Scrappy takes the train to rural Squeedonk to visit his cousin Elmer down on the farm. Armed with a joy-buzzer, he and Elmer torment each other in this unappealing cartoon.
While Scrappy, under originator Dick Huemer, often had the problem of a strong start and not enough material to fill out a cartoon, by this point Scrappy had become a generic kid's cartoon, filled with whatever material would fill in six minutes. Scrappy is not appealing, nor is his adenoidal rube cousin, and their series of practical jokes has no structure other than the length of the cartoon.
In addition, the technical issues are annoyingly at odds, with some beautifully detailed and three-dimension background work pointing out the unfinished, flat design of the characters. Under Huemer, Scrappy had been about the bizarre imagination of kids. Now it was about.... well, I don't know what it was supposed to be about, other than filling in a schedule.
While Scrappy, under originator Dick Huemer, often had the problem of a strong start and not enough material to fill out a cartoon, by this point Scrappy had become a generic kid's cartoon, filled with whatever material would fill in six minutes. Scrappy is not appealing, nor is his adenoidal rube cousin, and their series of practical jokes has no structure other than the length of the cartoon.
In addition, the technical issues are annoyingly at odds, with some beautifully detailed and three-dimension background work pointing out the unfinished, flat design of the characters. Under Huemer, Scrappy had been about the bizarre imagination of kids. Now it was about.... well, I don't know what it was supposed to be about, other than filling in a schedule.
