Flop Goes the Weasel (film)

Flop Goes the Weasel is a 1943 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Chuck Jones.[2] The short was released on March 20, 1943.[3]

Flop Goes the Weasel
1949 reissue title card
Directed byDirected and supervised by:
Charles M. Jones (uncredited)
Produced byLeon Schlesinger (credited on the original issue)
Story byTedd Pierce (credited on the original issue)
StarringFeaturing the uncredited voice talents of:
Mel Blanc as the Blackface Chick and the Weasel
Ruby Dandridge as Mammy Hen
Additional uncredited voice talent:
Lillian Randolph as Mammy Hen (selected scenes)
Music byMusical direction:
Carl Stalling (credited as Carl W. Stalling on the original issue)
Orchestra:
Milt Franklyn (uncredited)
Animation byCharacter animation:
Ken Harris (solo "animation" credit on the original issue)
Ben Washam (uncredited)
Lloyd Vaughan (uncredited)
Robert Cannon (uncredited)[1]
Effects animation:
A.C. Gamer (uncredited)
Layouts byCharacter and background layout:
John McGrew (uncredited)
Background design:
Bernyce Polifka (uncredited)
Backgrounds byBackground paint:
Gene Fleury (uncredited)
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures
The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date
March 20, 1943
Running time
7 minutes 38 seconds (Blue Ribbon reissue)
LanguageEnglish

Plot

A mother hen is off trying to catch a worm for her soon to be baby. While out, a Weasel steals the egg, wanting it for breakfast. Unfortunately the egg hatches and it mistakes that the Weasel as its mother. The Weasel wants to eat the chick, but it outsmarted him every time. For the last 3 minutes of the film, the weasel is constantly sneezing because the chick put pepper in his nose. He goes back to his biological mother, who found out that he had beaten up the Weasel.

Reception

On July 30, 1949, Boxoffice reviewed the short: "Very Good. The so-called Wiley Weasel is flabbergasted when an egg he has stolen from a barnyard hen for his meal, hatches out a small chick. The chick mistakes the weasel for its mother and the rodent is forced to play the game. He tries, without success, to lure the chick into the roasting pan."[4]

References
  1. "Flop Goes The Weasel". Big Cartoon DataBase, August 30, 2015
  2. Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 139. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.
  3. Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 104–106. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  4. Sampson, Henry T. (1998). That's Enough, Folks: Black Images in Animated Cartoons, 1900-1960. Scarecrow Press. p. 176. ISBN 978-0810832503.


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