I'd Love to Take Orders from You

During the 1930s, Looney Tunes generally made black & white cartoons like most of their competition. But some of these studios, including Looney Tunes, sometimes made color cartoons and I have no idea why they did this for some and not others. Regardless, "I'd Love to Take Orders from You" is a full color cartoon...and a lovely one when you see it today...full restored and on HBOMax.

While the Looney Tunes cartoons had lovely animation in the mid-1930s, the artwork in this one is definitely better than usual...and for once the quality of the artwork here rivaled the best of Disney....the studio with the best quality animation in the 1930s. The colors, backgrounds and characters just look great.

As for the story, it suffers a bit from a bit of cutesy singing...fortunately, it's brief! It stars a living scarecrow and his family...an odd story idea. The scarecrow wants Junior to grow up just like him...and Junior feels the same way. So is the boy able to do his old man proud?

As I already mentioned, the animation is great. But like most of the shorts from Looney Tunes from this period, the animation is better than the story. What's missing in most of these is the silly sense of humor and lovable characters of the 1940s Looney Tunes films...some sarcasm and edginess could have helped this one. Still, it's pretty decent for Looney Tunes for 1936 and my score of 8 is relative to its competition during this time period.