Newbie
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Oct 27, 2005, 7:26 PM
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Hot rod son (One Cab's Family)
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I am looking for the name of a cartoon that I remember as a kid. It is about a dad that is a taxi cab. He has a son and the son has the choice of being a taxi cab or a hot rod. He chooses the hot rod and to make it short he (the son) races a train and crashes. In the car hospital the doctors give him the chance to be a taxi or a hot rod. He chooses the taxi cab body(that makes dad very happy) with the hot rod engine, that dad does not know about. I would love to get the name and maby a copy of the cartoon. Help Please.
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Thanks.
(This post was edited by bmode on Oct 27, 2005, 8:51 PM)
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Research Guru / Moderator
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Oct 27, 2005, 7:43 PM
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Welcome to the Forum, smitty!
This gets asked a lot. It's (honk, honk)...
One Cab's Family (dir. Tex Avery; MGM, 1952)
An old cab and his wife have a baby boy car in hopes that he'll grow up and be a cab like his old man. But being young, the little car wants to be a hot rod instead. The little car races around against his father's wishes until he gets into trouble racing a train. His life barely saved by his dad but it is not without consequences. His dad gets put in the mechanic hospital. While he is making his recovery, the son shows his dad that he wants to be a cab just like his dad. The only thing is that he keeps all his racing mods.
One Cab's Family is in Tex Avery -- Coffret 4, a Zone 2 four-DVD set available only in France. Unfortunately, this set has been met with scorn by critics -- and demands for refunds by purchasers -- due to the heavy censorship of the cartoons in the video release.
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Jpeg Master
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Oct 27, 2005, 9:00 PM
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Apprentice
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Jan 3, 2006, 7:02 PM
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Even though it's just a cartoon still it sort of reminds me of how some parents can be when there children want to do be something different or do something else for a living and they don't like it.
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Directing Animator
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Jan 8, 2006, 11:28 PM
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This is also one of the few MGM Avery cartoons that achieves a satisfactory balance between outrageous gags and solid story elements/characteration.
The closing scenes where the hot-rod son has gotten in an accident and has to undergo surgery--and the father cab's reactions to all this--are guaranteed to tug at one's heart-strings.
Avery recycled the plot of this cartoon for Little Johnny Jet (1953), which IMHO wasn't quite as good.
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Directing Animator
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Jan 8, 2006, 11:32 PM
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One Cab's Family (dir. Tex Avery; MGM, 1952) His life barely saved by his dad but it is not without consequences. His dad gets put in the mechanic hospital. While he is making his recovery, the son shows his dad that he wants to be a cab just like his dad. The only thing is that he keeps all his racing mods. Actually it's the other way around, Ethan; the son gets hit by the train and the father has to watch him undergo surgery. I loved the mechanic's deadpan prognosis about the son's rear-end and other extremities! 
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"Don't crush that dwarf, hand me the pliers!"
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Key Animator
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Sep 23, 2007, 9:44 PM
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Avery was one hell of a guy! What was his last cartoon that he did?
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Thank God for kids who love obscure things-Lee Hazelwood (1929-2007)
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Research Guru / Moderator
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Sep 24, 2007, 12:35 PM
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His last theatrical cartoon credit was for the 1957 MGM Cinemascope remake Cat's Meow.
After that, he went into advertising... his work included the cartoon commercials where the bugs screamed "Raid!" But, of course, he didn't get on-screen credit for those.
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