Buddy's Show Boat

Buddy's Show Boat
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Airdate:	9 December 1933
Series:	Looney Tunes
Production Number:	LT-3-4
Vitaphone Number:	6033
Copyright Renewed:	2 February 1962
Starring:	Buddy Cookie
Crew
Voice Characterizations:	Bernard B. Brown Shirley Reed Charlie Lung The Singing Guardsmen
Director:	Earl Duvall
Producer:	Leon Schlesinger
Animated By:	Jack King James Pabian
Film Editor:	Bernard B. Brown (uncredited) Treg Brown (uncredited)
Musician:	Bernard B. Brown

Buddy's Show Boat is a 1933 Looney Tunes short directed by Earl Duvall.

Plot

Buddy is a captain who puts on a show that delights audiences, but gets them in trouble, eventually leading to a walrus saving the day.

Caricatures

• Maurice Chevalier

Television

• Sunset Productions (1955–1968)
• Looney Tunes on Nickelodeon/Nick at Nite (1988 - 1993, specifically aired on September 16, 1990)

Censorship

When this short aired on Looney Tunes on Nickelodeon, two scenes featuring stereotypically black performers (and some rude humor involving spitting and dangerous behavior involving misuse of a knife) were cut/altered:

• Both scenes at the beginning with Buddy piloting his showboat were cut to remove all scenes featuring the black coal workers singing "Swanee River" and stoking coal into the furnace. While the audio was kept, the first shot of the black coal workers was replaced with Buddy at the wheel of his showboat and the beginning of the scene with two sleeping men holding fishing rods before the scene pans to two daschunds observe hot dogs hanging on the edge of the fishing rods. The second edit also cuts the scenes where Cookie peels potatoes and the cartoon's antagonist uses a knife to peel the nail off his big toe, then spits at a fish who spits back at him, which is where the edited Nickelodeon version resumes.
• Buddy introducing the African native who can impersonate Maurice Chevalier as "Chief Saucer Lip" was completely cut, going from the audience cheering and applauding over Buddy and Cookie dancing with the chorus girls to Chief Saucer Lip's Maurice Chevalier impression.

Trivia

• There are numerous similarities between the first part of this short, before Buddy and Cookie arrive in the town, and Disney's Mickey Mouse short "Steamboat Willie". Both shorts involve steamboats, and start off with a shot of the boat's captain blowing the boat's whistle and whistling himself, as well as showing a character peeling potatoes.

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