Mother Goose and a scarecrow are having a secret romance.Mother Goose and a scarecrow are having a secret romance.Mother Goose and a scarecrow are having a secret romance.
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[first lines]
Mother Goose: [to the scarecrow] Ah, my big lovin'! I have come to you. Oh, what a night and what a moon!
Goose: Aw, nuts!
- SoundtracksMoonlight and Roses
(uncredited)
Written by Edwin H. Lemare, Ben Black and Neil Moret
Sung by Mother Goose while sitting with the scarecrow
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Nursery rhyme strangeness
Van Beuren cartoons are extremely variable, especially in the number of gags and whether the absurdist humour shines through enough (sometimes it does, other times it doesn't), but are strangely interesting. Although they are often poorly animated with barely existent stories and less than compelling lead characters, they are also often outstandingly scored, there can be some fun support characters and some are well-timed and amusing.
While there are definitely worse Aesop's Fables/Van Beuren cartoons, overall and even from that year, 'Nursery Scandal' is hardly a great, or even good, cartoon. There was an interesting idea here that was underwhelming execution-wise. There are nursery rhyme-based cartoons that have done this concept or cartoons with stories revolving around the nursery rhyme theme much better, Disney and Fleischer for examples. Cartoons that are funnier, have more imagination, charm, coherence and with a high standard of visuals.
None of which 'Nursery Scandal' had. Its main plus point is the music score. It is so beautifully and cleverly orchestrated, is great fun to listen to and full of lively energy, doing so well with enhancing the action.
Of the nursery rhyme antics, the three blind mice segment fares best. That was pretty amusing and generally it was fun to see and recognise the different nursery rhyme characters. The cartoon is another example of the studio getting more inventive and ambitious with their backgrounds.
However, a lot works against 'Nursery Scandal'. Basically it's one long extended song and dance number with one amusing sequence and then everything else being a mixture of hectic pacing, personality deprived and charmless characters and far too few gags that go well overboard on the bizarre-ness and sugar. Furthermore, the animation is really not great, aside from the backgrounds, with everything about the character designs epitomising pure erratic sloppiness.
There is a very random feeling to how what little there is of the story, the only signs of one being with Mother Goose which had little charm and tried too hard to be cute. The gags are also disorganised and almost disconnected from each other, meaning the cartoon constantly feels choppy and lacking in coherence. While there is a hectic feel to the way the cartoon is paced and animated the timing of the few gags is pretty perfunctory.
All in all, strange and unfortunately not in a good way. 4/10 Bethany Cox
While there are definitely worse Aesop's Fables/Van Beuren cartoons, overall and even from that year, 'Nursery Scandal' is hardly a great, or even good, cartoon. There was an interesting idea here that was underwhelming execution-wise. There are nursery rhyme-based cartoons that have done this concept or cartoons with stories revolving around the nursery rhyme theme much better, Disney and Fleischer for examples. Cartoons that are funnier, have more imagination, charm, coherence and with a high standard of visuals.
None of which 'Nursery Scandal' had. Its main plus point is the music score. It is so beautifully and cleverly orchestrated, is great fun to listen to and full of lively energy, doing so well with enhancing the action.
Of the nursery rhyme antics, the three blind mice segment fares best. That was pretty amusing and generally it was fun to see and recognise the different nursery rhyme characters. The cartoon is another example of the studio getting more inventive and ambitious with their backgrounds.
However, a lot works against 'Nursery Scandal'. Basically it's one long extended song and dance number with one amusing sequence and then everything else being a mixture of hectic pacing, personality deprived and charmless characters and far too few gags that go well overboard on the bizarre-ness and sugar. Furthermore, the animation is really not great, aside from the backgrounds, with everything about the character designs epitomising pure erratic sloppiness.
There is a very random feeling to how what little there is of the story, the only signs of one being with Mother Goose which had little charm and tried too hard to be cute. The gags are also disorganised and almost disconnected from each other, meaning the cartoon constantly feels choppy and lacking in coherence. While there is a hectic feel to the way the cartoon is paced and animated the timing of the few gags is pretty perfunctory.
All in all, strange and unfortunately not in a good way. 4/10 Bethany Cox
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- Jan 23, 2018
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- Runtime5 minutes
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