Buddy's Garage
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Buddy's Garage is an American
animated
short film. It is a Looney Tune cartoon, featuring Buddy
, the second star of the series, & released on April 14, 1934. It was the last Warner Bros.
short directed by Earl Duvall
and only the second in which his name is so spelled (on others, his name is spelt "Duval.") Bernard Brown was musical director of the cartoon.
) is put to good use, as Our Hero attaches one end of an air hose to the dog's mouth, and the other to a tire, that Towser's snoring fills the limp tire with air; a bee
puts a canker in the plan by popping the tire with its stinger & scaring Towser awake with the noise. The dog eats the bee, but spits it back out on account of the stinger. Buddy, meanwhile, plays "By a Waterfall" on a series of files (as if the files were a xylophone
), until Cookie appears with Buddy's lunch. The two sweethearts set up to eat: Buddy grinds the skin off of a pineapple
, cracks the shells of walnuts
with a monkey wrench
, and attempts to inflate a small chicken to greater proportions (to the chicken's exploding as thought it were a balloon.) Just then, a large, cigar-smoking character (apparently the same villain from Buddy's Show Boat
& Buddy's Beer Garden
) drives up to the garage, requesting gasoline for his vehicle. Buddy obliges, and the bruiser steps away to the restroom, where he finds Cookie, whom he decides to kidnap: Buddy dutifully oils his new enemy's engine, but knows that something is amiss when he hears Cookie scream. Rushing inside the garage, Buddy finds the bruiser unfazed by Cookie's blows & demands of release. Challenged at once by Buddy, the bruiser puts down Cookie, only to be attacked from behind by the same with a drill of some sort: the villain chases Cookie, Buddy the villain. At a wall, the villain again takes Cookie, & an indignant Buddy is buried by tires from a shelf that the bruiser intentionally jostles. Freeing himself, Buddy is blasted with ash from the villain's (freshly re-fueled) automobile as it speeds away. Hastening back to the garage, Buddy starts after Cookie & her kidnapper with another vehicle: on the chase, Buddy & his enemy must pass two stopped trucks & freely ignore a "Road Closed" sign; upon crashing into a large box of tools, the bruiser finds his back tires equipped with saws, which compromise the mid-section of a wooden bridge, through which, as a result, Buddy and his vehicle fall, into the water below, where the hook on the wench of Buddy's truck catches a fish, which then is pursued by hungry cats. Briefly losing the trail, Buddy speeds as never before once he catches on to Cookie's kidnapper, and, in the process, destroys a laundry truck, whose contents (ladies' undergarments) his vehicle then wears. Where the villain barely avoids a house, Buddy speeds on through it, taking with him a married couple abed: Cookie screams as Buddy approaches, and Buddy winds his truck's wench over to the car in front of him, cleverly snagging Cookie's shirt on it, & thereby carrying her over to his own vehicle. To the villain, he does the same, but rescues him not, instead lowering him to the back of the truck so much that his rear end is continually bumped by large rocks & yards of fence. Buddy releases the exhaust at Cookie's would-be captor & the two, safely in the vehicle, happily embrace.
starring Buddy would be supervised by Jack King
, Ben Hardaway
, and, less commonly, Friz Freleng
. The other cartoons supervised by Duvall (Duval) were the Looney Tunes Buddy's Beer Garden
& Buddy's Show Boat
and the Merrie Melodies
Honeymoon Hotel
& Sittin' on a Backyard Fence.
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animated
Animation
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short film. It is a Looney Tune cartoon, featuring Buddy
Buddy (Looney Tunes)
Buddy is an animated cartoon character in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes series of cartoons.-Looney Tunes:Buddy has his origins in the chaos that followed the severing of relations between animators Hugh Harman and Rudy Ising from producer Leon Schlesinger...
, the second star of the series, & released on April 14, 1934. It was the last Warner Bros.
Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., also known as Warner Bros. Pictures or simply Warner Bros. , is an American producer of film and television entertainment.One of the major film studios, it is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank,...
short directed by Earl Duvall
Earl Duvall
Earl Duvall was an artist best known for his work on Walt Disney comic strips in the early 1930s and for a handful of animated cartoon short subjects he directed at Leon Schlesinger Productions for Warner Bros.-Career:...
and only the second in which his name is so spelled (on others, his name is spelt "Duval.") Bernard Brown was musical director of the cartoon.
Summary
We see Buddy happily mending a tire: a litter of kittens are nursed by their mother, fish & ducks swim merrily in a tank of free water, & a responsible car washes itself while Buddy the mechanic squirts oil into all of the necessary sockets. A sleeping dog (presumably TowserBuddy and Towser
Buddy and Towser is an American animated short film released on 24 February 1934 by Warner Bros. Pictures. It was directed by Friz Freleng and animated by Jack King and Robert McKimson. The musical score was by Norman Spencer. It was a Looney Tunes cartoon, featuring Buddy.-Summary:Buddy enlists...
) is put to good use, as Our Hero attaches one end of an air hose to the dog's mouth, and the other to a tire, that Towser's snoring fills the limp tire with air; a bee
Bee
Bees are flying insects closely related to wasps and ants, and are known for their role in pollination and for producing honey and beeswax. Bees are a monophyletic lineage within the superfamily Apoidea, presently classified by the unranked taxon name Anthophila...
puts a canker in the plan by popping the tire with its stinger & scaring Towser awake with the noise. The dog eats the bee, but spits it back out on account of the stinger. Buddy, meanwhile, plays "By a Waterfall" on a series of files (as if the files were a xylophone
Xylophone
The xylophone is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars struck by mallets...
), until Cookie appears with Buddy's lunch. The two sweethearts set up to eat: Buddy grinds the skin off of a pineapple
Pineapple
Pineapple is the common name for a tropical plant and its edible fruit, which is actually a multiple fruit consisting of coalesced berries. It was given the name pineapple due to its resemblance to a pine cone. The pineapple is by far the most economically important plant in the Bromeliaceae...
, cracks the shells of walnuts
Walnut
Juglans is a plant genus of the family Juglandaceae, the seeds of which are known as walnuts. They are deciduous trees, 10–40 meters tall , with pinnate leaves 200–900 millimetres long , with 5–25 leaflets; the shoots have chambered pith, a character shared with the wingnuts , but not the hickories...
with a monkey wrench
Monkey wrench
The monkey wrench is an adjustable wrench, a later American development of eighteenth century English coach wrenches. It was popular in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries but is now used only for heavier tasks, having been mostly replaced by the lighter and sleeker shifting adjustable or...
, and attempts to inflate a small chicken to greater proportions (to the chicken's exploding as thought it were a balloon.) Just then, a large, cigar-smoking character (apparently the same villain from Buddy's Show Boat
Buddy's Show Boat
Buddy's Show Boat is an American animated short film released by Warner Bros. on December 9, 1933. It is a Looney Tune featuring Buddy, the second star of the series. It was directed by Earl Duvall, here credited as "Duval," and was one of only five Warner Bros. cartoons that he directed...
& Buddy's Beer Garden
Buddy's Beer Garden
Buddy's Beer Garden is an American animated short film, released November 18, 1933 It is a Looney Tune cartoon, featuring Buddy, the second star of the series. It was supervised by Earl Duvall, here credited as "Duval," was one of only five Warner Bros. cartoons directed by him, and one of only...
