A wolf plays dead as a rug to escape a nagging wife. Peak 60s cartoon logic.
Loopy pretends to be a wolf rug that Quincy "hunted" in order to avoid Quincy's wife, Genevieve, to bicker about him not doing anything impressive.
Writing
Genevieve's nagging hits weirdly modern notes.
Director
William Hanna
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Loopy De Loop was Hanna-Barbera's attempt at a 'sophisticated' French-Canadian wolf—essentially Pepé Le Pew's polite cousin who still fails upward.
This short's rug-gag DNA directly influenced later Hanna-Barbera bits, including Scooby-Doo's many disguise scenes. Loopy walked so Scooby could run... poorly.
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