Line #25 WesternAnimation/NorthwestHoundedPolice


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2	[[caption-width-right:320:Just one of Wolfie's many [[WildTake wild takes]].]]
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4	''Northwest Hounded Police'' is a [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation 1946]] Creator/{{MGM}} [[WesternAnimation/TexAveryMGMCartoons Tex Avery short]], starring WesternAnimation/{{Droopy}}, or Sgt. [=McPoodle=], as he's called here.
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6	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 Creator/TexAvery short, HilarityEnsues.
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8	It's essentially a DenserAndWackier remake of the very first Droopy cartoon, 1943's ''WesternAnimation/DumbHounded''.
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11	!!Tropes Used In This Short:
12	* ArtisticLicenseGeography: 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.
13	* BedsheetLadder: Used by the wolf to scale the prison walls.
14	* BehindAStick: 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:
15	-->'''Wolf:''' ''([[NoFourthWall to the camera]], snarkily)'' Yeah, I know. ''(points to the rock)'' He'll probably be right under that rock.
16	-->'''Droopy:''' ''([[InstantlyProvenWrong emerging from beneath the pebble that's smaller than his hat]])'' Nope, under ''this'' one.
17	-->'''Wolf:''' ''([[VillainousBreakdown has nervous breakdown]])'' Oh no! No no no no no! Not that please! ''(Bashing his head with the rock)'' No no no no no no!
18	* BornInTheTheatre: 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.
19	-->'''Droopy:''' Hello, Joe.
20	* Advertising/BurmaShave: This is how Wolfie learns about Sergeant [=McPoodle=]:
21	-->Don't look now
22	-->Use your noodle
23	-->You're being followed
24	-->By Sergeant [=McPoodle=]
25	* TheCatCameBack: When Droopy isn't doing flat-out OffscreenTeleportation.
26	* CrazyPrepared: Droopy has to be a master of psychology to be able to figure out where Wolfie's gone to next.
27	* DrivenToSuicide: "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...
28	-->'''Droopy:''' Crowded, isn't it?
29	* ExaggeratedTrope: At the end of the short, [[spoiler:the TwinSwitch [[DoingInTheWizard rationalization]] for OffscreenTeleportation is expanded to a whole platoon of Droopys]].
30	* FarSideIsland: The wolf parachutes out of an airplane onto a very small island.
31	* GotVolunteered: How Droopy is selected for the mission, due to everyone else stepping backwards.
32	* InstitutionalApparel: The Wolf's old-school black-and-white striped uniform.
33	* JawDrop: One of Wolfie's wild takes has his lower jaw hit the ground.
34	* MagicPlasticSurgery: 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.
35	* MetafictionalDevice: 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.
36	* MindScrew: Part and parcel with the medium, but in particular is when Droopy threw the snowball ''that he was inside''. [[spoiler: Then again, one of his clones might have thrown it.]]
37	* MooseAndMapleSyrup: Most of this short takes place in Canada.
38	* OffscreenTeleportation: [[spoiler:Averted. Those are all just Droopy's lookalike comrades helping him out to catch the wolf.]]
39	* ParasolParacute: When the wolf jumps out of a plane to avoid Droopy, he uses the parachute he's wearing-- which turns out to be Droopy holding a very small umbrella and the wolf's harness. Then Droopy lets go of the harness.
40	* PunBasedTitle: On ''North West '''M'''ounted Police''.
41	* RapidFireNo: 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.
42	* {{Remake}}: This short is a remake of Droopy's debut, ''Dumb-Hounded.''
43	* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: Wolfie at a few points, such as when he finds out that it was Droopy who threw the snowball (see image at top).
44	* ShoutOut: The title is a reference to the 1940 Creator/CecilBDeMille movie ''North West Mounted Police''.
45	* SoftWater: Wolfie dives from a nest at the top of a cliff into a lake far below and is completely unharmed.
46	* StockScream: The famous "Tom scream", best known from the WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry shorts, is utilized at least once by the Wolf.
47	* TemptingFate: Wolfie once he climbs up and hides in a bird's nest.
48	-->'''Wolfie:''' He'll never find me here. I'll bet a million bucks he won't.\
49	'''Droopy:''' ''(pops out of the nearby egg, holding a wad of cash)'' You're covered, Joe.
50	* TravelMontage: The old 'traveling dot on the map' variation.
51	* TwistEnding: [[spoiler:Droopy wasn't offscreen teleporting—those were all his identical comrades helping him out.]]
52	* WartimeCartoon: 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 UsefulNotes/WorldWarII). When the cartoon was reissued, the OPA had been disbanded, and the reference to it was removed from the Wolf's wanted poster.
53	* WildTake: Pretty much half the cartoon. Some of the most over-the-top wild takes in any Avery cartoon.

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