Line #11 WesternAnimation/BartholomewVersusTheWheel


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3	"Bartholomew Versus the Wheel" is a 1964 ''[[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Merrie Melodies]]'' short directed by Creator/RobertMcKimson.
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5	A young boy (voiced by Leslie Barringer) tells the story of how his dog Bartholomew developed a seething hatred towards wheels after his tail gets run over by a scooter. As he grew bigger and bigger, he took the wheels off of more and more vehicles.
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7	When Bartholomew tries to take an airplane wheel, however, he gets sent to a desert country where there are no wheels to chase due to everyone riding on animals. Back in America, the owner and the entire town try to look for the dog, who hitches another airplane ride the same way he came to the desert country. The town celebrates his return, and Bartholomew had grown to like wheels, and begins to hate what dogs are supposed to hate - cats.
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9	It is the second short to use the abstract [=WB=] intro and outro from Creator/ChuckJones' "WesternAnimation/NowHearThis".
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12	!!"Bartholomew Versus the Wheel" provides examples of:
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14	* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Of the people in the desert country, the narrator says they didn't look at Bartholomew, they didn't pet Bartholomew, and some of them didn't wear clothes.
15	* ArtShift: Unlike other ''Looney Tunes'' shorts, this short uses [[LimitedAnimation a more simplistic style]] based on the art of Creator/JamesThurber.
16	* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: The male desert natives' dialogue. They say about Bartholomew, "Ooh la mongrah!"
17	* CatsAreMean: The boy's cat is particularly cruel towards Bartholomew, stealing his food and performing a trick better than him. [[TheDogBitesBack The tables turn at the end of the short, though.]]
18	* {{Determinator}}: After Bartholomew fails to get an airplane wheel the first time, the narrator notes the dog never gives up. He tries again and suffers for his refusal to back down.
19	* EnmityWithAnObject: Getting his tail run over by a scooter makes Bartholomew develop a hatred of wheels.
20	* FreudianExcuse: Bartholomew's tail got run over when he was just a puppy.
21	* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: Bartholomew taking a wheel off the scooter that actually injured him could be considered fair, but he immediately follows this up by attacking some other kid's toy train and continues on from there.
22	* LaserGuidedKarma: After his awful behavior at the start of the short, the cat literally gets scared to pieces by the much larger Bartholomew.
23	* NobodysThatDumb: The only wheels Bartholomew doesn't chase are the dogcatcher's wheels.
24	* NotMeThisTime: When everyone begins looking for the missing Bartholomew, an angry mob is shown hassling the dogcatcher (who, according to the narrator, insisted he had not seen the dog).
25	* PayEvilUntoEvil: In the end, Bartholomew gets back at the cat and smiles in satisfaction over it.
26	* SerialEscalation: As he grows up, Bartholomew goes after bigger and bigger wheels. Finally, he goes after an airplane's wheel, which proves to be his undoing.
27	* TenderTears: Bartholomew when seeing a poster of America and getting homesick.

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