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In this cartoon, Oswald and Pete are two hobos traveling across the country during the Depression. They stop at a farmhouse after spotting some pie cooling on a windowsill and approach it. One gag in this cartoon that I enjoy is when the lady of the house uses Oswald's ear to cut a slice of pie for him. Another gag I enjoy is that of Oswald creating a saxophone out of a log. He then uses it to play various tunes. One of which has a scarecrow dancing like a Hasidic Jew. Like many cartoons of the early sound era, an outhouse gag is shown with someone stepping out. This cartoon, produced at the Walter Lantz studios could very well be a remake of an earlier Disney Oswald titled HUNGRY HOBOES.

Sure I liked (not loved) this series as a kid back when I first started watching it for a short time in the early 90's, but today I feel it far inferior to most other cartoon series. While they did come up with creative plots to the series, the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" is really no more than a commercial disguised as a TV program. This show has no artistic merit to it except to keep the kids' attention for a short time and persuade them to buy their merchandise. This show just cannot compare to the cartoons made during the classic era of animation from the 1920's through 1960's or the stuff from the "revival period" of animation in the late 80's/early 90's. Cartoons should be made not to persuade the kids to buy the products, but to first cater to the cartoonists' tastes and then to those of the public.

Here it is! The very first appearance of Flip the Frog. Flip, however, instead of being a more anthropomorphic frog, is a frog-like frog (who can do human things like play piano). He entertains some pond residents with a musical number on a piano accompanied by a Mickey Mouse look-alike on the violin. Although this cartoon does not have too much humor or excitement in it, I still feel that it is beautiful to view. This cartoon and TECHNOCRACKED were the only two Flip the Frog cartoons produced in color (although I have yet to see the original color version of TECHNOCRACKED)using the two-strip Cinecolor process.