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Buddy and Towser
Directed byIsadore Freleng
Produced byLeon Schlesinger
StarringJack Carr (uncredited)
Music byNorman Spencer
Animation by
Color processBlack-and-white
Production
company
Distributed by
Release date
  • February 24, 1934 (1934-02-24) (USA)
Running time
7 minutes
LanguageEnglish

Buddy and Towser is a 1934 American Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Friz Freleng.[1] The cartoon was released on February 24, 1934, and features Buddy, the second star of the series.[2]

Summary

Buddy enlists his dog, Towser, to guard his award-winning chickens. A fox penetrates Buddy's property as Towser and Buddy sleep, but the chickens, initially, are able to repel the fox by throwing their eggs at it. In its escape, the fox awakens Towser, who proceeds to bark, awakening his owner, and chase the fox.

Towser is joined in the chase by Buddy, who now wields a shotgun (that he is humorously unable to handle.) Eventually, Buddy and Towser run up a snowy hill after the fox, which then crashes into a tree, tumbles backwards, and finds itself trapped in an increasingly large snowball, which soon envelops Towser and Buddy. At the foot of the hill, the snowball breaks apart on impact with a shed, leaving Buddy, Towser, and the fox momentarily dazed.

Coming to their senses, Buddy and Towser each take a plank of wood and aim to hit the fox, which sits between them; but the fox comes to and scurries away, leaving Buddy to accidentally whack Towser, and vice versa, as the cartoon ends.

References

  1. ^ Maltin, Leonard (1980). Of Mice and Magic: a History of American Animated Cartoons. New York: McGraw-Hill. p. 405. ISBN 978-0-07-039835-1.
  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. 26. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.

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