Release Date:

December 5, 1942

Main Character(s):

None

Summary:

A dumb dog attempts to find himself a girl and mistakes a garden statue of a dog labeled “Daisy” for one. The dog first has to try to get past a vicious bulldog and later has to “rescue” Daisy from being turned into scrap metal for the war effort.

That’s Not All, Folks:

Pinto Colvig voices the dumb dog.

This is the first cartoon that Tedd Pierce wrote for Freleng. Pierce was also a self-proclaimed “ladies’ man” so he likely came up with this cartoon to poke fun at himself being a womanizer, which would later lead to the creation of Pepe Le Pew in Jones’ “Odor-Able Kitty” (1945).

The cartoon is in the public domain.

The bulldog resembles the one in “Double Chaser”.

When the cartoon’s restoration briefly appeared on HBO Max in 2020, the opening Warner Bros. shield was inexplicably missing. This error caused the cartoon to be taken off the service. When shown on MeTV in 2021 and when put out on the Looney Tunes Collector’s Choice Volume 2 Blu-ray set in 2023, the opening shield was left intact, so it’s very likely the opening shield was accidentally removed in the master used for the service.

What I Like About This One:

The dog is first seen watching two lovebirds while sighing about how beautiful love is. The male lovebird notices him and tells him off, “Ah, let’s not get nosy, bud” and then gives some privacy to his and his partner’s lovemaking by putting up their rear feathers like a peacock (animated by Phil Monroe).

Spotting a female Afghan, the dog asks her if she’d like to be his girl while chuckling. She mimics his laugh and sassily responds, “No, I wouldn’t like to be your girl!” (animated by Gerry Chiniquy)

The dog’s heart ticking like a clock’s pendulum when he first sees “Daisy” (animated by Richard Bickenbach).

The dog burying his head in the ground in front of “Daisy” when he asks, “How about a little kiss there, beautiful?” (animated by Gil Turner)

A lightning bolt conveniently zaps “Daisy” when the dog kisses “her”. Thinking “she”’s a good kisser, the dog is driven wild by this. “It’s just like bein’ struck by lightnin’!” and hops around happily to the tune of “I’m Happy About the Whole Thing” (animated by Monroe).

Upon seeing the dog happily kicking flowers around in the garden, the bulldog wakes up and goes over to him, to which the dog absentmindedly puts a wreath of flowers over him. The dog then realizes he’s in trouble when the bulldog shows him his warning sign: “Beware of Vicious Dog” (animated by Turner).

After being locked out, the dog uses a trick he saw in a “feature picture”- pushing the key out of the keyhole with a stick and having the key land on a newspaper. When he slides the newspaper out from under the gate, the bulldog is standing there! (animated by Monroe)

Successfully getting in after tunneling underground, the dog attempts to kiss “Daisy” again but the bulldog pops up in front of “her” before he can do so. Both dogs spit in disgust at this, with the bulldog also getting angry over it. He mutters, “Why you great big overgrown- Why, I’ll break every bone in your body!” (animated by Manuel Perez) The dog then tunnels underground again to get away and ends up tunneling into the fountain.

The dog then tunnels back under the land and unknowingly comes up from under the bulldog. Not realizing what he’s using to disguise himself, the dog puts the bulldog back over him when he realizes he no longer has anything on top of him due to the bulldog getting knocked off by a low branch. The dog gets a throbbing headache upon finding out he’s wearing the bulldog so he takes two aspirin (animated by Chiniquy).

After locking the bulldog out of his own yard (animated by Turner), the dog kisses “Daisy” again when another lightning bolt strikes “her”. After doing the same happy hop (animated by Monroe up to here), “Daisy” is now taken away to a factory to be made into scrap metal for victory (animated by Turner)

To the tune of Beethoven’s 5th Symphony, the dog has no luck in finding “Daisy” (animated by Bickenbach) and eventually cries upon losing “her”. Just then, an artillery shell with “Daisy”’s collar rolls into his arms to his delight (animated by Monroe).

Outside, the dog is initially dismayed over “Daisy”’s changed appearance and gets a huge explosion in his face when he kisses the shell. Still unaware that his desire was inanimate the whole time, he happily exclaims, “WOW! She hasn’t changed a bit!” and happily hops around into the distance (animated by Monroe).

Where Can I Watch It?

On YouTube!

Carrot Rating:

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