The Good Egg (1939 short)

This article is about the 1939 Merrie Melodies short. For the Mr. Hook cartoon, see The Good Egg (Mr. Hook short).

The Good Egg

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Airdate:
21 October 1939 Blue Ribbon reissue: 5 January 1946

Series:

Merrie Melodies

MPAA Number:	Production Number:
5175	MM-2-9

Copyright Renewed:

31 July 1967^[1]

Crew

Voice Characterizations:

Dorothy Lloyd
Margaret Hill-Talbot (uncredited)^[2]

Film Editor:

Treg Brown (uncredited)

Musician:

Carl W. Stalling

The Good Egg is a 1939 Merrie Melodies short directed by Charles Jones.

Title[]

The title has a double meaning; a "good egg" can refer to someone who is likeable, and in the context of the short is taken literally as the short features eggs.

Plot[]

A hen with no chicks adopts an egg she mistakenly believes to be a chicken, but it hatches into a turtle. Naturally, the turtle does not fit in nicely with the baby chicks. The turtle becomes the butt of jokes for the chicks, until several chicks start to drown in a makeshift boat. The turtle saves the day and is even given the role of "life guard" on the boat.

Availability[]

Notes[]

The European Turner "dubbed" version print uses the 1941–55 rendition of "Merrily We Roll Along", while the American Turner print keeps the original ending rendition.
- Since the restoration aired on MeTV uses the European Turner print's soundtrack, the error persists in that version.
According to Cartoon Research, the original titles had the song "(Ho-dle-ay) Start the Day Right" playing over them.^[4]
This is the first Chuck Jones-directed cartoon to feature an ACME product (in this case, an ACME Toaster).
MeTV aired a previously unreleased restored print of the cartoon on Saturday Morning Cartoons.
Vitaphone release number: 9099^[5]