Mucho Locos is a 1966 Merrie Melodies short directed by Robert McKimson.
Plot[]
Two mice, Pelon and Jose, are watching a broken television at the garbage dump. Jose says you just have to use your imagination, but a frustrated Pelon says he's going home to watch a real TV, and even insults and berates Jose that he's stupid and crazy, or in his words, "loco in the cabeza."
Jose gets depressed, lamenting on his own poverty-stricken life. Soon after, Speedy arrives and begins narrating scenes that show that the stupidest animal is the duck and the smartest one is the mouse. Together, they envision a Robin Hood scene where the duck, Daffy, can't even beat the pig, Porky. Speedy describes the time he outwitted El Vulturo. Then they imagine a time when Daffy failed as Sherlock Holmes, and a time when Speedy outwitted two cats named Jose and Manuel. Finally, Speedy tells of the Hong Kong Dragon Lady breathing fire on the duck.
When the story is over, Jose asks about the new duck on the television, with Speedy asking "What duck?". Just then, Daffy, angered about Speedy making him look like a complete fool, leans through the broken TV and heckles Speedy before using a mallet to flatten him. Speedy decides to go home now, because he thinks the imagination TV gives him the terrible headaches. Jose wonders if it is real or not.
Censorship[]
- On CBS, the scene recycled from the 1959 Robert McKimson short "China Jones", where Daffy is burnt and featherless after the Chinese dragon lady breathes fire on him was cut due to Chinese stereotypes (though CBS allowed outdated racial stereotypes in other shorts) and the censors objecting to Daffy being comically set on fire.[1]
Goofs[]
Cel number visible near the bottom right of Manuel
- When Manuel is waving his sombrero at the lit dynamite fuse, a cel number "#5" is visible on the bottom right of Manuel during one frame of the animation loop.
- Due to redrawn animation, as well as budget cuts, some characters are erroneously colored incorrectly compared to the original shorts. Daffy's Robin Hood suit is green and yellow instead of red and green, Señor Vulturo is colored black instead of blue (hence giving him a crow-like appearance), and Jose and Manuel are colored lighter than in their original appearances.
- Even the background art of these archive footage are colored drastically differently compared to the original shorts for this reason, for example in the clips from "Tortilla Flaps" and "Mexicali Shmoes", the sky colors in both cartoons are changed from blue to pink. In addition, the background art in all these cartoons tend to look more flat and less detailed with a notable lack of background shading and reflection compared to the original shorts as well.
- When Daffy as China Jones talks to the dragon lady, the color of his hat flashes between a lighter and darker yellow as he talks.
- As Daffy smashes Speedy with the mallet at the end of the short, Speedy does not disappear once Daffy slams the mallet, causing Speedy to briefly appear behind the mallet as it rebounds.
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