The "Ralph Phillips" shorts were some of my favorite Chuck Jones cartoons. I was a daydreamer in school and could totally relate to the character. Including the pretty schoolteacher as the "damsel in distress" was hilarious to me. Even though I was good at math when I was that age, I could still relate to Ralph's imaginary struggles at the chalkboard, fighting against hostile numbers. 😁
I’m Glad to see Ralph Phillips get the love he deserves. Given his exclusion from the main six cd releases (I think he’s in the bonus material)!I thought most people didn’t like him
Volume 6 of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection has Boyhood Daze as an extra along with 90 Day Wondering and Drafty, Isn't It, which both feature an adult Ralph Phillips. The 2nd Golden Collection features the Adventures of the Roadrunner pilot which features Ralph and Arnold (the other little kid in it) in it.
I believe that Ralph is one of those characters who had more potential than his number of appearances would suggest, there would certainly be a whole range of possibilities for scenarios to be explored from the point of view of an imaginative little boy. Despite this, his few shorts are easy highlights in the entire Looney Tunes catalog because let's face it, he is one of the few characters we can identify with, even though his daydreams are largely exaggerated in nature, I used to be a bit distracted in school too, but certainly not to this extent. In this one, the best part is undoubtedly all the action that happens on the blackboard, that image of Ralph using the letter "I" as a weapon against the numbers is simply incredible and hilarious at the same time and although the other scenes are also very good, is inevitable that the part with the Native Americans will leave a bitter taste decades later. I will give this one a 10. To be honest, I can't decide between this one and Boyhood Daze because they are both very charming (although some of the sequences here give it a slight advantage).
The end where Ralph has the pipe as General MacArthur wasn't cut on the TV channels I've seen. Now, "Boyhood Daze", Cartoon Network did cut the part where Ralph imagines that he's in jail and stomps on the cigarette that was in his mouth.
Interestingly the character Dick voiced in Duck Dodgers, Baby-Faced Moonbeam, was sort of a spiritual successor to Ralph Phillips, but only in terms of appearance.
10 out of 10 masterpiece. I saw it back in the day in weekday/daytime syndication. I especially loved the chalkboard scene. Also, am I the only one who, when the number is shot in half and later the big fish is also split, wants to say, "Ah, gruesome, isn't it?" I got the "Crawford" book. Bought it with Christmas money a while back. Have to acknowledge the elephant in the room. Ralph Phillips isn't the only brilliant work of cartooning of its type, we were also treated to similar-themed "Calvin & Hobbes".
I first saw a small piece of this short as a child on Fox's Merrie Melodies Starring Bugs Bunny & Friends in the early 90s. They didn't air the full short, just what was known as a "Hip Clip" where you would have three whole shorts shown, with a small clip from a short before the final short came on. For this one, I think it was the chalkboard scene which then went up until Ralph going off to deliver a letter imagining himself as a cowboy. I eventually did see this one in its entirety on Nickelodeon. The Indian scene was actually in tact at the time. However, later on, whenever this one was on Cartoon Network, the entire sequence of Ralph delivering the letter was taken out and it would go straight to the undersea day dream. This short is really imaginative and fun. My favorite part is Ralph battling the chalkboard numbers. It's brilliant. Also, the scene of Ralph battling the chalkboard numbers was later used for a recurring Cartoon Network bumper called "The Cartoon Network Thing to Do." In this case, fight numbers on the chalkboard.
