I Wanna Be a Sailor

I Wanna Be a Sailor is a 1937 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon film directed by Tex Avery. The short was released on September 25, 1937.

Plot
A mother parrot in a cage is teaching her three children to say, "Polly want a cracker." The first two kids, Patrick and Patricia, do so after some effort, but Peter boldly refuses, pointing at a framed photo of his dad he states, "I don't want a cracker! I wanna be a sailor, like me pop." His mother immediately begins deriding her husband, telling Peter that right after he and his siblings were born, their dad had set sail for Hawaii ("No, Maw, it was Catalina," Dad, as she remembers him, reminds her). She tells her son, "I used to burn a little light in the window" (it was actually a searchlight), hoping for his dad's return, but he never did come back.

Nonetheless, Peter stubbornly stomps off to become a sailor. He bumps into a barrel, from which he builds a ship with a red pajama for a sail and a skull-and-crossbones label from a poison bottle for a Jolly Roger flag. He joins forces with an annoyingly loquacious duck (whom he silences by clamping his beak shut with a clothespin), and the two set sail on the lake - Peter as captain, the duck as deck-swab. They eventually run into trouble in a thunderstorm (which the duck revels in, being more accustomed to water) and end up overboard. Peter calls out for his "Momma". She comes running, but the duck has already saved him. Despite it all, Peter still wants to be a sailor, which causes his mother to faint.

Voice cast

 * Robert "Bobby" Winkler as Petey Parrot
 * Danny Webb as Petey Parrot for the line "...I am a Man!" (reused from Egghead Rides Again)
 * Mel Blanc as Dizzy Duck
 * Elvia Allman as Mother Parrot
 * Billy Bletcher as Father Parrot
 * Tommy Bond as Patrick Parrot
 * Bernice Hansen as Patricia Parrot

Home media

 * LaserDisc - The Golden Age of Looney Tunes: Volume 3, Side 5 (unrestored)
 * DVD - Kid Galahad (US dubbed version)
 * Blu-Ray - Looney Tunes Collector's Choice: Volume 2 (restored)
 * The USA Dubbed Print Uses 1947-1948 Dubbed Ending While The EU Dubbed Print Uses 1937-1938 Dubbed Ending

US Print Uses 1941-1955 While EU Print Uses 1938-1941 MWRA