The Gay Anties

1947 film

February 15, 1947 (1947-02-15)

Running time

6 minutes 22 secondsLanguageEnglish

The Gay Anties is a 1947 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon short directed by Friz Freleng and written by Michael Maltese and Tedd Pierce.^[1] The short was released on February 15, 1947.^[2] The title is a play on words for the "Gay Nineties", a phrase that references the 1890s United States.

Plot

A colony of ants surreptitiously invade a young couple's park picnic in the 1890s and contrive to steal their food. The gags include a scene in which the ants, frustrated three times in their efforts to make off with a sandwich, spread mustard on the back of the girlfriend's hand and trick the boyfriend into biting it, and one in which a female ant sings an overly melodramatic song ("Time Waits for No One") which gets the other ants to run for cover.

Releases

The Gay Anties was released on the laserdisc title The Golden Age of Looney Tunes in 1993.^[3] The short began streaming in HD on HBO Max in 2020.^[4]

References

^ Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 174. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.
^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 104–106. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
^ MGM/UA Home Video ISBN 0-7928-1869-5
^ The Gay Anties Looney Tunes S12 E8

External links

Internet Movie Database article at [1]
Big Cartoon Database article at [2]

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1920s

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1930s

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Bosko in Person (1933)
Beau Bosko (1933)
Bosko's Picture Show (1933)
Buddy the Gob (1934)
Buddy and Towser (1934)
Beauty and the Beast (1934)
Buddy's Trolley Troubles (1934)
Goin' to Heaven on a Mule (1934)
How Do I Know It's Sunday (1934)
Why Do I Dream Those Dreams (1934)
The Girl at the Ironing Board (1934)
The Miller's Daughter (1934)
Shake Your Powder Puff (1934)
Those Beautiful Dames (1934)
Pop Goes Your Heart (1934)
Mr. and Mrs. Is the Name (1935)
Country Boy (1935)
I Haven't Got a Hat (1935)
Along Flirtation Walk (1935)
My Green Fedora (1935)
Into Your Dance (1935)
Country Mouse (1935)
The Merry Old Soul (1935)
The Lady in Red (1935)
Little Dutch Plate (1935)
Billboard Frolics (1935)
Flowers for Madame (1935)
I Wanna Play House (1936)
The Cat Came Back (1936)
I'm a Big Shot Now (1936)
Let It Be Me (1936)
Bingo Crosbyana (1936)
When I Yoo Hoo (1936)
Sunday Go to Meetin' Time (1936)
At Your Service Madame (1936)
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Boulevardier from the Bronx (1936)
The Coo-Coo Nut Grove (1936)
He Was Her Man (1936)
Pigs Is Pigs (1937)
The Fella with a Fiddle (1937)
She Was an Acrobat's Daughter (1937)
Clean Pastures (1937)
Streamlined Greta Green (1937)
Sweet Sioux (1937)
Plenty of Money and You (1937)
Dog Daze (1937)
The Lyin' Mouse (1937)
September in the Rain (1937)
My Little Buckaroo (1938)
Jungle Jitters (1938)
A Star is Hatched (1938)
Poultry Pirates (1938)
A Day at the Beach (1938)
The Pygmy Hunt (1938)
Honduras Hurricane (1938)
The Captain's Christmas (1938)
Petunia Natural Park (1939)
Seal Skinners (1939)
Mama's New Hat (1939)
The Bookworm (1939)
The Mad Maestro (1939)

