tavm Review of Shop Look & Listen

Shop Look & Listen (1940)

Shop Look & Listen is another Friz Freleng cartoon featuring the characters of Little Blabermouse

[8/10 · 29 November 2008]

This is basically the sequel to Little Blabbermouse with the same W.C. Fields-like mouse character and the little blabbermouth boy mouse that bothers him. Once again they tour a big department store after hours with exhibits like Whistler's Mother (who whistles), The Thinker (who says he thinks while looking over his tax form), and a painting of two Indians-or Native Americans to you modern audiences-with one killing the other before saying, "Now, Me, Last Mohican!" There's also a robot card table with one getting shot at because of his ace up his sleeve! Once again, Friz Freleng has made a pretty funny cartoon featuring these two characters though like the last one, it's more due to the gags not involving them than their repetitious chatter, amusing though they are. Not surprising that neither appeared in another cartoon though the mouse-with-a-W.C. Fields-like-voice did inhabit a later Warner Bros. character named Merlin the Magic Mouse in the late '60s. Nonetheless, Shop Look & Listen is worth a look.