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No other info? No creator? No storyline or a brief of it? no images from the board? Nothing? Im guessing it just got accepted with “Funniest seven-minute short ever”? -Steve

Good morning Stephen: (and Everyone)
Duck Amuck was directed by Chuck Jones in 1953. Released by Warner Bros Pictures and co-written by Michael Maltese.
Chuck Jones was my mentor when I was at Cal Arts and one of my best friends. Chuck Jones started me in this business and it truly is one of the funniest and most creative cartoons produced to date.

Good morning to you as well. I got no school due to the snow, and thanks for clearing that info up fo rme!Talk soon! btw, send an email -Steve

“One Froggy Evening”

It would have to be an Avery. It’s impossible to limit myself to one, but I’ll go out on a limb and say…

LEGEND OF ROCK-A-BYE POINT

… I can already think of ten others just as funny.

I agree with you Jerry. This and a bunch of others by Tex Avery.
Talk soon and I hope all is well with your cartoon.
Your Cartoon Pal…… Jeff

I hear ya, Jerry. I came close to picking Magical Maestro.

the bugs and daffy short with pronoun trouble

Operation: Rabbit

Sylvester and Elmer Fudd in “Back Alley Uproar”

Either that or the one with Bugs and Yosemitie Sam on the train…and no, I can’t remember who directed either. I’m awesome that way.

Call it cliche, but Rabbit of Seville.

Call me crazy, but Beavis & Butthead comes close. (No, I’m not a Beavis or a Butthead.)

The Three Little Bops “You gotta get hot to play real cool”. 1957, under the direction of Fritz Freleng. Big Bad Wolf wants to join a hip jazz combo - 3 little pigs - but isn’t good enough until he blows himself up and does a ghostly return from “downstairs”, blowin’ a really hot horn. My ongoing love affair with jazz - a truly American music form - began 11 years ago. Subsequently, I saw The Three Little Bops. In my head, jazz and cartoons go hand in hand - they “signify” - early form snarkism! My personal standard for character appreciation is if I can envision him/her/it mixing it up to Louis Jordan, Jones, Barbieri, Armstrong, Sarah, Ella, Billie… Also, any of the uncensored stuff is great. (Bugs in blackface singing “Dixie” while facing a Canadian firing squad, encountering “Nature Boy”…)

Besides the one I’m working on? j/k!!!

King Size Canary by Tex Avery represents seven of the funniest minutes ever put on film.
-jx

ONE? I have to pick ONE? There are so many I could pick and may regret not picking directed by Jones, Avery, Clampett… and maybe even DeGrandis… but I think I’m gonna agree with Eric’s title card got with Duck Amuck. That’s the first cartoon I can clearly remember making me laugh as a kid. The timing is perfect and Mel Blanc was at the absolute top of his game.

I might’ve picked a Private Snafu short, but those were all around 5 minutes long.

I’d have to check the running time, but “Ventriloquist Cat” by Tex Avery gets my vote.

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MGM
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Distributed by:
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
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Characters:
Spike, Alley Cat.
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Directed By
Fred ‘Tex’ Avery.
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Produced By
Fred Quimby.
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Animated By
Walter Clinton, Michael Lah, Grant Simmons.
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Written By
Rich Hogan.
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Originally Released on May 27, 1950.
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Originally Released Theatrically.
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Running Time:
7 minutes.
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TechniColor
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U.S.A.

Since “Duck Amuck” was taken… Robbin Hood Daffy. “Yoiks, and away!” “Actually, this is a buck-and-a-quarter quarterstaff, but I’m not telling HIM that.”

While I love and adore Chuck Jones with all my heart, I have to say that my favorite is “Easter Yeggs”, directed by Robert McKimson. And about a bajillion Chuck Jones shorts coming in second

Ooh, McKimson. Now I wanna watch Crowing Pains, one of the craziest cartoons I’ve ever seen…

Can I change my answer?

A Sucker for Suck-O-Matic (Rocko’s Modern Life). Thought I’d go a bit new-school. Oh, and it’s twelve minutes. Sorry.

For old-school, how about Bugs N Thugs? I always liked that one.