Buddy's Beer Garden
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Directed by | The Vitaphone Corporation |
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Running time | 7 minutes |
Language | English |
Buddy's Beer Garden is a 1933 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon, animated by Jack King and Frank Tashlin.[2] The short was released on November 11, 1933, and stars Buddy, the second star of the series.[3]
It was the first of five cartoons directed by Earl Duvall, here credited as "Duval," at Warner Bros. Cartoons, and one of only three Buddy shorts directed by him. Musical direction was by Norman Spencer.
Summary
We enter Buddy's
All present take part in "It's Time to Sing 'Sweet Adeline' Again": some sing, one patron plays his
As a final treat for his customers, Our Hero introduces a lady singer (who bears a striking resemblance to Mae West), who reveals herself only after Buddy's departure and a brief musical interlude. The grand dame attracts the attention of the very same recurring patron, who drunkenly stumbles over to her with the intention of receiving a kiss: as the song ("I Love my Big Time, Slow Time Baseball Man") ends, he makes his request, but a horned goat, part of a poster advertising "Bock Beer", but nonetheless quite alive, with its horns stabs the patron's backside, sending him flying. The patron, on his airborne journey, causes the lady singer to catch her dress on an overhanging tree; the dress tears, & the throaty performer, now grounded, is revealed to be a cross-dressed Buddy. Pleasantly embarrassed, Buddy stalks away, waving blithely to all present; in the final shot, we see that the bird cage strapped to Buddy's posterior (there to replicate the voluptuousness of his singing person), in fact houses an exotic bird, which shows itself to have a voice & nose like those of Jimmy Durante, as well as a saying: "Am I mortified!"
Home media
The cartoon is available on the Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 6. Along with Buddy's Day Out and Buddy's Circus, it is one of only three Buddy shorts released on DVD.
References
- ISBN 979-8-88771-010-5.
- ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.
- ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved June 6, 2020.
External links
- Buddy's Beer Garden at IMDb