This Looney Tunes short is a big departure from the norm, as none of the characters are familiar. Instead, it's about a cute family of opossums and their problem child. It seems that Junior is very lazy and all he wants to do is sleep. So, Dad comes up with a strange plan--to dress up like a dog and scare the boy into waking up. Still, however, despite the costume, the boy is seriously intent on sleeping and scheme after scheme to rouse the boy seem to be fruitless. In many ways, it plays a lot like a Wiley Coyote and Roadrunner cartoon--with weird plans, gadgets and the like. But, being an early 50s short, the animation is higher quality (in the mid-late 50s, the cartoons and especially backgrounds were MUCH simpler). So is it worth seeing? Yes. It's cute and original. Not brilliant but quite nice.
Oh, and by the way, despite what you see in this cartoon, possums cannot hang by their tails--this is a myth.
Oh, and by the way, despite what you see in this cartoon, possums cannot hang by their tails--this is a myth.