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|name = Yankee Dood It
  
|name = Yankee Dood It
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|image = 08-yankeedoodit.jpg
  
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|Director = [[Friz Freleng]]
  
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|producer = [[Eddie Selzer]]
  
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|airdate = October 13, 1956
  
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|series = [[Merrie Melodies]]
  
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|Writer = [[Warren Foster]]
  
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|Animators = [[Gerry Chiniquy]]<br>[[Virgil Ross]]<br>[[Arthur Davis]]
  
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|Layout-artist = [[Hawley Pratt]]
  
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|Background-artist = [[Irv Wyner]]
  
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|Sound effects = [[Treg Brown]]
  
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|Voice = [[Mel Blanc]]<br>[[Arthur Q. Bryan]]<br>[[Daws Butler]]
  
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|Musician = [[Milt Franklyn]]
  
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|Starring = [[Sylvester]]<br>[[Elmer Fudd]]<br>Shoemaker<br>Elf
  
 
|previous = [[Deduce, You Say]]
  
|previous = [[Deduce, You Say]]
 
|next = [[Wideo Wabbit]]
  
|next = [[Wideo Wabbit]]
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|video = [[File:Yankee Dood It|thumb|center|280px]]
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|image = Yankee-Dood-It-HBO-Max-Title-card.jpeg
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|airdate = 13 October 1956 <br/><br/>'''[[Blue Ribbon]] reissue:''' <br/>14 September 1963<ref>https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/27486235/boxoffice-june081964</ref>
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|renewed = 18 April 1984
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|series = [[Merrie Melodies]]
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|mpaa = 17903
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|prodno = 1441<ref>[https://warnerbrosarchives.wordpress.com/home/collections/additional-collections/music-scores-collection/music-scores-cartoons/ Warner Bros. Archives]</ref> <br/>2301 (reissue)<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/motionpictureexh71jaye/motionpictureexh71jaye_djvu.txt Motion Picture Exhibitor (Jan-Apr 1964)]</ref>
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|starring = [[Sylvester]]<br>[[Elmer Fudd]]
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|voice = [[Mel Blanc]]<br>[[Arthur Q. Bryan]]<br>[[Daws Butler]]
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|director = [[Friz Freleng]]
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|producer = [[Eddie Selzer]]
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|writer = [[Warren Foster]]
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|animators = [[Gerry Chiniquy]]<br>[[Virgil Ross]]<br>[[Arthur Davis]]
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|layout = [[Hawley Pratt]]
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|background = [[Irv Wyner]]
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|editor = [[Treg Brown]]
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|musician = [[Milt Franklyn]]
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|video = <gallery>
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Looney Tunes - Volume 11 - Ep30 - Yankee Dood it HD Watch HD Deutsch|A
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Sylvester and Tweety E63 – Yankee Dood It|B
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'''Yankee Dood It''' is a 1956 ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' short directed by [[Friz Freleng]].
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'''Yankee Dood It''' is a [[1956]] ''[[Merrie Melodies]]'' short directed by [[Friz Freleng]].
   
 
== Title ==
  
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== Plot ==
  
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[[File:Yankeedoodit1.jpg|thumb|Elmer gives speech to the elves.]]
 
[[Elmer Fudd]] is the progressive King of industrial Elves. He visits an outmoded shoemaker's shop to extol the virtues of mass production capitalism to the shoemaker, whose pet cat, [[Sylvester]], uses the magic word, "Jehosophat" to turn Fudd's elf helper into a mouse and chases him around the shoemaker's shop. Saying "Rumpelstiltskin" changes him back to an elf.
  
[[Elmer Fudd]] is the progressive King of industrial Elves. He visits an outmoded shoemaker's shop to extol the virtues of mass production capitalism to the shoemaker, whose pet cat, [[Sylvester]], uses the magic word, "Jehosophat" to turn Fudd's elf helper into a mouse and chases him around the shoemaker's shop. Saying "Rumpelstiltskin" changes him back to an elf.
   
