Oscar fail

they always get it wrong Bugs Bunny Lost To This Forgotten Cartoon The Academy Awards for 1940 was the first time that Best Animated Short didn’t go to Walt Disney. it was also the first time Disney didn’t get any nominations in that category. Instead, the Academy nominated “A Wild Hare,” which is generally considered the first ever appearance of Bugs Bunny. It’s also, naturally, the first time Elmer Fudd tells us to keep our voices down because he’s hunting rabbits, and it’s the first time Bugs says “What’s up, doc?” Also nominated that year: “Puss Gets the Boot,” the first ever Tom and Jerry cartoon. Neither Tom nor Jerry gets their official name in this first outing, and they both look a bit different from how you know them, but it’s still their debut all right. Neither of those two won the Oscar. Instead, the award went to an MGM short called “The Milky Way.” No, “The Milky Way” was not some grand artistic experiment, the sort of complex tale that puts to shame the idea that animated films are all immature stuff. It’s a cartoon about anthropomorphic cats, who’d be right at home at Disney or Warner Bros. but just happened to be their own thing. The short starts with the opening of the “Three Little Kittens” nursery rhyme, where three kittens are sent to bed without supper. Hungry, one kitten decides to jump out the window and kill itself, but it catches sight of the milky way above and thinks about all the milk that must be up there. The kittens grab some balloons and head into space. It turns out to be a dream sequence (“it was all a dream” was a really popular way to ground adventures around this time), but for a while, they reach the milky way, and they feast. They squeeze a bunch of nipples and drink evaporated milk, milkweed, and even milk of magnesia. And then they get all get stomach upsets. We’re not a hundred percent sure, but it looks like one of them starts blasting through the air from the power of his own flatulence. Yeah, every time the topic of cats drinking milk comes up, we at Cracked point out that cats are lactose intolerant, but this is the first time we’ve seen an Oscar-winning film show the consequences of that. For more old cartoons, check out: - [Torture, Sexual Insanity and Betty Boop]( - [Mickey Mouse And Pluto Become A Madman's Experiments]( - [The 6 Most Inexplicable Cartoon Adaptations Ever]( Daily Digest [There Will Never Be A Better UFO Movie (VIDEO)]( By Jesse / August 25th, 2022 [14 Of Guillermo Del Toro's Coolest Monsters]( By Eli Yudin / August 25th, 2022 [15 Jokes For The Hall Of Fame 8/25/22]( By JD Roberson / August 25th, 2022 [‘Batgirl’ Is Dead, But HBO Max Will Have Tons Of Weirdo Christmas Movies]( By JM McNab / August 25th, 2022 [7 Bad Comedy Movies (Made By Great Comedians)]( By Matt Solomon / August 25th, 2022 [READ MORE]( [fb]( [tw]( [yt]( [Logomark_DIGITAL_Red_50X50-px] [insta png]( [tiktok png]( [ARTICLES]( | [PICTOFACTS]( | [Videos]( Literally media Ltd. 190 West St, Suite 17B, Brooklyn NY 11222 COPYRIGHT © 2005-2021 Cracked is published by Literally media Ltd. Want to change how you receive these emails? You can [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe from this list](. ONE CRACKED FACT | [View in browser](