A Bear for Punishment
| A Bear for Punishment | |
|---|---|
| Looney Tunes (The Three Bears) series | |
| Directed by | Charles M. Jones |
| Story by | Michael Maltese |
| Voices by |
Bea Benaderet (uncredited) Billy Bletcher (uncredited) Stan Freberg (uncredited) |
| Music by | Carl Stalling |
| Animation by |
Philip DeGuard Ken Harris Phil Monroe Lloyd Vaughan Ben Washam |
| Studio | Warner Bros. Cartoons |
| Distributed by |
Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation |
| Release date(s) | October 20, 1951 (USA) |
| Color process | Technicolor |
| Running time | 7 minutes |
| Language | English |
A Bear for Punishment is a 1951 animated Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Chuck Jones and featuring The Three Bears. It was the last of The Three Bears cartoon of the classic era.
The march, "Father", performed by Junior and Ma, is a special vocal written to the tune of "Frat", a long-standing Warner cartoon staple.
Plot
The film begins with the bear family sleeping peacefully at home, when suddenly, the alarms of dozens of alarm clocks located on the Junyer Bear's table begin to sound, causing Pa Bear wakes up completely altered and run to try to turn them off. Junyer excitedly wakes up and exclaims: "Oh, boy! At last the great day has come at last! Oh, boy!". Henry (Pa Bear) asks how to stop the alarms, to what his child responds making a sign to them for they shut up and they obey. Dad gets angry and stars a clock in the face of his son. Mom replies: "But, Henry ..." Henry shouts: "Well! What do you Want!?" To which Mom replies: "It's Father's Day, Dear."
Then mom and baby bear make several activities to please Dad on his day, but only cause discomfort and misery, ending with a theatrical presentation in which there are three numbers, of which the latter has a song called Let's Give a Cheer for Father. This number ends with the mother and baby Bear dressed as parents of the American homeland (George Washington and Abraham Lincoln respectively), who have dressed Henry as the Statue of Liberty and end up shooting fireworks, as an allegory of July 4th.