TheLittleSongbird One of the best and funniest cartoons seen recently. The animation is nicely stylised and fluid with expressive colours and well drawn backgrounds. Not quite as refined as other cartoons seen with somewhat of the TV animation look at times with the character designs, but it never becomes distractingly bad. The music is energetic and characterful, adding so much to the action as well as sounding great. Always one of the best things about a Warner Bros cartoon and not a disappointment at all in this regard in Dough Ray Me-Ow. The story is crisply paced and amusing though with Louie's attempts to kill Heathcliff deliciously dark. While the writing is fresh and witty, the banter between the two characters is a joy to hear and highlighted by the brilliant one-man show vocals of Mel Blanc, and the gags are hilarious to the point you're in hysterics while watching and after(the cracking nuts, dynamite, birth certificate and ending fare the best). Louie and especially Heathcliff carry the cartoon wonderfully and while an unlikely pairing are vastly entertaining in chemistry, they are not the best characters but are underrated ones that deserved to be much more than one-shot. Their personalities range from almost sadistic to very stupid, but the writing helps them to be endearing in their own right. To conclude, a truly great cartoon and has great entertainment value, one of the better and funnier cartoons seen personally in about a month or so. 10/10 Bethany Cox

slymusic Directed by Arthur Davis, "Dough Ray Me-ow" is a really good Warner Bros. cartoon starring an unlikely team: Louie, a wiseacre parrot, and Heathcliff, the world's dopiest cat (yes, even dopier than Sylvester and Claude). Both characters benefit from the brilliant vocal talents of Mel Blanc.My three favorite scenes from "Dough Ray Me-ow": A.) Heathcliff's face turns purple because he forgets to breathe. B.) Heathcliff pretends he's a radio and listens to some funny flatulent sounds. C.) Funniest of all, Louie chases Heathcliff all over the house in attempting to give him a birthday cake with three candles and one stick of dynamite, trying to convince him that he's four years old.You can find "Dough Ray Me-ow" along with a bunch of other feline-related cartoons on the Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 4 Disc 4. Too bad the ending of this short is pretty lame, isn't it?

ccthemovieman-1 The first shot we see is parrot reading a book called "Rooster's Millions," (a pun on "Brewster's Millions.). Anway, the whatever the title, it aptly fits the story here. The parrot's name is "Louie," by the way, another Mel Blanc character with a strong Brooklyn accent."Heathcliff the cat" is the other main character and this fat cat is about as dumb as a brick. He gives Louie a sheet a paper he found and asks the parrot to read it for him. It reads, "Last will and testament: I leave one million dollars to my pet cat Heathcliff. In the event of his disappearance, the money goes to my pet bird, Louie."This actually was better than I thought, thinking that Heathcliff would act so stupid this cartoon would be dumb, but it isn't. Heathcliff is so stupid, he's funny. He's so good-hearted you have to root for him. No matter what the greedy parrot does to plan his demise, of course, it backfires. The sight gags are very, very funny.I've seen a similar story with "Droopy," in which Spike tried to get the inheritance money but Droopy was a lot smarter than Heathcliff, and the cartoon had a better ending than this one. Still, this one had its moments.

Robert Reynolds There are quite a few shorts which have been made that were modeled on the characters of George and Lenny from Of Mice and Men and this cartoon is along those lines-with a modification in the standard riff played in such cartoons. As I want to talk specifically about parts of this short, this is a spoiler warning: Heathcliff is possibly the most moronic character to show up in cartoons-and that's saying something. Heathcliff has to be told to BREATHE at one point by his "friend", a parrot by the name of Louie. Heathcliff is a very large cat. Why Heathcliff doesn't introduce Louie to his digestive system can only be blamed on the fact that he clearly has only one active brain cell.The start of the cartoon has Heathcliff rushing in to have Louie solve various problems, much to the exasperation of Louie. Then Louie reads to Heathcliff "what is on this pretty paper" Heathcliff brings to his attention-it's a will leaving a million dollars to Heathcliff, with an addendum which gives the money to Louie if something happens to Heathcliff. Greed jumps on Louie's head and he decides to make something happen. Louie isn't exactly a Rhodes scholar himself, because all he has to do is just stop helping Heathcliff and the cat will give up the ghost inside of two hours, tops.There are a bunch of hilarious sight gags involving Heathcliff and eating (and cracking) nuts. Louie's attempts on Heathcliff's life are as funny as they are unsuccessful. He tries to electrocute him by having him play a game of "Radio", tries to bribe a bulldog into taking Heathcliff out and so on, with zero success.Finally, he tells Heathcliff it's his birthday and gives him a cake with three candles and a stick of dynamite. Heathcliff decides he's only three years old and gives Louie the stick of dynamite. There follows a lengthy tug of war between the two regarding his age until Heathcliff finds his birth certificate and it says he's four.The ending is hilarious and I won't spoil it here. This short is available on Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 4 and is well worth seeing. Recommended.