A dark and stormy night in a drugstore. The druggist mixes a potion and falls asleep. The skull-and-crossbones on the bottle comes to life and drips the potion on the druggist.
Sound
Every bottle gets a voice; the bagpipe one haunts me.
Direction
Harman crams more ideas into 10 mins than most features.
Director
Hugh Harman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This MGM 'Happy Harmonies' short is basically what happened when animators saw 'Silly Symphonies' and said 'yes, but make it cursed.'
Frank Nelson's laughing skull performance predates his famous 'Yeeeees?' catchphrase by decades—dude was born to voice unsettling things.
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