The House of Tomorrow

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Satire Animation Comedy Family Sci-Fi Short

A narrator takes us on a tour of the dream house of the future, and its many innovative appliances.A narrator takes us on a tour of the dream house of the future, and its many innovative appliances.A narrator takes us on a tour of the dream house of the future, and its many innovative appliances.

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7.3/10

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Tex Avery

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(uncredited)

Frank Graham

Narrator
(voice)
(uncredited)

Joi Lansing

Beautiful woman on television in swimsuit
(uncredited)

Don Messick

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- Tex Avery
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Trivia
While Don Messick is heard on some prints of the cartoon, his voice was a "looping" of the scene about the pressure cooker. The original narration referenced the year 1975 as being the "tomorrow" of the title, so the line was redone by Messick (Frank Graham having died years before) to advance the year of the future to 2050.

Goofs
When the table with the automatic sandwich maker is first shown, the salami and bread plates are in the middle of the table. Then, before the arms extend from the appliance, the plates are on each side of the sandwich maker. The machine then slices the bread and salami into two stacks and shuffles them like a deck of cards. In the next shot, when the sandwich maker is "dealing" out the combined stack of components, only bread slices hit the plates with no sandwiches being made; plus, the remaining loaf of bread and salami both have vanished.

Connections
Featured in Toon in with Me: Catch of the Day (2021)

Soundtracks
M-O-T-H-E-R (A Word That Means the World to Me)
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Music by Theodore Morse
[Plays when mother's entrance is shown. Also plays when mother's medicine cabinet is shown.]

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8/10

Fun, but enough with the Mother-in-law jokes!

"The House of Tomorrow" is a great Tex Avery short which focuses in on the wonderful inventions certain to be part of our lives in the near future. Many of the gags are very clever and original. The machine designed to answer all of your children's questions is my favorite. Though, I give this short high marks, it still gets into a major rut. That being, the overuse of the Mother-in-law jokes. Those segments can only be called predictable, a word you'd almost never use to describe the work of Mr. Avery.