It may not seem like much but back in 1905 $1.00 is equivalent to $26.45 today. So $0.44 back then would be equivalent to $11.64 today and $0.48 would be equivalent to $12.69 today. Which is why McMorehouse made such a big deal, either that or he's stingy
Not necessarily, the problem is over-complicated and inflexible bureaucracy. A standardized set of rules and guidelines with a clear chain of authority is extremely important for running any large size operation. The problem occurs when people at the ground level don't have the flexibility to make any sort of on the spot decision when something not covered by the rules occurs without fear of being reprimanded or when even a simple change or question of the rules requires the reviewing and signoff of a dozen levels of management for a problem that needs a solution immediately. In a well working bureaucracy, even if the inflexible station master thought they were pigs, the person in charge of managing him would have looked at it and immediately sent the order back down to have some common sense and classify them as pets. In an ill-working bureaucracy we see what happens in the cartoon, where nobody wanted to take responsibility for making the decision or was willing to bend the rules to get a quick response out until it grew into enough of a problem that it was now directly effecting the top management.
I watch this short so many times because it came right after Lambert the Sheepish Lion and before Where the Music Comes From on the same VHS tape at my grandparents' Victorian home before they sold it and moved to a smaller farm-styled house.
Oh, there are a lot of lessons in that one (at least many ways you can shape it) There is a lesson about how inaction can sometimes cost more as problems compound. There is a lesson about how rapidly growing problems requiring swift solutions (even if imperfect) There is a lesson about cowardice to face the problem, resorting to bureaucracy as a shield from accountability. There is a lesson about the hidden cost of bureaucratic structures and needlessly activating it and there is a lesson about taking the initiative and some independence might save you a lot of headache down the line
Or rather have comprehensive definitions for the rules. The second section of every law has a definition so that what the next sections mean won't be confusing. This entire film is the Tomato Trial in cartoon form (importer wants to classify tomatoes as fruits, the Customs bureau wants it classified as vegetable for tax purposes, the Supreme Court said it is technically a fruit but since nobody eats tomatoes like it's a fruit it be legally treated as a vegetable for tax purposes)...
This whole short is a satire on the overblown bureaucracy and dependence of rules. Right before the famous curfew pass A38. Also, guinea pigs do not breed that fast. In fact, they are some of the slower breeding rodents - up to 72 days. Which is why when they are born, little pups are almost independent if necessary.
I think it can be a metaphor on how slow the process can be. it could been more than 72 days or even years now (hence the person who received it no longer reside the home)
Yeah it was just a basic placeholder set of names to imply "just basically anyone". Like if someone was asking a question to everyone they could find, you would say they were "asking every Tom, Dick, and Harry". It made more sense when "dick" as a shorthand for "richard" didn't have quite the connotations it carries in modern society. The fact the Dover Boys used those names is not coincidence, it was to essentially piggyback off that cultural in-joke, although in their case they used Larry instead of Harry. Here it is used to highlight the humor of the buck being passed to anyone who could be named as part of the bureaucracy run-around.
The tribbles are a copy of the martian flat cats in Robert Heinlein's "The Rolling Stones", so much so that the show had him sign a waiver. Heinlein said he was inspired by Butler's "Pigs is Pigs" but was careful not to plagiarize him. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_cat
It might have inspired the Parasprites in "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic." They are cuddly and cute but they will literally eat everything that is edible and multiply faster than Tribbles (they split in two and each half is fully grown and ready to eat...and they do).
Flannery . . . guinea pigs and elephants are not even remotely the same. Even if they got frisky, you'd still likely only have two elephants in the same situation. Three, if it *really* took a long time - gestation for an elephant is nearly two years.
The reason the Supreme Court said it's a vegetable is that while they acknowledge on a technical level that the Tomato as a fruit, since nobody eats the tomato like a fruit or use it like it's a fruit the Supreme Court saw it fit to classify it (for tax purposes as to this case) as a vegetable...
Guinea pigs were domesticated in the South American Andys mountains of Ecuador and Peru and I think Bolivia housands of years ago as livestock for food. It is still a delicacy today.
1:31, awww that way cute. 2:17 man, that was really cute! 4:18 that was adorable 4:42, oh my, that was so many hamsters. 5:18 50? those Pigs everywhere 6:37 okay that was silly, why are they playing violent? 8:08, what is he saying? 9:33 hey, how did they get in the hat?
