Looney Tunes

(LT) Pilot Bosko the Talk-Ink Kid

A cartoonist draws Bosko, who promptly comes to life.

Sinkin' in the Bathtub

The music-happy Bosko and Honey take a car ride, but bad luck briefly interrupts their fun.

Congo Jazz

Bosko hunts in the jungle, but ends up playing music with the animals.

Hold Anything

Bosko is a construction worker who impresses Honey by making music from everything in sight, including a decapitated mouse, a typewriter and a goat filled with hot air.

The Booze Hangs High

Bosko has a grand time on the farm, dancing with a cow, playing a horse's tail like a violin and getting drunk with three pigs.

Box Car Blues

Bosko and his porcine friend are hobos in a runaway boxcar.

The Big Man From The North

Bosko is a Mountie; his sergeant demands he get his man.

Ain't Nature Grand

Bosko fishes, and sings and dances with frogs. But two ladybugs use a wasp as an airplane, and a beehive and tree branch as a machine gun to drive him away.

Ups 'N Downs

Bosko runs a hot dog stand at an amusement park; but he sneaks away to the racetrack to ride his mechanical horse.

Dumb Patrol

During the Great War, Bosko and a fearsome beast are in a dogfight. Bosko loses, but that's only the first battle.

Yodeling Yokels

Bosko and Honey yodel happily in the Alps, but then disaster strikes. Bosko slides down a tree to meet Honey, but loses control and falls onto a pair of wooden planks that double as skis. Bosko knocks down Honey, who falls downhill in a snowball until she smashes into a rock and topples over a cliff. Bosko, on his runaway skis, hits the same rock and comes to sudden stop. Now Honey is rushing downriver on an ice floe. As she cries for help, Bosko finds a St. Bernard and together they race to save Honey. Meanwhile, a mouse in Honey's home plays golf, using macaroni as a golf club, a pea as a ball and a slice of Swiss cheese as his golf course.

Bosko's Holiday

Bosko and Honey go on a picnic that ends badly.

The Tree's Knees

Bosko the woodsman spurns cutting down trees and plays music instead. The trees and animals dance and make their own music.

Lady, Play Your Mandolin!

Things are hopping at a certain Mexican café. And then Foxy walks in and the customers go really wild.

Smile, Darn Ya, Smile!

A streetcar conductor has adventures with a would-be passenger hippo, a cow blocking the tracks, and a runaway train while he, his passengers, and some hobos sing the title song.

Bosko Shipwrecked!

Bosko is shipwrecked on an island where he is chased by a lion and pursued by simian cannibals.

One More Time

Cop Foxy is trying to enforce the law in town, but dangerous drivers and gangsters who also kidnap his sweetheart are making this difficult.

Bosko the Doughboy

Bosko is a doughboy in the Great War.

You Don't Know What You're Doin'!

This cartoon marks the debut of Piggy and Fluffy, Warner Bros.' newest Mickey-and-Minnie derivations. Our hero and heroine head to a vaudeville show, where Piggy gets into an argument with the "all funny animal" orchestra. Somehow or other, Piggy himself ends up on stage, where he is heckled by a trio of drunks singing the title song. This in turn leads to a chaotic drunken joyride through the streets of Merrie Melodie-land, complete with a talking car (voice provided by then-famous musician Orlando Slim Martin).

Bosko's Soda Fountain

Bosko is a soda jerk, who gives poor service to a mouse and to his former schoolteacher. Later, he must contend with Honey's bratty kitten pupil.

Hittin' the Trail for Hallelujah Land

Piggy and Fluffy have adventures on a riverboat. And Uncle Tom is chased by skeletons promising to take him to Hallelujah Land.

Bosko's Fox Hunt

Bosko joins a wacky fox hunt. But if the hunt worries anyone, it isn't the fox.

Red-Headed Baby

In a toy shop, a villainous spider threatens the happiness of a red-headed baby doll and her sweetheart, a toy soldier named Napoleon.

