Gone Batty (1954 film)
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Gone Batty is the name of a Looney Tunes
animated cartoon short released by Warner Brothers on September 4, 1954. The film was re-released in October of 1963 as a Merrie Melodies
Blue Ribbon cartoon.
/Michael Maltese
1946 opus Baseball Bugs
) by Sid Marcus and animator Ben Washam. Animation was done from Robert Givens' layout by Charles McKimson, Herman Cohen, Rob Scribner and Phil DeLuca with backgrounds by Richard H. Thomas and music by Carl Stalling. Voices were provided by Mel Blanc and an uncredited Robert C. Bruce as a play-by-play announcer.
, also directed by McKinson, is baseball team mascot for the lean and meek Sweetwater Shnooks, all of whom are rendered unconscious by their opponents, the husky and brutal Greenville Goons.
Gone Batty is the name of a Looney Tunes
animated cartoon short released by Warner Brothers on September 4, 1954. The film was re-released in October of 1963 as a Merrie Melodies
Blue Ribbon cartoon.
/Michael Maltese
1946 opus Baseball Bugs
) by Sid Marcus and animator Ben Washam. Animation was done from Robert Givens' layout by Charles McKimson, Herman Cohen, Rob Scribner and Phil DeLuca with backgrounds by Richard H. Thomas and music by Carl Stalling. Voices were provided by Mel Blanc and an uncredited Robert C. Bruce as a play-by-play announcer.
, also directed by McKinson, is baseball team mascot for the lean and meek Sweetwater Shnooks, all of whom are rendered unconscious by their opponents, the husky and brutal Greenville Goons.
Gone Batty is the name of a Looney Tunes
animated cartoon short released by Warner Brothers on September 4, 1954. The film was re-released in October of 1963 as a Merrie Melodies
Blue Ribbon cartoon.
/Michael Maltese
1946 opus Baseball Bugs
) by Sid Marcus and animator Ben Washam. Animation was done from Robert Givens' layout by Charles McKimson, Herman Cohen, Rob Scribner and Phil DeLuca with backgrounds by Richard H. Thomas and music by Carl Stalling. Voices were provided by Mel Blanc and an uncredited Robert C. Bruce as a play-by-play announcer.
, also directed by McKinson, is baseball team mascot for the lean and meek Sweetwater Shnooks, all of whom are rendered unconscious by their opponents, the husky and brutal Greenville Goons.
Looney Tunes
Looney Tunes is a Warner Bros. animated cartoon series. It preceded the Merrie Melodies series and was Warner Bros.'s first animated theatrical series. Since its first official release, 1930's Sinkin' in the Bathtub, the series has become a worldwide media franchise, spawning several television...
animated cartoon short released by Warner Brothers on September 4, 1954. The film was re-released in October of 1963 as a Merrie Melodies
Merrie Melodies
Merrie Melodies is the name of a series of animated cartoons distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures between 1931 and 1969.Originally produced by Harman-Ising Pictures, Merrie Melodies were produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions from 1933 to 1944. Schlesinger sold his studio to Warner Bros. in 1944,...
Blue Ribbon cartoon.
Overview
Robert McKimson directed the animated cartoon from a story (lifted in part from the Friz FrelengFriz Freleng
Isadore "Friz" Freleng was an animator, cartoonist, director, and producer best known for his work on the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons from Warner Bros....
/Michael Maltese
Michael Maltese
Michael "Mike" Maltese was a long-time storyboard artist and screenwriter for classic animated cartoon shorts.-Career:...
1946 opus Baseball Bugs
Baseball Bugs
Baseball Bugs is a Warner Brothers Looney Tunes theatrical cartoon short released on February 2, 1946 starring Bugs Bunny. It had a similar theme to MGM's 1944 Batty Baseball, which was directed by former WB cartoon director Tex Avery.-Overview:...
) by Sid Marcus and animator Ben Washam. Animation was done from Robert Givens' layout by Charles McKimson, Herman Cohen, Rob Scribner and Phil DeLuca with backgrounds by Richard H. Thomas and music by Carl Stalling. Voices were provided by Mel Blanc and an uncredited Robert C. Bruce as a play-by-play announcer.
