Goofy Groceries

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Goofy Groceries
Directed bySupervision:
Robert Clampett
Story byMelvin Millar
Produced byLeon Schlesinger
StarringMel Blanc
Sara Berner
Kent Rogers
Jack Lescoulie (all uncredited)[1]
Edited byTreg Brown (uncredited)
Music byCarl W. Stalling
Animation byVive Risto
I. Ellis (uncredited)
John Carey (uncredited)
Rod Scribner (uncredited)
Norm McCabe (uncredited)[2][3]
Cal Dalton (uncredited)
Layouts byMichael Sasanoff (uncredited)
Backgrounds byMichael Sasanoff (uncredited)
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures, Inc.
Release date
  • March 29, 1941 (1941-03-29)
Running time
9:03
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Goofy Groceries is a 1941 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies animated short film directed by Bob Clampett.[4] The short was released on March 29, 1941.[5]

Bearing a similar premise to earlier WB shorts

Have You Got Any Castles? but having a cast inspired by food products instead of magazines or books, the cartoon was written by Melvin Millar and produced by Leon Schlesinger. The animators included Vive Risto, Izzy Ellis, John Carey, Rod Scribner.[2] and Cal Dalton
.

Plot

The cartoon takes place one winter night, in a grocery store whose owner has just closed the shop. The mascots on the labels of the food products come to life and perform various song and dance numbers.

First, a cow for "Contented Milk" sings to a "Fulla Bull Tobacco" bull "

Horse Radish" while an army of "Navy Beans" and "Turtle Soup Turtles" shoots at the gorilla, who defends himself with a Roman candle while at one point destroying the bottle of Horse Radish that Jack is riding. Jack sees a box of "Chocolate-Covered A1 Cherries" and snatches the axe on the label amid cheering from an army of chicks, at which point the gorilla shoots the axe with the candle causing it to shrink. As Jack Bunny dons a sheepish grin and backs into a corner, the image resembling Superman on a box of "Superguy Soap Chips" comes to life at the sight of the gorilla lighting a stick of dynamite with Bunny's cigar. Superguy flies up to the gorilla and shouts at him, "Hey, you big ape!" and the gorilla replies "Yeah?" which scares Superguy so much that he turns into a helpless, whining baby. Then, as the gorilla is about to destroy Jack Bunny with the dynamite in his hand, a firm voice calls out "HENRY!!!" (in reference to the opening of The Aldrich Family), causing him to pause and run towards the direction of the voice, becoming meek and saying in a frightened voice "Coming, mother!" (another reference to the opening) while his apparent "mother" drags him away by his ear, harshly chastising him for his naughty behaviors as he pleads for mercy. Jack Bunny breathes a sigh of relief only to realize he's still holding the dynamite, which explodes leaving him in blackface. After being exploded on, he then concludes the cartoon with an Eddie Rochester
impression: "My oh my, tattletale grey!"

Home media

The cartoon is available restored, uncut, and uncensored on Disc 2 of the 2005 DVD Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 3. It was also released on The Golden Age Of Looney Tunes Volume 2 laserdisc.

References

  1. ^ Hartley, Steven (13 April 2014). "Likely Looney, Mostly Merrie: 322. Goofy Groceries (1941)". Likely Looney, Mostly Merrie. Retrieved 2 November 2020.
  2. ^ a b "Goofy Groceries". www.bcdb.com. Feb 13, 2016. Retrieved May 5, 2016.[dead link]
  3. ^ ""Goofy Groceries" and "Farm Frolics"". Big Cartoon Forum. Retrieved 6 January 2021.[dead link]
  4. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2
    .
  5. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7
    . Retrieved 6 June 2020.

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