Buddy and Towser

{{short description|1934 film}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}}

{{Infobox film

| image =

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| director = Isadore Freleng

| story =

| animator = {{ubl|Jack King|Bob McKimson}}

| starring = Bernard Brown{{Cite book |title=Cartoon Voices from the Golden Age, 1930-70 |last=Scott |first=Keith |publisher=BearManor Media |year=2022 |isbn=979-8-88771-010-5 |pages=13}}

| music = Norman Spencer

| producer = Leon Schlesinger

| studio = Leon Schlesinger Productions

| distributor = {{ubl|Warner Bros.|The Vitaphone Corporation}}

| released = {{film date|1934|2|24|USA}}

| color_process = Black-and-white

| runtime = 7 minutes

| language = English

}}

Buddy and Towser is a 1934 American Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Friz Freleng.{{cite book | last = Maltin | first = Leonard | author-link = Leonard Maltin | title = Of Mice and Magic: a History of American Animated Cartoons | publisher = McGraw-Hill | year = 1980 | location = New York | isbn = 978-0-07-039835-1 | page = [https://archive.org/details/ofmicemagic00leon/page/405 405] | url = https://archive.org/details/ofmicemagic00leon/page/405 }} The cartoon was released on February 24, 1934, and features Buddy, the second star of the series.{{cite book |last1=Beck |first1=Jerry |last2=Friedwald |first2=Will |title=Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons |date=1989 |publisher=Henry Holt and Co |isbn=0-8050-0894-2 |page=26}}

Summary

Buddy enlists his dog, Towser, to guard his award-winning chickens. A fox penetrates Buddy's property as Towser and Buddy sleep, but the chickens, initially, are able to repel the fox by throwing their eggs at it. In its escape, the fox awakens Towser, who proceeds to bark, awakening his owner, and chase the fox.

Towser is joined in the chase by Buddy, who now wields a shotgun (that he is humorously unable to handle). Eventually, Buddy and Towser run up a snowy hill after the fox, which then crashes into a tree, tumbles backwards, and finds itself trapped in an increasingly large snowball, which soon envelops Towser and Buddy. At the foot of the hill, the snowball breaks apart on impact with a shed, leaving Buddy, Towser, and the fox momentarily dazed.

Coming to their senses, Buddy and Towser each take a plank of wood and aim to hit the fox, which sits between them; but the fox comes to and scurries away, leaving Buddy to accidentally whack Towser, and vice versa, as the cartoon ends.

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