History WesternAnimation / HappyHarmonies

* StockFootage: "Bosko's Parlor Pranks" is basically nothing but recycled animation from the earlier Bosko cartoons, done by Harman And Ising in order to fulfill their yearly quota of shorts.

Produced in Technicolor (although the first two were in Cinecolor), these cartoons were the duos answer to Creator/WaltDisney's WesternAnimation/SillySymphonies. They would occasionally feature their star character WesternAnimation/{{Bosko|TheTalkInkKid}}, a character who starred in the first WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes shorts that the duo produced for Leon Schlesinger. After the first few releases, the design of Bosko changed from an ink blot to a realistic African American boy. 36 cartoons were made in this series.

* ArtEvolution: The early cartoons were basically just more polished versions of Harman-Ising's Warner Bros. cartoons (i.e. rubber hose limbs, circular, simplistic character designs with more design details and the obvious addition of color), but art studies and research allowed their cartoons to go in a more illustration like direction (comparing Bosko in "Parlor Pranks" and "Run Sheep Run" especially highlights this transition) and by the end of the series, they settled on a more streamlined, flexible drawing style not unlike what Disney was using, something that would transition into Harman-Isings later WesternAnimation/MGMOneshotCartoons.

* BadassBaritone: The villain of "To Spring", Old Man Winter, has a very deep, booming voice.

* SeldomSeenSpecies: The bobcat in "Poor Little Me."

* To Spring (1936): Notable for being the directorial debut of [[Creator/HannaBarbera William Hanna]].

* ShoutOut: "Toyland Broadcast" is loaded with rerefences to famous radio stars of the time, including The Brox Sisters, Music/BingCrosby, the Mills Brothers, Kate Smith, the Boswell Sisters, Paul Whiteman, Rudy Vallee, Rubinoff and Ethel Waters.

* WesternAnimation/TheOldMillPond (1936): Academy Award nominee.

* ArtEvolution: The early cartoons were basically just more polished versions of Harman-Ising's Warner Bros. cartoons (i.e. rubberlose limbs, circular, simplistic character designs with more design details and the obvious addition of color), but art studies and research allowed their cartoons to go in a more illustration like direction (comparing Bosko in "Parlor Pranks" and "Run Sheep Run" especially highlights this transition) and by the end of the series, they settled on a more streamlined, flexible drawing style not unlike what Disney was using, something that would transition into Harman-Isings later WesternAnimation/MGMOneshotCartoons.

** "The Early Bird and the Worm" features two crows whose personalities and gag routine are based on the then-famous comedians George Moran and Charles Mack. Calling themselves "The Two Black Crows" (the obvious inspiration for portraying them as crows), Moran and Mack were famous for a sketch in which they questioned how the early bird caught the worm. The Harman-Ising spoof put them literally into the situation as birds.

* FatCat: The bobcat in "Poor Little Me".

* AscendedExtra: The unnamed protagonist mouse of the short "Alias St. Nick" would go on to star in two shorts of his own (one in this series, "Little Cheeser", and another ("Little Buck Cheeser") in the WesternAnimation/MGMOneshotCartoons, after this series folded).

** "The Early Bird and the Worm" features two crows whose personalities and gag routine are based on the then-famous comedians George Moran and Charles Mack. Calling themselves "The Two Black Crows" (the obvious inspiration for portraying them as actual crows), the African-American Moran and Mack were famous for a sketch in which they questioned how the early bird caught the worm. The Harman-Ising spoof put them literally into the situation as birds.

** "The Early Bird and the Worm" features two crows, who have personalities that are obviously based off of the then-famous radio stars Amos 'N Andy.

* The Old Mill Pond (1936): Academy Award nominee.

* The Calico Dragon (1935): UsefulNotes/AcademyAward nominee.

** Footage of two French Dolls on a piano in "Toyland Broadcast" is recycled from an early Merrie Melodies short "It's Got Me Again!", complete with reusing the same "Apache Dance" music cue.

Produced in Technicolor (although the first two were in Cinecolor), these cartoons were the duos answer to Creator/WaltDisney's SillySymphonies. They would occasionally feature their star character WesternAnimation/{{Bosko|TheTalkInkKid}}, a character who starred in the first WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes shorts that the duo produced for Leon Schlesinger. After the first few releases, the design of Bosko changed from an ink blot to a realistic African American boy. 36 cartoons were made in this series.

''Happy Harmonies'' is a series of animated cartoons distributed by MetroGoldwynMayer and produced by former Creator/{{Disney}} and Creator/WarnerBros employees [[Creator/HarmanAndIsing Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising]] between [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation 1934 and 1938]].

Produced in Technicolor (although the first two were in Cinecolor), these cartoons were the duos answer to Creator/WaltDisney's SillySymphonies. They would occasionally feature their star character [[WesternAnimation/BoskoTheTalkInkKid Bosko]], a character who starred in the first WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes shorts that the duo produced for Leon Schlesinger. After the first few releases, the design of Bosko changed from an ink blot to a realistic African American boy. 36 cartoons were made in this series.

* The Chinese Nightengale (1935)

* To Spring (1936): Notable for being the directorial debut of [[Creator/HannaBarbera William Hanna.]]

* {{Bowdlerise}}: When it was aired on TV, "Toyland Broadcast" has a large chunk of its running time cut off to eliminate the lengthy ministrel show and sambo band sequences, which reduces the edited versions running time to 4 minutes.

* EvilWitch: A ceramic one briefly appears during the climax of "Bottles", complete with a typical black outfit, pointy hat and a black cat, and using magic to summon the "Spirits of Ammonia".

* PreciousPuppies: The shorts starring the Two Little Pups.

* PublicDomainSoundtrack: "Tales of the Vienna Woods" uses the eponymous Johann Strauss waltz as it's foundation.

** In "Poor Little Me"; The bobcat's "I'll Be Glad When You're Dead, You Rascal You" ditty is a direct reference to the same song by Music/LouisArmstrong.

* StandardSnippet: in "Poor Little Me", When the Bobcat is burying his now stinky clothes, a snippet of Chopin's "Funeral March" plays.

* AlternateCompanyEquivalent: The line as a whole was one to Disney's ''WesternAnimation/SillySymphonies'', and "Honeyland" is a bee-themed version of the Silly Symphony "The Spider and the Fly."

* {{Cumulonemesis}}: Old Man Winter from "To Spring", who is personified as a giant snow cloud with a face, beard and arms, who uses his strong wintery gale to keep the underground gnomes from bringing back spring by melting winter away.