Mr. and Mrs. Is the Name

Mr. and Mrs. Is the Name
Title card
Directed byIsadore Freleng
Produced byLeon Schlesinger
StarringJack Carr
Bernice Hansen
Music byBernard Brown
Animation byBen Clopton
Cal Dalton
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Distributed byWarner Bros. Productions
The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date
  • January 19, 1935 (1935-01-19)
Running time
7 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Mr. and Mrs. Is the Name is a 1935 American animated comedy short film directed by Isadore Freleng.[1] The short was released on January 19, 1935. It is the 43rd film in the Merrie Melodies series, featuring the titular song from the film Flirtation Walk, as well as the only appearance of Buddy in the series and in a color cartoon.[2][3][4]

Plot

Mermaids sing and dance to the titular song. A young merman who resembles Buddy plays tag with a mermaid resembling Cookie, but she is offended when he accidentally touches her buttocks. Buddy looks inside a sunken ship and drags Cookie to it. She gleefully adorns herself with jewelry she finds in a treasure chest. Meanwhile, Buddy finds some props in another trunk and does an imitation of Charlie Chaplin.

Cookie finds a piano and plays the title song. The noise draws an octopus, who grabs her and swims off, with Buddy in pursuit. The octopus drops Cookie to fight Buddy, and does do so with some success until Buddy lures it into a pipe and ties the octopus' arms to a flange, then starts bashing the octopus with a battering ram. Cookie kisses Buddy; he blushes, then gets hit by the battering ram into her arms.

Home media

The film is available on the Looney Tunes Collector's Choice: Volume 3 Blu-ray.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 32. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.
  2. ↑ Parten, James (December 10, 2019). "Big Changes For Merrie Melodies 1933–34". Cartoon Research. Retrieved June 12, 2026.
  3. ↑ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 104–106. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved June 6, 2020.
  4. ↑ Barrier, Michael (2003), "Warner Bros., 1933–1940", Hollywood Cartoons: American Animation in Its Golden Age, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0199839223
  5. ↑ "Looney Tunes Collector's Choice: Volume 3 Blu-ray". www.blu-ray.com. Retrieved July 16, 2026.
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