Bugs and Daffy - 7/17/01

[Jon Cooke]

"Bugged By a Bee"
"Double or Mutton"
"Porky's Hare Hunt" - computer colorized
"Boyhood Daze" - edited
"Daffy Duck Hunt"
"The Cat's Bah"


I noticed a short edit in "Boyhood Daze" that I hadn't noticed before. During the scene where Ralph imagines he is in jail, the part where he is briefly seen smoking a cigarette has been cut.


-Jon

[Thad Komorowski]

Most likely a WB edit. I KNOW CN wouldn't cut references to smoking. So "A Sheep in the Deep" was edited by the WB, as well as "Boyhood Daze".

-Thad:D

[Sveven Dvorking]

Bugged by a Bee
The ending was sort of a twist to the story, where the bee actually received credit for all his work. When I first saw this, I thought the cheater Cool Cat would end up with the credit. It's nice to see a 1967-69 cartoon with a reasonable ending.

Double or Mutton
The title is an obvious spoof of Double or Nothing . This used to be my favorite Wolf/Sheepdog cartoon, but now I like them all equally. Also interesting to note is that sheep don't get cooked into mutton even once during this cartoon! And it's not like a character was trying to double something.

Porky's Hare Hunt
I prefer originals, so I was happy to see this in B&W during a recent Bugs & Daffy show. As for the content, that rabbit (sometimes called a Bugs Bunny prototype), is way too hyper. That rabbit's behavior makes this cartoon look bad in any form.

Boyhood Daze
There is only one kind of edit that I actually like. That is the edit about smoking. While I am usually against political correctness, I find smoking so awful that it should not be shown in cartoons such as this and other ones. (Dixieland Droopy and Bugs' Bonnets to name two) The only reason I hated the edit in Wideo Wabbit was because I wanted to see the Groucho Marx impression.

Daffy Duck Hunt
This is an excellent cartoon! It started as Porky Pig and his dog tried to hunt down a wild duck. Daffy Duck fooling with the dog included some good scenes. I liked the idea of the Deep Freeze machine. The dog only obeyed Porky some of the time, so the angry Porky Pig was always around to straighten things out.

The Cat's Bah
I believe the real title is The Cats Bah . Pepe LePew is my least favorite WB character, but I like the barrel search. As with the Roadrunner cartoons, the titles of Pepe LePew cartoons rarely have anything to do with the cartoons themselves. I do have a favorite Pepe cartoon, the one with the heart island at the end.

[PorkyandDaffy]

What sense would it make that they would cut out one small smoking scene, yet leave in a more politically incorrect scene later in the short?