Yuckie Duck works at a café as both the cook and the sole waiter. If you value plot and characters over everything, well, you might want to look somewhere else. His style is very distinctive in all of them, which is a good and a bad thing, because if you can enjoy a cartoon for its visuals, specially really wacky, wild takes, then Ventura's stuff could fit your tastes like a glove if you don't mind some gross stuff tossed here and there. This is Pat Ventura's first WAC short, and I make note of this, because he will direct more shorts than anyone else in this series (six in total). Produced in Association with: Fil-Cartoons, Inc., Philippines and Jaime Diaz Productions, Argentina Voices: Bill Kopp, Marsha Clark, Victor Love, Earl Kress Layout Artists: Mark Kausler, Robert Ramirez, Julian Chaney I probably won't bother watching it again now that this review is done.Ĭreated, Written and Directed by: Pat Ventura There are a couple of gags that are mildly amusing, and a couple of cute shots, mainly of the cat, but other than that, I can't say I'm a big fan of this one. It's okay, I guess, but there isn't anything about this one that stands out, unlike the previous three shorts. I find it hard to believe he can't do puppy barks.Īll in all, there isn't really much to say about this one. I don't want to blame this entirely on Welker either, as he was likely directed to do it like this. It's just not the same, and at some points it's rather annoying. In the original series, Mel Blanc gave Dino a puppy-style voice which fit with the playful personality of the character, but Welker gives the character some sort of grunt, making him sound like a pig more than a dog. The guy is a great actor with an unparalleled talent for doing animal voices. Why not make a single establishing shot that shows her asleep with ear-muffs or something? Would have worked just fine and gotten rid of an inconsistency right away. Fred even calls for her at the end of the episode. She's obviously there when all the ruckus between Dino and the cat is going on, but she never intervenes or does Dino make any attempts to make sure she's fine. First, Wilma is present in the short through one off-screen line at the beginning, then she never leaves the house. There are also a few things that bug me about this short. Heck, even the Dexter's Lab episode "The Continuum of Cartoon Fools", released a few years after this short, does this concept A LOT better. All the gags are either not funny (the tiger skin rug), rather dumb (the Baby scene), or go for way too long ("The Evil Guard Dog"). Now, I don't mind each director taking a shot at a classic concept, but one like this needs good jokes to go along, and this is where the episode falls flat. He would later take this concept to MGM and immortalized it, most notably with the Droopy cartoon "Northwest Hounded Police". This is something that Tex Avery conceived back in the classic years, going as early as the Bugs Bunny cartoon "Tortoise Beats Hare". The concept of this cartoon is one that has existed for decades, which consists in one character trying to get rid or avoid another characters, but all attempts fail. The cartoon ends the same way the closing sequence of the classic series ends, except with both Fred and Dino banging on the door. Fred and Dino then go back to the house, but the cat is already inside, and has locked them out. They all go to the shed so Fred can prove Dino didn't do his job, only to find the shed filled with identically-looking cats. Fred returns and sees the cat is still inside, so Dino tries to explain through gestures (easily the best animated scene in the short) what happened, but Fred doesn't buy his excuse. Every time the cat comes back there's a different gag that plays, such as the cat appearing on the TV, posing as Santa Claus and a baby, and appearing in the shower. The cartoon is then pretty much a series of jokes involving the cat somehow making it back inside even though Dino keeps throwing him out. Also, one could argue this was a pilot for a Flintstones spin-off, but did we really need another of those?įred is going out bowling and leaves Dino with the task of keeping the cat out of the house. The saddest part is, this short isn't very good. As you can tell by the title card, it's a Flintstones cartoon, so in a series supposed to showcase new cartoons made by young, aspiring cartoonists, this one feels like a cheater, as it uses established characters and the director himself has more experience (almost 60 years at this point!) than anyone else so far. Reviewing this short feels kinda strange. Produced in Association with Wang Films Productions Co. Voices: Henry Corden, Frank Welker, Jean Vander Pyl Background Stylists: Jerry Loveland & Craig Robertson
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