Bosko at the Zoo

Bosko and Honey go to the zoo. Honey is frightened by the lion, but Bosko is the one who ends up in danger.

Pagan Moon

On a tropical island, a native boy sings "Pagan Moon" to his sweetheart. Later, he plays music underwater with an octopus-pianist and other jazz-loving sea life.

Battling Bosko

Bosko is a brave little boxer who battles the champion, Gas House Harry. The enormous brute proves a bit much, even for a plucky underdog.

Freddy The Freshman

Freddy comes to a party and is a hit; he then goes on to be the star quarterback at the football game.

Big-Hearted Bosko

While ice-skating on a frozen pond, Bosko and his dog discover a baby abandoned in the snow.

Crosby, Columbo, and Vallee

An American Indian boy and girl sing and dance in the forest along with the animals. Trouble begins when a fire threatens baby birds in their nest.

Bosko's Party

Bosko and friends give Honey a surprise birthday party.

Goopy Geer

Goopy, a dog of no particular personality, but a crackerjack piano player, plays several songs on the stage of a nightclub. We spend a fair amount of time watching the patrons and staff of the nightclub.

Bosko and Bruno

Bosko and Bruno escape from a speeding train via a handcar; make a failed attempt to steal a chicken; and end up on a runaway boxcar.

It's Got Me Again!

Late at night, the mice come out and sing and play to the title tune, among others. That is, until the cat arrives, but he's quickly sent packing.

Moonlight For Two

Two courting hillbilly dogs go to the big barn dance.

Bosko's Dog Race

Bosko enters his dog, Bruno, in a dog race.

The Queen Was In The Parlor

When the king returns to the castle, he is surprised to find that the queen is in the parlor and won't see anyone.

Bosko at the Beach

Bosko, Honey, and Bruno spend a day at the beach.

I Love A Parade

A circus parade, to the title tune. Next, a series of sideshow acts: the wild boy, the rubber man, siamese twin pigs, a tattooed man, a hula-dancing hippo, an Indian snake (or goat) charmer. Into the ring, we have a hippo riding a horse (much to the horse's dismay), a high-wire act (again, to the title song), and finally a lion tamer.

Bosko's Store

Bosko spends the day working away in his store.

Bosko the Lumberjack

Autumn leaves aflutter, lumberjacks ply their trade in a forest: a two-man saw is found to require the strength of only one man, as his compatriot, a mouse, hangs off his handle, swinging about, his legs too short to touch the earth; another pair of loggers make more typical use of their gear, except that, as each pulls the other in order to make the necessary movement of the saw, the other's trousers drop revealingly.

You're Too Careless with Your Kisses!

A bee returns home late after a night out having too much honey. His wife leaves him, but quickly ends up in the clutches of an evil ladybug. The whole hive turns out to fight the ladybug and get her back.

Ride Him, Bosko!

Bosco in the wild west, tries to have fun with any situation that come in his way.

I Wish I Had Wings

Morning on the farm. A rooster rousts the chickens and geese. The chicks run out from under a huge hen, leaving her much smaller. She digs for a worm by turning her bill into a brace and bit, then divides the worm among the kids by running it through a meat grinder.

Bosko the Drawback

Bosko is the star player in a wacky game of professional football.

A Great Big Bunch Of You

A mannequin in the city dump improvises a piano from the junk to play and sing the title song The various animals and pieces of junk all join in.

Bosko's Dizzy Date

Honey tries to teach the violin to an unwilling kitten. Later, she and Bosko go off on a bicycle ride.

Three's A Crowd

An old man is reading a book by the fire. The clock strikes 8, and he heads off to bed. From his book, Alice in Wonderland, out crawls Alice, who turns the radio to the title tune. This wakes up Rip Van Winkle; Alice then rouses the Three Musketeers, who sing a bit. Next tune: Nero fiddles, Rome burns, and Cleopatra sizzles in a slinky dance. Uncle Tom sings a spiritual as Mr. Hyde sneaks up and abducts Alice. Tarzan to the rescue, along with several other characters who mount a spirited attack using such office supplies as pen points, matches, and a fountain pen. They box him up and carry him off.

