Acme Hour - 9/13/01

[Jon Cooke]

"The Bookworm Turns" (MGM)
"The First Bad Man" (MGM) - edited
"The Penguin Parade"
"Slap-Happy Lion" (MGM)
"Miss Glory"
"Pop Goes Your Heart"


Most of the cartoons last night were directed by Tex Avery, except for the first and last.


-Jon

[DR. BELCH]

"Bookworm" was directed by Hugh Harmon, and "Pop" was a Freleng. Avery also, I believe, was the voice of the walrus telling a dirty joke to a drunken penguin in "Penguin Parade".

"The First Bad Man" is one of Avery's funniest shorts. I don't know about Texas, but cliff dwellings like those do exist in parts of Arizona--I saw some of them on my trip there about 15 years ago. Presumably, though, they're long vacant....

[laugh4me]

Wasn't there some specualtion here awhile ago that "The Bookworm Turns" was probably actually done by Freleng, but he had just left MGM so Harmon was given the credit?
I believe the discussion centered on the points that Freleng had done a similar cartoon earlier at MGM ("The Bookworm") and the style and timing of it look much more like Freleng than Harmon.