An Egg Scramble is a 1950 Merrie Melodies short directed by Robert McKimson.
Plot[]
Miss Prissy, a hen on Porky's farm, has never laid an egg in her life because she finds it "embarrassing". One of her fellow hen friends decides to paint Prissy's name on an egg and place it in Prissy's nest. Prissy believes that she laid the egg, and when Porky comes to take it for the market truck, she refuses to let him have it. Porky manages to grab the egg and gives it to the driver of the truck. Prissy is so determined to have "her egg" back that she follows the truck to the city. She finds the egg in the house of a woman named Marsha, grabs it, and flees. Convinced that the police are chasing her, Prissy hides out in a run-down building where an escaped criminal also happens to be hiding. At the end, the hens tell Porky one of them laid the egg, not Prissy. Despite the confession, the egg hatches into a chick that looks like Prissy.
Caricatures[]
- Pert Kelton - Miss Prissy's voice is based on her character Martha Harrison from The Milton Berle Show.
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Notes[]
- This short marks the first appearance of Miss Prissy.
- The eggs on the truck are delivered to a store named Foster’s Fresh Eggs, a reference to writer Warren Foster.
- The working title was "Scrambled Yeggs".
- This short shares its title with a Season 12 episode of the Pokémon anime.
- This cartoon was shown in theatres with Colt .45 during its original release.
- The Housewife who appeared in this short strongly resembles Marsha in McKimson’s later short, “Wild Wife”.