Credits:
Supervision by - Rudolf Ising
Drawn by - Rollin Hamilton,
Max Maxwell
Musical Score by - Frank Marsales
Summary:
Napoleon fights for
his sweetheart in a toy shop that has come to life.
Description:
As a toymaker works
on a doll, his clock signals that it's time for bed. After he's gone,
the doll he had been working on comes to life and turns on the radio.
The entire toy shop comes to life and starts dancing as the doll begins
to sing the title tune. A toy Napoleon leading a group of toy soldiers
comes across the doll and instantly falls in love. He joins her in singing
the title tune, pausing momentarily to shoot a cork at a rowdy jack-in-the-box.
At the conclusion of the song all the toys cheer, except for three hear/see/speak-no-evil
monkeys. The doll does a seductive dance for Napoleon, who shouts "Snake
Hips! Ahhhh!", snap his fingers, and says "Red-headed baby,
you're simply divne!" High above, hanging from the ceiling, a six-legged
spider looks down and says "Red-headed baby, you're going to be mine!".
The spider lowers himself to the ground by cranking one of his legs, and
gets into a sword fight with Napoleon. Napoleon sneaks up behind the spider
and jabs his sword into the spider's behind. The fight continues, but
Napoleon backs into some toy blocks and knocks himself out. "Is there
a doctor in the audience?", asks the doll, right before the spider
snatches her away. Napoleon revives and sees the spider clutching his
sweetheart ("The lousy scoundrel!"), but cannot help because
he's literally had the stuffing knocked out of him. He pulls himself to
a steam whistle, where he uses the steam to fill himself up again. The
spider hops on to a toy train and chases the doll across the tops of the
cars. Napoleon tries to start a toy car but fails, then finds a rope and
manages to snag the spider by the head. With his end of the rope attached
to a toy duck on wheels, Napoleon follows the train as the spider is desperately
trying to hold on. As the train goes into a tunnel the spider gets knocked
off and grabs hold of a balloon, which floats him across several flaming
candles. As he and the doll stand atop the halted train, Napoleon fires
a cannon, sending a cork off to puncture the balloon. The balloon bursts,
and the flaming spider falls as all the toys cheer. Napoleon pulls up
a window shade to reval the doll and two black back-up singers, who reprise
the title tune. All the toys dance, and even the toymaker in his bed is
swaying to the beat. A teddy bear playing the trombone uses his instrument
to whack the jack-in-the-box in the head, and the toymaker ends the cartoon
by coming out of his room and yelling "Whoopee!"
Memorable
Scenes:
Video
Availability:
VHS: Inside
Termite Terrace, Vol. 2
Laserdisc: Golden Age of Looney Tunes, Vol. 3
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