Technology, Phooey
- Studio
- Mirisch-DePatie-Freleng Productions
- Distributor
- United Artists
Synopsis
The Aardvark builds a talking computer, using it to help him catch the Ant. The computer comes up with all sorts of crazy ways to get the Aardvark's prey- but it also causes him to get into more and more trouble.
Characters
Ant, Aardvark
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Gerry Chiniquy
Producing
- Producer
- David H. DePatie, Isadore Freleng (as Friz Freleng)
Writing
- Writer
- Irv Spector
Animation
- Animator
- Art Leonardi, Manny Gould, Manny Perez, Warren Batchelder, Don Williams
Voices
- Voice
- John Byner (Ant, Aardvark), Athena Lorde, Marvin Miller
Music
- Music
- Doug Goodwin
- Featuring musicians
- Ray Brown, Pete Candoli, Jimmy Rowles, Billy Byers, Shelly Manne, Tommy Tedesco
Editing
- Editor
- Lee Gunther
Crew
- Graphics
- Dick Ung
- Color
- Tom O'Loughlin
- Camera
- John Burton Jr
- Production Supervision
- Jim Foss
- Coordinator
- Harry Love
Production notes
This cartoon is much like Warner Bros.'s Bugs Bunny film "To Hare is Human."
There were two different versions of the scene after the Aardvark accidentally sprayed himself with a bug spray. After Aardvark accidentally sprayed himself with the Ant Spray, Ant originally said "Man! He must be having a bad trip!" Apparently, the censors felt that any spoken references to drugs- i.e. a bad trip- was unacceptable for young TV audiences, so when this short ran on television on NBC, they changed the line to "Those Sam's outta again! Well, I might as well play along with him." Even later, in the syndicated package, they edited the scene out.
There were two different versions of the scene after the Aardvark accidentally sprayed himself with a bug spray. After Aardvark accidentally sprayed himself with the Ant Spray, Ant originally said "Man! He must be having a bad trip!" Apparently, the censors felt that any spoken references to drugs- i.e. a bad trip- was unacceptable for young TV audiences, so when this short ran on television on NBC, they changed the line to "Those Sam's outta again! Well, I might as well play along with him." Even later, in the syndicated package, they edited the scene out.
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Reviews
Technology, Phooey
A victim of prudish TV broadcasters, "Technology Phooey" was originally intended for the cinema, this short contains a drug reference that has never been broadcast on TV... but I'll get to that later. For me, this is the quintessential A&A cartoon. John B"