Flop Goes the Weasel (film)

{{Infobox film

| name = Flop Goes the Weasel

| image = Flop_Goes_the_Weasel_Blue_Ribbon_titles.jpeg

| caption = 1949 reissue title card

| animator = Rudy Larriva{{Cite web|url=https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/lost-warner-bros-original-titles/|title=Lost Warner Bros. Original Titles|date=2021-06-14|access-date=May 14, 2022|website=Cartoon Research|last=Beck|first=Jerry|author-link=Jerry Beck}}
Uncredited animation:
Ben Washam
Lloyd Vaughan
Robert Cannon
Ken Harris"[http://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/619-Flop_Goes_The_Weasel Flop Goes The Weasel]{{dead link|date=January 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}". Big Cartoon DataBase, August 30, 2015
Effects animation:
A.C. Gamer (uncredited)

| background_artist = Gene Fleury (uncredited)

| layout_artist = John McGrew (uncredited)
Background design:
Bernyce Polifka (uncredited)

| starring = Mel Blanc
Ruby Dandridge (both uncredited){{cite web |last1=Hartley |first1=Steven |title=Likely Looney, Mostly Merrie: 398. Flop Goes the Weasel (1943) |url=http://likelylooneymostlymerrie.blogspot.com/2016/04/398-flop-goes-weasel-1943.html |website=Likely Looney, Mostly Merrie |access-date=26 November 2020 |date=27 April 2016}}

| music = Musical direction:
Carl W. Stalling
Orchestration:
Milt Franklyn (uncredited)

| producer = Leon Schlesinger

| distributor = Warner Bros. Pictures
The Vitaphone Corporation

| studio = Warner Bros. Cartoons

| released = {{Film date|1943|3|20}} May 21, 1949 (Blue Ribbon reissue)

| color_process = Technicolor

| runtime = 7 minutes 38 seconds (Blue Ribbon reissue)

| language = English

}}

Flop Goes the Weasel is a 1943 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Chuck Jones.{{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=139}} The short was released on March 20, 1943.{{cite book |last1=Lenburg |first1=Jeff |title=The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons |date=1999 |publisher=Checkmark Books |isbn=0-8160-3831-7 |access-date=6 June 2020 |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780816038312/page/104/mode/2up |pages=104–106}} It's re-released as Blue Ribbon in May 21, 1949.

Plot

A mother hen is off trying to catch a worm for her soon-to-be baby. While she is out, a weasel steals the egg, intending to eat it for breakfast. Unfortunately, the egg hatches, and the chick mistakes the weasel for its mother. The weasel wants to eat the chick, but the chick outsmarts him every time. For the last three minutes of the film, the weasel is constantly sneezing because the chick has put pepper up his nose. He returned to his biological mother, who found out that he had beaten up the weasel.

Reception

On July 30, 1949, Boxoffice reviewed the short: "Very Good. The so-called Wiley Weasel is flabbergasted when an egg he has stolen from a barnyard hen for his meal, hatches out a small chick. The chick mistakes the weasel for its mother and the rodent is forced to play the game. He tries, without success, to lure the chick into the roasting pan."{{cite book |last1=Sampson |first1=Henry T. |title=That's Enough, Folks: Black Images in Animated Cartoons, 1900-1960 |date=1998 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-0810832503 |url=https://archive.org/details/thatsenoughfolks0000samp/page/176/mode/2up |page=176}}

References

External links

{{IMDb title|0035889}}

Category:1943 films

Category:Short films directed by Chuck Jones

Category:Merrie Melodies short films

Category:Warner Bros. Cartoons animated short films

Category:Films scored by Carl Stalling

Category:Films produced by Leon Schlesinger

Category:1940s Warner Bros. animated short films

Category:Animated films about weasels

Category:Animated films about chickens

Category:1943 animated short films