Bosko's Woodland Daze

Bosko and his dog Bruno play hide and seek in the woods.

The Shanty Where Santy Claus Lives

Christmas Eve. A poor orphan boy trudges through the snow, pathetically. He finally arrives at his miserable cabin. While he is crying, Santa arrives and, singing the title song, offers to take the boy to his workshop. They arrive, and the toys go wild (in the full version, they sing the title song, but this has been censored in some versions due to outdated stereotypes). He plays with a few toys. A candle falls off the tree and starts a fire. The toys try in vain to fight the fire; the boy hooks up a hose to a set of bagpipes and takes care of it.

Bosko In Dutch

The last appearance of Goopy Geer (seen here in a cameo). The first cartoon directed by Isador "Friz" Freleng (who was uncredited). The song "Ach du lieber Augustine," better known to school kids as "Hail to the Bus Driver Man," is on the soundtrack.

One Step Ahead Of My Shadow

In happy China, a Mandarin livens up some local music by playing some Pee Wee-style clarinet the American way, and then teams up with a little girl and boy to combat a ferocious dragon.

Bosko in Person

Bosko and his girl friend are doing a standard vaudeville slapstick act.

Young and Healthy

A jolly old king, bored with all the foolish people in his court, goes off to find a group of children playing who are really young and healthy.

Bosko The Speed King

There are lots of races with old cars. Bosko (in Car #13) is out to beat them all.

The Organ Grinder

The lost art of the organ grinder and his monkey is celebrated in this grand Depression-era cartoon! A beloved Italian organ grinder plays his music and sings his song through a immigrant- filled ghetto neighborhood, where hard-scrabble kids and well-proportioned matrons get hep to the beat that flows from the organ grinder's calliope. Lots of spoofs of life on the Lower East Side and lots of monkeyshines as the organ grinder's pet performs "42nd Street" and imitates some Hollywood greats. The monkey takes wing and gets behind the wheel of a car, driving all over the area and wrecking everything.

Bosko's Knight-Mare

Bosko and Bruno are relaxing by the fire one evening. Bosko is reading a book about King Arthur's knights, when he falls asleep. He dreams of himself as a knight who sings and dances with the knights of the round table. An evil villainous knight abducts the fair maiden (Honey) and takes her to his castle. Bosko pursues, and while fighting the evil knight, Bosko wakes up to Bruno licking his face.

Wake Up The Gypsy In Me

A camp of Russian gypsies, dancing and playing music. After an opening dance, a quartet of beer-drinkers gargles the Volga Boatman song, then another group hauling on a rope sings it (we finally see that the other end of the rope is anchored by a very small dog). A trench-coated bomber sneaks into the palace, where we see Rice-Puddin', the mad monk, cheating at a jigsaw puzzle. He spies the activity in the gypsy camp and orders a henchman to fetch the gypsy girl. The villagers revolt as a result, sending The Mad Monk scrambling on his horse; they stuff a bomb into his pants just as he turns his horse into a helicopter, and it explodes.

Bosko The Sheep-Herder

While Bosko is minding a flock of sheep, he finds himself tempted to use them as musical instruments. Bosko also frolics along, then converts a beehive into bagpipes. Then a wolf decides to dress as a sheep, stealing a lamb, with Bosko and Bruno in pursuit!

I Like Mountain Music

The magazines and books in a drugstore come to life and sing the title song, among others. Some celebrities shown: 'Will Rogers' , Sonja Henie, Kay Kyser; like most of this genre, there's an extended crime sequence, with bad guys breaking into the cash register and Sherlock Holmes on the case.

