Release Date:

August 27, 1938

Main Character(s):

Egghead

Summary:

As Aladdin, Egghead gets the genie’s lamp out of an arcade-like game (mistaking it for a sugar bowl), much to the ire of a jealous character who wants the lamp for himself. Seeing an ad that the best entertainer will win the sultan’s daughter’s hand in marriage, Egghead decides to enter the contest but doesn’t realize the guy after the lamp has stolen it and replaced it with a coffeepot.

That’s Not All, Folks:

This is the last cartoon where Cal Howard is a director. From then on, Ben Hardaway replaced him as Cal Dalton’s co-director.

This is one of two Egghead cartoons to not be directed by Tex Avery (the other was “Count Me Out”, directed by Hardaway and Dalton).

Caricatures include Jerry Colonna as the Sultan, Bobby Breen as “Ali Baabe Breen”, Billy Jones and Ernie Hare as the “Slap Happy Boys”, and Robert Taylor as the genie at the end.

What I Like About This One:

The Arabian-like music heard at the beginning.

The antagonist’s bad luck in getting the lamp out of the claw game. “Candied beans, I get! Bah!”, he exclaims and then cries in frustration.

Egghead getting the lamp with no trouble and after rubbing the lamp three times, gets scared by the sudden appearance of the genie and tries to run away, but the genie reassures him he won’t hurt him.

Egghead wishing for “some nice new clothes” and getting just that.

The genie honking Egghead on the nose after he thanks him.

When Egghead wishes for a magic carpet to get to the palace, the carpet has an outboard motor attached to it.

A tough looking brute named “Ali Baabe Breen” revealed to be a dope when he repeatedly says “Mary Had a Little Lamb”.

The Slap Happy Boys singing “How Do You Do and How Are You?” to the tune of “On the Rue de La Paix”.

After the sultan drops the duo through the trap door, they still continue singing but he stops it by shooting them!

Egghead and the sultan’s daughter’s reactions upon first seeing each other (love at first sight).

Egghead’s rendition of “Bei Mir Bist Du Schon (Just Let Me Explain)”.

Egghead saying “Don’t ever DO that!” when the sultan is about to send him through the trap door. Then, when he gets no reaction from the coffeepot, he exclaims, “This thing’s CRAZY!”

Egghead realizing he’s been swindled when the guy who stole it from him presents the lamp to the sultan. He even stops the wedding by opening the door and shouting, “Stop! I’ve been swindled!”

In the end, Egghead goes off with the sultan’s daughter, but she too feels she’s been swindled and uses the lamp where the genie is now a Robert Taylor caricature and she goes with him into the lamp. When Egghead attempts to take a look in the lamp, he gets honked on the nose again.

Where Can I Watch It?

At archive.org!

Carrot Rating:

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