![]() The lion tries to kill the mouse by lighting a bomb with a match, putting it in his mouth, and swallowing it. As he finds two bones lying inside, the mouse plays the ribs inside the lion like an xylophone. The lion grabs the mouse with his tongue, and pulls him in, and tries swallowing him while the mouse finds himself inside the stomach. The mouse then gets out of the lion's mouth and rolls out his tongue like a window shade. The lion succeeds in catching the mouse, and tries to eat him to hopefully kill him, but is so distracted of trying to do so, that he doesn't realize in the next moment, that when he fails to notice that he is missing a tooth, which fell out of his mouth from a gum between the rest of his teeth, that the mouse is hiding in after he inadvertently walks into the wrong direction into the lion's mouth, it is too late for the lion to see his missing tooth. He hides up a tree, feels frightened, and comes down from the tree, but stands up, and roars at the mouse, who unfortunately proves to be tougher than him, and eventually walks away, but mistakenly steps into the wrong direction by going into the lion's mouth. Then one day, the lion meets a mouse, who says "Boo" and makes the lion double take and feel scared and scream two times at him. His loud roar frightens every last animal, including a gorilla who screams, shrinks down in size, and runs off. We are then given a flashback about the lion being king of the beasts, because all the animals are scared to death of the lion, who roars and gets everyone out of his sight. ![]() Watching this, a mouse expresses his disappointment about the lion being "mouse shocked" and then tells about what happened before. Circus), a hospital ward clerk hauls out the lion in a wheelchair who has had a nervous breakdown. The lion's design served as the inspiration for the design of Genghis, a character from The Wacky World of Tex Avery. Also, the Tom and Jerry short Smarty Cat also does not display the ending card, using the regular MGM card instead. This might indicate that MGM made a mistake when reissuing it. The closing title in the re-issued version does not display the regular MGM card, and erroneously uses the Tom and Jerry card instead. The mouse's voice was supplied by Frank Graham. It is narrated by a mouse whose torments drove him crazy. Released on September 20, 1947, the short details the tragic downfall of a lion from king of the beasts to a gibbering, pill-popping wreck. ![]() Slap Happy Lion is a 1947 American animated short film directed by Tex Avery and produced by Fred Quimby for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. ![]()
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