Plot
Bobo the Elephant, making his first appearance since Hobo BoboHobo Bobo
Hobo Bobo is a Merrie Melodies cartoon short released by Warner Bros. on May 17, 1947, written by Warren Foster and directed by Robert McKimson, with narration by Robert C. Bruce, and Bobo's only line delivered by Mel Blanc.-Plot:...
, also directed by McKinson, is baseball team mascot for the lean and meek Sweetwater Shnooks, all of whom are rendered unconscious by their opponents, the husky and brutal Greenville Goons.
Similaraties between Baseball Bugs and Gone Batty
- The Sweetwater Shnooks are a re-imagining of the Tea-Totaler Nine, while the Goons were based on the Gashouse Gorillas.
- The following gags and backgrounds were in both films:
- When a Goons catcher objects to the umpire calling a strike, he whacks him over the head and the official says "Goodness, I don't know what came over me. Ball one." This gag is a reversal of one Gashouse Gorilla player in Baseball Bugs when ball one was recalled as a strike.
- The slow-ball gag was also used.
- A Goon calls out "I got it! I GOT IT!", and gets buried in the outfield. This gag has a different ending to the Baseball Bugs visual where a tombstone with "HE GOT IT" was used.
- The public addressPublic addressA public address system is an electronic amplification system with a mixer, amplifier and loudspeakers, used to reinforce a sound source, e.g., a person giving a speech, a DJ playing prerecorded music, and distributing the sound throughout a venue or building.Simple PA systems are often used in...
system background was used in both films.
Gone Batty is the name of a Looney Tunes
Looney Tunes
Looney Tunes is a Warner Bros. animated cartoon series. It preceded the Merrie Melodies series and was Warner Bros.'s first animated theatrical series. Since its first official release, 1930's Sinkin' in the Bathtub, the series has become a worldwide media franchise, spawning several television...
animated cartoon short released by Warner Brothers on September 4, 1954. The film was re-released in October of 1963 as a Merrie Melodies
Merrie Melodies
Merrie Melodies is the name of a series of animated cartoons distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures between 1931 and 1969.Originally produced by Harman-Ising Pictures, Merrie Melodies were produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions from 1933 to 1944. Schlesinger sold his studio to Warner Bros. in 1944,...
Blue Ribbon cartoon.
Overview
Robert McKimson directed the animated cartoon from a story (lifted in part from the Friz FrelengFriz Freleng
Isadore "Friz" Freleng was an animator, cartoonist, director, and producer best known for his work on the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons from Warner Bros....
/Michael Maltese
Michael Maltese
Michael "Mike" Maltese was a long-time storyboard artist and screenwriter for classic animated cartoon shorts.-Career:...
1946 opus Baseball Bugs
Baseball Bugs
Baseball Bugs is a Warner Brothers Looney Tunes theatrical cartoon short released on February 2, 1946 starring Bugs Bunny. It had a similar theme to MGM's 1944 Batty Baseball, which was directed by former WB cartoon director Tex Avery.-Overview:...
) by Sid Marcus and animator Ben Washam. Animation was done from Robert Givens' layout by Charles McKimson, Herman Cohen, Rob Scribner and Phil DeLuca with backgrounds by Richard H. Thomas and music by Carl Stalling. Voices were provided by Mel Blanc and an uncredited Robert C. Bruce as a play-by-play announcer.
Plot
Bobo the Elephant, making his first appearance since Hobo BoboHobo Bobo
Hobo Bobo is a Merrie Melodies cartoon short released by Warner Bros. on May 17, 1947, written by Warren Foster and directed by Robert McKimson, with narration by Robert C. Bruce, and Bobo's only line delivered by Mel Blanc.-Plot:...
, also directed by McKinson, is baseball team mascot for the lean and meek Sweetwater Shnooks, all of whom are rendered unconscious by their opponents, the husky and brutal Greenville Goons.
Similaraties between Baseball Bugs and Gone Batty
- The Sweetwater Shnooks are a re-imagining of the Tea-Totaler Nine, while the Goons were based on the Gashouse Gorillas.
