{"id":4741,"date":"2024-09-29T19:52:55","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T01:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wackyland2.com\/?p=4741"},"modified":"2024-10-06T20:22:23","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T02:22:23","slug":"crosby-columbo-and-vallee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wackyland2.com\/?p=4741","title":{"rendered":"Crosby, Columbo and Vallee"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;Yoohoo, Minniehaha!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Crosby, Columbo, and Vallee (1932) [2023 Remaster]\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hmdkyXgpEls?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Animation by Rollin Hamilton and Max Maxwell. A Merrie Melody released on March 19, 1932.<\/p>\n<p>The natives aren&#8217;t happy. Seems there are three crooners around anymore and they&#8217;re attracting all of their *ahem* squaws. Oh, why should I feel uncomfortable watching this? Thanks to the lack of spectrum, you can&#8217;t prove these are supposed to be redskins. And really, they&#8217;re not even going to feature in the picture. Let them complain, the sourpusses. I&#8217;m going to follow the first grayskin I come across no matter how boring of a cartoon that turns out.<\/p>\n<p>Target sighted. Mickeyhaha is the star now. And looking at that long moniker I just gave him, I&#8217;m already regretting every choice in my life. They all led me here! Takes me back to my first decision I ever made: whether or not to breathe. I chose wrong back then, too. Let me overreact! It&#8217;s the closest I&#8217;ll ever come to being a VA! Can you tell that this picture isn&#8217;t giving me a lot to work with? Light on plot AND humor. At least the title song is catchy enough.<\/p>\n<p>Mick gets his girlfriend\/girl friend, who I&#8217;ll call Minn for short. Or just Minn, because that&#8217;s even shorter. Mick&#8217;s got a radio to play which means they can dance to diegetic sound for a change. It just requires a spider to stand on it to power the thing up. Because the web looks like a cord? I won&#8217;t dwell on it because I&#8217;d rather do what I&#8217;m really good at: pointing out animation errors. Look! Disappearing feather!<\/p>\n<p>Everything with a soul loves music, ergo, all the woodland critters that have come to join the fun. Including some kind of bear dog that goes as far as to give a Vallee impression. And I can hear a Crosby impression! Who wants to be Columbo? Anybody? Anybody at all? It&#8217;s an unsung honor. Well anyway, we need some sort of antagonist in this cartoon. Let&#8217;s think. What&#8217;s something everybody knows about, everybody instinctually fears, and if it&#8217;s ever represented in an animated work at all, starts out misunderstood by the other protagonists?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s fire all right. It&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wackyland2.com\/blog-1\/2015\/04\/07\/2015-4-7-porky-the-fireman-html\/\">always<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wackyland2.com\/blog-1\/2024\/06\/30\/flowers-for-madame\/\">fire<\/a>. The music gets the flames jumping out of their pit and all over the forest. There isn&#8217;t any casualties as far as I can tell, but three nestlings are stuck up a tree with no way to get down, sans gravity of course, but that way hurts. Mick gets some assistance from some fire flies, and I don&#8217;t mean *Dear future me, don&#8217;t forget to actually quote your post of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wackyland2.com\/blog-1\/2024\/04\/14\/joe-glow-the-firefly\/\">Joe Glow the Firefly<\/a>&#8220;*. Using a stray spider web, they make a safety net for the birds. Too bad the fire still succeeds in singing their feathers off. Mick takes care of it by spitting on that one flame.<\/p>\n<p>Well, the forest is still ablaze, and all the grayskins are probably going to end up homeless, but Mick feels he won, so the picture ends here. Happ-&#8230; Miser-&#8230; Ending. It&#8217;s an ending for sure.<\/p>\n<p>Favorite Part: Be sure to actually look at the fores animals that gather to enjoy the music. One of them is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wackyland2.com\/blog-1\/2011\/06\/18\/2011-6-18-lady-play-you-mandolin-html\/\">Foxy<\/a>! What a fun cameo!<\/p>\n<p>Personal Rating: 1. They don&#8217;t do anything creative or fun with their chosen cast, it&#8217;s just a standard rubber-hose dance party. And I didn&#8217;t want to mention it, but Minn is topless the whole time. Nippleless, but still&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Yoohoo, Minniehaha!&#8221; Animation by Rollin Hamilton and Max Maxwell. A Merrie Melody released on March 19, 1932. The natives aren&#8217;t happy. Seems there are three crooners around anymore and they&#8217;re attracting all of their *ahem* squaws. Oh, why should I feel uncomfortable watching this? 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