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4/10
Stepping out with Buddy and Cookie
TheLittleSongbird19 September 2017
Now a fairly obscure character, Buddy was the second Warner Brothers Looney Tunes character, after Bosko and followed by Beans the Cat. Buddy didn't last long, being retired in 1935 after 23 cartoons starting in 1933.

The Buddy cartoons are intriguing to see how very early Looney Tunes characters, before the iconic ones with far more interesting and funnier personalities were introduced, fared. His filmography is very much variable, most ranging between mediocre and decent though 'Buddy's Adventures' is one of the rare very good Buddy cartoons. Like 'Buddy's Show Boat', 'Buddy's Bearcats', 'Buddy of the Legion' and 'Buddy in Africa', 'Buddy Steps Out' is one of his weaker cartoons, mostly notable for being Cookie's last pairing with Buddy.

Certainly there are things that make it a one-time watch, if only for completest sake. The animation is nicely drawn and detailed with the black and white looking crisp, some of it is inventive. Even better is the very energetic and cleverly orchestrated music score. Music played a big part in the Buddy cartoons and it was essential for it to work.

Occasionally it's amusing, Cookie while a plot device is charming and the voice acting is good.

However, 'Buddy Steps Out' is very weak in terms of story, one would be forgiven for not remembering there being much of one and what there is is so formulaic and hastily put together one is a couple of steps ahead of the cartoon the whole time, which takes away from the enjoyment. It also feels very erratically paced due to, even for a Buddy cartoon, being far too short and the lack of laughs and predictability also makes some of it a dull watch.

In regards to the humour, 'Buddy Steps Out' is very much short-changed. There is nothing genuinely funny here, the best sporadic moments only being mildly amusing at best. The supporting characters don't register enough and it all gets too cutesy at times. Buddy is part of the problem too, like in all his lesser-just straining average cartoons he just isn't a particularly interesting or compelling in personality character, pretty bland actually, and his comic timing is barely there.

Overall, mediocre lesser Buddy effort that is a one-time completest watch. 4/10 Bethany Cox
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4/10
Buddy Steps Out was an early start for animators Chuck Jones and Bob Clampett
tavm8 March 2008
This being my first viewing of a Buddy cartoon from Leon Schlesinger after losing Harmon-Ising's Bosko to M-G-M, I have to say it's a good thing Tex Avery arrived a year later so animators Bob Clampett and Chuck Jones didn't get stuck with such bland material such as what is done here. While Buddy and Cookie go out, a picture of the main character comes to life and with the statue Atlas' help, brings a frozen bird inside who starts chirping to a tune on the radio with many other characters in the house coming to life. Reminiscent of other Warner Bros. cartoons with similar formats, Buddy Steps Out is hardly any different but knowing that the animators would eventually be two of the most creative staff members of Termite Terrace, this one is certainly worth a look. By the way, director Jack King originally was raided from Disney. When he returned there, he'd be Donald Duck's resident helmer before his retirement in 1947.
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6/10
Good riddance to Bosko and Buddy . . .
oscaralbert18 February 2017
Warning: Spoilers
. . . (though, technically, Buddy had one flick to go after BUDDY STEPS OUT, which was BUDDY THE GEE-MAN, released a month later). One of the Warnologists in my circle of scribes working to codify the hundreds of Warner Bros. prophetic warnings for We Americans of the (Then) Far Future claims that Warner's Animated Shorts Seers division (aka, the Looney Tuners) primarily used Bosko and Buddy to alert We Citizens of the 21st Century (and hopefully beyond) as to Red Commie KGB Czar Vlad "The Mad Russian" Putin's Rump\Scents ticket for the White House. This deplorable pair could not have topped even 10 million votes nationwide without the backing of the Sex Police Party. These Forced Birth Hypocrites have tried for a Century to poke their noses into everyone else's crotches. Adherents to their Radical Christian Terrorism have slain medical doctors, office staff, security guards, pregnant moms, and random bystanders by the dozens in a Reign of Mayhem often involving cowardly sniper rifle attacks and vicious bombings. Naturally, neither Rump nor Scents will use the term "Radical Christian Terrorism" since they live in the Alternate Reality World of Fake News.

BUDDY STEPS OUT tells the life story of Norma L. McCorvey (aka, Jane Roe of "Roe versus Wade," the Real Life subject of Billy Joel's song, "Only the Good Die Young"). She is played here by the Canary, with Vicelord Scents portrayed once again by Buddy. Raised in the abusive environment of a Roman "church" riddled with sexual perversion (go see SPOTLIGHT if you've been living on Mars), Norma was a gas station robber at the age of 10, after which she used the stolen loot to run off to a motel with her lesbian lover. By the age of 21 Norma had been raped hundreds of times by older men, including every night for three weeks by her alcoholic mom's visiting cousin. A big boozer herself, Norma bore three babies suffering from Fetal Alcohol Syndrome--all of which were adopted out to become cash cows for the Red Staters running "Foster Home" Baby Mills (which often doubled as screens behind which they could exercise their own games of "Let's play Lot's Daughters"). This includes the Baby-Who-Shouldn't-Have-Been-Born, according to the U.S. Supreme Court, which got wise to the South's scheme to make The Confederacy Rise Again by bloating their population with these Forced Birth Baby Mill victims, thus being able to steal Congressional Seats from Blue States such as New York. "All you 'Church People' love the Death Penalty, and you cross to the other side of the street like the Jewish Honchos in the Parable of the Good Samaritan when you see poor people starving in the gutter, but you would dare to force the needy, the abused, the drug addicts and alcoholics, and those whose ultrasounds indicate the certainty of bringing someone into this world for a few months of extreme suffering at a cost to Society in the millions per Zika Tyke just to achieve your own selfish and illegally Unconstitutional Ends," the Supreme Court chastised the Bozos running Texas, WHO ARE STILL IN POWER, and have expanded their Crime Empire to 39 other states!!

When the canary gets locked outside in the cold, it is Warner's way of depicting Norma's (still in the future) predicament of living in Texas, with no legal and affordable access to abortion, being forced to bear one rapist's spawn after another. No wonder the Canary is frozen in a block of ice when Atlas (representing Czar Putin) brings her inside so that Buddy Two (who's climbed out of a picture frame to emphasize that he's representing Scents, the second fiddle, even though Scents has a much nastier background in the Sex Police Industry than Rump--when he was Governator of Indiana, all the Hoosier Ladies had to send him their used tampons, which really clogged up the snail mail pipeline). Roman miscreants like Scents eventually kidnapped McCorvey for brainwashing as a Sex Police Spokeswoman, the sort of tactic Putin uses in his Russian Gulags all the time. Even though McCorvey died today, the chortling Red Staters are so confident of making Margaret Atwood's THE HANDMAID'S TALE a total reality in their fraudulent version of America, they've already started on their next big goal: Pumping up the Ku Klux Klan bigger than every before (and the Klan owned Scent's state of Indiana in the 1920s). Putin recently legalized Rape in Russian--can America be far behind with Rump\Scents stinking up our White House? If you watch BUDDY STEPS OUT, you'll know why the caged bird sings.
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