Release Date:

April 8, 1939

Main Character(s):

None

Summary:

An ordinary day in prison leads to a jailbreak when one of the prisoners decides to “scram from here!”

That’s Not All, Folks:

This is the first cartoon to give credit to Rod Scribner.

The cartoon is in the public domain.

What I Like About This One:

The prisoners snoring so powerfully that the doors to their cells are swung open.

A prisoner getting hit by the ball attached to the prisoner sleeping above him and angrily punching it into a miniature basketball hoop attached to the wall.

Another prisoner catching a fly between his toes to which the fly yells, “OUCH!”

A little prisoner using a file to get out of jail but when a guard comes by, he acts like he’s filing his nails. Then, the same big prisoner who later escapes slingshots a rock at the guard. The guard thinks the little prisoner did it and hits him, causing his head to vibrate (animated by Gil Turner).

The amusing character of Warden Paws (who talks like Hugh Herbert).

The little prisoner digging a hole in his cell floor to escape, but when Warden Paws comes by, the little prisoner tells him that it’s “Mice!”

One of the prisoners having a pet jailbird (a bird with a prison outfit).

Another prisoner desperately begging not to be sent to the electric chair- where he’s actually getting a shave from a barber!

When the little prisoner and the big prisoner are cleaning a floor, the big prisoner throws a mop at the guard. After the little prisoner gets another vibration from being hit on the head again, the big prisoner encourages him to “bounce that ball off his dome”. Just as he’s about to do so, the guard turns around and orders him to “drop that ball!” When he does, it sends him crashing through the floor!

When the prisoners are eating lunch, the big prisoner passes the message “two o’clock” to the prisoner next to him. The rest of them repeat the message to the prisoner they’re sitting next to, until the little prisoner unknowingly says “two o’clock” to the guard (who’s standing next to him). Upon realizing who he spoke to, he puts his plate on his head to avoid another beating. He gets it anyway when he takes it off his head (animated by Rod Scribner).

When the big prisoner gets caught by two guards, he starts singing like Jerry Colonna and breaks into “I’m Going to Scram from Here!” (to the tune of “Daydreaming”). He then shuts the guards up in a cell, and musically says goodbye (animated by Richard Bickenbach).

Warden Paws saying goodbye before realizing that he’s gone. He then decides to blow his whistle, which won’t blow. When he takes it out of his mouth is when it blows.

After trailing the big prisoner to his hideout, one of the guards shoots at him through the drainpipe when the big prisoner shoots from a bathtub (so that the bullets come through the shower head).

The big prisoner being brought back and put into solitary while the little prisoner is cleaning the floor again. The guard comes by and the big prisoner steals his club and hits him with it. Realizing he’ll be blamed for it, the little prisoner takes the club and hits himself with it, vibrating again (animated by Turner).

Where Can I Watch It?

At archive.org!

Carrot Rating:

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