A Hound for Trouble is a 1951 Merrie Melodies short directed by Charles M. Jones.
Plot[]
Charlie Dog has stowed away in a ship and the captain throws him off in the middle of Italy after the captain has failed earlier to throw him off in Peru. Looking for a new owner, Charlie fruitlessly asks several people to claim him (to which no one understands him) when he finds a pizzeria owner and tries to rest inside. When the owner finds Charlie, the dog tries to convince him that he needs a pet while Charlie is looking for a master. However, the owner kicks him out and leaves the restaurant. Wanting to get back in for room and board, Charlie breaks in the closed restaurant while the owner is gone.
Donning Italian accent and garb, Charlie sets to work as a waiter, horrifying customers with his barefoot grape-stomping. The owner comes back, and Charlie suggests that they should have a floor show with his musical rendition of "Atsa Matta for You?" Having enough, the owner tricks Charlie into holding the Leaning Tower of Pisa while the owner abandons him. Charlie, completely unaware that the tower is deliberately leaning, tries to call for help which falls on deaf ears. "Doesn't anyone around here capice?!"
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- On the original restored version present on HBO Max and later released for the On Moonlight Bay Blu-ray, the words "Directed by Charles M. Jones" on the director credit card is distorted due to Photoshopping errors from the restoration process. A new print with this error corrected was later released on Looney Tunes Collector's Choice: Volume 2.
Notes[]
- This is Charlie Dog's final starring cartoon. Charlie would make one last appearance in the Golden Age, via a cameo in one scene from Robert McKimson's "Dog Tales" (1958) via reused animation from "Often an Orphan" (1949).
- Charlie would work as a waiter in an Italian restaurant once again in the 2000 direct-to-video feature film Tweety's High-Flying Adventure, where he serves Tweety some bird seed with marinara sauce.
- The ending music would be later reused in "Chow Hound", another cartoon released during 1951, and was also previously used in "Homeless Hare" the previous year.