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* ProducePelting: The fox performing Hamlet gets a tomato in the face three times, with the third one pausing in mid-air when he unsuccessfully tries to avoid it.
** The host also gets hit by a tomato when introducing the balcony scene from ''Romeo and Juliet''. Apparently, there's a Shakespeare hater in the audience.

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* ProducePelting: The fox performing Hamlet Theatre/{{Hamlet}} gets a tomato in the face three times, with the third one pausing in mid-air when he unsuccessfully tries to avoid it.
** The host also gets hit by a tomato when introducing the balcony scene from ''Romeo and Juliet''.''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet''. Apparently, there's a Shakespeare hater in the audience.

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* CreatorCameo: Tex Avery provides the voice of the laughing hippo and this isn't the first time he's voiced a character with that laugh.

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* BlackComedy: Swami River's act is to put an audience member inside a basket and then run swords through it. Swami then asks the guy inside to arise, but he doesn't. Swami peeks inside... and goes "tsk, tsk", then hands the basket to an usher and tells him to give the victim his money back.
* CreatorCameo: Tex Avery provides the voice of the laughing hippo hippo, and this isn't the first time he's voiced a character with that laugh.



* ProducePelting: The fox performing Hamlet gets a tomato in the face three times, with the third one pausing in mid air when he unsuccessfully tries to avoid it.
* PunnyName: Swami River sounds like Swampy River.

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* ProducePelting: The fox performing Hamlet gets a tomato in the face three times, with the third one pausing in mid air mid-air when he unsuccessfully tries to avoid it.
** The host also gets hit by a tomato when introducing the balcony scene from ''Romeo and Juliet''. Apparently, there's a Shakespeare hater in the audience.
* PunnyName: Swami River sounds like Swampy River.Swanee River.
* RunningGag: Egghead interrupting the show by running on stage and singing "She'll Be Comin' 'Round the Mountain" before being given the hook.
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* TheHyena: The Hippo.

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* TheHyena: The Hippo.Hippo, even when nothing funny is happening on stage.



* VaudevilleHook: Happens to Egghead three times, each time adding an additional cane.

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* VaudevilleHook: Happens to Egghead three times, each time adding an additional cane.hook.
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* OneManBand: A BaitAndSwitch is done with the orchestra as the conductor plays all the instruments and the band conduct him with batons.

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* OneManBand: A BaitAndSwitch is done with the orchestra as the conductor plays all the instruments and the band conduct conducts him with batons.
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* TrapDoor: Most of the contestants fall through one when their acts flop.
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* StageMagician: Swampy River, though his magic act does not go as planned.

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* StageMagician: Swampy Swami River, though his magic act does not go as planned.
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* VocalDissonance: The actress playing Juliet shares the Hippo's AnnoyingLaugh.

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* VocalDissonance: The actress playing Juliet shares the Hippo's AnnoyingLaugh.AnnoyingLaugh.
* VaudevilleHook: Happens to Egghead three times, each time adding an additional cane.
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* TalkingAnimal: The theater's show is presented by [[Creator/WarnerBros Warmer Bros.]]
* {{Tuckerization}}:

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* TalkingAnimal: The dog in the dog act when told to speak.
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The theater's show is presented by [[Creator/WarnerBros Warmer Bros.]]
* {{Tuckerization}}:
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[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hamatuer_night_3.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:'' ♪ She'll be be coming around the mountain when she comes... ♪ '']]

A 1939 WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes cartoon directed by Creator/TexAvery with frequent cameos by Egghead (the prototype WesternAnimation/ElmerFudd)

Wackiness ensues as a local theater presents an amateur night talent show.
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* AnnoyingLaugh: The Hippo in the audience.
* CreatorCameo: Tex Avery provides the voice of the laughing hippo and this isn't the first time he's voiced a character with that laugh.
* FurryConfusion: There's a dog act and at the same time there are multiple anthropomorphic dogs in the short, including the host.
* GainaxEnding: Egghead wins the talent show, but only because the audience now consists of nothing but Egghead clones.
* TheHyena: The Hippo.
* LionsAndTigersAndHumansOhMy: Everyone in this short is a FunnyAnimal with the exception of Egghead and Swami River the Hindu Mystic.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The actress playing Juliet talks like Creator/KatharineHepburn.
* OneManBand: A BaitAndSwitch is done with the orchestra as the conductor plays all the instruments and the band conduct him with batons.
* ProducePelting: The fox performing Hamlet gets a tomato in the face three times, with the third one pausing in mid air when he unsuccessfully tries to avoid it.
* PunnyName: Swami River sounds like Swampy River.
* StageMagician: Swampy River, though his magic act does not go as planned.
* StandardSnippet: "Where, Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone?" plays during the dog act.
* TheStoic: The host talks in a flat, dull voice throughout and only shows emotion at the very end when he sees the audience is filled with Egghead clones.
* TalkingAnimal: The theater's show is presented by [[Creator/WarnerBros Warmer Bros.]]
* {{Tuckerization}}:
* WarmHeartedWalrus: The dog trainer is a friendly looking walrus.
* VocalDissonance: The actress playing Juliet shares the Hippo's AnnoyingLaugh.

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