How I would like to have been born in the 1950s or even born earlier, in the 1940s or even earlier say in the 1930s, 1920s, 1910s, or even born in the 1900s or even born in an entirely different century before the 20th century say 19th Century or even Centuries earlier.
Could this have been the inspiration for the "Fuzzle Trouble" episode in The Smurfs, where Clumsy Smurf finds a cute little pink creature that multiplies when it eats things?
Years back I had a manager who trained me that there are times to follow the letter of the rule and times that you follow the "spirit" of the rule (Basically why the rule exists in the first place. Going by the letter of the rule, "pigs" are distinct from "pets" and therefore Guinea Pigs arguably fall under the higher rate. However, going by the spirit of the rule, pigs are clearly separated out from pets either because they are typically classified as livestock or because of their larger size (Thus higher cost to transport) while Guinea pigs are clearly intended to be small pets and therefore fall under the lower rate. Basically, just use common sense and save yourself the Bureaucratic headache for something that could be solved in a couple seconds.
When I was a kid I missed the adult themes of this cartoon: - The flaws of bureaucracy - Massive inbreeding - Scottish stereotypes when it comes to money (see also Scrooge McDuck)
After 119 Years From When The Mistake Happened Everyone Became Aware That They Need To Improve And FAST Before Things Go Up In Flames LITERALLY... Can't Forget What Happened That Day... Oh God The Bodies The Dead Bodies...
Never would you expect there to be an economic dispute over an animal's common name. The people responsible for naming that this rodent after a pig, must've been rolling in their grave.
Very good job dudes and nicely well done!! Congratulations 998.38% yo throughout the 4th sizzling patriotic hot week of said amazing August y'all! It may not seem like much but back in 1905 $1.00 is equivalent to $26.45 today. So $0.44 back then would be equivalent to $11.64 today and $0.48 would be equivalent to $12.69 today. Which is why McMorehouse made such a big deal, either that or he's stingy.
It is a Disney cartoon based on a short story written in English. If a Hindi version was available it would be dubbed as Disney only produced English films.
All the guinea pigs are perpetually smiling. 😊
7:00 WEEEEEEE!!!!
7:51 He saw the audience! 😮
8:30
The Presidents whole reaction was hilarious!
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Thank goodness he doesn't have to deal with any elephants.
Biden
Brilliant, just come across this and it was hilarious, I remember seeing it in the 70's on TV, oh dear I am getting old!
Tribbles to that!
I remembered that on one of the Walt Disney treasures DVD, this cartoon won an academy award.
You will never find this Oscar nominated short on Disney+!
Or that blue blue car cartoon short from 1952
Why not?
@@ansumanahargett6227 Susie, The Little Blue Coupe. 🙂
Thank you for providing old-fashioned, vintage Disney animation shorts! They are truly gems 💎!
Ich liebe diesen Kurzfilm. Der hat dazu beigetragen das ich als Kind ein Meerschweinchen haben wollte. Toller Klassiker. 😍✌🏻️👍🏻
Tribbles dazu!
I got to found out what a tribble is.
It may not seem like much but back in 1905 $1.00 is equivalent to $26.45 today. So $0.44 back then would be equivalent to $11.64 today and $0.48 would be equivalent to $12.69 today. Which is why McMorehouse made such a big deal, either that or he's stingy
I imagine it's a little of both. McMorehouse is Scottish, which people sometimes associate with being cheap.
I wonder how much $0.25 back then would be today
As part Scottish I can confirm that we are indeed very frugal. Don’t you know how copper wire was invented? Two Scottsmen pulling on a penny! 🤣
@@Zoroark50Although they prefer the term "thrifty".
@@arentkvh3431 Who are they? Scrooge McDuck?
This is one of my favorite of these cartoons!! Alls well that ends well.
Funniest thing about this is, by rodent standards, Guinea pigs don’t really multiply that fast.
As someone who had pet guinea pigs in her childhood, they really don't. XD
@@CaitCher I’ve raised Guinea pigs, I know they don’t. I also used to raise rats and spiny mice; they very much DO!😂
@@ericbondeson3614 XD XD XD
I was thinking about the perilously narrow genetic drift. After a couple generations, wouldn't they be terribly inbred (and not very healthy)?.
