Pleased to Eat You
About Pleased to Eat You
A radio voice tells a hungry jungle lion he can have three meals a day if he will live in a cage at the Happy Zoo in the Bronx. He goes. The keepers feed him round vitamin pills. He breaks out, is caught, and is put back in the cage. By then he has lost his appetite, and the announcer is gone.
Cast & crew
More about Pleased to Eat You
I. Sparber directed, with Myron Waldman as animation director. Larz Bourne wrote the story. Paramount released the Noveltoon on July 21, 1950.
Themes
Making
Winston Sharples composed the score. The Bronx zoo pitch is delivered as a radio commercial inside the cartoon.
Music
Winston Sharples composed the score. A scrap of a Jane Parker Donuts radio advertisement is buried in the mouse's sped-up dialogue.
Preservation
Public domain in the United States since 1977. A print timed by the Internet Animation Database runs 6 minutes 18 seconds.
Notes
- The title plays on "pleased to meet you.
- Sid Raymond voices the lion, a pig, and a waiter. Jack Mercer voices a hunter, the zoo dietitian, a skunk, and a kid. Jackson Beck supplies the lion's yelp.
- Slowed down, a few words from the mouse are an old radio spot for Jane Parker Donuts.
- The Internet Animation Database times a print at 6 minutes 18 seconds, MPAA 4895, 35mm Technicolor, 1.37:1, RCA mono.
- NTA missed the renewal. The short entered the U.S. public domain in 1977.
Scenes
- The lion hears the radio offer of three meals a day and heads for the Bronx.
- Dinner in the cage is a handful of round vitamin pills.
- Back in the cage after the escape, he is no longer hungry, and the announcer has vanished.
Also available
- DVD and Blu-ray Noveltoons Original Classics (Thunderbean Animation, 2012 and 2019)
- DVD Woody and Friends: Pantry Panic (Digiview, 2004)
