Ham and Eggs

Ham and Eggs is a 1933 animated cartoon produced by Walter Lantz, as part of the Oswald the Lucky Rabbit series.[1] It is the 72nd Oswald short by Lantz and the 124th in the entire series.

This article is about the Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon. For the dish, see Ham and eggs. For the failed old-age pension plan in California, see Ham and Eggs Movement.
Ham and Eggs
Oswald and the girl beagle in the kitchen.
Directed byWalter Lantz
Bill Nolan
Produced byWalter Lantz
Story byWalter Lantz
Bill Nolan
Music byJames Dietrich
Animation byRay Abrams
Fred Avery
Cecil Surry
Jack Carr
Don Williams
Color processBlack and white
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release date
June 19, 1933
Running time
6:13
LanguageEnglish

Plot

At a bistro, Oswald works as the chef while the girl beagle serves as the waitress.

Their first patron is a tall terrier who comes in for spaghetti. After finishing his meal, he slowly walks toward the cash register, pretending he would pay his bill. The tall terrier discloses that he has nothing to pay as he quickly exits the door and gives the bistro operators a raspberry. Nevertheless, Oswald and the girl beagle just laugh, knowing they can prevent other customers from running off.

Coming in next is the boy beagle with an appetite for pancakes. As he receives his order and tries to take a nibble, the boy beagle finds the pancakes rock solid and therefore too hard to chew on, much to his disgust. He then starts tossing them around, prompting Oswald to tell him that such actions come at a price. Refusing to give a cent, the boy beagle heads toward the door. Before he could do so, however, he is nabbed by the robotic cash register that shakes off every single coin he has.

The third customer is a big bear who orders a ham sandwich. Oswald cracks an egg which turns into a chick and cools itself and while he is in the kitchen, the bear starts flirting the girl beagle, and Oswald is aware of it. Irritated by that, Oswald saws out of two square wooden boards and glues them in between. The bear then receives and takes a bite of the false sandwich, thus resulting in cracked and chipped teeth. Provoked, the bear goes into a frenzy. Oswald, however, is able to evade and fend off the bear's aggression, as the bear tries to catch Oswald but got knocked by Oswald's plan, which is the cash register's money drawer. The bear landed on the floor hitting a cabinet with drawers forcing the bear to feel dazed. Upon bringing their unruly client down, Oswald the girl beagle put corn kernels plus a lighted oil lamp in the bear's trousers. The corn starts popping inside and the bear runs away hysterically.

The cartoon concludes with Oswald singing in baritone next to his colleague which he also did in the beginning.

See also

References
  1. Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 115–116. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7.


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