If you are an American classic cartoon fan (Bugs Bunny, Road Runner, etc) then you might be able to help me with this. Trying to remember even the title has bugged me for years.


Daffy Duck (I believe) is the manager of a hotel. A man (who I think was not a regular character) signs in and goes up to his room where he finds a mouse (not Speedy Gonzales.)

He calls down to the manager who tells him the mouse will be removed for a small fee (I'll say $5.) The man pays and a cat is sent to the room which scares off the mouse, but now the cat won't leave. He calls up again; the removal of the cat will be at a higher fee (maybe $10.) He pays and the cycle continues. Next comes a dog, then either one or two more animals, all the while the fee is getting higher. Then elephant gets sent which ends up filling the entire room. To get rid of it, the manager says to place (I'll say $10,000) into a slot in the room, and the money comes pouring out a tube next to the manager's desk. He then sends a mouse via (I believe) an air pipe and it scares the elephant away.

Lastly you see the man sleeping in the now-destroyed room, no longer concerned about the new mouse.

Yea... even if I was wrong about the characters, Merrie Melodies (and therein WB) were 90% of the cartoons I watched growing up, so it's a good assumption that is where it came from.

The list is a start at least. Thanks

Thank goodness for Google .. ( "A high school English teacher ... recently Googled a phrase in one student's paper and found it had been taken from a sample essay of an online editing service" ) ... LOL


BTW  Mel  Blanc did all the voices... !!

I have that cartoon from the Golden Collection series, let me scan through my Daffy Duck folder on my NAS and see what I can find.

There's a nice throwaway pun on the sign Porky passes at the beginning:

Coopdeville 1/2 Mile

I am frustrated by the Golden sets... too much Speedy Gonzales, too little Marvin Martian.

Where's the definitive/complete Marvin DVD?