Best short movie trivia of all time

Trivia: "Quackodile Tears" was Arthur Davis' final cartoon as director for Warner Bros. Many printed sources erroneously credit Friz Freleng with directing this cartoon.

Trivia: Just after Linus seals his letter to the Great Pumpkin in an envelope, he walks past Lucy who is sitting on the floor watching TV. In her hands, Lucy is holding an issue of TV Guide Magazine. On the cover? Lucy, sitting on the floor in the same position, wearing the same blue dress. (00:07:00)

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Trivia: When we see Daffy's silhouette in the door of Duck Twacy's office at the start of the dream sequence, the silhouette of Daffy briefly changes twice into Dick Tracy's silhouette.

Trivia: The box that holds all the captured chess pieces shows Pixar Studios' old address, or the address they had at the time of this film.

Trivia: The final Tom and Jerry theatrical cartoon produced or directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera.

Trivia: This was the first non-Disney film to win the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.

Trivia: When Cluck Trent (Daffy) takes a break from writing, he pulls out from his pocket a box of "Dr. Pierce's Mild Pills" - a reference to the Warner Brothers story writer, Tedd Pierce.

Trivia: This cartoon marked Porky Pig's debut.

Trivia: At the end of the cartoon, traditional Bavarian music is played over the "That's All Folks!" title card instead of the normal closing theme.

Trivia: When Claude Cat flies up above the elevated train tracks, there is a sign in the background saying "Don Foster for Mayor." Foster was an artist who designed many of the lobby cards for Warner Brothers.

Trivia: When Sylvester hits the orange cat on the head with a mallet, look in the background and you can see a box with text printed on it advertising "Friz - America's Favorite Gelatin Dessert" - a reference to the director Friz Freleng.

Trivia: In 1992, seven days after celebrating his hundredth birthday, producer Hal Roach appeared as a guest on The Tonight Show, where Jay Leno was filling in for host Johnny Carson. When Leno asked Roach which of all the movies he had made was his own favourite, he selected Beau Hunks, mainly because Jean Harlow - who had started at Roach's studio but went on to become a star at MGM - appeared in this movie for nothing. Harlow's appearance in the movie was only through old publicity photographs she had made for the Roach studio.

Trivia: A total of 3000 pies were used in the pie fight sequence towards the end of the film.

Trivia: When Sylvester and Junior are watching television at the start of the cartoon, they see a local fisherman called Treg Brown who landed a big one. Treg Brown was the sound editor who was responsible for the sound effects in the Warner Brothers' Merry Melodies and Looney Tunes cartoons.

Trivia: This mini-film is a spin off from Watchmen. As a tribute to its originator, note how the blood stain on the raft's sail changes from scene to scene in the style of Rorschach's ink blot mask. (00:05:30 - 00:07:45)

Trivia: When Tom woos the dog instead of the cat, he says the exact same dialogue he used in a previous Tom and Jerry cartoon, "Zoot Cat" (1944).

Trivia: This was the first cartoon in which Sylvester is named, as well as the first appearance of Sylvester in a cartoon directed by Chuck Jones.

Trivia: The building where Sylvester is receiving music lessons is "MUSIC LESSONS - J.C. MELENDEZ". J.C. Melendez was an animator for Warner Brothers.

Trivia: This was the first Tom and Jerry cartoon to be released in CinemaScope, as well as the first not to have Mammy Two-Shoes as the owner of the house.

Trivia: At the beginning of the cartoon, we see a long line of books at the book shop. The last book we see is entitled "Life and Times" by Bugs Bunny.