# Anybody remember this cartoon? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 12, 2002, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-remember-this-cartoon/142314 "2002-12-12T19:45:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BZ00000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/47e85d/32.png) [@BZ00000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BZ00000)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-remember-this-cartoon/142314/1 "2002-12-12T19:45:57Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-remember-this-cartoon/142314/2 "2002-12-12T19:48:40Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-remember-this-cartoon/142314/3 "2002-12-12T19:57:50Z")
Here it is: [http://www.bcdb.com/bcdb/detailed.cgi?film=2992](http://www.bcdb.com/bcdb/detailed.cgi?film=2992) ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-remember-this-cartoon/142314/4 "2002-12-12T20:02:07Z")
It’s on **Tex Avery’s Screwball Classics**. See here: [http://www.geocities.com/mgmshorts/video.htm#6](http://www.geocities.com/mgmshorts/video.htm#6) scroll 1/3 to 1/2 way down the page. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-remember-this-cartoon/142314/5 "2002-12-12T20:05:40Z")
Here’s a drawing from it: [http://www.thegremlin.com/celmailgallery.html](http://www.thegremlin.com/celmailgallery.html) ---
**Author:** ![BZ00000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/47e85d/32.png) [@BZ00000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BZ00000)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-remember-this-cartoon/142314/6 "2002-12-12T20:20:14Z")
Thanks, do you know if there are any Tex Avery cartoons on DVD? ---
**Author:** ![cdignam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5e9695/32.png) [@cdignam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cdignam)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2013, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-remember-this-cartoon/142314/7 "2013-02-22T19:58:22Z")
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!! ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2013, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-remember-this-cartoon/142314/8 "2013-02-23T00:40:56Z")
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.) ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2013, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-remember-this-cartoon/142314/9 "2013-02-23T01:36:28Z")
The internet [is better](http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x45xby_mgm-cartoon-symphony-in-slang-1951_shortfilms#.USgbKvL9y2c) than it was in 2002. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2013, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-remember-this-cartoon/142314/10 "2013-02-23T01:46:26Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2013, 10:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-remember-this-cartoon/142314/11 "2013-02-23T10:02:20Z")
Wow, I haven’t seen that in 20 years. Good stuff.