The Blue Racer
The Blue Racer is a series of 17 theatrical cartoons produced from 1972 to 1974 created by Friz Freleng and David H. DePatie.
A good husband supports their family rigorously, a bad one sleeps all day. Our fast little friend, the Blue Racer, falls in the latter category and has to spend his day locating food for his young'uns. Let's hope they're fine with Japanese food, 'cause the Blue Racer tries to catch a Japanese Beetle for their meal.
Feeling sad and left out, the Japanese Beetle seeks friendship. The fastest snake in the west, the Blue Racer, offers his slithering scales in friendship; but what kind of a friend tries all afternoon to eat their best friend?
Exhausted, malnourished, and lost, the Japanese Beetle tries to find help in a Mexican looking village. His only problem is having to deal with a hungry Blue Racer as the two get into usual cartoony antics.
After his morning exercises, the Blue Racer stumbles around looking for a tasty bite to eat.
The Blue Racer is on vacation in scenic Japan, but gets into trouble with his fellow animals. Thanks to him fixing his trunk, a tough ole elephant agrees to help out the Japanese Beetle for when the Blue Racer tries to devour him as a snack.
(In a stereotypically racist manner) our little eastern Beetle friend goes sightseeing, taking pictures of a Japanese countryside with his oversized camera. What he does not expect are constant rude interruptions from the Blue Racer with an appetite of beetles.
On his globetrotting trip to Japan, the Blue Racer stumbles upon a chicken farm and tries (and mostly fails) to steal an egg from an expecting couple.
The Blue Racer seeks love and affection, so with the help of the Beetle, he goes to the city to seek attention from the people. Unfortunately, all bad attention.
With the help from a Calypso bee, The Blue Racer tries to win back his girlfriend from a muscle bound boa-constrictor.
While on a Japanese Egg Hunting contest, the Blue Racer accidentally wakes up a 1000 year old dragon from his egg. Our speedy serpent has to come up with ways to outsmart this fantasy beast, even persuading him to show biz.
Our sad little Blue Racer wishes he could be tall instead of slithering on the ground. Just his luck, a magic wizard can make that happen if he exchanges some snake sweat. He ends up getting wings without exchanging the sweat (much to the wizard's discontent), but the Blue Racer finds out the other inhabitants of the forest don't respect his newfound happiness.
Our speedy serpent "friend" ends up on a remote Irish island after a bad wipe-out at the beach. On this island, he discovers two mischievous leprechauns and the Great Shillelagh, who guards the island and drives away snakes. The leprechauns do what they can to help the Blue Racer stay on the island.
While trying to get some ZZZs, our serpent friend gets wrangled into trying to continuously entertain a spoiled brat chick by his nasty John Wayne sound-alike father.
It's a cold winter in Alaska, and the Blue Racer needs to find a place to stay warm. He finds a nice cozy cabin home, but gets into a back and forth fight with a W.C. Fields looking bear over what animal gets to stay inside.
Crazylegs and his dearest are expecting, but while he desperately waits for his bundles of joy, his wife has a craving for bumble bees. It's a mad-dash race to the finish between Crazylegs and the Blue Racer to get some Vitamin Bee.
The Blue Racer is starving (what a surprise!) and goes around searching for food to nourish his lightning fast physical activities. This lands him into trouble trying to stealing an egg from Crazylegs Crane and angering a pesky bumblebee.
The Blue Racer discovers that he's a snake is he's not too happy about it. An owl psychiatrist suggests that he make up his mind about what he wants to be so the Blue Racer follows his secret desire to be a sheep dog.
Location | United States of America |
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Language | English |
Release | 1972-07-03 |
Producer | DePatie-Freleng Enterprises (DFE) |