I knew there'd be people in this review that would call this relatable because most of us were the classroom daydreamers who probably weren't diagnosed with ADD or ADHD, but had issues with focusing in class (and, in the case of "Boyhood Daze", outside of class) and sometimes just wanted to take refuge in our imagination because the real world could be a dull and ugly place. The Pony Express and smoking parts don't bother me because I know this is from the 1950s. This brings me to today's Censorship Report. Yes, this was cut, and yes, it was the part where Ralph guns down Indians as he's delivering the letter on horseback. However, the channel that did it was Cartoon Network, and they didn't delete the entire scene; just cut the part where Ralph fires at Indians and some drop dead. Maybe it was cut for racial insensitivity. Maybe it was considered too violent for family viewing. Maybe it was both. I don't think any other channel edited that part, which is odd, because ABC, Nickelodeon, and TBS cut the daydream in Boyhood Daze where Ralph's parents are captured by African cannibals with varying degrees of editing (ABC cut the entire sequence while Nickelodeon and TBS just cut the cannibals dancing around the cauldron), yet they didn't cut Ralph gunning down Indians in his Pony Express fantasy. Or maybe it was cut, and no one reported it. This is why I emphasize finding evidence of censorship, so I don’t immediately judge whether or not an American TV channel makes hypocritical decisions in censorship. We're down to four cartoons left in 1954, so today's Funny Five is more like The Funny Four + 1 more: 1) Quack Shot: A Robert McKimson Daffy Duck vs. Elmer Fudd cartoon that may seem basic plot-wise, but is interesting in that this is the last Daffy Duck cartoon where Daffy actually lives up to his name. From here on in, he’d be a greedy, jealous, spotlight-hungry jerk… 2) My Little Duckaroo: …or, in the case of this cartoon (and the other Chuck Jones or Robert McKimson genre spoofs, like “Deduce You Say,” “Rocket Squad,” and “China Jones”), a hapless hero, as seen in this cartoon where Daffy is once again a Western hero with Porky as his sidekick/comic relief and the duo travel to an abandoned cabin to arrest Nasty Canasta. 3) Sheep Ahoy: The glorious return of Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog, a predator and prey who are friends off the clock, but enemies during work hours (strangely relatable). Like the first one, there’s a lot of confusion as to who’s Ralph and who’s Sam. I don’t think this gets sorted out until at least the third installment. 4) Baby Buggy Bunny: Last cartoon of 1954: a Chuck Jones Bugs Bunny cartoon where Bugs finds a satchel of money and an orphaned baby on the same day…and soon learns that the two are connected. 5) Pizzicato Pussycat: First cartoon of 1955; a Friz Freleng one-shot cartoon where a couple (who look like the one from “Goo Goo Goliath”) discover that their cat has musical talent on the piano, but really, it’s the mouse hiding inside of it).
I recall the entire scene being cut whenever it aired on Cartoon Network. I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure it would jump straight from Ralph battling the chalkboard problem to his undersea scenario. Honestly, though, this scene was meant to simply be a little boy's daydream fantasy so there really wasn't anything that bad about it apart from it looking like one of those Westerns shown on TV at the time. The Indians are just a bunch of stylized, sketchy drawings, nothing too stereotypical aside from the usual portrayal of them in Westerns.
The version I saw went from Ralph on the horse and looking back to a shot of Ralph riding into the fort. They left in Ralph riding out, the Indians shooting arrows at Ralph, Ralph firing his gun, then a dissolve to Ralph staggering in injured, and the whole thing turning out to be his imagination. I'm guessing the version you saw was from Cartoon Network's early days. @glowworm2
@@glowworm2The version I saw had the sequence, but cut Ralph initially gunning down Indians (the second half wasn't cut). The version you described could have been an early Cartoon Network edit (or how I imagine how ABC would edit it).
The "Ralph Phillips" shorts were some of my favorite Chuck Jones cartoons. I was a daydreamer in school and could totally relate to the character. Including the pretty schoolteacher as the "damsel in distress" was hilarious to me. Even though I was good at math when I was that age, I could still relate to Ralph's imaginary struggles at the chalkboard, fighting against hostile numbers. 😁
The way Ralph Phillips was drawn also reminds me of Cindy Lou Who from How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
Well Chuck Jones did direct/storyboard How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
Favorite scene is probably the Ralph battling the numbers scene.
Like if they were Numberjacks-based characters.
