Edgar Allan Pooh
. . . as Charlie Dog Morphs from male to female and back again several times, always unsure of "where to go" on Col. Shuffle's premises. Meanwhile, the hulking athletic prodigy Dog of Color Belvedere gets a pass for launching two vicious assaults against an over-powered European ethnic person. Both of these story lines come from coinciding Real Life headlines making World News Sept. 15, 2016. Warner Bros.' always prophetic animation team is mashing together America's "Potty Politics" Scandal with the fact that when it comes to Urban football recruits, it's ALWAYS Open Season on European-American coeds. On the one hand, Brandon Teena will be beaten to death if she tries to use a Boys Room in the Tar Heel State. On the other, her Crimson-Necked Thugs leading the beat-down will drop everything (including Brandon's Phallic Tube Socks) to cheer on the Gridiron Hero ravaging their sister, as long as he has enough decals stuck onto his football helmet. As distasteful as the Looney Tuners may have found it to hang out ALL of North Carolina's Dirty Undies for the whole world to gape at, they soldiered on bravely to Make America Great Again with DOG GONE SOUTH.
Lee Eisenberg
By this point, Charlie Dog had thrice invaded Porky Pig's life, so I guess that Chuck Jones wanted to send the pushy mutt on a new kind of adventure. "Dog Gone South" puts Charlie in the deep South, where he tries to get a southern gentleman to adopt him (the southern gentleman looks like Colonel Shuffle from Jones's earlier "Mississippi Hare"). Charlie doesn't interpret the colonel's current dog as an impediment.It impressed me to see what Charlie can do on this different kind of adventure, as opposed to being a nuisance to Porky. My favorite of Charlie's cartoons is his debut "Little Orphan Airedale" (the ending reminded me of the Alan Bates movie "King of Hearts"). But I liked his antics here. It looks as though the South may never get over the Civil War! Worth seeing.
carl170
It one of the best cartoons - Loony tunes ever made. There are others that come to mind. Rabbit Seasoning for instance.....starring Daffy Duck and Buggs Bunny. But this cartoon is in that league...And it has that line, "Oh, Belvedere...Come here boy!...Wonderful slapstick, gags..and I love that American Southern Accent make this into a classic.I would dearly love to be able to get this on DVD.The Colonel and his faithful Hound - Belvedere is brilliant here... If you ever get the chance please watch it.Carl Brown - Ipswich, England
Coolguy-7
If I could pick a favorite Charlie Dog cartoon, this would be it. I love the sequence where Colonel Shuffle is playing his banjo on his front porch singing "Boll my weevil and corn my pone, when you're way down south you're never alone!" Charlie runs up and begins playing "Yankee Doodle," causing Yankee hating Colonel Shuffle to hit him with his banjo. Charlie also faces a problem with Shuffle's bulldog Belvedier. One thing I cannot understand is why this cartoon is not shown anymore. There are no black people in it like there were in say "Mississippi Hare" (which mind you were portrayed pretty good-naturedly). It seems rather odd that Turner Broadcasting, stationed in the South would refuse to show a Southern cartoon. I suppose it could be possible that the people working for AOL-Time Warner assumed that just because it had the word "South" in the title, that it would feature stereotypical blacks. I feel this a shame because this is the best Charlie Dog cartoon ever made.
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