 
== Availability ==
  
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* LaserDisc - ''[[Looney Tunes LaserDiscs|Wince upon a Time: Foolhardy Fairy Tales and Looney Legends]]''
  
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* DVD - ''[[Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 6]]'', Disc 2
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lt wince.jpg|(1994) LaserDisc <br/>''[[Looney Tunes LaserDiscs|Wince Upon a Time: Foolhardy Fairy Tales and Looney Legends]]''
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Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 6.jpg|(2008) DVD <br/>''[[Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 6]]'', Disc Two
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=== Streaming ===
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lt boomerang.jpg|[[Boomerang]] App (2017 - )
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== Notes ==
  
== Notes ==
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* This short is based on the fairy tale "The Elves and the Shoemaker", but set 150 years after that story took place (in the mid-19th century).
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* This short is based on the fairy tale "The Elves and the Shoemaker", but set a hundred years later.
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* Unlike most cartoons reissued at the time, the original end title is kept.
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* Unlike most cartoons reissued at the time, the original ending title is kept.
 
* This was the last of three cartoons to be underwritten by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, which also underwrote "[[By Word of Mouse]]" and "[[Heir-Conditioned]]". They are all available on ''[[Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 6]]'', Disc 2.
  
* This was the last of three cartoons to be underwritten by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, which also underwrote "[[By Word of Mouse]]" and "[[Heir-Conditioned]]". They are all available on ''[[Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 6]]'', Disc 2.
 
* This cartoon is also one of the rare cartoons where Sylvester has no speaking lines (except for "Ah-ha!" and "Sufferin' Succotash"), and thus there is no voice actor credit. Daws Butler voiced the shoemaker, and [[Arthur Q. Bryan]] voiced [[Elmer Fudd]].
  
* This cartoon is also one of the rare cartoons where Sylvester has no speaking lines (except for "Ah-ha!" and "Sufferin' Succotash"), and thus there is no voice actor credit. Daws Butler voiced the shoemaker, and [[Arthur Q. Bryan]] voiced [[Elmer Fudd]].
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== Gallery ==
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Yankee Dood It Model Sheet 1.png
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Latest revision as of 03:15, 16 October 2023

Yankee Dood It is a 1956 Merrie Melodies short directed by Friz Freleng.

Title

The title is a pun on "Yankee Doodle" and Red Skelton's famous "I Dood It" line from the Mean Widdle Kid routine.

Plot

Yankeedoodit1

Elmer gives speech to the elves.

Elmer Fudd is the progressive King of industrial Elves. He visits an outmoded shoemaker's shop to extol the virtues of mass production capitalism to the shoemaker, whose pet cat, Sylvester, uses the magic word, "Jehosophat" to turn Fudd's elf helper into a mouse and chases him around the shoemaker's shop. Saying "Rumpelstiltskin" changes him back to an elf.

Availability

Streaming

Notes

  • This short is based on the fairy tale "The Elves and the Shoemaker", but set a hundred years later.
  • Unlike most cartoons reissued at the time, the original ending title is kept.
  • This was the last of three cartoons to be underwritten by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, which also underwrote "By Word of Mouse" and "Heir-Conditioned". They are all available on Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 6, Disc 2.
  • This cartoon is also one of the rare cartoons where Sylvester has no speaking lines (except for "Ah-ha!" and "Sufferin' Succotash"), and thus there is no voice actor credit. Daws Butler voiced the shoemaker, and Arthur Q. Bryan voiced Elmer Fudd.

Gallery

References

  1. ↑ https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/27486235/boxoffice-june081964
  2. ↑ Warner Bros. Archives
  3. ↑ Motion Picture Exhibitor (Jan-Apr 1964)

