Mr. and Mrs. Is the Name
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Mr. and Mrs. Is the Name is a 1935 animated 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,...

cartoon, starring Buddy
Buddy (Looney Tunes)
Buddy is an animated cartoon character in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes series of cartoons.-Looney Tunes:Buddy has his origins in the chaos that followed the severing of relations between animators Hugh Harman and Rudy Ising from producer Leon Schlesinger...

 and Cookie (as two mermaid kids), and is noted to be the only Buddy cartoon in Technicolor. This is directed by Friz Freleng.

Plot

Mermaids sing up to us about mermaids and fishes at play; they and some other sea creatures dance to it. Buddy as a mermaid tag with Cookie as a mermaid, but he gets too rough and turns her off. Buddy looks inside a shipwreck and drags Cookie to it; she busies herself playing with the jewlry in a treasure chest. Meanwhile, Buddy finds some props in another truck and does an imitation of Charles Chaplin. Cookie finds a piano and plays the title song. The noise draws an octopus, who grabs her and swims off, with Buddy in pursuit. The octopus drops Cookie to fight Buddy, and does do so with some success until Buddy lures it into a pipe and ties the tentacles to a flange, then starts bashing the octopus with a battering ram. Cookie kisses Buddy; he blushes, then gets hit by the battering ram into her arms.

Trivia

  • This is the first and only Buddy cartoon in color, Buddy had his other color appearance in Animaniacs
    Animaniacs
    Steven Spielberg Presents Animaniacs, usually referred to as simply Animaniacs, is an American animated series, distributed by Warner Bros. Television and produced by Amblin Entertainment and Warner Bros. Animation. The cartoon was the second animated series produced by the collaboration of Steven...

    in the episode "The Warners' 65th Anniversary Special".
  • The only Buddy cartoon to feature Buddy and Cookie as mermaids.
  • Cookie was known to be as an unnamed mermaid girl.
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