I Gopher You (theatrical short)

This article is about the Merrie Melodies short. For The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries episode, see I Gopher You (Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries).

I Gopher You
Production company	Warner Bros. Cartoons
Distributor	Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date	January 30, 1954
Starring	Mel Blanc Stan Freberg
Producer(s)	Edward Selzer
Music composed by	Carl Stalling
Story by	Warren Foster
Animation	Ken Champin Virgil Ross Arthur Davis Manuel Perez
Director(s)	I. Freleng
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I Gopher You is the three hundred and tenth Merrie Melodies theatrical short. It was released by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation on January 30, 1954. It was written by Warren Foster, produced by Edward Selzer, and directed by Friz Freleng.

While tending to the vegetable gardens, the Goofy Gophers are shocked to discover that their vegetables have been stolen. They track at the Ajax vegetable plant, where they try to find a way of bringing all of their food back home.

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Mac	Mel Blanc
Tosh	Stan Freberg

Organizations

• Ajax

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
    • Vegetable farm
    • Ajax food processing plant

Objects

• Dehydrated vegetables

Music

The music was composed by Carl W. Stalling.

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: January 30, 1954 in theatres

Behind the scenes

• The title is a gopher-themed pun of the phrase, "I go for you."
• This is the first short in which Mac and Tosh don't face antagonistic characters, such as dogs or humans. The other cartoon with a similar nature is the 1955 Looney Tunes short, Lumber Jerks.

Legacy

• The factory setting animations would later be reused in the 1963 Merrie Melodies cartoons Chili Weather and The Unmentionables.

In other languages

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