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''Buddy's Garage'' is a 1934
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'' cartoon, the last to be directed by
Earl Duvall Owen Earl Duvall (; June 7, 1898 – December 21, 1950) was an American artist and animator best known for his work on Disney comic strips in the early 1930s and for a handful of animated short films he directed at Warner Bros. Cartoons. Care ...
. The short was released on April 14, 1934, and stars
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, the second star of the series.


Summary

The film opens to the scene of Buddy happily mending a tire. A litter of kittens are nursed by their mother, fish and ducks swim merrily in a tank of free water, and a responsible car washes itself while Buddy the mechanic squirts oil into all of the necessary sockets. A sleeping dog (presumably
Towser {{Infobox television , image = , caption = , alt_name = , genre = Animation , creator = Tony Ross , developer = , writer = Tony Ross , dire ...
) is put to good use, as Our Hero attaches one end of an air hose to the dog's mouth, and the other to a tire. Towser's snoring fills the limp tire with air; a
bee Bees are winged insects closely related to wasps and ants, known for their roles in pollination and, in the case of the best-known bee species, the western honey bee, for producing honey. Bees are a monophyletic lineage within the superfamil ...
puts a canker in the plan by popping the tire with its stinger and scaring Towser awake with the noise. The dog eats the bee, but spits it back out on account of the stinger. Buddy, meanwhile, plays "By a Waterfall" on a series of files (as if the files were a
xylophone The xylophone (; ) is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars struck by mallets. Like the glockenspiel (which uses metal bars), the xylophone essentially consists of a set of tuned wooden keys arranged in t ...
), until
Cookie A cookie is a baked or cooked snack or dessert that is typically small, flat and sweet. It usually contains flour, sugar, egg, and some type of oil, fat, or butter. It may include other ingredients such as raisins, oats, chocolate chips, ...
appears with Buddy's lunch. The two sweethearts set up to eat: Buddy grinds the skin off of a
pineapple The pineapple (''Ananas comosus'') is a tropical plant with an edible fruit; it is the most economically significant plant in the family Bromeliaceae. The pineapple is indigenous to South America, where it has been cultivated for many centurie ...
, cracks the shells of
walnut A walnut is the edible seed of a drupe of any tree of the genus '' Juglans'' (family Juglandaceae), particularly the Persian or English walnut, '' Juglans regia''. Although culinarily considered a "nut" and used as such, it is not a tru ...
s with a
monkey wrench The monkey wrench is a type of adjustable wrench, a 19th century American refinement of 18th-century English coach wrenches. It was widely used in the 19th and early 20th century. It is of interest as an antique among tool collectors and is s ...
, and attempts to inflate a small chicken to greater proportions. The chicken explodes as though it was a balloon. Just then, a large, cigar-smoking character (apparently the same villain from ''
Buddy's Show Boat ''Buddy's Show Boat'' is a 1933 Warner Bros. ''Looney Tunes'' cartoon, directed by Earl Duvall. The short was released on December 9, 1933, and stars Buddy, the second star of the series. Summary Buddy's show boat merrily rolls along a river ...
'' and ''
Buddy's Beer Garden ''Buddy's Beer Garden'' is a 1933 Warner Bros. ''Looney Tunes'' cartoon, directed by Jack King. The short was released on November 11, 1933, and stars Buddy, the second star of the series. It was supervised by Earl Duvall, here credited as "Du ...
'') drives up to the garage, requesting gasoline for his vehicle. Buddy obliges, and the bruiser steps away to the restroom, where he finds Cookie, whom he decides to kidnap. Buddy dutifully oils his new enemy's engine, but knows that something is amiss when he hears Cookie scream. Rushing inside the garage, Buddy finds the bruiser unfazed by Cookie's blows and demands her release. Challenged by Buddy, the bruiser puts down Cookie, only to be attacked from behind by the girl with a drill of some sort. The villain chases Cookie, Buddy the villain. At a wall, the villain again takes Cookie, and an indignant Buddy is buried by tires from a shelf that the bruiser intentionally jostles. Freeing himself, Buddy is blasted with ash from the villain's (freshly re-fueled) automobile as it speeds away. Hastening back to the garage, Buddy starts after Cookie and her kidnapper with another vehicle. On the chase, Buddy and his enemy must pass two stopped trucks and freely ignore a "Road Closed" sign. Upon crashing into a large box of tools, the bruiser finds his back tires equipped with saws, which compromise the midsection of a wooden bridge. Passing through the same bridge, Buddy and his vehicle fall into the water below. The hook on the wench of Buddy's truck catches a fish, which then is pursued by hungry cats. Briefly losing the trail, Buddy speeds as never before once he catches on to Cookie's kidnapper, and, in the process, destroys a laundry truck, whose contents (ladies' undergarments) his vehicle then wears. Where the villain barely avoids a house, Buddy speeds on through it, taking with him a married couple abed. Cookie screams as Buddy approaches, and Buddy winds his truck's wench over to the car in front of him, cleverly snagging Cookie's shirt on it, and thereby carrying her over to his own vehicle. To the villain, he does the same, but does not rescues him. He instead lowers him to the back of the truck so much that his rear end is continually bumped by large rocks and yards of fence. Buddy releases the exhaust at Cookie's would-be captor and the two, safely in the vehicle, happily embrace.


