Bathing Buddies

Bathing Buddies is the 18th animated cartoon short subject in the Woody Woodpecker series. Released theatrically on July 1, 1946, the film was produced by Walter Lantz Productions and distributed by Universal Pictures.[1]

Bathing Buddies
Directed byDick Lundy
Produced byWalter Lantz
Story byBen Hardaway
Milt Schaffer
StarringBen Hardaway
Jack Mather
Music byDarrell Calker
Animation byPaul J. Smith
Bernard Garbutt
Lester Kline (uncr.)
Sidney Pillet (uncr.)
Grim Natwick (uncr.)
Laverne Harding (uncr.)
Emery Hawkins (uncr.)
Backgrounds byTerry Lind
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release date
July 1, 1946
Running time
6' 39"
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Plot

Woody is a tenant in a boarding house run by Wally Walrus, but his indoor game of golf quickly gets on the landlord's nerves. Woody decides to take a bath, for which he has to deposit a dime in the water meter in his bathroom. When the coin slips from his fingers and rolls down the drain, he tries an assortment of unusual tricks to get it back, provoking a battle of wills with Wally as he tries to take his own bath. Woody's last move is to stuff dynamite into the plumbing pipes, demolishing the house but freeing his dime at last.

Notes
  • Bathing Buddies was the first Woody cartoon directed by veteran animator Dick Lundy, who had previously worked at Walt Disney Productions.
  • Wally Walrus is shown in a new, tuskless character design and speaks without his usual Swedish accent.
  • One of the items in the Rules for Roomers list is No Opium Smoking.

References
  • Cooke, Jon, Komorowski, Thad, Shakarian, Pietro, and Tatay, Jack. "1946". The Walter Lantz Cartune Encyclopedia.
  1. Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 157–158. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7.


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