10 cartoons tagged Merrie Melodies
16 Mar 1940 00:09:00
A narrator, in the solemn voice of a nature documentary, takes the audience on a tour of America's wild places, and every scene undercuts him. At Yosemite, a tourist ignores the signs and offers a bear a sandwich, and the bear tells him off.
27 Jul 1940 00:08:00
Elmer Fudd tiptoes into the woods with his shotgun, whispering to the audience to be very quiet because he is hunting rabbits. He finds a rabbit hole and pokes his gun into it. A grey rabbit's arm reaches out, feels the barrel, and bends it into a knot.
16 Jan 1943 00:07:00
By a fireplace, a mother tells her little girl the story of "So White an' de Sebben Dwarfs", and the whole cast is Black, speaking in rhyme. The Wicked Queen is a wartime hoarder, sitting on stockpiles of rationed rubber, sugar and coffee.
02 Mar 1935 00:07:00
The local schoolteacher, Miss Cud, introduces her pupils' musical recital. First up is a little pig, Porky, who stutters his way frantically through a dramatic recitation of "Paul Revere's Ride", until his classmates summon a pack of friendly stray dogs and he is chased off the stage.
25 Sep 1943 00:08:00
At "Corny-gie Hall", Elmer Fudd appears as the concert's host, unshaven, in glasses and an ill-fitting tailcoat that keeps betraying him, in a parody of Deems Taylor's introductions in Fantasia. The first piece is Johann Strauss's "Tales from the Vienna Woods".
10 May 1941 00:07:00
An animator's arm draws a farm scene, which colours itself in, and a narrator begins a tour of life on the farm in the solemn manner of an educational film. The animals refuse to cooperate with the tone.
13 Apr 1940 00:09:00
The Three Bears find their porridge too hot. Papa Bear burns his tongue sip after sip, and the family goes for a bicycle ride while it cools, Junior pedalling furiously while his parents put their feet up.
31 Jan 1942 00:07:00
Two stowaways share a lifeboat on a cruise liner: Sammy Seagull, a tough, Popeye-like gull, and Cecil Crow, a gangly crow from Oakville, Iowa, who has come along only because he wants to see a hula dancer.
27 Apr 1940 00:08:00
An old man listening to a radio broadcast of "The Courtship of Miles Standish" grumbles that it isn't what really happened, and tells his grandson the true story.
19 Sep 1942 00:09:00
Full title: The Dover Boys at Pimento University; or, The Rivals of Roquefort Hall. At Pimento University, "good old P.U.", the students sing the school anthem in barbershop style.
