Review of A Day at the Zoo

. . . Warner Bros. provides a satisfying Come-Uppance at the close of A DAY AT THE ZOO, as the serial rule breaker winds up inside a not-so-cowardly lion (ZOO coming out in the same year that Bert Lahr grabbed his own tail in OZ). Also in the news then, band leader Glenn Miller was putting a southwestern Michigan town on the map which serves at the namesake for this animated short's featured "Kalama Zoo." But between these two gags at the beginning and finale of ZOO, director Tex Avery engages in his usual brand of pedestrian humor that never rises to the level of HUNTING SEASONING or WHAT'S OPERA, DOC? The pack of smoking camels may be mildly amusing to some, those being mostly among the 2% of Americans who do NOT have an immediate family member who succumbed to the product promoted by cartoon character "Joe Camel" of the Corrupt Corporate Capitalism's People-Killing Conglomerates. This is immediately followed by a lame Greyhound bus gag, reminding us of why Warner soon booted Avery over to MGM in Real Life, in a career demise as swift as Egghead's here.