Two Gophers from Texas | |
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Merrie Melodies (Goofy Gophers) series | |
![]() The Goofy Gophers take "Little Snookie" on a long walk up a hill...just before sending him down the other end.
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Directed by | Arthur Davis |
Produced by | Eddie Selzer (uncredited) |
Story by | Bill Scott Lloyd Turner |
Voices by |
Mel Blanc Stan Freberg (uncredited) |
Music by | Carl Stalling |
Animation by | Don Williams Basil Davidovich J. C. Meléndez Emery Hawkins |
Layouts by | Don Smith |
Backgrounds by | Philip DeGuard |
Studio | Warner Bros. Cartoons |
Distributed by |
Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation |
Release date(s) | January 17, 1948 (original) March 31, 1956 (reissue) |
Color process |
Cinecolor (original) Technicolor (reissue) |
Running time | 6 minutes 49 seconds |
Preceded by | The Goofy Gophers |
Followed by | A Ham in a Role |
Two Gophers from Texas is a 1948 Merrie Melodies short starring the Goofy Gophers directed by Arthur Davis and produced by Eddie Selzer. Mel Blanc voiced the unnamed dog and Mac, while an uncredited Stan Freberg voiced Tosh. The title is a pun on Two Guys from Texas, a comedy released earlier that year from Warner Brothers, although the short has nothing to do with Texas. It would be the last Goofy Gophers cartoon produced before Davis' unit was disbanded, and the first time the Gophers would appear brown and tan.
An unnamed dog based on John Barrymore (who also appeared in The Goofy Gophers) is reading a book and decides to seek wild game, which happens to come in the form of the Goofy Gophers. After trying to get them, only to see the gophers dive into their hole and then overrun the hole and off a cliff, the dog (upside down, hanging off a tree) discovers four ways to get a gopher: