The Crackpot Quail (2/15/41) – Willoughby (a reasonably facsimile of the dog from Of Fox and Hounds) hunts for quail – particularly a little guy who can’t get his topknot out of his face, and constantly whistles (or, in the original director’s cut, Bronx-cheers) to blow it back atop his head.
The Crackpot Quail (1941) Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies Shine On Harvest Moon (1932) Fleischer Studio - Screen Song The Grocery Boy (1932) Disney - Mickey Mouse.
Willoughby later appears in other Warner Brothers animated shorts, including The Heckling Hare (1941), The Crackpot Quail (1941), and Nutty News (1942), as the lead dog of a fox hunting party. A fundamentally similar character, Laramore, appears in To Duck or Not to Duck (1943), albeit with a fully brown coat of fur.
The Crackpot Quail is a 1941 Merrie Melodies short directed by Tex Avery. 1 Plot 2 Availability 2.1 Streaming 3 Notes 4 Gallery 5 References Looking at a sleek pointer dog on a billboard advertising Barko Dog Food, goofy Willoughby dreams of being a great hunting dog. He goes off to hunt quail, but crashes into a tree, exclaiming, 'A tree!' Hearing somebody whistle at him, he sees little.

Merrie Melodies - The Crackpot Quail. 1995 Turner Prints. Merrie Melodies - The Quentin Quail. Double Zero Orchestra - Merrie Melodies - Theme.

Quentin Quail
Directed by	Charles M. Jones
Produced by	Edward Selzer (uncredited)
Story by	Tedd Pierce
Starring	Sara Berner Tedd Pierce Mel Blanc (all uncredited)
Music by	Carl W. Stalling
Animation by	Ben Washam Ken Harris Basil Davidovich Lloyd Vaughan Robert Cannon (uncredited) Abe Levitow (assistant, uncredited) A.C. Gamer (effects, uncredited)
Backgrounds by	Robert Gribbroek
Color process	Technicolor
Production company
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date
Running time	7 minutes
Language	English

Quentin Quail is a 1946 Warner Bros.Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Chuck Jones.^[1] The short was released on March 2, 1946.^[2]

It presents a tale about a quail (voiced by Tedd Pierce) who goes through various trials and tribulations to try to get a worm for his baby, Toots (a take-off on Fanny Brice's radio character, Baby Snooks, voiced by Sara Berner^[3] Michelle theriot facebook. ), only to be rebuffed by her because the worm looks like Frank Sinatra.

Prior to the release of this short, the name 'Quentin Quail' first appeared on a model sheet by Bob Clampett, done at some point before 1942. The character is a precursor to Clampett's more famous creation, Tweety, and bears a striking resemblance to the canary.^[4]

References[edit]

^Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 165. ISBN0-8050-0894-2.
^Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 104–106. ISBN0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
^'Radio Round-Up: BABY SNOOKS -'. cartoonresearch.com. 6 February 2019. Retrieved 23 December 2020.
^Beck, Jerry (1991). I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat: Fifty Years of Sylvester and Tweety. Henry Holt and Co. p. 35. ISBN0-8050-1644-9.

External links[edit]

Quentin Quail at IMDb
Quentin Quail at The Big Cartoon DataBase

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Willoughby
First appearance	Of Fox and Hounds (1940)
Created by	Tex Avery
Voiced by	Tex Avery (1940–1941) Kent Rogers (1941–1942) Mel Blanc (1942–1947) Pinto Colvig (1942) Tedd Pierce (1944) Stan Freberg (1952)
In-universe information
Alias	Willoughby Rosebud Laramore Sylvester
Species	Dog
Gender	Male

Willoughby is a minor animatedcartoonfictional character in the Warner Bros.Looney Tunes series of cartoons. He is a hound dog who is characterized by his below-average intelligence^[1] and overall gullibility.

Merrie Melodies The Crackpot Quail Creek

History[edit]

Willoughby first appeared in the 1940 cartoon Of Fox and Hounds. He was created and voiced by Tex Avery.^[2]^[3] According to Chuck Jones, the character was based on Lennie, from Of Mice and Men (of which the title of Of Fox and Hounds is a knockoff).^{[citation needed]} Critic Steven Hartley described this short as lacking in creativity, originality, excitement, and story construction, particularly compared to Avery's seminal earlier work A Wild Hare.^[4]

Willoughby later appears in other Warner Brothers animated shorts, including The Heckling Hare (1941),^[5]The Crackpot Quail (1941),^[6] and Nutty News (1942), as the lead dog of a fox hunting party. A fundamentally similar character, Laramore, appears in To Duck or Not to Duck (1943), albeit with a fully brown coat of fur. Willoughby's brief career was essentially over before the end of World War II. The marriage counselor play cast.

These dogs were mostly similar character design in Porky's Bear Facts (1941), A Corny Concerto (1943), Hare Ribbin' (1944), The Goofy Gophers (1946), and possibly Inki at the Circus (1947).

Appearances[edit]

Of Fox and Hounds (1940)
The Crackpot Quail (1941)
The Heckling Hare (1941)
Nutty News (1942) (cameo in a B&W cartoon)
The Hep Cat (1942) (as Rosebud)
Ding Dog Daddy (1942)
To Duck or Not to Duck (1943) (as Laramore)
An Itch in Time (1943)
Hare Force (1944) (as Sylvester)
A Horse Fly Fleas (1947) (shaped like the Barnyard Dawg)
Foxy by Proxy (1952)

In other media[edit]

Willoughby was planned to be made as a cameo in the deleted scene 'Acme's Funeral' from the 1988 film Who Framed Roger Rabbit. He also appears with other animated characters scared when Casper appea