Gopher Broke
| Gopher Broke | |
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| Production company | Warner Bros. Cartoons |
| Distributor | Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation |
| Release date | November 15, 1958 |
| Starring | Mel Blanc Stan Freberg |
| Producer(s) | John W. Burton |
| Music composed by | John Seely |
| Story by | Tedd Pierce |
| Animation | Warren Batchelder Tom Ray George Grandpré Ted Bonnicksen |
| Director(s) | Robert McKimson |
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Gopher Broke is the three hundred and ninetieth Looney Tunes theatrical short. It was released by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation on November 15, 1958. It was written by Tedd Pierce, produced by John W. Burton and directed by Robert McKimson.
When Mac and Tosh notice that their vegetables are being stored in a barn, they must find a way to rid themselves of the Barnyar Dawg protecting their food stock.
Detailed summary
Memorable quotes
Characters
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Locations
- Earth
- United States
- Farmyard
- City
- Dr. Cy Kosis' office
- United States
Objects
- Vegetables
- The Significance of Dreams
- Sleeping pills
Vehicles
- Weather balloon
Production
Development
This was the first Goofy Gophers cartoon to be fully directed by McKimson; as for A Ham in a Role, it was initially scheduled to be directed by Arthur Davis, but when his production unit was dissolved in 1947 due to budgetary problems, the directing duties for that short were instead handed over to McKimson's unit.
Filming
Music
John Seely, who was not much of a music composer, provided stock music for this short.
Release
Dates are in order of release:
- United States: November 15, 1958 in theatres
Behind the scenes
- The title is a pun on the gambling tactic, "go for broke."
- The plot of this short is essentially a remake of Mouse Wreckers (1949), with the Goofy Gophers in the role of Hubie and Bertie, and the Barnyard Dawg in the role of Claude Cat. This also marks Barnyard Dawg's final appearance outside od a Foghorn Leghorn cartoon.
- This is the first cartoon since A Bone for a Bone (1951) where the Goofy Gophers face off against canine foes, and the only one to pair both the Barnyard Dawg and the Goofy Gophers.
- Robert McKimson returned to directing the Goofy Gophers' cartoons for the first time since A Ham in a Role (1949) nine years earlier; he would later direct the Gophers' final cartoon Tease for Two (1965), which pits them against Daffy Duck.
Home availability
- In the United States:
