Credits:
Supervision by - Rudolf Ising
Drawn by - Rollin Hamilton,
Thomas McKimson
Musical Score by - Frank Marsales
Summary:
Circus shenanigans.
Description:
The setting is a circus,
where the kind of clown that gives kids nightmares is doing his tumbling
act. A marching band goes by performing the title song; some members include
a kangaroo that plays trombone while her child plays the clarinet in her
pouch, and an inventive lion who uses a dog to replace the torn skin of
his drum. The spectators begin to sing the title song, while we watch
a black clown and a pipe-smoking dachshund-on-a-unicycle go by. Then we
see a car carrying a caged lion drive through a pipe, and emerge with
the driver in the cage and the lion in the driver's seat. After that we
see monkeys use a lion's tail as a jump rope, and then we hear the complaints
of the street cleaner who's following the elephants. We now take a look
at the sideshow, where the announcer introduces such acts as Jo Jo the
Wild Man (a stereotyped African native), Gumbo the India Rubber Man (who
turns himself into a tire and a bouncing ball), Siamese twin hogs (one
smokes a cigar, the other exhales), a tattooed strong man (whose head
as an effeminate flip-side, and whose tattoo of a woman increases her
derriere as he flexes his arm), and a hula-dancing hippo who is tickled
by a mouse with a party favor (she then thinks the strong man is the culprit
and slaps him in the face, causing his ship tattoo to sink). The announcer
then introduces "the skinny man from India", who is revealed
to be Mahatma Ghandi, accompanied by a dancing goat. Under the big top
we meet Fifi the bareback rider (though a mishap causes the horse to ride
her), a mouse who rides a bicycle on an elephant, and a female
cat who sings the title song during her high-wire act. Meanwhile, outside
the tent, a group of very creative mice use an ostrich and a slingshot
to gain free admission. The last act is a lion tamer, where after the
standard man-puts-head-in-lion's-mouth bit, the lion puts his head into
the lion tamer's mouth! After this the lion suddenly starts scratching
his back frantically, finally pulling out his teeth to bite the fleas
off of him. The end.
Memorable
Scenes:
Video
Availability:
Laserdisc:
Golden Age of Looney Tunes, Vol. 4
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