History WesternAnimation / ClawsForAlarm

''Claws for Alarm'' is a 1954 ''WesternAnimation/MerrieMelodies'' cartoon short directed by Creator/ChuckJones. It is the second cartoon in his "horror vacation" trilogy starring WesternAnimation/PorkyPig and WesternAnimation/{{Sylvester| the Cat and Tweety Bird}}, following ''WesternAnimation/ScaredyCat'' (1948) and preceding ''Jumpin' Jupiter'' (1955).

Driving his battered old car through the desert en route to Albuquerque, Porky decides to check into the abandoned – and decaying – [[HellHotel Hotel Dry Gulch]], seemingly oblivious to the fact that its "quaint and picturesque" location is, in fact, a GhostTown (something which Sylvester figures out immediately).

Despite encountering such threats as a nest of apparently murderous mice, the huge shadow of a spider, a moose's head sporting a noose and then a shotgun, a kitchen knife down the back of his fur, a bedsheet in motion, and another opening in the bedroom wall for the shotgun, [[YouHaveToBelieveMe Sylvester can’t seen to convince Porky of anything]].

* HangingAround: The mice make two attempts to hang Porky: once at the front desk, though Sylvester knocks him over before the noose can go round his neck; and once in his bedroom, leading to the NotWhatItLooksLike example below.

[[caption-width-right:350:Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam; and the deer and the antelope pl-pl... ('''KAPOW!!!'''); [[BrokenRecord and the deer and the antelope pl-pl... and the deer and the antelope pl-pl...]]]]

* PossessionPresumesGuilt: When the mice try to hang Porky while he's asleep, Sylvester quickly grabs a razor to cut the rope. Unfortunately, when Porky wakes up, he sees Sylvester has a noose around his neck and is holding a razor.

* NotWhatItLooksLike: When the mice try to hang Porky while he's asleep, Sylvester quickly grabs a razor to cut the rope. Unfortunately, when Porky wakes up, he sees Sylvester has a noose around his neck and holding a razor.

* HangingAround: The mice make two attempts to hang Porky: once at the front desk, though Sylvester knocks him over before the noose can go round his neck; and once in his bedroom, leading to the NotWhatItLooksLike example below.
* HereWeGoAgain: As the cartoon ends, we see the mice's eyes looking out from behind the gauges on Porky's car.

Edited largely intact into 1988's ''WesternAnimation/DaffyDucksQuackbusters'', with the vacation redubbed into an assignment for Porky as a ghost hunter. Excerpts were also included in 1977's ''[[HalloweenSpecial Bugs Bunny's Howl-oween Special]]'', where clips from it and 1948's ''WesternAnimation/ScaredyCat'' were combined and re-arranged as one sequence, with Witch Hazel shown as being responsible for the events as part of her Halloween trickery.

* HereWeGoAgain As the cartoon ends, we see the mice's eyes looking from behind the gauges on Porky's car.

''Claws for Alarm'' is a 1954 ''WesternAnimation/MerrieMelodies'' cartoon short directed by Creator/ChuckJones. It is the second cartoon in the “horror vacation” trilogy starring WesternAnimation/PorkyPig and WesternAnimation/{{Sylvester| the Cat and Tweety Bird}}.

Driving a battered old car through the desert en route to Albuquerque, Porky decides to check into the abandoned – and decaying – [[HellHotel Hotel Dry Gulch]], seemingly oblivious to the fact that its "quaint and picturesque" location is, in fact, a GhostTown (which Sylvester promptly figures out).

Edited largely intact into 1988's ''WesternAnimation/DaffyDucksQuackbusters'', with the vacation redubbed into an assignment for Porky as a ghost hunter. Excerpts were later included in 1977's ''Bugs Bunny's Howl-oween Special'', where it and clips from 1948's ''WesternAnimation/ScaredyCat'' were combined and re-arranged as one sequence, with Witch Hazel shown as being responsible for the events as part of her Halloween trickery.

[[caption-width-right:350:Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam; and the deer and the antelope pl-pl-- ('''KAPOW!!!'''); [[BrokenRecord and the deer and the antelope pl-pl...]]]]

''Claws for Alarm'' is a 1954 ''WesternAnimation/MerrieMelodies'' cartoon directed by Creator/ChuckJones. It is the second cartoon of the “horror vacation” trilogy with WesternAnimation/PorkyPig and WesternAnimation/{{Sylvester| the Cat and Tweety Bird}}.

Driving a battered old car en route to Albuquerque, Porky decides to check into the abandoned – and decaying – [[HellHotel Hotel Dry Gulch.]] He is completely unconcerned with the possibility that this quaint and picturesque civilization is a ghost town (which Sylvester promptly figures out).

Despite a moose with a noose and then a shotgun, a huge shadow of a spider, a kitchen knife down the back of his fur, a bedsheet in motion, and another opening in the bedroom wall for the shotgun, [[YouHaveToBelieveMe Sylvester can’t seen to convince Porky of anything]].

Still suspicious, Sylvester spends the wee hours of the morning marching around with the shotgun he wrestled out of the wall. Once dawn breaks, he stares bleary-eyed out the window, while Porky cheerfully proposes extending their stay at the hotel. Sylvester, however, will have none of it and settles the matter right then and there with one good wallop of the shotgun butt.

* PunBasedTitle: Of “cause for alarm.” It’s not an {{artifact title}}, however — at least not on Sylvester’s end.

* FridgeHorror: What happened to all the people in the town? The obvious implication is that the mice killed them all.
* HatDamage: Porky pays no never mind to the bullet hole in his sleeping cap.

Edited largely intact into 1988's ''WesternAnimation/DaffyDucksQuackbusters'', with the vacation redubbed into an assignment for Porky as a ghost hunter. Excerpts were later included in 1977's ''Bugs Bunny's Howl-oween Special'', where it and clips from 1948's ''Scaredy Cat'' were combined and re-arranged as one sequence, with Witch Hazel shown as being responsible for the events as part of her Halloween trickery.

* WingdingEyes: As Porky is loaded onto the jalopy replaying "Home on the Range" {{like a broken record}} (also see that entry), we see the other outcome of the blow he sustained from the shotgun: star-shaped pupils in his eyes.