ABCs at the Movies: The Doubles Round!

[MaineWriter]

A Daffy Duck cartoon, which included the music "Powerhouse" from Raymond Scott.

http://www.raymondscott.com/powerhs.mp3

From Wikipedia:

Daffy Duck, working for The Acme Baby-Sitting Agency, is sent to a farm to sit for a hen who is literally "sitting" on an egg and wants to take a trip. Soon after the hen leaves, the egg hatches, producing a yellow chick whose shape, voice and attitude are similar to that of Henery Hawk.

The chick first calls Daffy "Daddy", then "cousin", "uncle", etc. When Daffy points out he is not a relative, the chick says he is not supposed to talk to strangers, and runs away with Daffy in hot pursuit of his charge. The chick first simply eludes Daffy, and then begins to torment the duck with one violent gag after another (anticipating Home Alone by decades).

At one point, Daffy (whose voice is identical to Sylvester's but electronically sped up) invokes a phrase more closely associated with the cat: "Sufferin' succotash!"

In the process, Daffy also incurs the wrath of the barnyard's bulldog, especially as many of the chick's gags lead to Daffy crashing into the dog's house, (re-)splintering it. The film's final joke has Daffy over the dog's knee as he applies a loud and painful spanking to the duck. Daffy calls his agency and tells them he will have to do his next "sitting" job standing up.

The whole cartoon is not available on YouTube but here are the last 12 seconds, which is notable (apparently) because of its odd closing credits.

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While doing research on this cartoon, I also came across the website for ACME - The Looney Tunes Corporate Conglomerate - ACME, which is definitely worth a look!

http://looneytic.com/index.html

[southendmd]

A Tex Avery cartoon.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbBhLpScOTs[/youtube]

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[MaineWriter]

Not much to say about this one, except it's a classic. Runtime: 1m30s.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwnd3PY46-g[/youtube]

[southendmd]

IMDb plot:  A bee returns home late after a night out having too much honey. His wife leaves him, but quickly ends up in the clutches of an evil ladybug. The whole hive turns out to fight the ladybug and get her back.

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http://www.thezitmovie.com/

[MaineWriter]

Last round we were animated...

This round, let's be colourful!

Here's another suggestion from Oilgun:

Movies with a COLOUR or COLOURS in the title.

All the usual rules apply! Have fun!

Leslie
GameMistress

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IMDb plot:  A bee returns home late after a night out having too much honey. His wife leaves him, but quickly ends up in the clutches of an evil ladybug. The whole hive turns out to fight the ladybug and get her back.

Evil ladybugs!?  Actually, I believe it.  A few years ago, we had an infestation of evil ladybugs in southern Ontario.  They weren't the classic cute red ones, they were a sickly orange colour with browninsh spots, probably mutants.  They were everywhere!  Millions of them.  They were agressive and it was rumoured they could bite.  They swarmed a neighbour's Golden Lab and within minutes only the skeleton was left.  OK, that part isn't true, but seeing so many ugly ladybugs was creepy nonetheless.  I saw two little girls with those little plastic bug collection boxes, running for their lives, their fun day of collecting ladybugs gone horribly wrong.  OK, that's a bit of an exageration but they were running and screaming because of clouds of bugs around them.  Just thinking about it is giving me the creeps!

[MaineWriter]

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