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1953
7m

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In his first of two Warner Bros. cartoons, schoolboy Ralph Phillips daydreams in class, the lessons inspiring his fantasy heroics, such as being a pony-express rider, a deep-sea diver, a box... Read allIn his first of two Warner Bros. cartoons, schoolboy Ralph Phillips daydreams in class, the lessons inspiring his fantasy heroics, such as being a pony-express rider, a deep-sea diver, a boxing champion and even General Douglas MacArthur.In his first of two Warner Bros. cartoons, schoolboy Ralph Phillips daydreams in class, the lessons inspiring his fantasy heroics, such as being a pony-express rider, a deep-sea diver, a boxing champion and even General Douglas MacArthur.

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7.5/10

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Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 1 nomination total

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Top cast5

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Mel Blanc

Numbers
(uncredited)
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Dick Beals

Ralph Phillips
(voice)
(uncredited)

Bea Benaderet

Teacher
(voice)
(uncredited)

Norman Nesbitt

Captain - Sailors
(voice)
(uncredited)

Marian Richman

Teacher
(voice)
(uncredited)

Director
- Chuck Jones
Writer
- Michael Maltese
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Trivia
This short was originally released in theathers with A Star Is Born (1954).

Quotes
[first lines]
Class: Two and two is four. Four and four is eight. Eight and eight is sixteen. Sixteen and sixteen is thirty two. Thirty two and thirty two are sixty four.

Connections
Edited into Adventures of the Road-Runner (1962)

Soundtracks
Fingal's Cave Overture
(uncredited)
Music by Felix Mendelssohn
Played during the underwater scenes

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8/10

The daydreams of a boy with ADD.

This cartoon is about a boy with Attention Deficit Disorder, done at a time when the affliction was not well understood at all (that only happened after 1980). I relate to it, as I'm sure anybody with ADD does. This also points up how widespread the disorder is: either Jones had it, or he knew someone who did. I'm sure that if I told my old high school classmates that there are an estimated fifteen million of us in the United States alone, they'd day "You mean there's fifteen million like YOU, Joe? God save the country!

Then again, that teacher's teaching methods are so boring that it's a wonder she holds the attention of any of those kids for any length of time at all!