Release Date:

March 8, 1941

Main Character(s):

None

Summary:

A firefly named Joe Glow (who wears a fireman helmet and carries a lantern) explores the tent of a sleeping camper.

That’s Not All, Folks:

This is the second Looney Tune to be a one-shot following “The Haunted Mouse”. In addition, Porky is still featured in the intro, despite not appearing.

This is Jones’ first black and white cartoon.

This cartoon uses a special rendition of the Looney Tunes opening theme and is the last cartoon to use the 1938-1941 Looney Tunes ending theme.

The cartoon has no dialogue except for when Joe Glow shouts “GOODNIGHT!” at the end.

The camper is a caricature of Jones himself.

This is the last black and white cartoon to be a one-shot until “Saps in Chaps” (1942).

What I Like About This One:

Joe Glow landing in the middle of the camper’s hairline and walking out of it as if it’s a forest.

Joe Glow sliding off of the camper’s forehead and ending up hanging on his nose. He then lifts up the camper’s eyelid and gets frightened by his own angry reflection in the camper’s eyeball.

Later, Joe Glow climbs the camper’s sleeve like a ladder and finds himself standing on top of the camper’s wristwatch.

The shot of Joe Glow watching the clock hands in the watch move.

Joe Glow slipping on the camper’s fingernail causing him to lose his lantern. He then manages to get off the fingernail and retrieve his lantern.

When Joe Glow lands on a flashlight button that turns it on, this briefly wakes the camper up for a bit, but he goes back to sleep once Joe Glow flies off the button in fear.

Joe Glow stepping on a cracker and realizing the noise it makes, tries to tip toe across it, but ends up creating a hole on the spot he stands. He then hides in a piece of Swiss cheese causing his lantern to create spotlights emerging out of the holes.

Joe Glow opening up a bag of table salt and getting caught in a flood of it.

Upon walking into a pepper shaker, Joe Glow sneezes from it and propels backward into a bottle of catsup. Seeing the catsup about to fall on the floor, he attempts to use some yarn as a lasso to prevent it from falling, but the yarn unwinds so he tries the yarn to a knife.

In the end, Joe Glow leaves the tent but then goes back to yell “GOODNIGHT!” in the camper’s ear before flying away again.

Where Can I Watch It?

At archive.org!

Carrot Rating:

🥕🥕🥕 ½