Egghead Rides Again
| Egghead Rides Again | |
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| Production company | Leon Schlesinger |
| Distributor | Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation |
| Release date | July 17, 1937 |
| Run time | 7:00 |
| Starring | Mel Blanc Fred Avery Billy Bletcher Danny Webb Roy Rogers[1] |
| Producer(s) | Leon Schlesinger |
| Music composed by | Carl W. Stalling |
| Animation | Robert McKimson |
| Director(s) | Fred Avery |
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Egghead Rides Again is the eightieth Merrie Melodies theatrical short. It was released by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation on July 17, 1937. It was produced by Leon Schlesinger and directed by Friz Freleng.
After getting kicked out of his apartment for making too much noise, a man named Egghead applies to join a group of cowboys in Wyoming. He tries to do a series of tests in order to get accepted.
Detailed summary
Memorable quotes
Clerk: Dad-burnit, a dad-burned boarding house ain't no dad-burned place to play dad-burn cowboy! Now get out and stay out, dad-burnit 'n burnit 'n burnit and I mean dad-burnit!
Egghead: I'm a rootin', tootin', shootin', snoopin', high-salutin', tootin', shootin', rootin' cowboy, fella! And I saw your ad, so I came for the job. Because, because, because, because, TODAY, I am a man!
Characters
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Organizations
- U.S. Post Office
Locations
- Earth
- United States
- Boarding house building
- U.S. Post Office building
- Wyoming
- Wahoo
- United States
Objects
Production
Development
Filming
It was copyrighted in 1937 (MCMXXXVII).
Music
The music was composed by Carl W. Stalling.
Several Western-themed songs are played throughout the short, many of which were performed by the Sons of the Pioneers.[1]
Release
Dates are in order of release:
- United States: July 17, 1937 in theatres
Behind the scenes
- The MPAA certificate number is 3464.
- Egghead's voice, with it's energetic, high-pitched tone and frontal lisp, resembles that of Daffy Duck in his earliest appearances.
Errors
Legacy
- Egghead would appear in three more cartoons, all of which were released in 1938, including Daffy Duck & Egghead, A-Lad-In Bagdad, and Count Me Out.
- In all three of these shorts, he instead has a vocal resemblance to comedian Joe Penner and a set of black hair.
- He also appeared on rare occasions in later Looney Tunes media, including the films Daffy Duck's Quackbusters and Looney Tunes: Back in Action. However, in a lot of those instances, he takes on the physical and personality attributes of the prototypical Elmer Fudd (from before 1940's Elmer's Candid Camera), instead of his appearances from his initial four theatrical entries. Furthermore, both Egghead and Elmer's prototype are often confused as being the same character before the latter's appearance in Candid Camera.
Home availability
- In the United States:
