Review of Mutts About Racing

. . . MILLIONAIRE DROOPY, hound dog "Butch" paints a tennis court swimming pool blue, and turns the net judge's high seat to a diving board to entice tiny mutt "Droopy" into taking a disastrous plunge onto the disguised hard court. In both films, Droopy splashes down much to the consternation of Butch. Each iteration depicts Butch then deciding to try out the high dive himself, shattering on the no-longer-magical hard court both times. Along the same lines, MUTTS ABOUT RACING features Butch painting a roadside boulder to look like a tunnel. After Droopy drives through this with no ill results, a mystified Butch tries to do the same himself, with a catastrophic outcome. Obviously, the groaning fat cat cartoonists believed in beating dead horses to death, especially after absorbing half the Warner Brothers cartoon refugees. Warner had been running this gag since THE SNEEZE came out in the 1890's.