The Line and the Dot is basically the plot every British Rom-Com film.
Really just every Rom-Com in general.
@ ok, general vibe then
I’m
Glad to see Ralph Phillips get the love he deserves. Given his exclusion from the main six cd releases (I think he’s in the bonus material)!I thought most people didn’t like him
Volume 6 of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection has Boyhood Daze as an extra along with 90 Day Wondering and Drafty, Isn't It, which both feature an adult Ralph Phillips. The 2nd Golden Collection features the Adventures of the Roadrunner pilot which features Ralph and Arnold (the other little kid in it) in it.
I believe that Ralph is one of those characters who had more potential than his number of appearances would suggest, there would certainly be a whole range of possibilities for scenarios to be explored from the point of view of an imaginative little boy. Despite this, his few shorts are easy highlights in the entire Looney Tunes catalog because let's face it, he is one of the few characters we can identify with, even though his daydreams are largely exaggerated in nature, I used to be a bit distracted in school too, but certainly not to this extent. In this one, the best part is undoubtedly all the action that happens on the blackboard, that image of Ralph using the letter "I" as a weapon against the numbers is simply incredible and hilarious at the same time and although the other scenes are also very good, is inevitable that the part with the Native Americans will leave a bitter taste decades later.
I will give this one a 10. To be honest, I can't decide between this one and Boyhood Daze because they are both very charming (although some of the sequences here give it a slight advantage).
I love this one. This was long before they knew what ADHD was. Also this was me in school.
Also, re:smoking, hilariously Liza Minelli smokes on stage on The Muppet Show and it’s still there.
The end where Ralph has the pipe as General MacArthur wasn't cut on the TV channels I've seen. Now, "Boyhood Daze", Cartoon Network did cut the part where Ralph imagines that he's in jail and stomps on the cigarette that was in his mouth.
Interestingly the character Dick voiced in Duck Dodgers, Baby-Faced Moonbeam, was sort of a spiritual successor to Ralph Phillips, but only in terms of appearance.
10 out of 10 masterpiece. I saw it back in the day in weekday/daytime syndication. I especially loved the chalkboard scene. Also, am I the only one who, when the number is shot in half and later the big fish is also split, wants to say, "Ah, gruesome, isn't it?"
I got the "Crawford" book. Bought it with Christmas money a while back.
Have to acknowledge the elephant in the room. Ralph Phillips isn't the only brilliant work of cartooning of its type, we were also treated to similar-themed "Calvin & Hobbes".
I first saw a small piece of this short as a child on Fox's Merrie Melodies Starring Bugs Bunny & Friends in the early 90s. They didn't air the full short, just what was known as a "Hip Clip" where you would have three whole shorts shown, with a small clip from a short before the final short came on. For this one, I think it was the chalkboard scene which then went up until Ralph going off to deliver a letter imagining himself as a cowboy. I eventually did see this one in its entirety on Nickelodeon. The Indian scene was actually in tact at the time. However, later on, whenever this one was on Cartoon Network, the entire sequence of Ralph delivering the letter was taken out and it would go straight to the undersea day dream.
This short is really imaginative and fun. My favorite part is Ralph battling the chalkboard numbers. It's brilliant. Also, the scene of Ralph battling the chalkboard numbers was later used for a recurring Cartoon Network bumper called "The Cartoon Network Thing to Do." In this case, fight numbers on the chalkboard.
Heard the short was a visual inspiration for making the boss baby at Dreamworks
I knew there'd be people in this review that would call this relatable because most of us were the classroom daydreamers who probably weren't diagnosed with ADD or ADHD, but had issues with focusing in class (and, in the case of "Boyhood Daze", outside of class) and sometimes just wanted to take refuge in our imagination because the real world could be a dull and ugly place. The Pony Express and smoking parts don't bother me because I know this is from the 1950s.
