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. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons, by Jerry Beck and Will Friedwald (1989), Henry Holt, ISBN 0-8050-0894-2. Looney Tunes On Television By Kevin McCorry and Jon Cooke. A dog chases a quail through the forest; the quail keeps outsmarting the dog (and keeps referring to the dog as 'doc'). The dog, none too bright, keeps running into trees, while the quail's. See full summary ». Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons were each assigned identification numbers that would appear directly on title cards shown at the beginning of each short. These numbers included cartoon studio production numbers, Vitaphone release numbers, Blue Ribbon re-release numbers, and MPAA certificate numbers. A dopey dog goes sniffing down Bug’s hole to find a rabbit. While he digs, Bugs comes out and watches. The bunny gives him a big kiss on the face and the dog chases after him in hot pursuit. Merrie Melodies - The Crackpot Quail. 1995 Turner Prints. Merrie Melodies vol.2 2012.10.07 @ Barka Melody - Glow@ Puratwanda 9942. Merrie Melodies.

Quentin Quail is a 1946 Warner Bros.Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Chuck Jones.^[1] The short was released on March 2, 1946.^[2]

It presents a tale about a quail (voiced by Tedd Pierce) who goes through various trials and tribulations to try to get a worm for his baby, Toots (a take-off on Fanny Brice's radio character, Baby Snooks, voiced by Sara Berner^[3]), only to be rebuffed by her because the worm looks like Frank Sinatra.

Prior to the release of this short, the name 'Quentin Quail' first appeared on a model sheet by Bob Clampett, done at some point before 1942. The character is a precursor to Clampett's more famous creation, Tweety, and bears a striking resemblance to the canary.^[4]

References[edit]

1. ^Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 165. ISBN0-8050-0894-2.
2. ^Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 104–106. ISBN0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
3. ^'Radio Round-Up: BABY SNOOKS -'. cartoonresearch.com. 6 February 2019. Retrieved 23 December 2020.
4. ^Beck, Jerry (1991). I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat: Fifty Years of Sylvester and Tweety. Henry Holt and Co. p. 35. ISBN0-8050-1644-9.

External links[edit]

• Quentin Quail at IMDb
• Quentin Quail at The Big Cartoon DataBase

Willoughby is a minor animatedcartoonfictional character in the Warner Bros.Looney Tunes series of cartoons. He is a hound dog who is characterized by his below-average intelligence^[1] and overall gullibility.

History[edit]

Willoughby first appeared in the 1940 cartoon Of Fox and Hounds. He was created and voiced by Tex Avery.^[2][3] According to Chuck Jones, the character was based on Lennie, from Of Mice and Men (of which the title of Of Fox and Hounds is a knockoff).^{[citation needed]} Critic Steven Hartley described this short as lacking in creativity, originality, excitement, and story construction, particularly compared to Avery's seminal earlier work A Wild Hare.^[4]

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Willoughby later appears in other Warner Brothers animated shorts, including The Heckling Hare (1941),^[5]The Crackpot Quail (1941),^[6] and Nutty News (1942), as the lead dog of a fox hunting party. A fundamentally similar character, Laramore, appears in To Duck or Not to Duck (1943), albeit with a fully brown coat of fur. Willoughby's brief career was essentially over before the end of World War II.

These dogs were mostly similar character design in Porky's Bear Facts (1941), A Corny Concerto (1943), Hare Ribbin' (1944), The Goofy Gophers (1946), and possibly Inki at the Circus (1947).

Appearances[edit]

1. Of Fox and Hounds (1940)
2. The Crackpot Quail (1941)
3. The Heckling Hare (1941)
4. Nutty News (1942) (cameo in a B&W cartoon)
5. The Hep Cat (1942) (as Rosebud)
6. Ding Dog Daddy (1942)
7. To Duck or Not to Duck (1943) (as Laramore)
8. An Itch in Time (1943)
9. Hare Force (1944) (as Sylvester)
10. A Horse Fly Fleas (1947) (shaped like the Barnyard Dawg)
11. Foxy by Proxy (1952)

In other media[edit]

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Willoughby was planned to be made as a cameo in the deleted scene 'Acme's Funeral' from the 1988 film Who Framed Roger Rabbit. He also appears with other animated characters scared when Casper appears at the funeral.^[7]

Merrie Melodies 1937

References[edit]

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1. ^T. K. Kelly. 'Distasteful Toons: the Top 5 Most Offensive Looney Tunes Characters'. Top 5. Retrieved November 11, 2015.^{[better source needed]}
2. ^Dave Mackey. 'Warner Bros. Cartoon Filmography – 1940 (Of Fox and Hounds)'. Dave Mackey Dot Com. Archived from the original on December 15, 2010. Retrieved November 10, 2015.^{[better source needed]}
3. ^Eric O. Costello. 'Avery, Frederick Bean (Tex) (1908-1980)'. Warner Bros. Cartoon Companion. Archived from the original on April 30, 2006. Retrieved November 10, 2015.^{[better source needed]}
4. ^Steve Hartley (November 2, 2013). '309. Of Fox and Hounds (1940)'. Likely Loonie, Mostly Merrie. Retrieved November 10, 2015.
5. ^Steve Hartley (May 29, 2014). '334. The Heckling Hare (1941)'. Likely Loonie, Mostly Merrie. Retrieved November 10, 2015.^{[better source needed]}
6. ^Steve Hartley (March 9, 2014). '317. The Crackpot Quail (1941)'. Likely Loonie, Mostly Merrie. Retrieved November 10, 2015.^{[better source needed]}
7. ^Hill, Jim. 'Storyboards reveal what Marvin Acme's funeral in 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit' would have looked like'. jimhillmedia.com. Retrieved 18 June 2020.