Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Entertainment/2016 July 20

= July 20 =

Old timer cartoons
I am searching for a bunch of cartoons of this ilk. The first was about three brothers who tried to save a girl from a villain who tried to kidnap her in ridiculous ways. The second was about a dog who fell in love with a dog-shaped lighting conductor. 46.198.195.80 (talk) 19:52, 20 July 2016 (UTC)
 * That youtube link doesn't work in America, but I can tell you about the cartoons. Both of them date to 1942. The first is called The Dover Boys. It's an inspired and uniquely-designed parody of turn-of-the-century college kids' adventure stories. The second is called Ding Dog Daddy, where the dog thinks the iron dog lawn ornament is alive. The iron dog is picked up as scrap metal, and the real dog follows it through a plant where it is used in the making of a bomb. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 21:14, 20 July 2016 (UTC)
 * I'll bet your mom thought watching cartoons was a waste of time -- who knew that knowledge would be valuable decades later? --2606:A000:4C0C:E200:60BC:894:7787:F31 (talk) 22:29, 20 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Quite the contrary. Many of the cartoons from that era were written with adult audiences in mind, and are educational, as a window into what things were like during the War. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 01:30, 21 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Well done BB. While on the subject, at about 4:20 into Ding Dog Daddy, the mutt (identified as Willoughby by our article) inadvertently kisses the bulldog who responds with muttered curses and threats which start with "Why you ..." and ends with "I'll break every bone in your body!" Are you able to make out anything in between?  I think I hear an "overgrown" in there, but I'm not sure. -- ToE 14:36, 21 July 2016 (UTC)
 * It's mostly stammering; I hear one more distinct word in there, immediately before "overgrown", but it's not distinct enough for me to say what it is. —Tamfang (talk) 08:15, 22 July 2016 (UTC)