History WesternAnimation / DoughRayMeOw

"Dough Ray Me-ow" is a 1948 ''WesternAnimation/MerrieMelodies'' animated short directed by Creator/ArtDavis.

[[TheDitz A dopey]] [[BuffoonishTomcat cat]] named Heathcliff is set to inherit a million dollars, which will revert [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter to his "pal"]] [[UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist Louie the parrot]] should he die. This leads Louie to come up with all sorts of schemes to bump off [[TheFool the cat.]]

* BombDisposal: When Heathcliff gives Louie the dynamite "candle", he frantically and fruitlessly tries to extinguish the fuse.

One of Literature/The100GreatestLooneyTunes.

* BullyBulldog: Louie pays a bulldog to pretend to attack him and then beat up Heathcliff when he comes out to help. Instead, it's ''Louie'' who gets beaten by the cat.
* BuffoonishTomcat: The lunkheaded Heathcliff, due to him being a [[DumbMuscle Dumb-Muscle type character]], he is also prone to some of the slapstick in the short, [[ImpliedTrope was implied]] to be [[TheKlutz klutzy]], is [[TheFool very unsuspecting]] and goofy at that.

'''''Dough Ray Me-ow''''' is a 1948 ''WesternAnimation/MerrieMelodies'' animated short directed by Creator/ArtDavis.

!!Tropes:

-->'''Louie:''' It's too bad you're going, Heathcliff. Because if you ''weren't'' going, you would inherit one million bucks! And you can't take it with you, you know!
-->''(Life #9 whistles to the others, and they all go back down)''
-->'''Heathcliff:''' D'ah, well, if I can't take it with me, I'm not goin'.

[[TheDitz An dopey]] [[BuffoonishTomcat cat]] named Heathcliff is set to inherit a million dollars, which will revert [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter to his "pal"]] [[UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist Louie the parrot]] should he die. This leads Louie to come up with all sorts of schemes to bump off [[TheFool the cat.]]

** Louie the parrot tricking Heathcliff into sticking electric wires in his ears by saying it's a radio, only for Heathcliff to actually get radio transmissions through his ears (while Louie does the same thing and gets electrocuted)
** Louie then tricks Heathcliff into walking along railroad tracks with a can over his head -- and Heathcliff derailing the train and somehow surviving.
* BullyBulldog: Louie pays a bulldog to pretend to attack him and then beat up Heathcliff when he comes out to help. Instead, it's ''he'' who gets beaten by the cat.
* BuffoonishTomcat: The lunkheaded Heathcliff, due to him being an [[DumbMuscle Dumb-Muscle type character]], he is also prone to some of the slapstick in the short, [[ImpliedTrope was implied]] to be [[TheKlutz klutzy]], is [[TheFool very unsuspecting]] & goofy at that.
* CatsHaveNineLives: After getting blown by dynamite, Heatcliff's nine lives start leaving him... until Louie gloats to him about the inheritance.

* CatsHaveNineLives: After getting blown by dynamite, Heatcliff's nine lives start leaving him...until Louie gloats to him about the inheritance.

* InheritanceMurder: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] with Louie where Heathcliff [[TooDumbToLive nearly dies because of his moronitude]], but [[TheFool Heathcliff]] comes back to life when Louie reveals why he won't take any money with him.

%%* InheritanceMurder

[[caption-width-right:350: [[{{InsaneTrollLogic}} I'm only tree-an-a-half years old!]]]]

* InheritanceMurder

A [[TheDitz dopey]] [[BuffoonishTomcat cat]] named Heathcliff is set to inherit a million dollars, which will revert [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter to his "pal"]] [[UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist Louie the parrot]] should he die. This leads Louie to come up with all sorts of schemes [[TheFool to bump off the cat.]]

* BuffoonishTomcat: The lunkheaded Heathcliff, due to him being an [[DumbMuscle Dumb-Muscle character]], he is also prone to some of the slapstick in the short, [[ImpliedTrope was implied]] to be [[TheKlutz klutzy]], is very [[TheFool unsuspecting]] & goofy at that.

* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: Louie the Parrot, who first comes off as patronizing and [[IntelligenceEqualsIsolation reclusive]] when Heathcliff stumbles around in his accident-prone nature, and he becomes an [[SmugSnake Smug Snake]] when trying to sell Heathcliff for his greedy, money-hungry benefit.

'''''Dough Ray Me-ow''''' is a 1948 ''WesternAnimation/MerrieMelodies'' animated short directed by Arthur Davis.

* BuffoonishTomcat: The lunkheaded Heathcliff, due to him being an [[DumbMuscle Dumb-Muscle character]], he is also prone to some of the slapstick in the short, was shown to be [[TheKlutz klutzy]], is very [[TheFool unsuspecting]] & goofy at that.

[[caption-width-right:350:I'm only tree-an-a-half years old!]]

A dopey cat named Heathcliff is set to inherit a million dollars, which will revert to his "pal" Louie the parrot should he die. This leads Louie to come up with all sorts of schemes to bump off the cat.

* BuffoonishTomcat: The lunkheaded Heathcliff, due to him being an [[DumbMuscle Dumb Muscle character]], he is also prone to slapstick, was shown to be [[TheKlutz klutzy]] and is very [[TheFool unsuspecting]] & goofy at that.

* BuffoonishTomcat: Heathcliff, due to him being an [[DumbMuscle Dumb Muscle character]], he is also prone to slapstick and is very goofy at that.

* DumbMuscle: Heathcliff, who manages to beat up a bulldog who is "attacking" Louie and later manages to destroy a train just by standing in its way.

* ShoutOut: The short opens with Louie reading the book ''[[Literature/BrewstersMillions Rooster's Millions]]''.

* HotPotato: Occurs when Louie tries to kill up Heathcliff with a birthday cake with a lit stick of dynamite hidden alongside three red candles. Heathcliff insists that he's three and tries to give the "candle" back to Louie, leading to a game of hot potato until Heathcliff looks at his birth certificate and realizes he ''is'' four, taking it back and getting blown up.

* CatsHaveNineLives: After getting blown by dynamite, Heatcliff's nine lives start leaving him

-->''(the ninth life whistles to the others, and they all go back down)''

* ShoutOut: The short opens with Louie reading the book ''[[Series/BrewstersMillions Rooster's Millions]]''.