Acme Hour (1am) - 5/29/01

[Jon Cooke]

Theme: Western Cartoons

"Wagon Heels"
"Whoops! I'm a Cowboy" (Betty Boop) - B&W
"Deputy Droopy" (MGM)
"Texas Tom" (MGM)
"Shoein' Hosses" (Popeye) - B&W
"Hare Trigger"


"Shoein' Hosses" was an odd choice for a Popeye cartoon considering the theme of the evening. Better choices would have been "Me Feelins is Hurt" or "Popalong Popeye".


-Jon

[Thad Komorowski]

Interesting to see "Wagon Heels" got slipped into the batch....

-Thad:D

[Patrick McCart]

They showed a B&W Popeye during AH????

Wow...I need to get my satellite fixed.

[DR. BELCH]

"Wagon Heels"
Oh, by Chuck Jones' beard! This one had to have upset some people with its depiction of an Indian as a savage (which they were, as far as that goes; they were often cannibals and warlike towards fellow tribes, hardly the saints they're made out to be by anti-defamation groups). The little blue dude with the long beard ("I know something I won't tell, I won't tell, I won't tell!")appeared in the Tiny Toon Adventures short "Pluck Twacy". Look closely as Injun Joe walks past the trees and you'll see a couple of tiny Tweetys in their nests.

"Whoops! I'm a Cowboy" (Betty Boop) - B&W
Title similar to the Three Stooges short "Whoops, I'm an Indian" (1936). The star was actually this wussy little bald dude with a funny name that escapes me for the moment. Another Indian joke? Maybe someone slipped the censors a couple of bottles of hootch to lay off on the snipping.

"Deputy Droopy" (MGM)
Man, I howled with laughter all through this. This was one of several "goons have to run from the room to make noise" scripts Avery wrote and/or directed. Watch for the bit where one of the crooks takes the drill bit where the sun doesn't shine; also, after Droopy heats it with a blowtorch, note that the little guy doesn't seem to have enough brains to protect his hand like his buddy does. Pity the sherriff was deaf as a post.

"Texas Tom" (MGM)
Fav scene: Tom is wooing a female Persian by lip-synching a cowboy song, but Jerry diddles with the record, causing his "voice" to alternately speed up and go slow.

"Shoein' Hosses" (Popeye) - B&W
It's little wonder Bluto is out of work, if that's how he treats perspective employers (grabbing and shaking them). Watch for the bit where Popeye hammers horseshoes and an anvil into an anchor and chain--that's some skill with a hammer!

"Hare Trigger"
The third Indian joke of the evening, and the censor is presumably drunk on the cutting room floor by now. Fav bit: Sam, with a puddle of red ink on his head, thinks he's been shot and falls down in a death spasm. Couple of good lines: "Some of my poor relations. They're always lookin' fer a tetch." "Ah'm fair t' middlin' with a pencil mahself!" Listen for Bugs' imitation of a Negro pullman porter.

[Patrick McCart]

I think the censor was visited by Clarence, the angel.

He/She was shown how the world would be like if cartoons were censored too much.

"Out you censors go, out the door and through the window!"

[Bobby B]

Originally posted by DR. BELCH
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"Whoops! I'm a Cowboy" (Betty Boop) - B&W
Title similar to the Three Stooges short "Whoops, I'm an Indian" (1936). The star was actually this wussy little bald dude with a funny name that escapes me for the moment.


Wiffle Piffle. Voiced by Jack Mercer.