They were thinking of rabbits
And the moral of this story is... Bureaucracy sucks and makes problems worse and complicate them than actually solve them.
Not necessarily, the problem is over-complicated and inflexible bureaucracy. A standardized set of rules and guidelines with a clear chain of authority is extremely important for running any large size operation. The problem occurs when people at the ground level don't have the flexibility to make any sort of on the spot decision when something not covered by the rules occurs without fear of being reprimanded or when even a simple change or question of the rules requires the reviewing and signoff of a dozen levels of management for a problem that needs a solution immediately. In a well working bureaucracy, even if the inflexible station master thought they were pigs, the person in charge of managing him would have looked at it and immediately sent the order back down to have some common sense and classify them as pets. In an ill-working bureaucracy we see what happens in the cartoon, where nobody wanted to take responsibility for making the decision or was willing to bend the rules to get a quick response out until it grew into enough of a problem that it was now directly effecting the top management.
@@rwberger6 Right you are😊
I watch this short so many times because it came right after Lambert the Sheepish Lion and before Where the Music Comes From on the same VHS tape at my grandparents' Victorian home before they sold it and moved to a smaller farm-styled house.
Heute noch so gut wie vor 70 Jahren!
This cartoon is well awesome in billions of ways and it is a shame, I was not born in the year 1954 or even born earlier say in the 1940s for example.
The narrator of this short is none other than Gary Owens.
Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In.
Yup. I recognized that voice, all right.
1:53 Groundskeeper Willie, Shrek, Donald, Douglas, and Demoman.
I guess the moral of this story is that rules should not take precedence over common sense.
Sounds good to me.
Oh, there are a lot of lessons in that one (at least many ways you can shape it)
There is a lesson about how inaction can sometimes cost more as problems compound.
There is a lesson about how rapidly growing problems requiring swift solutions (even if imperfect)
There is a lesson about cowardice to face the problem, resorting to bureaucracy as a shield from accountability.
There is a lesson about the hidden cost of bureaucratic structures and needlessly activating it
and there is a lesson about taking the initiative and some independence might save you a lot of headache down the line
@@benkayvfalsifier3817Mmm-Hmm
Or rather have comprehensive definitions for the rules. The second section of every law has a definition so that what the next sections mean won't be confusing. This entire film is the Tomato Trial in cartoon form (importer wants to classify tomatoes as fruits, the Customs bureau wants it classified as vegetable for tax purposes, the Supreme Court said it is technically a fruit but since nobody eats tomatoes like it's a fruit it be legally treated as a vegetable for tax purposes)...
That is basically too much red tape
This whole short is a satire on the overblown bureaucracy and dependence of rules. Right before the famous curfew pass A38.
Also, guinea pigs do not breed that fast. In fact, they are some of the slower breeding rodents - up to 72 days. Which is why when they are born, little pups are almost independent if necessary.
I think it can be a metaphor on how slow the process can be. it could been more than 72 days or even years now (hence the person who received it no longer reside the home)
@@jomarcentermjm What the cartoon didn't show is all the shit and piss that must have accumulated in that little railway station.
The dangers of bureaucracy!
Indeed. I remember this as a kid. I’m a lawyer now and watching it from a whole new perspective
Pure genius: short , 2024 - miss u Walt
This cartoon is awesome in billions of ways .
Seriously, did the book on their care not state quite clearly that guinea pigs are rodents and not pigs? HUGE difference! Do your homework, people!
You might be surprised how much Red Tape employees can screw over simple things.
7:37 Wait is that a Dover boys reference? "See Larry, See Tom, See Dick," those are the names of all of The Dover Boys.
Not Dover Boys, no. Tom, Dick, & Larry/Harry are old joke names that comedies & jokes used.
Not really it's supposed to be just average names.
Yeah it was just a basic placeholder set of names to imply "just basically anyone". Like if someone was asking a question to everyone they could find, you would say they were "asking every Tom, Dick, and Harry". It made more sense when "dick" as a shorthand for "richard" didn't have quite the connotations it carries in modern society. The fact the Dover Boys used those names is not coincidence, it was to essentially piggyback off that cultural in-joke, although in their case they used Larry instead of Harry. Here it is used to highlight the humor of the buck being passed to anyone who could be named as part of the bureaucracy run-around.
