Release Date:

March 25, 1939

Main Character(s):

Two Curious Dogs

Summary:

While evading the dogcatcher, the Two Curious Dogs wander into the house of Sham-Fu the magician and are heckled by the magician’s rabbit (the same white rabbit from “Porky’s Hare Hunt”).

That’s Not All, Folks:

The cartoon was given a Blue Ribbon reissue. An original unknown tune by Carl Stalling played under the opening credits:

Supervision: Charles Jones

Story: Rich Hogan

Animation: Ken Harris

Musical Direction: Carl W. Stalling

This is the second cartoon with the rabbit who would eventually lead to the creation of Bugs Bunny. This is also the last time where the rabbit is white. The next “proto-Bugs” cartoon, “Hare-um Scare-um” has the rabbit with gray fur.

This is the only cartoon where both dogs win in the end.

The cartoon is in the public domain.

What I Like About This One:

The dogs standing on a platform that becomes a ramp which causes them to slide into the house.

A cuckoo bird dressed in a villainous outfit, ominously announcing, “It’s twelve o’clock!”

The white dog disappearing through a door that disappears before the brown dog can enter.

The rabbit getting the brown dog’s attention and showing off his magic tricks by making a vase disappear and then having it reappear so that it crashes on the brown dog’s head.

When the rabbit goes back into the cape he came from, the brown dog tries to get at him, but ends up getting a lobster on his nose.

The white dog going after a magic rope.

A rose bush growing out of another vase with a tickler coming out of one of the roses and tickling the brown dog’s nose. When the brown dog grabs the bush, it magically forms into the rabbit.

The magic rope using a magic wand to create a vase and a pitcher of water to smash and pour respectively over the white dog’s head.

The white dog getting into a tug-of-war with the rope over the wand, that ends with the white dog swallowing the wand. Now, whenever he hiccups, various objects (mostly balloons) come out of his mouth.

The rabbit becoming invisible under a red cape. When he pulls another cape from the brown dog’s ear, the other side shows him in a chair and then honking the brown dog’s nose.

The white dog trying to muffle his next hiccup, which only causes the balloon he was about to hiccup inflate, before he deflates and flies into the rabbit who was heckling the brown dog by coming out of various drawers in a door.

The brown dog seeing the rabbit tied up in the magic rope and then putting him in a box which he puts in an even bigger box and so on.

The rabbit coming out of the white dog’s next balloon he hiccups. After the rabbit shoots a pop gun in the brown dog’s nose a second time, the brown dog has had enough and prevents the rabbit from disappearing. He then punches the rabbit across the room, with the rabbit sitting in a goldfish bowl, dazed and with a lampshade on his head.

Where Can I Watch It?

At toontales.net (formerly supercartoons; Archive is currently down, so this will have to do)

Carrot Rating:

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