Line #5 WesternAnimation/DoughRayMeOw


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2	[[caption-width-right:350: [[InsaneTrollLogic I'm only tree-an-a-half years old!]]]]
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4	"Dough Ray Me-ow" is a 1948 ''[[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Merrie Melodies]]'' animated short directed by Creator/ArtDavis.
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6	[[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]].
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9	!!"Dough Ray Me-ow" provides examples of:
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11	* BombDisposal: When Heathcliff gives Louie the [[DynamiteCandle dynamite "candle"]], he frantically and fruitlessly tries to extinguish the fuse.
12	* {{Bowdlerization}}: When this short aired on FOX's ''The Merrie Melodies Show'' and on Nickelodeon's ''Looney Tunes on Nickelodeon'', two scenes of dangerous, imitable activity[[note]]read: any kind of gag that can easily be imitated in real life -- often with tragic results[[/note]] were edited:
13	** 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).
14	** Louie then tricks Heathcliff into walking along railroad tracks with a can over his head -- and Heathcliff derails the train and somehow survives.
15	* BullyBulldog: Louie pays a bulldog to pretend to attack him and then beat up Heathcliff when he comes out to help. Instead, Heathcliff thrashes the bulldog.
16	* BuffoonishTomcat: The lunkheaded Heathcliff, due to him being DumbMuscle, (implied) TheKlutz, and TheFool.
17	* CatsHaveNineLives: After getting blown by dynamite, Heathcliff's nine lives start leaving him... until Louie gloats to him about the inheritance.
18	-->'''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!\
19	''[Life #9 whistles to the others, and they all go back down]''\
20	'''Heathcliff:''' D'ah, well, if I can't take it with me, I'm not goin'.
21	* CutTheFuse: Louie tries to disarm a stick of dynamite by cutting off the top of the fuse with a pair of scissors; [[RuleOfFunny against all logic]], no matter how many times he cuts off the fuse, it just keeps continuing to spark further down the stick.
22	* DumbIsGood: Heathcliff, an utter blockhead, but is very friendly and was shown to be caring towards [[SmugSnake Louie]].
23	* DumbMuscle: Also 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.
24	* DunkingTheBomb: Louie tries to dunk the dynamite stick in water to douse the fuse. The stick comes out limp and soggy, but quickly straightens itself and the fuse relights.
25	* HarmlessElectrocution: Louie tries to get Heathcliff to stick some electrical wires in his ears by saying they're going to "play radio", only for the cat to actually picks up radio music. Louie, in utter disbelief, decides to try it on himself and, well...
26	* HotPotato: Occurs when Louie tries to kill up Heathcliff with a birthday cake with [[DynamiteCandle 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.
27	* GreenAndMean: Also [[UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist Louie]].
28	* InheritanceMurder: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] with Louie where Heathcliff was [[TooDumbToFool oblivious to Louie's acts of murdering him]] because of Heathcliff's [[InsaneTrollLogic bizarre if childish logic]] & [[TooDumbToLive nearly dies because of his massive moronitude]], but [[TheFool Heathcliff]] comes back to life with his nine lives when Louie reveals why he won't take any money with him with gloating.
29	* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: Louie the Parrot, who first comes off as grumpy, 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.
30	* RailroadTracksOfDoom: Louie leads a blinded Heathcliff into walking onto tracks in hopes that an oncoming train would do him in. The train ends up derailed and totaled, but Heathcliff emerges completely unscathed.
31	-->'''Heathcliff:''' I done a ''baaaad'' thing.
32	* RunningGag: Heathcliff trying to crack open nuts in increasingly harmful ways.
33	* ShoutOut: The short opens with Louie reading the book ''Rooster's Millions'', a play on ''Literature/BrewstersMillions'', which is also about an inheritance causing trouble.
34	* TooDumbToLive: Heathcliff being TheFool that he is, he does many acts no sane person would do. [[spoiler: He nearly died at the very end, but his nine lives came back after Louie told him why Heathcliff will be inherited for one million bucks for himself.]]
35	* WilliamTelling: Louie tries to kill Heathcliff by inviting him to play "William Tell" and firing an arrow to hit a tiny apple on his head. Unfortunately for him, he ''doesn't'' miss.

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