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Goofy Gophers and Hubie and Bertie

Mac and Tosh embody the epitome of politeness, insisting to the point of dysfunction. And would anyone even know what indubitably means were it not for these two? In contrast, Hubie and Bertie are schemers, Hubie being the fast talking planner and Bertie being the doofy subservient doer. Though none of them ever had quite the same level of fame as many of the others, Hubie and Bertie did garner an Oscar nomination for the studio, and the two are credited as being a turning point in Chuck Jones career, having everything he did previous to them considered cute and Disney-esque. Hubie and Bertie were his first attempts at humor and giving real personality to characters. The journey would culminate Duck Amuck, where Chuck proved that personality could be recognized beyond the visual shape of the character.

 

Lumber Jerks 1.4
1955 directed by Friz Freleng
Featuring Mac and Tosh

Two polite twin gophers find that their home, a tree, has been cut down and taken away. They find it in a log pile about to be taken inside a processing factory. When they follow it into the factory, they become caught in the bizarre human machinery whose purpose, among other things, is to grind whole trees down to make toothpicks.

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Cheese Chasers 2.2
1951 directed by Chuck Jones
Featuring Hubie and Bertie

At the end of a raid on a cheese factory, a fat and nauseated Hubie steps out of a wheel of cheese. Bertie stumbles out after. Hubie determines that, based on the amount of cheese the average mouse eats in their lifetime, they've eaten enough to have lived two thousand years. Determining that they can no longer stomach cheese, and with nothing else to live for, they decide their only course of action is suicide. They return home, where they write a generic suicide note, and introduce themselves to the gullet of a sleeping Cat. Claude wakes up and spits the mice out. Believing that something must be wrong, he figures the mice are poisoned, and refuses to eat them. After several attempts to refuse to eat them, and attempting in vain to convince himself it's all a bad dream, he determines he can no longer eat mice, and also
decides to commit suicide. Leaving an equally generic suicide note, Claude heads outside and punches the sleeping bulldog. The pattern continues.

 

Mouse Wreckers 2.2
1448 directed by Chuck Jones
Featuring Hubie and Bertie

Awards

Before they can invade the house, mice Hubie and Bertie must first deal with a Champion Mouser. They decide to drive the high-strung feline insane by, among other things, nailing the furniture and rugs to the ceiling while Claude's asleep.

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