Flop Goes the Weasel is a 1943 Warner Bros.Merrie Melodies cartoon directed byChuck Jones.[4] The short was originally released on March 20, 1943.[5] It was re-released as a Blue Ribbon short on May 21, 1949.
A mother hen is off trying to catch a worm for her soon-to-be baby. While she is out, a weasel steals the egg, intending to eat it for breakfast. Unfortunately, the egg hatches, and the chick mistakes the weasel for its mother. The weasel wants to eat the chick, but the chick outsmarts him every time. For the last three minutes of the film, the weasel is constantly sneezing because the chick has put pepper up his nose. The chick returns to its biological mother, who finds out that it has beaten up the weasel.
On July 30, 1949,Boxoffice reviewed the short: "Very Good. The so-called Wiley Weasel is flabbergasted when an egg he has stolen from a barnyard hen for his meal, hatches out a small chick. The chick mistakes the weasel for its mother and the rodent is forced to play the game. He tries, without success, to lure the chick into the roasting pan."[6]
^Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989).Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 139.ISBN0-8050-0894-2.