Beau Bosko

Bosko is in the Foreign Legion, and is sent out on a dangerous mission to capture the notorious Ali Oop. Highlights include a uniform shaking a sleeping Bosko, a backpack containing a working sink, and a caring and sensitive camel.

Shuffle Off To Buffalo

Baby central. A flock of storks is leaving with babies. An old man at a ledger book is dealing with phone calls and letters; a request for twins from Nanook of the North sends him to the refrigerator; the stork carries them in slings marked "upper birth" and "lower birth." Another request, written in Hebrew; this baby comes back as a rough Jewish stereotype, and gets stamped kosher. He then joins the head man singing the title song, and shuffling us off to see the baby assembly line, manned by dwarves. The babies are washed in a washing machine, dried, powdered, diapered in paper towels, loaded up with milk, and sent off in a crib. They clamor for "Cantor" and one of the dwarves reveals that he was _Eddie Cantor_ in disguise, followed by another round of the title song.

Bosko's Mechanical Man

Bosko helps Honey wash dishes and breaks a lot of them. He makes a robot out of junk to help, and it doesn't turn out the way he had wanted.

The Dish Ran Away With The Spoon

Dishes and utensils wash, dry, and stack themselves. A duster plays a silverware box like a piano while a salt-pepper-and-sugar set sings. The spoon proposes to the dish (interrupted by a cry from a baby spoon), then plays percussion on some pans and jam jars. Some teacups do a can-can, then a centipede-like conga line. The Swiss cheese yodels. The blueing sings "Am I Blue?," joined by a potato crying from all its eyes. An egg dances, slips on some lard, hatches, and sings "Young and Healthy." A lump of dough rises like a ghost and dances over to a packet of yeast, which it mixes into water and drinks, then grows, a la Jekyll and Hyde. It threatens the dish; some utensils fight back, lobbing canned goods from a spatula catapult. More attacks with cheese graters, popcorn, a rolling pin, and an electric fan, turn the dough into muffins, a bundt cake, a pie, and waffles.

Bosko The Musketeer

Bosko and Bruno go to Honey's house where she shows him a picture of the Three Musketeers. Bosko tells her a story of himself as a Musketeer and Honey as a dancing girl. He fights a villain with swords over Honey and wins. The real Honey finds the story hard to believe.

We're In The Money

After the last human has left the department store, the toys walk over to the music department where they start performing the Warren/Dubin song "We're in the money". The money soon joins for a chorus, as well as display dolls in the wardrobe department.

Bosko's Picture Show

Bosko hosts a theatre stage show. First, he plays the organ and sings "We're In The Money" with the audience singing along. Then Bosko shows newsreel clips followed by the main picture show.

Buddy's Day Out

This cartoon marks the first appearance of Buddy, Warner Bros.' replacement for their departed star Bosko. After we're introduced to Buddy, his girlfriend Cookie, his dog Happy and a baby named Elmer, everybody goes on a picnic. Amorous Buddy would like to "wugee, wugee, wugee" with Cookie, but Elmer keeps getting in the way.

I've Got To Sing A Torch Song

The first of the post-Ising Merrie Melodies. The only Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Tom Palmer. The title tune originated in the movie musical "Gold Diggers of 1933." Hollywood figures caricatured include Tallulah Bankhead, Joan Blondell, James Cagney, Bing Crosby, Guy Kibbee, Zasu Pitts, Mae West, Bert Wheeler and Bob Woolsey, Ed Wynn, George Bernard Shaw, Mussolini, Ben Bernie, The Boswell Sisters and Greta Garbo (who does the "Dat's all, folks!" signoff!).

Buddy's Beer Garden

To celebrate the repeal of Prohibition, Buddy opens up a German beer garden--and adopts a thick German accent for the occasion. Buddy's girlfriend Cookie doubles as the establishment's cigarette girl and the lead dancer in the lavish floor show. Also appearing is a Mae West lookalike, singing "My Good Time Slow Time Baseball Man"--and wait til you find out the true identity of the curvaceous cutie. Yes, there's a nominal tough-guy villain, but he's soon washed away in a sea of good cheer.

