Edgar Allan Pooh . . . though THE OILY AMER!CAN may look like an exercise in Bigotry to the untrained eye. However, for those of use who've lived at least half our lives next door to Indian Reservations, it's easy to attest that title character "Moe Hican" looks NOTHING LIKE a Native American. On the other hand, "Moe Hican" is a dead ringer for U.S. Presidential Candidate Donald J. Duck. The fact that all the animal spirits on "Moe's" front gate totem poles are sacrilegiously clasping pots of gold to their tummies provides further evidence that Warner's always prophetic Looney Tuners are focusing (decades before the fact) on the Trumpster's current Threat Against America. Displeased with the outcome of the U.S. Civil War, this historically feeble elderly candidate has pledged to "Make America Hate Again." As countless TV interviews have caught Haters-for-Trump Taking a Vow to Commit Jihad in the form of "Civil Disobedience" or "Holy War" or "Revolt" on Election Day three weeks from now, what does THE OILY AMER!CAN predict about the Final Result? Picture this: Hillary paddles Trump's bare butt with his pants pulled down. Humanity prays that this Looney Tuner climax will come to pass in Real Life!

phantom_tollbooth Robert McKimson's 'The Oily American' represents a serious missed opportunity for some strong satire. Sid Marcus's script has a wonderful premise; an oil-rich millionaire has animals shipped to his mansion so he can hunt them and mount their heads as trophies without ever leaving the comfort of his own home. However, Marcus seriously drops the ball by making this millionaire a Red Indian, which adds a rather unpleasant, un-PC element. Even discounting that, the script is full of missed opportunities for some amusing dialogue between the tycoon and his stuffy English butler. The whole thing amounts to little more than some chaotic flailing about, gallantly held together by a doing-the-best-he-can McKimson. The ending, in keeping with the rest of the cartoon, is suitably lame and the sole enjoyable image one takes away from 'The Oily American' is that of a pygmy moose, far from enough to justify this grossly unfunny cartoon's existence.

Lee Eisenberg "The Oily American" could have easily been a Road Runner-Wile E. Coyote cartoon, except that the embarrassment affects a different character. American Indian Moe Hican, in the oil business, is going for his daily hunt, and everything backfires on his increasingly frustrated butler (as opposed the the Indian, which would have been exactly like the aforementioned cartoons).Of course, I can't think of petroleum without thinking of everything that's happened in the world during the past few years, much of it relating to control of the oil supply. Hopefully Barack Obama's election and coming inauguration will change things.Anyway, really funny. And I'm not resigning from reviewing movies.

Kiddman Hilarious cartoon about an oil-rich Indian's daily hunt gone wrong. The title to my rant is my favorite line from the 'toon, said after the sneaky moose Moe Hican's chasing gives the Indian a hotfoot! Many great gags in this 'toon! I hope that Warner Bros. sees fit to include this in one of their "Golden Collection" DVD sets soon. It's VERY mildly "politically incorrect", but it's a fine example of the perfect comic timing of the crew at Warner Bros, and nothing like some of the racially insensitive 'toons that they sometimes made, like the ones with "Inki", an extremely stereotyped black tribesman. I just hope the law advisers at Warner Brothers can see the difference.