Meatless Flyday

Meatless Flyday is a 1944 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies directed by Friz Freleng.[1] The short was released on January 29, 1944.[2]

Meatless Flyday
Title card for the Warner Bros. animated cartoon "Meatless Flyday."
Directed byFriz Freleng
Written byMichael Maltese
StarringMel Blanc
Cy Kendall
Production
company
Leon Schlesinger Studios
Distributed byWarner Bros.
Release date
  • 29 January 1944 (1944-01-29) (United States)
Running time
6 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The title is a pun on Meatless Friday, a reference to the traditional Roman Catholic practice of abstinence from meat on Fridays.

Plot

An overconfident and guffawing spider (voiced by Cy Kendall) spots his intended prey, a mute fly, on the ceiling, and indulges in various cat-and-mouse schemes to try to catch him for food, including painting a load of buckshot with "Kandy Kolor" and luring the fly to eat it and drawing him closer with a magnet, which only succeeds in attracting a set of metal cutlery which the spider has to dodge to save himself. He sees the fly on a wedding cake as a bride and dresses as the groom only to be blown up by a dynamite stick, left in blackface. Eventually, the spider catches his prey, and, when he is about to carve him up while singing the song "Would You Like to Take a Walk?", the fly points to a wall calendar giving the day as "Meatless Tuesday", a reference to food rationing during World War II. The frustrated spider runs to the United States Capitol and screams, "You can't do this to me! You just can't! You can't! You can't! You can't! You can't!"

gollark: But it's more efficient and fast. You need a metallurgic infuser and, for coal efficiency, an enrichment chamber.
gollark: Did you make Mekanism steel production? You are to.
gollark: GTech™ policy doesn't say to. Also, maybe we should do bees (Forestry). And you get them from breaking diamond ore and such.
gollark: Why would I consume those?
gollark: I have far more advanced technology than you. I can actually afford AE2.

See also

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. 147. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.
  2. Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 104–106. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
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