Cheese Chasers
- Studio
- Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.
- Distributor
- Warner Bros.
Synopsis
Hubie and Bertie overdose on cheese and figure their lives are over, so they try to get Claude to eat them.
Characters
Hubie, Bertie, Claude Cat, Baby the Bulldog
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Chuck Jones
Producing
- Producer
- Edward Selzer
Writing
- Writer
- Michael Maltese
Animation
- Animator
- Ben Washam, Lloyd Vaughan, Phil Monroe, Ken Harris
Voices
- Voice
- Mel Blanc (Hubie, Claude, Baby the Bulldog), Stan Freberg (Bertie)
Music
- Music
- Carl Stalling
Crew
- Layouts
- Robert Gribbroek
- Backgrounds
- Philip De Guard
Production notes
The last appearances of Hubie and Bertie.
In "The Aristo-Cat" (1943) and "Roughly Squeaking" (1946), Bertie is grey and Hubie is brown.
In "House Hunting Mice" (1947), "Mouse Wreckers" (1949), "The Hypo-Chondri-Cat" (1950) and "Cheese Chasers" (1951), Bertie changes to brown and Hubie is now grey.
In "Trap Happy Porky"(1945), they have silent roles.
In September of 1943, beginning with A Feud There Was, Warner Bros. began re-releasing select color cartoons in their "Blue Ribbon" program. Typically the Blue Ribbon reissues received new opening sequences with Blue Ribbon title cards and standardized music. Cartoon production credits were also removed. Between ten and fifteen cartoons were released in any given year, with cartoons coming from as far back as 1935. The reissues continued until the close of the studio in the 1960's.
All Blue Ribbon cartoons were released as "Merrie Melodie" cartoons regardless of the original series. The first "Looney Tunes" short to be included in the Blue Ribbon series was The Hep Cat, which was added in 1949. The only current prints of many of these cartoons are the Blue Ribbon releases, although restoration of these cartoons with original elements and titles is always ongoing.
In "The Aristo-Cat" (1943) and "Roughly Squeaking" (1946), Bertie is grey and Hubie is brown.
In "House Hunting Mice" (1947), "Mouse Wreckers" (1949), "The Hypo-Chondri-Cat" (1950) and "Cheese Chasers" (1951), Bertie changes to brown and Hubie is now grey.
In "Trap Happy Porky"(1945), they have silent roles.
In September of 1943, beginning with A Feud There Was, Warner Bros. began re-releasing select color cartoons in their "Blue Ribbon" program. Typically the Blue Ribbon reissues received new opening sequences with Blue Ribbon title cards and standardized music. Cartoon production credits were also removed. Between ten and fifteen cartoons were released in any given year, with cartoons coming from as far back as 1935. The reissues continued until the close of the studio in the 1960's.
All Blue Ribbon cartoons were released as "Merrie Melodie" cartoons regardless of the original series. The first "Looney Tunes" short to be included in the Blue Ribbon series was The Hep Cat, which was added in 1949. The only current prints of many of these cartoons are the Blue Ribbon releases, although restoration of these cartoons with original elements and titles is always ongoing.
Pictures
Reviews
Cheese Chasers
Funniest in series! And the last in series. No one wants to live in this short. No one has anything to live for. No one knows why Jones stoped the series.
Cheese Chasers
Brilliant "reversal-of-roles" for all characters involved. Not many directors could have made this work as well as Jones did. One of the many reasons he's one of my all-time favourite directors of Looney Tunes or anything!!
Cheese Chasers
Hubie and Bertie (Mel Blanc and Stan Freberg) eat too much cheese and find themselves sick of it. Deciding that there is nothing for a mouse to live for if he doesn't want cheese, they decide to commit suicide by making Claude Cat eat them. Claude thinks the mice are poisoned, ("Something rotten in Denmark!") and continually spits them out. Claude thinks he's going crazy, and does such neurotic stuff as getting himself a hobby building ships in bottles (he's in the bottle, the ship's outside!) and looking up his problems in books just so he can make a paper Napopleon hat out of the page! Claude decides that if he can't eat mice, there is nothing left for HIM to live for. Thus, he goes outside to the dog house and asks Marc Anthony (his only speaking appearance) to massacre him! The dog, confused by all this, lines up all the characters (Hubie, Bertie, Claude, and even the cheese!) as "exhibits", court-room style. This further confuses the dog,using a typewriter, because: "Mice don't wanna eat cheese. Mice want cat to eat them. Cat don't want to eat mice. But cat wants dog to massacre him! IT JUST DON'T ADD UP!!!!" Marc Anthony runs for the dog catcher van, wiith Claude right behind him ("Aren't you gonna massacre me?") and Hubie and Bertie chasing the cat. Hilarious cartoon, this is the last Hubie and Bertie cartoon, and one of the best. Chuck Jones has long been called a master of personality in cartoons, this really shows the idea. There is also a very dark undertone to this cartoon, which many of Chuck Jones'1950's cartoons have. Also of note, this is the last time Claude Cat is portrayed as a neurotic good guy, he is from here onward portrayed as jealous and evil against such adversaries as Marc Anthony and Frisky Puppy.
-Matthew