bugssponge I usually try to avoid the 30s cartoons but some of them are real good, especially this swing one. The plot is Johnny a cat who can't swing is embarrassed by his college classmates. He sits in the classroom thinking of how to swing. When he hears a rhythm to a clock, he joins in the swing and sings a song, the girl named Kitty dances with him and they fall and Kitty kisses him. Songs like "As easy as rolling off a log", "you're an education", and "we're working our way through college" are heard. The Blue Ribbon is available on golden collection volume 3, and platinum collection volume 2, with the original 1937-38 ending cue. EXCELLENT! Definitely recommended, one of a kind film! 10/10 MERRIE MELODIES!

Edgar Allan Pooh . . . KATNIP KOLLEGE KUTUPS, and you get to the three-letter title abbreviation that sums up this Jim Crow Era animated short's homogeneous student body: KKK. It's fascinating that the infamous Looney Tunes Forbidden Eleven consists entirely of cartoons black-marked for their Sins of Commission (that is, caricaturing racial stereotypes prevalent in their day), and NOT ONE of the blacklisted shorts is tarred with the same brush for a Sin of Omission (which KATNIP KOLLEGE, with its Groupspeaking Gathering of Suburban White Kids--I mean, Kits, would be a leading candidate for Prohibition by the Self-Appointed Thought Police). It's truly sad that some cerebral runt of the litter at Warner Bros. gets to play the God of Political Correctness, and no one's marching in the street toting "All Cartoons Matter!" picket signs protesting against this anonymous Czar of Good Taste. Since it's so well known that "one person's trash in another's treasure," exactly WHY is Warner Bros. suppressing the work of mostly dead people? (The few crew members still alive when the ban went into effect pointed out that they were so PC in Real Life none of them had ever paid a nickel to see a Clippers game!)

ccthemovieman-1 If you like "swing music," and are a "young cat" at heart, you'll love this Looney Tunes animated short.At Katnp College, "swingology" is one of the subjects and the students are having a great time. The professor is hilarious and has "everyone's sonnets sounding like Kostelanetz" expect when Johnny gets up to perform. He doesn't know what to do and winds up in the corner with a dunce hat on and ostracized from the rest of the students.Later that night, the "rhythm bug" suddenly hits Johhny and now he's one cool cat.This a colorful, musical effort. How much you like it will depend what you think of the music. It's very dated, but it swings enough for me to enjoy this. The colorful clothes on all the characters was fun to see, too.

Lee Eisenberg Watching the classic Looney Tunes cartoons, one can see that they had a thing for jazz. In "Katnip Kollege", the focus is on swing music, as a feline in school can't keep time and gets made the dunce...until he figures out the beat. Even though I love the classic Looney Tunes cartoons, it always seemed to me like their musical cartoons from the '30s tried a little too hard to be cute. Of course, any emphasis on swing music is something to be acknowledged. Still, I prefer their other music-centric shorts (such as "I Love to Singa", "Three Little Bops" and "What's Opera, Doc?").Anyway, this one's worth seeing as a historical reference, if nothing else.