tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589696115267272664.post2940443529722943250..comments2024-03-06T00:01:06.897-08:00Comments on Likely Looney, Mostly Merrie: 318. The Cat's Tale (1941)Steven Hartleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13825398324719609394noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589696115267272664.post-23576690122729686622016-11-10T13:32:04.435-08:002016-11-10T13:32:04.435-08:00Features an alternate arrangement of "Merrily...Features an alternate arrangement of "Merrily We Roll Along" heard at the end.<br />AH3RDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10643510232466195909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589696115267272664.post-68384560939319390862014-03-17T00:59:39.632-07:002014-03-17T00:59:39.632-07:00Between the re-used chase, the chase in the house ...Between the re-used chase, the chase in the house where we only see the outside of the house, and the Burma-Shave parody, Leon must have loved this short, if for no other reason than all the budget-saving tricks Friz pulled off to infer action, rather than animate it (or re-animate it).<br /><br />The cat is supposed to be a takeoff on Jimmy Stewart, while the idea of a mouse talking a cat out of chasing him had a bit of a forerunner 3 1/2 years earlier, with Freleng's "The Lyiin' Mouse". Tedd Pierce's story there simply had the mouse sucker the cat into freeing him from the trap -- in the latter version, Maltese and the studio's growing love of pushy characters who drive the action is in full play (though even with Bugs in 1941, the studio was still trying to figure out how to handle those aggressive characters).J Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15175515543694122729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589696115267272664.post-35240174950016207212014-03-16T14:41:47.798-07:002014-03-16T14:41:47.798-07:00And I gotta agree that there is a lot of dialogue....And I gotta agree that there is a lot of dialogue...I do like the repeat of the mouse's self-assertion before he says "I'm a mouse"! Very odd variation on Merrie Melodie theme music, at least for the end.Steve C.Pokeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15936757752447320636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1589696115267272664.post-59118377651310050912014-03-16T11:05:45.790-07:002014-03-16T11:05:45.790-07:00The rhyming signs are a parody of the old roadside...The rhyming signs are a parody of the old roadside Burma Shave signs.Yowphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09264605351878574044noreply@blogger.com