Edgar Allan Pooh
. . . doesn't that smack of cannibalism? In a reverse of THE WIZARD OF OZ's "from one dog to another" early campfire scene with "Professor Marvel" a few years later, SHE DONE HIM RIGHT features a hot dog "eating" a small puppy alive! This Universal cartoon tries to be a more ribald version of Mae West's Broadway Smutmobile, DIAMOND LIL, than the studios could get away with in Mae's live action flick, SHE DONE HIM WRONG. Therefore, Mae's famous line, "Why don't you come up, sometime, and see me" morphs into the far more suggestive "You ought to come up some time" from the mouth of the buxom animated vixen, Poodles, in DONE HIM RIGHT. Very literal sight puns also abound here, such as the back hem of Poodle's dress tapering off into a tiny Choo-Choo Train. A random guy plays the "Jackpot" slot machine and wins--a ceramic chamber pot inscribed, of course, "Jack's." From the legions of disabled dirty old men drooling puddles over Poodles to her smooch-fest climactic scene with Pooch, RIGHT's as wrong as back alley smut.
boblipton
The 1890s was one of those times for which people were nostalgic -- and which would have astonished anyone who had to deal with it. The US was in a major depression and the music was soppy and sentimental. What people probably looked back on was there were no automobiles -- and the streets were filled with horse manure.In any case, for the movies, the Gay Nineties was the decade in which movies like Mae West's SHE DONE HIM WRONG and THE BOWERY were set, so Walter Lantz set this musical cartoon starring Pooch the Pup -- his answer to the Fleischer's Bimbo -- in that millieu. It starts out with "In the Good Old Summertime" and ends with "Minnie the Moocher's Wedding Day". For the first half the gags are sight gags and rather adult and there are some interesting shots, like a camera freeze and a pan shot. About two-thirds of the way through they shift to the more cartoon-standard "rubber tube" animation gags.All in all, it looks like Lantz' staff couldn't make up its mind whether they wanted to do a general audience cartoon like the first half or a children's cartoon.