Referencia a scooby doo
Does anyone else wonder if this was the origin of Star Trek's tribbles?
Jacob Nelson it was. I forget where i heard it from but someone did say they based the trouble with tribbles on this short.
The tribbles are a copy of the martian flat cats in Robert Heinlein's "The Rolling Stones", so much so that the show had him sign a waiver. Heinlein said he was inspired by Butler's "Pigs is Pigs" but was careful not to plagiarize him. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_cat
@@alicefarrier3560Not me in any way.
It might have inspired the Parasprites in "My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic." They are cuddly and cute but they will literally eat everything that is edible and multiply faster than Tribbles (they split in two and each half is fully grown and ready to eat...and they do).
Yes! Glad to find some interesting answers here.
I like Irish humor. Guinea pigs make good pets. Well done, Mr . Flannery.😊
The only way they could be more irish and scottish respectively would be for the irish to exclaim "begorra" and the scotsman to say "och aye" xD
4:22 oh how times have changed. Looks like Mike _can_ have bebies after all.
5:08 damn! Are these Guinea Pigs or Tribbles?
Flannery . . . guinea pigs and elephants are not even remotely the same. Even if they got frisky, you'd still likely only have two elephants in the same situation. Three, if it *really* took a long time - gestation for an elephant is nearly two years.
Yeah, but imagine 2 elephants getting frisky in a very little postal office.
I’m pretty sure that comment was more on the line of “let’s thank God that guinea pigs are small and not big like elephants”
Based on Ellis Parker Butler's most famous short story, Pigs is Pigs, from 1905, though Disney doesn't give any screen credit.
Elephants do not multiply that fast)
1:50 LOL. He looks like Jim Carrey as The Grinch.
Well Jim Carrey wasn't born yet when that came out.
@@vincentfichtler7758 Literal Much?
@@vincentfichtler7758 Yeah.
I love how the singers made it harder to take in the information
Ah yes, the tomato clause in the supreme saying it’s a vegetable while everyone with a brain says is a fruit.
The reason the Supreme Court said it's a vegetable is that while they acknowledge on a technical level that the Tomato as a fruit, since nobody eats the tomato like a fruit or use it like it's a fruit the Supreme Court saw it fit to classify it (for tax purposes as to this case) as a vegetable...
Guinea pigs were domesticated in the South American Andys mountains of Ecuador and Peru and I think Bolivia housands of years ago as livestock for food. It is still a delicacy today.
Flannery sounds like King Hubert from Sleeping Beauty.
Yes, it's from the same actor who voices Droopy, The White Rabbit, The Dodo, Mr. Smee and Touche Turtle, Bill Thompson.
@@michaelnavarro1810 he also voiced jock/cop/bull/scrooge McDuck
@@reubenguttenberg7405That was before, or after, Jeff Bennett, or those other actors were born.
Bill Thompson was the man! Hearing his voice conjures childhood memories of Disney animated classics!
I wonder if this partly inspired the infamous tribble episode of Star Trek.
2:08 He's reading a blank page.
The story might have had an inspiration on David Gerald writing the Star Trek episode of "The Trouble With Tribbles."
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Love this! Thank you❤
He sounds like he voiced one of the pirates from peter pan
He was Smee (Bill Thompson)
@@BadWebDiver I love smee
Bill Thompson was the Man!
I also remembered that this cartoon was on DTV.
Pushed envelope a bit, no pun intended! 😁
1:31, awww that way cute.
2:17 man, that was really cute!
4:18 that was adorable
4:42, oh my, that was so many hamsters.
5:18 50? those Pigs everywhere
6:37 okay that was silly, why are they playing violent?
8:08, what is he saying?
9:33 hey, how did they get in the hat?
8:08 You’ve begat and begot, now begone!!
5:54 He said "Sos", somebody call the TH-cam Poop Police.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sus_(genus)
How I would like to have been born in the 1950s or even born earlier, in the 1940s or even earlier say in the 1930s, 1920s, 1910s, or even born in the 1900s or even born in an entirely different century before the 20th century say 19th Century or even Centuries earlier.
