This clip is best enjoyed if you read the essay it requires. Between 1933 and 1935, producer Leon Schlesinger was desperate for a hit cartoon. After co-founders Hugh Harman and Rudolph Ising ditched Schlesinger in favor of higher budgets at the MGM studio, taking the rights to their star character, Bosko, with them, Schlesinger was in a pickle. Buddy, the new character intended to replace Bosko, failed to impress Warner Bros. or theater audiences, and the "Merrie Melodies" series of one-shot mus