Buddy's Show Boat

Captain Buddy and Mlle. Cookie cause quite a stir with their musical showboat showcase. They parade into town and delight the audience with their acts, but it falls to a helpful walrus to save the show, and Cookie, from disaster.

Sittin' On A Backyard Fence

It's the middle of the night, and everyone's asleep except for the house cat (a girl) and alley cats (boys) on the fence competing for her attentions. A bull and three cows from ad posters on the fence sing "Sittin' On A Backyard Fence" and a cat band, using junk instruments play. Two boy cats, one drunk on catnip, fight each other over the girl, and get chased and knocked out by a dog. The girl cat leaves with another male cat, followed by kittens that are obviously theirs. The two fighting cats then shake hands.

Buddy the Gob

Buddy is a "gob", a sailor in the navy, who visits China and witnesses a local celebration of the 150th birthday anniversary of the Sacred Dragon, wherein a young girl will be sacrificed. Buddy decides to rescue the young girl and ends up being chased by a dragon and the incensed village. Of course, by the end of the cartoon, Buddy and the girl escape safely.

Pettin' In The Park

Various bird couples are petting in the park and singing the title song. A policeman is also getting amorous with a nanny, until a penguin pecks at a butterfly on her bottom and she thinks the policeman pinched her. She storms off but quickly hops in another suitor's car. Then the birds all enter the park's diving and swimming contest.

Honeymoon Hotel

After introducing the small town Bugtown, inhabitated by bugs, this short shows what happens to two honeymooning lovebugs at the Honeymoon Hotel in town, due to the fact, that their love is a little bit to hot.

Buddy and Towser

Buddy gives his dog the task of guarding his chickens, but a fox interrupts his chances.

Buddy's Garage

Buddy is working at a garage, when Cookie comes over and brings him lunch. A big man comes in looking for gas. While Buddy is filling up his car, he abducts Cookie. Buddy chases him in a tow truck and is able to rescue Cookie with a tow hook. He then hooks up the crook and brings him back to give him his punishment.

Beauty And The Beast

A little girl falls asleep and dreams she is in Toyland, where she and a toy soldier contend with the Beast from "Beauty and the Beast."

Those Were Wonderful Days

In a nostalgic look at America at the turn of the 20th century, men with handlebar mustaches play old-fashioned music on their found objects.

Buddy's Trolley Troubles

Buddy runs his own trolley. Most of it seems to be a musical number. However, there is a criminal living in the ditches as he breaks loose and hijacks Buddy's trolley.

Goin' To Heaven On A Mule

An extremely lazy man working on a plantation must choose between good and bad when it comes to alcohol. He has a nightmare where he goes to heaven on a mule but, while up there, he is kicked down to the underworld with Hades after drinking alcohol from the "forbidden tree" (an allusion to the Hebrew myth of Adam and Eve).

Buddy of the Apes

Buddy encounters African natives. He gets help from animals and together they fight half-naked natives.

How Do I Know It's Sunday

Merchandises in a general store come to life in order to sing a song.

Buddy's Bearcats

Buddy has a baseball team named the Bearcats. They take on the Battling Bruisers in a stadium. A crowd shows up buying tickets and Hot dogs before settling down to watch the game. During the game, high jinks happen.

Why Do I Dream Those Dreams

A fantasy version of Rip Van Winkle involving beer-guzzling leprechauns and other strange creatures.

Buddy's Circus

Buddy is the combination manager and ringmaster of a travelling circus, where the main attractions include an "elephant xylophones" and a pair of high-flying acrobats.

The Miller's Daughter

After the household cat breaks a ceramic figure, the other ceramic figures start to come to life.

