Use Your Head (1945) Poster

(1945)

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Not That Head
boblipton23 May 2023
Here's another of the Private McGillicuddy cartoons produced and directed by Hugh Harman. While not as well done as the Private Snafu cartoons, they have some good, sarcastic voice work by Mel Blanc.

In this one, Blanc is down on the marine for not using the approved latrine, and thus spreading diarrhea throughout his unit. While most of the jokes are the typical racist images used during the Second World War -- and still used almost eighty years later, in China -- there are a couple of good sight gags, including where the mess sergeant wears his chevrons, and what McGilicuddy is using for toilet paper.
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Private McGillicuddy
dtucker8617 September 2023
Warning: Spoilers
Private McGillicuddy would have been given a "blanket party" in today's military for being so stupid and getting all of his friends sick with dysentary in a combat situation for refusing to "use his head" and putting his unit in danger. Mel Blanc does a wonderful job for this Army training film that manages to be both entertaining and informative getting it through to the Soldiers and Sailors that all it takes is one dumb action to put everybody in danger that is something that is taught to service people today during basic. My only complaint with this film is the Japanese caricatures in it. It was considered funny at the time but would be racist today.
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