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Flop Goes the Weasel

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Flop Goes the Weasel is a 1943 Merrie Melodies short directed by Charles M. Jones.

Title[]

The title is a play on the children's nursery rhyme "Pop Goes the Weasel".

Plot[]

A mother bird is trying to catch a worm for her soon-to-be-hatched baby. While she is away, a weasel steals the egg for his breakfast. Unfortunately, the egg hatches, and it mistakes the weasel for its mother.

Music Cues[6][]

  • Mammy's Little Coal Black Rose (Music by Richard A. Whiting & Lyrics by Ray Egan)
    • Plays during the opening credits[7][8] and sung by the Mother Hen during the opening scene.
  • Little Brown Jug (by Joseph Winner)
    • Sung by the Weasel
  • Rock-a-Bye Baby (by Effie I. Canning)
    • Plays when the baby chicken is talking to the weasal
  • Shortenin' Bread (traditional)
    • Plays when after the Weasel is hit with the hammer

Availability[]

Notes[]

  • The cartoon has a 1995 dubbed version but has never aired in the US due to the birds being depicted as black stereotypes, though it is not one of the Censored Eleven.
  • The cartoon was re-released to theaters under the Blue Ribbon program, and the original credits and title card were cut; in 2021, a cel of the original title card and credits card was revealed on Facebook.
  • Vitaphone release number: 1112[9]

Gallery[]

References[]

  1. ā†‘ https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10165808603900578&set=pb.619090577.-2207520000
  2. ā†‘ https://blueribbonblues.neocities.org/gallery
  3. ā†‘ Library of Congress, Copyright Office (1975), Catalog of Copyright Entries: Motion Pictures and Filmstrips (Parts 12-13), Wikimedia Commons.
  4. ā†‘ https://archive.org/details/catalogofcopyrig3291213libr/page/n126/mode/1up?view=theater
  5. ā†‘ http://likelylooneymostlymerrie.blogspot.com/2016/04/398-flop-goes-weasel-1943.html
  6. ā†‘ https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0035889/soundtrack/
  7. ā†‘ https://www.patreon.com/posts/whats-score-81644429
  8. ā†‘ https://books.google.com/books/about/Tunes_for_Toons.html?id=Rz2WJ_-NxsAC
  9. ā†‘ https://books.google.com/books/about/Vitaphone_Films.html?id=mmtZAAAAMAAJ


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