Acme Hour - 7/20/01

[Jon Cooke]

"The Lyin' Mouse"
"Carmen Get It!" (MGM, Tom and Jerry)
"An Itch in Time" - edited
"Adventures of Popeye" (Popeye) - redrawn
"The Cat That Hated People" (MGM)
"When I Yoo Hoo"


-Jon

[hiphats]

It is great that ACME showed what is perhaps the greatest Tom & Jerry cartoon ever made of all the MGM shorts done..."Carmen Get It" is Tom & Jerry at their best!

Unusual though that it did not air as the final cartoon. Traditionally it airs on T & J as the final cartoon of the day.

What is final about "Carmen" is that it was the final Deitch/Snyder toon in that particular series.

Oh, well. No one (not even CN) is perfect.

By the way, bring Bosko and Buddy back from the dead, please.

[Sveven Dvorking]

Originally posted by hiphats
By the way, bring Bosko and Buddy back from the dead, please.

They aren't dead! If you want to see those cartoons, search on ebay by seller matinee-classics. They end during the day on Sunday, so you're running out of time!

[bushnader666]

Hmmm. No Chuck Jones cartoons today. Probably a compensation for the 3 cartoons they showed on yesterday's Acme Hour.

"The Lyin' Mouse" - An OK early MM. The mouse was annoying, tho.

"Carmen Get It!" - One of the only 2 Deitch/Snyder T&J's I can take. The ants as musical notes gag was the highlight of the cartoon! I wish I was in Dixie...

"An Itch in Time" - Ah, finally they show a Clampett. Great, fast cartonn with typically stupendous Scribner and McKimson animation. Too bad the ending gag was edited. I hate Blue Ribbons!

"Adventures of Popeye" - A cheater cartoon that had some live action. The Korean Re-draws really messed up this toon. I can't imagine the working condition the peasents...er animators/tracers went through. No wonder there's so many against "Globalization." At least they Ted wasn't stupid enougth to force a redraw of the live-action part. (Or even computer-colorize it like with the @#%! "Beautifully Restored" Shirley Temple movies. Barf.)

"The Cat that Hated People" - good Tex Avery cartoon, although it seems that this cartoon owes it's existance to "Porky in Wackyland."

"When I Yoo-Hoo" - Another old Blue Ribbon MM. Norman Spencer really overused the xylophone on most of his scores. Other than that, this was an OK cartoon. But Hicks might call it un-PC because it sterotypes them.

[Sveven Dvorking]

Originally posted by bushnader666

"An Itch in Time" - Ah, finally they show a Clampett. Great, fast cartonn with typically stupendous Scribner and McKimson animation. Too bad the ending gag was edited. I hate Blue Ribbons!


The ending gag editing of that cartoon has nothing to do with Blue Ribbons. I know that because the Blue Ribbon print aired UNCUT on the Bob Clampett Show.

[Crazy Tom]

Originally posted by bushnader666
"Carmen Get It!" - One of the only 2 Deitch/Snyder T&J's I can take. The ants as musical notes gag was the highlight of the cartoon! I wish I was in Dixie...

How about the dancing conductor jazzing up the Carmen overture? That was when Jerry went down the back of the conductor causing him to stagger his movements...just like Mickey did in 1935's The Band Concert, although it was an ice cream cone that did the chilly trick.

That's clearly my favorite, but Tom conducting with the ants as notes moving...gotta love it!

[J Lee]

The idea of putting Tom and Jerry at the brand-new Metropolitan Opera House must have inspired former New Yorker Deitch (Lincoln Center, used in the background at the start of the cartoon, was all of five weeks old when "Carmen Get It" reached the theaters), since this is by far his best cartoon with the characters. The fact that his Prague musicial director, Steven Konichek, had to pretty much stick to as close to an orchestral score for "Carmen" as MGM's cheap budgets would allow, also helped.