Two's a Crowd (1950) Poster

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6/10
respect your pets
lee_eisenberg10 August 2019
Claude Cat gets an outing without pesky mice Hubie and Bertie. This time he has to contend with Frisky, a dog brought home by his mistress. Sure enough, the pooch turns out to be a nuisance, often to Claude's detriment.

"Two's a Crowd" represents an instance when Chuck Jones had to direct a certain number of cartoons - usually one or two - featuring his own characters (as opposed to Bugs, Daffy, Porky or Elmer). Each of the directors from Warner Bros. animation's golden age had this requirement. What's particularly eye-opening about this cartoon is that it has an ending unlike what usually happens in these cartoons. Not a great cartoon, but enjoyable.

"Hey, you, get off of my cloud. Don't hang around cuz two's a crowd." - The Rolling Stones
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8/10
"Then Claude will have to go!!" John says to his wife . . .
oscaralbert18 November 2017
Warning: Spoilers
In regard to their deplorable cat, when she questions what will happen if it doesn't get along with their new puppy in the opening segment of TWO'S A CROWD. It becomes immediately clear to any Warnologists (those experts who are versed in the science of interpreting Looney Tunes as Warner Bros.' warnings to We Americans of (The Then) Far Future about our upcoming Calamities, Catastrophes, Cataclysms, and Apocalypti) worth their sea salt that Warner's Animated Shorts Seers are using the lovable puppy here to represent We True Blue Loyal Patriotic Average Normal 99 Per Center Silent Majority Progressive Union Label Americans, with Claude Cat standing in for the Fifth Columnist Quisling Traitors Carrying out Red Commie KGB Chief Vlad "The Mad Russian" Putin's Marching Orders to Destroy America, just as Claude trashes John's home in his vicious efforts to murder the brown puppy. Since the 1930s and the very earliest "Bosko" Looney Tunes, Warner has been warning us against Josef Stalin's Community Organizer for the Brooklyn Ku Klux Klan--Fred Rump--and his Damien-like Son of Satan Sociopathic Spawn, Reform School KGB Manchurian Candidate Recruit, Don Juan Rump (see THE OMEN, and then check out the "666" birthmark under Junior's Fright Wig). As Warner predicts here in TWO'S A CROWD, through its illustrations of Claude's many nefarious tools wielded against We-the-lovable-brown-puppy, the Rump\Kushner Crime Cartel will stop at NOTHING to blow up America. Whether it's the KGB Spy Third Lady Melancholia Rump telegraphing State Secrets back to the Kremlin nightly from the West Wing or Putin's Pick for the U.S. Environmental Pollution Agency Czar (Scott "Ruin It" Pruitt) carrying out Putin's orders to drill, strip mine, and clear-cut all of America's National Monuments, Indian Reservations, National Parks, Wildlife Refuges, and National Forests, America has been trashed even more thoroughly during the first 10 months of Putin's Reign of Terror than John's home is trashed by Claude Cat in TWO'S A CROWD. As Warner warns us in the title of this brief cartoon, our country is NOT big enough for both We Normal Americans and the Red State Confederate Nazi Satanists currently backing the Putin\Rump Regime. Warner closes TWO'S A CROWD by having John exclaim to Claude, "Why you filthy cat: Get out and STAY OUT!!" This is Warner's way of telling us that even if we're too timid (and stupid!) to heed Warner's initial warnings by heading off the rise of Putin's Racist Pedophile Machine-Gunning Repug Party (aka, the GOOPERS), we can still salvage the survival of at least some of our children by stripping Putin's Red Commie Enabling Red State Dupes of their U.S. citizenship (on the grounds of High Treason, of course), seizing ALL of their assets, property and weapons under America's Civil Forfeiture Statutes (this does not even require any drawn-out court procedures), and deporting these Demonic Beings to that iceberg the size of Delaware floating next to Antarctica for a minimum of a Seven Generation Cooling Off Period!
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Termite Terrace ending its run.
Mozjoukine9 September 2017
Late Warner toon (no reference to Leon Schlesinger) doesn't feature one of the regular characters but instead offers mean Claude Cat who is all set to get rid of the lovable puppy presented to the lady of the house when he hears that he'll be the one sent on his way if they don't get along. Left alone, his stunts all backfire (he finds himself alone in the closet with his about to explode frankfurters etc.) and demolish the house. The out of character last gag weakens what has been a characteristic, pacey series entry but there are enough nice touches like Claude's drop, freeze and spin to land on his feet.
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