{"id":3246,"date":"2021-09-26T20:43:41","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T02:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wackyland2.com\/?p=3246"},"modified":"2021-12-05T21:13:50","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T04:13:50","slug":"shamrock-and-roll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wackyland2.com\/?p=3246","title":{"rendered":"Shamrock and Roll"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;Anything <strong>that<\/strong> green has to be Ireland.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Shamrock and Roll (1969)\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"525\" height=\"393\" src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player.html?video=xkkk5h&#038;\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; web-share\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Directed by Bob McKimson; Story by Cal Howard; Animation by Ted Bonnicksen, LaVerne Harding, Jim Davis, Ed Solomon, and Norman McCabe; Layouts by Bob Givens, and Jaime Diaz; Backgrounds by Bob Abrams; Film Editor: Hal Geer; Voice Characterization by Larry Storch; Musical Direction by William Lava. A Merrie Melody released on June 28, 1969.<\/p>\n<p>You know, Merlin the magic mouse has spent every cartoon of his career so far in the USA. It really is a shame that he hoards his amazing feats of wonder (*cough*) away from the rest of the world. Aw, what the hey! For this, his final performance, he will perform in a different country. Picking one at random is the fun part!<\/p>\n<p>Since he&#8217;s been a good sidekick, Merlin decides to let Second Banana be the one to pinpoint their destination for prestidigitation. He gives the kid a dart, and tells him to throw it at the spinning globe. After Merlin pulls the dart out of himself, he tells the kid they&#8217;ll just blindfold and spin him instead. After getting his eye poked, Merlin rescinds S.B.&#8217;s picking privileges, and decides they&#8217;re going to the emerald isle.<\/p>\n<p>They travel by magic carpet, and it gets caught on a tree that I thought was part of the background. (It just goes by so fast!) This causes them to land on top of some shamrocks, and more importantly, some guy&#8217;s lawn. The lawn in question, belongs to a leprechaun named O&#8217;Reilly, who looks like kinda like a smurf that was designed by Dr. Seuss. I swear, just give the guy a couple of those half-moon pupils.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3248\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3248\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3248 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wackyland2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/real-screenshot.png?resize=300%2C163&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wackyland2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/real-screenshot.png?resize=300%2C163&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wackyland2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/real-screenshot.png?resize=1024%2C556&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wackyland2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/real-screenshot.png?resize=768%2C417&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wackyland2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/real-screenshot.png?w=1524&amp;ssl=1 1524w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3248\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Don&#8217;t tell me you can&#8217;t see it<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Anyhow, O.R. isn&#8217;t happy to see trespassers, and S.B. isn&#8217;t happy to be labeled as one. Does this guy know who he&#8217;s talking to? Merlin the magic mouse, that&#8217;s who! Maybe a demonstration of his powers is in order? Merlin&#8217;s got a great trick that a moose showed him once. You pull a rabbit out of a hat you see. But rabbits are a bit bigger than mice and leprechauns, so I can&#8217;t really be disappointed to find Merlin&#8217;s rabbit is a puppet.<\/p>\n<p>The leprechaun isn&#8217;t impressed and decides to show the two a REAL trick. He makes Merlin&#8217;s watch disappear. When Merlin asks for it back, Reilly makes himself disappear. It was magic AND a trick! He&#8217;s keeping the watch, as he likes watches. Is that something leprechauns are known for? I thought they wasted their time hoarding cereal, and shining shoes.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Reilly says that if they can catch him, they can have the watch back. The mice chase the thief, but he leads them off a cliff. Merlin makes a paper airplane for them to ride in, and they crash into a tree. You&#8217;d think Merlin&#8217;s magic could be used to get a hold of that watch but he&#8217;s just going to use a trap instead. If you can believe it, Reilly actually falls for it. But I guess since the trap caught him, he doesn&#8217;t have to keep his end of the bargain, as he magics himself away.<\/p>\n<p>His house was pretty close by, and Merlin once more demands the watch. (So angry is he, that he takes half a step back, rather than forward.) O&#8217;Reilly decides to make amends by giving the two a whole bag of watches. (He usually sells the things on the street at jacked up prices to unsuspecting brownies.) Merlin agrees to this, and he and his&#8230; son? (Are these two related?) are on their way again. (To another locale. The locals have cost Ireland its chance.)<\/p>\n<p>Merlin has plans for these watches. He&#8217;ll sell them on the street at jacked up prices to unsuspecting voles! And it&#8217;s at that decision that the timepieces disappear. (Leprechauns are dicks.) 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