The Shell Shocked Egg
- Studio
- Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.
- Distributor
- Warner Bros.
Synopsis
A mother turtle lays four eggs in the warm sand to hatch Tom, Dick, Harry and Clem. Mom goes off to find a sunlamp, and Clem hatches out just his feet and wanders off. Clem walks into a barnyard, where he tries to get completely hatched by a cow. The cow golfs him into the barn, making the dog think that he has just laid an egg. Meanwhile, Mom, Tom, Dick and Harry are excavating the beach looking for Clem. The dog thinks that he'll be famous as the first dog to lay an egg, and chases Clem around the barnyard. He has a tussle with a hen. Finally, Clem finds his way back to his mother, and she hatches him completely. "Aw, wouldn't you know it, I'm still in a gol-dang shell!"
Characters
Mom, Tom, Dick, Harry, Clem, Turtle, Cow, Horse, Dog, Chicken, Rooster
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Robert McKimson
Producing
- Producer
- Edward Selzer
Writing
- Writer
- Warren Foster
Animation
- Animator
- Manny Gould, Charles McKimson, I. (Izzy) Ellis
Voices
- Voice
- Mel Blanc
Music
- Music
- Carl Stalling
Crew
- Layouts
- Cornett Wood
- Backgrounds
- Richard H. Thomas
Production notes
A reworking of 1944's Booby Hatched.
Songs include: "Where Can You Be, Brother Clem?", performed by Tom, Dick and Harry.
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.
Songs include: "Where Can You Be, Brother Clem?", performed by Tom, Dick and Harry.
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.
Reviews
The Shell Shocked Egg
One of the CREAM of the McKimson barnyard comedies. Clem's three brothers--who harmonize so well (did Mel Blanc do some double-voice-tracking for this??)--really steal the show.
The Shell-Shocked Egg
This is one of my all time favorites. I actually came to this site for thesole purpose of finding out the name of this cartoon. A careless mother turtle allows one of her eggs to escape only partly hatched. While the poor baby turtle, named Clem, gets booted around the farm, his siblings believe that he just was buried too deeply in the nest. They begin a massive excavation project to save "brother clem". They sing many little ditties while working "We are looking for our bro-ther" (to the tune of "I've been woerkin' on the railroad") and "Brother Clem, Brother Clem, Brother Clem". I only ever saw this one once, about 10 or 12 years ago, but it is still in my head enough to get me looking on this website for its name and details. Sadly, I watched Merrie Melodies during my entire childhood, and only saw this one once. So you odds of seeing, given how little airplay they get these days, are very bad. Good luck!