| Hash House Blues | |
| Director: | Manny Gould Ben Harrison |
| Animator: | Allen Rose Preston Blair |
| Music: | Joe de Nat[1] |
| Producer: | Charles Mintz (uncredited) |
| Studio: | Screen Gems |
| Color Process: | Black and white |
| Runtime: | 5:50 |
| Language: | English |
Hash House Blues, also spelled Hash-House Blues in some reissues, is a 1931 short animated from Columbia Pictures, and one of many in the long-running series of films featuring Krazy Kat.[2]
The film opens with Krazy who seems to be riding a luxury car, and wearing a top hat like a high-class individual. Moments later, it turns out he is walking in the sidewalk, and not really riding the vehicle which moves forward past the screen. Krazy proceeds to a fancy restaurant.
Krazy enters the restaurant not as a patron as his outfit suggests, but as a waiter. In the kitchen, the chef assigns him to fix a few things, but a pesky fly causes him to mess up a bit. Krazy is able to take down the fly by opening a wheel of limburger whose scent causes the insect to collapse.
Krazy enters the dining area to tend the customers. Some acts of assistance include giving goggles to a client eating grapefruit, and helping a piglet get some food from a platter being hogged by other swine at the table. He finds his spaniel girlfriend, who is the entertainer, playing piano. The piano is animated and is having a painful key like someone having a toothache. Krazy can extract the painful key. The spaniel resumes playing her instrument as normal despite one key missing. Krazy continues tending and even entertaining the customers with a dance. When he serves a roasted bird to a plump lady, that lady is unsatisfied for some reason and tears the bill to pieces. The lady strikes Krazy with the food, causing Krazy to roll back and bump into a small table where a fish bowl falls and covers his head.