Buddy the Detective

On a dark and stormy night, an insane musician seeks inspiration to compose music. He mesmerizes a frog to play the piano, then enchants a painting to play the violin. He picks out Cookie from the phonebook and hypnotizes her through the phone. She goes to his house, but her dog notices and he runs to Buddy's house, and the two set out to find the mad musician's house. They encounter several scary things, such as skeletons. Eventually they find Cookie, and Buddy is able to handle the villain. Cookie also torments him by playing extremely danceable music on the piano.

The Girl At The Ironing Board

Mysteriously, late at night, the laundry comes to life.

Viva Buddy

Buddy goes to Mexico and visits a cantina. He wakes up the patrons from their siesta and there is music and dancing.

Shake Your Powder Puff

A vast array of cartoon characters attend a festival. The main act involves three female rabbits performing a vaudeville act about catching a boyfriend.

Buddy the Woodsman

A musical number with Buddy in the role of a woodsman. Goes through a lumberjack's days chopping down trees. A bear raids the lumberjacks while having pasta as Buddy and Cookie have to dispose of him.

Rhythm In The Bow

A Hobo pretends to drive a train. Beneath the train, another hobo is using the wheels to sharpen his knife. Another man lowers a bucket into the water as they pass over a bridge. He uses a tiny dab of water to "wash" his face. He then pulls out a violin, starting to play it.

Those Beautiful Dames

Toys in a shop window come to life and visit a poverty-stricken little girl as she sleeps. She awakens to find that her shack has been refurbished and that the toys are about to throw her a party.

Buddy's Adventures

Buddy &amp; Cookie's hot air balloon gets thrashed by a violent thunder storm and they ended up landing on foreign grounds. The town Buddy &amp; Cookie are in is called "Sourtown". The residents are always in a bad mood due to them drinking and eating sour products and due to the strict laws which outlaws laughter, dancing, singing, and jazz. Buddy doesn't take the laws seriously as he tries to play some jazz to lighten everyones mood. Unfortunately the king of Sourtown doesn't take law breakers likely.

Pop Goes Your Heart

A robin sings, and the vegetation turns spring-like, followed by some more action by birds and bees. A grasshopper teaches his sons to chew and spit tobacco. Two spiders play the title tune on their web; some worms animate some apples to the tune; a chorus of frogs sings. Beavers play tennis, using spider webs as a net and their tails as racquets. A bear on the prowl is rebuffed by a turtle, then traps several beavers in a tree. They drop a beehive on him; he rolls down a hay-covered hillside, landing amid a farmer's mounds of hay; the farmer tosses the bear-stack into his "bailer", and the bear turns into a walking hay bale.

Buddy the Dentist

Buddy's dog gets hooked on sugar, and ends up with a toothache. Buddy tries to wiggle the tooth, but it makes the dog feel very uncomfortable. So Buddy tries gas, but it backfires and Buddy's own tooth ends up falling out.

Buddy of the Legion

Buddy works at a bookstore, but he spends most of his time day-dreaming about the foreign legion and fighting Amazons.

Mr. and Mrs. is the Name

Buddy (as a Merman) is playing tag with a girl (Mermaid) on the sea floor. They discover an old sunken ship with treasure and an old piano in the hold.

Country Boy

Instead of going to school, Peter Cottontail, a very mischievous little rabbit, ignores his siblings' warning and raids a farmer's garden for vegetables... and lives to regret it.

Buddy's Theatre

Buddy is working as a projectionist in a movie theater. The newsreel features a caricature of Benito Mussolini and a gag on the Swiss Navy. Coming attractions include James Bagknee (Cagney) in Here Comes the Gravy and the double feature 8 Girls in a Boat with The Thin Man. Tonight's feature stars Cookie in The Chinchilla from Warmer Bros. Buddy sighs from the projection booth as she plays piano and sings. When a gorilla climbs in her window and attacks her, Buddy jumps into the picture, literally.

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