Gone Batty

Gone Batty
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Production company	Warner Bros. Cartoons
Distributor	Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date	August 28, 1954
Starring	Mel Blanc Robert C. Bruce
Music composed by	Carl Stalling
Story by	Sid Marcus Ben Washam
Animation	Rod Scribner Charles McKimson Phil DeLara Herman Cohen
Director(s)	Robert McKimson
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Gone Batty is the three hundred and thirty-eighth Looney Tunes theatrical short. It was released by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation on September 4, 1954. It was written by Sid Marcus and Ben Washam, and directed by Friz Freleng.

Bobo, working as the mascot for the Sweetwater Schooks, is pressed into becoming the lone player of his team when they are outperformed by another baseball team.

Memorable quotes

Greenville Goons player: Get a load of them characters! Hey, grandpa, did you get a banjo with that outfit!
Sweetheart Schnooks players: Sticks and stones may break our bones, but names will never hurt us. Nyeh!

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Bobo	N/A

Organizations

• Greenville Times
• Greenville Goons
• Sweetheart Schnooks

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
    • Baseball stadium

Objects

• Baseball bats

Vehicles

• None

Music

The music was composed by Carl W. Stalling.

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: September 4, 1954

Behind the scenes

• The title is a pun on a state of lunacy.
• The working title of the short was "Trunk Full of Curves".
• The MPAA certificate number is 161418.
• It was originally shown alongside the crime feature film Dragnet.
• The short recycles various elements the Bugs Bunny cartoon Baseball Bugs. This includes the baseball stadium setting, a strong brutish team similar to the Gas-House Gorillas, a weaker team with a red color motif similar to the Tea Totallers, a non-player filling in for the losing team, the "I got it!" and slowball gags, and the non-player winning.
• It is the only short to be written by Ben Washam, an animator of the Chuck Jones unit. It is also one of only two times where he collaborated for the Robert McKimson unit; he later served as an animator in Too Hop to Handle.
• Incidentally, The Greenville Times was an actual newspaper that existed in Washington County, Mississippi from 1868 to 1917.

Home availability

• In the United States:
  • November 6, 2012: Warner Home Video releases Looney Tunes Super Stars' Porky & Friends: Hilarious Ham on DVD.