Bedtime for Sniffles

This is the best Christmas cartoon short I have ever seen, I have it on tape and watch it over the Christmas holidays along with 'The Night Before Christmas (Tom & Jerry). Sniffles tries his best to stay awake to see Santa but as soon as he's fallen asleep he arrives.

In this short, Sniffles the mouse is trying not to fall asleep so he won't miss the arrival of Santa Claus. Needless to say, he doesn't have much success...and neither did I. I found the images and sounds that made Sniffles droopy eyed had the same effect on me. This isn't a bad short, just don't view it late at night.

Taking a slight break from their usual stuff, the Chuck Jones crowd made this short about mouse Sniffles trying to stay awake on Christmas Eve so that he can meet Santa Claus...if he can. There have been so many overly sugary Christmas stories that it's neat to see one that functions as sort of a time capsule. "Bedtime for Sniffles" portrays the titular character listening to the radio, and it's clearly one of those 1940s broadcasts.

Anyway, it's an OK way to pass time. You probably won't have any kind of religious experience, but it doesn't pretend to be that kind of cartoon. I wonder if Sniffles appeared in any other cartoons.

Haxwell Mouse...Ha!

It's Christmas Eve, and Sniffles the mouse is going to wait up to see Santa Claus making his rounds. Only problem is, the little guy didn't realize just how tired he'd get - or how appealing his bed would look - waiting up that late. For all the hundreds of animated shorts WB put out over the years, this is one of the very few that is Christmas-themed, and I've never figured out just why that is. ("The Shanty Where Santy Claus Lives", being black-and-white, doesn't get much air time nowadays.) Sniffles only appeared in about a dozen shorts in the late 1930's and 1940's, and the fact that this little classic is played every year at Christmas time is probably the only reason he didn't fade into obscurity.

Despite being very slow and boring, this cartoon manages to be worth watching because of the incredibly cute mouse Sniffles (who looks a little bit like Fievel in "An American Tail"), the animation and the music.

Basically, this short is about a little mouse called Sniffles who, on Chirstmas Eve, is determined to stay awake to see Santa. He does things like make himself a cup of coffee and listening to Christmas music on the radio. Will he see Santa?

I recommend this to people who like old cartoons which are very slow and seem like fifteen minutes, people who like Christmas cartoons and for people who like mice. Enjoy "Bedtime for Sniffles"! :-)

P.S You do not have to just watch this for Chirstmas, it is fine for summer viewing as well.

P.P.S This is the only cartoon I have seen of Sniffles so far and I look forward to watching all his others, if possible. :-)

7 and a half out of ten.