This brings me to today's Censorship Report. Yes, this was cut, and yes, it was the part where Ralph guns down Indians as he's delivering the letter on horseback. However, the channel that did it was Cartoon Network, and they didn't delete the entire scene; just cut the part where Ralph fires at Indians and some drop dead. Maybe it was cut for racial insensitivity. Maybe it was considered too violent for family viewing. Maybe it was both. I don't think any other channel edited that part, which is odd, because ABC, Nickelodeon, and TBS cut the daydream in Boyhood Daze where Ralph's parents are captured by African cannibals with varying degrees of editing (ABC cut the entire sequence while Nickelodeon and TBS just cut the cannibals dancing around the cauldron), yet they didn't cut Ralph gunning down Indians in his Pony Express fantasy. Or maybe it was cut, and no one reported it. This is why I emphasize finding evidence of censorship, so I don’t immediately judge whether or not an American TV channel makes hypocritical decisions in censorship.
We're down to four cartoons left in 1954, so today's Funny Five is more like The Funny Four + 1 more:
1) Quack Shot: A Robert McKimson Daffy Duck vs. Elmer Fudd cartoon that may seem basic plot-wise, but is interesting in that this is the last Daffy Duck cartoon where Daffy actually lives up to his name. From here on in, he’d be a greedy, jealous, spotlight-hungry jerk…
2) My Little Duckaroo: …or, in the case of this cartoon (and the other Chuck Jones or Robert McKimson genre spoofs, like “Deduce You Say,” “Rocket Squad,” and “China Jones”), a hapless hero, as seen in this cartoon where Daffy is once again a Western hero with Porky as his sidekick/comic relief and the duo travel to an abandoned cabin to arrest Nasty Canasta.
3) Sheep Ahoy: The glorious return of Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog, a predator and prey who are friends off the clock, but enemies during work hours (strangely relatable). Like the first one, there’s a lot of confusion as to who’s Ralph and who’s Sam. I don’t think this gets sorted out until at least the third installment.
4) Baby Buggy Bunny: Last cartoon of 1954: a Chuck Jones Bugs Bunny cartoon where Bugs finds a satchel of money and an orphaned baby on the same day…and soon learns that the two are connected.
5) Pizzicato Pussycat: First cartoon of 1955; a Friz Freleng one-shot cartoon where a couple (who look like the one from “Goo Goo Goliath”) discover that their cat has musical talent on the piano, but really, it’s the mouse hiding inside of it).
I recall the entire scene being cut whenever it aired on Cartoon Network. I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure it would jump straight from Ralph battling the chalkboard problem to his undersea scenario. Honestly, though, this scene was meant to simply be a little boy's daydream fantasy so there really wasn't anything that bad about it apart from it looking like one of those Westerns shown on TV at the time. The Indians are just a bunch of stylized, sketchy drawings, nothing too stereotypical aside from the usual portrayal of them in Westerns.
The version I saw went from Ralph on the horse and looking back to a shot of Ralph riding into the fort. They left in Ralph riding out, the Indians shooting arrows at Ralph, Ralph firing his gun, then a dissolve to Ralph staggering in injured, and the whole thing turning out to be his imagination. I'm guessing the version you saw was from Cartoon Network's early days. @glowworm2
@@glowworm2The version I saw had the sequence, but cut Ralph initially gunning down Indians (the second half wasn't cut). The version you described could have been an early Cartoon Network edit (or how I imagine how ABC would edit it).
14:50 Ralph Phillips is Day Dreaming He's a Pony Express Rider.
😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
The song daydream believer, I read was loosely inspired by these cartoons
In my opnion this should have on rhe academy award,but toot,whistle,plunk and boom is still good,I give.it a 9 out of 10
I'm just happy it was nominated.
Please make a commentary video for the looney tunes short titled Tom Thumb In Trouble please
Whenever these wonderful cartoons are cut/sensored, the dunderheads doing so are making the classic mistake of playing down to the audience.