Release Date:

August 30, 1941

Main Character(s):

Two Curious Dogs

Summary:

The Two Curious Dogs chase each other over a bone during winter with their antics constantly ruining a beaver’s attempts to build a dam.

That’s Not All, Folks:

The cartoon was given a Blue Ribbon reissue. “Sidewalk Serenade” played under the opening credits:

Supervision: Charles M. Jones

Story: Rich Hogan

Animation: Robert Cannon

Musical Direction: Carl W. Stalling

The cartoon’s plot is similar to the previous Two Curious Dogs cartoon, “Stage Fright”, where the dogs’ pursuit of a bone repeatedly causes trouble for another animal. Unlike the bird in that cartoon, the beaver doesn’t attack the dogs in anger.

The cartoon has no dialogue.

This is the first cartoon to use the 1941-1942 blue-purple rings.

The title of the cartoon has the same amount of syllables as “Shoo Fly Don’t Bother Me”.

What I Like About This One:

The cartoon starts off with the brown dog chasing the white dog up to the ski jump before they slide down it and attempt to catch the bone as they get off showing that Jones was getting there to making faster paced cartoons.

The white dog landing on an ice floe and desperately trying to not to touch the ice-cold water.

The brown dog is unable to stop sliding on the ice in time and he knocks the beaver’s first dam down like bowling pins. In addition, the dam’s sticks are shown around the brown dog like a teepee. He then continues sliding into the snow and crashes into a tree

The animation of the brown dog’s dizzy walk after he hits the tree.

Thinking he has the bone, the brown dog attempts to bite down where he thinks it is but this only causes the wind to blow him back into the tree backwards.

Meanwhile, the white dog is now having trouble with the floe cracking, resulting in him having to stand on whatever remains of the floe.

The brown dog’s attempt to run for the bone only results in him missing it and sliding into the beaver’s second dam, with them now resembling a log cabin. This ends with the brown dog’s behind falling into the ice, much to his annoyance.

The white dog finally getting off the ice floe only for a crack to start forming in the ice. Running away from the crack ends up becoming the white dog’s first time crashing into one of he beaver’s dams. The crack even continues up into the same tree the brown dog crashed into!

Getting out of the icy water, the brown dog now has another problem: his behind is now encased in ice and he keeps getting another body part stuck in the behind-shaped ice whenever he frees one part of his body.

After his second time crashing into one of the beaver’s dams, the white dog pursues the bone onto the ski lift, where it falls off and is perched on the ski jump. The white dog’s attempt to catch the bone results in him sliding off and rolling into a giant snow dog which starts chasing the brown dog just as he has finally gotten rid of the behind-shaped ice.

The snow dog eventually engulfs the brown dog and when it crashes into the beaver’s fifth dam offscreen, the impact creates a snow version of the Grand Hoover Dam. The white dog then pops out with a snow-like hairdo and with the bone stuck in it while the behind-shaped ice is now on the brown dog’s head.

Where Can I Watch It?

At toontales.net!

Carrot Rating:

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