Last Warner Bros. cartoon by Earl Duvall

Earl Duvall Owen Earl Duvall (; June 7, 1898 – December 21, 1950) was an American artist and animator best known for his work on Disney comic strips in the early 1930s and for a handful of animated short films he directed at Warner Bros. Cartoons. Care ...
would not return to direct another Warner Bros. cartoon. Following ''Buddy's Garage'' and the firing of Duvall, all of the remaining ''
Looney Tunes ''Looney Tunes'' is an American animated comedy short film series produced by Warner Bros. starting from 1930 to 1969, concurrently with its partner series '' Merrie Melodies'', during the golden age of American animation. ...
'' starring Buddy would be supervised by Jack King,
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, and, less commonly,
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. The other cartoons supervised by Duvall (Duval) were the ''Looney Tunes'' ''
Buddy's Beer Garden ''Buddy's Beer Garden'' is a 1933 Warner Bros. ''Looney Tunes'' cartoon, directed by Jack King. The short was released on November 11, 1933, and stars Buddy, the second star of the series. It was supervised by Earl Duvall, here credited as "Du ...
'' and ''
Buddy's Show Boat ''Buddy's Show Boat'' is a 1933 Warner Bros. ''Looney Tunes'' cartoon, directed by Earl Duvall. The short was released on December 9, 1933, and stars Buddy, the second star of the series. Summary Buddy's show boat merrily rolls along a river ...
'' and the ''
Merrie Melodies ''Merrie Melodies'' is an American animation, animated series of comedy short films produced by Warner Bros. starting in 1931, during the golden age of American animation, and ending in 1969. Then some new cartoons were produced from the late 197 ...
'' '' Honeymoon Hotel'' and ''
Sittin' on a Backyard Fence ''Sittin' on a Backyard Fence'' is a 1933 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Earl Duvall. The short was released on December 16, 1933. The film score was composed by Norman Spencer and writing was done by Ben Hardaway Joseph Be ...
''.


Fisk Tires

When Buddy steps out to help his wayward customer, we clearly see a poster of a sleepy child holding a candle & announcing that it is "Time to Re-tire"; this is a clear reference to the advertising slogan, adopted 1917, of
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.


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* * {{Looney Tunes & Merrie Melodies 1934 films 1934 animated films 1930s American animated films 1930s animated short films American black-and-white films Films scored by Bernard B. Brown Films scored by Norman Spencer (composer) Films about kidnapping Films directed by Earl Duvall Buddy (Looney Tunes) films Looney Tunes shorts