There Auto Be a Law is a 1953Warner Bros.Looney Tunes cartoon written byTedd Pierce and directed byRobert McKimson.^[1] The short was released on June 6, 1953.^[2] It is ablackout gag cartoon aboutautomobiles.

Anarrator (voiced by an uncredited John T. Smith) discusses automobiles and their advancements throughout the last few decades. A meek, short man with amoustache andglasses is seen in many of the sketches. Gags include:

• A pan across many motorists stuck on the road (some of which arebeating each other up or yelling at one another) because a woman in the first car is too busy putting onlipstick.
• A man treating his car like ahorse,whipping it to make it go faster.
• A bridge that has half thetoll, but that's because it's only half finished.
• The meek man parking his car in alot and getting it back in apaper-thin condition.
• The meek man measuring his car before putting it anauto court garage, but accidentally hitting the car between two closetrees.
• The meek man looking both ways before crossing a rural road but still getting hit by a fast-speed car.
• The meek man allowing a stranded motorist tosiphon some of his gas, only to swallow thegasoline and begin sputtering down the road like a car.
• The meek man being towed by a fellow motorist but the car frame getting ripped off when the other driver leaves in a hurry.
• The meek man repeatedly stopping at ahamburger stand on afreeway, asking for directions off the freeway. The hamburger stand man (Stan Freberg, uncredited) eventually realizes he doesn't know the way off the freeway and had to open the stand to keep from starving to death. The meek man does the same, only his stand sellsmustard andpickles to accompany the burgers.^[3]

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