Pop Goes Your Heart

Pop Goes Your Heart
Title card
Directed byIsadore Freleng
Produced byLeon Schlesinger
Music byNorman Spencer
Animation byFrank Tipper
Sandy Walker
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Distributed byWarner Bros. Productions
The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date
  • December 8, 1934 (1934-12-08)
Running time
7 min
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Pop Goes Your Heart is a 1934 American animated comedy short film directed by Isadore Freleng.[1] The short was released on December 8, 1934. It is the 42nd film in the Merrie Melodies series, featuring the titular song from the film Happiness Ahead.[2][3][4]

Plot

A bird chirps to mark the coming of spring, while hummingbirds and bees pollinate flowers. A grasshopper teaches its offspring to spit tobacco, only for the first child to fail. Three small turtles row with their shells as boats and reeds as paddles. Spiders play a spiderweb like a harp on an apple tree while two apples fall and dance with worms that come out from holes. A swan eats a fish, only to be comically devoured by a larger fish. Three frogs sing and dance to the titular song.

A young bird finds an apple with a worm nearby, attempting to eat it only to be spanked by the worm. Beavers build dams while two beavers play tennis with their tails. A bear struggles to roar and moisturizes its throat to roar. It attempts to eat a turtle, only for the turtle to switch the places of its head and tails and bite the bear's nose. Terrified, it switches his focus to some beavers, who lure it into a tree hole, smack its buttocks and drop a beehive on it. The bear is chased by the angry bees and slides down a fenced grassy slope into a machine that produces hay bales, to the confusion of the farmer. Humiliated, the bear runs away.

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. 29. 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
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