"Ye've begat and begat, now be gone!"
To think we have to deal the rabbits situation
Actually, chickens reproduce faster than rabbits.
Who does this conductor voice because I totally love him in the droopy leprechaun short
Bill Thompson, best known for voicing Droopy.
2:15 they are so cute
Thank you for uploading.
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My pleasure
Could this have been the inspiration for the "Fuzzle Trouble" episode in The Smurfs, where Clumsy Smurf finds a cute little pink creature that multiplies when it eats things?
Years back I had a manager who trained me that there are times to follow the letter of the rule and times that you follow the "spirit" of the rule (Basically why the rule exists in the first place. Going by the letter of the rule, "pigs" are distinct from "pets" and therefore Guinea Pigs arguably fall under the higher rate. However, going by the spirit of the rule, pigs are clearly separated out from pets either because they are typically classified as livestock or because of their larger size (Thus higher cost to transport) while Guinea pigs are clearly intended to be small pets and therefore fall under the lower rate.
Basically, just use common sense and save yourself the Bureaucratic headache for something that could be solved in a couple seconds.
Cute Guinea pigs!
Tribbles are troubling, for sure.
When I was a kid I missed the adult themes of this cartoon:
- The flaws of bureaucracy
- Massive inbreeding
- Scottish stereotypes when it comes to money (see also Scrooge McDuck)
so basically this iss a story about the danger of bureaucracy.
Wow, during the mid or late 1950s they really improve the Animation a bit. “Still, I wonder what this short is about, or what it teaches us.”
In fact, animation was regressing at this point.
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1:52 7:22 8:32-8:34 9:03-9:08
After 119 Years From When The Mistake Happened Everyone Became Aware That They Need To Improve And FAST Before Things Go Up In Flames LITERALLY... Can't Forget What Happened That Day... Oh God The Bodies The Dead Bodies...
This reminds me of "Flea-Bitten Ed".
I am supposed to be getting ready for work and I watching pigs dance to an Irish jig >.
Hast thou had guinea pigs? Oh boy!
They call me, Mr. Pig!
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Moral of the story: call them cavvies.
The trouble with tribbles inspiration?
I hear that David Gerrold wrote "The Trouble With Tribbles" after seeing this... ;-P
What if Flannery was allergic to guinea pigs?
Is this how the government explains inflation?🤔
I'm from Iowa, and we know from pigs. Guineas are not pigs. Also, I don't believe they are quite that prolific.
6:42 There's so many of them.
They're breeding fast
This seems more like a Tex Avery cartoon than a Disney cartoon.
very nice
Never would you expect there to be an economic dispute over an animal's common name. The people responsible for naming that this rodent after a pig, must've been rolling in their grave.
If only burocrats have a serving of the consequences of their own inefficacy...
1:10 The train is a C.P Huntington.
lol the dude was the policeman from lady and the tramp
Is that Bill Thompson
As the Station Master.
@@BadWebDiver he also voiced King Hubert from sleeping beauty and scrooge McDuck from Mickey and friends
Someone was annoyed with red tape and bureaucracy and made a whole cartoon about it.
Отличная история😂👍
Tribbles!
He talks like jock/bull
Anyone here form central middle school btw this is kevin camino
Chuck Jones.
See guys, THIS is disney. What it is now is a hollowed-referbished carcus of what used to be. Its not the same.
Think about it. All this mess for 4 dollars!
6:37-7:01
It a PET!! 😅
Wat vi jee😊
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Thou begot and begot! Now be gone!
How government works in a nutshell
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Very good job dudes and nicely well done!! Congratulations 998.38% yo throughout the 4th sizzling patriotic hot week of said amazing August y'all! It may not seem like much but back in 1905 $1.00 is equivalent to $26.45 today. So $0.44 back then would be equivalent to $11.64 today and $0.48 would be equivalent to $12.69 today. Which is why McMorehouse made such a big deal, either that or he's stingy.
One of my least favorite from Disney Animation, style-wise...
Sapete una cosa non importa ho dicciamo cosi ho capito cose e be e uno che ha fatto una totale stupidaggine
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old days, better if it was in hindi. but still nuce good ol days
It is a Disney cartoon based on a short story written in English. If a Hindi version was available it would be dubbed as Disney only produced English films.
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