Merrie Melodies: I Love a Parade (1932)

I Love a Parade is a 1932 Merrie Melodies short directed by Rudolf Ising. Plot At a circus, a clown is doing his tumbling act, laughing at the camera. A marching band, consisting of a kangaroo, a lion, and a Mickey-like mouse, comes by performing the title song. A dog barks at the lion and the lion forces the dog to swallow the bass drum the lion plays. The spectators are also singing the main song, and a black clown and a pipe-smoking dachshund riding a unicycle also go by. A car goes by with a lion in a cage, as it goes through the car shows the lion in the driver’s seat and the driver in the cage. Monkeys also use a lion’s tail like a jump rope, and then the street cleaner is complaining about elephants. The announcer introduces acts such as Jo Jo the wild man, stereotyping an African native, Gumbo the India Rubber Man, the Siamese Twins, depicted as pigs, a strong man with several tattoos, and a hippo that dances in a hula. The announcer than proceeds to introduce “A skinny man from India“, who is Mahatma Gandhi, along with a goat that dances. Near the big top is Fifi, a bareback rider hippo doing stunts on a horse, a mouse who rides a bicycle on an elephant, and a female cat who sings the main song when she is performing her main act. Outside of the tent a bunch of mice use an ostrich and a slingshot in an attempt to gain free admission. The final act is the lion tamer. The man puts his head inside the lion, and the lion bites the man’s head. The lion scratches his back, and puts his teeth off attempting to get some fleas that were on him. I Love a Parade (37)[HQ].mp4