Pest Pupil
About Pest Pupil
Baby Huey starts kindergarten, wrecks the room with his size, and is expelled. His mother hires a private tutor. Huey's attempts to help make the job miserable, and the tutor ends up in the water with sharks around him. Huey pulls him out. The grateful tutor hands Huey a diploma.
Cast & crew
More about Pest Pupil
Dave Tendlar and Morey Reden directed. Carl Meyer wrote the story. Paramount released the Noveltoon on January 25, 1957.
Themes
Making
Winston Sharples composed the score. The short was later packaged with other Huey cartoons for the Harveytoons television show.
Music
Winston Sharples scored Huey's day in kindergarten and the tutor's lesson.
Preservation
Public domain in the United States since 1985. A Harveytoons television print is the version in circulation.
Notes
- Sid Raymond voices Baby Huey. Jack Mercer is the tutor, and Cecil Roy is Huey's mother and the kindergarten teacher.
- Martin Taras had introduced Huey in Quack-a-Doodle-Doo (1950). This short is one of the later theatrical entries.
- Harvey Films failed to renew the copyright. The cartoon entered the U.S. public domain in 1985.
- A surviving television print carries Harveytoons branding.
Scenes
- Huey's size clears him out of the kindergarten.
- The tutor goes into the water and Huey hauls him away from the sharks.
- The tutor gives Huey a diploma.
Also available
- DVD HarveyToons: The Complete Collection (Classic Media, 2006)
- DVD The Best of the Harveytoons Show (Universal Pictures Home Entertainment, 2021)
- DVD Cartoon Craze, Volume 14: Bugs Bunny — Falling Hare (Digiview, 2004)
- DVD 300 Cartoon Classics (Image Entertainment, 2011)
