The Weakly Reporter

1944
7m

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A newsreel spoof with WWII homefront gags, including rationing, air raid drills and women filling in men's jobs.A newsreel spoof with WWII homefront gags, including rationing, air raid drills and women filling in men's jobs.A newsreel spoof with WWII homefront gags, including rationing, air raid drills and women filling in men's jobs.

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6.2/10

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Mel Blanc

Cop
(voice)
(uncredited)
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Bea Benaderet

Lady Buying Steak
(voice)
(uncredited)
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Frank Graham

Narrator
(voice)
(uncredited)

Director
- Chuck Jones
Writer
- Michael Maltese
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Trivia
The WW2 era sight gags were familiar to cinema audiences at the time. But the patriotic message was clear, the home front needed to do its part. And War Bond purchases were part of the war effort.

Quotes
[shows a man named John feeling restless in bed]
Male Narrator: Some shortages are a blessing in disguise. Now that John can get all the coffee he wants, he frequently has trouble getting to sleep nights. But during rationing...
[shows card of rationing coffee to one cup a day]
Male Narrator: Well...
[John tossing and turning and fidgeting in his bed]

Connections
Edited into Bugs & Daffy: The Wartime Cartoons (1989)

Soundtracks
Yankee Doodle
(uncredited)
Traditional
Played during the bond hoarding bit

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7/10

WWII: we had to ration things; War on Terrorism: use as much as possible

The Looney Tunes cartoons were among the main media promoting the war effort in WWII. "The Weakly Reporter" is a parody of newsreels from that era. As can be expected in anything from the Termite Terrace crowd, practically every scene is a gag of some form or another.

But there's something else here. The cartoon talks about rations. That brings to mind the fact that we were actually rationing things during World War II. Here in the so-called War on Terrorism, we're not rationing anything. In fact, George W. Bush is the first president who didn't raise taxes in wartime. History won't look kindly upon this.

But anyway, it's a pretty funny cartoon. It was one of the many cartoons featured in "Bugs and Daffy: The Wartime Cartoons" hosted by Leonard Maltin.