Draft:Cross-Country Detours

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Cross-Country Detours is a 1940 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Tex Avery.

Summary[edit]

A narrator talks about the wonders of the nature of the United States.

Censorship[edit]

On Cartoon Network and its sister channel, Boomerang in the United States, the entire part in which a frog shoots himself in the head after the narrator says "Here, we show you a close-up of a frog croaking," followed by a theater card reading that the management is not responsible for the lame puns in the cartoon was edited to remove the frog actually shooting himself in the head with a gun, leaving in the "frog croaking" line followed by an immediate and obvious cut to the theater card.

Cross-Country Detours
Directed byTex Avery
Written byRich Hogan
Music byCarl W. Stalling
Animation byPaul Smith
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Leon Schlensinger Productions
Distributed byWarner Bros.
Release date
March 16, 1940
Running time
9 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish