A series of spot gags about farm life. Running gag: why are all the little piggies watching the clock so intently?A series of spot gags about farm life. Running gag: why are all the little piggies watching the clock so intently?A series of spot gags about farm life. Running gag: why are all the little piggies watching the clock so intently?
Sara Berner
- Mama Pig
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Robert C. Bruce
- Narrator
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Cliff Nazarro
- Eddie Cantor Horse
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Kent Rogers
- Female Red Ant
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
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- Writer
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Did you know
- TriviaThe first WB cartoon to use the 1941-1945 version of the opening theme to Merrie Melodies. This is also the first cartoon to use the 1941-1955 closing theme to Merrie Melodies.
- Quotes
Narrator: In the nearby trees, we find many species of bird-life. The birds always... Oh, look up there!
[camera pans up]
Narrator: No, no, over to the left.
[camera pans to the left]
Narrator: See? A little owl, nestling inside the tree trunk.
Owl: [hooting dully] Hoooo! Hooooooo! Whoooooooo's Yehoodi? Hoooo!
- Alternate versionsRe-released as a Blue Ribbon reissue where the following changes were made:
- The title card and credits were removed as well as the ending of the song "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm". In the original title art, the animator's hand erases the credits and then draws the farm.
- A gag involving a grasshopper chewing tobacco is removed, most likely because of the punchline involving the Hays Office.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Pee-wee's Playhouse: Mystery (1990)
Featured review
Tex Avery was the master of spot gags, but Bob Clampett also did well
One of the many early Merrie Melodies cartoons existing pretty much as an excuse for a series of narrated sight gags, Bob Clampett's "Farm Frolics" is noticeably tamer than "The Isle of Pingo Pongo" or "A Day at the Zoo", but still provides its fair share of laughs. It's pretty much the same kinds of jokes as Clampett's "Crazy Cruise" the following year. Granted, the jokes are fairly hokey. In my opinion, Tex Avery was the master of spot gags, and Bob Clampett reached his all-time apex with "The Great Piggy Bank Robbery".
Still, you gotta imagine how this stuff must have seemed the first time that moviegoers ever watched it. I figure that they very likely cracked up (or at least guffawed). And you'll probably at least chuckle at the gags. Worth seeing. Just came out on DVD on the Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 5.
Still, you gotta imagine how this stuff must have seemed the first time that moviegoers ever watched it. I figure that they very likely cracked up (or at least guffawed). And you'll probably at least chuckle at the gags. Worth seeing. Just came out on DVD on the Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 5.
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- lee_eisenberg
- Dec 11, 2007
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- Granujas de granja
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- Runtime8 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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