Friday, September 30, 2022

Bugs Bunny's Howl-oween Special (1977)

Witch Hazel's house serves as the centerpiece of this Halloween anthology, comprised of nine Looney Tunes cartoons plus some new transitional segments. (Quality is obviously lacking in the newer material.) Although I was too young to catch this special when it originally aired on October 26, 1977, I grew familiar with most of these individual cartoons from watching the Bugs Bunny/Roadrunner Show in the 1980s.

The Three Stooges: We Want Our Mummy (1939)

When Professor Tuttle is kidnapped from the Museum of Ancient History, museum directors hire three detectives (Moe, Larry, and Curly) to track him down and retrieve a stolen mummy. While in Cairo, the detectives inadvertently stumble into the kidnappers' lair inside the tomb of King Rootin-Tootin. Despite encountering skeletons, mummies, and crocodiles, the detectives manage to outwit the thieves, rescue the professor, and find the valuable artifact. Originally released in February 1939.