Detouring America is a 1939Warner Bros.Merrie Melodies cartoon directed byTex Avery.^[2] The short was released as early as August 12, 1939.^[1]

A tour of the United States, with recurring checks on the progress of the human fly climbing theEmpire State Building. Also featured are jokes and gags on theEverglades, the Wyoming prairies, Alaska, a California prospector, Sioux Indians and aJerry Colonna-esque (literal) Texas cow-puncher.

• LaserDisc –The Golden Age of Looney Tunes, Volume 5, Side 2 (USA 1995 Turner print)
• DVD –Each Dawn I Die (USA 1995 Turner print added as a bonus)

• Two scenes are excised from the cartoon when aired onCartoon Network andBoomerang United States television networks due to ethnic stereotyping against Native Americans and Inuit. They are:^[3]

• The scene with a poor, black hitchhiker at the North Pole, who sings "Carry Me Back to Ol' Virginny". Then, an Eskimo sends him back by taking him all the way back to the Virginia state line.
• The scene with an Indian mother dealing with her dopey, oversized, adult son she's carrying on her back.

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