One Droopy Knight

This cartoon, while it has its moments and is very good, is really not that exceptional and really isn't much more than a redo of two earlier Droopy cartoons directed by Tex Avery (Senor Droopy and Homesteader Droopy) and while Michael Lah does a good job, why it was nominated for an Oscar is a trifle puzzling. There were certainly better cartoons in 1957 that weren't (Touche and Go, Mucho Mouse and even Blackboard Jumble, another Droopy), so its nomination "is a puzzlement", so to speak. Recommended.

Droopy is reading a fairy tale. Sir Droopalot and Sir Butchalot are sent to battle a dragon and win the princess. The dragon is not so concerned with Droopalot. This is an MGM cartoon produced by Joseph Barbera and William Hanna. This is a great Droopy cartoon. It hits on the Droopy character at his pure best. His delusional confidence is adorable. He is an unique creation. I don't know how much influence Hanna and Barbera had with this episode. Director Michael Lah seems to be a long time worker collaborating with two legends. While I am a big Droopy fan, I'm not sure that he's Oscar nomination worthy. Don't get me wrong. He's the best but this is only an MGM cartoon short.

Well, I guess even Academy Award winning cartoons can't please everybody, but the gentleman from Tucson who thought this was "good but not great" is dead wrong! True, the animation is not the quality of the Golden Age of Cartoons, but this cartoon ISN'T about the animation. The script and the characters are by turns dry, witty, uproariously funny, and finally fall-down hilarious. Bill Thompson deserved his own Oscar for voicing both Droopy and Butch -- talk about two extremes! And keeping Knight Butchalot's Irish accent was a touch of comic genius. Even though this was a Droopy cartoon, the Dragon steals the show with his utter disdain and complete disregard of Sir Droopalot as an adversary, shunting him aside in hilarious ways and giving all his attention to the macho Sir Buchalot. This is a truly great cartoon that lives up to its Oscar win!

A medieval kingdom is afflicted with a dragon. The king offers his daughter's hand to whoever can get rid of it. Only two knights are brave enough to try: Droopy and Butch.

It's from that period when MGM was still trying to produce new cartoons, with Hanna & Barbera running the division while they worked on their early television animation. It's of a piece with the tv work, with almost non-existent background work, simple character design, and less-than-full animation. Only the color work, done in an impressionistic manner, shows this was intended for theatrical release.

The gags are pretty good, which is the point of the matter.

The consequences of mind induction nation for children who only have one parent who cares for them is definitely to be found in the horrible cartoons of the 50s making children believe that they will be popular if you act like idiots like droopy or Tom and Jerry or Laurel and Hardy you're one of them and the problem of course is that people in real life will not deal with such problematic behaviours and they will make fun of you and all this season this is to which this old-time cartoons and leading really in the modern days and not on any better with the consequences of bullies becoming more harsh and then you'll really get the whole downgoing of the whole universe by the movie industry and the media and of course that is the sat consequence of life and all these things but not only life but also the wrong decisions and the following of the shouting and that is the same thing really Lee nothing more can be said of it but Hollywood is bringing his all done to him this is why it's important that nowadays some people definitely still know how to make a stand and then they come on the nose like being bad but in reality they are just the consequences of children following droopy and Tom and Jerry and son when they were young and that is really all what is going on inshallah Allahu akbar and there is no God but Allah.