Agrega una trama en tu idiomaThe Gambling Bug's bites cause gambling fever. He bites a cat, who heavily falls victim to an insatiable need for gambling.The Gambling Bug's bites cause gambling fever. He bites a cat, who heavily falls victim to an insatiable need for gambling.The Gambling Bug's bites cause gambling fever. He bites a cat, who heavily falls victim to an insatiable need for gambling.
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- TriviaThe Gambling Bug is a small character who infects others with the desire to gamble. Early to Bet is his only appearance.
- ConexionesEdited into El Pato Lucas Cazamonstruos (1988)
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Robert McKimson's strangest?
For me, out of all the cartoons made by McKimson personally seen, the answer would be yes to that. Again to me, there are worse cartoons around than 'Early to Bet', but not enough stands out here to make it a favourite. And agreed, despite Carl Stalling's music and Mel Blanc providing voices it doesn't feel like a Merry Melodies/Looney Tunes cartoon, or not enough of one anyway.
'Early to Bet' has been compared often to another McKimson cartoon 'It's Hummer Time' from a year previously. Subjectively, 'It's Hummer Time' is by far the superior cartoon, and to this reviewer it is one of McKimson's best and one of his most undervalued. 'Early to Bet' does have many good merits, more so than is credited here, but doesn't have the constant fun and cleverness of that cartoon, and that cartoon has more memorable characters, a more plausible scenario as to why the punished character is being punished and is much more consistently entertaining.
As aforementioned, there are many good things to like about 'Early to Bet'. A good deal of the animation is very good, it's bright and colourful with the backgrounds lovingly drawn and careful in detail. Carl Stalling's music is the highlight of 'Early to Bet', it's adds so much character to everything and like the best of the Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies cartoons have a sense of humour of their own. As well as being energetic and characterful, it is also lovely music to listen to, and it's use of recognisable pre-existing material was also delightful.
There are far more memorable characters in a McKimson cartoon, and in a Merrie Melodies/Looney Tunes cartoon for that matter, but this said the cat was an amusing and likable character, the most well drawn and expressive character too, and it was easy to empathise with him. The humour doesn't come consistently but there is some amusing visual humour and the ending is very funny indeed. Mel Blanc does excellently as ever with the voices.
However, the humour is not laugh-a-minute, there isn't quite enough of it and other than the ending it's not really hilarious. The gags fare better than the dialogue, with the former having some fun and imagination and the latter actually pretty lame and forgettable. It is agreed that 'Early to Bet' focuses too much on its moral message, a message that would strike one nowadays as painfully obvious and with not much to say, and it is delivered fairly heavy-handedly, takes too much prominence in the cartoon which hurt the gags somewhat.
Apart from the cat, the other characters don't make much impact. The dog is pretty bland and the rapport between the two is odd and not given enough of an explanation. The character of the gambling bug is perhaps what brings down the cartoon most, he's a very unappealingly drawn character, he's irritating and actually there was no real need for him too considering that unlike 'It's Hummer Time' the cat never behaved in a way that warranted such treatment. It's one of the rare times where Stan Freberg fails to even raise a laugh.
In summary, not bad but very much a lesser McKimson effort. 6/10 Bethany Cox
'Early to Bet' has been compared often to another McKimson cartoon 'It's Hummer Time' from a year previously. Subjectively, 'It's Hummer Time' is by far the superior cartoon, and to this reviewer it is one of McKimson's best and one of his most undervalued. 'Early to Bet' does have many good merits, more so than is credited here, but doesn't have the constant fun and cleverness of that cartoon, and that cartoon has more memorable characters, a more plausible scenario as to why the punished character is being punished and is much more consistently entertaining.
As aforementioned, there are many good things to like about 'Early to Bet'. A good deal of the animation is very good, it's bright and colourful with the backgrounds lovingly drawn and careful in detail. Carl Stalling's music is the highlight of 'Early to Bet', it's adds so much character to everything and like the best of the Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies cartoons have a sense of humour of their own. As well as being energetic and characterful, it is also lovely music to listen to, and it's use of recognisable pre-existing material was also delightful.
There are far more memorable characters in a McKimson cartoon, and in a Merrie Melodies/Looney Tunes cartoon for that matter, but this said the cat was an amusing and likable character, the most well drawn and expressive character too, and it was easy to empathise with him. The humour doesn't come consistently but there is some amusing visual humour and the ending is very funny indeed. Mel Blanc does excellently as ever with the voices.
However, the humour is not laugh-a-minute, there isn't quite enough of it and other than the ending it's not really hilarious. The gags fare better than the dialogue, with the former having some fun and imagination and the latter actually pretty lame and forgettable. It is agreed that 'Early to Bet' focuses too much on its moral message, a message that would strike one nowadays as painfully obvious and with not much to say, and it is delivered fairly heavy-handedly, takes too much prominence in the cartoon which hurt the gags somewhat.
Apart from the cat, the other characters don't make much impact. The dog is pretty bland and the rapport between the two is odd and not given enough of an explanation. The character of the gambling bug is perhaps what brings down the cartoon most, he's a very unappealingly drawn character, he's irritating and actually there was no real need for him too considering that unlike 'It's Hummer Time' the cat never behaved in a way that warranted such treatment. It's one of the rare times where Stan Freberg fails to even raise a laugh.
In summary, not bad but very much a lesser McKimson effort. 6/10 Bethany Cox
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By what name was Early to Bet (1951) officially released in Canada in English?
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