Whoa!

[PorkyandDaffy]

WESTWARD WHOA, that is! The rare cartoon is airing on the Acme Hour right now! It’s computer colorized, BTW.

:):) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)

[J Lee]

Apparently it's "Beans Night" on the Acme Hour. We may get to see "A Cartoonist Nightmare" and "Hollywood Capers" before it's over.

Can Buddy be too far behind?????

[PorkyandDaffy]

Doesn't look like it. Now they're airing THE HONEY MOUSERS. This came outta nowhere. But an uncut showing of WESTWARD WHOA is enough to make my night.

[J Lee]

Yep -- Half Beans and Half Kramden and Norton tonight -- "Cheese It, the Cat" is on now, and "Mice Follies" is bound to be next.

[Thad Komorowski]

It looks like last night's theme was "Cats".

-Thad:D

[Pietro]

"Westward Whoa" was on last night in it's computer colorized version?!
Sadly, I missed it last night. However, I still have a complete black & white Guild Films version. Oh well.

-Pietro

[DR. BELCH]

The first half was "Beans, Beans, Good For Your Heart"...and the second half was "The Honeymousers"...plus, to top things off, the first Chuck Jones short with Antony and Pussyfoot, "Cat Feud".
Of course I couldn't help but notice how much that alley cat looked like The Grinch. Some might complain that Antony was a little rough--as are most cartoon dogs with cartoon cats--but the male dog is a pretty territorial animal. Even to other dogs they can be pretty nasty--watch a couple of mutts go at it over a food dish sometime and you'll see my point. Also, it's interesting and refreshing to see dogs like Antony, or Spike of the H-B cartoons, in a fatherly role, as male dogs seldom stay around to tend to their whelps. Beating up a cat in defense of a child seems oddly noble, actually. High point: seeing the cat take a steel girder in the face.

Bob McKimson must have been a big fan of The Honeymooners to do three whole shorts around them. I don't imagine he was able to get Gleason and Carney to do the voices (though somehow Warners did get Jack Benny for "The Mouse that Jack Built"). Daws Butler is listed as Morton at IMDb, but who did Ralph? Note also that the cat, a marmalade in the first two shorts, becomes a black one in "Mice Follies", though the mismatched eyes are the same....

[Jon Cooke]

Originally posted by DR. BELCH
Bob McKimson must have been a big fan of The Honeymooners to do three whole shorts around them. I don't imagine he was able to get Gleason and Carney to do the voices (though somehow Warners did get Jack Benny for "The Mouse that Jack Built"). Daws Butler is listed as Morton at IMDb, but who did Ralph?


Daws Butler did both the Gleason and Carney impressions heard in all three "Honey-Mousers" cartoons. Butler also did them in "Half Fare Hare" and Butler's same Gleason impression can be heard as the voice of Rhode Island Red in "Raw! Raw! Rooster".


-Jon

[Sveven Dvorking]

I have a B&W version with an original closing title. I am glad I missed the colorized version.


Can Buddy be too far behind?????
About 48 years behind. Westward Whoa is a Porky Pig cartoon.

[Pietro]

Originally posted by Sveven Dvorking
About 48 years behind. Westward Whoa is a Porky Pig cartoon.

Actually, Porky wasn't the headline star in this cartoon.
Beans was. And Buddy came out right before Beans.
I hate to say I told ya so!

-Pietro

[Sveven Dvorking]

Originally posted by Pietro
Actually, Porky wasn't the headline star in this cartoon.
Beans was. And Buddy came out right before Beans.

Buddy came out right before Beans, yes I knew that, but there is a difference between the two. Porky Pig may not have been the main character, but he was definitely in there and played a part in the cartoon. That qualifies it as a Porky Pig cartoon.

[J Lee]

Welcome home Sveven. I see vacation hasn't changed your Felix Unger-like nature.

The two Beans cartoons I mentioned that I hoped would be on but weren't were the two LT with Beans that came out just after Warners ended the Buddy series.

Cartoons can be classified under two different characters if they're both in the same short. Porky was in all three cartoons Friday, (on the hobby horse in "Alpine Antics") but Beans was the focus of the cartoon. You wouldn't say Porky was the star of "The Great Piggy Bank Robbery" but he was also in that one. Likewise, "The High and the Flighty" can be considered a Daffy Duck cartoon, but most people would classify it as a Foghorn Leghorn cartoon, because the cartoon is a standard FL setting, with Daffy added to the mix.