Two Crows from Tacos

Two Crows from Tacos
Production company	Warner Bros. Cartoons
Distributor	Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date	November 24, 1956
Run time	7:11
Starring	Don Diamond Tom Holland
Music composed by	Carl Stalling
Story by	Tedd Pierce
Animation	Virgil Ross Art Davis
Director(s)	Friz Freleng
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Two Crows from Tacos is the four hundred and eighteenth Merrie Melodies theatrical short. It was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation on November 24, 1956. It was written by Tedd Pierce, produced by Edward Selzer, and directed by Friz Freleng.

Two crows, Jose and Manuel, try to catch a little grasshopper. But the little grasshopper outwits them at every turn.

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Jose	Don Diamond
Manuel	Tom Holland

Locations

• Earth
  • Mexico
    • Guadalajara (mentioned)

Objects

• Guitar
• Club
• Dynamite
• Cactus disguised as a hombre

Music

The music was composed by Carl Stalling.

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: November 24, 1956 in theatres

Behind the Scenes

"That's all folks!" card

• It was originally shown alongside the feature-length Western film Giant.
• The title is a play on the 1948 film Two Guys From Texas.
• This cartoon marks the debut of Jose and Manuel, and is their only solo-short.
• Jose and Manuel are the second pair of Looney Tunes characters to be redesigned as other animals (in this case, first redesigned as cats and then as mice and then back to birds). Before them, Babbit and Catstello were first designed as cats in A Tale of Two Kitties, then redesigned as dogs in Hollywood Canine Canteen and then as mice in both Tale of Two Mice and The Mouse-Merized Cat.
• This is the first cartoon to change the "Color by Technicolor" byline on the opening titles to simply "Technicolor" and would be used for the rest of the series.
• The "That's all folks!" sendoff is done differently in this short. Instead of having writing itself out, it fades in over the beautiful sunset background as the crows sing and play the guitar atop their tree.

Legacy

• Jose and Manuel would later reappear as cats in the 1959 Looney Tunes short Mexicali Shmoes, then as mice in the 1961 short Cannery Woe, and as crows once more in the 1962 short Crows' Feat.

Home availability

• In the United States:
  • November 30th, 2010: Warner Home Media releases Looney Tunes Super Stars' Foghorn Leghorn and Friends: Barnyard Bigmouth on DVD.