Anybody remember this cartoon?

Cafe Society
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I think it was one of those one-off cartoons shown after Tom and Jerry. It had a guy telling a stroy and it would have literal drawings of what the guy was saying for example “Mary had bunch of little ones” would show Mary with a 1’s all around her. Some fo the others were:

“But I carried on…”
“Mary had a bunch of little ones…”
“So I went back to my hole in the wall…”
“I was up against it…”
“I died laughing…”
If have any information on this cartoon, such as the name, who made or anything please let me know.

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It’s a Tex Avery cartoon that he did while at MGM (which is probably why you saw it after Tom and Jerry, another MGM cartoon). It may have been Symphony of Slang.

Tex avery is one of the Greats of animation. Most people give him crediot for “inventing” Bugs Bunny as we know him today. Cartoon Network has a Tex Avery show, and the book Tex Avery: King of Cartoons is a highly recommended read.

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Here it is:

http://www.bcdb.com/bcdb/detailed.cgi?film=2992

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It’s on Tex Avery’s Screwball Classics.

See here:

http://www.geocities.com/mgmshorts/video.htm#6

scroll 1/3 to 1/2 way down the page.

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Here’s a drawing from it:

http://www.thegremlin.com/celmailgallery.html

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Thanks, do you know if there are any Tex Avery cartoons on DVD?

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This is my favorite cartoon from childhood and NO ONE ELSE can ever remember it!!!

Saint Peter took all the metaphors literally!

I was born with a silver spoon in my mouth

I was blue, but I carried on

Mary got on her high horse

I couldn’t touch her with a 10 foot pole

it was raining cats and dogs!

Thanks so much for this post- i couldn’t find anyone who knew what it was!!

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I vaguely recall "I was up against it:… Do you have a 21st century link?..
(I was born in 1969 if that helps people who view this thread 10 years from now.)

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The internet is better than it was in 2002.

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Thank you, **cdignam ** for digging up this banned buried treasure. Hard to search for when you don’t remember exactly how many 0 are in the name.

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Wow, I haven’t seen that in 20 years. Good stuff.