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|name = I Got Plenty of Mutton |
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|Director = [[Frank Tashlin]] |
|Director = [[Frank Tashlin]] |
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|producer = [[Leon Schlesinger]] |
|producer = [[Leon Schlesinger]] |
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|previous = [[Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears]] |
|previous = [[Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears]] |
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|next = [[The Weakly Reporter]] |
|next = [[The Weakly Reporter]] |
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|Writer = [[Melvin Millar]] |
|Writer = [[Melvin Millar]] |
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|Animators = [[Izzy Ellis|I. Ellis]]<br>[[Arthur Davis]] (uncredited) |
|Animators = [[Izzy Ellis|I. Ellis]]<br>[[Arthur Davis]] (uncredited) |
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|Sound effects = [[Treg Brown]] (uncredited) |
|Sound effects = [[Treg Brown]] (uncredited) |
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|Musician = [[Carl W. Stalling]] |
|Musician = [[Carl W. Stalling]] |
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== Plot == |
== Plot == |
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I Got Plenty of Mutton is a 1944 Looney Tunes short directed by Frank Tashlin.
Plot
A wolf, deprived of meat by war rationing and starving from the mice in his cave eating his meager scraps, sees an article in the newspaper about a sheepdog leaving his flock to join the army and thinks it will be easy pickings. However, if he had read the rest of the article first, he would have known that the flock is now guarded by the ram, "Killer Diller," a formidable foe. When the straightforward approach doesn't work, the wolf dresses as an attractive lady sheep, which immediately lures the amorous ram. The hapless wolf's attempt to club the ram, however, fails when he whacks an overhanging branch instead. He escapes, to another tree that conveniently has a safe hanging in it; it drops on the ram, but he emerges unscathed. Next is an anti-aircraft gun, but the ram hauls the disguised wolf inside. The panicked wolf runs for hours, finally tearing off his disguise in desperation; "Okay, okay, look you dope look. I'm not a sheep. I'm not a sheep. I'm a wolf. I'm a wolf!". "So what? So am I!", then the ram howls like a wolf. And then the chase continues.
Availability
- (1992) LaserDisc - The Golden Age of Looney Tunes, Vol. 3, Side 6: Tashlin/Clampett
- (2006) DVD - Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 4, Disc 2 (with optional audio commentary by Greg Ford)
Notes/Goofs
- As mentioned in the DVD commentary for this short, this cartoon contains a lot of gags and running plot points that would later be seen in Chuck Jones' Pepé Le Pew series, specifically the ram sounding like Charles Boyer when he seduces the disguised wolf.
- The wolf reappears in "Booby Hatched", which was also directed by Frank Tashlin later that year, and unsuccessfully attempts to catch and eat prematurely-hatched Robespierre the duckling.
- This is one of the few non-Bugs Bunny cartoons in the Looney Tunes series of 1944 not to be re-released as a Blue Ribbon.
- Porky Pig and Daffy Duck don't appear in this cartoon, but their faces still appear in the opening target sequences. This also occurs in the opening target sequences of "Angel Puss".