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I've been checking out a lot of the older cartoons here recently, and I ran across a character I haven't seen since the beginning of my childhood. I find that not only was this the last episode to involve Cool Cat, but also the last theatrically released cartoon short. Surely, they would go out with a bang, something that would be remembered in the future as their grand finale.

...I was wrong.

Instead, I got this. How can I possibly describe it? While I do think Cool Cat is... well, cool... The execution of the episode was just so poor and flimsy that it is just embarrassing really. It takes anything that could be a pun and turn it into a really bad joke. The Horse (hanging from a ledge) asks for a hand, and Cool Cat claps. The Indian asks him to throw him a rope, and he throws him a rope (without it tied to anything). While these weren't anything terrible, it's not really funny either.

Some more of the low-point was when, for no good reason at all, we cut to this Indian painting his house. Why is he painting his house? Is it really that important? Nope, but we're going to see it anyway, just for a "laugh". Anyway, apparently he is trying to paint a red line all around his house, but misses the start of where he painted and gets furious... that was the joke? He gets mad and tosses the paint can in the air, and of course it lands on his head. Then, the next joke is the same Indian (I'm not sure about that though) is painting a face on this bucket. He then puts the bucket over his head and says "Me pail face!" and the screen fades.

...Seriously? Me pail face? That's just... stupid. It didn't even have any point at all, the Indian wasn't important in any way, and it was just a dumb time-waster meant for a really cheap laugh.

I'm not going to type out all the jokes in the cartoon, but expect more of the same; just thrown in for a cheap laugh and have no point to the overall plot of the cartoon. Plus, you'd be amazed at how many "jokes" (I use that term lightly) involve some random Indian stopping Cool Cat in the middle of the road (when we change angles, the road is gone... so yes, there's also lazy animation). Regarding the plot though, while I will admit that most seven minute cartoons never do have much plot to them, but this cartoon just takes the cake as to how low some people's standards can go.

But to be fair, there two two jokes that made me... break a smile (perhaps even chuckle a bit). One was when one of the Indians gave Cool Cat his wife, and Cool Cat screamed back "INDIAN GIVER!!". The other was this one involving an "Indian Type Write" (though it lead to a confusing joke as to how all the Indians know who Cool Cat is, and why they want him to go home).

Some of the words that come to mind about this cartoon is shameful, cheap, terrible, among other words. Never mind that many people might consider it offensive (so offensive that it was never shown on television, or so I hear), it's just a bad cartoon no matter how you look at it. Not only did this probably utterly murder the could-have-been-cool Cool Cat and any popularity he could have achieved, but this was probably the whole reason why they stopped creating theatrical cartoons (but don't quote me on that).

Just don't bother. You are better off watching actual good cartoons (go watch What's Opera Doc, which was named best short cartoon).

The underrated Robert McKimson directed the last batch of Warner's cartoons for release in 1969, providing more of an adult atmosphere than his predecessor Alex Lovy. McKimson even dared to set part of "Injun Trouble" in a topless saloon!

The film blends a late 1930s "spot gag" style with contemporary production values and props. Cool Cat journeys across a Wild West-type desert in his dune buggy and lives up to his name while encountering some wacky or tough folks. McKimson didn't have much time or money to spare on this picture, but he did the best he could. His skill makes the film easy to smile at (with occasional hearty laughs) throughout the run of hit-and-miss jokes.

At the end, C.C. cuts his way out of the picture and genially tells the audience to "...cool it now, ya hear?" -- a nice parting message from a talented man.

-Tony

I have seen the full version of this unaired on television cartoon online and I must say that it had some funny parts. Cool Cat is no Bugs Bunny but I still enjoyed it. Cool Cat is riding in a dune buggy when an Indian is yelling. Indians always yell like that when they are mad. We encounter and Indian using a type writer to do a smoke signal. and we see other Indians doing modern things. Cool Cat makes it into a western town and sees a doctor who is a horse. (You get it, he's a horse doctor) Also Cool Cat goes into a bar and orders Root Beer. A big guy plays cards with him and all he has are two two's, and oh yeah a gun. With that Cool Cat cuts himself out of the picture. Robert McKimson did a good ob with this final Warner Bros theatrical short. If you have a chance to see it you should because of all the short little jokes in it.

