Buddy's Day Out

Buddy's Day Out
Looney Tunes (Buddy) series
A screenshot of the cartoon.
Directed by	Tom Palmer (as "Supervision")
Produced by	Leon Schlesinger
Voices by	Jack Carr Bernice Hansen (both uncredited)
Music by	Norman Spencer Bernard Brown
Animation by	Bill Mason
Studio	Leon Schlesinger Productions
Distributed by	Warner Bros. The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date(s)	September 9, 1933 (USA)
Color process	Black-and-white
Running time	7 minutes
Language	English
Preceded by	None (first in Buddy series); Bosko's Picture Show (1933)
Followed by	Buddy's Beer Garden (1933)

Buddy's Day Out is an American animated short film released by Warner Bros. on September 9, 1933. It is the first Looney Tunes cartoon to feature Buddy, the second star of the series who was created by Earl Duvall. It was directed by former Disney animator Tom Palmer, who was shortly thereafter fired from the studio. It was the first cartoon produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions, the successor to Harman-Ising Productions. Musical direction was by Norman Spencer and Bernard B. Brown.

Viewers are first silently introduced to the hero of the film, Buddy; his sweetheart, Cookie; Cookie's baby brother, Elmer; and a dog called Happy. The scene shifts to Cookie giving Elmer a bath and becoming quite wet in the process. Meanwhile, Buddy merrily washes his car (the word "Asthma" strewn across it) with a hose, and steps away for a moment, leaving Happy the Dog alone to bark at the device and clamp on to it with his teeth: as the hose loses steady control, the car is blasted clean, but loses its roof; Buddy takes notice and shuts the hose.

Cookie soon readies herself for a date with Buddy, whom she calls when she has adequately prepared. Buddy happily tries to start his vehicle so that he might pick up Cookie, but the car begins moving in reverse. The car proceeds to smash through doghouses, clothes lines, and a greenhouse, and, because of the latter, arrives at Cookie's house with a decorative arrangement of flowers. Cookie is well pleased with the flowers.

Buddy suddenly arrives and holds the car door for Cookie. The date begins; with Baby Elmer in the back seat, Buddy and Cookie set off on a picnic. As they drive, Happy the Dog tails behind, finally brought to the back seat by Elmer. The car loses control for a bit on the country road, but is felicitously stopped, by a log, at an ideal picnic site.