oscaralbert Review of The Goofy Gophers

The Goofy Gophers (1947)

What if America's food supply depended upon the whims of a lazy junkyard dog . . .

[6/10 · 2 October 2017]

. . . is the worst case scenario posed by Warner's always prophetic Animated Shorts Seers division (aka, The Looney Tuners) during THE GOOFY GOPHERS. What if unchecked Wall Street Fat Cats running amok ate up the celery of We True Blue Loyal Patriotic 99 Per Center Normal Average Silent Majority Progressive Union Label Working Stiffs, producing record levels of Income Inequality? Warner warns us with this GOOFY GOPHERS interrogative. What if all of the USA's potatoes were relegated into one rotten basket of Deplorables? Warner questions. What if rampant billionaires also were allowed to scarf up America's supplies of carrots, tomatoes, radishes, onions, head lettuce, turnips, strawberries, cabbage, pumpkins, watermelons, peppers, and so forth? Warner demands. Perhaps Daniel Day Lewis' drinking out of everyone else's straws in THERE WILL BE BLOOD is the only comparable treatment of the omnipresent tendency toward Satanically Evil gluttony always displayed by the U.S. job-killing corrupt conservative corporate culture, a frequent target of Warner's Cinematic Crusades against America's Truest Enemies. By tagging this Demonic Plague with an innocuous-sounding label like "THE GOOFY GOPHERS," Warner is able to insert their polemic into the Belly of America's Corporate Beast, the Mainstream Media. How Clever.