LOONEY TUNES (Looney Toons): You Don’t Know What You’re Doin’! (Piggy) (1931) (Remastered HD 1080p)

You Don’t Know What You’re Doin’! is a 1931 animated short subject directed by Rudy Ising and produced by Leon Schlesinger as part of the Merrie Melodies series from the Harman-Ising studios and distributed by Warner Brothers. First released on October 21, 1931, the film is perhaps one of the most amusing and effective of the cartoons from the studio’s earliest years. The story involves the character Piggy, who picks up his girlfriend Fluffy and takes her to a theater where a hot jazz orchestra is playing. Piggy mocks the trumpet soloist, and plays a corny chorus of the 1873 hit “Silver Threads Among the Gold“ on the saxophone. The audience, led by three drunk dogs in the balcony, then mock Piggy with the title song “You Don’t Know What You’re Doin’“. Piggy is then joined onstage by one of the drunk dogs (a black dog, perhaps a prototype of Goopy Geer). The dog starts to drink a bottle of bootleg hootch that he has (the film was made during alcohol Pr