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{{Infobox_Shorts wTabs
[[File:Gay_anties.jpg|thumb|Blue Ribbon Re-Issue Titles]]
 
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|name = The Gay Anties
[[File:Gayanties.jpg|thumb|260px|right]]
 
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|image = [[file:86d7f1002b1dca055472da541a99407e.jpg|280px]]
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|Director = [[Friz Freleng|I. Freleng]]
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|producer = [[Eddie Selzer]] (uncredited)
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|airdate = February 15, 1947
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|series = [[Merrie Melodies]]
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|Voice = [[Mel Blanc]]
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|Starring = Ants<br>Couple
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|previous = [[The Goofy Gophers]]
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|next = [[Scent-imental over You]]
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|Writer = [[Michael Maltese]]<br>[[Tedd Pierce]]
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|Animators = [[Ken Champin]]<br>[[Virgil Ross]]<br>[[Gerry Chiniquy]]<br>[[Manuel Perez]]
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|Layout-artist = [[Hawley Pratt]]
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|Background-artist = [[Hawley Pratt]]
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|Sound effects = [[Treg Brown]] (uncredited)
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|Musician = [[Carl W. Stalling|Carl Stalling]]
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|Video = [[File:Merrie Melodies - The Gay Anties (Dubbed Version)|thumb|center|280px]]
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[[File:Merrie Melodies Cartoons The Gay Anties |thumb|center|280px]]
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}}
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'''The Gay Anties''' is a [[1947]] ''[[Merrie Melodies]]'' short directed by [[Friz Freleng]].
   
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== Title ==
'''The Gay Anties''' was a [[Merrie Melodies]] cartoon short, produced by [[Warner Bros.]], directed by [[Friz Freleng]] and written by [[Michael Maltese]] and [[Tedd Pierce]], and released February 15, 1947.
 
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The title is a play on "the gay nineties," the decade in which this short is set.
   
==Plot==
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== Plot ==
A colony of ants surreptitiously invade a young couple's park picnic in the 1890s and contrive to steal their food. The gags include a scene in which the ants, frustrated three times in their efforts to make off with a sandwich, spread mustard on the back of the girlfriend's hand and trick the boyfriend into biting it, and one in which a female ant sings an overly melodramatic song ("Time Waits for No One") which gets the other ants to run for cover.
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A colony of ants surreptitiously invade a young couple's park picnic in the 1890s and contrive to steal their food. The ants, frustrated three times in their efforts to make off with a sandwich, spread mustard on the back of the girlfriend's hand and trick the boyfriend into biting it. A female ant sings an overly melodramatic song, "Time Waits for No One", which gets the other ants to run for cover.
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==External links==
 
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== Gallery ==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Movie_Database Internet Movie Database] article at [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039414/ [1]]
 
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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Cartoon_Database Big Cartoon Database] article at [http://www.bcdb.com/cartoon_information/137-Gay_Anties.html [2]]
 
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Gayanties.jpg
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</gallery>
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== External Links ==
 
* Internet Movie Database [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039414/ article]
 
* Big Cartoon Database[http://www.bcdb.com/cartoon_information/137-Gay_Anties.html article]
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Revision as of 20:10, 13 January 2020

Template:Infobox Shorts wTabs The Gay Anties is a 1947 Merrie Melodies short directed by Friz Freleng.

Title

The title is a play on "the gay nineties," the decade in which this short is set.

Plot

A colony of ants surreptitiously invade a young couple's park picnic in the 1890s and contrive to steal their food. The ants, frustrated three times in their efforts to make off with a sandwich, spread mustard on the back of the girlfriend's hand and trick the boyfriend into biting it. A female ant sings an overly melodramatic song, "Time Waits for No One", which gets the other ants to run for cover.

Gallery

External Links