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| + | |name = Wild Wife |
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| + | |image = Mpv-shot0007.jpg |
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| + | |Director = [[Robert McKimson]] |
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| + | |producer = [[Eddie Selzer]] (uncredited) |
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| + | |airdate = February 20, 1954 |
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| + | |series = [[Merrie Melodies]] |
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| + | |Voice = [[Mel Blanc]]<br>[[Bea Benaderet]] (uncredited) |
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| + | |Starring = Marsha<br>John |
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| + | |previous = [[Feline Frame-Up]] |
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| + | |next = [[No Barking]] |
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| + | |Writer = [[Tedd Pierce]] |
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| + | |Animators = [[Rod Scribner]]<br>[[Charles McKimson]]<br>[[Phil DeLara]]<br>[[Herman Cohen]] |
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| + | |video = [[File:Merrie_Melodies_-_Une_femme_oisive_(1954)|thumb|center|280px]] |
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| + | [[File:Wild Wife (1954)|thumb|center|280px]] |
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| + | |Layout-artist = [[Bob Givens|Robert Givens]] |
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| + | |Background-artist = [[Richard H. Thomas]] |
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| + | |Sound effects = [[Treg Brown]] (uncredited) |
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| + | |Musician = [[Carl W. Stalling|Carl Stalling]] |
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+ | == Title == |
| + | The title is a pun of "Wild Life".<!-- Is it? I don't see that that's a common phrase or was back then. Cite? --> |
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| − | The cartoon centers around an exhausted housewife telling her mean husband about her long and tiring day. |
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+ | == Plot == |
| + | John comes home from work and immediately starts asking exhausted wife Marsha if she finished his chores. She finished them all but one (mowing the lawn). After John makes a sexist remark about how women like her have all the time in the world as housewives and stay-at-home moms, but can never get anything done, Marsha tells John the story of how she spent her day. |
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| + | Marsha describes listening to him snoring all night, then jumping out of bed to close the windows and make breakfast for him, their kids and the family dog. She then cleaned the house with the vacuum John bought her for their anniversary (and ends up sweeping the floor after the dust comes out the other end), went to the bank (where she was stuck behind customers making very large deposits in pennies), the blood bank (where a meek, green-skinned man named Casper J. Fragile is more interested in a blood withdrawal than a blood deposit), the department store, the drugstore (which, back when this cartoon was made, had a soda counter where one would order milkshakes and malted drinks), the grocery store, and the hair salon (where she was so concerned about the parking meter time limit that she went out in curlers and clay mask to deposit an extra quarter and scare a passerby in the process; all for nothing as the city replaced the parking meter with a fire hydrant and a police officer gave her a ticket and mocked her claim that it wasn't there when she parked her car). |
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| + | Unimpressed, John asks if that is all she did. His eyes light up when Marsha says she also bought something for him. It was a rolling pin and she summarily bashes him with it, punctuating it by saying, ''"Little man, I have had a busy day!"'' |
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| + | == Availability == |
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| + | * (2008) DVD - ''[[Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 6]]'', Disc 4 |
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| + | == Notes == |
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| + | * The names Marsha and John are a reference to the 1951 Stan Freberg song "John and Marsha". "[[Punch Trunk]]", "[[The Unexpected Pest]]", and "[[Unnatural History]]" also reference this record. |
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| + | == Gallery == |
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| + | Wild Wife - John and Marsha.png |
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| + | 7188zBV3kvL. SL1155 .jpg|[[Lobby Cards|Lobby Card #1]] |
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| + | Ww.jpg|Lobby Card #2 |
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| + | Screenshot_20190721-210934.jpg|This short was also was aired on Nickelodeon on Saturday August 29 1998 |
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| + | == External Links == |
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| + | * "[http://www.cartoonstv.net/wild-wife/ Wild Wife]" at CartoonsTV |
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[[Category:1954]] |
[[Category:1954]] |
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[[Category:Cartoons directed by Robert McKimson]] |
[[Category:Cartoons directed by Robert McKimson]] |
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[[Category:Shorts]] |
[[Category:Shorts]] |
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| − | [[Category:Merrie Melodies |
+ | [[Category:Merrie Melodies Shorts]] |
| + | [[Category:Cartoons written by Tedd Pierce]] |
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| + | [[Category:Cartoons animated by Charles McKimson]] |
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| + | [[Category:Cartoons animated by Herman Cohen]] |
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| + | [[Category:Cartoons with layouts by Robert Givens]] |
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| + | [[Category:Cartoons with backgrounds by Richard H. Thomas]] |
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| + | [[Category:Cartoons with music by Carl W. Stalling]] |
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| + | [[Category:Cartoons with film editing by Treg Brown]] |
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| + | [[Category:Cartoons with sound effects edited by Treg Brown]] |
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| + | [[Category:Cartoons with orchestrations by Milt Franklyn]] |
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| + | [[Category:Cartoons with characters voiced by Bea Benaderet]] |
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| + | [[Category:Cartoons with characters voiced by Mel Blanc]] |
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| + | [[Category:Cartoons produced by Eddie Selzer]] |
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| + | [[Category:One-Shot Cartoons]] |
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Wild Wife is a 1954 Merrie Melodies short directed by Robert McKimson.
Title
The title is a pun of "Wild Life".
Plot
John comes home from work and immediately starts asking exhausted wife Marsha if she finished his chores. She finished them all but one (mowing the lawn). After John makes a sexist remark about how women like her have all the time in the world as housewives and stay-at-home moms, but can never get anything done, Marsha tells John the story of how she spent her day.
Marsha describes listening to him snoring all night, then jumping out of bed to close the windows and make breakfast for him, their kids and the family dog. She then cleaned the house with the vacuum John bought her for their anniversary (and ends up sweeping the floor after the dust comes out the other end), went to the bank (where she was stuck behind customers making very large deposits in pennies), the blood bank (where a meek, green-skinned man named Casper J. Fragile is more interested in a blood withdrawal than a blood deposit), the department store, the drugstore (which, back when this cartoon was made, had a soda counter where one would order milkshakes and malted drinks), the grocery store, and the hair salon (where she was so concerned about the parking meter time limit that she went out in curlers and clay mask to deposit an extra quarter and scare a passerby in the process; all for nothing as the city replaced the parking meter with a fire hydrant and a police officer gave her a ticket and mocked her claim that it wasn't there when she parked her car).
Unimpressed, John asks if that is all she did. His eyes light up when Marsha says she also bought something for him. It was a rolling pin and she summarily bashes him with it, punctuating it by saying, "Little man, I have had a busy day!"
Availability
- (2008) DVD - Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 6, Disc 4
Notes
- The names Marsha and John are a reference to the 1951 Stan Freberg song "John and Marsha". "Punch Trunk", "The Unexpected Pest", and "Unnatural History" also reference this record.
Gallery
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External Links
- "Wild Wife" at CartoonsTV