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They must have know how much I would love purple tablecloths and overlaysВ because the package I received had a beautiful purple tablecloth in it. It really set the tone of the event and looked like I had spent a fortune on supplies.

Smarty Had a Party helped us have some of the best items I could have hoped for. It was more of a tea luncheon as a way to celebrate ValentineвЂ™s Day with some of my friends.

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All in all, mediocre and a worrying sign of a series of cartoons running out of ideas so quickly.DonвЂ™t you love a party? We had an afternoon tea and having the proper items for event was super important. Consequently, the violence is more mean-spirited more than it is well-engineered or fun. The gags are very pedestrian and repetitive, and manage to take the fun out of the violence, laying it on too heavy with the execution and pacing it too literally. Dialogue is simplistic and forgettable at best, and the story is very predictable with not even the interplay between Baby Huey and the fox igniting any sparkle. There is less of the big heart and good intentions that made him tolerable in his debut cartoon 'Quack a Doodle Do' and even more of the stupidity and dim-wittedness, he is annoying here and to be honest found myself rooting for the fox, a more interesting and funnier character. However a large part of 'Party Smarty's' problem is Baby Huey himself. Also love the lusciousness of the orchestration here and how characterful, haunting and whimsical the music was without going overboard in either, even better was how well it fitted in the cartoon and how it merged with the action. Winston Sharples provides yet another outstanding music score, even in mediocre or worse cartoons Sharples' music was never among the flaws (if anything always one of the strengths or the best asset). The fox is an amusing and interesting villain character, and the most rootable character in the cartoon ironically. The voice acting is good from Sid Raymond, Mae Questel and Jackson Beck, though Jack Mercer is a bit too gangster-like for such cute looking ducklings. The animation is mostly rich and colourful, with very meticulous and beautifully drawn backgrounds, even if some the drawing lacks finesse in parts. Here though in 'Party Smarty' what was amusing at first has now gotten very old and this is only the third of twelve cartoons. Tolerated him in his debut cartoon 'Quack a Doodle Do', thanks to attempts of a story that was easy in a way to empathise with, and 'One Quack Mind' had a few amusing moments if more from the fox than Baby Huey. 'Party Smarty' is a good example of why generally Baby Huey doesn't do it for me. When it comes to Famous Studios' cartoons, there is a general preference for the Popeye, Casper and even Herman and Katnip cartoons (although they all had not so great cartoons in their later years). Generally am not a fan of the character of Baby Huey, a rather one-joke character and especially in his later Famous Studios cartoons annoying.

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The Harvey cartoons are full of bright animation and peppy music, as if to pass them off as WB or Disney cartoons, but the imitation is too apparent. After the usual mishaps with the fox trying to catch Baby Huey and they backfire on the fox, in the end, Huey is welcomed to the party as they play pin the tail on the battered fox (yet another amusing bit as the pinned up fox protests to no avail to being stuck with a pin). The fox shows up (actually a good chuckle with the baby ducks thinking it is Huey at the door again so they hit him with a cake) and encounters Baby Huey. Is it supposed to be amusingly cute when Huey volunteers himself to blow out someone else's birthday candles and blows the cake all over them?) and the baby ducks blindfold Huey and send him away playing pin the tail on the donkey. In this outing, Huey goes to a birthday party, causes his usual havoc (which has always puzzled me. An endless array of Baby Huey cartoons will have Huey going to play with the other baby ducks (imagine Donald Duck's nephews en masse), they turn him away, the fox shows up, Huey stops the fox, he is the baby ducks' hero. Coyote or Bugs Bunny would have a familiar joke or stunt in them). jokes and repeated gags that make the similar behavior at WB look original (such as when several episodes of Wile E. In this strange, harmless, forgettable world that is Harvey cartoons, we get rehashed Warner Bros.

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