The Rattled Rooster is a 1948 Looney Tunes short directed by Arthur Davis.
Plot[]
A hungry rooster, whose motto is "The early bird gets the worm," is unable to get worms; the other chickens either get there first or trick him out of the worms. There's one worm nobody else competes for, because it's a trickster. It uses the garden hose, a balloon, toothpaste, and a high-voltage line to fool the chicken. It gets the chicken stuck in a pipe, then launches it with a hotfoot. The rooster doesn't believe it, so the worm launches him again. The worm attaches a baby rattle to his tail and fools the chicken, but a real rattlesnake mistakes the worm for her child. The worm and rooster team up to get the rattler stuck in a fence, using a couple of golf balls, then shake hands and walk away. The light finally dawns on the rooster, and he comes back after the worm who traps him in the fence, right next to the snake.
Caricatures[]
- Red Skelton - "He don't know how really clever I am, do he?"
Availability[]
The Golden Age of Looney Tunes Volume 4, Side 6
Streaming[]
Notes[]
- This is the final short to be written by Dave Monahan; he would eventually begin working for Columbia's Screen Gems as a writer with Cal Howard until the studio's shutdown. He would then retire from writing theatrical shorts and move on to commercials before briefly returning to theatrical works, working as the live-action director of an animated feature, The Phantom Tollbooth (1970).
- This is the final cartoon directed by Arthur Davis to be in the a.a.p. package.
- This cartoon was shown in theatres with The Big Punch during its original release.
- The film can of the a.a.p. 8mm release pictures the rooster as a miscolored Foghorn Leghorn, who does not appear in this short.
Gallery[]
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