External Links


Elmer Fudd Cartoons
1937 Little Red Walking Hood
1938 The Isle of Pingo Pongo • Cinderella Meets Fella • A Feud There Was • Johnny Smith and Poker-Huntas
1939 Hamateur Night • A Day at the Zoo • Believe It or Else
1940 Elmer's Candid Camera • Confederate Honey • The Hardship of Miles Standish • A Wild Hare • Good Night Elmer
1941 Elmer's Pet Rabbit • Wabbit Twouble
1942 The Wabbit Who Came to Supper • Any Bonds Today? • The Wacky Wabbit • Nutty News • Fresh Hare • The Hare-Brained Hypnotist
1943 To Duck .... or Not to Duck • A Corny Concerto • An Itch in Time
1944 The Old Grey Hare • The Stupid Cupid • Stage Door Cartoon
1945 The Unruly Hare • Hare Tonic
1946 Hare Remover • The Big Snooze
1947 Easter Yeggs • A Pest in the House • Slick Hare
1948 What Makes Daffy Duck • Back Alley Op-Roar • Kit for Cat
1949 Wise Quackers • Hare Do • Each Dawn I Crow
1950 What's Up Doc? • The Scarlet Pumpernickel • Rabbit of Seville
1951 Rabbit Fire
1952 Rabbit Seasoning
1953 Upswept Hare • Ant Pasted • Duck! Rabbit, Duck! • Robot Rabbit
1954 Design for Leaving • Quack Shot
1955 Pests for Guests • Beanstalk Bunny • Hare Brush • Rabbit Rampage • This Is a Life? • Heir-Conditioned
1956 Bugs' Bonnets • A Star Is Bored • Yankee Dood It • Wideo Wabbit
1957 What's Opera, Doc? • Rabbit Romeo
1958 Don't Axe Me • Pre-Hysterical Hare
1959 A Mutt in a Rut
1960 Person to Bunny • Dog 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
Sylvester Cartoons
1945 Life with Feathers • Peck Up Your Troubles
1946 Kitty Kornered
1947 Tweetie Pie • Crowing Pains • Doggone Cats • Catch as Cats Can
1948 Back Alley Oproar • I Taw a Putty Tat • Hop, Look and Listen • Kit for Cat • Scaredy Cat
1949 Mouse Mazurka • Bad Ol' Putty Tat • Hippety Hopper
1950 Home, Tweet Home • The Scarlet Pumpernickel • All a Bir-r-r-d • Canary Row • Stooge for a Mouse • Pop 'Im Pop!
1951 Canned Feud • Putty Tat Trouble • Room and Bird • Tweety's S.O.S. • Tweet Tweet Tweety
1952 Who's Kitten Who? • Gift Wrapped • Little Red Rodent Hood • Ain't She Tweet • Hoppy Go Lucky • A Bird in a Guilty Cage • Tree for Two
1953 Snow Business • A Mouse Divided • Fowl Weather • Tom Tom Tomcat • A Street Cat Named Sylvester • Catty Cornered • Cats A-weigh!
1954 Dog Pounded • Bell Hoppy • Dr. Jerkyl's Hide • Claws for Alarm • Muzzle Tough • Satan's Waitin' • By Word of Mouse
1955 Lighthouse Mouse • Sandy Claws • Tweety's Circus • Jumpin' Jupiter • A Kiddies Kitty • Speedy Gonzales • Red Riding Hoodwinked • Heir-Conditioned • Pappy's Puppy
1956 Too Hop to Handle • Tweet and Sour • Tree Cornered Tweety • The Unexpected Pest • Tugboat Granny • The Slap-Hoppy Mouse • Yankee Dood It
1957 Tweet Zoo • Tweety and the Beanstalk • Birds Anonymous • Greedy for Tweety • Mouse-Taken Identity • Gonzales' Tamales
1958 A Pizza Tweety-Pie • A Bird in a Bonnet
1959 Trick or Tweet • Tweet and Lovely • Cat's Paw • Here Today, Gone Tamale • Tweet Dreams
1960 West of the Pesos • Goldimouse and the Three Cats • Hyde and Go Tweet • Mouse and Garden • Trip for Tat
1961 Cannery Woe • Hoppy Daze • Birds of a Father • D' Fightin' Ones • The Rebel Without Claws • The Pied Piper of Guadalupe • The Last Hungry Cat
1962 Fish and Slips • Mexican Boarders • The Jet Cage
1963 Mexican Cat Dance • Chili Weather • Claws in the Lease
1964 A Message to Gracias • Freudy Cat • Nuts and Volts • Hawaiian Aye Aye • Road to Andalay
1965 It's Nice to Have a Mouse Around the House • Cats and Bruises • The Wild Chase
1966 A Taste of Catnip
1980 The Yolks on You
1995 Carrotblanca
1997 Father of the Bird
2011 I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat
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