Nutty News is a 1942 Looney Tunes short directed by Bob Clampett.
Plot[]
Elmer Fudd narrates a newsreel.
A hunter uses a moose call; the moose answers back using a hunter call. A barber startles an uncooperative boy with his invention; the Hitler-in-the-box makes the boy's hair stand on end so the barber can cut it. A man uses a rear-view mirror to guard his hat while eating, but that's not all he should have guarded. In a laboratory, rabbits multiply, but by reciting their times tables. Fireflies are having a blackout. An artist uses his thumb to get the proportions correct as a model is posing. A baby chick follows along as ducks take their first swim. In the South, a traffic sign reads "No U-All Turns." A baseball pitcher throws a dollar across the Potomac, but it gets only halfway; his Scottie dog explains that a dollar doesn't go as far. In a fox hunt, the dogs run in circles because the lead dog is romancing the fox. A new department store is about to be built, and it's already attracted a protester. Finally, a series of battleships all sail in the rain, except the USS California, which is in bright sunshine.
Caricatures[]
- Adolf Hitler
- George Washington
- Carl Hubbell - as Carl Bubble
- Henry Binder
- Cal Dalton
- Ken Harris
Availability[]
The Wackiest Cartoons of All Time! Volume 3
Streaming[]
Censorship[]
- The version shown on Nickelodeon cut the entire scene of the new invention that forces little boys to sit still while getting their hair cut (a jack-in-the-box with the head of Adolf Hitler as the jack).
- Most syndicated prints of this short have the title card (but not the animation credits card) right-side-up rather than upside down before correcting itself due to Nazi symbolism on the upside down title card. When the short aired on Cartoon Network's The Bob Clampett Show, the title card's original presentation was shown. The title card edit was also done on WarnerMedia RIDE's streaming service and MeTV.
