Flop Goes the Weasel (film)

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Flop Goes the Weasel
Flop Goes the Weasel Blue Ribbon titles.jpeg
1949 reissue title card
Directed by Charles M. Jones
Story by Michael Maltese [1]
Produced by Leon Schlesinger
Starring Mel Blanc
Ruby Dandridge (both uncredited) [2]
Music byMusical direction:
Carl W. Stalling
Orchestration:
Milt Franklyn (uncredited)
Animation by Rudy Larriva [1]
Uncredited animation:
Ben Washam
Lloyd Vaughan
Robert Cannon
Ken Harris [3]
Effects animation:
A.C. Gamer (uncredited)
Layouts byJohn McGrew (uncredited)
Background design:
Bernyce Polifka (uncredited)
Backgrounds byGene Fleury (uncredited)
Color process Technicolor
Production
company
Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures
The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date
  • March 20, 1943 (1943-03-20)
May 21, 1949 (Blue Ribbon reissue)
Running time
7 minutes 38 seconds (Blue Ribbon reissue)
LanguageEnglish

Flop Goes the Weasel is a 1943 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Chuck Jones. [4] The short was released on March 20, 1943. [5] It's re-released as Blue Ribbon in May 21, 1949.

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Plot

A mother hen is off trying to catch a worm for her soon-to-be baby. While she is out, a weasel steals the egg, intending to eat it for breakfast. Unfortunately, the egg hatches, and the chick mistakes the weasel for its mother. The weasel wants to eat the chick, but the chick outsmarts him every time. For the last three minutes of the film, the weasel is constantly sneezing because the chick has put pepper up his nose. He returned to his biological mother, who found out that he had beaten up the weasel.

Reception

On July 30, 1949, Boxoffice reviewed the short: "Very Good. The so-called Wiley Weasel is flabbergasted when an egg he has stolen from a barnyard hen for his meal, hatches out a small chick. The chick mistakes the weasel for its mother and the rodent is forced to play the game. He tries, without success, to lure the chick into the roasting pan." [6]

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References

  1. 1 2 Beck, Jerry (2021-06-14). "Lost Warner Bros. Original Titles". Cartoon Research. Retrieved May 14, 2022.
  2. ↑ Hartley, Steven (27 April 2016). "Likely Looney, Mostly Merrie: 398. Flop Goes the Weasel (1943)". Likely Looney, Mostly Merrie. Retrieved 26 November 2020.
  3. ↑ "Flop Goes The Weasel [ dead link ]". Big Cartoon DataBase, August 30, 2015
  4. ↑ Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 139. ISBN   0-8050-0894-2.
  5. ↑ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 104–106. ISBN   0-8160-3831-7 . Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  6. ↑ Sampson, Henry T. (1998). That's Enough, Folks: Black Images in Animated Cartoons, 1900-1960. Scarecrow Press. p. 176. ISBN   978-0810832503.


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