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For those who like their films generically titled we have “Boy Meets Dog” (although, if “Snakes on a Plane” is any evidence, there may not be as many of you as we first thought.) Today’s Man’s Best Friend Week installment is a Walter Lantz production supposedly based on the popular newspaper comic, “Reg’lar Fellas,” although that strip’s “reg’lar” characters hardly appear. This one was also underwritten by Ipana Toothpaste as a kind of low key advertisement — very low key, as it turns out. The story has nothing at all to do with teeth which makes the repeated references to dental hygiene all the more awkwardly inappropriate (and, you know, kinda weird).

Okay, okay, OKAY, you say, but how is the cartoon? Well, pretty good actually — we’re back with 1930’s pixies trying to teach cranky ol’ Papa a lesson in an elaborate dream sequence. Nifty, imaginative stuff, with a lot of the elves doing impersonations of then popular radio comedians (I think) then torturing the poor guy (or doing both simultaneously —I’m not quite sure.) All ends happily, more or less for boy, dog and dad.

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Dave Kirwan