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What old Warner Brothers cartoon short am I remembering?
The Last Gent
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So, I'm having flashbacks of a single cartoon short I saw in my youth, and figured this forum would have the collective brainpower to remember it. It was a WB cartoon from the same era as Bugs Bunny and company, animated in that same style, but starring none of the familiar characters.
Here's my memory:
The plot involved this small man who was incredibly stressed or sick, and so went to speak to a therapist or doctor, who told him it had something to do with noise pollution, and recommended a retreat where there is absolutely no sound. Oddly, he specifically told him he'd explode if he didn't get this treatment.
So he goes to this remote hotel, and I distinctly remember he had to talk to the receptionist in a glass booth to reserve his room.
For awhile, the cartoon is silent, and relies on an odd visual gag where everyone and everything holds up picket signs to talk, and make noise, i.e. he pulls a lamp, and a tiny sign comes out that says "click." At one point he trips on a stool, and uses a sign to curse (represented by $@%T^ characters.)
Anyway, the main conflict is, shortly after he arrives, the people in the next room start making a lot of noise. There's a man playing a trumpet, and a woman laughing. The body of the cartoon is his attempts to make them stop.
At the end, he breaks down the door, hopping mad, and it turns out to be the therapist himself, and a lady friend. The therapist advises him that he'll blow up if he keeps this up, and the man literally combusted on the spot. The doctor just shrugs, and goes on playing the trumpet.
So, Penny Arcade, are you smart enough to figure out what the info on this is?
Here's my memory:
The plot involved this small man who was incredibly stressed or sick, and so went to speak to a therapist or doctor, who told him it had something to do with noise pollution, and recommended a retreat where there is absolutely no sound. Oddly, he specifically told him he'd explode if he didn't get this treatment.
So he goes to this remote hotel, and I distinctly remember he had to talk to the receptionist in a glass booth to reserve his room.
For awhile, the cartoon is silent, and relies on an odd visual gag where everyone and everything holds up picket signs to talk, and make noise, i.e. he pulls a lamp, and a tiny sign comes out that says "click." At one point he trips on a stool, and uses a sign to curse (represented by $@%T^ characters.)
Anyway, the main conflict is, shortly after he arrives, the people in the next room start making a lot of noise. There's a man playing a trumpet, and a woman laughing. The body of the cartoon is his attempts to make them stop.
At the end, he breaks down the door, hopping mad, and it turns out to be the therapist himself, and a lady friend. The therapist advises him that he'll blow up if he keeps this up, and the man literally combusted on the spot. The doctor just shrugs, and goes on playing the trumpet.
So, Penny Arcade, are you smart enough to figure out what the info on this is?
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