The cartoon that broke animation so hard it became legendary.
Three fun-loving, morally upright brothers from Pimento University save their fiancée from their fiendish archenemy, Dan Backslide, in this spoof of the Rover Boys.
Direction
Chuck Jones at his most gloriously unhinged.
Writing
Narration that roasts its own characters relentlessly.
Director
Chuck Jones
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Chuck Jones made this as a deliberate experiment in 'limited animation' extremes, pushing smear frames so far that the studio nearly shelved it for being too weird.
This short was largely forgotten until the internet rediscovered it in the 2000s, where GIFs of Dan Backslide's desperate run became a ubiquitous reaction image for unhinged behavior.
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