Comments on Johnny Smith & Poker-Huntas

[Brandon Pierce]

Plot: Johnny Smith enters an America where the Indians behave like 1930s average Americans. When he is arrested, the girl Poker Huntas rescues him, they escape on the ship and... oh, I won't tell you the ending... I'll let you guess...

Grade: C-

Comments & Observations:
1. Mel Blanc voices Egghead. What? Cliff Nazzaro wasn't available?!
2. In one scene the chief's arm dissapears for a frame. Forgot which scene. I think it's at the part where they first run into the settlers.
3. This is the fourth and final time Egghead's girlfriend appears in a cartoon. And, she never really did get a name.
4. The radio announcer sounds like the crow from "Slap Happy Pappy" who comments "I'll be back in a flash with more trash!" Anyone know the name of the person that's being spoofed? I have no clue.
5. Favorite Line:
"Yes, you'd better go save him, Sister! If you want this picture to have a happy ending!" --Radio Announcer

Technical Stuff: Made in 1938, directed by Tex Avery.

[Pietro]

Originally posted by Brandon Pierce
[Anyone know the name of the person that's being spoofed? I have no clue.

The announcer is spoofing Walter Wincell, who was on the radio with NBC Blue Network in the 1930s. We was best known for his great sense of urgency, reportedly due to his practice of drinking glassfuls of water shortly before each broadcast. Winchell opened his show with the phrase "Good evening, Mr. and Mrs. America and all the ships at sea." Wincell had a feud with bandleader Ben Bernie. This was used as a gag in many cartoons. Winchell makes references not only in WB cartoons but in a few Ub Iwerks cartoons. A Wincell reference can be found in a scene in the 1932 Flip the Frog cartoon, "Room Runners."

-Pietro:D

[PorkyandDaffy]

I liked this cartoon a lot. It has a lot of funny little gags, and the Indians are great. The ending is a standard Avery gag.