How Do I Know It's Sunday (1934) User Reviews

In Trump's America, any would-be voter . . .

[oscaralbert · 6/10 · 16 October 2016]

. . . who is NOT an Evangelical White Male watching at least 120 hours of Fox "News" every week will be required (prior to being cleared to vote) to pass a MANDATORY "Alzheimer's Test" in which they will have to name--from memory--the 98 General Store products IN ORDER featured during this Warner Bros. Animated Short, HOW DO I KNOW IT'S SVNDAY. So if you're NOT an EWM addicted to Fox, time to start studying! 1)Anchor (Brand) Sardines, 2)Pig's Headcheese, 3)Pickled Herring, 4)Pink Ribbon Malt Extract, 5)Potatoes, 6)Onions, 7)Watermelons, 8)Pumpkins, 9)Beets, 10)Celery, 11)Cucumbers, 12)Carrots, 13)Brussell Sprouts, 14)Cabbage, 15)Aunt Eliza Pancake Flour, 16)Scream O' Wheat, 17)Old Maid Cleanser, 18)Uwanta Crackers, 19)Aunt Mima Pancake Mix, 20)Mexican Tamales, 21)Oysters, 22)Lobsters, 23)Fresh Fish, 24)Searchlight Cleanser, 25)Dried Prunes, 26)Pop, 27)Salt, 28)Mr. Peanut Peanuts, 29)Tollhouse Cookies, 30)Gold Dust Twins Toothpaste, 31)Satan's Satins, 32)Land O' Lakes Butter, 33)Threaded Wheat, 34)Norton Salt, 35)Case Ball Club Soda, 36)Jab-O Cleanser, 37)Outhouse Coffee, 38)Pratt's Dog Biscuits, 39)Bathroom Tissue, 40)Duck Down Cake Flour, 41)Matches, 42)Toyland Cookies, 43)Animal Crackers, 44)Ribs, 45)Pies, 46)Sweet Corn, 47)Shrimp, 48)Lofa Bread, 49)Starch, 50)Assorted Cup Cakes, 51)Salt Wafers, 52)Caviar, 53)Clothespins, 54)Coffee, 55)Golden West Eggs, 56)Alaska Salmon, 57)Hot Cha Horse Raddish, 58)Fibby's Tomato Juice, 59)Big Chef Baking Powder, 60)Sneeze O' Black Pepper, 61)Sneeze O' Red Pepper, 62)Friz's Salad Dressing, 63)Russian Rye Bread, 64)Kelly's Corn Flakes, 65)All Hay Breakfast Cereal, 66)JBM Coffee, 67)Maize, 68)Armstrong's Pure Cider Winegar, 69)Potato Juice, 70)Norm's Soda Crackers, 71)Biscuits, 72)Soft Pine Toothpicks, 73)Fibby's Condensed Milk, 74)Besto Flour, 75)Besto Beef Soup, 76)Cube Cut Sugar, 77)Besto Boiled Beans, 78)Besto Bean Soup, 79)Besto Apple Sauce, 80)Besto Pears, 81)Besto Poms, 82)Tea, 83)Brandy Wine, 84)Besto Toilet Tissue, 85)Popcorn, 86)El Monte Toothpicks, 87)Fibb's Figs, 88)Sunny Side Raisins, 89)Buddy Cocoa, 90)Barnyard Oatmeal, 91)Frit Bug Spray, 92)Ham & Armor Baking Soda, 93)Popcorn Balls, 94)Wink Dye, 95)Idaho Blue End Matches, 96)Aunt Mamie Pancake Flour, 97)Magic Safety Pins, and 98)Burno Canned Heat. Whew!! Good Luck!

forgive them for this one (no, really)

[lee_eisenberg · 3/10 · 6 March 2008]

In the black and white days before Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and the rest of the gang, Leon Schlesinger Studios divided its time between its Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series. The former would feature the stars - first Bosko, next Buddy, then Porky Pig and everyone who followed him - while the latter would feature miscellaneous characters (MM started filming in color in 1934). Specifically, the cartoons in the latter series would bear the names of songs owned by Warner Bros. - such as "Lady, Play Your Mandolin!", "I Love to Singa" and "Now That Summer Is Gone" - and the characters would sing the song.

Well, "How Do I Know It's Sunday" was one of the lamest attempts. We know that it's Sunday because we see people going to church. Inside a general store, the products all come to life and happily sing the title song. An Eskimo falls for a cookie and has to come to the rescue when a swarm of flies invades. Along the way, some of the characters did things that in reality would have probably burnt the store down. It seems that for their first few years, Leon Schlesinger Studios felt as though they had to be like Disney, and so they attempted the same excessively cute stuff.

All in all, we can forgive Friz Freleng for this one. After all, he was just getting started. His real vindication came the next year with "I Haven't Got a Hat", in which he debuted Porky. Within a few years after that, the Warner Bros. animation department had totally eschewed the Disney approach to animation, and went on to create some of the greatest cartoons in history.

All in all, this one is at most worth watching as a historical reference.