Robert Clampett – MRQE

The Big Snooze

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Elmer Fudd walks out of a typical Bugs cartoon, so Bugs gets back at him by disturbing Elmer’s sleep using “nightmare paint.”

The Great Piggy Bank Robbery

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

While reading his favorite comic book, Daffy accidentally knocks himself unconscious and dreams he’s Duck Twacy, famous detective, trying to solve the case of the missing piggy banks. Taking a streetcar (conducted by Porky Pig, in a non-speaking cameo role) to the gangsters’ hideout, he meets up with such grotesque criminals as Pickle Puss, Eighty-Eight Teeth and Neon Noodle.

Baby Bottleneck

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

As the baby boom commences, and with the delivery service overworked, Porky and Daffy are placed in charge of a baby factory, where they help the stork keep up… until an unidentified egg comes off the assembly line.

Draftee Daffy

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Despite an initial outburst of patriotism, Daffy is terrified to learn that “the little man from the Draft Board” has a letter for him, and tries his best to hide.

Birdy and the Beast

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Tweety is set upon by a fat, jowly cat, who winds up with, among other things, a dozen eggs and a gallon of gasoline in his mouth instead of the little bird.

Hare Ribbin’

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Bugs is chased into a lake by a French Poodle who speaks with a thick French accent; the rest of the story unfolds under water.

Russian Rhapsody

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

As Adolf Hitler personally flies a bomber on a mission to the Soviet Union, the gremlins from the Kremlin set about to stop him.

Falling Hare

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Relaxing with a carrot at a U.S. Army air field, Bugs is reading “Victory Through Hare Power” and scoffs at the notion of mentioned gremlins, little creatures who wreak havoc on planes with their diabolical sabotage.

A Corny Concerto

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A Corny Concerto is an American animated cartoon short produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions and distributed by Warner Bros. It was directed by Bob Clampett, written by Frank Tashlin, animated by Robert McKimson and released as part of the Merrie Melodies series on September 25, 1943. A parody of Disney’s 1940 feature Fantasia, the film uses two of Johann Strauss’ best known waltzes, Tales from the Vienna Woods and The Blue Danube, adapted by the cartoon unit’s music director, Carl Stalling and orchestrated by its arranger and later, Stalling’s successor, Milt Franklyn. Long considered a classic for its sly humor and impeccable timing with the music, it was voted #47 of the 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time by members of the animation field in 1994

A Tale of Two Kitties

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Two alley cats, Babbitt and Catsello, decide to make a meal out of Orson as he sleeps in his nest atop a telephone pole. The gullible (and loud) Catsello is repeatedly gulled into trying to “get the bird,” earning a variety of thrashings from the casually murderous little canary. Catsello finally resorts to an air strike (with a pair of wooden boards for wings), but it’s wartime, and Orson has the cat blasted out of the sky by anti-aircraft guns.