# Identify this cartoon/old movie short

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** movies\
**Created:** [September 8, 2024, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-cartoon-old-movie-short/1006974 "2024-09-08T22:41:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2024, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-cartoon-old-movie-short/1006974/1 "2024-09-08T22:41:01Z")

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Today I had a memory of someone accidentally making biscuits with gunpowder instead of baking powder, and maybe (after the mistake was discovered) using the biscuits in a mortar. Ring any bells or am I imagining the whole thing?

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**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2024, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-cartoon-old-movie-short/1006974/2 "2024-09-08T22:47:29Z")

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# _Go Go Gophers_

Kitchen Capers – Colonel Coyote gives the Gopher recruits one last chance to make it as Army men – he puts them to work in the Fort Gopher kitchen. Unfortunately for Colonel Coyote, the Gophers make a super-spicy soup and gunpowder biscuits; a furious Colonel Coyote is last seen chasing the two laughing Gophers while throwing “exploding” biscuits at them!

> **[Go Go Gophers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_Go_Gophers)**
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> Go Go Gophers is an animated series set in the Old West that appears as a 4-5 minute long segment within 48 episodes of the Underdog TV series. All of the cartoon's segments were produced sometime between 1962 to 1963 but aired as part of Underdog in October 1964. It was then spun off as a separate series on CBS that aired from September 14, 1968 to September 6, 1969; however, the episodes were just repeats of the 48 segments that aired on the Underdog series. The segments also aired alo The show...

[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Tl9lVbg0c8E/hqdefault.jpg "Go Go Gophers #24 "Kitchen Capers"") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tl9lVbg0c8E)

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**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2024, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-cartoon-old-movie-short/1006974/3 "2024-09-08T22:49:27Z")

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Thank you! Not an accident at all, I see.

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**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2024, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-cartoon-old-movie-short/1006974/4 "2024-09-09T03:40:24Z")

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Jeez, I had completely forgotten the Go-Go Gophers. Now I can’t get the theme song out of my head!
