Mouse Warming (1952) is the 659th Looney Tunes short and it gets my review treatment!
You can find an unrestored version of this short in the Looney Tunes Mouse Chronicles blu ray found here https://amzn.to/3uTJCtc
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I find this short to be ok in my opinion, the gags with claude were pretty good for most of the short, the animation and music are really good as well, 7/10.
Manny would have been a perfect guest for this one with how driven the action is by the music, anyways, this short is in a similar vain of a lot of other Jones directed shorts centered around music like Barber of Seville or High Note (although this isn’t nearly as good). The thing that makes this cartoon different is how it uses mostly contemporary music from the time instead of classical. You hear “Ain’t She Sweet”, “Sweet Georgia Brown”, “Lucky Day” and “L'amour toujours l'amour” as reoccurring themes. The “Lucky Day” sequence is my favorite part and easily the funniest scene in the cartoon, Claude immediately falling for the mouse’s ploy and his delight in playing canasta with the dumbfounded dog aptly named “Butcher” is hilarious. Carl Stalling and Milt Franklyn also sell the scene perfectly, with the song constantly switching between happy and foreboding leading to a violent crescendo. A 7 or 8 out of 10 cartoon but one that sticks out in my mind a lot for some reason.
Edit: The track that was confused as an original arrangement by Stalling/Franklyn that is used in order to reinforce the teens love is actually “L’amour toujours l’amour”.
Random question, but will there be a retrospective on Art Davis?
I thought at first that this was one of the parodies of the Honeymooners, that did have a cast (minus Mel Blanc)
I LOVE this one!!!!!!!!!! 😊
One of my favourite cartoons – The teen male mouse in love and the cat setting up the cards game with the dog scenes always make me laugh
can you continue remaking the commentrarys of 1934 ?, im very interested on them
You are correct. Canasta, and a few other point based card games, were big; back then
Remember Nasty Canasta, from Drip Along Daffy?
Actually the first Claude Cat short without Hubie and Bertie was "Two's a Crowd" with Frisky Puppy. That short was the start of this design of Claude and his role as a silent and cruel villain. Honestly, this one is pretty darn cute. The designs of the boy and girl mouse are super cute and I love the toy cars the mice drive, such as the wind up moving van and the boy mouse's toy motorized hot rod car. I love Claude's phony love letter to the boy mouse and then using a girl mouse puppet and I love the second letter that causes the father mouse to get pissed off and pull out a giant gun! (Of course, when this aired regularly on ABC as a kid, that scene was not kept in because–well–giant gun to the face!)
The fake letter the boy mouse gives to Claude from the dog is a highlight. The entire sequence where Claude tries to play cards with the very confused dog is hilarious. Also, the ending is cute, the kids finally get together!
The way Luke mentions the rule of three perfectly describes how appealing it truly is in the world of comedy, let alone storytelling. I’ve never thought about the term in that way before as I never knew it was called that, but it works so well in communicating simple yet effective ideas for storytellers.