Dixieland Droopy

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Dixieland Droopy is a 1954 animated short subject in the Droopy series, directed by Tex Avery and produced by Fred Quimby for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The plot concerns a Dixieland-music loving dog named John Pettibone (Droopy, voice of Bill Thompson), who picks up a Dixieland band made up of fleas at the circus and eventually make it to Hollywood Bowl. This cartoon differs from most Droopy cartoons in that its humor is derived from sight-gags that are intertwined with the music. The chase scene in which droopy gets stuck in tar, a barrel and a revolving door are most memorable. The style of animation is very 'fifties' and a bit abstract. Scott Bradley was the musical director for the cartoon; portions of the score incorporate the "Tiger Rag".

Dixieland Droopy was produced simultaneously in the Academy ratio and in Cinemascope as well.

The main flea is named Pee Wee Runt, who (as the viewer discovers at the end of the cartoon) is also the narrator of the story.

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[edit] Censorship

A scene in which the fleas "take five", hop off of Droopy's back talking jazz lingo and have a cigarette break (puffing at cigarette butts discarded by human smokers) is sometimes deleted from television broadcasts of this cartoon.

However, when it airs on Boomerang (TV channel) (in a half-hour show featuring 3 or 4 random MGM cartoons, such as Tom and Jerry), the scene is left intact.