Now Hear This

Now Hear This
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Airdate:	27 April 1963
Series:	Looney Tunes
MPAA Number:	20228
Production Number:	1611
Vitaphone Number:	3121
Runtime:	6 minutes, 35 seconds
Copyright Renewed:	15 June 1990
Starring:	The Devil Mr. Beetle Colonel Blip
Crew
Voice Characterizations:	Mel Blanc (uncredited)
Director:	Chuck Jones Maurice Noble (co-director)
Written By:	John Dunn Chuck Jones
Producer:	David H. DePatie (uncredited)
Animated By:	Ben Washam Bob Bransford
Layout Artist:	Maurice Noble (uncredited)
Background Artist:	Philip DeGuard
Sound Effects:	Treg Brown
Musician:	Bill Lava

Now Hear This is a 1963 Looney Tunes short directed by Chuck Jones and Maurice Noble.

Title

The title is a play on the phrase "now, hear this."

Plot

The Devil loses one of his horns. It is found by an Englishman named Colonel Blip who uses it as a hearing horn. Blip sees his old horn as busted up and droopy and blows a raspberry at it before throwing it away. As he uses the Devil's horn, he begins hearing and seeing strange and amplified sounds and figures, with one frequent figure being a diminutive, mischievous man dressed in pink named Mr. Beetle. After a series of painful misfortunes caused by the horn, being bruised into casts as a result, Blip throws out the Devil's horn and gets his original one back from the trash. The Devil finds his horn again and screws it back on. Mr. Beetle reappears to provide the moral that "The other fellow's trumpet always looks greener," before flipping the sign to reveal "The End".

Availability

(2001) DVD
Crash! Bang! Boom!: The Best of WB Sound FX

(2007) DVD
Critic's Choice

(2008) DVD
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Academy Awards Animation Collection, Disc 3 (restored)

(2008) DVD
Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 6, Disc Four (restored)

(2008) DVD
Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection: Volume 6, Disc 2

Streaming

HBO Max (2020 - 2022) (restored)

Max (2024 - 2025) (restored)

Tubi (2025 -)

Notes

• It is the first Looney Tunes short since 1942's "The Impatient Patient" to not use the trademark Color Rings.
  • This intro sequence would later used in "Bartholomew Versus the Wheel" and "Señorella and the Glass Huarache" in 1964. It was officially used by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises in the same year starting with "Pancho's Hideaway". The middle of the sequence changed from white to black, first used in 1965 and was used until 1967, when Warner Bros.-Seven Arts was formed and the intro sequence was updated.
• The sound effect of the bouncing ball during the "Silence... is golden" sequence is recycled from the knight band in "Knights Must Fall".
• The production number is incorrectly shown as 161 in the opening titles.
• This short was nominated for an Academy Award, and was the last Looney Tunes short to receive an Academy Award nomination. The short lost to the Storyboard cartoon The Hole.
• This short is the final one-shot short made by Chuck Jones during the Golden Age Of Animation.

Gallery

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Model sheet