Acme Hour - 7/23/01

[Jon Cooke]

"Crowing Pains"
"Filet Meow" (MGM, Tom and Jerry)
"The Good Egg"
"Cartoons Ain't Human" (Popeye) - redrawn
"The Prospecting Bear" (MGM, Barney Bear)
"Lost and Foundling"


-Jon

[Sveven Dvorking]

It seems like we have only been getting WB one-shots, and not MGM one-shots.

Lost and Foundling aired on the Chuck Jones Show a while back, without a Cartoon Network logo.

[DR. BELCH]

Eggs seems to be a recurring theme, appearing in half the shorts. Four, if you count Tom's trashcan disguise in "Filet Meow" as being sort of egglike. Yes, it's a stretch, but he uses it in the same way Henery used his egg suit.

"Crowing Pains" marks the only short where Sylvester and Foghorn appeared together. Daffy would share this honor in a later short. Note that Blanc seems to still be working on Foggy's stentorial delivery in these early shorts, and Sylvester tends to spit more as he talks, even on non-sibilants.

You'd think Tom would get suspicious that much water was coming out of a fishbowl and stop sucking after a while in "Filet Meow". He's either persistent or stupid.

"The Good Egg" is a variant on "The Ugly Duckling" with a baby turtle who earns his nestmates' respect by saving them from drowning, and "Prospecting Bear" is another fair-to-midline Barney effort.

"Cartoons Ain't Human" is a little overplayed, but it is funny to watch Popeye work on overdrive to score his little cartoon. A little bit of meta-humor in the crude animation used i nhte cartoon-within-a-cartoon. The part where Olive and the nephews run all about hte room to watch the moving image is a highlight. And I liked the bit with the nudie poster.

The plot of "Lost and Foundling" was later adapted in the TTA short "Rock and Roar", with Buster and a baby dinosaur.