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This is a Mister Magoo short from UPA Studios. There will be spoilers ahead:

Magoo thinks it's his mother's birthday (for the fourth time this year, as mom says when she realizes he's coming) and she braces herself for her son's visit and his "help".

After gently tolerating his nearsightedness and the catastrophes that ensue, she decides that she can no longer humor him and survive the visit in one piece. So she proclaims him sick and administers "treatment designed to send him packing and headed back home-until his next visit, that is.

Mother Magoo lifts this short from the average, probably because she's a sharper foil for Magoo than Waldo, she understands the problem better and is willing to do things other characters can't or won't do for the most part. No nonsense foils who do what should be done tend to improve the shorts when and where they appear.

All the Magoo theatrical shorts and a Magoo feature film from UPA are now available on an excellent box set from Shout! Factory. It's well worth getting and this short itself is very good. Recommended.

Typical Magoo fare, very entertaining.

Magoo gets a sales advert for 'our 83rd year' and thinks its from his mother and for her birthday.

When he shows up, she quips to the cat, "here comes my son. Probably thinks it's my birthday again. That'll be the fourth time this year." Amusing mistakes with Magoo thinking the feather duster is a turkey dinner and plucks it, then puts it in the washer and serves up the long johns as dinner.

Mother decides the only way to get rid of him is to decide he is sick and give him homemade remedies.

That does it.

But is that Rose Marie as the mother? Sounds like her.