Celebrating National Beer Lovers Day

Today's topic: September 7 is National Beer Lover's Day!



That's right, there is a National Beer Lover's Day.



Tom T. Hall elaborates:



We'll kick the sudsy tribute off with The Three Stooges.

There actually was a film titled Rhapsody In Brew. It was produced by the Hal Roach Studio and stars comedy heroes Billy Gilbert and Billy Bletcher.




This excerpt from the Chuck Jones cartoon Trap Happy Porky cracks the gang Way Too Damn Lazy To Write A Blog up. Mel Blanc is particularly wonderful in voicing Porky Pig and the gang of inebriated felines.



Love the cartoons of British Animated Productions, especially Bubble & Squeek. Not surprisingly, the series' protagonist enjoys pub ale.



Is it true that dwarves got drunk in pre-Code Disney cartoons? Yes! Here they are, getting blitzed in The Merry Dwarves (1929).



Former Disney animator Earl Duvall directed cartoons for Warner Brothers, shortly after Leon Schlesinger started his studio. Our favorite? Buddy's Beer Garden! One of the credited animators is Frank "Tish Tash" Tashlin, then 20 years old.

Must follow Buddy's Beer Garden with a Charles Mintz studio Scrappy cartoon from the pre-Code era, so here's a fantastic one that razzes Prohibition (at that point just ending): The Beer Parade (1933).



Another terrific cartoon about Prohibition was produced by Ub Iwerks' Studio.



Over the past decade, this blog has posted a slew of animated beer commercials.



















Last year's National Beer Lover's Day post, Cartoon Commercials Sell Beer, featured Mr. Magoo plugging Stag Beer, as well as the Piels Brothers ads and the Nichols & May commercials for Jax and Narragansett Beers. Also noted then that Mike Kazaleh wrote several excellent pieces about beer ads, including Pilsner Pranks - More Spots with Beer and Hops & Spots! for Cartoon Research. We love Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble hawking Busch Beer!





In closing, here are some beer commercials we love starring Bert & Harry Piels (Bob & Ray).





Thanks again, Mike Kazaleh!