I saw it online, and I thought it was okay. The slapstick and humor was pretty good. The main bad thing is that the ending is abrupt. This wouldn't be a big deal, but this would be the last time Looney Tunes shorts premiered regularly! The ending is that Cool Cat literally cuts himself out of the picture then comes out to tell them to Cool it. I feel Cool Cat should be known specifically for this short, as to me, this is the most notable Looney Tunes short of all time. It is the last short, the 1,000th short, and one of, if not the, hardest Looney Tunes shorts to find! It's a multi-gag cartoon, which I didn't expect. Most underrated cartoon of all time. Wait. Atlantis SquarePantis exists.

Fun Fact: This shorts title was reused from a 1938 (31 years before this short) Porky Pig cartoon.

Of course I've never seen this Warner Bros./Merrie Melodies short when I was little, apparently since it never aired on t.v. This was new to me, when I finally caught up with watching this courtesy of Matthew Hunter's "Miscellooneous" blog commentary video posted at Dailymotion months ago. I've just got to say that I agree, this is an outstanding swan song to the classic era. In this one, the main focus of the plot is more on the famous routine of gags and puns, which I think is a very suitable way to go out and conclude the WB shorts series' run. Anyone who hasn't already seen this for the first time should check it out, because this really is among the better/best WB shorts of the late '60s or just about that decades worth of them even. I wish this were in a WB cartoons anthology DVD set already. I believe that ever since then, this officially became my most favorite Cool Cat short. This is one half of the last couple directed by Bob McKimson (the other is Bugged By a Bee). And from what I've heard/read about them, they at last seemed to indicate signs that the Cool Cat cartoons were just improving, as these new/different situations were tried, as the animation crew steered away from his typical encounters with Colonel Rimfire. Who knows what more could've been done with the beatnik tiger had more short films with him been continued to be produced into the '70s, especially after the slow start with his eponymous debut cartoon. I remember Cool Cat well and he's actually my most favorite WB '60s-era WB character. I'll give the spoiler too, since the pair of other commentators have given theirs already, but if y'all wish not to know beforehand, then read no further.

Cool Cat is traveling by dune buggy through a desert to a "real jumping town" called HotFoot, and on the way, he comes across several zany American Indians. After two spot him, one gives chase on horseback, but the combined weight of the Indian and his horse causes the log-used-as-a-bridge to collapse, falling into a chasm and they cling onto the edge of the cliff for dear life (although Cool Cat and his vehicle managed to get across with ease). He gives them a hand (as in both applauding and lending them assistance saving them) and continues on his way. Also along the way: A brave guarding the Indian village attempts to give away his heavyset daughter; another male Indian paints a face on a pail, then puts the pail on his head and says, "Look, me pail-face"; one uses a smoke signal-sending typewriter to create the words that read "Cool Cat go home"; a male Indian punches Cool Cat in the nose after an arrow is shot from his bow and lands on the Indian's head; a more voluptuous woman asks Cool Cat if he'd like to "Indian wrestle", of course he obliges and out emerges a large Indian wrestler; an Indian asks Cool Cat why, the confused tiger answers "But I thought the Indians always wanted to know 'how' ", the Indian imitating Groucho Marx responds "I know 'how', now I want to know why"; and a horseback-riding Native gives away his vest to Cool Cat so that he can ride his horse literally bareback. When Cool finally arrives in Hotfoot, he sees a pair of horses playing a game of "human-shoes" and a "horse-doctor". There's a racy gag in which the sign of a topless saloon catches his eyes and he heads inside, turns out it's not quite what he had in mind ironically and he finds only a shirtless male bartender instead. Literal cowpuncher Gower Gulch enters the bar and seemingly challenges Cool to a duet initially, but settles for a game of cards in lieu of that. Cool gains the good hand with 4 aces, leaving Gower with the Royal Flush. Cool announces that he's literally "cutting out", and with a pair of scissors cuts a hole in the background, forming an outline shaped like him and exits. He returns briefly through the hole to close the short (and series) with the last line of the classic era: "So cool it now, ya hear".

This short was banned from seeing the light of day beyond its theatrical release and airing on (at least American) t.v. due to the politically incorrect content of Native American characters and the aforementioned racy gag involving the topless saloon. But as long as anyone can be tough enough to stomach the racial stereotypes and not take them too seriously, then it's still makes for a hilarious, engaging short despite the fact. The jokes and everything else are what I liked and enjoyed about this short, very well put together. Although I'm sure that had some other characters been used and included in a gags finale-revolving WB short, it would've been just as great as well.