House Hunting Mice

Hubie and Bertie decide to inspect "The Super House (A House of Tomorrow)." Confronted with a large array of buttons on a master control panel, they first test the automatic record player, which pitches records to a robotic catcher's mitt.

Next, an automatic sweeper sweeps cigar ashes. When they press the "Laundry" control, Hubie gets picked up, folded and starched. They try to tackle the cheese dispenser, but the sweeper prevents them from having their snack.

They throw a vase out the window, and the sweeper goes after it, coming back to chase the mice. The two drive the sweeper crazy by breaking records and lighting firecrackers, causing the robotic housekeeper to put on his hat and coat and quit. Bert pushes the "Spring Cleaning" button, which unleashes an army of sweepers, and the mice are hung like carpets and beaten by the mechanical sweepers.

Hubie, Bertie

A remake of 1939's "Dog Gone Modern."

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.