Friz Freling was notorious for re-using gags in his cartoons. These include playing "Those Endearing Young Charms" on a booby-trapped instrument, the trained pigeons gag and many, many others. This cartoon is a nearly complete remake of 1950's "Stooge For A Mouse". Freling replaced Mike the Bulldog with Bugsy, Sylvester with Mugsy and the mouse with Bugs. In fact, if you were to take out everything that was reused from this cartoon, it would only be thirty seconds long. It would be interesting to cut all the repeated gags from Freling's cartoons and see which pile would be larger.
Freling may have once been an innovative director, but as time went on, his cartoons became collections of overworked, reused material.
Freling may have once been an innovative director, but as time went on, his cartoons became collections of overworked, reused material.
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