One of Warner's many pre-1948 cartoons stripped of its opening credits and carrying the Blue Ribbon logo in their place, Frank Tashlin's "Booby Hatched" really seems to have come out of left field. Probably the neatest scene is when the mother duck rattles off the ducklings' names: Franklin, Eleanor and Winston*, before she realizes that Robespierre is missing. Of course, the thought of her son having that name brings to my mind the fact that so many children nowadays have last names as first names. Above all, it's a good thing that I first watched this cartoon nowadays when I'm old enough to understand what it portrays. Had I watched it when I was about six, I wouldn't have understood the ducklings' names.
Anyway, the wolf and bear don't stick in my mind as much as the idea of a duck named Robespierre. But it is a pretty neat cartoon. Worth seeing.
*What about Joseph? Then again, she probably wouldn't want to name any of her children after Stalin.
Anyway, the wolf and bear don't stick in my mind as much as the idea of a duck named Robespierre. But it is a pretty neat cartoon. Worth seeing.
*What about Joseph? Then again, she probably wouldn't want to name any of her children after Stalin.