Yodeling Yokels

When we think of the Looney Tunes, we picture a carrot-chomping rabbit, a lisping mallard, a stuttering pig, a dim-witted hunter, and others. A lot of people don't know that the stars of Warner Bros. Cartoons in the early '30s were a different group. At first, there was Bosko, a character of no discernible genus or species (but looked like a blackface performer) and his girlfriend Honey. After Bosko's creators moved to MGM, Warner Bros. Created Buddy, a humanoid.

The cartoons starring these two are largely forgotten, and "Yodeling Yokels" is an example of why. One could argue that Leon Schlesinger's animation unit was still figuring out what they wanted to do. It would be a few years before they introduced Porky with "I Haven't Got a Hat", leading to Daffy, then Elmer, then Bugs. This is one that you watch if you want to see every Looney Tunes cartoon. Otherwise, stick with Warner's output from the '40s and '50s.