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Nutty News is a 1942 Looney Tunes short directed by Bob Clampett.

Plot[]

Elmer Fudd narrates a newsreel.

A hunter uses a moose call; the moose answers back using a hunter call. A barber startles an uncooperative boy with his invention; the Hitler-in-the-box makes the boy's hair stand on end so the barber can cut it. A man uses a rear-view mirror to guard his hat while eating, but that's not all he should have guarded. In a laboratory, rabbits multiply, but by reciting their times tables. Fireflies are having a blackout. An artist uses his thumb to get the proportions correct as a model is posing. A baby chick follows along as ducks take their first swim. In the South, a traffic sign reads "No U-All Turns." A baseball pitcher throws a dollar across the Potomac, but it gets only halfway; his Scottie dog explains that a dollar doesn't go as far. In a fox hunt, the dogs run in circles because the lead dog is romancing the fox. A new department store is about to be built, and it's already attracted a protester. Finally, a series of battleships all sail in the rain, except the USS California, which is in bright sunshine.

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  • The version shown on Nickelodeon cuts the entire scene of the new invention that forces little boys to sit still while getting their hair cut (a jack-in-the-box with the head of Adolf Hitler as the jack).
  • Most syndicated prints of this short have the title card (but not the animation credits card) right-side-up rather than upside down before correcting itself due to Nazi symbolism on the upside down title card. When the short aired on Cartoon Network's The Bob Clampett Show, the title card's original presentation was shown. The title card edit was also done on Warner Bros. Discovery RIDE's streaming service and MeTV.

Notes[]

  • Due to his narration in this short, this is the first time that Elmer Fudd is at least heard in the Looney Tunes series.
  • Willoughby makes a brief cameo in the fox hunt scene, marking the only time Willoughby appears in black-and-white.
  • The scene of the ducks walking is reused animation from "Chicken Jitters". Also, during the same scene of the ducks walking, the father duck's voice is similar to that of Daffy Duck.
  • This cartoon entered the public domain in 1971 due to Warner Bros. not renewing the copyright.
  • At the end of the cartoon, the USS California is shown flashing a light three quick times, and then one longer time. This is morse code for the letter V (". . . _"). When this cartoon was released, the U.S. was well into World War Two, and the V stood for "victory."

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References[]

Elmer Fudd Cartoons
1937 Little Red Walking Hood
1938 The Isle of Pingo PongoCinderella Meets FellaA Feud There WasJohnny Smith and Poker-Huntas
1939 Hamateur NightA Day at the ZooBelieve It or Else
1940 Elmer's Candid CameraConfederate HoneyThe Hardship of Miles StandishA Wild HareGood Night Elmer
1941 Elmer's Pet RabbitWabbit Twouble
1942 The Wabbit Who Came to SupperAny Bonds Today?The Wacky WabbitNutty NewsFresh HareThe Hare-Brained Hypnotist
1943 To Duck .... or Not to DuckA Corny ConcertoAn Itch in Time
1944 The Old Grey HareThe Stupid CupidStage Door Cartoon
1945 The Unruly HareHare Tonic
1946 Hare RemoverThe Big Snooze
1947 Easter YeggsA Pest in the HouseSlick Hare
1948 What Makes Daffy DuckBack Alley Op-RoarKit for Cat
1949 Wise QuackersHare DoEach Dawn I Crow
1950 What's Up Doc?The Scarlet PumpernickelRabbit of Seville
1951 Rabbit Fire
1952 Rabbit Seasoning
1953 Upswept HareAnt PastedDuck! Rabbit, Duck!Robot Rabbit
1954 Design for LeavingQuack Shot
1955 Pests for GuestsBeanstalk BunnyHare BrushRabbit RampageThis Is a Life?Heir-Conditioned
1956 Bugs' BonnetsA Star Is BoredYankee Dood ItWideo Wabbit
1957 What's Opera, Doc?Rabbit Romeo
1958 Don't Axe MePre-Hysterical Hare
1959 A Mutt in a Rut
1960 Person to BunnyDog Gone People
1961 What's My Lion?
1962 Crows' Feat
1980 Portrait of the Artist as a Young Bunny
1990 Box Office Bunny
1991 (Blooper) Bunny
1992 Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers
2012 Daffy's Rhapsody



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