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Northwest Hounded Police is a 1946 MGM Tex Avery short, starring Droopy, or Sgt. McPoodle, as he's called here.The plot of the short is centered on Tex's recurring Wolf character, who has escaped from Alka-Fizz Prison and into the Canadian wilderness. Droopy of the North West Mounted Police is the only "volunteer" who will track him down. The rest of the short is spent on the wolf trying to escape Droopy, to no avail. Because it's a Tex Avery short, Hilarity Ensues.It's essentially a Denser and Wackier remake of the very first Droopy cartoon, 1943's Dumb-Hounded. |
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Tempting Fate |
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Tempting Fate: Wolfie once he climbs up and hides in a bird's nest. |
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Twist Ending |
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Twist Ending: Droopy wasn't offscreen teleporting—those were all his identical comrades helping him out. |
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Soft Water |
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Soft Water: Wolfie dives from a nest at the top of a cliff into a lake far below and is completely unharmed. |
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"Far Side" Island |
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"Far Side" Island: The wolf parachutes out of an airplane onto a very small island. |
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Screams Like a Little Girl |
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Screams Like a Little Girl: Wolfie at a few points, such as when he finds out that it was Droopy who threw the snowball (see image at top). |
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Crazy-Prepared |
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Crazy-Prepared: Droopy has to be a master of psychology to be able to figure out where Wolfie's gone to next. |
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Bedsheet Ladder |
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Bedsheet Ladder: Used by the wolf to scale the prison walls. |
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Driven to Suicide |
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Driven to Suicide: "That's the last straw. I give up — I'm gonna throw myself to the lions!" And the wolf jumps into a lion's stomach, only to find... |
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Born in the Theatre |
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Born in the Theatre: Wolfie nearly runs off the very film on which the short was printed. Then he runs into a movie theater and watches the beginning of an MGM animated short, which turns out to be Droopy stalking him again. |
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Travel Montage |
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Travel Montage: The old 'traveling dot on the map' variation. |
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Exaggerated Trope |
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Exaggerated Trope: At the end of the short, the Twin Switch rationalization for Offscreen Teleportation is expanded to a whole platoon of Droopys. |
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Wild Take |
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Wild Take: Pretty much half the cartoon. Some of the most over-the-top wild takes in any Avery cartoon. |
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Rapid-Fire "No!" |
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Rapid-Fire "No!": The wolf does this when Droopy pops out from under a smaller rock instead of the larger rock he thought he was going to pop out from. Later, he does this again upon seeing that the plastic surgeon made his face look like Droopy's. |
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The Cat Came Back |
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The Cat Came Back: When Droopy isn't doing flat-out Offscreen Teleportation. |
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REmake |
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Remake: This short is a remake of Droopy's debut, "Dumb-Hounded." |
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Institutional Apparel |
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Institutional Apparel: The Wolf's old-school black-and-white striped uniform. |
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Mind Screw |
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Mind Screw: Part and parcel with the medium, but in particular is when Droopy threw the snowball that he was inside. Then again, one of his clones might have thrown it. |
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Wartime Cartoon |
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Wartime Cartoon: In the original version of the cartoon, the reward for the capture of the Wolf is $1.49, as set by the Office of Price Administration (which fixed the prices of items during World War II). When the cartoon was reissued, the OPA had been disbanded, and the reference to it was removed from the Wolf's wanted poster. |
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Offscreen Teleportation |
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Offscreen Teleportation: Averted. Those are all just Droopy's lookalike comrades helping him out to catch the wolf. |
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Shout-Out |
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Shout-Out: The title is a reference to the 1940 Cecil B. DeMille movie North West Mounted Police. |
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Pun-Based Title |
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Punbased Title: On North West Mounted Police. |
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Metafictional Device |
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Metafictional Device: While rounding a corner, the wolf runs off the edge of the film frame, past the sprocket holes, into the white space beyond, and back onto the film. |
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Canada, Eh? |
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Canada, Eh?: Where most of the short takes place. |
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Stock Scream |
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Stock Scream: The famous "Tom scream", best known from the Tom and Jerry shorts, is utilized at least once by the Wolf. |
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Jaw Drop |
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Jaw Drop: One of Wolfie's wild takes has his lower jaw hit the ground. |
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Artistic License – Geography |
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Artistic License – Geography: The maps of the United States and Canada we see aren't anywhere near accurate. Especially egregious is the fact that it looks like San Francisco has been placed way up north, around where Seattle would be in the real world. |
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Behind a Stick |
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Behind a Stick: Parodied. After one of the Wolf's escape montages ends with him on a tiny island large enough for him, a rock and a pebble: |
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Got Volunteered |
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Got Volunteered: How Droopy is selected for the mission, due to everyone else stepping backwards. |
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Magic Plastic Surgery |
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Magic Plastic Surgery: Wolfie goes to a plastic surgeon to get a new face. After a few seconds of surgery (which involved hammering and sawing), the convict has a new face —that of Droopy. He asks the doctor to change it back and he does. He thanks the doctor—who turns out to be Droopy. |
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