Count Me Out (1938 film) explained

Count Me Out
Director:	Ben Hardaway & Cal Dalton
Story:	Melvin Millar
Animator:	Herman Cohen
Music:	Carl W. Stalling
Producer:	Leon Schlesinger
Distributor:	Warner Bros. Pictures
Color Process:	Technicolor
Runtime:	7 minutes
Language:	English

Count Me Out is a 1938 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Ben Hardaway and Cal Dalton.^[1] The short was released on December 17, 1938, and features Egghead.^[2]

Plot

Egghead decides to get rich by boxing, so he takes a boxing course on a phonograph. When he graduates, he takes on dog-like champion Biff Stew, who punches Egghead around until Egghead accidentally knocks him out. We learn this is a dream after Egghead is knocked out by his boxing equipment.

Voice cast

• Mel Blanc as Record Boxing Coach, Old Mailman
• Danny Webb as Egghead, Biff Stew, Charlie McCarthy Imitation
• Tex Avery as Fight Referee
• Joe Twerp as Fight Commentator^[3]

Home media

Count Me Out is available as a bonus feature on The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse DVD release.

Notes

• This is the second Egghead cartoon co-supervised by Cal Dalton (with Ben Hardaway). The first was A-Lad-In Bagdad (with Cal Howard).

References

1. Book: Beck . Jerry . Friedwald . Will . Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons . 1989 . Henry Holt and Co . 0-8050-0894-2 . 81.
2. Book: Lenburg . Jeff . The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons . 1999 . Checkmark Books . 0-8160-3831-7 . 6 June 2020 . 77–79.
3. Book: Scott . Keith . Cartoon Voices of the Golden Age, Vol. 2 . 3 October 2022 . BearManor Media . en.