Best short movie trivia of all time

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Three for Breakfast picture

Trivia: When Donald Duck falls off the roof when he slides on the butter whilst holding the piece of baked rubber cement, a "Goofy Holler" can be heard.

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Tick Tock Tuckered picture

Trivia: When Porky and Daffy are parking their car, there is a building beside them advertising a doctor's office "Dr Brown - Leap In, Limp Out" - a reference to the Warner Brothers sound editor Treg Brown.

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Bad Ol' Putty Tat picture

Trivia: When Tweety is lighting the fuse on the rocket, there is a crate behind him with a label saying "Friz" on the side of it - a reference to the director Friz Freleng.

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Tweety's S.O.S. picture

Trivia: When Sylvester is looking in the ship's medicine cabinet, there is a bottle on the shelf called "Hawley and Pratt Salts" - a reference to the Looney Tunes layout artist, Hawley Pratt.

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Puss Gets the Boot picture

Trivia: The first Tom and Jerry cartoon. The duo were originally named "Jasper and Jinx" by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, though only Tom was identified on screen by his original name (Jasper). Hanna-Barbera would later use the name "Jinx" in their television creation "Pixie and Dixie", where their adversary was the cat, Mr Jinx.

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Honey's Money picture

Trivia: Look out for a caricature of director Friz Freleng on a dollar bill in the opening credits.

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Ready.. Set.. Zoom! picture

Trivia: The mine that the Coyote comes out on his rocket has a sign outside saying "Selzer Mining Co" - a reference to the Warner Brothers producer Eddie Selzer.

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Picador Porky picture

Trivia: This was the first Warner Brothers cartoon to feature the voice of Mel Blanc.

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Tweetie Pie picture

Trivia: "Tweetie Pie" was the first Warner Brothers cartoon to win a Best Animated Short Film Academy Award.

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Ain't She Tweet picture

Trivia: When Sylvester picks up a brick and says "Laugh this off!", there is a building beside him which says "I. Wyner Co." - a reference to the Warner Brothers background artist Irv Wyner.

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Dirty Work picture

Trivia: When Stan pulls Oliver down the chimney, a cloud of chimney soot engulfs them and Jessup. The 'soot' you see is actually powdered chocolate.

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Hatch Up Your Troubles picture

Trivia: When the baby woodpecker walks glumly away after being thrown out of Jerry's house, he goes over to Tom who is sitting in a deckchair. The magazine that Tom is reading has "Saturday Evening Puss" on the front cover, which would be used as the title for a 1950 Tom and Jerry short.

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Rocket Squad picture

Trivia: When Porky and Daffy are at the computer, there are several buttons with the names of Warner Brothers staff on them: John Burton, Tedd Pierce, C.M. (Chuck) Jones, Mel Blanc, Norman Moray and Eddie Selzer.

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Wabbit Twouble picture

Trivia: The names in the opening credits are written in "Elmer Fudd-ese"'; that is, written the way Elmer would say them.

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Draftee Daffy picture

Trivia: When Daffy is saluting the portrait of General MacArthur, along the bottom of the painting you can read the artist's name: Cornett Wood. Wood was a layout artist for Warner Brothers.

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Flowers and Trees picture

Trivia: This was the first animated short to be made in Technicolor, as well as the first to win the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.

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Yankee Doodle Daffy picture

Trivia: When Sleepy Lagoon is licking his lollipop towards the end of the cartoon, look at the wall and you can see a picture of the Warner Brothers animator and director Friz Freleng.

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Rabbit Fire picture

Trivia: When Elmer turns around and finds an elephant behind him, the elephant says, "I'll give you such a pinch." This was one of the catchphrases of Stinky, Joe Besser's juvenile character on The Abbott and Costello Show.

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