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Meatless Flyday is a 1944 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies directed by Friz Freleng. The short was released on January 29, 1944. The title is a pun on meatless Friday, a reference to the traditional Roman Catholic practice of abstinence from meat on Fridays.
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Meatless Flyday is a 1944 Merrie Melodies short directed by I. Freleng.
The title is a pun on Meatless Friday, a reference to the traditional Roman Catholic practice of abstinence from meat on Fridays.
A guffawing spider spots his intended prey, a mute fly, on the ceiling, and indulges in various cat-and-mouse schemes to try to catch him for food, including painting a load of buckshot with "Kandy Kolor" and luring the fly to eat it and drawing him closer with a magnet, which only succeeds in attracting a set of metal cutlery which the spider has ...
•Jerry Colonna - "Something new has been added!"
•Adolf Hitler
•Cy Kendall, who voices the spider, based his performance on Tex Avery's voice. In later years, Avery became convinced that he had done the voiceover.
•This is the first cartoon to use the finalized Merrie Melodies logo on the closing Color Rings, which would be used until the end of 1955. This is also the first cartoon to use the 1944–45 rings evident in the blue rings and red background.
•The buckshot is dipped into "Sugar Coated Kandy Kolor, I.G. Farben Co. Minneapolis". I. G. Farben was the fourth largest company in the world, based in Germany, not the U.S. It started as a manufacturer of synthetic dyes, thus its use here. Unknown to the production team at the time, it was also supplying poison gas to Nazi concentration camps.
•When the fly does air acrobatics, the spider heckles him as "a poor man's Bugs Bunny".
•Some prints of the USA dubbed version have a subtle edit to remove a black screen set in-between the part where the Spider laughs as he says, "Well, that's one on me. Caught me off my guard," after the fly releases the spider from the sugar cube trap and the part where the fly does acrobatics in the air to heckle the spider.[dead link] The EU 1995 Turner dubbed version prints, however, do not have this edit. However, some USA dubbed version prints of this cartoon also exist without the edit.
•Both US and EU Turner "dubbed" versions kept the original ending theme on their altered cards.
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4.Liebman, Roy (2003). Vitaphone Films: A Catalogue of the Features and Shorts. McFarland, page 280. ISBN 978-0786412792.
•"Meatless Flyday" at the Big Cartoon Database
Meatless Flyday: Directed by Friz Freleng. With Mel Blanc, Cy Kendall. A hungry spider is trying to catch a fly for dinner. Both pull pranks on each other until the fly is finally caught. The spider is about to eat him when the fly points out that it is Meatless Tuesday so he can't be eaten today.
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Meatless Flyday is a 1944 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Friz Freleng. An guffawing spider (voiced by Cy Kendall) spots his intended prey, a mute fly, on the ceiling, and indulges in various cat-and-mouse schemes to try to catch him for food, including painting a load of buckshot with...
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Meatless Flyday. A hungry spider is trying to catch a fly for dinner. Both pull pranks on each other until the fly is finally caught. The spider is about to eat him when the fly points out that it is Meatless Tuesday so he can’t be eaten today.
A hungry spider is trying to catch a fly for dinner. Both pull pranks on each other until the fly is finally caught. The spider is about to eat him when the fly points out that it is Meatless Tuesday so he can't be eaten today. A spider tries a number of tricks to catch a fly.
