves. They show their gratitude by finishing all his work while he and his wife are asleep. This provides Tex Avery a chance to show off lots of shoe gags.
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Ventriloquist Cat (Short 1950)
( 1950 )
A cat learns the art of ventriloquism in order to play a series of practical jokes on a slow-witted bulldog...
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Car of Tomorrow (Short 1951)
( 1951 )
A series of demonstrations of the kind of motoring accessories we'll all take for granted in the future...
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Cock-a-Doodle Dog (Short 1951)
( 1951 )
Collection of classic Tex Avery visual gags, set up as a battle between a sleep-deprived bulldog who just wants some shut-eye, and a rooster driven by his natural instincts to crow all night long.
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Daredevil Droopy (Short 1951)
( 1951 )
Similar in tone to The Chump Champ (1950), but this time Droopy and Spike are in competition for a circus acrobat's job.
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Droopy's Double Trouble (Short 1951)
( 1951 )
Droopy and his identical twin brother Drippy are assigned to look after a house, and are told to deal violently with strangers. But Droopy takes pity on his friend Spike, and agrees to put him up for a few days - but he forgets to warn Drippy...
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Symphony in Slang (Short 1951)
( 1951 )
At the gates of Heaven, the admitting officials have a hard time understanding a newcomer's life story with all his contemporary slang.
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Caballero Droopy (Short 1952)
( 1952 )
Droopy is on his way to woo his lovely senorita when he is waylayed by a wolf intent on winning the fair lass. But the wolf wasn't counting on Droopy's uncanny ability to be in the right place at the right time...
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Magical Maestro (Short 1952)
( 1952 )
A magician seeks revenge against an opera singer for refusing to let him perform his magic act. He then devises what he thinks is a clever plan to enact his revenge with some hilarious results.
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One Cab's Family (Short 1952)
( 1952 )
A happily married pair of taxicabs are delighted when Junior enters their lives, but this delight turns to consternation when he states his ambition to become a hotrodder...
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Rock-a-Bye Bear (Short 1952)
( 1952 )
Spike gets a job running the house for a hibernating bear. Only problem is that same bear is VERY noise-sensitive, and Spike's got a rival that wants his job.
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Little Johnny Jet (Short 1953)
( 1953 )
John and Mary are a married couple of airplanes. John currently is out of work because jet planes now are favored over his prop design. When Junior comes along, they are in for a surprise.
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T.V. of Tomorrow (Short 1953)
( 1953 )
A variety of fanciful innovations in "future" T.V. sets, including a model with a built-in stove, and a number of highly interactive models. And of course, even with dozens of channels, there's nothing on...or more accurately, there's nothing but the same Western.
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The Three Little Pups (Short 1953)
( 1953 )
A variation on the age-old 'Three Little Pigs' theme, with Droopy and pals being the target of one of the most laid-back wolves you'll ever see.
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Billy Boy (Short 1954)
( 1954 )
A farmer is initially delighted to get a baby goat, but this soon turns to apprehension when he discovers that it eats literally anything (including, at one point, the animation artwork).
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Dixieland Droopy (Short 1954)
( 1954 )
Don't be fooled by the title - Droopy looks like Droopy, but he's actually jazzman John Pettibone, with his performing flea combo, and the film shows how it came into being.
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Drag-A-Long Droopy (Short 1954)
( 1954 )
Droopy is a shepherd. His sheep graze into cattle country, despite the warning sign. He gets in an argument with the cattle owner, but of course, nobody wins a battle against Droopy.
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augusts1 : It sort of sounds like Cloverdale 2, which I loved. This is on my list now.