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Gone Batty

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Gone Batty is a 1954 Looney Tunes short directed by Robert McKimson.

Plot[]

Bobo the Elephant is the mascot for the Sweetwater Shnooks, a very ordinary-looking collection of ball players. They are pitted against the hulking Greenville Goons. The Goons score 167 runs, and manage to knock all the Shnooks out of the game. Bobo is pressed into service as the lone player for his team. The Goons protest, but the umpire allows it, saying "There's nothing in the rulebook that says an elephant can't pitch! Now PLAY BALL!" Despite all the Goons’ tricks, they cannot thwart the efforts of the persistent little Bobo, who scores 168 runs and wins the game.

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  • An unusual cut occurred when this cartoon aired on New York local TV station WNEW: The Schnooks' base runner, the Goons' catcher, and the umpire are arguing safe-versus-out. The catcher settles the question by clobbering the base runner with a bat (after lightly tapping him out with the aforementioned bat). The umpire grimaces and says, "Yeesh, NOW he's out!" On WNEW airings, the umpire's line "Yeesh, NOW he's out" was muted, yet the actual violence was left intact and the line can still be deciphered by those who can lip-read.[1]

Notes[]

  • This short contains recycled elements from "Baseball Bugs". These include the baseball stadium setting, a stronger brutish team with a blue color motif in their uniforms similar to the Gashouse Gorillas defeating a weaker team with a red color motif in their uniforms similar to the Tea Totallers, a non-player filling in for the entire losing team, the "I got it!" and slowball gags, and the non-player winning.
  • The working title was "Trunk Full of Curves".
  • This is the only cartoon Ben Washam (an animator from the Chuck Jones unit) ever wrote. It is also one of only two times he ever collaborated for the Robert McKimson unit; he later served as an animator in "Too Hop to Handle" (1956), albeit uncredited.
  • This cartoon was shown in theatres with Dragnet during its original release.
  • During Bobo's run around the bases, an ad on the outfield fence reads COHEN Ties. One of the animators on this short was Herman Cohen.
  • This short aired as part of The Chuck Jones Show on 27 May 2001, presumably due to an error.
  • Physically, the Goons all resemble, in some way shape or form, the construction worker from "No Parking Hare".

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References[]

  1. ↑ http://www.intanibase.com/gac/looneytunes/censored-g.aspx



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