) drives up to the garage, requesting gasoline for his vehicle. Buddy obliges, and the bruiser steps away to the restroom, where he finds Cookie, whom he decides to kidnap: Buddy dutifully oils his new enemy's engine, but knows that something is amiss when he hears Cookie scream. Rushing inside the garage, Buddy finds the bruiser unfazed by Cookie's blows & demands of release. Challenged at once by Buddy, the bruiser puts down Cookie, only to be attacked from behind by the same with a drill of some sort: the villain chases Cookie, Buddy the villain. At a wall, the villain again takes Cookie, & an indignant Buddy is buried by tires from a shelf that the bruiser intentionally jostles. Freeing himself, Buddy is blasted with ash from the villain's (freshly re-fueled) automobile as it speeds away. Hastening back to the garage, Buddy starts after Cookie & her kidnapper with another vehicle: on the chase, Buddy & his enemy must pass two stopped trucks & freely ignore a "Road Closed" sign; upon crashing into a large box of tools, the bruiser finds his back tires equipped with saws, which compromise the mid-section of a wooden bridge, through which, as a result, Buddy and his vehicle fall, into the water below, where the hook on the wench of Buddy's truck catches a fish, which then is pursued by hungry cats. Briefly losing the trail, Buddy speeds as never before once he catches on to Cookie's kidnapper, and, in the process, destroys a laundry truck, whose contents (ladies' undergarments) his vehicle then wears. Where the villain barely avoids a house, Buddy speeds on through it, taking with him a married couple abed: Cookie screams as Buddy approaches, and Buddy winds his truck's wench over to the car in front of him, cleverly snagging Cookie's shirt on it, & thereby carrying her over to his own vehicle. To the villain, he does the same, but rescues him not, instead lowering him to the back of the truck so much that his rear end is continually bumped by large rocks & yards of fence. Buddy releases the exhaust at Cookie's would-be captor & the two, safely in the vehicle, happily embrace.
Last Warner Bros. cartoon by Earl Duvall
Earl Duvall would not return to direct another Warner Bros. cartoon: after Buddy's Garage and the firing of Duvall, all of the remaining Looney TunesLooney Tunes
Looney Tunes is a Warner Bros. animated cartoon series. It preceded the Merrie Melodies series and was Warner Bros.'s first animated theatrical series. Since its first official release, 1930's Sinkin' in the Bathtub, the series has become a worldwide media franchise, spawning several television...
starring Buddy would be supervised by Jack King
Jack King
Jack King may refer to:*Jack King , pseudonym for an author of spy thrillers*Jack King , cartoon director and animator for Warner Bros and Disney*Jack Lester King, American population geneticist...
, Ben Hardaway
Ben Hardaway
Joseph Benson "Ben/Bugs" Hardaway was a storyboard artist, animator, voice actor, gagman, writer, and director for several American animation studios during the The Golden Age of Hollywood animation. He was sometimes credited as J.B. Hardaway, Ben Hardaway, Buggsy Hardaway, and B. Hardaway.While...
, and, less commonly, Friz Freleng
Friz Freleng
Isadore "Friz" Freleng was an animator, cartoonist, director, and producer best known for his work on the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons from Warner Bros....
. The other cartoons supervised by Duvall (Duval) were the Looney Tunes Buddy's Beer Garden
Buddy's Beer Garden
Buddy's Beer Garden is an American animated short film, released November 18, 1933 It is a Looney Tune cartoon, featuring Buddy, the second star of the series. It was supervised by Earl Duvall, here credited as "Duval," was one of only five Warner Bros. cartoons directed by him, and one of only...
& Buddy's Show Boat
Buddy's Show Boat
Buddy's Show Boat is an American animated short film released by Warner Bros. on December 9, 1933. It is a Looney Tune featuring Buddy, the second star of the series. It was directed by Earl Duvall, here credited as "Duval," and was one of only five Warner Bros. cartoons that he directed...
and the Merrie Melodies
Merrie Melodies
Merrie Melodies is the name of a series of animated cartoons distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures between 1931 and 1969.Originally produced by Harman-Ising Pictures, Merrie Melodies were produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions from 1933 to 1944. Schlesinger sold his studio to Warner Bros. in 1944,...
Honeymoon Hotel
Honeymoon Hotel
Honeymoon Hotel is an animated cartoon short subject in the Leon Schlesinger/Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies series, released February 17, 1934....
& Sittin' on a Backyard Fence.