I Gopher You is a 1954 Merrie Melodies short directed by I. Freleng.
Title[]
The title is a play on "I go for you."
Plot[]
The Goofy Gophers have their vegetables stolen by a group of vandals. They spy a convoy of Ajax Produce Co. trucks leaving the farm, so they follow them in hopes of retrieving their foods. They soon arrive at Ajax food processing plant number five and are awed by the giant, complex machinery. In their investigation of the facility, they survive several trips through the various processing machines. After their encounter with the dehydrating machine, they decide to bring home their vegetables in this new compact form. Back home, their burrow is stacked full of packages of dehydrated vegetables until a mishap while fetching water sends a torrent down their hole, causing a vegetable explosion.
Availability[]
Cheese Chasers
Looney Tunes: The Collectors Edition Supporting Players (1998 WB dubbed version without dubbed notice)
His Majesty O'Keefe (1998 WB dubbed version without dubbed notice)
Burt Lancaster Signature Collection
Streaming[]
Notes[]
- This is the first Goofy Gophers cartoon where the gophers don't face antagonistic characters, such as dogs. The other cartoon with such nature is "Lumber Jerks".
- The factory settings would later be reused in the 1963 Speedy Gonzales cartoon "Chili Weather" and the Bugs Bunny cartoon "The Unmentionables".
- Cartoon Network Japan aired an unreleased restored print of this cartoon. The restored print was later released on HBO Max in 2020.
Gallery[]
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External links[]
- "I Gopher You" on the SFX Resource