1940s

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The Hardship of Miles Standish (1940)
You Ought to Be in Pictures (1940)
Little Blabbermouse (1940)
Porky's Baseball Broadcast (1940)
Malibu Beach Party (1940)
Calling Dr. Porky (1940)
Porky's Hired Hand (1940)
Shop Look & Listen (1940)
The Fighting 69½th (1941)
The Cat's Tale (1941)
Porky's Bear Facts (1941)
The Trial of Mr. Wolf (1941)
Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt (1941)
Sport Chumpions (1941)
Notes to You (1941)
Rookie Revue (1941)
Rhapsody in Rivets (1941)
Hop Skip and a Chump (1942)
Porky's Pastry Pirates (1942)
The Wabbit Who Came to Supper (1942)
Saps in Chaps (1942)
Lights Fantastic (1942)
Double Chaser (1942)
Foney Fables (1942)
Fresh Hare (1942)
The Sheepish Wolf (1942)
The Hare-Brained Hypnotist (1942)
Ding Dog Daddy (1942)
Pigs in a Polka (1943)
The Fifth-Column Mouse (1943)
Greetings Bait (1943)
Yankee Doodle Daffy (1943)
Jack-Wabbit and the Beanstalk (1943)
Gripes (1943)
Hiss and Make Up (1943)
Daffy – The Commando (1943)
Rumors (1943)
Little Red Riding Rabbit (1944)
Meatless Flyday (1944)
Snafuperman (1944)
Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips (1944)
Duck Soup to Nuts (1944)
Slightly Daffy (1944)
Hare Force (1944)
Goldilocks and the Jivin' Bears (1944)
Payday (1944)
Target: Snafu (1944)
Three Brothers (1944)
Stage Door Cartoon (1944)
Herr Meets Hare (1945)
Life with Feathers (1945)
Hare Trigger (1945)
Ain't That Ducky (1945)
Hot Spot (1945)
Peck Up Your Troubles (1945)
Operation Snafu (1945)
Baseball Bugs (1946)
Holiday for Shoestrings (1946)
Hollywood Daffy (1946)
Of Thee I Sting (1946)
Racketeer Rabbit (1946)
Rhapsody Rabbit (1946)
The Gay Anties (1947)
Tweetie Pie (1947)
Rabbit Transit (1947)
A Hare Grows in Manhattan (1947)
Along Came Daffy (1947)
Slick Hare (1947)
Back Alley Oproar (1948)
I Taw a Putty Tat (1948)
Buccaneer Bunny (1948)
Bugs Bunny Rides Again (1948)
Hare Splitter (1948)
Kit for Cat (1948)
Hare Do (1949)
Wise Quackers (1949)
High Diving Hare (1949)
Curtain Razor (1949)
Mouse Mazurka (1949)
Knights Must Fall (1949)
Bad Ol' Putty Tat (1949)
Dough for the Do-Do (1949)
Each Dawn I Crow (1949)
Which Is Witch (1949)

1950s

1960s

Horse Hare (1960)
Goldimouse and the Three Cats (1960)
Person to Bunny (1960)
Hyde and Go Tweet (1960)
Mouse and Garden (1960)
From Hare to Heir (1960)
Trip for Tat (1960)
Lighter Than Hare (1960)
D' Fightin' Ones (1961)
The Rebel Without Claws (1961)
The Pied Piper of Guadalupe (1961)
Prince Violent (1961)
The Last Hungry Cat (1961)
Crows' Feat (1962)
Mexican Boarders (1962)
Honey's Money (1962)
The Jet Cage (1962)
Shishkabugs (1962)
Devil's Feud Cake (1963)
Mexican Cat Dance (1963)
Chili Weather (1963)
The Unmentionables (1963)
Nuts and Volts (1964)
Pancho's Hideaway (1964)
The Pink Phink (1964)
Pink Pajamas (1964)
Road to Andalay (1964)
It's Nice to Have a Mouse Around the House (1965)
Cats and Bruises (1965)
We Give Pink Stamps (1965)
The Wild Chase (1965)
Dial "P" for Pink (1965)
Moby Duck (1965, producer)
Sink Pink (1965)
Assault and Peppered (1965)
Pickled Pink (1965)
Pinkfinger (1965)
Shocking Pink (1965)
Well Worn Daffy (1965)
Pink Ice (1965)
Suppressed Duck (1965)
Corn on the Cop (1965)
Rushing Roulette (1965)
Run, Run, Sweet Road Runner (1965)
The Pink Tail Fly (1965)
Tease for Two (1965)
Tired and Feathered (1965)
Boulder Wham! (1965)
Chili Corn Corny (1965)
Just Plane Beep (1965)
Hairied and Hurried (1965)
Go Go Amigo (1965)
Highway Runnery (1965)
The Great De Gaulle Stone Operation (1965)
Chaser on the Rocks (1965)
The Astroduck (1965)
Shot and Bothered (1966)
Out and Out Rout (1966)
Mucho Locos (1966)
The Solid Tin Coyote (1966)
Mexican Mousepiece (1966)
Clippety Clobbered (1966)
Daffy Rents (1966)
A-Haunting We Will Go (1966)
Snow Excuse (1966)
A Squeak in the Deep (1966)
Feather Finger (1966)
Swing Ding Amigo (1966)
Sugar and Spies (1966)
A Taste of Catnip (1966)
Daffy's Diner (1967)
The Ant and the Aardvark (1969)
Hasty But Tasty (1969)
The Ant From Uncle (1969)
I've Got Ants in My Plans (1969)
Technology, Phooey (1969)
Never Bug an Ant (1969)
Dune Bug (1969)

1970s

Scratch the Tiger (1970)
Odd Ant Out (1970)
Ants in the Pantry (1970)
Science Friction (1970)
Humbo Jumbo (1970)
The Froze Nose Knows (1970)
Don't Hustle an Ant with Muscle (1970)
Rough Bunch (1971)
From Bed to Worse (1971)
Bugs Bunny's Christmas Carol (1979)
Fright Before Christmas (1979)
Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales (1979)

1980s

The Chocolate Chase (1980)
Daffy Duck's Easter Special (1980)
The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie (1981)
Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales (1982)
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