Clearly, the Termite Terrace crowd always liked to find ways to put wacky spins on everything. It seems like sports were a prime target, as "Screwball Football", "Porky's Baseball Broadcast", "Baseball Bugs", "My Bunny Lies Over the Sea" and "Gone Batty" identify. This one portrays a baseball game between a big, aggressive team, and a small, pitiful team. While it looks pretty one-sided at first, the small team throws a wrench in the works by having their elephant mascot play.
I at first got the feeling that Warner Bros. used this cartoon in their Looney Tunes compilation film "Bugs Bunny's Wild World of Sports", but that baseball sequence didn't feature an elephant. Oh well. This is still a pretty funny cartoon, if not the funniest. Robert McKimson and his cohorts obviously just wanted to have fun (apologies to Cyndi Lauper). Maybe working for peanuts isn't as bad as we might expect.
I at first got the feeling that Warner Bros. used this cartoon in their Looney Tunes compilation film "Bugs Bunny's Wild World of Sports", but that baseball sequence didn't feature an elephant. Oh well. This is still a pretty funny cartoon, if not the funniest. Robert McKimson and his cohorts obviously just wanted to have fun (apologies to Cyndi Lauper). Maybe working for peanuts isn't as bad as we might expect.