- The following gags and backgrounds were in both films:
- When a Goons catcher objects to the umpire calling a strike, he whacks him over the head and the official says "Goodness, I don't know what came over me. Ball one." This gag is a reversal of one Gashouse Gorilla player in Baseball Bugs when ball one was recalled as a strike.
- The slow-ball gag was also used.
- A Goon calls out "I got it! I GOT IT!", and gets buried in the outfield. This gag has a different ending to the Baseball Bugs visual where a tombstone with "HE GOT IT" was used.
- The public addressPublic addressA public address system is an electronic amplification system with a mixer, amplifier and loudspeakers, used to reinforce a sound source, e.g., a person giving a speech, a DJ playing prerecorded music, and distributing the sound throughout a venue or building.Simple PA systems are often used in...
system background was used in both films.
Gone Batty is the name of a Looney Tunes
Looney Tunes
Looney Tunes is a Warner Bros. animated cartoon series. It preceded the Merrie Melodies series and was Warner Bros.'s first animated theatrical series. Since its first official release, 1930's Sinkin' in the Bathtub, the series has become a worldwide media franchise, spawning several television...
animated cartoon short released by Warner Brothers on September 4, 1954. The film was re-released in October of 1963 as a Merrie Melodies
Merrie Melodies
Merrie Melodies is the name of a series of animated cartoons distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures between 1931 and 1969.Originally produced by Harman-Ising Pictures, Merrie Melodies were produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions from 1933 to 1944. Schlesinger sold his studio to Warner Bros. in 1944,...
Blue Ribbon cartoon.
Overview
Robert McKimson directed the animated cartoon from a story (lifted in part from the Friz FrelengFriz Freleng
Isadore "Friz" Freleng was an animator, cartoonist, director, and producer best known for his work on the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons from Warner Bros....
/Michael Maltese
Michael Maltese
Michael "Mike" Maltese was a long-time storyboard artist and screenwriter for classic animated cartoon shorts.-Career:...
1946 opus Baseball Bugs
Baseball Bugs
Baseball Bugs is a Warner Brothers Looney Tunes theatrical cartoon short released on February 2, 1946 starring Bugs Bunny. It had a similar theme to MGM's 1944 Batty Baseball, which was directed by former WB cartoon director Tex Avery.-Overview:...
) by Sid Marcus and animator Ben Washam. Animation was done from Robert Givens' layout by Charles McKimson, Herman Cohen, Rob Scribner and Phil DeLuca with backgrounds by Richard H. Thomas and music by Carl Stalling. Voices were provided by Mel Blanc and an uncredited Robert C. Bruce as a play-by-play announcer.
Plot
Bobo the Elephant, making his first appearance since Hobo BoboHobo Bobo
Hobo Bobo is a Merrie Melodies cartoon short released by Warner Bros. on May 17, 1947, written by Warren Foster and directed by Robert McKimson, with narration by Robert C. Bruce, and Bobo's only line delivered by Mel Blanc.-Plot:...
, also directed by McKinson, is baseball team mascot for the lean and meek Sweetwater Shnooks, all of whom are rendered unconscious by their opponents, the husky and brutal Greenville Goons.
Similaraties between Baseball Bugs and Gone Batty
- The Sweetwater Shnooks are a re-imagining of the Tea-Totaler Nine, while the Goons were based on the Gashouse Gorillas.
- The following gags and backgrounds were in both films:
- When a Goons catcher objects to the umpire calling a strike, he whacks him over the head and the official says "Goodness, I don't know what came over me. Ball one." This gag is a reversal of one Gashouse Gorilla player in Baseball Bugs when ball one was recalled as a strike.
- The slow-ball gag was also used.
- A Goon calls out "I got it! I GOT IT!", and gets buried in the outfield. This gag has a different ending to the Baseball Bugs visual where a tombstone with "HE GOT IT" was used.
- The public addressPublic addressA public address system is an electronic amplification system with a mixer, amplifier and loudspeakers, used to reinforce a sound source, e.g., a person giving a speech, a DJ playing prerecorded music, and distributing the sound throughout a venue or building.Simple PA systems are often used in...
system background was used in both films.